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author | John Högberg <john@erlang.org> | 2018-05-03 12:37:49 +0200 |
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committer | John Högberg <john@erlang.org> | 2018-06-28 09:05:43 +0200 |
commit | c7dc896e8897988ccc033e18fa19670ba7160565 (patch) | |
tree | c0aa20a10c35fb0b5a93d23d9813bab3cc6f4514 /lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml | |
parent | d3147dd8fc0ee913bc7146efb4d041d04f6582d8 (diff) | |
download | erlang-c7dc896e8897988ccc033e18fa19670ba7160565.tar.gz |
Allow cross-type carrier migration
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml b/lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml index 9fd9332373..79bacb2927 100644 --- a/lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml +++ b/lib/tools/doc/src/instrument.xml @@ -111,15 +111,18 @@ default, but this can be configured an a per-allocator basis with the <seealso marker="erts:erts_alloc#M_atags"><c>+M<S>atags</c> </seealso> emulator option.</p> - <p>If tagged allocations are not enabled on any of the specified - allocator types, the call will fail with - <c>{error, not_enabled}</c>.</p> + <p>If the specified allocator types are not enabled, the call will fail + with <c>{error, not_enabled}</c>.</p> <p>The following options can be used:</p> <taglist> <tag><c>allocator_types</c></tag> <item> - <p>The allocator types that will be searched. Defaults to all - <c>alloc_util</c> allocators.</p> + <p>The allocator types that will be searched. Note that blocks can + move freely between allocator types, so restricting the search to + certain allocators may return unexpected types (e.g. process + heaps when searching binary_alloc), or hide blocks that were + migrated out.</p> + <p>Defaults to all <c>alloc_util</c> allocators.</p> </item> <tag><c>scheduler_ids</c></tag> <item> |