Upcoming glibc-2.42 release

[Yury Khrustalev]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 04:04:54PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> unless someone else wants to step in, I'm going to take care of the upcoming 
> release again.
> 
> Suggested 6-week schedule, mostly just writing down how we've handled things
> in the past:
> 
> - 20 June 2024: Soft freeze
>   * No *starting* of new features anymore
>   * Decisions on what goes still in and what goes not
>   * Review and addition of patches
> 
> - 4 July 2025: Freeze
>   * Machine testing
>   * Bug fixes without large impact
>   * No ABI changes without RM discussion
>   * High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list.
> 
> - 18 July 2025: Hard freeze
>   * Only critically important or technically straightforward bug fixes
> 
> - 1 Aug 2025 (or ideally a bit earlier): Release
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 
> -- 
> Andreas K. H�ttel
> dilfridge@gentoo.org
> Gentoo Linux developer
> (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

I'm OK with the proposed schedule however I'd like the following change, that
is currently under review and discussion, to be included in the upcoming release:

 1) clear ZA state of SME before clone and clone3
   https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20250609121407.3316070-1-yury.khrustalev@arm.com/

And two smaller changes:

 2) simplify calls to __libc_arm_za_disable in assembly 
    https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20250616122527.543248-1-yury.khrustalev@arm.com/
 3) GCS: use internal struct in __alloc_gcs
    https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/20250616122317.530220-1-yury.khrustalev@arm.com/
   

Thanks,
Yury