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Persistent terms are useful for storing Erlang terms that are never
or infrequently updated. They have the following advantages:
* Constant time access. A persistent term is not copied when it is
looked up. The constant factor is lower than for ETS, and no locks
are taken when looking up a term.
* Persistent terms are not copied in garbage collections.
* There is only ever one copy of a persistent term (until it is
deleted). That makes them useful for storing configuration data
that needs to be easily accessible by all processes.
Persistent terms have the following drawbacks:
* Updates are expensive. The hash table holding the keys for the
persistent terms are updated whenever a persistent term is added,
updated or deleted.
* Updating or deleting a persistent term triggers a "global GC", which
will schedule a heap scan of all processes to search the heap of all
processes for the deleted term. If a process still holds a reference
to the deleted term, the process will be garbage collected and the
term copied to the heap of the process. This global GC can make the
system less responsive for some time.
Three BIFs (implemented in C in the emulator) is the entire
interface to the persistent term functionality:
* put(Key, Value) to store a persistent term.
* get(Key) to look up a persistent term.
* erase(Key) to delete a persistent term.
There are also two additional BIFs to obtain information about
persistent terms:
* info() to return a map with information about persistent terms.
* get() to return a list of a {Key,Value} tuples for all persistent
terms. (The values are not copied.)
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* lukas/erts/use_SIGRTMIN_for_sys_suspend/OTP-14682:
erts: Use SIGRTMIN on linux for sys_suspend
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The Linux real-time signal is better used on Linux
for suspending schedulers during shutdown as it doesn't
collide with SIGUSR2 usage of other applications.
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OTP-14520
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* 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
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OTP-14413
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old_scheduler_SUITE was written before the SMP emulator.
It does not test anything that scheduler_SUITE does not
test. Keeping it wastes time when running the emulator
test suite, and does not help us find any bugs that
scheduler_SUITE would find.
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It is no longer possible to commuicate with R9B nodes.
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* sverker/remove-latin1-atom-encoding:
kernel: Fix erl_distribution_wb_SUITE:whitebox
kernel: Remove pg2_SUITE:compat
erts: Remove fun_r13_SUITE
stdlib: Remove test cases for R12 io protocol
kernel: Make DFLAG_UTF8_ATOMS mandatory
kernel: Rewrite distribution flag verification
tools: Update assumptions in lcnt about external atom format
stdlib: Tweak beam_lib_SUITE whitebox assumptions
orber: Remove hard dependency to external atom format
kernel: Try mend disk_log whitebox tests
erts: Mark latin1 atom encoding as deprecated
jinterface: Do not generate atoms on old latin1 external format
erl_interface: Do not generate atoms on old latin1 ext format
erts: Do not generate atoms on old latin1 external format
erts: Fix faulty ASSERT for failed dec_term
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* maint:
Ensure prim_eval:'receive' wont clobber def_arg_reg[0]
Conflicts:
erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_eval.beam
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def_arg_reg[0] is used for storage of timeout instruction
when a 'receive after' is executed. When a process was
scheduled out inside prim_eval:'receive'/0 due to a function
call, def_arg_reg[0] was overwritten due to storage of live
registers.
prim_eval:'receive'/2 now calls arg_reg_alloc/0 which
bumps all reductions and then calls arg_reg_alloc/7
which will cause an allocation of a new arg_reg array
since def_arg_reg only can hold 6 values. This ensures
that the timeout instruction in def_arg_reg[0] used
for the timeout wont be overwritten.
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* egil/20/erts/signal-service/OTP-14186:
kernel: Document signal server
erts: Use os module instead of erts_internal for set_signal/2
erts: Do not handle SIGILL
erts: Fix thread suspend in crashdump
erts: Do not enable SIGINT
erts: Use generic signal handler
erts: Add OS signal tests
erts: Handle SIGUSR1 via signal service instead
erts: Handle SIGTERM via signal service instead
kernel: Add gen_event signal server and default handler
erts: Add SIGHUP signal handler
erts: Remove whitespace errors
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/beam/bif.tab
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Because check_process_code neglected checking the HiPE stack for
references to the literal area, such references would survive the purge
and subsequent deletion of a module and its literal area. These dangling
references would then cause incorrect behaviour or even hard crashes of
the VM.
By simply adding a scan of the HiPE stack to check_process_code and
erts_garbage_collect_literals, this problem is fixed.
In order to support full stack walks without deleting the graylimit
trap, a new stack walking interface function,
nstack_walk_init_sdesc_ignore_trap() was introduced.
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This commit completes the tracing for processes so that
all messages sent by a process (via nifs or otherwise) will
be traced.
The commit also adds tracing of all types of events from ports.
When enabling tracing using erlang:trace, the 'all' flag now also
enables tracing on all ports.
OTP-13496
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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
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* henrik/update-copyrightyear:
update copyright-year
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The BIFs prepare_loading/2 and finish_loading/1 have been
designed to allow fast loading in parallel of many modules.
Because of the complications with on_load functions,
the initial implementation of finish_loading/1 only allowed
a single element in the list of prepared modules.
finish_loading/1 does not suspend other processes, but it must wait
for all schedulers to pass a write barrier ("thread progress"). The
time for all schedulers to pass the write barrier is highly variable,
depending on what kind of code they are executing. Therefore, allowing
finish_loading/1 to finish the loading for more than one module before
passing the write barrier could potentially be much faster than
calling finish_loading/1 multiple times.
The test case many/1 run on my computer shows that with "heavy load",
finish loading of 100 modules in parallel is almost 50 times faster
than loading them sequentially. With "light load", the gain is still
almost 10 times.
Here follows an actual sample of the output from the test case on
my computer (an 2012 iMac):
Light load
==========
Sequential: 22361 µs
Parallel: 2586 µs
Ratio: 9
Heavy load
==========
Sequential: 254512 µs
Parallel: 5246 µs
Ratio: 49
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Since no test suites includede test_server.hrl, there is no need
to have test_server in the include path or code path.
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The message_queue_data option can have the values
- off_heap
- on_heap
- mixed
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Create a clone of map_SUITE named map_no_opt_SUITE to ensure that
the loader can cope with unoptimized map instructions.
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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.
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Smoke tests are meant to verify that a build of erlang has been successfull.
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Conflicts:
lib/diameter/autoconf/vxworks/sed.general
xcomp/README.md
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* egil/r16/remove-vxworks-support/OTP-10146: (30 commits)
erts: Update doc to reflect VxWorks removal
erts: Remove VxWorks from documentation
Update preloaded erl_prim_loader and prim_file
snmp: Remove VxWorks
megaco: Remove VxWorks
diameter: Remove VxWorks
mnesia: Remove VxWorks
typer: Remove VxWorks
ssh: Remove VxWorks
inets: Remove VxWorks
hipe: Remove VxWorks
cosFileTransfer: Remove VxWorks
asn1: Remove VxWorks
orber: Remove VxWorks
os_mon: Remove VxWorks
runtime_tools: Remove VxWorks
test_server: Remove VxWorks references in doc
test_server: Remove VxWorks
stdlib: Remove VxWorks
kernel: Remove VxWorks from tests
...
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/test/Makefile
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* maint:
Update to work with space in include path
Update to work with whitespace in exec path
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OTP-10106
OTP-10107
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* test trivial non-blocking code loading (smoke test)
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I/O events could potentially be delayed for ever when enabling
kernel-poll on a non-SMP runtime system executing on Solaris. When
also combined with async-threads the runtime system hung before
completing the boot phase. This bug was introduced in
erts-5.9/OTP-R15B.
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* hw/call-chmod-without-f:
Call chmod without the "-f" flag
Conflicts:
erts/emulator/test/Makefile
lib/asn1/test/Makefile
lib/crypto/test/Makefile
lib/debugger/test/Makefile
lib/docbuilder/test/Makefile
lib/edoc/test/Makefile
lib/erl_interface/test/Makefile
lib/inviso/test/Makefile
lib/parsetools/test/Makefile
lib/percept/test/Makefile
lib/ssl/test/Makefile
lib/syntax_tools/test/Makefile
lib/test_server/test/Makefile
lib/tools/test/Makefile
OTP-9170
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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.
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"-f" is a non-standard chmod option which at least SGI IRIX and HP UX do
not support. As the only effect of the "-f" flag is to suppress warning
messages, it can be safely omitted.
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The obsolete/driver.h header file has been obsolete
since R8B.
Remove that file, along with obsolete thread APIs for
drivers in the emulator and the test cases.
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