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-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml251
-rw-r--r--erts/doc/src/notes.xml188
3 files changed, 377 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
index 610351db6c..79f703455a 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_dist_protocol.xml
@@ -829,6 +829,14 @@ DiB == gen_digest(ChA, ICA)?
<item>
<p>The node understand UTF-8 encoded atoms.</p>
</item>
+ <tag><c>-define(DFLAG_MAP_TAG, 16#20000).</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The node understand the map tag.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>-define(DFLAG_BIG_CREATION, 16#40000).</c></tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>The node understand big node creation.</p>
+ </item>
</taglist>
</section>
</section>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
index b7090d0472..5813af1d57 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml
@@ -386,44 +386,6 @@
</section>
<section>
- <marker id="REFERENCE_EXT"/>
- <title>REFERENCE_EXT</title>
- <table align="left">
- <row>
- <cell align="center">1</cell>
- <cell align="center">N</cell>
- <cell align="center">4</cell>
- <cell align="center">1</cell>
- </row>
- <row>
- <cell align="center"><c>101</c></cell>
- <cell align="center"><c>Node</c></cell>
- <cell align="center"><c>ID</c></cell>
- <cell align="center"><c>Creation</c></cell>
- </row>
- <tcaption>REFERENCE_EXT</tcaption></table>
- <p>
- Encodes a reference object (an object generated with
- <seealso marker="erlang:make_ref/0">erlang:make_ref/0</seealso>).
- The <c>Node</c> term is an encoded atom, that is,
- <seealso marker="#ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>,
- <seealso marker="#SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>, or
- <seealso marker="#ATOM_CACHE_REF"><c>ATOM_CACHE_REF</c></seealso>.
- The <c>ID</c> field contains a big-endian unsigned integer,
- but <em>is to be regarded as uninterpreted data</em>,
- as this field is node-specific.
- <c>Creation</c> is a byte containing a node serial number, which
- makes it possible to separate old (crashed) nodes from a new one.
- </p>
- <p>
- In <c>ID</c>, only 18 bits are significant; the rest are to be 0.
- In <c>Creation</c>, only two bits are significant; the rest are to be 0.
- See <seealso marker="#NEW_REFERENCE_EXT">
- <c>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso>.
- </p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
<marker id="PORT_EXT"/>
<title>PORT_EXT</title>
<table align="left">
@@ -441,13 +403,46 @@
</row>
<tcaption>PORT_EXT</tcaption></table>
<p>
- Encodes a port object (obtained from
- <seealso marker="erlang:open_port/2">
- <c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso>).
- The <c>ID</c> is a node-specific identifier for a local port.
+ Same as <seealso marker="#NEW_PORT_EXT"><c>NEW_PORT_EXT</c></seealso>
+ except the <c>Creation</c> field is only one byte and only two
+ bits are significant, the rest are to be 0.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <marker id="NEW_PORT_EXT"/>
+ <title>NEW_PORT_EXT</title>
+ <table align="left">
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center">1</cell>
+ <cell align="center">N</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center"><c>89</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Node</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>ID</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Creation</c></cell>
+ </row>
+ <tcaption>NEW_PORT_EXT</tcaption></table>
+ <p>
+ Encodes a port identifier (obtained from
+ <seealso marker="erlang#open_port/2"><c>erlang:open_port/2</c></seealso>).
+ <c>Node</c> is an encoded atom, that is,
+ <seealso marker="#ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>
+ or <seealso marker="#ATOM_CACHE_REF"><c>ATOM_CACHE_REF</c></seealso>.
+ <c>ID</c> is a 32-bit big endian unsigned integer. Only 28 bits are
+ significant; the rest are to be 0. The <c>Creation</c> works just like in
+ <seealso marker="#NEW_PID_EXT"><c>NEW_PID_EXT</c></seealso>.
Port operations are not allowed across node boundaries.
- The <c>Creation</c> works just like in
- <seealso marker="#REFERENCE_EXT"><c>REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso>.
+ </p>
+ <p>Introduced in OTP 19, but only to be decoded and echoed back. Not
+ encoded for local ports. Planned to supersede <seealso marker="#PORT_EXT">
+ <c>PORT_EXT</c></seealso> in OTP 23 when
+ <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#dflags"><c>DFLAG_BIG_CREATON</c></seealso>
+ becomes mandatory.
</p>
</section>
@@ -471,12 +466,65 @@
</row>
<tcaption>PID_EXT</tcaption></table>
<p>
- Encodes a process identifier object (obtained from
- <seealso marker="erlang:spawn/3"><c>erlang:spawn/3</c></seealso> or
- friends). The <c>ID</c> and <c>Creation</c> fields works just like in
- <seealso marker="#REFERENCE_EXT"><c>REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso>, while
- the <c>Serial</c> field is used to improve safety.
- In <c>ID</c>, only 15 bits are significant; the rest are to be 0.
+ Same as <seealso marker="#NEW_PID_EXT"><c>NEW_PID_EXT</c></seealso>
+ except the <c>Creation</c> field is only one byte and only two
+ bits are significant, the rest are to be 0.
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <marker id="NEW_PID_EXT"/>
+ <title>NEW_PID_EXT</title>
+ <table align="left">
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center">1</cell>
+ <cell align="center">N</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center"><c>88</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Node</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>ID</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Serial</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Creation</c></cell>
+ </row>
+ <tcaption>NEW_PID_EXT</tcaption></table>
+ <p>
+ Encodes an Erlang process identifier object.
+ </p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>Node</c></tag>
+ <item><p>The name of the originating node, encoded using
+ <seealso marker="#ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>
+ or <seealso
+ marker="#ATOM_CACHE_REF"><c>ATOM_CACHE_REF</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>ID</c></tag>
+ <item><p>A 32-bit big endian unsigned integer. Only 15 bits are
+ significant; the rest are to be 0.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>Serial</c></tag>
+ <item><p>A 32-bit big endian unsigned integer. Only 13 bits are
+ significant; the rest are to be 0.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>Creation</c></tag>
+ <item><p>A 32-bit big endian unsigned integer. All identifiers
+ originating from the same node incarnation must have identical <c>Creation</c>
+ values. This makes it possible to separate identifiers from old
+ (crashed) nodes from a new one. The value zero should be avoided for
+ normal operations as it is used as a wild card for debug purpose
+ (like a pid returned by <seealso marker="erts:erlang#list_to_pid/1">
+ erlang:list_to_pid/1</seealso>).</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>Introduced in OTP 19, but only to be decoded and echoed back. Not
+ encoded for local processes. Planned to supersede <seealso marker="#PID_EXT">
+ <c>PID_EXT</c></seealso> in OTP 23 when
+ <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#dflags"><c>DFLAG_BIG_CREATON</c></seealso>
+ becomes mandatory.
</p>
</section>
@@ -700,6 +748,30 @@
</section>
<section>
+ <marker id="REFERENCE_EXT"/>
+ <title>REFERENCE_EXT (deprecated)</title>
+ <table align="left">
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center">1</cell>
+ <cell align="center">N</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ <cell align="center">1</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center"><c>101</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Node</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>ID</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Creation</c></cell>
+ </row>
+ <tcaption>REFERENCE_EXT</tcaption></table>
+ <p>
+ The same as <seealso marker="#NEW_REFERENCE_EXT">
+ <c>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso> except <c>ID</c> is only one word
+ (<c>Len</c> = 1).
+ </p>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<marker id="NEW_REFERENCE_EXT"/>
<title>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</title>
<table align="left">
@@ -719,29 +791,68 @@
</row>
<tcaption>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</tcaption></table>
<p>
- <c>Node</c> and <c>Creation</c> are as in
- <seealso marker="#REFERENCE_EXT"><c>REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso>.
- </p>
- <p>
- <c>ID</c> contains a sequence of big-endian unsigned integers
- (4 bytes each, so <c>N'</c> is a multiple of 4),
- but is to be regarded as uninterpreted data.
- </p>
- <p>
- <c>N'</c> = 4 * <c>Len</c>.
- </p>
- <p>
- In the first word (4 bytes) of <c>ID</c>, only 18 bits are
- significant, the rest are to be 0.
- In <c>Creation</c>, only two bits are significant,
- the rest are to be 0.
+ The same as <seealso marker="#NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT">
+ <c>NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso> <em>except</em>:
</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>ID</c></tag>
+ <item><p>In the first word (4 bytes) of <c>ID</c>, only 18 bits are
+ significant, the rest must be 0.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>Creation</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Only one byte long and only two bits are significant, the rest must be 0.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <marker id="NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT"/>
+ <title>NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT</title>
+ <table align="left">
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center">1</cell>
+ <cell align="center">2</cell>
+ <cell align="center">N</cell>
+ <cell align="center">4</cell>
+ <cell align="center">N'</cell>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <cell align="center"><c>90</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Len</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Node</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>Creation</c></cell>
+ <cell align="center"><c>ID ...</c></cell>
+ </row>
+ <tcaption>NEWER_REFERENCE_EXT</tcaption></table>
<p>
- <c>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</c> was introduced with distribution version 4.
- In version 4, <c>N'</c> is to be at most 12.
+ Encodes a reference term generated with
+ <seealso marker="erts:erlang#make_ref/0">erlang:make_ref/0</seealso>.
</p>
- <p>
- See <seealso marker="#REFERENCE_EXT"><c>REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso>.
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>Node</c></tag>
+ <item><p>The name of the originating node, encoded using
+ <seealso marker="#ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>,
+ <seealso marker="#SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT"><c>SMALL_ATOM_UTF8_EXT</c></seealso>
+ or <seealso marker="#ATOM_CACHE_REF"><c>ATOM_CACHE_REF</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>Len</c></tag>
+ <item><p>A 16-bit big endian unsigned integer not larger than 3.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>ID</c></tag>
+ <item><p>A sequence of <c>Len</c> big-endian unsigned integers
+ (4 bytes each, so <c>N'</c>&nbsp;=&nbsp;4&nbsp;*&nbsp;<c>Len</c>),
+ but is to be regarded as uninterpreted data.</p>
+ </item>
+ <tag><c>Creation</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Works just like in
+ <seealso marker="#NEW_PID_EXT"><c>NEW_PID_EXT</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </item>
+ </taglist>
+ <p>Introduced in OTP 19, but only to be decoded and echoed back. Not
+ encoded for local references. Planned to supersede <seealso marker="#NEW_REFERENCE_EXT">
+ <c>NEW_REFERENCE_EXT</c></seealso> in OTP 23 when
+ <seealso marker="erl_dist_protocol#dflags"><c>DFLAG_BIG_CREATON</c></seealso>
+ becomes mandatory.
</p>
</section>
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
index 5b414853a3..56681c0250 100644
--- a/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
+++ b/erts/doc/src/notes.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,194 @@
</header>
<p>This document describes the changes made to the ERTS application.</p>
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.9</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Added an optional <c>./configure</c> flag to compile
+ the emulator with spectre mitigation:
+ <c>--with-spectre-mitigation</c></p>
+ <p>Note that this requires a recent version of GCC with
+ support for spectre mitigation and the
+ <c>--mindirect-branch=thunk</c> flag, such as
+ <c>8.1</c>.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15430 Aux Id: ERIERL-237 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.8</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ A bug that could cause dirty schedulers to become
+ unresponsive has been fixed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15509 Aux Id: PR-2027, PR-2093 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.7</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed bug in operator <c>band</c> of two negative
+ operands causing erroneous result if the absolute value
+ of one of the operands have the lowest <c>N*W</c> bits as
+ zero and the other absolute value is not larger than
+ <c>N*W</c> bits. <c>N</c> is an integer of 1 or larger
+ and <c>W</c> is 32 or 64 depending on word size.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15487 Aux Id: ERL-804 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.6</title>
+
+ <section><title>Improvements and New Features</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>List subtraction (The <c>--</c> operator) will now
+ yield properly on large inputs.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15371</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.5</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ ERTS internal trees of monitor structures could get into
+ an inconsistent state. This could cause <c>'DOWN'</c>
+ messages not to be delivered when they should, as well as
+ delivery of <c>'DOWN'</c> messages that should not be
+ delivered.</p>
+ <p>
+ This bug was introduced in ERTS version 9.0 (OTP 20.0)
+ and was fixed in ERTS version 10.0 (OTP 21.0) due to a
+ rewrite of the monitor code. That is, this bug only exist
+ in the OTP 20 release.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15399 Aux Id: ERL-751, ERIERL-262, OTP-14205 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.4</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed bug in <c>ets:select_replace</c> when called with a
+ fully bound key could cause a following call to
+ <c>ets:next</c> or <c>ets:prev</c> to crash the emulator
+ or return invalid result.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15346</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.3</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug which caused an emulator crash when
+ <c>enif_send()</c> was called by a NIF that executed on a
+ dirty scheduler. The bug was either triggered when the
+ NIF called <c>enif_send()</c> without a message
+ environment, or when the process executing the NIF was
+ <c>send</c> traced.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15223</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fixed a bug causing some Erlang references to be
+ inconsistently ordered. This could for example cause
+ failure to look up certain elements with references as
+ keys in search data structures. This bug was introduced
+ in R13B02.</p>
+ <p>
+ Thanks to Simon Cornish for finding the bug and supplying
+ a fix.</p>
+ <p>
+ *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15225</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.2</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed a race condition in the inet driver that could
+ cause receive to hang when the emulator was compiled with
+ gcc 8.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15158 Aux Id: ERL-654 </p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>
+ Fix bug in generation of erl_crash.dump, which could
+ cause VM to crash.</p>
+ <p>
+ Bug exist since erts-9.2 (OTP-20.2).</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15181</p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
+<section><title>Erts 9.3.3.1</title>
+
+ <section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ <p>Fixed a rare bug that could cause processes to be
+ scheduled after they had been freed.</p>
+ <p>
+ Own Id: OTP-15067 Aux Id: ERL-573 </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+</section>
+
<section><title>Erts 9.3.3</title>
<section><title>Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions</title>