From 0dd305c7920a97b9a3e4ad09ae06c502de1101c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Koundinya Veluri <kouvel@microsoft.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 15:49:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Remove an unnecessary assertion in tiering

Fixes https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/65914
---
 src/coreclr/vm/tieredcompilation.cpp | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/coreclr/vm/tieredcompilation.cpp b/src/coreclr/vm/tieredcompilation.cpp
index 9611c33356a938..a905c86efb9c63 100644
--- a/src/coreclr/vm/tieredcompilation.cpp
+++ b/src/coreclr/vm/tieredcompilation.cpp
@@ -504,9 +504,9 @@ void TieredCompilationManager::BackgroundWorkerStart()
         {
             continue;
         }
-        _ASSERTE(waitResult == WAIT_TIMEOUT);
 
-        // The wait timed out, see if the worker can exit
+        // The wait timed out, see if the worker can exit. When using the PAL, it may be possible to get WAIT_FAILED in some
+        // shutdown scenarios, treat that as a timeout too since a signal would not have been observed anyway.
 
         LockHolder tieredCompilationLockHolder;