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2017-01-12erts: Fix race bug between export fun creation and code loadingSverker Eriksson
Symptom: SEGV crash on ARM in delete_code() -> export_list(). Could probably happen on other machines as well. Problem: Staging export table was iterated in an unsafe way while an entry was added for a new export fun. Solution: Correct write order and some memory barriers.
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
2016-09-05erts: Reject beam file with too few functionsSverker Eriksson
2016-08-30Merge branch 'sverker/load-corrupt-beam/ERL-216/OTP-13848' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverker/load-corrupt-beam/ERL-216: erts:: Unsignify a bunch of loader variables erts: Reject an invalid beam code header size erts: Fix load of beam with invalid imports and atom numbers
2016-08-23erts:: Unsignify a bunch of loader variablesSverker Eriksson
2016-08-23erts: Reject an invalid beam code header sizeSverker Eriksson
2016-08-23erts: Fix load of beam with invalid imports and atom numbersSverker Eriksson
2016-08-08Separate literal area from codeRickard Green
2016-05-17Merge branch 'sverker/hipe-amd64-code-alloc/OTP-13359'Sverker Eriksson
This merge is actually only some left overs. The bulk work for hipe-amd64-code-alloc has already been merge (without ticket number) at 42a1166b47721cd444.
2016-05-12erts: Remove compiler warningSverker Eriksson
'hx' may be used uninitialized
2016-05-04Reimplement -on_load()Björn Gustavsson
Load the module as old code; swap old and new code if the -on_load function succeeds. That way, a failed update attempt for a module that has an -on_load function will preserve the previous version of the code.
2016-05-02Refactor erts_finish_loading() and insert_new_code()Björn Gustavsson
As a preparation for fixing some issues with -on_load(), we will integrate insert_new_code() into erts_finish_loading. Also rename insert_new_code() to stub_insert_new_code() to make it clear that it will only be used when making a stub module
2016-04-13Merge branch 'henrik/update-copyrightyear'Henrik Nord
* henrik/update-copyrightyear: update copyright-year
2016-04-07Don't let the loader do the compiler's jobBjörn Gustavsson
Optimizations that are possible to do by the compiler should be done by the compiler and not by the loader. If the compiler has done its job correctly, attempting to do the two transformations only wastes time.
2016-04-07Avoid rebuilding unchanged instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
In transformations such as: move S X0=x==0 | line Loc | call_ext Ar Func => \ line Loc | move S X0 | call_ext Ar Func we can avoid rebuilding the last instruction in the sequence by introducing a 'keep' instruction. Currently, there are only 13 transformations that are hit by this optimization, but most of them are frequently used.
2016-04-07Introduce a 'rename' instructionBjörn Gustavsson
Introduce a 'rename' instruction that can be used to optimize simple renaming with unchanged operands such as: get_tuple_element Reg P Dst => i_get_tuple_element Reg P Dst By allowing it to lower the arity of instruction, transformations such as the following can be handled: trim N Remaining => i_trim N All in all, currently 67 transformations can be optimized in this way, including some commonly used ones.
2016-04-07Simplify window management for the transformation engineBjörn Gustavsson
Generic instructions have a min_window field. Its purpose is to avoid calling transform_engine() when there are too few instructions in the current "transformation window" for a transformation to succeed. Currently it does not do much good since the window size will be decremented by one before being used. The reason for the subtraction is probably that in some circumstances in the past, the loader could read past the end of the BEAM module while attempting to fetch instructions to increase the window size. Therefore, it would not be safe to just remove the subtraction by one. The simplest and safest solution seems to always ensure that there are always at least TWO instructions when calling transform_engine(). That will be safe, as long as a BEAM module is always finished with an int_code_end/0 that is not involved in any transformation.
2016-04-07Eliminate allocation of variables in transform_engine()Björn Gustavsson
When an instruction with a variable number operands (such as select_val) is seen of the left side of a transformation, the 'next_arg' instruction will allocate a buffer to fit all variables and all operands will be copied into the buffer. Very often, the 'commit' instruction will never be reached because of a test or predicate failing or because of a short window; in that case, the variable buffer will be deallocated. Note that originally there were only few instructions with a variable number of operands, but now common operations such as tuple building also have a variable number of operands. To avoid those frequent allocations and deallocations, modify the 'next_arg' instruction to only save a pointer to the first of the "rest" arguments. Also move the deallocation of the instructions on the left side from the 'commit' instruction to the 'end' instruction to ensure that 'store_rest_args' will still work.
2016-04-06Refactor calls to transform_engine()Björn Gustavsson
We used to set last_op_next and last_op to NULL just in case. Setting last_op_next to causes a rescan of the instructions to find the last instruction in the chain, so we would want to avoid that unless really necessary.
2016-03-31Fix unsafe transformation of apply/3 with fixed argumentsBjörn Gustavsson
62473daf introduced an unsafe optimization in the loader. See the comments in the test case for an explanation of the problem.
2016-03-29erts: Improve enif_binary_to_termSverker Eriksson
* Accept a raw data buffer instead of ErlNifBinary * Accept option ERL_NIF_BIN2TERM_SAFE * Return number of read bytes
2016-03-15update copyright-yearHenrik Nord
2016-02-20beam_load.c: Add a function to check for an on_load functionBjörn Gustavsson
We will need a way to check whether an prepared BEAM modules has an on_load function.
2016-02-18Merge branch 'sverk/fix-list-length-int/OTP-13288'Sverker Eriksson
* sverk/fix-list-length-int/OTP-13288: erts: Fix error cases in enif_get_list_length erts: Use Sint instead of int for list lengths
2016-02-08erts: Use Sint instead of int for list lengthsRichard Carlsson
This avoids potential integer arithmetic overflow for very large lists.
2016-01-28Merge branch 'master' into sverk/hipe-line-table-bug/master/OTP-13282Sverker Eriksson
2016-01-28erts: Fix bug concerning line information for hipe modulesSverker Eriksson
Line table was left uninitialized for hipe (stub) modules causing process_info(OtherPid, current_location) to crash.
2015-12-09Merge branch 'egil/pd-opt-get/OTP-13167'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/pd-opt-get/OTP-13167: erts: Add i_get_hash instruction erts: Use internal hash for process dictionaries
2015-12-07erts: Add i_get_hash instructionBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Calculate hashvalue in load-time for constant process dictionary gets.
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.
2015-11-12Introduce literal tagRickard Green
2015-11-12erts: Refactor line table in loaded beam codeSverker Eriksson
to use real C struct with correct types
2015-11-12erts: Refactor header of loaded beam codeSverker Eriksson
to use a real C struct instead of array.
2015-11-12erts: Add support for fast erts_is_literal()Sverker Eriksson
2015-09-11erts: Add new allocator LITERALSverker Eriksson
2015-07-03Use a cheaper tag scheme for 'd' operandsBjörn Gustavsson
Since 'd' operands can only either an X register or an Y register, we only need a single bit to distinguish them. Furthermore, we can pre-multiply the register number with the word size to speed up address calculation.
2015-07-03Introduce swap_temp/3 and swap/2Björn Gustavsson
Sequences of three move instructionst that effectively swap the contents of two registers are fairly common. We can replace them with a swap_temp/3 instruction. The third operand is the temporary register to be used for swapping, since the temporary register may actually be used. If swap_temp/3 instruction is followed by a call, the temporary register will often (but not always) be killed by the call. If it is killed, we can replace the swap_temp/3 instruction with a slightly cheaper swap/2 instruction.
2015-07-03Eliminate use of i_fetch for bit syntax instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
2015-07-03Eliminate the use of i_fetch for BIF instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
2015-07-03Make the 'r' operand type optionalBjörn Gustavsson
The 'r' type is now mandatory. That means in order to handle both of the following instructions: move x(0) y(7) move x(1) y(7) we would need to define two specific operations in ops.tab: move r y move x y We want to make 'r' operands optional. That is, if we have only this specific instruction: move x y it will match both of the following instructions: move x(0) y(7) move x(1) y(7) Make 'r' optional allows us to save code space when we don't want to make handling of x(0) a special case, but we can still use 'r' to optimize commonly used instructions.
2015-07-03Allow X and Y registers to be overloaded with any literalBjörn Gustavsson
Consider the try_case_end instruction: try_case_end s The 's' operand type means that the operand can either be a literal of one of the types atom, integer, or empty list, or a register. That worked well before R12. In R12 additional types of literals where introduced. Because of way the overloading was done, an 's' operand cannot handle the new types of literals. Therefore, code such as the following is necessary in ops.tab to avoid giving an 's' operand a literal: try_case_end Literal=q => move Literal x | try_case_end x While this work, it is error-prone in that it is easy to forget to add that kind of rule. It would also be complicated in case we wanted to introduce a new kind of addition operator such as: i_plus jssd Since there are two 's' operands, two scratch registers and two 'move' instructions would be needed. Therefore, we'll need to find a smarter way to find tag register operands. We will overload the pid and port tags for X and Y register, respectively. That works because pids and port are immediate values (fit in one word), and there are no literals for pids and ports.
2015-07-03Eliminate R_REG_DEFBjörn Gustavsson
2015-07-03Change the meaning of 'x' in a transformationBjörn Gustavsson
The purpose of this series of commits is to improve code generation for the Clang compiler. As a first step we want to change the meaning of 'x' in a transformation such as: operation Literal=q => move Literal x | operation x Currently, a plain 'x' means reg[0] or x(0), which is the first element in the X register array. That element is distinct from r(0) which is a variable in process_main(). Therefore, since r(0) and x(0) are currently distinct it is fine to use x(0) as a scratch register. However, in the next commit we will eliminate the separate variable for storing the contents of X register zero (thus, x(0) and r(0) will point to the same location in the X register array). Therefore, we must use another scratch register in transformation. Redefine a plain 'x' in a transformation to mean x(1023). Also define SCRATCH_X_REG so that we can refer to the register by name from C code.
2015-06-24erts: Remove HALFWORD_HEAP definitionBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2015-06-18Change license text to APLv2Bruce Yinhe
2015-06-15Merge branch 'hamt_bin2term'Sverker Eriksson
* hamt_bin2term: erts: Add erts_factory_trim_and_close erts: Optimize driver_deliver_term erts: Remove hashmap probabilistic heap overestimation Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/beam_load.c
2015-06-15erts: Remove hashmap probabilistic heap overestimationSverker Eriksson
by adding a dynamic heap factory. "binary_to_term" is now a hybrid solution with both a call to decoded_size() to calculate needed heap space AND possible dynamic allocation of more heap space if needed for big maps. The heap size returned from decoded_size() is guaranteed to be sufficient for all term heap data except for hashmap nodes. All hashmap nodes are created at the end of dec_term() by invoking the heap factory interface that may allocate more heap space on process heap or in fragments. With this commit it is no longer guaranteed that a message is confined to only one heap fragment.
2015-06-10Fix segfault in module_info for deleted modulesRichard Carlsson
Add a check to protect from segfault when erlang:get_module_info/1/2 is called on a deleted module (i.e. with no current code). Also refactor erts_module_info_0/1 to avoid repeated calls to erts_active_code_ix() and remove some obsolete comments. Add test for module_info on deleted modules.
2015-05-07Set module_info md5 for native modules properlyRichard Carlsson
Use the md5 of the native code chunk instead of the Beam code md5.
2015-05-07Add module_info entry for native codeRichard Carlsson