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Can still not setup -a, but cerl works.
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To simplify the implementation of literal pools (constant pools)
for the R12 release, a shortcut was taken regarding binaries --
all binaries would be stored as heap binaries regardless of size.
To allow a module containing literals to be unloaded, literal
terms are copied when sent to another process. That means that
huge literal binaries will also be copied if they are sent to
another process, which could be surprising.
Another problem is that the arity field in the header for the heap
object may not be wide enough to handle big binaries.
Therefore, bite the bullet and allow refc binaries to be stored
in literal pools. In short, the following need to be changed:
* Each loaded module needs a MSO list, linking all refc binaries
in the literal pool.
* When check_process_code/2 copies literals to a process heap,
it must link each referenced binary into the MSO list for the
process and increment the reference counter for the binary.
* purge_module/1 must decrement the reference counter for each
refc binary in the literal pool.
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The erlang:module_load/2 BIF will stop all other schedulers
before it starts to process the BEAM file. That is not a problem
when starting the Erlang/OTP system, since the start-up is mostly
sequential. It is a problem, however, when big BEAM files are
loaded in an already running system.
After the refactoring in the previous commits, we can now do most
of the processing of the BEAM file before we stop the other schedulers,
so that we can minimize the time when only one scheduler will be
running.
Suggested-by: Bob Ippolito
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There is no reason to have erts_load_module() return integer values,
only to have the caller convert the values to atoms. Return the
appropriate atom directly from the place where the error is generated
instead. Return NIL if the module was successfully loaded.
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The -l option used to print information about modules being loaded,
but now it prints very little information.
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* rickard/thr-progress-block/OTP-9631:
Replace system block with thread progress block
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The ERTS internal system block functionality has been replaced by
new functionality for blocking the system. The old system block
functionality had contention issues and complexity issues. The
new functionality piggy-backs on thread progress tracking functionality
needed by newly introduced lock-free synchronization in the runtime
system. When the functionality for blocking the system isn't used
there is more or less no overhead at all. This since the functionality
for tracking thread progress is there and needed anyway.
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A future release of the compiler might want to treat external
funs as literals. Make sure that the loader can cope with an
export entry being created from both an entry in the literal
pool and from the export table (i.e. if an external fun refers
to an exported function in the same module).
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Add erlang:check_old_code/1 to quickly check whether a module
has old code. If there is no old code, there is no need to call
erlang:check_process_code/2 for all processes, which will save
some time if there are many processes.
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There is no need to suspend the process if the module has no old
code. Measurements show that this change will make
erlang:check_process_code/2 in an SMP emulator about four times
faster if the module has no old code.
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* sverker/hipe-misc-fixing/OTP-9298:
hipe_mkliterals print argv[0] in generated files
Fix code:is_module_native segv on deleted module
lock checking fix in hipe_bif2.c
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* rickard/gc-other/OTP-9211:
Fix bad assertions
Avoid scheduling of processes being garbage collected by others
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As reported in erlang-bugs, the following sequence of events crashes the VM:
1. Module M1 is loaded and in native mode.
2. Module M2 is not loaded, in emulated mode, and has an on_load function.
3. M1 calls some function in M2. This works.
4. M1 again calls some function in M2. This segfaults.
The reason for the crash is that when the beam loader fixes up export
entries after a successful on_load function call, it erroneously clears
the ->code[3] field in that module's export entries. This is redundant
(no code in beam relies on ->code[3] being NULL), inconsistent with
modules without on_load functions (there ->code[3] remains a valid beam
instruction after the module is loaded), and breaks native code which needs
the old ->address value in an export entry to remain valid after a module
load step (before the load ->address points to ->code[3], after the load
->address points to the real code but uses of the old ->address value
remain so ->code[3] must remain valid).
Thus the fix for the crash is to simply not clear ->code[3].
This patch fixes R14A and should also fix R13B04.
(There does exist a performance bug in this area, but it is unrelated
to the on_load feature so will be fixed separately.)
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Merging the three off-heap lists (binaries, funs and externals) into
one list. This reduces memory consumption by two words (pointers) per
ETS object.
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For cleanliness, use BeamInstr instead of the UWord
data type to any machine-sized words that are used
for BEAM instructions. Only use UWord for untyped
words in general.
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Store Erlang terms in 32-bit entities on the heap, expanding the
pointers to 64-bit when needed. This works because all terms are stored
on addresses in the 32-bit address range (the 32 most significant bits
of pointers to term data are always 0).
Introduce a new datatype called UWord (along with its companion SWord),
which is an integer having the exact same size as the machine word
(a void *), but might be larger than Eterm/Uint.
Store code as machine words, as the instructions are pointers to
executable code which might reside outside the 32-bit address range.
Continuation pointers are stored on the 32-bit stack and hence must
point to addresses in the low range, which means that loaded beam code
much be placed in the low 32-bit address range (but, as said earlier,
the instructions themselves are full words).
No Erlang term data can be stored on C stacks (enforced by an
earlier commit).
This version gives a prompt, but test cases still fail (and dump core).
The loader (and emulator loop) has instruction packing disabled.
The main issues has been in rewriting loader and actual virtual
machine. Subsystems (like distribution) does not work yet.
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