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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
2012-12-20Correct doc re process_info(Pid,links)Patrik Nyblom
2012-12-20Fix documentationRickard Green
2012-12-14erts: Document insert_element and delete_elementBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Document new BIFs: * erlang:insert_element/3 * erlang:delete_element/2
2012-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336 * rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336: Change annotate level for emacs-22 in cerl Update etp-commands Add documentation on communication in Erlang Add support for busy port message queue Add driver callback epilogue Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and ports Add erl_drv_[send|output]_term Move busy port flag Use rwlock for driver list Optimize management of port tasks Improve configuration of process and port tables Remove R9 compatibility features Use ptab functionality also for ports Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for ports Atomic port state Generalize process table implementation Implement functionality for delaying thread progress from unmanaged threads Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_bp.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/copy.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/export.h erts/emulator/beam/global.h erts/emulator/beam/io.c erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/emulator/sys/vxworks/sys.c erts/emulator/test/port_SUITE.erl erts/etc/unix/cerl.src erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam erts/preloaded/src/prim_inet.erl lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml lib/kernel/src/inet.erl
2012-12-07Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-12-01Teach is_function/2 that tuples are not funsBjörn Gustavsson
2012-08-20Merge branch 'maint'Patrik Nyblom
Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam lib/kernel/doc/src/os.xml lib/stdlib/test/filename_SUITE.erl
2012-08-14Add documetation about Unicode in environmentPatrik Nyblom
2012-08-14Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2012-07-25Doc fix: link from erlang:now/0 to os:timestamp/0Magnus Henoch
Sometimes os:timestamp/0 is more appropriate than erlang:now/0. The documentation for the former has a link to the latter; this patch adds a link in the other direction to make os:timestamp/0 more visible.
2012-07-19erts: Remove VxWorks from documentationBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-06-04Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
* maint: Remove stale code for hybrid heap and incremental GC Remove the hipe_bifs:show_message_area/0 BIF Remove support for erlang:system_info(global_heaps_size) Remove the erlang:garbage_collect_message_area/0 BIF Remove workarounds for hybrid and shared heaps in test suites Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/hipe/hipe_bif2.tab lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl
2012-05-10Remove stale code for hybrid heap and incremental GCBjörn Gustavsson
The hybrid heap emulator was last working in the non-SMP R11B run-time system. When the constant pools were introduced in R12B, the hybrid heap emulator was not updated to handle them. At this point, the harm from reduced readability of the code is greater than any potential usefulness of keeping the code.
2012-04-18Merge branch 'maint'Patrik Nyblom
Conflicts: lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl
2012-04-18Revert "Extend erlang:port_info/1,2 to show the OS pid of a spawned process"Patrik Nyblom
This reverts commit d4667d383964c1550e0a91d64b674e84f6d07e3b. This commit was included by mistake, the correct patch will be merged from maint.
2012-04-17Correct documentation, erl_bif_types and dialyzer testsPatrik Nyblom
2012-04-17Extend erlang:port_info/1,2 to show the OS pid of a spawned processMatthias Lang
When spawning OS (unix) processes with erlang:open_port, store the resulting unix pid so that it can be queried later on using erlang:port_info/1,2.