There's documentation at [1] of crashes in at least three different applications being avoided by disabling lock elision. Rebuilding glibc is restrictive for a lot of the impacted users. I'd be in favor of any of the following solutions: a) disabling lock elision by default b) providing a means of disabling lock elision at runtime c) adding an alternative glibc *.deb to the repositories that can easily be installed with an "apt-get install" or similar.
[1] https://github.com/MyrtleSoftware/glibc-no-lock-elision -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1560634 Title: [Ubuntu 16.04.1] Provide a way to dynamically enable lock elision on glibc To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/1560634/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
