fix(gc): root the packed-range loop's cached copy of a module global (#11590) - #11599
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughPacked-f64 range-loop caches now root module-global values that may contain pointers. The GC dominance checker detects collecting calls on loop-carried cycles. New codegen and runtime regression tests cover native and shadow rooting and module-global array growth. ChangesPacked Range-Loop Global Cache Rooting
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new GC check misses a loop-carried case it is intended to catch. Fix that detection gap before merging; no additional production failure is established. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The fix addresses a stale-pointer crash, but the correctness of garbage-collector roots across all affected loop paths remains security-sensitive. The available checks establish root representation without fully demonstrating behavior through collection and subsequent use. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Ready to merge once CI is clean. Root cause: the cache slot that the packed f64 range-versioned loop keeps for module globals was a plain alloca, so it stayed stale after a moving minor at the back-edge safepoint. It is now a root, via root_entry_alloca. Globals proven to be plain numbers keep the unrooted slot. The root-dominance checker's |
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- Around line 1835-1836: Update the loop-carried analysis around the `b_blk in
stop` barrier so it tracks stores by instruction order: keep the barrier for
stores before the load, but analyze a later store as a separate source for the
next iteration’s load. Add a fixture where the store follows the load and a
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Handle loop-carried re-stores at instruction granularity.
If a loop body loads %slot, stores a moving heap pointer to %slot, and reaches js_gc_loop_safepoint before the back-edge load, the checker can miss the store-to-next-load window. loop_carried_blocks treats the entire load block as a barrier, and the later store is skipped because it follows the load in that block. No other window inspects the back-edge. Keep the barrier for the earlier store whose value was overwritten, but analyze the later store as a separate loop-carried source.
Track the last store on each cycle by instruction order. Add a fixture with the store after the load and the safepoint before the next iteration's load. The direct impact is a checker false negative; this code does not itself establish a production GC regression.
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Review comment at @scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py around lines 1835 - 1836:
Update the loop-carried analysis around the `b_blk in stop` barrier so it tracks
stores by instruction order: keep the barrier for stores before the load, but
analyze a later store as a separate source for the next iteration’s load. Add a
fixture where the store follows the load and a safepoint occurs before the next
iteration’s load.
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The #10514
grown/grown_typedmicrobench variants SIGSEGV under the seeded GC schedule on unmodified main. The cause is in codegen: the packed-f64 range loop caches loop-invariant module globals in an entry alloca, and that cache was not a GC root. This PR roots it, and extends the root-dominance checker so the gated mode catches this shape.Fixes #11590
Root cause
lower_packed_f64_range_versioned_for(stmt/loops.rs) copies every loop-invariant module global that the loop body reads into an entry alloca. It then aliases that alloca intoctx.localsfor both loop clones. For the bench's shape:alloca double.js_gc_loop_safepoint) and growsdthroughjs_dyn_index_set_stricton every iteration, and it does both through the cache.@perry_global_*, which is a registered root, but it does not rewrite the cache. The nextjs_dyn_index_set_stricttherefore receives a from-space pointer.Evidence on main
ed3ad3c29, benchb14.ts grown 2000, seed 1,PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1,DEPTH=64, symbolized from a--debug-symbolsbuild:obj_type=1isGC_TYPE_ARRAY. The fault comes on the first retired set, inmain, at the top-level fill loop.grown_typedgives the same fault. The traced IR shows the mechanism directly:A 4-line reduction (
let d: any; d = []; for (...) d[j] = ...; function run() { ...d[j]... }) faults on every seed. Without the reference from a function,dbecomes amain()local and the bug does not reproduce.It is not array-growth forwarding, and not a runtime cache.
pushed(the same bench withd.push(0)growth) never failed:pushis a call, so that loop is not a packed-range loop.Fix
undefinedinentry_allocasand bound withroot_entry_alloca. That is the existing GC: heap values in plainalloca_entryslots are neither marked nor rewritten (inline-ctorthis_slot, closure-capture staging array) #7202 helper: a nativeaddrspace(1)root under RS4GC, and ajs_shadow_slot_bindunder the shadow lowering. Evacuation now rewrites the cache in place.expr_is_known_non_pointer_shadow_value, the shared shadow-slot predicate, keeps the bare, register-promotable slot the cache exists for. The EMAalphacase is unchanged.The static checker could not see it (and now can)
gc_root_dominance_check.py --unrooted-allocasmeasured each window from a store to the load's block. It usesbetween_blocks, which deliberately stops at that block. That is right for an SSA value that is re-defined on each iteration. It is wrong for a memory slot that is stored once before a loop, because the slot keeps its value across the back-edge. Here the only moving collector is the slow clone's back-edge poll, which runs after the load.On main's IR for the new gap test, the gated
--unrooted-allocas --moving-onlymode reported 0 violations. It printedMOVING: nofor the first window only, which spans just the entry guard.The checker change:
loop_carried_blocks, and only this mode uses it. The other modes and their budgets are untouched.--self-testgains a planted fixture of this exact shape and a control that differs only by the bind. With the new window disabled the self-test goes red:loop-carried unrooted-alloca fixture (#11590) -> 0 --moving-only violations, expected 1.--unrooted-allocas --moving-onlyreports 6 violations on main (one per module-scope loop over a heap global) and 0 with the fix..llfiles.--unrooted-allocas --moving-onlyreports 0 violations over 15,699 GC-capable allocas, so there are no new findings elsewhere.--moving-onlyreports 0 violations, with 40/40 seeded violations caught.--stale-registersgives 32 ≤ 39.Validation
All on perrymaster,
--profile perry-dev,PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1. The base arm is a pristine build ated3ad3c29. The fix is codegen-only, so both arms link identical runtime archives. The oracle is Node 26.5.1 (/opt/node-v26.5.1-linux-x64).Seed sweeps: 200 seeds each,
PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1,ALLOC_KB=0,PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1,DEPTH=64, output compared to node. The from-space quarantine was armed on every run (retired_set> 0).r3b14 grown 5b14 grown_typed 5b14 pushed 5(control)The issue's original configuration (
b14 grown/grown_typed 2000, seeds 1 and 42,RATE=0.2) is rc=139 on main and matches node on this PR.New gap test
test_gap_gc_11590_packed_loop_global_cache_rooting.ts. It coversany/number[]/push/ two-globals-in-one-body / 2000-element growth, then churn:scripts/gc_schedule_fuzz.sh, 200 seeds,RATE=0.2,ALLOC_KB=0,PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1): main fails 200/200 (from-space FAULT on every seed) and this PR passes 200/200.PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1 ./run_parity_tests.sh --filter test_gap_gc_11590gives PASS.test-parity/gc_repsel_corpus.txt, whichcheck_test_registration.pyrequires. Thetest_gap_gc_prefix also puts it in the root-dominance corpus.Codegen unit test
stmt/packed_range_global_cache_rooting_tests.rs. It builds the shape from HIR and asserts that the exact slot the global is cached in is analloca ptr addrspace(1)(native) or is passed tojs_shadow_slot_bind(shadow). Both tests go red whenmay_hold_pointeris forced tofalse.cargo test --profile perry-dev -p perry-codegen: 1779 passed, 0 failed, including the 2 new tests.RUSTFLAGS=-Dwarnings cargo check -p perry-codegen --all-targetson the default dev profile is clean.Gap A/B vs main: 241
test_gap_*matching array / typed / grow / push / index / elem / packed / gc_ / loop, both arms, compared to node. No array, typed-array or GC test differs between the arms. Two tests DIFF identically on both arms (test_gap_json_lazy_defineproperty_index,test_gap_param_prop_array_index). Theturnloop_*/ http2 tests hit COMPILEFAIL on alternating arms from a stale per-feature runtime-archive stamp on the shared box (target/perry-no-auto-http-pump). That is environmental; those tests were not compared.No perf change on the hot paths:
arr[i] = von an untyped plain Array is 52× slower than Node (no inline store: one js_dyn_index_set_strict call per element; the same loop with anumber[]annotation is 1.7×) #10513/perf: reads of an Array grown bya[i] = vorpushare 54× slower than Node (binding keeps the forwarded old head; every inline read bails out) #10514/perf:u8[i]/buf[i]on a Uint8Array or Buffer parameter is 53× slower than Node (out-of-line js_uint8array_get/set probing the buffer registries) #10515 microbenches (b13/b14/b15), main vs this PR: the only differing function in all three isb14'smain, which holds the one-shot top-level fill loop. Every hot function is byte-identical.perf stat -e instructions:utwo-N differential onb14: grown 45552.0 → 45552.0, grown_typed 9316.8 → 9316.8, pushed 45566.3 → 45566.4, presized 5533.2 → 5533.2 per outer iteration. The measurement mutex script named in the agent brief no longer exists on the host, so this was taken without it. The IR identity above is the stronger claim.scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py: OK. The runtime is untouched.cargo fmt --all -- --checkandscripts/check_file_size.sh: OK.SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: 98 of 100 script gates pass, and the compile tier was not run. The 2 failures are not from this PR:cargo xwinis not installed on this host, and "Public benchmark evidence freshness" is red on main. Before the corpus registration, "Test registration (dark tests)" failed on the new gap test, which is whygc_repsel_corpus.txtis in this PR.Relationship to other work
git merge-tree). Neither makes the bug better or worse, and perf(codegen): inline untyped Array element stores and heal forwarded heads on reads (#10513, #10514) #11588's body already records it as pre-existing on base. After perf(codegen): inline untyped Array element stores and heal forwarded heads on reads (#10513, #10514) #11588,emit_packed_range_receiver_forwarding_repairwrites the healed head intoctx.locals[array_id]. For a module-global receiver that is exactly this cache slot, which is now a root, so the healed head is rewritten by evacuation as well. Neither PR needs a change.parse_nestedstale pointer) is not fixed by this PR. I checked it with this fix onqs@6.16.0,3000 1000,PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1,DEPTH=64: seeds 1/7/42/99/123/555 still fault on this PR, the same as on main. The fault has a different shape:obj_type=3(a string), faulting injs_array_set_f64_extend_strict_impl←js_array_set_index_or_string_with_strictness←js_dyn_index_set_strict←perry_closure_node_modules_qs_lib_parse_js__18.js_string_addref_if_heap_string, inside a closure, not a module-global cache.Not run
cargo test --workspace. The native-lowering (--lowering native/--statepoints) corpus arm and the dependency-scale corpus were not run.gc_repsel_matrix.sh --filter 11590runs, and every arm matches node (7/7 cells). But its arms are inert on this single file (0 copying minors at--pressure 8), so a filtered run fails its per-arm liveness gate. The matrix's normal-pacing arms do not land a collection inside an 80-iteration module-scope loop. The seeded schedule is the instrument that exercises this bug.perry-runtimetests: no runtime code changed.Summary by CodeRabbit