aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/erts/emulator/beam
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2012-08-02Use thread progress instead of scheduling misc aux work were possibleRickard Green
Functionality for scheduling operations at thread progress later has been introduced. Deallocation of ETS table structures were previously done by scheduling misc aux work. Deallocation of process structures (not released yet) was also implemented this way. Instead of using the misc aux work functionality these implementation now use the newly introduced functionality for scheduling operations at thread progress later. By using this new functionaliy we reduce the amount of memory allocation/deallocation operations needed.
2012-08-02Merge 'rickard/thr-prgr-use/OTP-10116' and 'rickard/proc-sched/OTP-9892'Rickard Green
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c
2012-08-02Read message queue lengths while having lockRickard Green
2012-08-02Remove development debug codeRickard Green
2012-08-02Fix bug scheduling free processesRickard Green
2012-06-18Fix faulty use of thread progress in handle_aux_work()Rickard Green
As an optimization old thread progress data was kept and used in handle_aux_work() in erl_process.c. This could cause memory to be deallocated at a later time than intended, which is quite harmless. This has, however, now been fixed.
2012-04-27Teach etp-commands to understand new emulator internal data structuresRickard Green
2012-04-27Optimize process state changesRickard Green
2012-04-16Optimize process table accessRickard Green
2012-04-16Implement possibility to use ordinary mutexes as process locksRickard Green
2012-03-30Merge branch 'sverk/proc-race-leak/OTP-10041' into maintSverker Eriksson
* sverk/proc-race-leak/OTP-10041: erts: Fix memory leak caused by race on exiting process
2012-03-30erts: Fix memory leak caused by race on exiting processSverker Eriksson
Seen with valgrind running ets_SUITE:delete_large_tab or delete_large_named_table.
2012-03-30Update copyright yearsBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-03-22Use distinct function-entry probes for local and global callsBjörn Gustavsson
It seems useful to be able to filter out (for example) just the global calls.
2012-03-22Correct calculation of stack depth in call/return probesBjörn Gustavsson
2012-03-22Add probes for all kind of callsBjörn Gustavsson
2012-03-22Don't try to "clean up" generated fun namesBjörn Gustavsson
The fun names may look ugly, but if we clean them up we can't distinguish calls to the function defining the fun and to the fun itself.
2012-03-22erl_process.c: Fix probe for process exitBjörn Gustavsson
2012-03-22Update slogan and add system_info for dynamic tracePatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22Rename dyntrace BIFs to more suiting namesPatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22If VM probes are not enabled, short-circuit calls to probe BIFsBjörn Gustavsson
2012-03-22Ifdef all dynamic trace codePatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22Correct some errors in the user tag spreadingPatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22Change to more specific configure options for dtracePatrik Nyblom
2012-03-22Add user tag spreading functionality to VM and use in filePatrik Nyblom
User tags in a dynamic trace enabled VM are spread throughout the system in the same way as seq_trace tokens. This is used by the file module and various other modules to get hold of the tag from the user process without changing the protocol.
2012-03-22Update dtrace for changes in R15Björn-Egil Dahlberg
2012-03-22Add DTrace support for OS X, Solaris, and Linux (via SystemTap), 3/4Scott Lystig Fritchie
Add probes to the virtual machine, except (mostly) the efile_drv.c driver and other file I/O-related source files.
2012-03-22Add DTrace support for OS X, Solaris, and Linux (via SystemTap), 1/4Scott Lystig Fritchie
Since it's been quite a while since I've written C code, *and* I haven't done any significant hacking on the VM itself in years, it's quite likely that I haven't done things in 100% proper style. Or my co-collaborators Dustin Sallings (CouchBase) or Michal Ptaszek (Erlang Solutions). My intent for this patch is to start discussion and review of DTrace support for consideration for the R15 release. For additional background on the motivation for this work, please see the slides for the presentation at the Erlang User Conference 2011 in Stockholm: https://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/462/euc2011-draft2.pdf Changes relative to dtrace-review2 branch: * Fix errors in OTP test suite 'kernel' file_SUITE * Fix errors in OTP test suite 'kernel' prim_file_SUITE * Fix bad pointer bug in efile_drv.c flush_write() * Move the DTrace material from the top of `README.md` into a new file, `README.dtrace.md` Changes since last push to GitHub (relative to commit 5828a4fb28, which was the former `dtrace-review1` branch): * Rebased onto 14 Nov 2011's "master" branch * Recent changes to the async task queuing mechanism means that the async worker queue length is not available. A bogus value of -1 is hard-coded until there's a good way to peek into the new queue structure and find the queue length. * Small fixes based on review comments by Mikael Pettersson, Andrew Thompson, and Andreas Schultz. Add autoconf support: use "./configure --enable-dtrace" on all supported platforms: * OS X Snow Leopard or later * Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris * Linux, via SystemTap's DTrace compatibility packages * FreeBSD 9.0RC1. FreeBSD 8 and earlier do not have support for USDT, DTrace's User-land Statically Defined Tracing. See the file `erts/emulator/beam/erlang_dtrace.d` for the definition of all DTrace probes in the virtual machine so far. Example D scripts can be found in `lib/dtrace/examples`. Note that if you see the error message `{name of probe} does not match any probes`, then there is no Erlang VM process + DTrace probes running. To fix, start a DTrace-enabled VM or remove `-q` from the `dtrace` command line. The `lib/dtrace` directory contains a small code-only OTP application that contains code that allows Erlang code to trigger a DTrace probe. Dynamic creation & deletion of DTrace probes is not currently supported, so the `dtrace:p()` function is hacked to allow a variable number of arguments (up to four integers and up to four strings) to be used. See the comments at the top of `lib/dtrace/src/dtrace.c` for more detail. One feature that may be controversial is the notion I've introduced of a special process dictionary key that can be used by Erlang code to tag I/O operations for an application-specific purpose. Right now, that tag's name is `dtrace_utag`. The dictionary keys used by `sys` and other modules start with a dollar sign. Perhaps there is some convention (but not a dollar sign?) that this tag should use? The purpose of the process dictionary key is to allow the tag to be included in trace messages, e.g. for file I/O, without changing the API of the `file.erl` module's functions. For example, here's a use of the tag when calling the `file:rename/2` function: (bar@sbb2)1> put(dtrace_utag, "GGOOOAAALL!!!!!"). undefined (bar@sbb2)2> dtrace:init(). ok %% Now start both the `user-probe.d` and `efile_drv.d` D scripts %% found in the `lib/dtrace/examples` directory. (bar@sbb2)3> dtrace:p(7, 8, 9, "one", "four"). true %% The output from the `user-probe.d` script: <0.40.0> GGOOOAAALL!!!!! 7 8 9 0 'one' 'four' '' '' (bar@sbb2)4> file:rename("old-name", "new-name"). {error,enoent} %% The output from the `efile_drv.d` script: async I/O pool port #Port<0.59> queue len 1 async I/O pool port #Port<0.59> queue len 0 efile_drv enter tag={1,110} user tag GGOOOAAALL!!!!! | RENAME (12) | args: old-name new-name , 0 0 (port #Port<0.59>) async I/O worker tag={1,110} | RENAME (12) | efile_drv-int_entry async I/O worker tag={1,110} | RENAME (12) | efile_drv-int_return efile_drv return tag={1,110} user tag GGOOOAAALL!!!!! | RENAME (12) | errno 2 I'm not exactly happy with this choice of tagging, namely using `put(dtrace_utag, Tag::list())`. But this is an experiment, so we'll see how it goes. I can't imagine changing the API for all file.erl functions in order pass the tag explicitly. Some modules have some extensive (ab)use of the C preprocessor to reduce the amount of #ifdefs that clutter the code. In several places, I have not #ifdef'ed automatic variables because of clutter. For the same reason, there are a handful of cases where I added DTrace-related members to a struct definition without an #ifdef. I feel that the result is easier to read than earlier drafts where I did use many more `https://github.com/slfritchie/otp/tree/dtrace-experiment+michal2` if you're curious.) I expect there may be some debate about whether the bloat of the affected structs is worthwhile. I erred on adding stuff to structs, especially in the efile_drv.c driver, not having a full grasp on what was thread-safe and what was not ... so I erred on the side of caution. The efile_drv.c has a work-around for a crazy GCC optimization bug. Thank goodness for Google, I dunno how I would've found a work-around for this silly thing. Many thanks to Trond Norbye for writing clearly about the problem in a membase Git repo commit message. /* * A note on probe naming: if "__" appears in a provider probe * definition, then two things happen during compilation: * * 1. The "__" will turn into a hypen, "-", for the probe name. * 2. The "__" will turn into a single underscore, "_", for the * macro names and function definitions that the compiler and * C developers will see. * * We'll try to use the following naming convention. We're a bit * limited because, as a USDT probe, we can only specify the 4th part * of the probe name, e.g. erlang*:::mumble. The 2nd part of the * probe name is always going to be "beam" or "beam.smp", and the 3rd * part of the probe name will always be the name of the function * that's calling the probe. * * So, all probes will be have names defined in this file using the * convention category__name or category__sub_category__name. This * will translate to probe names of category-name or * category-sub_category-name. * * Each of "category", "sub_category", and "name" may have underscores * but may not have hyphens. */ Add tentative support for sequential tracing sending, queueing, and receiving a message. I don't believe I've fully covered all the major places where it would be useful to have the sequential trace token info in a probe -- guidance from the OTP team would be helpful, if there's time to do that kind of review. Add global variable `erts_this_node_sysname`.
2012-03-22Merge branch 'raimo/close-ports-on-halt/OTP-9985' into maintRaimo Niskanen
* raimo/close-ports-on-halt/OTP-9985: erts: Basic test of erlang:halt/0..2 erts: Document erlang:halt/2 and update erlang:halt/0,1 erts: Implement erlang:halt/2 stdlib: Stop working around erlang:halt not flushing erts: Make erlang:halt/0,1 close ports and flush async threads erts: Remove forgotten and unused function erl_exit0 erts: Implement erl_halt erts: Remove unused ntbuild.erl
2012-03-21erts: Implement erlang:halt/2Raimo Niskanen
2012-03-21erts: Make erlang:halt/0,1 close ports and flush async threadsRaimo Niskanen
2012-03-21erts: Remove forgotten and unused function erl_exit0Raimo Niskanen
2012-03-21erts: Implement erl_haltRaimo Niskanen
2012-03-19Merge branch 'ph/fix-enfile/OTP-9990' into maintBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
* ph/fix-enfile/OTP-9990: Update preloaded prim_inet.beam gen_tcp: Use correct specs for accept and listen prim_inet: Catch system_limit in open_port Fix returned error from gen_tcp:accept/1,2 when running out of ports
2012-03-15Merge branch 'rickard/barriers/OTP-9922' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/barriers/OTP-9922: Remove newly introduced excessive barrier in erts_thr_progress_later() Fix implementation with ddrb barriers
2012-03-12Remove newly introduced excessive barrier in erts_thr_progress_later()Rickard Green
2012-02-21erts: Fail binary_to_term if bignum arity is too largeSverker Eriksson
2012-02-21erts: Fix bignum-bug in ETS with compressed optionSverker Eriksson
A large 64-bit immediate number will be stored as SMALL_BIG_EXT by ETS compressed format. When uncompressing, the SMALL_BIG_EXT was first decoded as as bignum (by bytes_to_big) and then turned into a small (by big_norm). This works for normal "binary_to_term" as decoded_size() over-estimates the needed heap size. But for ETS no over-estimation is done as the real term size is known and stored in DbTerm. Fixed by preventing bytes_to_big() from writing bignum digit when the number is seen to fit in an immediate.
2012-02-20Merge branch 'rickard/barriers/OTP-9922' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/barriers/OTP-9922: Reduce thread progress read operations in handle_aux_work() Misc memory barrier fixes
2012-02-19Reduce thread progress read operations in handle_aux_work()Rickard Green
2012-02-19Misc memory barrier fixesRickard Green
- Document barrier semantics - Introduce ddrb suffix on atomic ops - Barrier macros for both non-SMP and SMP case - Make the thread progress API a bit more intuitive
2012-02-16Merge branch 'jz/erts-remove-unused-var' into maintHenrik Nord
* jz/erts-remove-unused-var: erts: Remove unused variable OTP-9926
2012-02-16Merge branch 'rc/spell-registered' into maintHenrik Nord
* rc/spell-registered: Correct spelling of "registered" in various places in the source code OTP-9925
2012-02-14Merge branch 'jz/reduce-smp-locking-time-range' into maintHenrik Nord
* jz/reduce-smp-locking-time-range: erts: reduce smp locking time range in erts_garbage_collect OTP-9912
2012-02-07Merge branch 'dgud/sched-work-time/OTP-9858' into maintPatrik Nyblom
* dgud/sched-work-time/OTP-9858: emulator: Document and test scheduler_wall_time Implement statistics(scheduler_wall_time)
2012-01-31erts: Correct incorrect assertion in erl_alloc_util.cBjörn Gustavsson
The incorrect assertion would fire when '+Muramv true' has been given, i.e. when a reallocation always forces a move. Change the assertion to not call the lock checker if the mutex is not used (because the allocator will only be accessed from a specific scheduler and thus no lock is needed).
2012-01-26Implement statistics(scheduler_wall_time)Rickard Green
2012-01-25Fix crash in trace_info({M,F,A}, Flags) when M:F/A has native codeBjörn Gustavsson
2012-01-24Merge branch 'egil/fix-profiler-pid' into maintBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
* egil/fix-profiler-pid: erts: Do not profile profiler pid (non smp) erts: Do not profile profiler pid (smp) Revert "erts: Do not profile system profiler pid"
2012-01-18Merge branch 'raimo/64-bit-efile_drv/OTP-9820' into maintErlang/OTP
* raimo/64-bit-efile_drv/OTP-9820: file_SUITE: Assume 64-bit windows has enough memory erts: Badarg if port output overflows iov_len prim_file_SUITE: large_file success depends on wordsize file_SUITE: Increase timeout for large_file file_SITE,prim_file_SUITE: Accept old OpenBSD pecularity prim_file_SUITE: large_write - meaner test data and check result content file_SUITE: large_write - check mem size before creating huge binary erts: rewrite efile_writev to handle partial writes correctly erts: Bugfix - driver_deq freed wrong length due to short type (int) prim_file_SUITE: Add large_write/1 file_SUITE: Add large_write/1 file_SUITE: Refactor large_file/1 file_SUITE: Fix unix_free/1