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2015-05-25Doc fixesRickard Green
2015-05-12Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2015-05-12Merge branch 'rickard/timer-optimization/OTP-12650'Rickard Green
* rickard/timer-optimization/OTP-12650: Timer fixes, documentation, and test cases Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_hl_timer.c
2015-05-12Timer fixes, documentation, and test casesRickard Green
2015-05-08Merge branch 'rickard/time-improvement/OTP-11997'Rickard Green
* rickard/time-improvement/OTP-11997: Allow execution of estone suite on pre OTP-18 systems Add parallel time monotonicity test-case Replace usage of erlang:now() in line-tracing Replace erlang:now() usage in emulator suite Replace erlang:now() usage in system suite Misc time improvements
2015-05-06Misc time improvementsRickard Green
- Possibility to chose different clock sources - Improved mach clock usage - Improved linux clock_gettime() usage - ...
2015-05-06Merge branch 'maint'Zandra Hird
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk lib/test_server/src/erl2html2.erl
2015-05-06Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2015-04-22Merge branch 'sverk/pr632/prevent-illegal-nif-terms/OTP-12655'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/pr632/prevent-illegal-nif-terms/OTP-12655: erts: Reject non-finite float terms in erl_drv_output_term erts: Remove old docs about experimental NIF versions. erts: Add enif_has_pending_exception erts: Clearify erl_nif documentation about badarg exception erts: Fix compile warning in enif_make_double erts: Fix divide by zero compile error in nif_SUITE.c erts: Fix isfinite for windows Ensure NIF term creation disallows illegal values
2015-04-15erts: Remove old docs about experimental NIF versions.Sverker Eriksson
2015-04-15erts: Add enif_has_pending_exceptionSverker Eriksson
2015-04-15erts: Clearify erl_nif documentation about badarg exceptionSverker Eriksson
Also state that maximum atom length is 255 characters.
2015-04-01Merge tag 'OTP-17.5'Henrik Nord
=== OTP-17.5 === Changed Applications: - asn1-3.0.4 - common_test-1.10 - compiler-5.0.4 - crypto-3.5 - debugger-4.0.3 - dialyzer-2.7.4 - diameter-1.9 - eldap-1.1.1 - erts-6.4 - hipe-3.11.3 - inets-5.10.6 - kernel-3.2 - mnesia-4.12.5 - observer-2.0.4 - os_mon-2.3.1 - public_key-0.23 - runtime_tools-1.8.16 - ssh-3.2 - ssl-6.0 - stdlib-2.4 - syntax_tools-1.6.18 - test_server-3.8 - tools-2.7.2 - wx-1.3.3 Unchanged Applications: - cosEvent-2.1.15 - cosEventDomain-1.1.14 - cosFileTransfer-1.1.16 - cosNotification-1.1.21 - cosProperty-1.1.17 - cosTime-1.1.14 - cosTransactions-1.2.14 - edoc-0.7.16 - erl_docgen-0.3.7 - erl_interface-3.7.20 - et-1.5 - eunit-2.2.9 - gs-1.5.16 - ic-4.3.6 - jinterface-1.5.12 - megaco-3.17.3 - odbc-2.10.22 - orber-3.7.1 - ose-1.0.2 - otp_mibs-1.0.10 - parsetools-2.0.12 - percept-0.8.10 - reltool-0.6.6 - sasl-2.4.1 - snmp-5.1.1 - typer-0.9.8 - webtool-0.8.10 - xmerl-1.3.7 Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk lib/ssl/vsn.mk
2015-03-31Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2015-03-25erts: Document option 'hpds'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2015-03-24Merge branch 'rickard/time_api/OTP-11997'Rickard Green
* rickard/time_api/OTP-11997: Better OS system time implementation Documentation adjustments Fix zero timout timers erts_sys_hrtime() for lcnt Better support for poor os monotonic sources Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2015-03-24Better OS system time implementationRickard Green
2015-03-24Documentation adjustmentsRickard Green
2015-03-23Better support for poor os monotonic sourcesRickard Green
2015-03-20Merge branch 'rickard/time_api/OTP-11997'Rickard Green
* rickard/time_api/OTP-11997: (22 commits) Update primary bootstrap inets: Suppress deprecated warning on erlang:now/0 inets: Cleanup of multiple copies of functions Add inets_lib with common functions used by multiple modules inets: Update comments Suppress deprecated warning on erlang:now/0 Use new time API and be back-compatible in inets Remove unused functions and removed redundant test asn1 test SUITE: Eliminate use of now/0 Disable deprecated warning on erlang:now/0 in diameter_lib Use new time API and be back-compatible in ssh Replace all calls to now/0 in CT with new time API functions test_server: Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API otp_SUITE: Warn for calls to erlang:now/0 Replace usage of erlang:now() with usage of new API Multiple timer wheels Erlang based BIF timer implementation for scalability Implement ethread events with timeout ... Conflicts: bootstrap/bin/start.boot bootstrap/bin/start_clean.boot bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/beam_asm.beam bootstrap/lib/compiler/ebin/compile.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/auth.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/dist_util.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/global.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/hipe_unified_loader.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_db.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_dns.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/inet_res.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/os.beam bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/pg2.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/dets.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/dets_utils.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/erl_tar.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/escript.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/file_sorter.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/otp_internal.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/qlc.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/random.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/supervisor.beam bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/timer.beam erts/aclocal.m4 erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_db_hash.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_thr_progress.c erts/emulator/beam/utils.c erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam erts/preloaded/src/erts_internal.erl lib/common_test/test/ct_hooks_SUITE_data/cth/tests/empty_cth.erl lib/diameter/src/base/diameter_lib.erl lib/kernel/src/os.erl lib/ssh/test/ssh_basic_SUITE.erl system/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.xml
2015-03-20Introduce a new time APIRickard Green
The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality over multiple functions in order to improve on this. The new API consists of a number of new BIFs: - erlang:convert_time_unit/3 - erlang:monotonic_time/0 - erlang:monotonic_time/1 - erlang:system_time/0 - erlang:system_time/1 - erlang:time_offset/0 - erlang:time_offset/1 - erlang:timestamp/0 - erlang:unique_integer/0 - erlang:unique_integer/1 - os:system_time/0 - os:system_time/1 and a number of extensions of existing BIFs: - erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service) - erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize) - erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source) - erlang:system_info(time_offset) - erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode) - erlang:system_info(time_correction) - erlang:system_info(start_time) See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the ERTS User's Guide for more information.
2015-03-17Merge branch 'essen/zlib-windowbits'Zandra Hird
* essen/zlib-windowbits: Update zlib:zwindowbits/0 type to accept 8 and -8 OTP-12564
2015-03-16Merge branch 'maint'Zandra Hird
2015-03-15Ensure NIF term creation disallows illegal valuesSteve Vinoski
Add a check to enif_make_double to see if its double argument is infinity or NaN, returning a badarg exception if it is. Change the erl_nif documentation to specify that enif_make_double returns a badarg exception if its double argument is either infinity or NaN. Add tests to nif_SUITE for this change. Add checks to the enif_make* functions for atoms to prevent the creation of atoms whose name lengths are greater than the allowed maximum atom length. The enif_make_atom and enif_make_atom_len functions now return a badarg exception if the input string is too long. The enif_make_existing_atom and enif_make_existing_atom_len functions return false if the input string is too long. Change the erl_nif documentation to reflect the changes to these functions. Add tests to nif_SUITE for these changes. Add a field to ErlNifEnv to track that a NIF has raised an exception via enif_make_badarg. If a NIF calls enif_make_badarg but then ignores its return value and instead tries to return a non-exception term as its return value, the runtime still raises a badarg. This is needed to prevent enif_make_badarg values resulting from calls to enif_make_double, enif_make_atom, or enif_make_atom_len from being erroneously stored within other terms and returned from a NIF. Calling enif_make_badarg but not returning its return value has been documented as being illegal ever since enif_make_badarg was added, but the runtime has not enforced it until now. Add tests for regular and dirty NIFs to ensure that calls to enif_make_badarg result in badarg exceptions even if a NIF fails to return the result of enif_make_badarg as its return value. Add documentation to enif_make_badarg to specify that calling it raises a badarg even if a NIF ignores its return value.
2015-03-12Merge branch 'egil/process_dictionary-initial-size/OTP-12535'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/process_dictionary-initial-size/OTP-12535: erts: Document option 'hpds' erts: Enable command line argument for initial pd size
2015-03-09Merge branch 'seriyps/zlib-inflate-bound'Henrik Nord
* seriyps/zlib-inflate-bound: Add zlib limited output buffer size functionality Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/zlib.beam OTP-12548
2015-03-07Correct typo in erlang(3) documentationNick Mills
2015-03-04erts: Document option 'hpds'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2015-03-03Update zlib:zwindowbits/0 type to accept 8 and -8Loïc Hoguin
Commit 7e8f5a776cbfa376e03369d058a90c8dd9f217fc (importing R11B-3) updated zlib, which had changed what values it accepts for window bits from 9-15 to 8-15. From deflate.c: - windowBits < 9 || windowBits > 15 || level < 0 || level > 9 || - strategy < 0 || strategy > Z_HUFFMAN_ONLY) { + windowBits < 8 || windowBits > 15 || level < 0 || level > 9 || + strategy < 0 || strategy > Z_FIXED) { return Z_STREAM_ERROR; } + if (windowBits == 8) windowBits = 9; /* until 256-byte window bug fixed */ In inflate.c 8 was already an accepted value. This commit updates OTP to also accept the values 8 and -8.
2015-02-12Add zlib limited output buffer size functionalityСергей Прохоров
This functionality may be useful for compressed streams with high compression ratio (in case of gzip it may be up to x1000), when small amount of compressed data will produce large amount of uncompressed output. This may lead to DoS attacks, because server easily goes out of memory. Example of such high compression ratio stream: ``` dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse.bin bs=1MB count=100 # 100mb of zeroes gzip sparse.bin # 95kb sparse.bin.gz $ erl > {ok, Compressed} = file:read_file("sparse.bin.gz"), > 97082 = size(Compressed), > Uncompressed = zlib:gunzip(Compressed), > 100000000 = iolist_size(Uncompressed). ```
2015-02-03Merge branch 'maint'Zandra Hird
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/vsn.mk
2015-02-03Merge branch 'maint-17' into maintZandra Hird
2015-01-30Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2014-12-22Merge branch 'maint'Bruce Yinhe
2014-12-22Merge branch 'mikpe/fix-eacces-spelling' into maintBruce Yinhe
* mikpe/fix-eacces-spelling: fix eacces spelling
2014-12-19Merge branch 'lukas/erts/crashdump_improvements/OTP-12377'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/crashdump_improvements/OTP-12377: erts: Make main thread safe from pipe closed event erts: Improve crash dumps erts: Rename sys_sigset to sys_signal erts: Introduce thread suspend functions erts: Remove usage of QUANTIFY signal erts: Add support for thread names ets: Increase data available in crash dumps and ets:info erts: Start compilation of beam_emu earlier
2014-12-19erts: Improve crash dumpsLukas Larsson
This commit improves crash dumps in several ways: * Suspends schedulers to get a current snapshot * Dumps information about scheduler * Dumps stack trace of current running process (including Garbing processes)
2014-12-12Merge branch 'lukas/erts/cpu_timestamp_linux/OTP-12366'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/cpu_timestamp_linux/OTP-12366: erts: Allow cpu_timestamp tracing for Linux
2014-12-10Merge tag 'OTP-17.4'Marcus Arendt
=== OTP-17.4 === Changed Applications: - asn1-3.0.3 - common_test-1.9 - compiler-5.0.3 - crypto-3.4.2 - debugger-4.0.2 - dialyzer-2.7.3 - diameter-1.8 - edoc-0.7.16 - eldap-1.1 - erl_docgen-0.3.7 - erl_interface-3.7.20 - erts-6.3 - eunit-2.2.9 - hipe-3.11.2 - inets-5.10.4 - jinterface-1.5.12 - kernel-3.1 - megaco-3.17.3 - mnesia-4.12.4 - observer-2.0.3 - odbc-2.10.22 - otp_mibs-1.0.10 - parsetools-2.0.12 - percept-0.8.10 - runtime_tools-1.8.15 - snmp-5.1.1 - ssh-3.1 - ssl-5.3.8 - stdlib-2.3 - syntax_tools-1.6.17 - test_server-3.7.2 - tools-2.7.1 - wx-1.3.2 Unchanged Applications: - cosEvent-2.1.15 - cosEventDomain-1.1.14 - cosFileTransfer-1.1.16 - cosNotification-1.1.21 - cosProperty-1.1.17 - cosTime-1.1.14 - cosTransactions-1.2.14 - et-1.5 - gs-1.5.16 - ic-4.3.6 - orber-3.7.1 - os_mon-2.3 - ose-1.0.2 - public_key-0.22.1 - reltool-0.6.6 - sasl-2.4.1 - typer-0.9.8 - webtool-0.8.10 - xmerl-1.3.7 Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk
2014-12-09Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2014-12-09erts: Allow cpu_timestamp tracing for LinuxLukas Larsson
2014-12-02fix eacces spellingMikael Pettersson
2014-11-18Merge branch 'maint'Siri Hansen
2014-11-18Merge branch 'siri/no-unicode-atoms/OTP-12172' into maintSiri Hansen
* siri/no-unicode-atoms/OTP-12172: Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18
2014-11-12Merge branch 'maint'Bruce Yinhe
2014-11-11Remove comments about unicode atoms in OTP 18Siri Hansen
There was once a plan to implement support for unicode atoms in OTP 18. This plan has been stopped until further notice, and the information about this is now removed from the documentation.
2014-11-10Fix a typo in the zlib documentationSina Samavati
2014-11-07Merge branch 'maint'Bruce Yinhe
2014-11-07Merge branch 'lemenkov/expose_nif_version' into maintBruce Yinhe
OTP-12298 * lemenkov/expose_nif_version: Expose NIF version
2014-11-05Merge branch 'maint'Marcus Arendt
Conflicts: erts/vsn.mk