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2018-04-09Fix erlang:abs/2 type docsLukas Larsson
2018-03-16mikpe/process_info-1-no-messages/PR-1745/OTP-14986Lukas Larsson
make erlang:process_info/1 not retrieve messages
2018-03-13Merge branch 'sverker/dist-flags-consolidate'Sverker Eriksson
2018-03-10update erlang:process_info/1 docsMikael Pettersson
2018-03-02erts: Improve send/2 docsSverker Eriksson
with link to ! operator and clarify ugly badarg for unregistered atom argument.
2018-03-02erts: Cleanup erlang:system_info docsLukas Larsson
Attempt to make the system_info docs easier to navigate by grouping items of similar themes together in the documentation.
2018-02-13Merge branch 'maint-20' into maintSverker Eriksson
* maint-20: Updated OTP version Update release notes Update version numbers erts: Add system_flags(erts_alloc,"+M?sbct *") erts: Add age order first fit allocator strategies erts: Refactor erl_ao_firstfit_alloc erts: Add migration options "acnl" and "acfml" kernel: Add os:cmd/2 with max_size option erts: Add more stats for mbcs_pool erts: Fix alloc_SUITE:migration stdlib: Make ets_SUITE memory check try again erts: Improve carrier pool search erts: Improve alloc_SUITE:migration erts: Refactor carrier dealloc migration
2018-02-12Merge 'sverker/maint-20/alloc-n-migration/ERIERL-88'Sverker Eriksson
into 'sverker/master/alloc-n-migration/ERIERL-88'
2018-02-12Merge 'sverker/maint-19/alloc-n-migration/ERIERL-88'Sverker Eriksson
into 'sverker/maint-20/alloc-n-migration/ERIERL-88' OTP-14915 OTP-14916 OTP-14917 OTP-14918
2018-02-12erts: Add system_flags(erts_alloc,"+M?sbct *")Sverker Eriksson
to change sbct limit in runtime for chosen allocator type. With great power comes great responsibility.
2018-01-17Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
2018-01-17Fix a broken erlang:trace/3 link in docKonstantinos Kallas
2018-01-09stdlib: Improve erl_eval's stacktracesHans Bolinder
The call "erlang:get_stacktrace()" is not handled explicitly. If there are issues, they can probably be ignored since erlang:get_stacktrace/1 will be deprecated and removed.
2017-11-30Add documentation for the new stacktrace syntaxBjörn Gustavsson
2017-11-23Merge branch 'sverker/async-auto-connect/OTP-14370' AGAINSverker Eriksson
2017-11-23erts: Fix erlang:monitor toward c-nodesSverker Eriksson
by suppressing DOP_MONITOR_P, DOP_MONITOR_P_EXIT and DOP_DEMONITOR_P if not supported by the remote node. In 17e198d6ee60f7dec9abfed272cf4226aea44535 I changed the behavior of erlang:monitor to not raise badarg for c-nodes but instead create a monitor to only supervise the connection. But I forgot to prevent DOP_MONITOR_P and friends from being sent to the node that does not expect them. Note: We test both DFLAG_DIST_MONITOR and DFLAG_DIST_MONITOR_NAME for the node to support process monitoring. This is because erl_interface is buggy as it sets DFLAG_DIST_MONITOR without really supporting it. ToDo: Should erl_interface stop setting DFLAG_DIST_MONITOR or should we change the meaning of these flags?
2017-11-20Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
2017-11-15Merge PR-1605 from sverker/sverker/binary_to_term-used OTP-14780Sverker Eriksson
Add 'used' option for binary_to_term/2
2017-10-31erts: Add term2bin note about encoding guaranteeLukas Larsson
2017-10-31system: Add info to profiling effeciency guideLukas Larsson
2017-10-31Update message queue and pinfo binary docsLukas Larsson
2017-10-27erts: Correct a link in erlang(3)Hans Bolinder
2017-10-27erts: Improve some links in erlang(3)Hans Bolinder
Use the "anchor" attribute to improve placement of anchors in conjunction with the "clause_i" attribute.
2017-10-17erts: Add 'used' option to binary_to_term/2Sverker Eriksson
2017-10-13Document the guarantees provided by get_stacktraceJosé Valim
2017-10-12Merge branch 'rickard/null-chars/ERL-370/OTP-14543'Rickard Green
* rickard/null-chars/ERL-370/OTP-14543: Don't allow null chars in various strings Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2017-10-11Don't allow null chars in various stringsRickard Green
Various places that now reject null chars inside strings - Primitive file operations reject it in filenames. - Primitive environment variable operations reject it in names and values. - os:cmd() reject it in its input. Also '=' characters are rejected by primitive environment variable operations in environment variable names. Documentation has been updated to document null characters in these types of data as invalid. Currently these operations accept null chars at the end of strings, but that will change in the future.
2017-10-05Merge branch 'lukas/erts/poll-thread/OTP-14346'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/poll-thread/OTP-14346: erts: Update +IOt and msacc docs
2017-10-02erts: Update +IOt and msacc docsLukas Larsson
2017-10-02Merge branch 'lukas/erts/poll-thread/OTP-14346'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/poll-thread/OTP-14346: (25 commits) erts: Trigger ready events when erts_io_control fails erts: enif_select steal test kernel: Rewrite gen_udp_SUITE:read_packet tc erts: disable kernel-poll on OS X vsn < 16 erts: Fix msacc testcase with new poll-thread erts: Add testcases to test IOp and IOt options erts: get_internal_state(check_io_debug) now prints to error_logger erts: Remove eager check io erts: Move all I/O polling to a seperate thread erts: Fix smp_select testcase to use ERL_DRV_USE erts: Fix msacc unmanaged state counter erts: Optimize port_task quick allocator erts: Add ERTS_THR_PREF_QUICK_ALLOC_IMPL erts: Update suspend of scheduler to handle multiple pollsets erts: Add multiple poll sets erts: Some code cleanup for gdb to work better erts: temp_alloc can no longer be disabled erts: Refactor check_io to use one static struct erts: Replace check_io spinlock with lock-less list insertion erts: Add number of enif_select's to check_io_debug ...
2017-10-02erts: Remove eager check ioLukas Larsson
It is not longer relevant when using the poll thread
2017-09-15Merge branch 'maint'Björn Gustavsson
* maint: Document that the compiler may optimize away atoms
2017-09-14Document that the compiler may optimize away atomsBjörn Gustavsson
The following code could fail in the call to list_existing_atom/1: String = atom_to_list(some_atom), Atom = list_to_existing_atom(String) because the compiler will rewrite the code to: String = "some_atom", Atom = list_to_existing_atom(String) If some_atom is not used in another place, it will not exist. The compiler could be updated to preserve the atom in this simple case, but it would be hard to make sure that the compiler never loses atoms that exist in the source text. It also difficult to imagine a real world use case where this would be a problem. If an atom is mentioned only in a way that the compiler can optimize away, is there really any need to create the atom at all in list_to_existing_atom/1? Therefore, it is better to place the responsibility that the atom exists on the user of list_to_existing_atom/1. Update the documentation to mention that the compiler may optimize away atoms. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-453
2017-09-06Merge branch 'maint' into john/erts/merge-zlib-and-vector-qJohn Högberg
2017-09-06Merge branch 'lukas/erts/nif_vector_q/OTP-14598' into maintJohn Högberg
OTP-14520
2017-09-05erts: Add erlang:iolist_to_iovecLukas Larsson
OTP-14520
2017-08-28Merge branch 'rickard/dist/OTP-14459' into rickard/dist/master/OTP-14459Rickard Green
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/dist.c erts/emulator/beam/dist.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_node_tables.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_node_tables.h erts/emulator/beam/external.c
2017-08-28Introduce sender in distributed signals and dflag configurationRickard Green
2017-08-28Support for distribution controller processesRickard Green
2017-08-23Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2017-08-23Merge branch 'sverker/halt-unicode-slogan/OTP-14553' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverker/halt-unicode-slogan/OTP-14553: erts: Allow any unicode string as crash dump slogan erts: Generate crash_dump slogan string as UTF8 erts: Refactor erts_unicode_list_to_buf
2017-08-23erts: Allow any unicode string as crash dump sloganSverker Eriksson
i.e the first argument to erlang:halt
2017-08-14erts: Cleanup erl and erlang docs after non-smp removalLukas Larsson
2017-06-30Merge branch 'rickard/statistics/OTP-14484' into maint-20Erlang/OTP
* rickard/statistics/OTP-14484: Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementation
2017-06-27Merge branch 'maint-19' into maintJohn Högberg
* maint-19: Updated OTP version Update release notes Update version numbers Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementation fixup! erts: Cleanup dropped port tasks correctly erts: Add tests to detect port close race Add a testcase for OTP-13939/ERL-193 erts: Cleanup dropped port tasks correctly Mark socket disconnected on tcp_send_or_shutdown_error
2017-06-22Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementationRickard Green
2017-06-14Introduce minor vsn 2 in term_to_binary/2Rickard Green
2017-05-19Merge branch 'rickard/ds-runqs'Rickard Green
OTP-14152 * rickard/ds-runqs: Make statistics/1 aware of dirty run-queues and tasks
2017-05-19Make statistics/1 aware of dirty run-queues and tasksRickard Green
2017-05-12Warn for potentially unsafe use of get_stacktrace/0Björn Gustavsson
erlang:get_stacktrace/0 returns the stacktrace for the latest exception. The problem is that the stacktrace is kept until the next exception occurs. If the last exception was a 'function_clause' or a 'badarg', the arguments for the call are also kept forever. The arguments can be terms of any size (potentially huge). In a future release, we would like to only allow erlang:get_stacktrace/0 from within a 'try' expression. That would make it possible to clear the stacktrace when the 'try' expression is exited. The 'catch' expression has no natural end where the stacktrace could be cleared. The stacktrace could be cleared at the end of the function that the 'catch' occurs in, but that would cause problems in the following scenario (from real life, but simplified): try ... catch _:_ -> io:format(...), io:format("~p\n", [erlang:get_stacktrace()]) end. %% In io.erl. format(Fmt, Args) -> Res = case ... of SomePattern -> catch... ...; SomeOtherPattern -> %% Output the formatted string here ... end, clear_stacktrace(), %% Inserted by compiler. Res. The call to io:format() would always clear the stacktrace before it could be retrieved. That problem could be solved by tightning the scope in which the stacktrace is kept, but the rules for how long erlang:get_stacktrace/0 would work would become complicated. Therefore, the solution we suggest for a future major release of OTP is that erlang:get_stacktrace/0 will return [] if it is called outside the 'catch' part of a 'try' expression. To help users prepare, introduce a warning when it is likely that erlang:get_stacktrace/0 will always return an empty list, for example in this code: catch error(foo), Stk = erlang:get_stacktrace() or in this code: try Expr catch _:_ -> ok end, Stk = erlang:get_stacktrace()