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authorStefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>2025-07-08 15:06:45 +0200
committerStefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>2025-07-09 10:52:15 +0200
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Mark support for lock elision as deprecated.
As discussed here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2025-July/168492.html The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes is deprecated on all architectures and will be removed in the next release. Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
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@@ -42,6 +42,9 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
with <termios.h>.
+* The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes is deprecated on
+ all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
+
Changes to build and runtime requirements:
* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.