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@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ Version 2.21
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+* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
+ and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
+ HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
+ --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
+ powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
+ effects being visible outside transactions.
+
* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.