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* siri/sup-spec-maps/OTP-11043: Update emacs skeleton for supervisor to use maps Update dialyzer test with maps in supervisor properties Add documentation of maps in supervisor flags and child specs Add test of maps in supervisor flags and child specs New function supervisor:get_childspec/2 Allow maps for supervisor flags and child specs Rebase supervisor Add more tests of supervisor
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-rw-r--r--system/doc/design_principles/appup_cookbook.xml6
-rw-r--r--system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml233
2 files changed, 163 insertions, 76 deletions
diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/appup_cookbook.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/appup_cookbook.xml
index 70c34a5a06..45f144e8b7 100644
--- a/system/doc/design_principles/appup_cookbook.xml
+++ b/system/doc/design_principles/appup_cookbook.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2003</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2003</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ system_code_change(Chs, _Module, _OldVsn, _Extra) ->
<marker id="sup"></marker>
<title>Changing a Supervisor</title>
<p>The supervisor behaviour supports changing the internal state,
- i.e. changing restart strategy and maximum restart frequency
+ i.e. changing restart strategy and maximum restart intensity
properties, as well as changing existing child specifications.</p>
<p>Adding and deleting child processes are also possible, but not
handled automatically. Instructions must be given by in
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ system_code_change(Chs, _Module, _OldVsn, _Extra) ->
...
init(_Args) ->
- {ok, {{one_for_all, 1, 60}, ...}}.</code>
+ {ok, {#{strategy => one_for_all, ...}, ...}}.</code>
<p>The file <c>ch_app.appup</c>:</p>
<code type="none">
{"2",
diff --git a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
index 11ef3813d6..3d7b53e339 100644
--- a/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
+++ b/system/doc/design_principles/sup_princ.xml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>1997</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>1997</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@
<file>sup_princ.xml</file>
</header>
<p>This section should be read in conjunction with
- <c>supervisor(3)</c>, where all details about the supervisor
- behaviour is given.</p>
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:supervisor">supervisor(3)</seealso>, where
+ all details about the supervisor behaviour are described.</p>
<section>
<title>Supervision Principles</title>
- <p>A supervisor is responsible for starting, stopping and
+ <p>A supervisor is responsible for starting, stopping, and
monitoring its child processes. The basic idea of a supervisor is
- that it should keep its child processes alive by restarting them
+ that it shall keep its child processes alive by restarting them
when necessary.</p>
<p>Which child processes to start and monitor is specified by a
list of <seealso marker="#spec">child specifications</seealso>.
@@ -61,18 +61,59 @@ start_link() ->
supervisor:start_link(ch_sup, []).
init(_Args) ->
- {ok, {{one_for_one, 1, 60},
- [{ch3, {ch3, start_link, []},
- permanent, brutal_kill, worker, [ch3]}]}}.</code>
- <p><c>one_for_one</c> is the <seealso marker="#strategy">restart strategy</seealso>.</p>
- <p>1 and 60 defines the <seealso marker="#frequency">maximum restart frequency</seealso>.</p>
- <p>The tuple <c>{ch3, ...}</c> is a <seealso marker="#spec">child specification</seealso>.</p>
+ SupFlags = #{strategy => one_for_one, intensity => 1, period => 5},
+ ChildSpecs = [#{id => ch3,
+ start => {ch3, start_link, []},
+ restart => permanent,
+ shutdown => brutal_kill,
+ type => worker,
+ modules => [cg3]}],
+ {ok, {SupFlags, ChildSpecs}}.</code>
+ <p>The <c>SupFlags</c> variable in the return value
+ from <c>init/1</c> represents
+ the <seealso marker="#flags">supervisor flags</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>The <c>ChildSpecs</c> variable in the return value
+ from <c>init/1</c> is a list of <seealso marker="#spec">child
+ specifications</seealso>.</p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Supervisor Flags</title>
+ <p>This is the type definition for the supervisor flags:</p>
+ <code type="none"><![CDATA[
+sup_flags() = #{strategy => strategy(), % optional
+ intensity => non_neg_integer(), % optional
+ period => pos_integer()} % optional
+ strategy() = one_for_all
+ | one_for_one
+ | rest_for_one
+ | simple_one_for_one]]></code>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p><c>strategy</c> specifies
+ the <seealso marker="#strategy">restart
+ strategy</seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p><c>intensity</c> and <c>period</c> specify
+ the <seealso marker="#max_intensity">maximum restart
+ intensity</seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
</section>
<section>
<marker id="strategy"></marker>
<title>Restart Strategy</title>
+ <p> The restart strategy is specified by
+ the <c>strategy</c> key in the supervisor flags map returned by
+ the callback function <c>init</c>:</p>
+ <code type="none">
+SupFlags = #{strategy => Strategy, ...}</code>
+ <p>The <c>strategy</c> key is optional in this map. If it is not
+ given, it defaults to <c>one_for_one</c>.</p>
+
<section>
<title>one_for_one</title>
<p>If a child process terminates, only that process is restarted.</p>
@@ -85,7 +126,7 @@ init(_Args) ->
<section>
<title>one_for_all</title>
<p>If a child process terminates, all other child processes are
- terminated and then all child processes, including
+ terminated, and then all child processes, including
the terminated one, are restarted.</p>
<marker id="sup5"></marker>
<image file="../design_principles/sup5.gif">
@@ -100,29 +141,36 @@ init(_Args) ->
process in start order -- are terminated. Then the terminated
child process and the rest of the child processes are restarted.</p>
</section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>simple_one_for_one</title>
+ <p>See <seealso marker="#simple">simple-one-for-one
+ supervisors</seealso>.</p>
+ </section>
</section>
<section>
- <marker id="frequency"></marker>
- <title>Maximum Restart Frequency</title>
+ <marker id="max_intensity"></marker>
+ <title>Maximum Restart Intensity</title>
<p>The supervisors have a built-in mechanism to limit the number of
restarts which can occur in a given time interval. This is
- determined by the values of the two parameters <c>MaxR</c> and
- <c>MaxT</c> in the start specification returned by the callback
- function <c>init</c>:</p>
+ specified by the two keys <c>intensity</c> and
+ <c>period</c> in the supervisor flags map returned by the
+ callback function <c>init</c>:</p>
<code type="none">
-init(...) ->
- {ok, {{RestartStrategy, MaxR, MaxT},
- [ChildSpec, ...]}}.</code>
+SupFlags = #{intensity => MaxR, period => MaxT, ...}</code>
<p>If more than <c>MaxR</c> number of restarts occur in the last
- <c>MaxT</c> seconds, then the supervisor terminates all the child
+ <c>MaxT</c> seconds, the supervisor terminates all the child
processes and then itself.</p>
- <p>When the supervisor terminates, then the next higher level
+ <p>When the supervisor terminates, the next higher level
supervisor takes some action. It either restarts the terminated
- supervisor, or terminates itself.</p>
+ supervisor or terminates itself.</p>
<p>The intention of the restart mechanism is to prevent a situation
where a process repeatedly dies for the same reason, only to be
restarted again.</p>
+ <p>The keys <c>intensity</c> and <c>period</c> are optional in the
+ supervisor flags map. If they are not given, they default
+ to <c>1</c> and <c>5</c>, respectively.</p>
</section>
<section>
@@ -130,33 +178,42 @@ init(...) ->
<title>Child Specification</title>
<p>This is the type definition for a child specification:</p>
<code type="none"><![CDATA[
-{Id, StartFunc, Restart, Shutdown, Type, Modules}
- Id = term()
- StartFunc = {M, F, A}
- M = F = atom()
- A = [term()]
- Restart = permanent | transient | temporary
- Shutdown = brutal_kill | integer()>0 | infinity
- Type = worker | supervisor
- Modules = [Module] | dynamic
- Module = atom()]]></code>
+child_spec() = #{id => child_id(), % mandatory
+ start => mfargs(), % mandatory
+ restart => restart(), % optional
+ shutdown => shutdown(), % optional
+ type => worker(), % optional
+ modules => modules()} % optional</pre>
+ child_id() = term()
+ mfargs() = {M :: module(), F :: atom(), A :: [term()]}
+ modules() = [module()] | dynamic
+ restart() = permanent | transient | temporary
+ shutdown() = brutal_kill | timeout()
+ worker() = worker | supervisor]]></code>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>
- <p><c>Id</c> is a name that is used to identify the child
+ <p><c>id</c> is used to identify the child
specification internally by the supervisor.</p>
+ <p>The <c>id</c> key is mandatory.</p>
+ <p>Note that this identifier on occations has been called
+ "name". As far as possible, the terms "identifier" or "id"
+ are now used but in order to keep backwards compatibility,
+ some occurences of "name" can still be found, for example
+ in error messages.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p><c>StartFunc</c> defines the function call used to start
+ <p><c>start</c> defines the function call used to start
the child process. It is a module-function-arguments tuple
used as <c>apply(M, F, A)</c>.</p>
<p>It should be (or result in) a call to
<c>supervisor:start_link</c>, <c>gen_server:start_link</c>,
- <c>gen_fsm:start_link</c> or <c>gen_event:start_link</c>.
+ <c>gen_fsm:start_link</c>, or <c>gen_event:start_link</c>.
(Or a function compliant with these functions, see
<c>supervisor(3)</c> for details.</p>
+ <p>The <c>start</c> key is mandatory.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p><c>Restart</c> defines when a terminated child process should
+ <p><c>restart</c> defines when a terminated child process shall
be restarted.</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item>A <c>permanent</c> child process is always restarted.</item>
@@ -166,12 +223,14 @@ init(...) ->
death causes the temporary process to be terminated).</item>
<item>A <c>transient</c> child process is restarted only if it
terminates abnormally, i.e. with another exit reason than
- <c>normal</c>, <c>shutdown</c> or <c>{shutdown,Term}</c>.</item>
+ <c>normal</c>, <c>shutdown</c>, or <c>{shutdown,Term}</c>.</item>
</list>
+ <p>The <c>restart</c> key is optional. If it is not given, the
+ default value <c>permanent</c> will be used.</p>
</item>
<item>
<marker id="shutdown"></marker>
- <p><c>Shutdown</c> defines how a child process should be
+ <p><c>shutdown</c> defines how a child process shall be
terminated.</p>
<list type="bulleted">
<item><c>brutal_kill</c> means the child process is
@@ -184,58 +243,78 @@ init(...) ->
terminated using <c>exit(Child, kill)</c>.</item>
<item>If the child process is another supervisor, it should be
set to <c>infinity</c> to give the subtree enough time to
- shutdown. It is also allowed to set it to <c>infinity</c>, if the
- child process is a worker.</item>
+ shut down. It is also allowed to set it to <c>infinity</c>,
+ if the child process is a worker.</item>
</list>
<warning>
- <p>Be careful by setting the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy to
+ <p>Be careful when setting the shutdown time to
<c>infinity</c> when the child process is a worker. Because, in this
situation, the termination of the supervision tree depends on the
child process, it must be implemented in a safe way and its cleanup
procedure must always return.</p>
</warning>
+ <p>The <c>shutdown</c> key is optional. If it is not given,
+ and the child is of type <c>worker</c>, the default value
+ <c>5000</c> will be used; if the child is of type
+ <c>supervisor</c>, the default value <c>infinity</c> will be
+ used.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p><c>Type</c> specifies if the child process is a supervisor or
+ <p><c>type</c> specifies if the child process is a supervisor or
a worker.</p>
+ <p>The <c>type</c> key is optional. If it is not given, the
+ default value <c>worker</c> will be used.</p>
</item>
<item>
- <p><c>Modules</c> should be a list with one element
+ <p><c>modules</c> should be a list with one element
<c>[Module]</c>, where <c>Module</c> is the name of
the callback module, if the child process is a supervisor,
gen_server or gen_fsm. If the child process is a gen_event,
- <c>Modules</c> should be <c>dynamic</c>.</p>
+ the value shall be <c>dynamic</c>.</p>
<p>This information is used by the release handler during
upgrades and downgrades, see
<seealso marker="release_handling">Release Handling</seealso>.</p>
+ <p>The <c>modules</c> key is optional. If it is not given, it
+ defaults to <c>[M]</c>, where <c>M</c> comes from the
+ child's start <c>{M,F,A}</c>.</p>
</item>
</list>
<p>Example: The child specification to start the server <c>ch3</c>
in the example above looks like:</p>
<code type="none">
-{ch3,
- {ch3, start_link, []},
- permanent, brutal_kill, worker, [ch3]}</code>
+#{id => ch3,
+ start => {ch3, start_link, []},
+ restart => permanent,
+ shutdown => brutal_kill,
+ type => worker,
+ modules => [ch3]}</code>
+ <p>or simplified, relying on the default values:</p>
+ <code type="none">
+#{id => ch3,
+ start => {ch3, start_link, []}
+ shutdown => brutal_kill}</code>
<p>Example: A child specification to start the event manager from
the chapter about
<seealso marker="events#mgr">gen_event</seealso>:</p>
<code type="none">
-{error_man,
- {gen_event, start_link, [{local, error_man}]},
- permanent, 5000, worker, dynamic}</code>
- <p>Both the server and event manager are registered processes which
+#{id => error_man,
+ start => {gen_event, start_link, [{local, error_man}]},
+ modules => dynamic}</code>
+ <p>Both server and event manager are registered processes which
can be expected to be accessible at all times, thus they are
specified to be <c>permanent</c>.</p>
<p><c>ch3</c> does not need to do any cleaning up before
termination, thus no shutdown time is needed but
<c>brutal_kill</c> should be sufficient. <c>error_man</c> may
need some time for the event handlers to clean up, thus
- <c>Shutdown</c> is set to 5000 ms.</p>
+ the shutdown time is set to 5000 ms (which is the default
+ value).</p>
<p>Example: A child specification to start another supervisor:</p>
<code type="none">
-{sup,
- {sup, start_link, []},
- transient, infinity, supervisor, [sup]}</code>
+#{id => sup,
+ start => {sup, start_link, []},
+ restart => transient,
+ type => supervisor} % will cause default shutdown=>infinity</code>
</section>
<section>
@@ -262,16 +341,18 @@ start_link() ->
<c>supervisor:start_link({local, Name}, Module, Args)</c> or
<c>supervisor:start_link({global, Name}, Module, Args)</c>.</p>
<p>The new supervisor process calls the callback function
- <c>ch_sup:init([])</c>. <c>init</c> is expected to return
- <c>{ok, StartSpec}</c>:</p>
+ <c>ch_sup:init([])</c>. <c>init</c> shall return
+ <c>{ok, {SupFlags, ChildSpecs}}</c>:</p>
<code type="none">
init(_Args) ->
- {ok, {{one_for_one, 1, 60},
- [{ch3, {ch3, start_link, []},
- permanent, brutal_kill, worker, [ch3]}]}}.</code>
+ SupFlags = #{},
+ ChildSpecs = [#{id => ch3,
+ start => {ch3, start_link, []},
+ shutdown => brutal_kill}],
+ {ok, {SupFlags, ChildSpecs}}.</code>
<p>The supervisor then starts all its child processes according to
- the child specifications in the start specification. In this case
- there is one child process, <c>ch3</c>.</p>
+ the given child specifications. In this case there, is one child
+ process, <c>ch3</c>.</p>
<p>Note that <c>supervisor:start_link</c> is synchronous. It does
not return until all child processes have been started.</p>
</section>
@@ -303,17 +384,19 @@ supervisor:terminate_child(Sup, Id)</code>
<code type="none">
supervisor:delete_child(Sup, Id)</code>
<p><c>Sup</c> is the pid, or name, of the supervisor.
- <c>Id</c> is the id specified in the <seealso marker="#spec">child specification</seealso>.</p>
+ <c>Id</c> is the value associated with the <c>id</c> key in
+ the <seealso marker="#spec">child specification</seealso>.</p>
<p>As with dynamically added child processes, the effects of
deleting a static child process is lost if the supervisor itself
restarts.</p>
</section>
+ <marker id="simple"/>
<section>
<title>Simple-One-For-One Supervisors</title>
<p>A supervisor with restart strategy <c>simple_one_for_one</c> is
a simplified one_for_one supervisor, where all child processes are
- dynamically added instances of the same process.</p>
+ dynamically added instances of the same child specification.</p>
<p>Example of a callback module for a simple_one_for_one supervisor:</p>
<code type="none">
-module(simple_sup).
@@ -326,9 +409,13 @@ start_link() ->
supervisor:start_link(simple_sup, []).
init(_Args) ->
- {ok, {{simple_one_for_one, 0, 1},
- [{call, {call, start_link, []},
- temporary, brutal_kill, worker, [call]}]}}.</code>
+ SupFlags = #{strategy => simple_one_for_one,
+ intensity => 0,
+ period => 1},
+ ChildSpecs = [#{id => call,
+ start => {call, start_link, []},
+ shutdown => brutal_kill}],
+ {ok, {SupFlags, ChildSpecs}}.</code>
<p>When started, the supervisor will not start any child processes.
Instead, all child processes are added dynamically by calling:</p>
<code type="none">
@@ -336,7 +423,7 @@ supervisor:start_child(Sup, List)</code>
<p><c>Sup</c> is the pid, or name, of the supervisor.
<c>List</c> is an arbitrary list of terms which will be added to
the list of arguments specified in the child specification. If
- the start function is specified as <c>{M, F, A}</c>, then
+ the start function is specified as <c>{M, F, A}</c>,
the child process is started by calling
<c>apply(M, F, A++List)</c>.</p>
<p>For example, adding a child to <c>simple_sup</c> above:</p>
@@ -352,10 +439,10 @@ call:start_link(id1)</code>
supervisor:terminate_child(Sup, Pid)</code>
<p>where <c>Sup</c> is the pid, or name, of the supervisor and
<c>Pid</c> is the pid of the child.</p>
- <p>Because a <c>simple_one_for_one</c> supervisor could have many children,
- it shuts them all down at same time. So, order in which they are stopped is
- not defined. For the same reason, it could have an overhead with regards to
- the <c>Shutdown</c> strategy.</p>
+ <p>Because a <c>simple_one_for_one</c> supervisor could have many
+ children, it shuts them all down asynchronously. This means that
+ the children will do their cleanup in parallel and therefore the
+ order in which they are stopped is not defined.</p>
</section>
<section>