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2017-05-04Update copyright yearRaimo Niskanen
2017-02-06Implement magic referencesRickard Green
Magic references are *intentionally* indistinguishable from ordinary references for the Erlang software. Magic references do not change the language, and are intended as a pure runtime internal optimization. An ordinary reference is typically used as a key in some table. A magic reference has a direct pointer to a reference counted magic binary. This makes it possible to implement various things without having to do lookups in a table, but instead access the data directly. Besides very fast lookups this can also improve scalability by removing a potentially contended table. A couple of examples of planned future usage of magic references are ETS table identifiers, and BIF timer identifiers. Besides future optimizations using magic references it should also be possible to replace the exposed magic binary cludge with magic references. That is, magic binaries that are exposed as empty binaries to the Erlang software.
2016-04-13Merge branch 'henrik/update-copyrightyear'Henrik Nord
* henrik/update-copyrightyear: update copyright-year
2016-03-29erts: inline tag_val_defLukas Larsson
The tag_val_def function was called and multiple switch statements had to be traversed in term.c, and then a big switch in the calling code to branch on the term types. By inlining the switches are merged by the compiler and a lot fewer branches have to be taken. Benchmarks show that this increases performance of enc_term by as much as 10%.
2016-03-15update copyright-yearHenrik Nord
2016-02-24Merge branch 'master' into sverk/master/halt-INT_MINSverker Eriksson
2016-02-24erts: Change erl_exit into erts_exitSverker Eriksson
This is mostly a pure refactoring. Except for the buggy cases when calling erlang:halt() with a positive integer in the range -(INT_MIN+2) to -INT_MIN that got confused with ERTS_ABORT_EXIT, ERTS_DUMP_EXIT and ERTS_INTR_EXIT. Outcome OLD erl_exit(n, ) NEW erts_exit(n, ) ------- ------------------- ------------------------------------------- exit(Status) n = -Status <= 0 n = Status >= 0 crashdump+abort n > 0, ignore n n = ERTS_ERROR_EXIT < 0 The outcome of the old ERTS_ABORT_EXIT, ERTS_INTR_EXIT and ERTS_DUMP_EXIT are the same as before (even though their values have changed).
2015-11-12Merge branch 'rickard/ohmq/OTP-13047'Rickard Green
* rickard/ohmq/OTP-13047: Fragmented young heap generation and off_heap_message_queue option Refactor GC Introduce literal tag Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/erl_gc.c
2015-11-12Introduce literal tagRickard Green
2015-09-07Merge branch 'maint'Sverker Eriksson
2015-09-02Merge branch 'maint' into sverk/trace-process_dump-matchstateSverker Eriksson
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_printf_term.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_term.c erts/emulator/beam/utils.c
2015-09-01erts: Fix bug when tracing with 'process_dump'Sverker Eriksson
If the process stack contained a match state the print function would crash the vm as it was not recognized by tag_val_def(). Add new MATCHSTATE_DEF returned by tag_val_def(). All other callers either ignore it or has a default clause to handle invalid terms.
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.
2015-06-18Change license text to APLv2Bruce Yinhe
2015-05-18erts: Fix warning about const pointer to make_boxed and make_listSverker Eriksson
2015-03-25erts: Combine flat and hash maps under one unifying tagBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2015-03-12Initial Persistent HAMT - Map frameworkBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Conflicts: erts/emulator/Makefile.in erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab erts/emulator/beam/erl_gc.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_gc.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_printf_term.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_term.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_term.h
2014-01-28erts: Initial Map instructions, type and structureBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2013-01-25Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-12-12Merge branch 'egil/enforce-tuple-specification-size/OTP-10633'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/enforce-tuple-specification-size/OTP-10633: erts: Use memcpy instead of while in setelement/3 test: Refactor away ?line macro in tuple_SUITE erts: Enforce tuple max size on BIFs erts: Define max tuple size to 24 bits
2012-12-07Merge branch 'rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336' into ↵Rickard Green
rickard/r16/port-optimizations/OTP-10336 * rickard/port-optimizations/OTP-10336: Change annotate level for emacs-22 in cerl Update etp-commands Add documentation on communication in Erlang Add support for busy port message queue Add driver callback epilogue Implement true asynchronous signaling between processes and ports Add erl_drv_[send|output]_term Move busy port flag Use rwlock for driver list Optimize management of port tasks Improve configuration of process and port tables Remove R9 compatibility features Use ptab functionality also for ports Prepare for use of ptab functionality also for ports Atomic port state Generalize process table implementation Implement functionality for delaying thread progress from unmanaged threads Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erl_driver.xml erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_bp.c erts/emulator/beam/beam_emu.c erts/emulator/beam/bif.c erts/emulator/beam/copy.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_port.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_message.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_port_task.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_process_lock.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/export.h erts/emulator/beam/global.h erts/emulator/beam/io.c erts/emulator/sys/unix/sys.c erts/emulator/sys/vxworks/sys.c erts/emulator/test/port_SUITE.erl erts/etc/unix/cerl.src erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam erts/preloaded/src/prim_inet.erl lib/hipe/cerl/erl_bif_types.erl lib/kernel/doc/src/inet.xml lib/kernel/src/inet.erl
2012-12-03Improve configuration of process and port tablesRickard Green
2012-11-27erts: Define max tuple size to 24 bitsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Erlang specification 4.7.3 defines max tuple size to 65535 elements It is now defined to 16777215 elements (24 bits)
2012-09-07Replace sprintf with erts_snprintf in beamBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2011-02-18HALFWORD ETS Fix copyright year in some source filesSverker Eriksson
2011-02-03HALFWORD ETS relative termsSverker Eriksson
In halfword emulator, make ETS use a variant of the internal term format that uses relative offsets instead of absolute pointers. This will allow storage in high memory (>4G). Preprocessor macros (like list_val_rel(TERM,BASE)) are used to make normal (fullword) emulator almost completely unchanged while still reusing most of the code.
2010-03-22Merge branch 'pan/otp_8332_halfword' into devErlang/OTP
* 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
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.
2009-11-20The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03Erlang/OTP