From 0cea3587d3270eeb8f0649ab1ee9eda6919cc8e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Siddhesh Poyarekar Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2017 18:36:06 +0530 Subject: Add missing NEWS items Add NEWS items for the two new pthreads implementations, i.e. the condition variables algorithms and the pthread_rwlock algorithms. --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27841fd548..287c8eb9c8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ Version 2.25 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has instructions on adding new tunables to the library. +* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in + the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering + guarantees. + +* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more + scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to + make state changes. + Security related changes: * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which -- cgit v1.2.3