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Diffstat (limited to 'erts/doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/crash_dump.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl.xml | 20 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erlang.xml | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/zlib.xml | 2 |
6 files changed, 43 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/crash_dump.xml b/erts/doc/src/crash_dump.xml index d3de29b876..2b5fc877c3 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/crash_dump.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/crash_dump.xml @@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ sockets/pipes can be used simultaneously by Erlang (due to limitations in the Unix <c><![CDATA[select]]></c> call). The number of open regular files is not affected by this.</item> - <item>"Received SIGUSR1" - The SIGUSR1 signal was sent to the - Erlang machine (Unix only).</item> + <item>"Received SIGUSR1" - Sending the SIGUSR1 signal to a + Erlang machine (Unix only) forces a crash dump. This slogan reflects + that the Erlang machine crash-dumped due to receiving that signal.</item> <item>"Kernel pid terminated (<em>Who</em>) (<em>Exit-reason</em>)" - The kernel supervisor has detected a failure, usually that the <c><![CDATA[application_controller]]></c> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml index f856b9ab86..d11f6b0c6d 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl.xml @@ -525,7 +525,8 @@ core dump and no crash dump if an internal error is detected.</p> <p>Calling <c>erlang:halt/1</c> with a string argument will still - produce a crash dump.</p> + produce a crash dump. On Unix systems, sending an emulator process + a SIGUSR1 signal will also force a crash dump.</p> </item> <tag><marker id="+e"><c><![CDATA[+e Number]]></c></marker></tag> <item> @@ -1141,6 +1142,23 @@ <p>For more information, see <seealso marker="erlang#system_info_cpu_topology">erlang:system_info(cpu_topology)</seealso>.</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="+secio"><c>+secio true|false</c></marker></tag> + <item> + <p>Enable or disable eager check I/O scheduling. The default + is currently <c>false</c>, but will most likely be changed + to <c>true</c> in OTP 18. The behaviour before this flag + was introduced corresponds to <c>+secio false</c>.</p> + <p>The flag effects when schedulers will check for I/O + operations possible to execute, and when such I/O operations + will execute. As the name of the parameter implies, + schedulers will be more eager to check for I/O when + <c>true</c> is passed. This however also implies that + execution of outstanding I/O operation will not be + prioritized to the same extent as when <c>false</c> is + passed.</p> + <p><seealso marker="erlang#system_info_eager_check_io"><c>erlang:system_info(eager_check_io)</c></seealso> + returns the value of this parameter used when starting the VM.</p> + </item> <tag><marker id="+sfwi"><c>+sfwi Interval</c></marker></tag> <item> <p>Set scheduler forced wakeup interval. All run queues will diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml index 4a1aab75c7..77fc906aca 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml @@ -2033,7 +2033,8 @@ ERL_DRV_MAP int sz entry function is called. If <c>ready_async</c> is null in the driver entry, the <c>async_free</c> function is called instead.</p> - <p>The return value is a handle to the asynchronous task.</p> + <p>The return value is -1 if the <c>driver_async</c> call + fails.</p> <note> <p>As of erts version 5.5.4.3 the default stack size for threads in the async-thread pool is 16 kilowords, diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index fa083db4c7..a6e7dddbed 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -126,9 +126,8 @@ However, only characters that can be encoded using Latin1 (ISO-8859-1) are currently supported in atoms. The support for UTF-8 encoded atoms in the external format has been implemented in order to be able to support - all Unicode characters in atoms in <em>some future release</em>. Full - support for Unicode atoms will not happen before OTP-R18, and might - be introduced even later than that. Until full Unicode support for + all Unicode characters in atoms in <em>some future release</em>. + Until full Unicode support for atoms has been introduced, it is an <em>error</em> to pass atoms containing characters that cannot be encoded in Latin1, and <em>the behavior is undefined</em>.</p> diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml index 84168397f6..483d81cfb6 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erlang.xml @@ -5775,6 +5775,7 @@ ok <name name="system_info" arity="1" clause_i="52"/> <name name="system_info" arity="1" clause_i="53"/> <name name="system_info" arity="1" clause_i="54"/> + <name name="system_info" arity="1" clause_i="55"/> <fsummary>Information about the system</fsummary> <desc> <p>Returns various information about the current system @@ -5970,6 +5971,16 @@ ok The return value will always be <c>false</c> since the elib_malloc allocator has been removed.</p> </item> + <tag><marker id="system_info_eager_check_io"><c>eager_check_io</c></marker></tag> + <item> + <p> + Returns the value of the <c>erl</c> + <seealso marker="erl#+secio">+secio</seealso> command line + flag which is either <c>true</c> or <c>false</c>. See the + documentation of the command line flag for information about + the different values. + </p> + </item> <tag><c>ets_limit</c></tag> <item> <p>Returns the maximum number of ETS tables allowed. This limit @@ -6133,6 +6144,11 @@ ok <seealso marker="#system_info_multi_scheduling">erlang:system_info(multi_scheduling)</seealso>, and <seealso marker="#system_info_schedulers">erlang:system_info(schedulers)</seealso>.</p> </item> + <tag><c>nif_version</c></tag> + <item> + <p>Returns a string containing the erlang NIF version + used by the runtime system. It will be on the form "<major ver>.<minor ver>".</p> + </item> <tag><marker id="system_info_otp_release"><c>otp_release</c></marker></tag> <item> <p>Returns a string containing the OTP release number of the diff --git a/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml b/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml index 11a7437f5a..da8ccdecdf 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/zlib.xml @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ list_to_binary([B1,B2])</pre> <fsummary>Decompress data</fsummary> <desc> <p><c>inflate/2</c> decompresses as much data as possible. - It may some introduce some output latency (reading + It may introduce some output latency (reading input without producing any output).</p> <p>If a preset dictionary is needed at this point (see <c>inflateSetDictionary</c> below), <c>inflate/2</c> throws a |