Add release notes for pthread rwlocks change

(cherry picked from commit 4ca5c02d0e3d1760c40496610d4a1d8a0b5d6161)

diff --git a/doc/arm/notes-9.16.1.xml b/doc/arm/notes-9.16.1.xml
index f09360419ff101f68feee2187f494789fd2bcfe5..c00cd69f56ee62c11a9b8a4038eb63fc2dcb9b42 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/arm/notes-9.16.1.xml
+++ b/doc/arm/notes-9.16.1.xml
@@ -10,6 +10,20 @@
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 <section xml:id="relnotes-9.16.1"><info><title>Notes for BIND 9.16.1</title></info>
+  <para>
+    System-provided pthread rwlocks implementation is used by default instead of
+    built-in ISC implementation of rwlocks. Please be aware that unpatched glibc
+    version from 2.26 had a <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+    xlink:href="https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23844">bug</link>
+    that could cause BIND 9 to deadlock.  The fix has been released as part of
+    glibc release 2.30, and various Linux distributions have patched their glibc
+    version with a notable exception of Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) which is work in
+    progress. If you are running on affected system (e.g. Ubuntu 18.04) you need
+    to compile BIND 9 with --disable-pthread-rwlock until Canonical releases
+    <link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+    xlink:href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1864864">fixed
+    version</link>.
+  </para>
 
   <section xml:id="relnotes-9.16.1-bugs"><info><title>Bug Fixes</title></info>
     <itemizedlist>