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authorSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-04-15 14:16:14 +0200
committerSverker Eriksson <[email protected]>2016-04-20 16:21:09 +0200
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erts: Produce statistics for literal and hipe super carriers
called 'literal_mmap' and 'exec_mmap'. Also moved existing erts_mmap info from 'mseg_alloc' to its own system_info({allocator, erts_mmap}) with "allocators" default_mmap, literal_mmap and exec_mmap.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
index 423ccdf98f..ee34f28b90 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml
@@ -6839,11 +6839,7 @@ ok
As from <c>ERTS</c> 5.6.1, the return value is a list
of <c>{instance, InstanceNo, InstanceInfo}</c> tuples,
where <c>InstanceInfo</c> contains information about
- a specific instance of the allocator. As from
- <c>ERTS</c> 5.10.4, the returned list when calling
- <c>erlang:system_info({allocator, mseg_alloc})</c> also
- includes an <c>{erts_mmap, _}</c> tuple as one element
- in the list. If <c><anno>Alloc</anno></c> is not a
+ a specific instance of the allocator. If <c><anno>Alloc</anno></c> is not a
recognized allocator, <c>undefined</c> is returned.
If <c><anno>Alloc</anno></c> is disabled,
<c>false</c> is returned.</p>
@@ -6855,7 +6851,13 @@ ok
briefly documented.</p>
<p>The recognized allocators are listed in
<seealso marker="erts:erts_alloc">erts_alloc(3)</seealso>.
- After reading the <c>erts_alloc(3)</c> documentation,
+ Information about super carriers can be obtained from
+ <c>ERTS</c> 8.0 with <c>{allocator, erts_mmap}</c> or from
+ <c>ERTS</c> 5.10.4, the returned list when calling with
+ <c>{allocator, mseg_alloc}</c> also includes an
+ <c>{erts_mmap, _}</c> tuple as one element in the list.</p>
+
+ <p>After reading the <c>erts_alloc(3)</c> documentation,
the returned information
more or less speaks for itself, but it can be worth
explaining some things. Call counts are presented by two