[PATCH] Mark support for lock elision as deprecated.
Stefan Liebler
stli@linux.ibm.com
Tue Jul 8 13:06:45 GMT 2025
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.
---
NEWS | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index afe8076dfc..43e9c73934 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ 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.
--
2.50.0
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