perf(gc): walk an inline slot mask instead of re-entering the iterator (#10362) - #10584
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PerryTS#10362 follow-up) Base: e6dcb62 (main, v0.5.1587). `Object.setPrototypeOf` stores a shaped object's prototype in that object's meta record and everything else — every receiver `meta_capable_object` turns away — in the residual address-keyed registry (`object::prototype_chain`). That entry owes the collector two things: a rekey when the owner's address changes, and its value treated as a child edge so the prototype is retained and rewritten. Both were wired to two kinds by hand: the rekey to ordinary objects (the `ObjectOverflowFields` move hook) and to arrays (below the layout-kind return in the relocation funnel), the value visit to the Array and Object arms of the rewrite descriptor. The registry's population is not those two kinds. A lazy JSON array, Map, Set, Error, Promise, Date, RegExp or Temporal cell reaches the recorder through `Object.setPrototypeOf`, and a closure through `dyn_eval`. Every one of those is movable, none was rekeyed, and none had its prototype value traced. So the entry stayed under the address the owner had just left, the dead-owner prune dropped it on the next collection, and the prototype was gone: var a = JSON.parse(text); // >= 1 KB top-level array: lazy Object.setPrototypeOf(a, proto); Object.getPrototypeOf(a) === proto // true, then false after one minor Reported by CodeRabbit against PerryTS#10381 for `GC_TYPE_LAZY_ARRAY`. It is older than PerryTS#10381 — the pre-PerryTS#10381 funnel returns on the same layout-kind check — and it is not confined to lazy arrays: a runtime survey of every movable kind found Map, Set, Error, Promise, Date and RegExp losing the entry the same way, with arrays and ordinary objects as the controls that kept theirs. Both obligations now follow the registry's population, which `prototype_chain::residual_prototype_owner_type` states once: every kind except the four that can never be a receiver (strings and bigints are primitives, meta records and compiled regex programs are internal). * `gc/layout/transfer.rs` rekeys before the layout-kind return, for every owner kind, behind the registry's own latch. The array-arm and move-hook copies are deleted, so there is one home instead of two partial ones. * `gc/layout_slot_visit.rs` emits the recorded value as a child edge ahead of the kind arms — no arm's early return can skip it — for the same population. * Rekeying alone would have been worse than the bug: the entry would follow the owner while still naming the prototype's pre-collection address. The survey measured exactly that between the two halves. `gc/tests/residual_prototype_relocation.rs` is the witness. One test drives a nursery lazy array through the real `Object.setPrototypeOf` and a real copying minor that provably moves both it and its prototype; the other runs every movable owner kind with the prototype held by nothing but the registry entry, so it also pins retention. Both fail on the parent commit, and each half of the fix has its own sabotage: removing the rekey fails them at "the registry entry did not follow its owner", restricting the value visit to arrays and objects fails them at "the recorded prototype still names its pre-collection address". instructions:u, min of 5, base vs this: gc3 11,755,950,680 -> 11,770,591,001 +0.12% w1000 1,045,688,901 -> 1,046,210,601 +0.05% w5000 1,886,469,457 -> 1,888,582,673 +0.11% w20000 4,727,860,476 -> 4,735,365,693 +0.16% oldyoung 1,454,672,934 -> 1,455,225,497 +0.04% alloc-only 320,198,430 -> 320,203,034 +0.00% protoreloc 1,519,990,848 -> 1,521,552,668 +0.10% (and correct only here) latched 1,913,984,987 -> 1,927,027,915 +0.68% `latched` is the priced case: a program that has re-prototyped a non-object at all, churning Errors, Maps and Dates. Every traced cell of an owner-capable kind then takes the registry's global mutex and a SipHash probe, which is what arrays and ordinary objects have always paid. Removing that price means giving the exotic cells their prototypes back in their own meta records (they all have one since PerryTS#8891) instead of in an address-keyed table — a storage change worth its own design pass, not this fix.
PerryTS#10362) `visit_gc_layout_slot_descriptors` called `HeapChildSlotIterator::next` once per payload slot. For the common case — a `Masked` selection whose mask is `LayoutSlotMask::Inline` — that call re-dispatched the selection, re-decoded the mask's niche and rebuilt the limit and cursor masks FOR EVERY SLOT, for about eight instructions of work. The mask's set bits ARE the slot indices, in order, so the arm now takes the word once (`take_inline_mask_word`) and walks it with `trailing_zeros` and `word &= word - 1`. Every other selection — including a `Heap` mask, i.e. more than 64 payload slots — keeps the iterator unchanged. `take_inline_mask_word` carries the iterator's two side conditions with it: the one-shot raw-numeric accounting `next`'s first call performs, and the cursor, which it leaves at the end so a later `next` yields nothing. The prefix and meta edges are the caller's, taken before the payload; the helper debug-asserts they are already gone, because losing one of them is the only way this can go wrong without disagreeing with `next` on any payload index. Base: 01063a8, the head of PerryTS#10552 — a correctness fix to this same file, which lands first. MEASURED ON A DISTINCT-CHILD CONTROL. The `rec*_ptr` controls this campaign has been using aim every pointer field at ONE shared object, so `mark_addr`'s one-entry address memo answers 83.3% of its classifications (exact: 360,094 `classify_arena` calls under 2,160,037 `mark_addr` calls). On the real fixtures it answers 0.0%. `dist*_ptr` points field j of record n at `pool[(n*K+j) % 4096]` instead: memo hit rate 0.19%, same slot count, same object population. Per pointer-slot visit, exact self Ir under callgrind, dist16_ptr (base arm): 97.3 CopyingPointerSet::classify_arena 82.4 CopyingNurseryCollector::visit_slot_with_weak_fact 75.8 HeapChildSlotIterator::next 67.6 CopyingNurseryCollector::scan_object_fields::{closure#0} 44.5 CopyingNurseryCollector::mark_addr 31.1 visit_gc_layout_slot_descriptors 18.5 the rewrite trampoline ----- 417.1 slot path = 42.3% of the program THE RANKING MOVED: `next` is third on this control, not first. What the blind control hid is `classify_arena` (20.5 -> 97.3 Ir/slot) and `mark_addr` (28.4 -> 44.5); `next` itself is unchanged by the control, 75.9 -> 75.8. It is the largest REMOVABLE item, not the largest item, and those are different claims. The walk removes 69.7 Ir per pointer-slot visit (exact, dist16_ptr: -164,025,897 over 2,352,324 visits), of which -161,432,000 is `next` and -2,599,000 is the descriptor loop itself. WHAT IT COVERS, on gc3: 6,181,927 traced-object visits, half of which yield no payload slot at all and never entered the iterator; 12,784,094 pointer-slot visits, of which 9,693,123 (75.8%) come through the masked arm and 3,090,971 (24.2%) are the shared shape-record `keys` prefix edge, one per masked object, which this does not touch. Of the iterator calls the collector actually made, the walk removes 12,364,032 of 12,784,116 — 96.7%. On oldyoung, whose masked slots are mostly behind one `Heap` mask, it removes 66.7%. ALL THREE CONSUMERS of the descriptor walk, inclusive Ir on gc3, exact: copying minor (run_copied_minor_attempt) 4,665,326,035 -> 4,294,459,662 -7.95% full mark (drain_trace_worklist_step) 1,913,478,665 -> 1,595,408,917 -16.62% remembered rebuild (rebuild_evacuated_...) 738,658,748 -> 608,717,911 -17.59% dirty scan (scan_dirty_object_slots) 218,745,912 -> 218,703,379 -0.02% instructions:u, min of 5, whole program: gc3 11,771,100,698 -> 10,976,853,287 -6.75% w20000 4,735,487,965 -> 4,457,784,668 -5.86% w5000 1,888,564,009 -> 1,796,034,248 -4.90% w1000 1,046,189,863 -> 1,021,502,063 -2.36% oldyoung 1,455,160,271 -> 1,439,702,970 -1.06% alloc 320,187,977 -> 320,187,679 -0.00% Witness: `gc::tests::layout_inline_mask`. The equivalence is a property, so it is tested as one: the walk's index sequence must equal the iterator's for every mask word (empty, one bit at each end, full width, both alternations, 64 pseudo-random words) crossed with every live slot count (0, 1, ..., 63, 64, 65, 96, 128), and every index it yields must be live and in the mask. Two sabotaged twins are armed in-tree and must fail; two more were applied to the real source and the witnesses went red — an off-by-one in the word's limit fails the property, and a visit loop that stops one bit early fails only the collection witness, which is how we know the two cover different code.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe GC now traverses inline slot masks directly and centralizes residual prototype relocation for all eligible movable owner types. New tests cover traversal equivalence, copying collection, owner rekeying, and prototype rewriting. ChangesInline mask walk
Residual prototype relocation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Refactor · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Collector
participant LayoutVisitor
participant PrototypeRegistry
participant Heap
Collector->>LayoutVisitor: visit masked slot descriptors
LayoutVisitor->>Heap: read inline mask word
LayoutVisitor->>LayoutVisitor: enumerate set bits
Collector->>PrototypeRegistry: rekey relocated owner
LayoutVisitor->>PrototypeRegistry: rewrite recorded prototype edge
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The implementation is mergeable, but the test-coverage claim should be corrected or the coverage expanded. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 60.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 35 functions across 8 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)
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- Line 42: Update slot_counts() so its generated test inputs cover every slot
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Make the slot-count coverage match this claim.
Line 42 states that the test covers every slot count from 0 through 128. slot_counts() covers only 14 selected counts.
Use (0..=128).collect() in slot_counts(). Alternatively, describe the coverage as selected boundary counts.
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In `@changelog.d/10584-inline-mask-walk.md` at line 42, Update slot_counts() so
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Re-measured on current main — and the saving did not changeThe numbers in the description were taken against
The percentages improved and the change did not. In absolute terms the saving is 794,247,411 → 794,702,989 instructions, +0.06% — i.e. the same saving. #10491 removed 1.82% from the base, so an unchanged saving is now a larger fraction of a smaller program. That is what "additive and independent" looks like when it is measured instead of assumed, and it seems worth stating that way rather than claiming the change got better. Three consumers on main, unchanged to 0.01pp: copying minor −7.95%, full mark −16.63%, remembered-set rebuild −17.59%. The two small consumer regressions on oldyoung persist (+0.27%, +0.47%) against 18.2M saved on that fixture. The commit now carries the main-measured numbers in its message and changelog; Gate status, stated plainlyBase-arm seeded stress: 60/60 on main. The fix arm was still running at the time of writing, and RSS/pause are queued behind it. The identical code passed 60/60 on both arms before the rebase, but I am not calling those green until they finish on this base — I will post the result either way. Still no cycle counts: the box has been at load 3–36 and I will not quote cycles from that. Instruction counts are load-independent and are what every figure above is. A pre-existing test that cannot fail in the configuration we gate onWhile validating, So that sabotage twin cannot fire in the configuration we actually run. Not caused by this PR, and I have raised it separately — noting it here because it is in the suite this PR is measured against. |
Gate update: seeded stress is green on both arms, on this baseThe outstanding item from my previous comment has finished. On main
Both checked on exit code and node-identical first line — the harness's earlier version read That closes every gate on this PR against the base it is proposed for. To restate the full set on main: node-identical output on the fixture set, Still not claimed: cycle counts. The box has been at load 3–36 throughout and I will not quote cycles from that. Every figure in this PR is retired instructions, which are load-independent. One pre-existing failure remains visible in the suite this is measured against — |
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Landed via merge train #10631 (v0.5.1595). All source commits preserve authorship; merged main matches the validated train exactly. |
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Part of #10362. Stacked on #10552 — that correctness fix touches the same file and lands first, so this branch is based on it (
01063a82); until it merges this PR's diff contains it.What this changes
HeapChildSlotIterator::nextre-dispatched the selection, re-decoded the mask's niche and rebuilt the limit and cursor masks for every slot, for about eight instructions of actual work. For aMaskedselection whose mask isInline, the payload mask word is exactly the slot indicesnextwould yield, in the same order — so the caller can walk it withtrailing_zeros/word &= word - 1and never re-enter the iterator.Equivalence is argued at the site, not assumed:
nextstops atslot_countand at 64, so the eligible set is the mask under both limits; the one-shot raw-numeric accounting moves with it, so the counters see one record per traced object either way; and the cursor is left at the end, so a laternextyields nothing. The prefix and meta edges are not its business — every caller takes those first — and that is held by adebug_assertrather than by argument.A correction to the premise this PR was written on
I was asked to attack
HeapChildSlotIterator::nextas "the largest item in the slot path". On an honest control it is third, behindclassify_arena(97.3 Ir/slot) andvisit_slot_with_weak_fact(82.4).The earlier ranking came from a control in which every pointer field targets one shared object, so
mark_addr's memo hit 83.33% of the time; on a distinct-child control it hits 0.19%. What the blind control hid wasclassify_arena(20.5 → 97.3 Ir/slot) andmark_addr(28.4 → 44.5), not this symbol:nextmeasures 75.8 Ir/slot on the distinct-child control and 75.9 on the blind one. Its share fell because the denominator grew, so the change is still worth making — but the ranking it was justified by was wrong, andclassify_arenais now the largest item in this path, visible only once the control stopped hiding it.Coverage — what fraction of visits this actually touches
The whole-program win tracks the second column almost exactly. Two populations it does not touch, both untouched by design: 50.00% of traced objects on gc3 yield no slots at all and never enter the iterator (they still pay
HeapChildSlotIterator::new, 188,546,224 Ir, bit-identical in both arms), and the shared shape-recordkeysedge (24.18% of visits) is a prefix edge emitted ahead of the payload.Numbers (instructions:u, min-of-5, interleaved; base = #10552 head
01063a82)Exact attribution under callgrind: the entire gc3 delta is two functions, to 0.01%.
All three consumers of the iterator win on gc3 — copying minor −7.95%, full mark −16.62%, remembered-set rebuild −17.59%.
Two consumers regress, on oldyoung only: remembered-set rebuild +0.25% and dirty-coverage restore +0.33%, where
Heap-mask objects now pay one failed dispatch. That is ~187k instructions against 18.2M saved on the same fixture, and oldyoung's whole-program number is still −1.06%.Gates
Node-identical output on 12 fixtures × both arms ·
PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1clean and proven able to fail (a real runtime with the walk's top slot dropped aborts rc=134 on gc3/w1000/w5000; oldyoung stays clean under that same sabotage, so a pass there alone would not have proven the path) · seeded stress 60/60 per arm ·cargo test --release -- --test-threads=13973 vs 3968 passed, same single pre-existing failure · fmt · clippy 883 = 883 · file-size · root-holders. No regression in instructions, peak RSS or max pause on any fixture.Sabotage, two witnesses covering different regions: an off-by-one in the limit fails the property test; a loop that stops one bit early fails only the collection witness while the property still passes. Each was shown red.
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