perf(json): right-size tape object spill buffers - #8016
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughJSON tape materialization now counts direct object fields and reserves exact-width spill storage. Recursive and iterative paths validate and apply the count. Tests verify nested and flat object capacities while preserving the inline slot floor. ChangesJSON tape spill allocation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Mergeability Score: 🔴 Critical · up to Spill-buffer reservation can relocate a newly materialized object before its fields are written, leaving later writes directed at stale memory and potentially causing corruption or crashes. This issue should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant JSONMaterializer
participant count_object_fields
participant reserve_object_spill
participant js_array_alloc_with_length_exact
JSONMaterializer->>count_object_fields: Count direct object keys
count_object_fields-->>JSONMaterializer: Return field count
JSONMaterializer->>reserve_object_spill: Reserve spill capacity
reserve_object_spill->>js_array_alloc_with_length_exact: Allocate exact-width buffer
js_array_alloc_with_length_exact-->>reserve_object_spill: Return hole-initialized buffer
reserve_object_spill-->>JSONMaterializer: Install spill storage
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/json_tape/iterative.rs`:
- Around line 43-45: Root the allocated object in finish_frame before calling
reserve_object_spill, invoke reservation through the rooted reference, and
reload the object afterward before field insertion and return so moving
collection cannot leave a stale pointer. Add a regression test that forces
collection during this reservation path.
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| let field_count = u32::try_from(keys.len()).ok()?; | ||
| let object = crate::object::js_object_alloc(0, 0); | ||
| crate::object::reserve_object_spill(object as usize, field_count); |
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Root and reload object after spill reservation.
reserve_object_spill can allocate ObjectMeta and the spill array. A moving collection can relocate object during this call. The callee reloads only its local pointer. Lines 47-53 still use the caller's stale pointer.
Root object in finish_frame, call reserve_object_spill through the rooted pointer, and reload it before field insertion and return. Add a regression that forces collection during this reservation path.
Proposed fix
let field_count = u32::try_from(keys.len()).ok()?;
let object = crate::object::js_object_alloc(0, 0);
- crate::object::reserve_object_spill(object as usize, field_count);
+ let scope = crate::gc::RuntimeHandleScope::new();
+ let object_handle = scope.root_raw_mut_ptr(object);
+ crate::object::reserve_object_spill(
+ object_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<crate::object::ObjectHeader>() as usize,
+ field_count,
+ );
+ let object = object_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<crate::object::ObjectHeader>();
for (key, value) in keys.into_iter().zip(values) {Based on learnings: raw Rust pointer locals are not GC roots, and callers must reload them after GC-capable operations.
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| let field_count = u32::try_from(keys.len()).ok()?; | |
| let object = crate::object::js_object_alloc(0, 0); | |
| crate::object::reserve_object_spill(object as usize, field_count); | |
| let field_count = u32::try_from(keys.len()).ok()?; | |
| let object = crate::object::js_object_alloc(0, 0); | |
| let scope = crate::gc::RuntimeHandleScope::new(); | |
| let object_handle = scope.root_raw_mut_ptr(object); | |
| crate::object::reserve_object_spill( | |
| object_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<crate::object::ObjectHeader>() as usize, | |
| field_count, | |
| ); | |
| let object = object_handle.get_raw_mut_ptr::<crate::object::ObjectHeader>(); |
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/json_tape/iterative.rs` around lines 43 - 45, Root
the allocated object in finish_frame before calling reserve_object_spill, invoke
reservation through the rooted reference, and reload the object afterward before
field insertion and return so moving collection cannot leave a stale pointer.
Add a regression test that forces collection during this reservation path.
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Review complete: no blocking correctness finding. The recursive materializer owns a handle and reloads it around allocating work; the iterative path is explicitly called inside gc_suppress() and documents suppression as a caller precondition, so its raw object pointer cannot relocate during spill reservation. The automated stale-pointer warning therefore does not apply to the production path. Exact capacity remains an upper bound even with duplicate keys, and absolute spill indexing is preserved. Local perry-runtime JSON-tape validation passed: 27 tests, including both new exact-spill tests and the existing moving-GC callback-root tests.
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Summary
Right-size overflow storage for objects materialized from JSON tapes without
widening their primary object allocation. This avoids the issue's measured
inline-allocation regression while removing the generic 16-slot spill padding
from parsed records.
Changes
container links to skip nested values.
use it to reserve object spill buffers before field insertion.
already-collected key count.
primary objects remain at
INLINE_SLOT_FLOOR.Related issue
Closes #7267.
Test plan
./scripts/test_affected_crates.sh --base origin/mainpasses:perry-runtime2281 passed / 4 ignored,perry959 passed,perry-ffi26passed.
json_tape::testspass.cargo fmt --all -- --check,git diff --check, and./scripts/check_file_size.shpass.--profile perry-dev,--no-default-features --features dev-cli, and matching static runtime andstdlib archives.
./scripts/pre-tag-check.sh --quickcurrently reaches an unrelatedpre-existing failure on current
origin/main:crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/property_set.rs:1457lacks aGC_STORE_AUDITmarker. The new allocator's store-site audit passes.Performance
Eight interleaved runs of
benchmarks/json_polyglot/bench_field_access.tswith theperry-devprofileand
PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1:All checksums matched. A four-run direct-parser control (
PERRY_JSON_TAPE=0)was effectively unchanged at 934.5 ms baseline versus 935.5 ms for this PR,
isolating the improvement to tape-backed materialization.
Screenshots / output
Not applicable; this is an internal runtime allocation change.
Checklist
(maintainer handles these at merge).
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