------- Comment From [email protected] 2016-12-05 06:59 EDT-------
> There's documentation at [1] of crashes in at least three different
> applications being avoided by disabling lock elision.

This patch tries to solve exactly those kind of problems.
Lock elision will continue to be available, but will be disabled by default.

Users could enable it if variable GLIBC_ELISION_ENABLE=yes is available
in the environment.

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  [Ubuntu 16.04.1] Provide a way to dynamically enable lock elision on
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