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-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/beam/dist.h6
-rw-r--r--erts/emulator/beam/external.c29
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/dist.h b/erts/emulator/beam/dist.h
index f953a2ab8c..067028634b 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/dist.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/dist.h
@@ -54,12 +54,11 @@
#define DFLAG_DIST_MANDATORY (DFLAG_EXTENDED_REFERENCES \
| DFLAG_EXTENDED_PIDS_PORTS \
| DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS \
- | DFLAG_NEW_FUN_TAGS \
- | DFLAG_BIG_CREATION)
+ | DFLAG_NEW_FUN_TAGS)
/*
* Additional optimistic flags when encoding toward pending connection.
- * If remote node (erl_interface) does not support these then we may need
+ * If remote node (erl_interface) does not supporting these then we may need
* to transcode messages enqueued before connection setup was finished.
*/
#define DFLAG_DIST_HOPEFULLY (DFLAG_EXPORT_PTR_TAG \
@@ -76,6 +75,7 @@
| DFLAG_SMALL_ATOM_TAGS \
| DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS \
| DFLAG_MAP_TAG \
+ | DFLAG_BIG_CREATION \
| DFLAG_SEND_SENDER \
| DFLAG_BIG_SEQTRACE_LABELS \
| DFLAG_EXIT_PAYLOAD \
diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/external.c b/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
index 0d00bfe2e8..71bcab1f57 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/external.c
@@ -51,17 +51,18 @@
#define MAX_STRING_LEN 0xffff
-/*
- * MAX value for the creation field in pid, port and reference
- * for the old PID_EXT, PORT_EXT, REFERENCE_EXT and NEW_REFERENCE_EXT.
- * Older nodes (OTP 19-21) will send us these so we must be able to decode them.
- *
- * From OTP 22 DFLAG_BIG_CREATION is mandatory so this node will always
- * encode with new big 32-bit creations using NEW_PID_EXT, NEW_PORT_EXT
- * and NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT.
+/* MAX value for the creation field in pid, port and reference
+ for the local node and for the current external format.
+
+ Larger creation values than this are allowed in external pid, port and refs
+ encoded with NEW_PID_EXT, NEW_PORT_EXT and NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT.
+ The point here is to prepare for future upgrade to 32-bit creation.
+ OTP-19 (erts-8.0) can handle big creation values from other (newer) nodes,
+ but do not use big creation values for the local node yet,
+ as we still may have to communicate with older nodes.
*/
-#define ERTS_MAX_TINY_CREATION (3)
-#define is_tiny_creation(Cre) ((unsigned)(Cre) <= ERTS_MAX_TINY_CREATION)
+#define ERTS_MAX_LOCAL_CREATION (3)
+#define is_valid_creation(Cre) ((unsigned)(Cre) <= ERTS_MAX_LOCAL_CREATION)
#undef ERTS_DEBUG_USE_DIST_SEP
#ifdef DEBUG
@@ -2519,7 +2520,7 @@ dec_pid(ErtsDistExternal *edep, ErtsHeapFactory* factory, byte* ep,
if (tag == PID_EXT) {
cre = get_int8(ep);
ep += 1;
- if (!is_tiny_creation(cre)) {
+ if (!is_valid_creation(cre)) {
return NULL;
}
} else {
@@ -3520,7 +3521,7 @@ dec_term_atom_common:
if (tag == PORT_EXT) {
cre = get_int8(ep);
ep++;
- if (!is_tiny_creation(cre)) {
+ if (!is_valid_creation(cre)) {
goto error;
}
}
@@ -3567,7 +3568,7 @@ dec_term_atom_common:
cre = get_int8(ep);
ep += 1;
- if (!is_tiny_creation(cre)) {
+ if (!is_valid_creation(cre)) {
goto error;
}
goto ref_ext_common;
@@ -3581,7 +3582,7 @@ dec_term_atom_common:
cre = get_int8(ep);
ep += 1;
- if (!is_tiny_creation(cre)) {
+ if (!is_valid_creation(cre)) {
goto error;
}
r0 = get_int32(ep);