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2014-01-29erts: Add map construction to driver APISverker Eriksson
erl_drv_output_term() and erl_drv_send_term() can send messages containing maps with the use of the new ERL_DRV_MAP. The driver API minor version is updated as new functionality is added.
2014-01-28Merge branch 'vinoski/ds'Rickard Green
* vinoski/ds: initial support for dirty schedulers and dirty NIFs
2014-01-28initial support for dirty schedulers and dirty NIFsSteve Vinoski
Add initial support for dirty schedulers. There are two types of dirty schedulers: CPU schedulers and I/O schedulers. By default, there are as many dirty CPU schedulers as there are normal schedulers and as many dirty CPU schedulers online as normal schedulers online. There are 10 dirty I/O schedulers (similar to the choice of 10 as the default for async threads). By default, dirty schedulers are disabled and conditionally compiled out. To enable them, you must pass --enable-dirty-schedulers to the top-level configure script when building Erlang/OTP. Current dirty scheduler support requires the emulator to be built with SMP support. This restriction will be lifted in the future. You can specify the number of dirty schedulers with the command-line options +SDcpu (for dirty CPU schedulers) and +SDio (for dirty I/O schedulers). The +SDcpu option is similar to the +S option in that it takes two numbers separated by a colon: C1:C2, where C1 specifies the number of dirty schedulers available and C2 specifies the number of dirty schedulers online. The +SDPcpu option allows numbers of dirty CPU schedulers available and dirty CPU schedulers online to be specified as percentages, similar to the existing +SP option for normal schedulers. The number of dirty CPU schedulers created and dirty CPU schedulers online may not exceed the number of normal schedulers created and normal schedulers online, respectively. The +SDio option takes only a single number specifying the number of dirty I/O schedulers available and online. There is no support yet for programmatically changing at run time the number of dirty CPU schedulers online via erlang:system_flag/2. Also, changing the number of normal schedulers online via erlang:system_flag(schedulers_online, NewSchedulersOnline) should ensure that there are no more dirty CPU schedulers than normal schedulers, but this is not yet implemented. You can retrieve the number of dirty schedulers by passing dirty_cpu_schedulers, dirty_cpu_schedulers_online, or dirty_io_schedulers to erlang:system_info/1. Currently only NIFs are able to access dirty scheduler functionality. Neither drivers nor BIFs currently support dirty schedulers. This restriction will be addressed in the future. If dirty scheduler support is present in the runtime, the initial status line Erlang prints before presenting its interactive prompt will include the indicator "[ds:C1:C2:I]" where "ds" indicates "dirty schedulers", "C1" indicates the number of dirty CPU schedulers available, "C2" indicates the number of dirty CPU schedulers online, and "I" indicates the number of dirty I/O schedulers. Document The dirty NIF API in the erl_nif man page. The API closely follows Rickard Green's presentation slides from his talk "Future Extensions to the Native Interface", presented at the 2011 Erlang Factory held in the San Francisco Bay Area. Rickard's slides are available online at http://bit.ly/1m34UHB . Document the new erl command-line options, the additions to erlang:system_info/1, and also add the erlang:system_flag/2 dirty scheduler documentation even though it's not yet implemented. To determine whether the dirty NIF API is available, native code can check to see whether the C preprocessor macro ERL_NIF_DIRTY_SCHEDULER_SUPPORT is defined. To check if dirty schedulers are available at run time, native code can call the boolean enif_have_dirty_schedulers() function, and Erlang code can call erlang:system_info(dirty_cpu_schedulers), which raises badarg if no dirty scheduler support is available. Add a simple dirty NIF test to the emulator NIF suite.
2014-01-28Merge branch 'vinoski/rm-drv-async-cancel'Rickard Green
OTP-11628 * vinoski/rm-drv-async-cancel: remove deprecated driver_async_cancel function
2014-01-2717.0 anchor and broken links fixesLukas Larsson
2014-01-24Merge branch 'blt/doc_language_improvement'Henrik Nord
* blt/doc_language_improvement: Clean up some awkward wording around the +spp flag. OTP-11607
2014-01-24Merge branch 'rickard/load_balance/OTP-11385'Rickard Green
* rickard/load_balance/OTP-11385: Add support for scheduler utilization balancing
2014-01-23Merge branch 'rickard/default_acul/OTP-11604'Rickard Green
* rickard/default_acul/OTP-11604: erts: Use "+Muacul de" as default
2014-01-23Add support for scheduler utilization balancingRickard Green
For more information see documentation of the new command line argument +sub
2014-01-22Merge branch 'bjorn/erts/zlib-1.2.8'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/erts/zlib-1.2.8: configure: Prefer the system's zlib over own our zlib source Update preloaded modules Add the 'rle' zstrategy Don't make gzio.c dependent on the zutil.h header file Update zlib to 1.2.8 erts/zlib: Remove unused file example.c
2014-01-17Merge branch 'fenollp/escript-doc-chmod'Henrik Nord
* fenollp/escript-doc-chmod: Add a chmod call in the CLI example OTP-11577
2014-01-16Add the 'rle' zstrategyBjörn Gustavsson
2014-01-15remove deprecated driver_async_cancel functionSteve Vinoski
Some time ago the driver_async_cancel function was deprecated and slated for removal in R17. This commit removes the function along with its associated tests and documentation, sets the ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MAJOR_VERSION to 3 and ERL_DRV_EXTENDED_MINOR_VERSION to 0, and modifies the sys_info_base_drv and sys_info_prev_drv tests in the driver test suite to check version 3.0 instead of 2.0.
2014-01-09Fix issues with new versioningRickard Green
2014-01-07Add a chmod call in the CLI examplePierre Fenoll
add missing './'
2013-12-18Officially support building core filesTuncer Ayaz
erlc is wired to treat *.core files as core and build them as compile:file(File, [from_core]), but this is not documented. There's also an udocumented compile:file/2 option called 'from_core'. This has been in place and in use for a long time. Therefore, it should be supported officially. To fix that, make the following changes: * document erlc handling of *.core files * document 'from_core'
2013-12-18Officially support building assembler filesTuncer Ayaz
erlc is wired to treat *.S files as assembler and build them as compile:file(File, [from_asm]), but this is not documented. There's also a documented compile:file/2 option called 'asm' (mapping to 'from_asm'), but the wording discourages its use. All of this has been in place and in use for a long time. Therefore, it should be supported officially. To fix that, make the following changes: * document erlc handling of *.core files * un-document 'asm' and document 'from_asm' instead * deprecate 'asm' While at it, fix a minor typo in the test suite.
2013-12-12Document named fun expressionsAnthony Ramine
2013-12-10Merge tag 'OTP_R16B03'Magnus Lidén
The R16B03 release Conflicts: lib/sasl/vsn.mk
2013-12-09Prepare releaseOTP_R16B03Erlang/OTP
2013-12-09Clean up some awkward wording around the +spp flag.Brian L. Troutwine
This issue was pointed out by lpgauth in #erlounge. While the intention is clear, the original wording was a bit dodgy. I'm no grammarian--though I am a native speaker--so it's quite possible the new wording I've introduced is not impeachable. Should be idiomatic, though. Signed-off-by: Brian L. Troutwine <[email protected]>
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
2013-11-28Merge branch 'rickard/port_bifs_fix/OTP-11489' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/port_bifs_fix/OTP-11489: Ensure exit signal due to link precede port BIF return
2013-11-27Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2013-11-27Merge branch 'sverk/bin2term-bitstr-bugs/OTP-11479' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverk/bin2term-bitstr-bugs/OTP-11479: erts: Fix bug in binary_to_term for binaries larger than 2^31 erts: Fix bugs in binary_to_term for invalid bitstrings
2013-11-26Ensure exit signal due to link precede port BIF returnRickard Green
2013-11-25Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Fix observer retrieval of alloc info Fix documentation of the +MMsco switch Replace the +MMscmgc switch with +MMscrfsd Add switch for disabling sys_alloc carriers Add support for locking mappings to physical memory
2013-11-25Merge branch 'rickard/supercarrier-fix/OTP-11149' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/supercarrier-fix/OTP-11149: Fix observer retrieval of alloc info Fix documentation of the +MMsco switch Replace the +MMscmgc switch with +MMscrfsd Add switch for disabling sys_alloc carriers Add support for locking mappings to physical memory
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.
2013-11-18erts: Fix bugs in binary_to_term for invalid bitstringsSverker Eriksson
<<131, 77, Len:32, Bits:8, Data/binary>> badarg if Bits > 8 Used to return internally inconsistent bitstring badarg if Len==0 and Bits > 0 Used to return invalid *huge* binary (size = (Uint)-1) badarg if Bits==0 and Len > 0 Used to return valid binary as if Bits was 8
2013-11-05Fix documentation of the +MMsco switchRickard Green
2013-11-05Replace the +MMscmgc switch with +MMscrfsdRickard Green
Replaced the +MMscmgc switch with the +MMscrfsd switch. The old switch didn't reflect what it controlled.
2013-11-05Add switch for disabling sys_alloc carriersRickard Green
The switch "+Musac <boolean>" controls if sys_alloc carriers are allowed.
2013-11-05Add support for locking mappings to physical memoryRickard Green
Using "+Mlpm all" switch all mappings made by the emulator will be locked into physical memory.
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
2013-10-15Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2013-09-30erts: Add documentation for +MMsc* system flagsRickard Green
2013-09-30Merge branch 'maint'Fredrik Gustafsson
2013-09-30Merge branch 'maint-r16' into maintFredrik Gustafsson
Conflicts: erts/vsn.mk
2013-09-30Merge branch 'maint'Lukas Larsson
* maint: Update preloaded add system_info(ets_limit) Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2013-09-27Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
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.
2013-09-17Merge tag 'OTP_R16B02'Magnus Lidén
The R16B02 release Conflicts: lib/sasl/vsn.mk