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2016-03-10Improved scheduler suspend functionalityRickard Green
- The calling process is now suspended while synchronizing scheduler suspends via erlang:system_flag(schedulers_online, _) and erlang:system_flag(multi_scheduling, _), instead of blocking the scheduler thread in the BIF call waiting for the operation to synchronize. Besides releasing the scheduler for other work (or immediate suspend) it also makes it possible to abort the operation by killing the process. - erlang:system_flag(schedulers_online, _) now only wait for normal schedulers to complete before it returns. This since it may take a very long time before all dirty schedulers suspends. - erlang:system_flag(multi_scheduling, block_normal|unblock_normal) which only operate on normal schedulers has been introduced. This since there are use cases where suspend of dirty schedulers are not of interest (hipe loader). - erlang:system_flag(multi_scheduling, block) still blocks all dirty schedulers as well as all normal schedulers except one since it is hard to redefine what multi scheduling block means. - The three operations: - changing amount of schedulers online - blocking/unblocking normal multi scheduling - blocking/unblocking full multi scheduling can now be done in parallel. This is important since otherwise a full multi scheduling block would potentially delay the other operations for a very long time.
2016-03-04erts: Use 'bit string' in The Abstract Format documentHans Bolinder
2016-03-01Merge branch 'sverk/master/halt-INT_MIN'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/master/halt-INT_MIN: erts: Make erlang:halt() accept bignums as Status erts: Change erl_exit into erts_exit kernel: Remove calls to erl_exit
2016-03-01Merge branch 'maint'Ingela Anderton Andin
2016-02-24Merge branch 'master' into sverk/master/halt-INT_MINSverker Eriksson
2016-02-24erts: Make erlang:halt() accept bignums as StatusSverker Eriksson
Just mask away the high bits to get a more tolerant erlang:halt that behaves the same on 32 and 64 bit architectures.
2016-02-10epmd: support IPv6 node registrationMichael Santos
Allow IPv6 nodes to register with and query epmd. On systems with IPv6 support: * epmd listens on both the IPv4 and IPv6 ANY or loopback sockets * the epmd cli client connects to epmd over the IPv6 loopback * distributed nodes started with "-proto_dist inet6_tcp" will register with epmd over IPv6 To work on IPv6 capable systems that have IPv6 support disabled, epmd ignores errors opening the socket if the protocol is not supported. Similarly, the epmd client will fall back to IPv4 if the IPv6 socket is not available. Update the minimum supported version of Windows to Windows Vista to support IPv6.
2016-02-08erts: Fix error cases in enif_get_list_lengthSverker Eriksson
false if improper list false if length > UINT_MAX
2016-02-02Merge branch 'lukas/erts/msacc'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/msacc: Update preloaded modules erts: Make msacc alloctor type thread safe Silence compiler erts: Fix msacc testcase on some windowses erts: Add power saving cpu feature tests and use them erts: Refactor perf counter internal interface erts: Add rdtscp instruction check erts: Fix hrtime for windows erts: use correct function for perf counter on non-x86 erts: Fix msacc win32 debug compile error erts: Add microstate accounting erts, kernel: Add os:perf_counter function erts: Add ERTS_WRITE_UNLIKELY
2016-02-02Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Use nano second time unit in tracing
2016-02-02Merge branch 'rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222: Use nano second time unit in tracing
2016-02-02Use nano second time unit in tracingRickard Green
2016-02-02erts: Add microstate accountingLukas Larsson
Microstate accounting is a way to track which state the different threads within ERTS are in. The main usage area is to pin point performance bottlenecks by checking which states the threads are in and then from there figuring out why and where to optimize. Since checking whether microstate accounting is on or off is relatively expensive if done in a short loop only a few of the states are enabled by default and more states can be enabled through configure. I've done some benchmarking and the overhead with it turned off is not noticible and with it on it is a fraction of a percent. If you enable the extra states, depending on the benchmark, the ovehead when turned off is about 1% and when turned on somewhere inbetween 5-15%. OTP-12345
2016-02-02erts, kernel: Add os:perf_counter functionLukas Larsson
The perf_counter is a very very cheap and high resolution timer that can be used to timestamp system events. It does not have monoticity guarantees, but should on most OS's expose a monotonous time. A special instruction has been created for this counter to further speed up fetching it. OTP-12908
2016-02-02Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Introduce time management in native APIs Introduce time warp safe replacement for safe_fixed option Introduce time warp safe trace timestamp formats Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2016-02-02Merge branch 'rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222: Introduce time management in native APIs Introduce time warp safe replacement for safe_fixed option Introduce time warp safe trace timestamp formats
2016-01-26Merge branch 'lukas/erts/gc_info/OTP-13265'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/gc_info/OTP-13265: erts: Add garbage_collection_info to process_info/2 Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c
2016-01-22Merge branch 'maint'Siri Hansen
2016-01-22Merge branch 'siri/document-path-flag/OTP-13060' into maintSiri Hansen
* siri/document-path-flag/OTP-13060: Add documentation of '-path' flag to 'erl'
2016-01-21Introduce time management in native APIsRickard Green
2016-01-20Merge branch 'sverk/safe-purging/OTP-13122'Sverker Eriksson
2016-01-20erts: Update docs for erlang:purge_module/1Sverker Eriksson
2016-01-20Introduce time warp safe trace timestamp formatsRickard Green
New timestamp options for trace, sequential trace, and system profile: - monotonic_timestamp - strict_monotonic_timestamp
2016-01-20erts: Improve readability of The Abstract FormatHans Bolinder
More verbose, but hopefully more readable than before.
2016-01-20erts: Improve the documentation of the abstract formatHans Bolinder
2016-01-14Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2016-01-14Merge branch 'sverk/trace-doc-typo' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverk/trace-doc-typo: erts: Correct faulty doc for erlang:trace/3
2016-01-14erts: Correct faulty doc for erlang:trace/3Sverker Eriksson
The entire MFA tuple is replaced with 0, not just Arity.
2016-01-14Add documentation of '-path' flag to 'erl'Siri Hansen
This flag replaces the path specified in the boot script. It has always existed, but was earlier only documented in SASL (script).
2015-12-30Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Light weight statistics of run queue lengths Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2015-12-30Merge branch 'rickard/rq-len/OTP-13201' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/rq-len/OTP-13201: Light weight statistics of run queue lengths
2015-12-30Light weight statistics of run queue lengthsRickard Green
- statistics(total_run_queue_lengths) - statistics(run_queue_lengths) - statistics(total_active_tasks) - statistics(active_tasks) Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c
2015-12-18Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk
2015-12-17Update release notesErlang/OTP
2015-12-16erl_prim_loader doc: Remove mention of user supplied loaderBjörn Gustavsson
Custom loaders are no longer supported. Most of the documentation for them were removed in c8a7d2d7.
2015-12-16Clean up start of erl_prim_loaderBjörn Gustavsson
The 'init' module fetches command line parameters and passes them to erl_prim_loader:start/3. The code can be simplified if 'init' calls a new erl_prim_loader:start/0 function that itself fetches the necessary command line parameters. Also remove the documentation for the start() function, since it there is no way that it can be usefully called by a user application. While we are at it, also get rid of '-id' command line parameter, which is fetched and stored but never actually used.
2015-12-16Merge tag 'OTP-18.2'Henrik Nord
=== OTP-18.2 === Changed Applications: - asn1-4.0.1 - common_test-1.11.1 - compiler-6.0.2 - crypto-3.6.2 - dialyzer-2.8.2 - diameter-1.11.1 - erl_docgen-0.4.1 - erl_interface-3.8.1 - erts-7.2 - eunit-2.2.12 - hipe-3.14 - inets-6.1 - jinterface-1.6.1 - kernel-4.1.1 - observer-2.1.1 - parsetools-2.1.1 - public_key-1.1 - runtime_tools-1.9.2 - sasl-2.6.1 - snmp-5.2.1 - ssh-4.2 - ssl-7.2 - stdlib-2.7 - test_server-3.9.1 - tools-2.8.2 - typer-0.9.10 - wx-1.6 - xmerl-1.3.9 Unchanged Applications: - cosEvent-2.2 - cosEventDomain-1.2 - cosFileTransfer-1.2 - cosNotification-1.2 - cosProperty-1.2 - cosTime-1.2 - cosTransactions-1.3 - debugger-4.1.1 - edoc-0.7.17 - eldap-1.2 - et-1.5.1 - gs-1.6 - ic-4.4 - megaco-3.18 - mnesia-4.13.2 - odbc-2.11.1 - orber-3.8 - os_mon-2.4 - ose-1.1 - otp_mibs-1.1 - percept-0.8.11 - reltool-0.7 - syntax_tools-1.7 - webtool-0.9 Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk
2015-12-15Merge branch 'lukas/erts/forker'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/forker: (28 commits) erts: Never abort in the forked child erts: Mend ASSERT makro for erl_child_setup erts: Allow enomem failures in port_SUITE erts: iter_port sleep longer on freebsd erts: Allow one dangling fd if there is a gethost port erts: Only use forker StackAck on freebsd erts: It is not possible to exit the forker driver erts: Add forker StartAck for port start flowcontrol erts: Fix large open_port arg segfault for win32 erts: Fix memory leak at async open port kernel: Remove cmd server for unix os:cmd erts: Add testcase for huge port environment erts: Move os_pid to port hash to child setup erts: Handle all EINTR and EAGAIN cases in child setup erts: Make child_setup work with large environments erts: Fix forker driver ifdefs for win32 erts: Fix uds socket handling for os x erts: Fix dereferencing of unaligned integer for sparc erts: Flatten too long io vectors in uds write erts: Add fd count test for spawn_driver ... Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_node_tables.c erts/preloaded/src/erts_internal.erl
2015-12-15erts: Add erl_drv_set_pidLukas Larsson
OTP-13087
2015-12-15erts: Add support for asynchronous open_portLukas Larsson
OTP-13086
2015-12-15Update release notesErlang/OTP
2015-12-14Merge branch 'bjorn/deprecate-random/OTP-12502'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/deprecate-random/OTP-12502: Deprecate the 'random' module Eliminate mentions of 'random' in documentation mnesia tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' percept tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' system tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' common_test tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' gs: Remove the contribs directory wx: Replace 'random' with 'rand' stdlib tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' kernel test: Replace 'random' with 'rand' debugger tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' compiler tests: Replace 'random' with 'rand' Emulator test suite: Replace use of 'random' with 'rand' Use 'rand' instead of the obsolete 'random' module compile: Eliminate use of the obsolete 'random' module
2015-12-14Eliminate mentions of 'random' in documentationBjörn Gustavsson
2015-12-09Merge branch 'maint'Hans Bolinder
* maint: erts: Correct the types section in The Abstract Format document
2015-12-09erts: Correct the types section in The Abstract Format documentHans Bolinder
Fixed a mistake in commit 23885a.
2015-12-08Merge branch 'rickard/ohmq-fixup/OTP-13047'Rickard Green
* rickard/ohmq-fixup/OTP-13047: Replace off_heap_message_queue option with message_queue_data option Always use literal_alloc Distinguish between GC disabled by BIFs and other disabled GC Fix process_info(_, off_heap_message_queue) Off heap message queue test suite Remove unused variable Fix memory leaks
2015-12-08Replace off_heap_message_queue option with message_queue_data optionRickard Green
The message_queue_data option can have the values - off_heap - on_heap - mixed
2015-12-07Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
2015-12-07Merge branch 'maint-17' into maintHenrik Nord
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/doc/src/notes.xml erts/vsn.mk otp_versions.table
2015-12-07Merge branch 'maint'Hans Bolinder
* maint: doc: Fix some minor issues in Types and Function Specifications erts: Remove CDATA from The Abstract Format document erts: Correct the types section in The Abstract Format document stdlib: Correct pretty-printing of map types stdlib: Pretty-print constraints as 'V :: T' Conflicts: erts/doc/src/absform.xml