From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 13:06:06 +0000 (+0530) Subject: Add missing NEWS items X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.25~3 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0cea3587d3270eeb8f0649ab1ee9eda6919cc8e1;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git Add missing NEWS items Add NEWS items for the two new pthreads implementations, i.e. the condition variables algorithms and the pthread_rwlock algorithms. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 767e22ae001..ad538d2a7ca 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2017-02-05 Siddhesh Poyarekar + + * NEWS: Add missing news items. + 2017-02-04 Siddhesh Poyarekar * elf/tst-env-setuid.c (do_execve): Return EXIT_UNSUPPORTED in diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27841fd5485..287c8eb9c82 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ Version 2.25 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has instructions on adding new tunables to the library. +* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in + the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering + guarantees. + +* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more + scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to + make state changes. + Security related changes: * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which