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-rw-r--r--INSTALL18
-rw-r--r--NEWS3
-rwxr-xr-xconfigure2
-rw-r--r--configure.ac2
-rw-r--r--manual/install.texi13
6 files changed, 27 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a2d1f5ade1..833f03ea6f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2017-06-15  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
+
+	* configure.ac(--enable-tunables): Enable by default.
+	* configure: Regenerate.
+	* NEWS: Mention change.
+	* manual/install.texi (enable-tunables): Adjust documentation.
+	* INSTALL: Regenerate.
+
 2017-06-14  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
 
 	[BZ #18988]
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 920c4df0ef..a2f5a40b17 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -177,18 +177,16 @@ will be used, and CFLAGS sets optimization options for the compiler.
 
 '--enable-tunables'
      Tunables support allows additional library parameters to be
-     customized at runtime.  This is an experimental feature and affects
-     startup time and is thus disabled by default.  This option can take
-     the following values:
-
-     'no'
-          This is the default if the option is not passed to configure.
-          This disables tunables.
+     customized at runtime.  This feature is enabled by default.  This
+     option can take the following values:
 
      'yes'
-          This is the default if the option is passed to configure.
-          This enables tunables and selects the default frontend
-          (currently 'valstring').
+          This is the default if no option is passed to configure.  This
+          enables tunables and selects the default frontend (currently
+          'valstring').
+
+     'no'
+          This option disables tunables.
 
      'valstring'
           This enables tunables and selects the 'valstring' frontend for
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8d35bd6c95..804c1b92e6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ Version 2.26
   as atomic variables to try to implement Dekker's mutual exclusion
   algorithm).
 
+* The tunables feature is now enabled by default.  This allows users to tweak
+  behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
+
 Security related changes:
 
 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 4c2922d882..8390f2b86e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3725,7 +3725,7 @@ fi
 if test "${enable_tunables+set}" = set; then :
   enableval=$enable_tunables; have_tunables=$enableval
 else
-  have_tunables=no
+  have_tunables=yes
 fi
 
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3f486d6df4..4c0a18edd9 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE([tunables],
 	      [AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-tunables],
 	       [Enable tunables support. Known values are 'yes', 'no' and 'valstring'])],
 	      [have_tunables=$enableval],
-	      [have_tunables=no])
+	      [have_tunables=yes])
 AC_SUBST(have_tunables)
 if test "$have_tunables" = yes; then
   AC_DEFINE(HAVE_TUNABLES)
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi
index d39d2daacd..cbc912817a 100644
--- a/manual/install.texi
+++ b/manual/install.texi
@@ -208,18 +208,17 @@ Use this option to disable the vector math library.
 
 @item --enable-tunables
 Tunables support allows additional library parameters to be customized at
-runtime.  This is an experimental feature and affects startup time and is thus
-disabled by default.  This option can take the following values:
+runtime.  This feature is enabled by default.  This option can take the
+following values:
 
 @table @code
-@item no
-This is the default if the option is not passed to configure. This disables
-tunables.
-
 @item yes
-This is the default if the option is passed to configure. This enables tunables
+This is the default if no option is passed to configure. This enables tunables
 and selects the default frontend (currently @samp{valstring}).
 
+@item no
+This option disables tunables.
+
 @item valstring
 This enables tunables and selects the @samp{valstring} frontend for tunables.
 This frontend allows users to specify tunables as a colon-separated list in a