perf(codegen): stop GC-typing box pointers and leaf-mark audited accessors (#8132 direction 1) - #8143
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…ssors (#8132) Direction 1 of #8132: reduce the values RS4GC must relocate at the source. Two changes, both riding premises the tree already machine-checks: 1. A boxed local's slot is no longer a GC root. The alloca only ever holds a js_box_alloc_bits-family result or the TAG_UNDEFINED sentinel; boxes are std::alloc allocations outside the GC heap, never moved, never freed, and their contents are traced through the registered box-registry scanner (pinned by gc_root_dominance_check.py's IMMOVABLE_SOURCES probes). emit_shadow_slot_bind_for_local now skips ids that every store site already routes through the boxed_vars && !module_globals test. 2. The audited capture/box accessors join GcCallEffect::CannotCollect: js_closure_{get,set}_capture_{bits,ptr}, js_box_set_bits, js_{i32,bool}_box_{get,set}, and the three box allocators. All are raw slot reads/writes plus already-admitted barrier/layout bookkeeping, or std::alloc allocation that cannot arm a Perry GC trigger. js_box_get_bits is deliberately excluded (its TDZ arm allocates a ReferenceError before unwinding) and a test pins it. The checker's NONCOLLECTING gains the allocator/getter names to keep the one-way containment. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014QPJbKb2AX89UtswKyX3f2
…ntract The old assertion pinned the box-pointer slot's bind — the exact traffic the #8132 change removes. Restated discriminating in both directions: the local must still be boxed (analysis visibility), its slot must NOT be bound, and the sibling closure local's slot must still bind. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014QPJbKb2AX89UtswKyX3f2
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change updates RS4GC handling for boxed locals and audited accessors. Boxed locals no longer use native GC root slots. Capture and non-TDZ box helpers remain direct non-collecting calls, while TDZ access remains conservative. Regression tests validate LLVM IR and statepoint behavior. ChangesBoxed slots and non-collecting accessors
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change removes relocation and rooting overhead for boxed values, but one accessor is still classified as unable to trigger collection even though its TDZ error path can allocate. That mismatch can allow unsafe optimization assumptions, so the PR is not merge-ready until the classification and regression coverage are corrected. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant precise_roots
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precise_roots->>classify_direct_callee: classify each direct callee
classify_direct_callee->>runtime_calls: identify audited accessors as CannotCollect
classify_direct_callee-->>precise_roots: return call effect
precise_roots->>runtime_calls: statepoint-wrap unaudited js_map_alloc calls
precise_roots->>runtime_calls: keep audited accessors as direct calls
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| "js_i32_box_get", "js_bool_box_get", # registry check + raw read, no TDZ | ||
| # Box allocators (#8132): `std::alloc::alloc` + a TLS registry insert. | ||
| # A raw Rust allocation arms no Perry GC trigger (the malloc-count | ||
| # trigger counts MALLOC_STATE GC objects), so the call cannot enter the | ||
| # collector. The premise is machine-checked: IMMOVABLE_SOURCES' "box" | ||
| # probes below fail if box.rs ever arena-allocates or grows a free path, | ||
| # and these entries must be removed with them. Required here for the | ||
| # one-way containment `gc_call_effects.rs` documents (its CannotCollect | ||
| # set must stay a subset of this one). | ||
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Remove js_box_get_bits from NONCOLLECTING. Shadow-mode checks treat this entry as non-collecting, but its TDZ path calls js_throw_reference_error_tdz, which allocates before unwinding. Add a checker regression for this negative case; the existing GcCallEffect::Unknown test is not sufficient.
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In `@scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py` around lines 486 - 495, Remove
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js_throw_reference_error_tdz, which allocates while unwinding. Add a checker
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Summary
Direction 1 of #8132 — reduce the values RS4GC must relocate, at the source. Dissecting the monolith's live sets first (numbers below) showed the explosion is liveness, not statepoint count:
perry_closure_jsonwebtoken_js__227had ~300 logical GC values live at ~90% of its 5,536 statepoints (mean 258.7 relocations/statepoint), and the biggest cohort of those values — the preallocated variable boxes — are not GC pointers at all. Two changes, both riding premises the tree already machine-checks:1. A boxed local's slot is no longer a GC root
A boxed local's alloca only ever holds a
js_box_alloc_bits-family result or theTAG_UNDEFINEDsentinel — every store site routes through the sameboxed_vars && !module_globalstest (stmt/mod.rsprealloc,let_stmt.rs's boxed arm,codegen/arguments.rs::store_param_slot,lower_call/new_ctor_args.rs), and the value always goes inside the box. Boxes arestd::allocallocations outside the GC heap: never moved, never freed (BOX_REGISTRYis monotonic), contents traced and rewritten by the registeredscan_box_roots_mutscanner. That is the exact premisescripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py's IMMOVABLE_SOURCES "box" probes pin (they fail the lint if box.rs ever arena-allocates or grows a free path), and the oneexpr/literals_vars.rsalready relies on to carry a box address across collecting calls.emit_shadow_slot_bind_for_localnow skips boxed ids; their slots stay plainalloca i64, invisible to RS4GC, in both root lowerings.On the fixture this removes 292 of fn227's 608 root slots — slots whose relocation traffic protected pointers the collector can never move.
2. The audited capture/box accessors become
gc-leaf-functionjs_closure_{get,set}_capture_{bits,ptr},js_box_set_bits,js_{i32,bool}_box_{get,set}, and the three box allocators joinGcCallEffect::CannotCollect. Each body is a raw slot read/write plus barrier/layout bookkeeping already admitted individually (js_gc_note_slot_layout,js_write_barrier_slot,js_write_barrier_root_nanbox), orstd::allocallocation that cannot arm a Perry GC trigger. They were 2,168 of fn227's 5,537 statepoint-forming calls.js_box_get_bitsis deliberately not admitted: its TDZ arm callsjs_throw_reference_error_tdz, which allocates the ReferenceError (GC string + object) before unwinding — a genuine route into collection. A test pins it toUnknown. (The checker's NONCOLLECTING lists it anyway; that entry predates this PR and is worth a follow-up look, but this table only requires containment in the safe direction.) The checker's NONCOLLECTING gains the allocator/i32-getter names sogc_call_effects.rsstays a subset of it.Measurement
#8132's own methodology: stock
opt22.1.4,-passes='function(mem2reg,sccp),rewrite-statepoints-for-gc'on the dumped unit0 of next@16.3.0's bundledjsonwebtoken(sha256056c2ddd…a6b9), apple-m1 host.gc.relocategc.relocateaddrspace(1)root slotsThe remaining live values are the ~90 closure singletons and other genuinely movable long-lived heap objects; those are real roots and stay.
This also cuts runtime work in the direction the project's standing directive wants: fewer relocation spills on the hot path, fewer stack-map records (RSS), and per-store bind/barrier traffic deleted for every boxed local — nothing is bought with runtime cost.
Soundness validation
cargo test -p perry-codegen --lib: 1005 passed, 0 failed (includes 3 new tests).alloca ptr addrspace(1)(gate reverted →inttoptrof the box pointer appears; binds skipped wholesale → the twin's premise fails);node:120000✓ (matches node)PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 PERRY_GC_ZEAL_ALLOC_KB=0:120000✓, and the instrument was live, not vacuous —[gc-fromspace-protect] retired_set=#2 … bytes_protected=31 MB(3 retired sets).PERRY_RS4GC=0(the shadow-frame lowering also inherits the bind gate):120000✓, protector armed ✓../run_parity_tests.sh --filter test_gap_, node 26.5.1 oracle,PERRY_SKIP_BUILD=1against this branch's build): 540/559 pass, zero regressions from this PR. All 19 failures (17 mismatches, 1 compile fail, 1 crash; 2 of them already triaged inknown_failures.json) were re-run one at a time under BOTH this branch's compiler and a pristineorigin/maincompiler built into a separate target dir: every one fails identically on main, with byte-identical failure output (spot-diffed). They are pre-existing on main (parity is tag-gated, so untriaged failures accumulate between tags), not this PR's.cargo test -p perry-codegen --no-fail-fast(integration suites, nightly-tier in CI): four suites carry failures, and an in-place A/B (this PR's files reverted toorigin/main, same build cache) shows all but one are pre-existing on main —loop_safepoint_purity(1),native_proof_buffer_views(6),typed_feedback(1), andshadow_slot_hygiene::canonical_str_local_keeps_shadow_binding…fail identically without this PR (likely fallout of test(gc): assert the poll guard's CFG shape, not its text order #8126/fix(ci): list buffer/typed-array constructors as poll-capable #8134, which touched those surfaces last). The one genuinely mine wasshadow_slot_hygiene::closure_body_write_to_captured_outer_local_is_visible_to_shadow_analysis, whose assertion pinned the box-pointer slot's bind — the exact traffic this PR removes; it is updated to the new contract (still asserts the local is boxed and that the sibling closure local still binds) and passes.scripts/gc_root_dominance_check.py --self-testOK;addr_class_inventory.py,gc_runtime_root_holders.py,check_file_size.sh,cargo fmt --checkall clean.Notes
gc-leaf-functionon the C-API path), fixed by the open fix(codegen): unbreak in-process RS4GC on inline asm and relocation-grown functions #8128. The two PRs compose; the measurement here is on the dumped pre-RS4GC units, which is the issue's own methodology.optnonecap should fire for far fewer functions — the two changes attack the same product from opposite ends.Fixes nothing by threshold, splits nothing: the
safepoints × live-valuesproduct shrinks at the source, and every program with mutable captured locals benefits.Refs #8132, #8121, #8128, #8040.
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