Functionality for disabling garbage collection

Being able to disable garbage collection over context
switches vastly simplifies implementation of yielding
native code that builds large or complex data structures
on the heap. This since the heap can be left in an
inconsistent state over the context switch.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
index 814e3d34df..0b8d2976ed 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h
@@ -631,8 +631,9 @@ erts_smp_reset_max_len(ErtsRunQueue *rq, ErtsRunQueueInfo *rqi)
 #define ERTS_PSD_SCHED_ID			2
 #define ERTS_PSD_DIST_ENTRY			3
 #define ERTS_PSD_CALL_TIME_BP			4
+#define ERTS_PSD_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS		5
 
-#define ERTS_PSD_SIZE				5
+#define ERTS_PSD_SIZE				6
 
 typedef struct {
     void *data[ERTS_PSD_SIZE];
@@ -656,6 +657,9 @@ typedef struct {
 #define ERTS_PSD_CALL_TIME_BP_GET_LOCKS ERTS_PROC_LOCK_MAIN
 #define ERTS_PSD_CALL_TIME_BP_SET_LOCKS ERTS_PROC_LOCK_MAIN
 
+#define ERTS_PSD_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS_GET_LOCKS ERTS_PROC_LOCK_MAIN
+#define ERTS_PSD_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS_SET_LOCKS ERTS_PROC_LOCK_MAIN
+
 typedef struct {
     ErtsProcLocks get_locks;
     ErtsProcLocks set_locks;
@@ -859,6 +863,7 @@ struct process {
     Uint64 bin_old_vheap;	/* Virtual old heap size for binaries */
 
     ErtsProcSysTaskQs *sys_task_qs;
+
     erts_smp_atomic32_t state;  /* Process state flags (see ERTS_PSFLG_*) */
 
 #ifdef ERTS_SMP
@@ -976,6 +981,7 @@ void erts_check_for_holes(Process* p);
 #define ERTS_PSFLG_ACTIVE_SYS		ERTS_PSFLG_BIT(14)
 #define ERTS_PSFLG_RUNNING_SYS		ERTS_PSFLG_BIT(15)
 #define ERTS_PSFLG_PROXY		ERTS_PSFLG_BIT(16)
+#define ERTS_PSFLG_DELAYED_SYS		ERTS_PSFLG_BIT(17)
 
 #define ERTS_PSFLGS_IN_PRQ_MASK 	(ERTS_PSFLG_IN_PRQ_MAX		\
 					 | ERTS_PSFLG_IN_PRQ_HIGH	\
@@ -1102,6 +1108,7 @@ extern struct erts_system_profile_flags_t erts_system_profile_flags;
 #define F_HAVE_BLCKD_MSCHED  (1 <<  8) /* Process has blocked multi-scheduling */
 #define F_P2PNR_RESCHED      (1 <<  9) /* Process has been rescheduled via erts_pid2proc_not_running() */
 #define F_FORCE_GC           (1 << 10) /* Force gc at process in-scheduling */
+#define F_DISABLE_GC         (1 << 11) /* Disable GC */
 
 /* process trace_flags */
 #define F_SENSITIVE          (1 << 0)
@@ -1192,6 +1199,7 @@ void erts_late_init_process(void);
 void erts_early_init_scheduling(int);
 void erts_init_scheduling(int, int);
 
+int erts_set_gc_state(Process *c_p, int enable);
 Eterm erts_sched_wall_time_request(Process *c_p, int set, int enable);
 Eterm erts_gc_info_request(Process *c_p);
 Uint64 erts_get_proc_interval(void);
@@ -1637,6 +1645,11 @@ erts_psd_set(Process *p, ErtsProcLocks plocks, int ix, void *data)
 #define ERTS_PROC_SET_CALL_TIME(P, L, PBT) \
   ((process_breakpoint_time_t *) erts_psd_set((P), (L), ERTS_PSD_CALL_TIME_BP, (void *) (PBT)))
 
+#define ERTS_PROC_GET_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS(P) \
+    ((ErtsProcSysTaskQs *) erts_psd_get((P), ERTS_PSD_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS))
+#define ERTS_PROC_SET_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS(P, L, PBT) \
+    ((ErtsProcSysTaskQs *) erts_psd_set((P), (L), ERTS_PSD_DELAYED_GC_TASK_QS, (void *) (PBT)))
+
 
 ERTS_GLB_INLINE Eterm erts_proc_get_error_handler(Process *p);
 ERTS_GLB_INLINE Eterm erts_proc_set_error_handler(Process *p,