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authorRickard Green <[email protected]>2017-01-24 19:50:25 +0100
committerRickard Green <[email protected]>2017-02-06 18:11:32 +0100
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Atomic reference count of binaries also in non-SMP
NIF resources was not handled in a thread-safe manner in the runtime system without SMP support. As a consequence of this fix, the following driver functions are now thread-safe also in the runtime system without SMP support: - driver_free_binary() - driver_realloc_binary() - driver_binary_get_refc() - driver_binary_inc_refc() - driver_binary_dec_refc()
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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml15
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
index d8bf45c523..7fbe97bc0b 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml
@@ -1103,8 +1103,7 @@ r = driver_async(myPort, &myKey, myData, myFunc); ]]></code>
<marker id="driver_binary_dec_refc"></marker>
<p>Decrements the reference count on <c>bin</c> and returns
the reference count reached after the decrement.</p>
- <p>This function is only thread-safe when the emulator with SMP
- support is used.</p>
+ <p>This function is thread-safe.</p>
<note>
<p>The reference count of driver binary is normally to be decremented
by calling <seealso marker="#driver_free_binary">
@@ -1124,8 +1123,7 @@ r = driver_async(myPort, &myKey, myData, myFunc); ]]></code>
<desc>
<marker id="driver_binary_get_refc"></marker>
<p>Returns the current reference count on <c>bin</c>.</p>
- <p>This function is only thread-safe when the emulator with SMP
- support is used.</p>
+ <p>This function is thread-safe.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -1137,8 +1135,7 @@ r = driver_async(myPort, &myKey, myData, myFunc); ]]></code>
<marker id="driver_binary_inc_refc"></marker>
<p>Increments the reference count on <c>bin</c> and returns
the reference count reached after the increment.</p>
- <p>This function is only thread-safe when the emulator with SMP
- support is used.</p>
+ <p>This function is thread-safe.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -1434,8 +1431,7 @@ r = driver_async(myPort, &myKey, myData, myFunc); ]]></code>
<seealso marker="#driver_alloc_binary">
<c>driver_alloc_binary</c></seealso>. As binaries
in Erlang are reference counted, the binary can still be around.</p>
- <p>This function is only thread-safe when the emulator with SMP
- support is used.</p>
+ <p>This function is thread-safe.</p>
</desc>
</func>
@@ -1872,8 +1868,7 @@ r = driver_async(myPort, &myKey, myData, myFunc); ]]></code>
<p>Resizes a driver binary, while keeping the data.</p>
<p>Returns the resized driver binary on success. Returns <c>NULL</c>
on failure (out of memory).</p>
- <p>This function is only thread-safe when the emulator with SMP
- support is used.</p>
+ <p>This function is thread-safe.</p>
</desc>
</func>