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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
2015-12-07erts: Remove CDATA from The Abstract Format documentHans Bolinder
2015-12-07erts: Correct the types section in The Abstract Format documentHans Bolinder
The Types section is more consistent with Kostis' text in The Reference Manual.
2015-12-04Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2015-12-04Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
2015-12-04Merge branch 'maint-17' into maintHenrik Nord
Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/doc/src/notes.xml erts/vsn.mk lib/kernel/doc/src/notes.xml lib/kernel/src/kernel.appup.src lib/kernel/vsn.mk lib/ssl/doc/src/notes.xml lib/ssl/src/ssl.appup.src lib/ssl/src/ssl_cipher.erl lib/ssl/vsn.mk otp_versions.table
2015-12-03Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2015-11-27Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2015-11-27Merge branch 'sverk/cpool_fetch-dc_list-fix' into maintSverker Eriksson
OTP-13147 * sverk/cpool_fetch-dc_list-fix: erts: Reduce alloc_SUITE:rbtree runtime for valgrind erts: Remove double free in efile_drv erts: Improve alloc_SUITE:migration test erts: Pass free mem and build type to alloc_SUITE tests erts: Fix snprintf in alloc_SUITE for windows erts: Workaround for strange crash on win64 in alloc_SUITE test code erts: Refactor alloc_SUITE to use NIFs instead of drivers erts: Add enif_getenv erts: Make key argument constant for erl_drv_{get|put}env erts: Add alloc_SUITE:migration erts: Add TEST allocator erts: Fix confusion of callbacks destroying_mbc() vs remove_mbc() erts: Fix resurrection of carriers from dc_list
2015-11-26erts: Add enif_getenvSverker Eriksson
to read OS environment variables in a safe and portable way.
2015-11-18Merge branch 'maint'Björn Gustavsson
* maint: erl_prim_loader doc: Remove description of custom loaders
2015-11-16erts: Add garbage_collection_info to process_info/2Lukas Larsson
This info request returns greater details about the current gc state. This info is not included in the default process_info/1 as it would clutter the default printout with too much information.
2015-11-16erl_prim_loader doc: Remove description of custom loadersBjörn Gustavsson
Custom loaders have not been supported for several releases. Remove the documentation for custom loaders.