Package: glibc-source Version: 2.24-18 Severity: normal Tags: patch Dear glibc maintainers,
I think it is a good idea to disable lock elision on glibc for ppc64el on 'sid' for now. The motivation for this change is basically two: 1) There are some Hardware Transactional Memory[1] changes on POWER9 and that I would prefer to not trust at this moment for such an important package. 2) There are some hard to debug bugs that is being affected by this feature[2], so, disabling it until we address all these bugs. We should re-enable this feature once the two concerns above be addressed. [1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2017-October/164319.html [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866122 Thank you, Breno -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: ppc64el (ppc64le) Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-rc2+ (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) glibc-source depends on no packages. Versions of packages glibc-source recommends: ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 glibc-source suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
