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2011-10-26Use the proper macros in all BIFsBjörn Gustavsson
As a preparation for changing the calling convention for BIFs, make sure that all BIFs use the macros. Also, eliminate all calls from one BIF to another, since that also breaks the calling convention abstraction.
2011-08-16emulator: Add a fourth element in exception stacktracesBjörn Gustavsson
This commit is a preparation for introducing location information (filename/line number) in stacktraces in exceptions. Currently a stack trace looks like: [{Mod1,Function1,Arity1}, . . . {ModN,FunctionN,ArityN}] Add a forth element to each tuple that can be used indication the filename and line number of the source file: [{Mod1,Function1,Arity1,Location1}, . . . {ModN,FunctionN,ArityN,LocationN}] In this commit, the fourth element will just be an empty list, and we will change all code that look at or manipulate stacktraces.
2011-06-14Use new atomic API in runtime systemRickard Green
All uses of the old deprecated atomic API in the runtime system have been replaced with the use of the new atomic API. In a lot of places this change imply a relaxation of memory barriers used.
2011-05-13Merge branch 'rickard/barriers/OTP-9281' into devRickard Green
* rickard/barriers/OTP-9281: Silence warnings Fix build with hipe on amd64 Reduce number of atomic ops Use 32-bit atomic for port snapshot Remove pointless erts_ports_alive variable Ensure quick break Ensure that all rehashing information are seen when done Ensure that stack updates are seen when stack is released Add needed barriers for write_concurrency tables Homogenize memory barriers on atomics
2011-05-13Use 32-bit atomic for port snapshotRickard Green
2011-05-13Remove pointless erts_ports_alive variableRickard Green
2011-05-13Merge branch 'bjorn/fix-binary-overflow/OTP-9118' into devBjörn Gustavsson
* bjorn/fix-binary-overflow/OTP-9118: Fix overflow in list_to_bitstring/1 Replace io_list_len() with erts_iolist_size() Make port_command/2 reject non-byte sized bitstrings io.c: Make io_list_vec_len() less general iolist_size/1: Fix truncation of result Test iolist_size/1 with bad arguments binary_SUITE: Remove workaround for avoiding stack overflow
2011-05-11Merge branch 'rickard/gc-other/OTP-9211' into devRickard Green
* rickard/gc-other/OTP-9211: Fix bad assertions Avoid scheduling of processes being garbage collected by others
2011-05-06Merge branch 'ms/beam-fix-format-specifiers-in-erl_exit-msg' into devHenrik Nord
* ms/beam-fix-format-specifiers-in-erl_exit-msg: Fix format specifiers in erl_exit messages OTP-9262
2011-05-04iolist_size/1: Fix truncation of resultBjörn Gustavsson
iolist_size/1 would silently return a truncated result for iolists whose size exceeded the word size. For example: iolist(lists:duplicate(256, <<0:(1 bsl 24)/unit:8>>)). would return 0 (instead of 4294967296 or 1 bsl 32). Rewrite iolist_size/1 to accumulate the size in a bignum if necessary and result the correct result.
2011-04-11Avoid scheduling of processes being garbage collected by othersRickard Green
2011-04-07Fix format specifiers in erl_exit messagesMichael Santos
Fix an error message by using an unsigned integer specifier as seen in a tweet by @metabrew: #erlang VM crashed with "no next heap size found: -2090496108, offset 0", suddenly allocated all available RAM Also correct mis-typed string formats in bif.c.
2011-03-16erts: Remove unused variablesTuncer Ayaz
2011-03-10Update copyright yearsSverker Eriksson
2011-01-29Fix several bugs related to hibernate/3 and HiPEPaul Guyot
This commit fixes four related bugs: - calling hibernate/3 using a dynamic call would fail with badarg as hibernate/3 as a BIF was not implemented. hibernate/3 is generally provided as a Beam instruction, and code is translated to use this instruction when loaded. - calling hibernate/3 from HiPE would fail with badarg because this would call the aforementioned BIF which was not implemented. - calling hibernate/3 with some HiPE-native garbage in the process heap would randomly crash at the next garbage collect. This bug only happened in a complex, yet reproduceable scenarios, where native code calls beam code that calls hibernate/3, and the process has some garbage when being hibernated and the process generates garbage when awaken. - when entering HiPE, the process current_function can be set and be inaccurate. The fix is three folded: - hibernate_3 BIF now actually works instead of throwing a badarg. While hibernate_3 BIF was (usually) not called from BEAM, it is called from HiPE. hibernate behaviour is very close to the scheduler and this is why it is implemented as an instruction in BEAM. The fix consists in doing the actual hibernation (through the now exported erts_hibernate function) and setting the process flag to TRAP as well as the process status to P_WAITING. On BIF epilogue in both BEAM and HiPE, this status is tested on TRAP and if set, the scheduler is invoked. The i_hibernate instruction and translation code is now redundant and could be deleted. - hibernation now also empties the HiPE native stack, with a new function hipe_empty_nstack provided by Mikael Pettersson. - when entering HiPE through hipe_mode_switch, p->current is cleared, as suggested by Mikael Pettersson. p->current normally hold a pointer to the {M,F,A} of the current function if it exists. When hibernating, it is set to {erlang,hibernate,3}, and all stdlib hibernate tests (gen_server_SUITE:hibernate/1, proc_lib_suite:hibernate/1, etc.) actually rely on this information. Clearing p->current fixes the tests and avoids the surprise one might have when querying the process info of a process that hibernated and woke up in a native function. Non-regression tests are provided, a test for the dynamic call as well as a Makefile-handled duplication of the hibernate_SUITE into hibernate_native_SUITE for the HiPE case.
2010-12-17Merge branch 'rickard/exit/2-refc/OTP-9005' into devRickard Green
* rickard/exit/2-refc/OTP-9005: Decrement refc after unlock in exit/2
2010-12-17Decrement refc after unlock in exit/2Rickard Green
2010-12-16Use 32-bit atomics for misc scheduling specific informationRickard Green
2010-12-15Use new atomic types in emulatorRickard Green
2010-07-20One off-heap list, to eliminate two words per ETS object.Sverker Eriksson
Merging the three off-heap lists (binaries, funs and externals) into one list. This reduces memory consumption by two words (pointers) per ETS object.
2010-06-08Merge branch 'bg/nif_error' into devErlang/OTP
* commit 'bg/nif_error': crypto: Add type specs for all documented functions crypto: Use erlang:nif_error/1 to squelch false Dialyzer warnings Add erlang:nif_error/1,2
2010-06-01Remove unsupported erlang:blocking_read_file/1Björn Gustavsson
This BIF was only used by the now broken SAE support.
2010-05-31Add erlang:nif_error/1,2Björn Gustavsson
A stub function that is supposed to be replaced by a NIF usually calls erlang:error/1 to cause an exception if the NIF library is not loaded. For example: foo() -> erlang:error(nif_not_loaded). The problem is that although erlang:error/1 will normally never be called, Dialyzer will think that any call to the function will fail and thus generate false warnings. Adding a spec for the function will not help because Dialyzer will not believe the spec. Add erlang:nif_error/1,2 that work exactly like erlang:error/1,2. Define the return types for both BIFs to be t_any(). erlang:nif_error is used like this: -spec foo() -> binary(). foo() -> erlang:nif_error(nif_not_loaded). (The -spec is optional but highly recommended, since Dialyzer otherwise has no chance to figure out the types.)
2010-03-10Make tracing and distribution workPatrik Nyblom
Rewrite trace code and external coding. Also slightly correct the interface to the match-spec engine to make tracing work. That will make the test suites runnable.
2010-03-10Add the BeamInstr data type for loaded BEAM codePatrik Nyblom
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.
2010-03-10Store pointers to heap data in 32-bit wordsPatrik Nyblom
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.
2010-03-10Fit all heap data into the 32-bit address rangePatrik Nyblom
This is the first step in the implementation of the half-word emulator, a 64-bit emulator where all pointers to heap data will be stored in 32-bit words. Code specific for this emulator variant is conditionally compiled when the HALFWORD_HEAP define has a non-zero value. First force all pointers to heap data to fall into a single 32-bit range, but still store them in 64-bit words. Temporary term data stored on C stack is moved into scheduler specific storage (allocated as heaps) and macros are added to make this happen only in emulators where this is needed. For a vanilla VM the temporary terms are still stored on the C stack.
2010-02-08OTP-8412 Fixed numerous compiler warnings generated by gcc 4.4.1 andRickard Green
tile-cc 2.0.1.78377 when compiling the runtime system.
2010-01-15Merge branch 'egil/binary-gc' into ccase/r13b04_devErlang/OTP
* egil/binary-gc: Add documentation for binary heap size settings. Add tracing capabilities for binary virtual heap Add min heap size start options to beam and erl Improve binary garbage collection OTP-8370 The default settings for garbage collection of binaries has been adjusted to be less aggressive than in R13B03. It is now also possible configure the settings for binary GC. See the documentation for spawn_opt/2-5, erlang:system_info/1, erlang:system_flag/2, process_flag/2-3, erlang:trace/3, and the documenation for erl for the new command line options +hms and +hmbs.
2010-01-13Improve binary garbage collectionBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
The garbage collector in r13b03 is too aggressive in some cases. This commit raises the level of default initial allowed binary garbage (virtual heap for binaries) before collecting from 233 words to 46368 words (181 kB on 32-bit). A new option, min_bin_vheap_size, has been added to spawn_opt, system_flag and process_flag can be used to change the default values. The option can also be used with system_info and process_info to inspect the values. For symmetry the option min_heap_size has been added to the above functions where it was previously missing. Add testcases for min_bin_vheap_size and min_heap_size for functions process_flag/2, process_info/2, system_info/2 and spawn_opt/2.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP