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2014-12-10Use the new 64-bit atomic ops APIRickard Green
2013-08-07erts: Fix race in ptab that can cause PID mix-upsSverker Eriksson
Since: R16B01 Symptom: A spawned process may get the same PID as an existing process. The new process will "steal" the PID and make the old process unreachable through the PID. The problem also applies to port identities but has only been seen for processes. Conditions: SMP emulator with at least two scheduler threads. Rapid spawning and termination of a large number of processes. A small number of free slots in the process table will also increase the risk for this bug. Workaround: Use command line options "+P legacy" and "+Q legacy" Cause: The race happens if a process terminates and gets stalled while releasing its process table slot. The stall has to be so long (due to OS preemptive scheduling most probably) for other schedluer threads to consume all other free slots for newly spawn processes. Fix: Write invalid-markers in the free-pid-table and do atomic exhange operations in retry-loops to make sure each thread gets a unique PID.
2013-06-12Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-05-17Introduce a better id allocation algorithm for PTabsRickard Green
2013-04-03Be less eager requesting wakeup for cleanup jobsRickard Green
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-12-03Use ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for portsRickard Green
2012-12-03Generalize process table implementationRickard Green