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@@ -203,7 +203,22 @@ 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.
+disabled 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
+and selects the default frontend (currently @samp{valstring}).
+
+@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
+single environment variable @env{GLIBC_TUNABLES}.
+@end table
 
 @item --build=@var{build-system}
 @itemx --host=@var{host-system}