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2016-09-06kernel: Correct file(3)Hans Bolinder
2016-09-01doc: Correct errors introduced by Editorial changesHans Bolinder
Fix some older errors as well.
2016-08-31Fix xmllint-warningsHans Bolinder
2016-08-29Merge branch 'rickard/fun-purge-bug/OTP-13809' and ↵Rickard Green
'rickard/new-purge-strategy/OTP-13833' into maint * rickard/fun-purge-bug/OTP-13809: Fix purge of code Reclaim literal area after purge has completed Separate literal area from code Conflicts: erts/doc/src/erlang.xml erts/emulator/beam/beam_bif_load.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_init.c erts/preloaded/ebin/init.beam
2016-08-29Fix purge of codeRickard Green
Ensure that we cannot get any dangling pointers into code that has been purged. This is done by a two phase purge. At first phase all fun entries pointing into the code to purge are marked for purge. All processes trying to call these funs will be suspended and by this we avoid getting new direct references into the code. When all processes has been checked, these processes are resumed. The new purge strategy now also completely ignore the existence of indirect references to the code (funs). If such exist, they will cause bad fun exceptions to the caller, but will not prevent a soft purge or cause a kill of a process having such live references during a hard purge. This since it is impossible to give any guarantees that no processes in the system have such indirect references. Even when the system is completely clean from such references, new ones can appear via distribution and/or disk.
2016-08-19Merge branch 'sverker/net_kernel-setopts/OTP-13564' into maintSverker Eriksson
2016-08-16Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2016-08-15kernel: Document net_kernel:getopts and setoptsSverker Eriksson
2016-08-11kernel: Export inet types socket_getopt and socket_setoptSverker Eriksson
2016-08-08Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2016-06-21Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2016-06-14Merge branch 'lukas/erts/testfixes-19'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/testfixes-19: erts: Increase bif and nif call_time trace test erts: Fix distribution_SUITE:bulk_send_bigbig on windows erts: Ensure bs_add_overflow test has enough memory kernel: Better explain controlling_process' tcp behaviour kernel: Fix t_recv_delim on bsd os_mon: Make sure to start/stop os_mon in tests correctly ssl: Fix use_interface dist_SSL test erl_interface: Fix signed int overflow tc bug erts: fix atom_roundtrip_r15b tc erts: Require more memory for debug tests
2016-06-14kernel: Better explain controlling_process' tcp behaviourLukas Larsson
2016-06-09Merge branch 'raimo/uds-support/OTP-13643'Raimo Niskanen
* raimo/uds-support/OTP-13643: Document the local (unix) address family Remove internal state BOUND from inet_drv
2016-06-09Document the local (unix) address familyRaimo Niskanen
2016-06-07Merge branch 'dotsimon/erts/heart_no_kill/OTP-13650'Lukas Larsson
* dotsimon/erts/heart_no_kill/OTP-13650: erts: make HEART_NO_KILL have to be set to TRUE Don't kill old erlang if HEART_NO_KILL is set Conflicts: lib/kernel/doc/src/heart.xml
2016-06-03erts: make HEART_NO_KILL have to be set to TRUELukas Larsson
2016-06-02Revert "Prepare release"Erlang/OTP
This reverts commit e020f75c10410a6943cd055bfa072a2641eab7da.
2016-06-02Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2016-06-02Merge branch 'saleyn/uds/PR-612/OTP-13572'Raimo Niskanen
* saleyn/uds/PR-612/OTP-13572: Rewrite inet* for address family 'local' Rewrite inet_drv for AF_LOCAL Assign externally open fd to gen_tcp (UDS support) Conflicts: erts/preloaded/ebin/prim_inet.beam lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_tcp.xml lib/kernel/doc/src/gen_udp.xml lib/kernel/src/inet6_sctp.erl lib/kernel/test/inet_SUITE.erl
2016-06-01Don't kill old erlang if HEART_NO_KILL is setSimon Cornish
If the environment variable HEART_NO_KILL is set then heart won't kill the old erlang process. This is desirable if the command executed by heart takes care of this.
2016-05-20Make inet:gethostbyname respect resolver option `inet6`Daniel Sommermann
This makes the implementation text of inet:gethostbyname/1 identical to that of inet_res:gethostbyname/1. I also copied over the doc note about this resolver option.
2016-05-17kernel: Remove no longer needed anchors in documentationHans Bolinder
2016-05-12Revert "Prepare release"Erlang/OTP
This reverts commit bd64ad8e15d66e48b36dbe3584315dd5cfc8b59a.
2016-05-11Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
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
2016-04-13Merge branch 'henrik/update-copyrightyear'Henrik Nord
* henrik/update-copyrightyear: update copyright-year
2016-04-07Update spec for rpc:pinfo/2Björn Gustavsson
rpc:pinfo/2 is documented as a location-transparent version of process_info/2. Therefore, it should be expected that the spec would allow calls with an item list, for example: rpc:pinfo(Pid, [initial_call,last_calls]) Report-URL: http://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-124 Reported-by: bjfish
2016-04-01rpc: Remove functions deprecated in R12BBjörn Gustavsson
2016-03-31code: Remove 'bad_path' error code from set_path/1Björn Gustavsson
code:set_path/1 no longer returns {error,bad_path} (an exception will be thrown instead).
2016-03-31Update Kernel documentationBjörn Gustavsson
Language cleaned up by technical writers from Combitech. Proofreading and corrections by Björn Gustavsson and Hans Bolinder.
2016-03-15update copyright-yearHenrik Nord
2016-03-15Merge tag 'OTP-18.3'Lars Thorsen
=== OTP-18.3 === Changed Applications: - asn1-4.0.2 - common_test-1.12 - compiler-6.0.3 - cosNotification-1.2.1 - cosTime-1.2.1 - cosTransactions-1.3.1 - crypto-3.6.3 - debugger-4.1.2 - dialyzer-2.9 - diameter-1.11.2 - edoc-0.7.18 - eldap-1.2.1 - erl_docgen-0.4.2 - erl_interface-3.8.2 - erts-7.3 - eunit-2.2.13 - hipe-3.15 - inets-6.2 - kernel-4.2 - mnesia-4.13.3 - observer-2.1.2 - orber-3.8.1 - public_key-1.1.1 - runtime_tools-1.9.3 - sasl-2.7 - snmp-5.2.2 - ssh-4.2.2 - ssl-7.3 - stdlib-2.8 - test_server-3.10 - tools-2.8.3 - webtool-0.9.1 - wx-1.6.1 - xmerl-1.3.10 Unchanged Applications: - cosEvent-2.2 - cosEventDomain-1.2 - cosFileTransfer-1.2 - cosProperty-1.2 - et-1.5.1 - gs-1.6 - ic-4.4 - jinterface-1.6.1 - megaco-3.18 - odbc-2.11.1 - os_mon-2.4 - ose-1.1 - otp_mibs-1.1 - parsetools-2.1.1 - percept-0.8.11 - reltool-0.7 - syntax_tools-1.7 - typer-0.9.10 Conflicts: OTP_VERSION erts/vsn.mk lib/test_server/doc/src/notes.xml lib/test_server/vsn.mk lib/webtool/doc/src/notes.xml lib/webtool/vsn.mk
2016-03-14Prepare releaseErlang/OTP
2016-03-11Merge branch 'rickard/doc-fix'Rickard Green
* rickard/doc-fix: Fix doc build
2016-03-08Merge branch 'maint'Henrik Nord
2016-03-08Merge branch 'henrik/doc-fixes' into maintHenrik Nord
* henrik/doc-fixes: Fix typo in INSTALL.md Update README.md Fix typo in 'app' documentation s/is/are
2016-02-29Fix doc buildRickard Green
2016-02-26Merge branch 'bjorn/multiple-load/OTP-13111'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/multiple-load/OTP-13111: code: Add functions that can load multiple modules Refactor post_beam_load handling Simplify and robustify code_server:all_loaded/1 Update preloaded modules Add erl_prim_loader:get_modules/3 Add has_prepared_code_on_load/1 BIF Allow erlang:finish_loading/1 to load more than one module beam_load.c: Add a function to check for an on_load function
2016-02-25Merge branch 'maint'Björn-Egil Dahlberg
Conflicts: erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types erts/emulator/beam/erl_bif_info.c erts/emulator/beam/erl_process.c erts/preloaded/ebin/erts_internal.beam
2016-02-25kernel: Clarify heart optionBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
Change scheduler responsiveness to 'check_schedulers'.
2016-02-25code: Add functions that can load multiple modulesBjörn Gustavsson
Add functions to 'code' to allow loading of multiple modules at once. code:atomic_load(Modules) will load all modules at once, or fail having loaded none of them. Since we cannot guarantee the atomicity if there are modules with -on_load functions, the list of modules must not contain any modules with an -on_load function. Also, to make it possible to put an application into an inactive state for as short time as possible, also add code:prepare_loading/1 and code:finish_loading/1. They are used like this: {ok,Prepared} = code:prepare_loading(Modules) . . . ok = code:finish_loading(Prepared) code:ensure_modules_loaded/1 is useful as a pure optimization to ensure that modules that will be needed soon have indeed been loaded. It will not reload modules that have already been loaded and it *will* accept modules that have an on_load function. Therefore, it does not make sense to give any atomicity guarantees. I did consider overloading the existing code:ensure_loaded/1 function, but rejected it because the return value is very different. Having different forms of return values depending on the types of arguments is confusing.
2016-02-23kernel: Add heart options documentationBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2016-02-23Fix typo in 'app' documentationHamidreza Soleimani
2016-02-23kernel: Add heart validation callback documentationBjörn-Egil Dahlberg
2016-02-04Merge branch 'maint'Zandra
2016-02-04Merge branch 'legoscia/patch-3' into maintZandra
* legoscia/patch-3: Fix documentation of net_kernel:allow/1 OTP-13299
2016-02-02Merge branch 'lukas/erts/msacc'Lukas Larsson
* lukas/erts/msacc: Update preloaded modules erts: Make msacc alloctor type thread safe Silence compiler erts: Fix msacc testcase on some windowses erts: Add power saving cpu feature tests and use them erts: Refactor perf counter internal interface erts: Add rdtscp instruction check erts: Fix hrtime for windows erts: use correct function for perf counter on non-x86 erts: Fix msacc win32 debug compile error erts: Add microstate accounting erts, kernel: Add os:perf_counter function erts: Add ERTS_WRITE_UNLIKELY
2016-02-02Merge branch 'maint'Rickard Green
* maint: Use nano second time unit in tracing
2016-02-02Merge branch 'rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222' into maintRickard Green
* rickard/monotonic-time-improvements/OTP-13222: Use nano second time unit in tracing