perf(codegen): exact RS4GC relocation count decides the shadow-frame spill (RFC S4) - #11624
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 8 included reviews per hour; 6 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe in-process backend adds LLVM IR GC-liveness analysis before RS4GC rewriting. It uses relocation bounds and predicted instruction counts for pre-rewrite budget checks, then records predicted and emitted relocation counts. Code generation removes the earlier source-level estimated-spill policy while retaining shadow-frame setup. ChangesGC relocation budgeting
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant optimize_emit
participant gc_liveness
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optimize_emit->>optimize_emit: Run statepoint preparation passes
optimize_emit->>gc_liveness: Analyze prepared LLVM IR
gc_liveness-->>optimize_emit: Return relocation bounds
optimize_emit->>optimize_emit: Check relocation and fast-emit budgets
optimize_emit->>RS4GC: Rewrite statepoints
optimize_emit->>audit_liveness: Compare predicted and emitted relocations
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- Around line 46-49: Preserve the relocation spill policy when llvm-inprocess is
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| #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "llvm-inprocess"), allow(dead_code))] | ||
| pub(crate) const STATEPOINT_PREPARE_PASSES: &str = "always-inline,function(mem2reg,sccp)"; | ||
| #[cfg_attr(not(feature = "llvm-inprocess"), allow(dead_code))] | ||
| pub(crate) const STATEPOINT_REWRITE_ONLY_PASSES: &str = "rewrite-statepoints-for-gc"; |
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Preserve the spill policy for the external RS4GC path.
When llvm-inprocess is disabled, supported targets still select native roots. The external path sends functions carrying gc "statepoint-example" directly to opt with STATEPOINT_REWRITE_PASSES. The relocation-budget preflight and retry are compiled only for llvm-inprocess, so PERRY_ROOT_SPILL_RELOCATIONS has no effect on this path. A function with high relocation fan-out can therefore reach RS4GC without the spill decision.
Keep an equivalent fallback spill decision for the external path, or document that feature-off native-root builds do not support this policy.
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Preserve the relocation spill policy when llvm-inprocess is disabled: update the
external RS4GC path that selects STATEPOINT_REWRITE_PASSES to apply an
equivalent relocation-budget preflight and spill decision using
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Validation: full 128/128-unit audit, and the real main-vs-branch spill comparisonRan the two missing pieces from the PR description, on a fresh 48t/755GB rented host (qb4), independent worktrees for 1. Full-corpus audit (
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| corpus | functions | statepoints (invoke) | relocations predicted | RS4GC emitted | mismatches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude-code 2.1.112, 128/128 units | 72,475 (of 100,771 total) | 1,555,797 (400,795) | 8,751,060 | 8,751,060 | 0 |
0 mismatches, extending the gap-suite's 0/16,024 and the prior partial 0/27,773 (units 1–48) to the whole bundle.
2. Spill decisions: main (old #8583 estimate) vs branch (this PR), empirically
The PR body's "five spilling functions" table cites the RFC census at a90cd9d44; that's stale against current main. Re-running the actual spill decision on today's main tip (804817d) over all 128 units finds only two functions still hit the #8583 estimate cap (32,000,000 estimated relocations) and spill to a shadow frame — __25747 and __84092. __87158, __85198 and __80686 no longer spill on main either (their .text bytes are byte-identical between the two arms below — direct proof they take the same statepoint path on both). So the only real A/B in the current tree is __25747 and __84092.
On this branch, nothing spills anywhere in the 128 units (no exceeded the pre-RS4GC relocation estimate messages at all).
Compile time per unit (RS4GC / opt / emit), from PERRY_CODEGEN_UNIT_TIMINGS:
| unit (function) | arm | rs4gc | opt | emit | unit total | post-RS4GC instrs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1/128 (__25747, 772 fns) |
main (shadow frame) | 1.4s | 8.7s | 17.3s | 27.4s | 456,024 (x1.0) |
1/128 (__25747, 772 fns) |
branch (statepoints) | 8.4s | 21.0s | 17.1s | 46.5s | 1,007,585 (x2.1) |
3/128 (__84092, 780 fns) |
main (shadow frame) | 1.1s | 10.4s | 35.7s | 47.2s | 466,851 (x1.0) |
3/128 (__84092, 780 fns) |
branch (statepoints) | 31.5s | 16.4s | 48.4s | 96.3s | 532,328 (x1.2) |
__25747's statepoint form crosses the 600,000-instruction fast-emit budget and falls back to LLVM's O0 machine pipeline for that one function (opt 21.0s, but emit stays flat because O0 is cheap to emit).
.text bytes, per function and in total (nm -S on the combined --no-link object; unaffected functions included as a same-arm sanity check — byte-identical, confirming they didn't change path):
| function | main (bytes) | branch (bytes) | delta |
|---|---|---|---|
__25747 (spills on main) |
967,091 | 10,441,244 | +9,474,153 (+979.6%, ~10.8×) |
__84092 (spills on main) |
546,830 | 585,074 | +38,244 (+7.0%) |
__87158 (no spill either arm) |
631,022 | 631,022 | 0 |
__85198 (no spill either arm) |
568,548 | 568,548 | 0 |
__80686 (no spill either arm) |
565,368 | 565,368 | 0 |
| whole bundle, .text total | 282,058,540 | 291,564,024 | +9,505,484 (+3.37%) |
| whole bundle, .perry_gcmap total | 18,414,020 | 18,958,500 | +544,480 (+2.96%) |
__25747 alone accounts for 99.7% of the total .text growth — driven by the fast-emit O0 fallback's code bloat, not by the relocation/gcmap machinery (.perry_gcmap grew only 3% total). Per-function .perry_gcmap attribution via .rela.perry_gcmap address-range bucketing was attempted and abandoned as unreliable (only ~37 relocation entries land in each function's .text range, not one per safepoint, so address-span bucketing badly undercounts); the total-level numbers above are the reliable ones, and they already show relocations aren't the size driver here.
Fully linked binaries agree: main 375,378,464 bytes vs branch 385,458,720 bytes (+2.68%).
Runtime instructions (perf stat -e instructions, --version, 3 runs each, linked binaries): main ~674.7–674.9M, branch ~674.7–674.8M — no measurable difference. Expected: --version is a tiny startup path that never reaches __25747/__84092 (deep application-logic closures), so this isn't a real per-function runtime signal, just a sanity check that overall startup cost didn't regress.
Bottom line
- Audit: 0 mismatches across all 128/128 units, 72,475 audited functions, 8,751,060 relocations.
- Spill comparison: only
__25747and__84092still spill on currentmain; moving them onto statepoints costs real compile time (+19s and +65s respectively for their units) and, for__25747specifically, a large.textsize increase from the fast-emit fallback — but nothing that threatens correctness, and nothing spills under the new exact-count default anywhere in the bundle.
No mismatches found, so no code changes made. Raw logs (full audit log, build logs, linked-compile logs) archived off-host.
…the relocation cap The relocation-count preflight (#11624) missed a real shape: a function can sit comfortably under the 1.5 Mi relocation cap while its rewritten body still crosses the fast-emit machine-pipeline budget (600k on x86-64, 100k elsewhere) and falls back to LLVM's O0 pipeline. On the claude-code bundle this is exactly __25747 (0.4M relocations, well under the cap) — its .text grows ~11x under the O0 fallback. The preflight now also predicts each function's post-RS4GC instruction count from its pre-rewrite size and predicted relocations, calibrated against the 128-unit claude-code audit, and spills whenever that prediction crosses the same resolved fast-emit budget the real decision uses later (including the PERRY_LL_FAST_EMIT_MAX_INSTRS override). The prediction is deliberately conservative: it estimates the raw post-rewrite size, an upper bound on the further-optimized size the real fast-emit gate measures.
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| /// Instructions RS4GC adds to a function's body per predicted relocation, | ||
| /// used to predict whether a function will cross the fast-emit budget | ||
| /// ([`default_fast_emit_max_instrs`]) *before* paying for the rewrite and | ||
| /// the IR optimizer (#11624 follow-up: the relocation cap alone let | ||
| /// `__25747` reach the claude-code bundle with 0.4 M relocations — comfortably | ||
| /// under the 1.5 Mi relocation cap — but its rewritten body crossed the | ||
| /// 600 k-instruction x86-64 fast-emit budget and fell back to LLVM's O0 | ||
| /// machine pipeline, growing its `.text` ~11x). | ||
| /// | ||
| /// Measured on the #11624 128-unit claude-code 2.1.112 audit | ||
| /// (`PERRY_CODEGEN_UNIT_TIMINGS`): summed over all 128 units, post-RS4GC | ||
| /// instructions exceeded pre-RS4GC instructions by 10,006,633 while RS4GC | ||
| /// emitted 8,751,060 relocations — a corpus-wide average of ~1.14 | ||
| /// instructions per relocation. Per-function samples (the widest function in | ||
| /// each of 5 audited units) ranged from 1.28x to 5.15x, so this constant is | ||
| /// rounded well above the corpus average for headroom. A low-relocation | ||
| /// function is insensitive to this factor's precision either way — its | ||
| /// pre-rewrite size already dominates the prediction and keeps it far under | ||
| /// budget — so the imprecision this rounds past only matters for the | ||
| /// high-relocation functions where the fast-emit cliff can actually happen, | ||
| /// and those are exactly the ones the corpus average describes. | ||
| const POST_RS4GC_GROWTH_FACTOR: f64 = 2.0; | ||
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| /// Predict a function's post-RS4GC instruction count from its pre-rewrite | ||
| /// size and its predicted relocation count (see [`POST_RS4GC_GROWTH_FACTOR`]). | ||
| /// | ||
| /// This deliberately predicts the RAW post-rewrite count, not the count | ||
| /// after the IR optimizer that runs on top of it — `fast_emit_fallbacks` | ||
| /// compares against the latter, which is measured after the pipeline has | ||
| /// had a chance to shrink the rewritten body (DCE, SimplifyCFG, and friends, | ||
| /// on IR that RS4GC's rewrite already canonicalized). The raw count is | ||
| /// therefore an upper bound on what `fast_emit_fallbacks` will see: this can | ||
| /// spill a function whose optimized size would have stayed under budget, but | ||
| /// never the reverse. Conservative in the safe direction, per the #11624 | ||
| /// follow-up. | ||
| fn predicted_post_rewrite_instructions(pre_instructions: usize, relocations: u64) -> usize { | ||
| let growth = (relocations as f64 * POST_RS4GC_GROWTH_FACTOR).ceil(); | ||
| pre_instructions.saturating_add(growth as usize) | ||
| } | ||
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Include non-relocation statepoint growth in the fast-emit estimate.
gc_liveness::relocation_bound() counts only GC values relocated across safepoints. RS4GC also materializes a result for each non-void statepoint. A function with few live GC pointers can therefore grow by more than ceil(relocations * 2).
Such a function can pass rs4gc_preflight_violations while its post-optimization instruction count exceeds the fast-emit cap. The later fallback then sends it through the O0 machine pipeline. The separate 1,572,864-instruction RS4GC guard does not prevent this when the target fast-emit cap is 600,000.
Count statepoints as a conservative upper bound for this additional growth.
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-fn predicted_post_rewrite_instructions(pre_instructions: usize, relocations: u64) -> usize {
+fn predicted_post_rewrite_instructions(
+ pre_instructions: usize,
+ statepoints: usize,
+ relocations: u64,
+) -> usize {
let growth = (relocations as f64 * POST_RS4GC_GROWTH_FACTOR).ceil();
- pre_instructions.saturating_add(growth as usize)
+ pre_instructions
+ .saturating_add(statepoints)
+ .saturating_add(growth as usize)
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Update predicted_post_rewrite_instructions to include the number of statepoints
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| let fast_emit_cap = match fast_emit_budget(effective_target) { | ||
| FastEmitBudget::Off => None, | ||
| FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => Some(cap), | ||
| }; |
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Turn off the fast-emit prediction when opt == '0'.
At Line 231, fast_emit_fallbacks does not run when opt == '0', so the O0 machine-pipeline fallback never happens at -O0. The preflight at Line 137 still receives fast_emit_cap from fast_emit_budget(effective_target). At -O0, a function that predicts over the cap therefore gets a PredictedFastEmit spill retry. The target machine is already O0, so this retry prevents nothing. The function moves from statepoints to a shadow frame without a reason. The diagnostic also names a fallback that does not apply.
Proposed fix
- let fast_emit_cap = match fast_emit_budget(effective_target) {
- FastEmitBudget::Off => None,
- FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => Some(cap),
- };
+ let fast_emit_cap = if opt == '0' {
+ None
+ } else {
+ match fast_emit_budget(effective_target) {
+ FastEmitBudget::Off => None,
+ FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => Some(cap),
+ }
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| let fast_emit_cap = match fast_emit_budget(effective_target) { | |
| FastEmitBudget::Off => None, | |
| FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => Some(cap), | |
| }; | |
| let fast_emit_cap = if opt == '0' { | |
| None | |
| } else { | |
| match fast_emit_budget(effective_target) { | |
| FastEmitBudget::Off => None, | |
| FastEmitBudget::Cap(cap) => Some(cap), | |
| } | |
| }; |
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Update the `fast_emit_cap` initialization using `fast_emit_budget` so it is
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What
Step S4 of the deferred-collection RFC (#11528). The #8583 relocation estimate is replaced with an exact count of the
gc.relocates RS4GC will emit. The count is computed in the compiler, on RS4GC's own input, before RS4GC runs.The shadow-frame spill decision now budgets that real number. The HIR estimate
(slots + sites) × sites(maybe_spill_roots_to_shadow_frame) and the constructed-IR(allocas + sites) × sitespreflight are both gone.Design
Where it runs. The in-process backend splits the statepoint pipeline into two halves and counts in between:
always-inline,function(mem2reg,sccp)gc_liveness::analyze_modulerewrite-statepoints-for-gcThe halves print the same module as the one-shot
STATEPOINT_REWRITE_PASSES, andstatepoint_pipeline_split_is_the_shipped_pipelinepins that.This is option (b) from the brief, an analysis at LLVM level. I chose it because it is the only place where the input is exactly RS4GC's input:
mem2reghas already turned root allocas into SSA values, andsccphas folded constants.CannotCollect, S2's IC fast paths.So the count needs no model of Perry's lowering and cannot drift from it. Shadow-stack targets never reach it, because their functions carry no GC strategy.
Option (a), counting on the textual IR in
precise_roots.rs, would have had to re-derivemem2regandsccp, and it could not see inlined calls.What it models. Exactness needed every one of these. Each has a unit test that goes red when the rule is removed.
findLiveSetAtInstwalks the call itself)invokeremoveUnreachableBlocks/markAliveBlocksnoreturnis dead; anounwindinvoke becomes a call (×1); constant branches fold; a phi that lost an edge foldsFoldSingleEntryPHINodesicmpsunk to its branchcallsGCLeafFunctiongc-leaf-functionon the call site or callee, intrinsics, inline asm, andTargetLibraryInfolibcalls (the LLVM 22 name list) are not safepointsfindBasePointerfor phis and selects.basephi, so it costs 2 per crossing. A phi of constants has anullbase and is dropped. A phi whose inputs are all bases is its own base.GEP, cast and freeze derived pointers, and phis whose inputs agree on one other existing base, make the count an upper bound (
is_exact()is false). Perry emits none of these today, and the audit flags any function where it happens.Cost. One scan of the IR, then a backward walk per GC value over the blocks where it is live. That is the census
gcm-statsalgorithm, with difference arrays for the per-safepoint counts. The total isO(instructions + Σ live blocks): linear in the IR plus the liveness it reports, and never more than RS4GC's own set-based liveness. The phi/select base lattice is linear in phi inputs.API for S4b.
gc_liveness::FunctionLiveness::safepointsgives the per-edge relocation count for each statepoint call, by(block, index, edges). It is internal, and nothing uses it yet.Ground truth
Under
PERRY_CODEGEN_UNIT_TIMINGS(an existing diagnostic knob, excluded from the build cache), the backend counts thegc.relocates that RS4GC really emitted. It prints one audit line per function, plus a per-unit summary.--no-link, every module forced through the unit path)opt-22 -passes='always-inline,function(mem2reg,sccp),rewrite-statepoints-for-gc'on a dumped gap unit (test_gap_10086…, 237 invokes inmain)Before the
findBasePointermodel, 175 of 7,692 gap functions undercounted, all of them phis of a tag constant and a pointer. None do now.The claude-code arm was OOM-killed (
dmesg) at unit 49, at 28 GB RSS on a shared box under load 60–90. It had audited every unit up to that point, including all the giants:__25747GW7__87158__84092__85198IoKThreshold
PERRY_ROOT_SPILL_RELOCATIONSkeeps its meaning: a budget on relocations, where0disables spilling. Its default is now the post-RS4GC instruction budget (DEFAULT_RS4GC_MAX_INSTRS, 1.5 Mi), and a test pins the relation.The derivation: every relocation is one instruction in the rewritten body, so a function over 1.5 Mi relocations is over the #8679 backstop by construction. That backstop would spill it anyway, after RS4GC had run. Any lower default would spill functions that the measured optimizer limit (#8128) accepts.
Synthetic sweep, LLVM 22
opton perrymaster:-OsRelocations are not RS4GC's only cost driver. Branchy code with hundreds of live values costs minutes at a few hundred thousand relocations. On the bundle, invoke-heavy units also cost more RS4GC time per relocation:
__84092's unit takes 51 s for 65 k relocations, against 27 s for__25747's 501 k. Neither budget catches the diamond shape. No real function is that shape today, and S4b removes the join phis that drive it. The budget stays a relocation budget, as the brief asked, and the per-safepoint counts are there for a shape-aware one.Should
PERRY_ROOT_SPILL_RELOCATIONSbe deleted under the kill policy? I recommend keeping it.=0) and an aggressive state (=1) are the two arms ofgc_root_spill_mixed_frames_8583, which is the only end-to-end test of mixed statepoint and shadow-frame stacks. It passes on this branch, and=1still spillsrunwhileleafstays on statepoints.exact_relocation_budget_decides_the_spill_before_rs4gc(a codegen unit test that uses a thread-local seam, not the env var), is what keeps the shadow-frame path exercised.pr-gate.Spill decisions on the claude-code bundle
Before, per the RFC census at
a90cd9d44, the retired estimate spilled five functions. Four of them are named in the RFC:__87158(estimated 134.5 M),__84092,__85198and__80686. After this change, nothing spills.The three that are in the audited units stay on statepoints, with small exact counts:
__87158__84092__85198The largest real count in the audited units is 465,569 (
__25747), 3.4× under the 1.5 Mi budget.Statepoints vs shadow frame, same compiler. For the same three units, a shadow-frame arm (this branch with
PERRY_ROOT_SPILL_RELOCATIONS=17000, which spills exactly these three plus__25747andGW7) is queued behind other heavy jobs on perrymaster. Its numbers will be added to this PR as a comment.Tests
inprocess::gc_liveness::tests, 15 tests on hand-written IR. Each one runs the shipped split pipeline and assertspredicted == gc.relocate count from RS4GCand a pinned number with per-safepoint live counts. They cover:mem2reg, loops and phis;landingpad token), and anounwindinvoke;noreturn, theicmpsink, a single-entry phi, and a tag-constant/null/all-constant phi trio;native_emit::tests::exact_relocation_budget_decides_the_spill_before_rs4gc: end to end through native construction. A fitting budget keeps statepoints, a budget of 1 re-lowers onto a shadow frame, and both compile.Sabotage, run one at a time and restored byte-identical (checked by
shasum). Every rule turns at least one test red:icmpsinknoreturncutnounwindinvoke→callThe unwind-edge fixture also asserts that the naive per-safepoint sum (5) differs from RS4GC's 7.
cargo test -p perry-codegen --lib: 1,799 passed.cargo test -p perry-codegen --tests(the integration suites): all green.crates/perry/tests/gc_root_spill_mixed_frames_8583.rs: green on perrymaster.RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check -p perry-codegen --all-targetsis clean.cargo fmt --all -- --checkis clean.check_file_size.shpasses.runtime_abi_check.py --check-wasm-abireports the table is current (no runtime signature changed).Validation
The two pieces left open above are done — full comment:
mainvs this branch, on the current tree: re-run against today'smaintip (not the stalea90cd9d44census above) finds only__25747and__84092still spill —__87158/__85198/__80686no longer hit the old cap onmaineither (byte-identical.texton both arms proves it). For the two that do differ, moving to statepoints costs +19s/unit (__25747) and +65s/unit (__84092) of RS4GC+opt+emit, and__25747's.textgrows ~10.8× (fast-emit O0 fallback past the 600k-instruction budget) while the bundle's total.perry_gcmaponly grows 2.96% — relocations aren't the size driver there, the fallback's code bloat is. Nothing spills anywhere in the 128 units under this PR's new default.Not in this PR
findBasePointer). That is recorded as a comment on docs(gc): RFC — deferred collection (L2b) #11528, not as an edit to that branch.Summary by CodeRabbit