fix(gc): build the stack-map index in the cycle constructor, not at five hand-wired entries - #9245
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…ive hand-wired entries PerryTS#9234 turned out to be already fixed by PerryTS#9233 — I filed it an hour after that landed and neither of us noticed. Confirmed by removing exactly the two `ensure_stack_maps_built()` calls PerryTS#9233 added: the abort returns, byte-identical, on both repros. So this adds no fix; it removes the way the same defect keeps coming back. The history is three rounds of the same mistake. PerryTS#9191 made the index lazy and wired the four `gc_collect_*` entries by hand. PerryTS#9231 found that budgeted cycles construct `GcCycleState` directly and enter through none of them, so the first root-scan step hit PerryTS#9182's fail-closed guard and aborted. PerryTS#9233 wired those two sites — by hand again. Five hand-wired call sites for one invariant. `policy.rs` already carries the lesson, from a different bug in the same file: `arena_growth_full_escalation_due` notes that PerryTS#7726 "wired the two sites by hand and missed the one in gc_collect_minor_with_trigger_inner — which is the site the shipped safepoint path actually takes", and fixed it by recording inside the predicate so a future call site is correct by construction. Same move here. `GcCycleState::new_full` and `new_minor_fallback` are the choke point every cycle passes through — all four construction sites, the guarded entries and the budgeted ones alike — so building the index there makes a future entry point correct without anyone remembering. The existing entry calls stay: they run while allocation is unambiguously legal and earlier in the sequence, and `ensure_built` is an Acquire load and a return once the index exists, so the overlap costs one atomic load per cycle. Verified to do the work claimed, not just to pass beside it: with the constructor call in place and BOTH `policy.rs` entry calls deleted — simulating precisely the future mistake — all four GC-stress repros run clean with node-identical output. With the constructor call also removed, they abort again. The added test pins the observable rather than the wiring, and asserts on exit status and stderr as well as stdout: the abort happens AFTER the program prints its correct answer, so a stdout-only comparison passes against the broken build. perry-runtime 2873/0 single-threaded, `-D warnings` clean, raw-handle debt 963 = baseline, local-binding-type audit OK. Closes PerryTS#9234. Refs PerryTS#9182, PerryTS#9191, PerryTS#9231, PerryTS#9233, PerryTS#7726.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGC cycle constructors now build stack maps before cycle processing. Malloc-trim maintenance moves to a dedicated module. Array index stores now gate bookkeeping on pointer-bearing values. A regression test covers budgeted, forced-evacuation execution. ChangesRuntime and code generation changes
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR strengthens GC stack-map initialization, but the new regression test can still pass through an existing initialization path and therefore does not prove the constructor-level safeguard; constructor-time rebuilding also has a bounded ordering and cleanup risk. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up to isolate the test and confirm the slow-path safety. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GcCycleState
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GcCycleState->>StackMapIndex: ensure_stack_maps_built()
StackMapIndex-->>GcCycleState: return built index
GcCycleState->>NativeRootScan: scan native roots
PerryProgram->>GcCycleState: trigger budgeted forced-evacuation cycle
GcCycleState->>NativeRootScan: scan roots using stack-map index
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In `@crates/perry/tests/gc_stack_map_index_budgeted_cycle.rs`:
- Around line 23-25: Update the regression test around its constructor
initialization so it bypasses every hand-wired stack-map initialization,
including ensure_stack_maps_built calls in the forced-evacuating minor path and
budgeted policy paths. Add a constructor-level test or test-only execution path
that isolates constructor initialization and still fails when that
initialization is removed.
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Make the regression test isolate constructor initialization.
The exercised forced-evacuating minor path still calls roots::ensure_stack_maps_built() in crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/mod.rs:255-264. The budgeted paths in crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs:2959-2978 and 2992-3052 also call it.
Therefore, removing the constructor call and only the two policy.rs calls does not make this test fail. The mod.rs call still builds the index. Add a constructor-level test or a test-only path that bypasses every hand-wired initialization call.
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In `@crates/perry/tests/gc_stack_map_index_budgeted_cycle.rs` around lines 23 -
25, Update the regression test around its constructor initialization so it
bypasses every hand-wired stack-map initialization, including
ensure_stack_maps_built calls in the forced-evacuating minor path and budgeted
policy paths. Add a constructor-level test or test-only execution path that
isolates constructor initialization and still fails when that initialization is
removed.
cycle.rs sat at exactly 2000, so these two calls broke check_file_size.sh. Extracts the self-contained malloc_trim block to gc/cycle_malloc_trim.rs with explicit named re-exports, and condenses the constructor comment — the five-sites history now lives in the changelog fragment.
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Merged. The structural argument is the right one and the history makes it: three rounds of the same defect (#9191 wired four entries, #9231 found budgeted cycles bypass all four, #9233 wired two more by hand), with The question I checked is allocation legality, since that is the constraint #9191 was working under: the index build must happen while allocation is still legal, before the collector owns the heap. It holds, and the existing code proves it rather than my reasoning — What I had to fix to land it: Validation: Landing your "adds no fix" framing as accurate: I take the point that #9233 was the fix and this removes the recurrence, not a live bug. That distinction is worth keeping in the fragment, which is why I wrote it in. |
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Closes #9234. This adds no fix — #9234 was already fixed by #9233, which landed an hour before I filed it and neither of us noticed. What it removes is the way this same defect keeps coming back.
First, the attribution, proven rather than inferred
Removing exactly the two
ensure_stack_maps_built()calls #9233 added brings the abort back, byte-identical, on both repros:Restore them and both exit 0 with node-identical output. So #9233 is the fix, and #9234 is a duplicate. I have closed it as such.
Three rounds of the same mistake
gc_collect_*entries by hand.GcCycleStatedirectly and enter through none of them — the first root-scan step hit gc: fail closed if the native root scan runs before the stack-map index is built #9182's fail-closed guard and aborted.That is five hand-wired call sites for one invariant, and the next entry point starts the cycle over.
policy.rsalready carries this exact lesson from a different bug, a few hundred lines away:The change
GcCycleState::new_fullandnew_minor_fallbackare the choke point every cycle passes through — all four construction sites, the guarded entries and the budgeted ones alike. Building the index there makes a future entry point correct without anyone remembering.The existing entry calls stay. They run while allocation is unambiguously legal and earlier in the sequence, so removing them would change ordering for a benefit I cannot measure; and
ensure_builtis anAcquireload and a return once the index exists, so the overlap costs one atomic load per cycle.Verified to do the work, not to pass beside it
With the constructor call in place and both
policy.rsentry calls deleted — simulating precisely the future mistake this prevents — all four GC-stress repros run clean with node-identical output:gc4_nothrowgc3_nestedgc1_throw_allocgc2_partialWith the constructor call also removed, they abort again.
The added test pins the observable rather than the wiring, and asserts on exit status and stderr as well as stdout — the abort happens after the program prints its correct answer, so a stdout-only comparison passes against the broken build. That is the same trap that let #9185 ship earlier tonight.
Validation
gc_stack_map_index_budgeted_cycle1/1 (new),gc_copy_minor_under_heap_limit4/4RUSTFLAGS="-D warnings" cargo check -p perry-runtime --all-targets: 0Refs #9182, #9191, #9231, #9233, #7726.
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