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2017-02-06Implement magic referencesRickard Green
Magic references are *intentionally* indistinguishable from ordinary references for the Erlang software. Magic references do not change the language, and are intended as a pure runtime internal optimization. An ordinary reference is typically used as a key in some table. A magic reference has a direct pointer to a reference counted magic binary. This makes it possible to implement various things without having to do lookups in a table, but instead access the data directly. Besides very fast lookups this can also improve scalability by removing a potentially contended table. A couple of examples of planned future usage of magic references are ETS table identifiers, and BIF timer identifiers. Besides future optimizations using magic references it should also be possible to replace the exposed magic binary cludge with magic references. That is, magic binaries that are exposed as empty binaries to the Erlang software.
2017-02-03Merge branch 'egil/20/erts/signal-service/OTP-14186'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/20/erts/signal-service/OTP-14186: kernel: Document signal server erts: Use os module instead of erts_internal for set_signal/2 erts: Do not handle SIGILL erts: Fix thread suspend in crashdump erts: Do not enable SIGINT erts: Use generic signal handler erts: Add OS signal tests erts: Handle SIGUSR1 via signal service instead erts: Handle SIGTERM via signal service instead kernel: Add gen_event signal server and default handler erts: Add SIGHUP signal handler erts: Remove whitespace errors Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab
2017-02-02erts: Use generic signal handlerBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2017-01-19erts: Handle SIGUSR1 via signal service insteadBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2017-01-19erts: Handle SIGTERM via signal service insteadBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2017-01-17Scheduler wall time support for dirty schedulersRickard Green
2017-01-12Support for dirty BIFsRickard Green
2017-01-05erts: Add SIGHUP signal handlerBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
A received SIGHUP signal to beam will generate a '{notify, sighup}' message to the registered process 'erl_signal_server'. 'erl_signal_server' is a gen_event process.
2016-11-29erts: Add erts internal secret atomSverker Eriksson
2016-09-15Merge branch 'maint'Björn Gustavsson
* maint: erts: Add nif_SUITE:t_on_load erts: Improve nif_SUITE:upgrade test Don't leak old code when loading a modules with an on_load function Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_code_purger.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam erts/preloaded/src/erts_code_purger.erl
2016-09-14Don't leak old code when loading a modules with an on_load functionBjörn Gustavsson
Normally, calling code:delete/1 before re-loading the code for a module is unnecessary but causes no problem. But there will be be problems if the new code has an on_load function. Code with an on_load function will always be loaded as old code to allowed it to be easily purged if the on_load function would fail. If the on_load function succeeds, the old and current code will be swapped. So in the scenario where code:delete/1 has been called explicitly, there is old code but no current code. Loading code with an on_load function will cause the reference to the old code to be overwritten. That will at best cause a memory leak, and at worst an emulator crash (especially if NIFs are involved). To avoid that situation, we will put the code with the on_load function in a special, third slot in Module. ERL-240
2016-09-06Merge branch 'kvakvs/erts/gc_minor_option/OTP-11695'Lukas Larsson
* kvakvs/erts/gc_minor_option/OTP-11695: erts: Fix req_system_task gc typespec Fix process_SUITE system_task_blast and no_priority_inversion2 Option to erlang:garbage_collect to request minor (generational) GC Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/preloaded/src/erts_internal.erl
2016-08-30Merge branch 'rickard/time-unit/OTP-13735' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/time-unit/OTP-13735: Update test-cases to use new symbolic time units Replace misspelled symbolic time units Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/test/long_timers_test.erl
2016-08-29Perform check_process_code while process is executing dirtyRickard Green
2016-08-29Fix purge of codeRickard Green
Ensure that we cannot get any dangling pointers into code that has been purged. This is done by a two phase purge. At first phase all fun entries pointing into the code to purge are marked for purge. All processes trying to call these funs will be suspended and by this we avoid getting new direct references into the code. When all processes has been checked, these processes are resumed. The new purge strategy now also completely ignore the existence of indirect references to the code (funs). If such exist, they will cause bad fun exceptions to the caller, but will not prevent a soft purge or cause a kill of a process having such live references during a hard purge. This since it is impossible to give any guarantees that no processes in the system have such indirect references. Even when the system is completely clean from such references, new ones can appear via distribution and/or disk.
2016-08-26Reclaim literal area after purge has completedRickard Green
2016-08-25Replace misspelled symbolic time unitsRickard Green
Besides using two words for 'milliseconds' et. al. they are also changed from plural to singular.
2016-08-12Option to erlang:garbage_collect to request minor (generational) GCDmytro Lytovchenko
Note: Minor GC option is a hint, and GC may still decide to run fullsweep. Test case for major and minor gc on self Test case for major and minor gs on some other process + async gc test check docs fix
2016-05-27Merge branch 'rickard/rm-mqd-mixed/OTP-13366'Rickard Green
* rickard/rm-mqd-mixed/OTP-13366: Remove the 'message_queue_data' option 'mixed'
2016-05-25Remove the 'message_queue_data' option 'mixed'Rickard Green
2016-05-24erts: Move tracer SecondTraceTerm to Opts mapLukas Larsson
The extra trace data has been moved to the opts map in order for the tracer to be able to distinguish inbetween extra trace data 'undefined' and no extra trace data. In the same commit all opts associations have been changed so that if the tracer should not use them, the key is left unassicated instead of being sent to undefined. This should be give a small performance gain and also makes the API easier to work with.
2016-05-10erts: Implement max_heap_size process flagLukas Larsson
The max_heap_size process flag can be used to limit the growth of a process heap by killing it before it becomes too large to handle. It is possible to set the maximum using the `erl +hmax` option, `system_flag(max_heap_size, ...)`, `spawn_opt(Fun, [{max_heap_size, ...}])` and `process_flag(max_heap_size, ...)`. It is possible to configure the behaviour of the process when the maximum heap size is reached. The process may be sent an untrappable exit signal with reason kill and/or send an error_logger message with details on the process state. A new trace event called gc_max_heap_size is also triggered for the garbage_collection trace flag when the heap grows larger than the configured size. If kill and error_logger are disabled, it is still possible to see that the maximum has been reached by doing garbage collection tracing on the process. The heap size is defined as the sum of the heap memory that the process is currently using. This includes all generational heaps, the stack, any messages that are considered to be part of the heap and any extra memory the garbage collector may need during collection. In the current implementation this means that when a process is set using on_heap message queue data mode, the messages that are in the internal message queue are counted towards this value. For off_heap, only matched messages count towards the size of the heap. For mixed, it depends on race conditions within the VM whether a message is part of the heap or not. Below is an example run of the new behaviour: Eshell V8.0 (abort with ^G) 1> f(P),P = spawn_opt(fun() -> receive ok -> ok end end, [{max_heap_size, 512}]). <0.60.0> 2> erlang:trace(P, true, [garbage_collection, procs]). 1 3> [P ! lists:duplicate(M,M) || M <- lists:seq(1,15)],ok. ok 4> =ERROR REPORT==== 26-Apr-2016::16:25:10 === Process: <0.60.0> Context: maximum heap size reached Max heap size: 512 Total heap size: 723 Kill: true Error Logger: true GC Info: [{old_heap_block_size,0}, {heap_block_size,609}, {mbuf_size,145}, {recent_size,0}, {stack_size,9}, {old_heap_size,0}, {heap_size,211}, {bin_vheap_size,0}, {bin_vheap_block_size,46422}, {bin_old_vheap_size,0}, {bin_old_vheap_block_size,46422}] flush(). Shell got {trace,<0.60.0>,gc_start, [{old_heap_block_size,0}, {heap_block_size,233}, {mbuf_size,145}, {recent_size,0}, {stack_size,9}, {old_heap_size,0}, {heap_size,211}, {bin_vheap_size,0}, {bin_vheap_block_size,46422}, {bin_old_vheap_size,0}, {bin_old_vheap_block_size,46422}]} Shell got {trace,<0.60.0>,gc_max_heap_size, [{old_heap_block_size,0}, {heap_block_size,609}, {mbuf_size,145}, {recent_size,0}, {stack_size,9}, {old_heap_size,0}, {heap_size,211}, {bin_vheap_size,0}, {bin_vheap_block_size,46422}, {bin_old_vheap_size,0}, {bin_old_vheap_block_size,46422}]} Shell got {trace,<0.60.0>,exit,killed}
2016-04-29erts: Extend garbage collection traceBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Replace 'gc_start' and 'gc_end' with * 'gc_minor_start' * 'gc_minor_end' * 'gc_major_start' * 'gc_major_end'
2016-04-15erts: Add 'spawned' trace event to 'procs' trace flagLukas Larsson
OTP-13497 This trace event is triggered when a process is created from the process that is created.
2016-04-15erts: Extend process and port tracingLukas Larsson
This commit completes the tracing for processes so that all messages sent by a process (via nifs or otherwise) will be traced. The commit also adds tracing of all types of events from ports. When enabling tracing using erlang:trace, the 'all' flag now also enables tracing on all ports. OTP-13496
2016-04-15erts: Implement tracer modulesLukas Larsson
Add the possibility to use modules as trace data receivers. The functions in the module have to be nifs as otherwise complex trace probes will be very hard to handle (complex means trace probes for ports for example). This commit changes the way that the ptab->tracer field works from always being an immediate, to now be NIL if no tracer is present or else be the tuple {TracerModule, TracerState} where TracerModule is an atom that is later used to lookup the appropriate tracer callbacks to call and TracerState is just passed to the tracer callback. The default process and port tracers have been rewritten to use the new API. This commit also changes the order which trace messages are delivered to the potential tracer process. Any enif_send done in a tracer module may be delayed indefinitely because of lock order issues. If a message is delayed any other trace message send from that process is also delayed so that order is preserved for each traced entity. This means that for some trace events (i.e. send/receive) the events may come in an unintuitive order (receive before send) to the trace receiver. Timestamps are taken when the trace message is generated so trace messages from differented processes may arrive with the timestamp out of order. Both the erlang:trace and seq_trace:set_system_tracer accept the new tracer module tracers and also the backwards compatible arguments. OTP-10267
2016-04-13Merge branch 'henrik/update-copyrightyear'Henrik Nord
* henrik/update-copyrightyear: update copyright-year
2016-04-07erts: Rename atom '' from am_Cookie to am_EmptySverker Eriksson
2016-03-15update copyright-yearHenrik Nord
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.
2016-02-26Merge branch 'bjorn/multiple-load/OTP-13111'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/multiple-load/OTP-13111: code: Add functions that can load multiple modules Refactor post_beam_load handling Simplify and robustify code_server:all_loaded/1 Update preloaded modules Add erl_prim_loader:get_modules/3 Add has_prepared_code_on_load/1 BIF Allow erlang:finish_loading/1 to load more than one module beam_load.c: Add a function to check for an on_load function
2016-02-25Merge branch 'maint'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
2016-02-25Allow erlang:finish_loading/1 to load more than one moduleBjörn Gustavsson
The BIFs prepare_loading/2 and finish_loading/1 have been designed to allow fast loading in parallel of many modules. Because of the complications with on_load functions, the initial implementation of finish_loading/1 only allowed a single element in the list of prepared modules. finish_loading/1 does not suspend other processes, but it must wait for all schedulers to pass a write barrier ("thread progress"). The time for all schedulers to pass the write barrier is highly variable, depending on what kind of code they are executing. Therefore, allowing finish_loading/1 to finish the loading for more than one module before passing the write barrier could potentially be much faster than calling finish_loading/1 multiple times. The test case many/1 run on my computer shows that with "heavy load", finish loading of 100 modules in parallel is almost 50 times faster than loading them sequentially. With "light load", the gain is still almost 10 times. Here follows an actual sample of the output from the test case on my computer (an 2012 iMac): Light load ========== Sequential: 22361 µs Parallel: 2586 µs Ratio: 9 Heavy load ========== Sequential: 254512 µs Parallel: 5246 µs Ratio: 49
2016-02-16erts: Add BIF erts_internal:system_check/1Björn-Egil Dahlberg
This commit implements erts_internal:system_check(schedulers) with the intent of a basic responsiveness test check of the schedulers.
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
2016-02-02Merge 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
2016-01-26Merge 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
2016-01-20Introduce time warp safe trace timestamp formatsRickard Green
New timestamp options for trace, sequential trace, and system profile: - monotonic_timestamp - strict_monotonic_timestamp
2015-12-30Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Light weight statistics of run queue lengths Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
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
2015-12-15Merge 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 support for asynchronous open_portLukas Larsson
OTP-13086
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
2015-11-16erts: 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.
2015-11-12Merge branch 'rickard/ohmq/OTP-13047'Rickard Green
* rickard/ohmq/OTP-13047: Fragmented young heap generation and off_heap_message_queue option Refactor GC Introduce literal tag Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/erl_gc.c
2015-11-12Fragmented young heap generation and off_heap_message_queue optionRickard Green
* The youngest generation of the heap can now consist of multiple blocks. Heap fragments and message fragments are added to the youngest generation when needed without triggering a GC. After a GC the youngest generation is contained in one single block. * The off_heap_message_queue process flag has been added. When enabled all message data in the queue is kept off heap. When a message is selected from the queue, the message fragment (or heap fragment) containing the actual message is attached to the youngest generation. Messages stored off heap is not part of GC.
2015-11-04Merge branch 'sverk/binary_split_bif'Sverker Eriksson
OTP-13082 * sverk/binary_split_bif: erts: Minor refactor for binary find BIF backend erts: Refactor BIF for binary:match,matches,split erts: Refactor backend of binary:split erts: Replace 0 with THE_NON_VALUE stdlib: Add BIF option 'trim_all' to binary:split/3 stdlib: Add BIF binary:split/2 and binary:split/3 Conflicts: bootstrap/lib/stdlib/ebin/binary.beam
2015-11-04erts: Refactor BIF for binary:match,matches,splitAndrew Bennett
with an common do_binary_find() used by match, matches and split.
2015-11-04stdlib: Add BIF option 'trim_all' to binary:split/3Andrew Bennett
2015-11-04stdlib: Add BIF binary:split/2 and binary:split/3Andrew Bennett