From: Stefan Liebler Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 13:06:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Mark support for lock elision as deprecated. X-Git-Tag: glibc-2.42~61 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=77438db8cfa6ee66b3906230156bdae11c49a195;p=thirdparty%2Fglibc.git 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 --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7c407c2ea3..f0153c7e9a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 . +* 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.