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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.