Merge branch 'feature-concurrent-sweep'

[mono.git] / man / mono.1

diff --git a/man/mono.1 b/man/mono.1
index f87188c3d0d1ec0691691ab83a6f0bececc439eb..fc49f3b90653115d573561dd3f39bf3fe6b2fd96 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mono.1
+++ b/man/mono.1
@@ -146,6 +146,13 @@ Defaults to 128.
 .I nodebug
 Instructs the AOT compiler to not output any debugging information.
 .TP
+.I no-direct-calls
+This prevents the AOT compiler from generating a direct calls to a
+method.   The AOT compiler usually generates direct calls for certain
+methods that do not require going through the PLT (for example,
+methods that are known to not require a hook like a static
+constructor) or call into simple internal calls. 
+.TP
 .I dwarfdebug
 Instructs the AOT compiler to emit DWARF debugging information. When
 used together with the nodebug option, only DWARF debugging
@@ -970,6 +977,10 @@ where V is the architecture number 4, 5, 6, 7 and the options can be currently b
 
 .fi
 .TP
+\fBMONO_ARM_FORCE_SOFT_FLOAT\fR
+When Mono is built with a soft float fallback on ARM and this variable is set to
+"1", Mono will always emit soft float code, even if a VFP unit is detected.
+.TP
 \fBMONO_DISABLE_AIO\fR
 If set, tells mono NOT to attempt using native asynchronous I/O services. In
 that case, a default select/poll implementation is used. Currently only epoll()
@@ -1118,9 +1129,16 @@ to 100 percent.  A value of 0 turns evacuation off.
 .TP
 \fB(no-)lazy-sweep\fR
 Enables or disables lazy sweep for the Mark&Sweep collector.  If
-enabled, the sweep phase of the garbage collection is done piecemeal
-whenever the need arises, typically during nursery collections.  Lazy
-sweeping is enabled by default.
+enabled, the sweeping of individual major heap blocks is done
+piecemeal whenever the need arises, typically during nursery
+collections.  Lazy sweeping is enabled by default.
+.TP
+\fB(no-)concurrent-sweep\fR
+Enables or disables concurrent sweep for the Mark&Sweep collector.  If
+enabled, the iteration of all major blocks to determine which ones can
+be freed and which ones have to be kept and swept, is done
+concurrently with the running program.  Concurrent sweeping is enabled
+by default.
 .TP
 \fBstack-mark=\fImark-mode\fR
 Specifies how application threads should be scanned. Options are
@@ -1279,14 +1297,13 @@ work, Mono needs to be compiled with the BINARY_PROTOCOL define on
 sgen-gc.c.   You can then use this command to explore the output
 .nf
                 sgen-grep-binprot 0x1234 0x5678 < file
+.fi
 .TP
 \fBnursery-canaries\fR
 If set, objects allocated in the nursery are suffixed with a canary (guard)
 word, which is checked on each minor collection. Can be used to detect/debug
 heap corruption issues.
-.fi
-.ne
-.RE
+
 .TP
 \fBdo-not-finalize\fR
 If enabled, finalizers will not be run.  Everything else will be
@@ -1294,7 +1311,10 @@ unaffected: finalizable objects will still be put into the
 finalization queue where they survive until they're scheduled to
 finalize.  Once they're not in the queue anymore they will be
 collected regularly.
-.fi
+
+.TP
+\fBlog-finalizers\fR
+Log verbosely around the finalization process to aid debugging.
 .ne
 .RE
 .TP
@@ -1449,6 +1469,12 @@ include "clearlooks", "nice" and "win32".
 .Sp
 The default is "win32".  
 .TP
+\fBMONO_THREAPOOL\fR
+This environment variable can be used to choose the implementation of
+the ThreadPool used at runtime.  By default this uses the long term
+Mono threadpool implementation.   But a new "microsoft" value switches
+the threadpool implementation to Microsoft's CoreCLR/ReferenceSource implementation.
+.TP
 \fBMONO_TLS_SESSION_CACHE_TIMEOUT\fR
 The time, in seconds, that the SSL/TLS session cache will keep it's entry to
 avoid a new negotiation between the client and a server. Negotiation are very