> The vast majority of production failures in kernel code are due to race conditions and other timing-specific issues This assertion calls for links to data th

> The vast majority of production failures in kernel code are due to race conditions and other timing-specific issues This assertion calls for links to data that backs this up I think. Published counterarguments seemed to be easy to find, eg this survey suggests that most bugs are reproducible ("bohrbugs"): https://xiaotingdu.github.io/publications/TR2018.pdf https://xiaotingdu.github.io/publications/TR2018.pdf (journal link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=24 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=24)