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2014-07-02erlang:statistics(runtime) returns millisecondsMagnus Henoch
Specify in the documentation that erlang:statistics(runtime) returns milliseconds.
2014-06-05Merge branch 'etsukata/system_info_tolerant_timeofday/OTP-11970' into maintLukas Larsson
* etsukata/system_info_tolerant_timeofday/OTP-11970: Add erlang:system_info(tolerant_timeofday)
2014-04-28Add erlang:system_info(tolerant_timeofday)Eiichi Tsukata
Add erlang:system_info(tolerant_timeofday), an API to check whether compensation for sudden changes of system time is enabled or not.
2014-04-23Document that spawn_opt/5 does not support the 'monitor' optionBjörn Gustavsson
2014-04-01Merge branch 'egil/maps-doc'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/maps-doc: doc: Add Maps example for sequential programming doc: Mention map expressions and map guards doc: Add maps to reference manual edoc: Add map/0 as a new predefined type doc: Descripe Maps type syntax doc: Clearify language of user-defined attributes doc: Document Maps datatype in reference manual erts: Document map guard functions erts: Fix is_map/1 spec
2014-03-27Merge branch 'lukas/ose/master-17.0/OTP-11334'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/ose/master-17.0/OTP-11334: ose: Fix erts assert failed printouts ose: fix for packet_bytes in fd/spawn driver. ose: Prepare slave for running on OSE ose: Fix bug when hunting for signal proxy ose: Implement tcp inet driver for OSE ose: Add ifdefs for HAVE_UDP ose: Yielding has to be done differently for background processes. ose: Print faults in aio sys driver calls ose: Prinout errno when to_erl read fails ose: erlang display goes to ramlog printf ose: Initiate stdin/stdout/stderr ose: Break lmconf into one per load module ose: Reset busy port when pdq empty ose: Restore the owner of the signal
2014-03-26ose: erlang display goes to ramlog printfLukas Larsson
2014-03-20Verify runtime_dependencies when running 'otp_build patch_app'Rickard Green
2014-03-16erts: Document map guard functionsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
* erlang:is_map/1 * erlang:map_size/1
2014-02-24Merge branch 'lukas/erts/float_encoding/OTP-11738'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/float_encoding/OTP-11738: erts: Set default external enc to use new float scheme
2014-02-24Merge branch 'vinoski/ds2'Rickard Green
* vinoski/ds2: further enhancements for dirty schedulers allow optional whitespace in dirty scheduler erl options
2014-02-24further enhancements for dirty schedulersSteve Vinoski
Add support for setting the number of dirty CPU schedulers online via erlang:system_flag/2. Assuming the emulator is built with dirty schedulers enabled, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online may not be less than 1, nor greater than the number of dirty CPU schedulers available, nor greater than the number of normal schedulers online. Dirty CPU scheduler threads that are taken offline via system_flag/2 are suspended. The number of dirty CPU schedulers online may be adjusted independently of the number of normal schedulers online, but if system_flag/2 is used to set the number of normal schedulers online to a value less than the current number of normal schedulers online, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is decreased proportionally. Likewise, if the number of normal schedulers online is increased, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is increased proportionally. For example, if 8 normal schedulers and 4 dirty CPU schedulers are online, and system_flag/2 is called to set the number of normal schedulers online to 4, the number of dirty CPU schedulers online is also decreased by half, to 2. Subsequently setting the number of normal schedulers online back to 8 also sets the number of dirty CPU schedulers online back to 4. Augment the system_flag/2 documentation in the erlang man page to explain this relationship between schedulers_online and dirty_cpu_schedulers_online. Also ensure that all dirty CPU and I/O schedulers are suspended when multi-scheduling is blocked via system_flag/2, and brought back online when multi-scheduling is unblocked. Add Rickard Green's rewritten check_enqueue_in_prio_queue() function that inspects process state more thoroughly to determine if to enqueue it and if so on what queue, including dirty queues when appropriate. Make sure dirty NIF jobs do not trigger erlang:system_monitor long_schedule messages. Add more dirty scheduler testing to the scheduler test suite. Remove the erts_no_dirty_cpu_schedulers_online global variable, since it's no longer needed. Execute dirty NIFs on a normal scheduler thread while multi-scheduling blocking is in effect. Evacuate any dirty jobs residing in the dirty run queues over to a normal run queue when multi-scheduling is blocked. Allow dirty schedulers to execute aux work. Set the dirty run queues halt_in_progress flag when halting the normal schedulers. Change dirty scheduler numbers to a structure including both scheduler number and type, either dirty CPU or dirty I/O. Add some assertions to ensure that dirty CPU schedulers operate only on dirty CPU scheduler process flags, and the same for dirty I/O schedulers.
2014-02-24erts: Set default external enc to use new float schemeLukas Larsson
This change was triggered by the OSE float printing function not working exactly the same way as linux/win32. But it is also a good one in general as it cuts size in more than half for floats.
2014-02-19Misc adjustments of OTP versionRickard Green
2014-01-28initial support for dirty schedulers and dirty NIFsSteve Vinoski
Add initial support for dirty schedulers. There are two types of dirty schedulers: CPU schedulers and I/O schedulers. By default, there are as many dirty CPU schedulers as there are normal schedulers and as many dirty CPU schedulers online as normal schedulers online. There are 10 dirty I/O schedulers (similar to the choice of 10 as the default for async threads). By default, dirty schedulers are disabled and conditionally compiled out. To enable them, you must pass --enable-dirty-schedulers to the top-level configure script when building Erlang/OTP. Current dirty scheduler support requires the emulator to be built with SMP support. This restriction will be lifted in the future. You can specify the number of dirty schedulers with the command-line options +SDcpu (for dirty CPU schedulers) and +SDio (for dirty I/O schedulers). The +SDcpu option is similar to the +S option in that it takes two numbers separated by a colon: C1:C2, where C1 specifies the number of dirty schedulers available and C2 specifies the number of dirty schedulers online. The +SDPcpu option allows numbers of dirty CPU schedulers available and dirty CPU schedulers online to be specified as percentages, similar to the existing +SP option for normal schedulers. The number of dirty CPU schedulers created and dirty CPU schedulers online may not exceed the number of normal schedulers created and normal schedulers online, respectively. The +SDio option takes only a single number specifying the number of dirty I/O schedulers available and online. There is no support yet for programmatically changing at run time the number of dirty CPU schedulers online via erlang:system_flag/2. Also, changing the number of normal schedulers online via erlang:system_flag(schedulers_online, NewSchedulersOnline) should ensure that there are no more dirty CPU schedulers than normal schedulers, but this is not yet implemented. You can retrieve the number of dirty schedulers by passing dirty_cpu_schedulers, dirty_cpu_schedulers_online, or dirty_io_schedulers to erlang:system_info/1. Currently only NIFs are able to access dirty scheduler functionality. Neither drivers nor BIFs currently support dirty schedulers. This restriction will be addressed in the future. If dirty scheduler support is present in the runtime, the initial status line Erlang prints before presenting its interactive prompt will include the indicator "[ds:C1:C2:I]" where "ds" indicates "dirty schedulers", "C1" indicates the number of dirty CPU schedulers available, "C2" indicates the number of dirty CPU schedulers online, and "I" indicates the number of dirty I/O schedulers. Document The dirty NIF API in the erl_nif man page. The API closely follows Rickard Green's presentation slides from his talk "Future Extensions to the Native Interface", presented at the 2011 Erlang Factory held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rickard's slides are available online at http://bit.ly/1m34UHB . Document the new erl command-line options, the additions to erlang:system_info/1, and also add the erlang:system_flag/2 dirty scheduler documentation even though it's not yet implemented. To determine whether the dirty NIF API is available, native code can check to see whether the C preprocessor macro ERL_NIF_DIRTY_SCHEDULER_SUPPORT is defined. To check if dirty schedulers are available at run time, native code can call the boolean enif_have_dirty_schedulers() function, and Erlang code can call erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers), which raises badarg if no dirty scheduler support is available. Add a simple dirty NIF test to the emulator NIF suite.
2014-01-24Merge branch 'blt/doc_language_improvement'Henrik Nord
* blt/doc_language_improvement: Clean up some awkward wording around the +spp flag. OTP-11607
2014-01-09Fix issues with new versioningRickard Green
2013-12-09Clean up some awkward wording around the +spp flag.Brian L. Troutwine
This issue was pointed out by lpgauth in #erlounge. While the intention is clear, the original wording was a bit dodgy. I'm no grammarian--though I am a native speaker--so it's quite possible the new wording I've introduced is not impeachable. Should be idiomatic, though. Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <[email protected]>
2013-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/garbage_collect/OTP-11388'Rickard Green
* rickard/garbage_collect/OTP-11388: Parallel check_process_code when code_server purge a module Functionality for disabling garbage collection Use asynchronous check_process_code in code_parallel_SUITE Execution of system tasks in context of another process Conflicts: bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/hipe_unified_loader.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
2013-12-02Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Documentation fix
2013-12-02Merge branch 'rickard/supercarrier-fix/OTP-11149' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/supercarrier-fix/OTP-11149: Documentation fix
2013-12-02Documentation fixRickard Green
2013-11-28Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Fix prim_inet:close/1 Ensure exit signal due to link precede port BIF return Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam
2013-11-26Ensure exit signal due to link precede port BIF returnRickard Green
2013-11-19Merge branch 'maint'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-11-18Execution of system tasks in context of another processRickard Green
A process requesting a system task to be executed in the context of another process will be notified by a message when the task has executed. This message will be on the form: {RequestType, RequestId, Pid, Result}. A process requesting a system task to be executed can set priority on the system task. The requester typically set the same priority on the task as its own process priority, and by this avoiding priority inversion. A request for execution of a system task is made by calling the statically linked in NIF erts_internal:request_system_task(Pid, Prio, Request). This is an undocumented ERTS internal function that should remain so. It should *only* be called from BIF implementations. Currently defined system tasks are: * garbage_collect * check_process_code Further system tasks can and will be implemented in the future. The erlang:garbage_collect/[1,2] and erlang:check_process_code/[2,3] BIFs are now implemented using system tasks. Both the 'garbage_collect' and the 'check_process_code' operations perform or may perform garbage_collections. By doing these via the system task functionality all garbage collect operations in the system will be performed solely in the context of the process being garbage collected. This makes it possible to later implement functionality for disabling garbage collection of a process over context switches. Newly introduced BIFs: * erlang:garbage_collect/2 - The new second argument is an option list. Introduced option: * {async, RequestId} - making it possible for users to issue asynchronous garbage collect requests. * erlang:check_process_code/3 - The new third argument is an option list. Introduced options: * {async, RequestId} - making it possible for users to issue asynchronous check process code requests. * {allow_gc, boolean()} - making it possible to issue requests that aren't allowed to garbage collect (operation will abort if gc should be needed). These options have been introduced as a preparation for parallelization of check_process_code operations when the code_server is about to purge a module.
2013-11-05erts: Clarify documentation for erlang:statistics(run_queue)Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-10-21Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-10-16Fix erts erlang.xml doc typoMartin Hässler
badargif -> badarg if
2013-09-30Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
* maint: Update preloaded add system_info(ets_limit) Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2013-09-24add system_info(ets_limit)Steve Vinoski
Add system_info(ets_limit) to provide a way to retrieve the runtime's maximum number of ETS tables. Add tests and documentation for it too. Also repair the alphabetical order of system_info/1 argument descriptions in the documentation and in the erlang.erl clauses. Add new preloaded erlang.erl due to that change. Also ensure all system_info/1 clauses are represented in the erlang.xml source documentation -- a couple had been inadvertently dropped in previous commits when other clauses were added.
2013-08-14Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-08-14erts: fixed doc regarding binary_partFredrik Gustafsson
2013-06-05Merge branch 'maint'Patrik Nyblom
2013-06-03erts: Change erlang:open_port spawn to handle unicodeDan Gudmundsson
Previously only 'spawn_executable' handled unicode input. Also change 'cd' option to always handle unicode. Update open_port documentation and tests
2013-05-06Minor spelling correctionPatrik Nyblom
2013-05-02Add system_monitor of long_schedulePatrik Nyblom
2013-04-19Convert XML files to UTF-8Hans Bolinder
2013-04-04Fixed documentation for priority_level to spawn_optFredrik Gustafsson
2013-02-14Add float_to_binary and binary_to_floatLukas Larsson
2013-02-14Add new binary conversion bifsLukas Larsson
Added: binary_to_integer/1,2, integer_to_binary/1,2
2013-02-13Merge branch 'saleyn/float_to_list_2/OTP-10837'Lukas Larsson
* saleyn/float_to_list_2/OTP-10837: Fix memory leak in error case Use macros instead of constants float_to_list/2 changed rounding and cosmetic cleanup
2013-02-07float_to_list/2 changed rounding and cosmetic cleanupSerge Aleynikov
Changed rouding to round half-way up instead of down. Cosmetic cleanup and error handling of additional edge cases.
2013-02-06erts: Increase length of well formed header names from {packet,http}Sverker Eriksson
To ease matching of unrecognized header field names we convert them from case insensitive to the format Sec-Websocket-Version with capital letters only first and after hyphens. Earlier only header names up to 20 characters were converted to this format due to internal buffer limitation. Raising this limit to 50 is a pragmatic solution for existing long header names such as Sec-Websocket-Version, while valid header names longer than 50 characters are not very probable.
2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-01-23Merge branch 'sverk/r16/utf8-atoms'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/r16/utf8-atoms: erl_interface: Fix bug when transcoding atoms from and to UTF8 erl_interface: Changed erlang_char_encoding interface erts: Testcase doing unicode atom printout with ~w erl_interface: even more utf8 atom stuff erts: Fix bug in analyze_utf8 causing faulty latin1 detection Add UTF-8 node name support for epmd workaround... Fix merge conflict with hasse UTF-8 atom documentation test case erl_interface: utf8 atoms continued Add utf8 atom distribution test cases atom fixes for NIFs and atom_to_binary UTF-8 support for distribution Implement UTF-8 atom support for jinterface erl_interface: Enable decode of unicode atoms stdlib: Fix printing of unicode atoms erts: Change internal representation of atoms to utf8 erts: Refactor rename DFLAG(S)_INTERNAL_TAGS for conformity Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/io.c OTP-10753
2013-01-23Merge branch 'sal/float_to_list_2/OTP-10752'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* sal/float_to_list_2/OTP-10752: Text representation of a float formatted using given options.
2013-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336'Rickard Green
* rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336: Bump reductions also for immediate driver calls Add 'port_count' and 'port_limit' to system_info/1 spec Fix documentation Replace use of deprecated functions in test cases Replace use of driver_send_term() with erl_drv_send_term() Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2013-01-21Text representation of a float formatted using given options.Serge Aleynikov
This BIF solves a problem of float_to_list/1 that doesn't allow specifying the number of digits after the decimal point when formatting floats. float_to_list(Float, Options) -> string() Float = float() Options = [Option] Option = {decimals, Decimals::0..249} | {scientific, Decimals::0..249} | compact Returns a string which corresponds to the text representation of a `Float` formatted using given options. When decimals option is specified the returned value will contain at most `Decimals` number of digits past the decimal point. When `compact` option is provided the trailing zeros at the end of the list are truncated (this option is only meaningful together with the `decimals` option). When `scientific` option is provided, the float will be formatted using scientific notation with `Decimals` digits of precision. If `Options` is `[]` the function behaves like `float_to_list/1`. When using `decimals` option and the number doesn't fit in the static internal buffer of 256 bytes the function throws `badarg`.
2013-01-19UTF-8 atom documentationRickard Green