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2018-05-15erts: Make cpu_timestamp use per thread on LinuxLukas Larsson
If we don't use per thread the value becomes completely nonsensical on systems with more than one scheduler. We keep the old solaris behaviour in order to support the option, but it only really works when using a single scheduler.
2018-04-13Merge branch 'rickard/monotonic_time_1_fix/OTP-15008'Rickard Green
* rickard/monotonic_time_1_fix/OTP-15008: Teach erlang:monotonic_time/1 the perf_counter time unit
2018-04-10Teach erlang:monotonic_time/1 the perf_counter time unitRickard Green
2018-03-21Implementation of true asynchronous signaling between processesRickard Green
Communication between Erlang processes has conceptually always been performed through asynchronous signaling. The runtime system implementation has however previously preformed most operation synchronously. In a system with only one true thread of execution, this is not problematic (often the opposite). In a system with multiple threads of execution (as current runtime system implementation with SMP support) it becomes problematic. This since it often involves locking of structures when updating them which in turn cause resource contention. Utilizing true asynchronous communication often avoids these resource contention issues. The case that triggered this change was contention on the link lock due to frequent updates of the monitor trees during communication with a frequently used server. The signal order delivery guarantees of the language makes it hard to change the implementation of only some signals to use true asynchronous signaling. Therefore the implementations of (almost) all signals have been changed. Currently the following signals have been implemented as true asynchronous signals: - Message signals - Exit signals - Monitor signals - Demonitor signals - Monitor triggered signals (DOWN, CHANGE, etc) - Link signals - Unlink signals - Group leader signals All of the above already defined as asynchronous signals in the language. The implementation of messages signals was quite asynchronous to begin with, but had quite strict delivery constraints due to the ordering guarantees of signals between a pair of processes. The previously used message queue partitioned into two halves has been replaced by a more general signal queue partitioned into three parts that service all kinds of signals. More details regarding the signal queue can be found in comments in the erl_proc_sig_queue.h file. The monitor and link implementations have also been completely replaced in order to fit the new asynchronous signaling implementation as good as possible. More details regarding the new monitor and link implementations can be found in the erl_monitor_link.h file.
2017-11-02Remove process start time for crash dumpsRickard Green
2017-09-05Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Bug fixes of statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_time_sup.c
2017-09-05Merge branch 'rickard/statistics-time-fixes/OTP-14597/ERL-465' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/statistics-time-fixes/OTP-14597/ERL-465: Bug fixes of statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_time_sup.c
2017-09-04Bug fixes of statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime)Rickard Green
2017-07-17erts: Replace usage of all erts_smp prefixes to just ertsLukas Larsson
2017-07-06Merge branch 'john/erts/runtime-lcnt' into maintJohn Högberg
* john/erts/runtime-lcnt: Document rt_mask and add warnings about copy_save Add an emulator test suite for lock counting Break erts_debug:lock_counters/1 into separate BIFs Allow toggling lock counting at runtime Move lock flags to a common header Enable register_SUITE for lcnt builds Enable lcnt smoke test on all builds that have lcnt enabled Make lock counter info independent of the locks being counted OTP-14412 OTP-13170 OTP-14413
2017-07-06Allow toggling lock counting at runtimeJohn Högberg
The implementation is still hidden behind ERTS_ENABLE_LOCK_COUNT, and all categories are still enabled by default, but the actual counting can be toggled at will. OTP-13170
2017-06-30Merge branch 'rickard/statistics/OTP-14484' into maint-20Erlang/OTP
* rickard/statistics/OTP-14484: Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementation
2017-06-27Merge branch 'maint-19' into maintJohn Högberg
* maint-19: Updated OTP version Update release notes Update version numbers Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementation fixup! erts: Cleanup dropped port tasks correctly erts: Add tests to detect port close race Add a testcase for OTP-13939/ERL-193 erts: Cleanup dropped port tasks correctly Mark socket disconnected on tcp_send_or_shutdown_error
2017-06-22Fix statistics(wall_clock) and statistics(runtime) implementationRickard Green
2017-05-04Update copyright yearRaimo Niskanen
2017-04-18Remove unnecessary cancel callback from timer-wheel timersRickard Green
2017-02-20Merge branch 'master' into sverker/enif_selectSverker Eriksson
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_binary.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_monitors.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif.c erts/emulator/beam/global.h erts/emulator/test/nif_SUITE_data/nif_SUITE.c
2017-02-14Fixed typos in ertsAndrew Dryga
2017-02-09erts: Add enif_monitor_process and enif_demonitor_processSverker Eriksson
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.
2016-08-25Replace misspelled symbolic time unitsRickard Green
Besides using two words for 'milliseconds' et. al. they are also changed from plural to singular.
2016-05-11Add better support for communication with a process executing dirty NIFRickard Green
- Termination of a process... - Modify trace flags of process... - Process info on process... - Register/unregister of name on process... - Set group leader on process... ... while it is executing a dirty NIF.
2016-05-04erts: Add Sender in 'receive' trace matchspecSverker Eriksson
All 'EXIT' and monitor messages are sent from 'system' Timeouts are "sent" from 'clock_service'
2016-04-15erts: Implement tracer modulesLukas Larsson
Add the possibility to use modules as trace data receivers. The functions in the module have to be nifs as otherwise complex trace probes will be very hard to handle (complex means trace probes for ports for example). This commit changes the way that the ptab->tracer field works from always being an immediate, to now be NIL if no tracer is present or else be the tuple {TracerModule, TracerState} where TracerModule is an atom that is later used to lookup the appropriate tracer callbacks to call and TracerState is just passed to the tracer callback. The default process and port tracers have been rewritten to use the new API. This commit also changes the order which trace messages are delivered to the potential tracer process. Any enif_send done in a tracer module may be delayed indefinitely because of lock order issues. If a message is delayed any other trace message send from that process is also delayed so that order is preserved for each traced entity. This means that for some trace events (i.e. send/receive) the events may come in an unintuitive order (receive before send) to the trace receiver. Timestamps are taken when the trace message is generated so trace messages from differented processes may arrive with the timestamp out of order. Both the erlang:trace and seq_trace:set_system_tracer accept the new tracer module tracers and also the backwards compatible arguments. OTP-10267
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).
2016-02-02erts: Refactor perf counter internal interfaceLukas Larsson
perf counter is now part of the function pointer interface and also the function returns the value instead of writing to a memory buffer.
2016-02-02erts, kernel: Add os:perf_counter functionLukas Larsson
The perf_counter is a very very cheap and high resolution timer that can be used to timestamp system events. It does not have monoticity guarantees, but should on most OS's expose a monotonous time. A special instruction has been created for this counter to further speed up fetching it. OTP-12908
2016-02-02Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Introduce time management in native APIs Introduce time warp safe replacement for safe_fixed option Introduce time warp safe trace timestamp formats Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_trace.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_driver.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_nif.h erts/emulator/beam/erl_trace.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erlang.beam
2016-01-21Introduce time management in native APIsRickard Green
2016-01-20Introduce time warp safe replacement for safe_fixed optionRickard Green
The new time warp safe option is safe_fixed_monotonic_time which gives erlang:monotonic_time(). The safe_fixed option was also slightly changed. It now gives erlang:timestamp() instead of erlang:now(). This has however not been documented, so it is considered a compatible change. The above effects both ets, and dets. This commit also include the bugfix OTP-13239 for dets:info(Tab, safe_fixed). The timestamp in the result returned by dets:info(Tab, safe_fixed) was unintentionally broken as a result of the time API rewrites in OTP 18.0.
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.
2015-07-08Avoid unnecessary copying of data when retrieving corrected monotonic timeRickard Green
2015-06-18Change license text to APLv2Bruce Yinhe
2015-05-08Merge branch 'rickard/timer-optimization/OTP-12650'Rickard Green
* rickard/timer-optimization/OTP-12650: Optimized timer implementation Reusable red-black tree implementation Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_timer.c
2015-05-08Merge branch 'rickard/time-improvement/OTP-11997'Rickard Green
* rickard/time-improvement/OTP-11997: Allow execution of estone suite on pre OTP-18 systems Add parallel time monotonicity test-case Replace usage of erlang:now() in line-tracing Replace erlang:now() usage in emulator suite Replace erlang:now() usage in system suite Misc time improvements
2015-05-08Optimized timer implementationRickard Green
2015-05-06Misc time improvementsRickard Green
- Possibility to chose different clock sources - Improved mach clock usage - Improved linux clock_gettime() usage - ...
2015-04-14erts: Refactor erts_queue_messageBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2015-03-26Misc fixesRickard Green
2015-03-25Fixes and cleanupRickard Green
2015-03-24Better OS system time implementationRickard Green
2015-03-23Better support for poor os monotonic sourcesRickard Green
2015-03-21Unbreak lcntRickard Green
2015-03-20Multiple timer wheelsRickard Green
2015-03-20Erlang based BIF timer implementation for scalabilityRickard Green
2015-03-20Introduce a new time APIRickard Green
The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality over multiple functions in order to improve on this. The new API consists of a number of new BIFs: - erlang:convert_time_unit/3 - erlang:monotonic_time/0 - erlang:monotonic_time/1 - erlang:system_time/0 - erlang:system_time/1 - erlang:time_offset/0 - erlang:time_offset/1 - erlang:timestamp/0 - erlang:unique_integer/0 - erlang:unique_integer/1 - os:system_time/0 - os:system_time/1 and a number of extensions of existing BIFs: - erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service) - erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize) - erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source) - erlang:system_info(time_offset) - erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode) - erlang:system_info(time_correction) - erlang:system_info(start_time) See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the ERTS User's Guide for more information.
2012-08-31Merge branch 'maint'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
Conflicts: lib/diameter/autoconf/vxworks/sed.general xcomp/README.md
2012-08-31Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg