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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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Break apart code loading into the three functions:
erts_alloc_loader_state()
erts_prepare_loading()
erts_finish_loading()
The erts_alloc_loader_state() and erts_prepare_loading() can be
executed with all schedulers running. Only erts_finish_loading()
needs to be run in a single-scheduling system.
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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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* pan/otp_8332_halfword:
Teach testcase in driver_suite the new prototype for driver_async
wx: Correct usage of driver callbacks from wx thread
Adopt the new (R13B04) Nif functionality to the halfword codebase
Support monitoring and demonitoring from driver threads
Fix further test-suite problems
Correct the VM to work for more test suites
Teach {wordsize,internal|external} to system_info/1
Make tracing and distribution work
Turn on instruction packing in the loader and virtual machine
Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM code
Fix the BEAM dissambler for the half-word emulator
Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit words
Add a custom mmap wrapper to force heaps into the lower address range
Fit all heap data into the 32-bit address range
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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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