perf(codegen): put the static write PIC's GC bookkeeping behind one live test (#8184), and make a deleted barrier detectable (#8185) - #8189
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…ive test The `put.pic.hit` block emitted three unconditional `gc-leaf` calls (`js_string_addref_if_heap_string`, `js_gc_note_slot_layout_aware`, `js_write_barrier_slot`) whenever the stored value was not provably a non-pointer at compile time — which is every `o.x = v` whose RHS is an untyped local. Route that arm through `emit_jsvalue_slot_store_pointer_tested` (#7511), already shipped on the class-field store path, which asks the same question ONCE inline of the bits being stored and branches over all three. `emit_jsvalue_slot_store_pointer_tested` gains a `stem` parameter so the blocks it emits are named per call site; the PIC passes "put.pic" so an IR assertion about this site cannot be satisfied by a class-field store elsewhere in the same module. Also (#8185): document the write-barrier invariant as the mirror image of the rooting invariant — for a deleted barrier the runtime instruments are the ones that cannot see it and a static IR assertion is the only detector — and move #8183's barrier assertions out of `tests/` (nightly-only) into a `--lib` unit test that per-PR `cargo-test` actually runs. Refs #8184, #8185, #6812, #7511, #8183.
`gc/pin.rs`'s young-pin incoherence report PRINTS a reproduce command whose first variable nothing in the tree reads, and `dyn_eval`'s rooting-domain note names it as a live instrument. Neither is a knob any more; both now name `PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE`, which `scripts/check_gc_env_knobs.py` confirms a parser owns. A diagnostic that hands the reader a dead variable sends them to run the DEFAULT configuration and read its green as a result — the same 'the gate ran but its subject never did' shape this PR is about, one level up. Refs #8185.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe static write PIC now retains unconditional slot stores while guarding GC bookkeeping with a runtime pointer test. The pointer-tested emitter accepts caller-specific block labels. New LLVM IR tests cover static and dynamic write paths. GC validation documentation and diagnostics were updated. ChangesStatic write PIC barrier optimization
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/proxy_reflect.rs`:
- Around line 695-696: Update the pointer_possible gate in the proxy reference
path to also reject expressions where
expr_may_return_boxed_value_from_raw_f64_fallback(ctx, value) is true, matching
the guard used in property_set.rs. Add a regression test covering an erased
value written through this proxy path, ensuring boxed fallback values cannot
bypass layout tracking or the write barrier.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/pin.rs`:
- Line 417: Update the diagnostic command in crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/pin.rs
lines 417-417 to include a concrete PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED value or explicitly
require the caller to provide one. Update the schedule-rate description in
crates/perry-runtime/src/dyn_eval/mod.rs lines 197-198 to describe conditional
scheduled collection at eligible handled safepoints rather than an unconditional
force; both changes should preserve the documented seed requirement.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-runtime/src/dyn_eval/mod.rs` around lines 197
- 198: The documentation wording has the same missing-seed prerequisite.
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/write_pic_barrier_tests.rs`:
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put.pic.gc_bookkeeping.done to be selected incorrectly. Replace its
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Guard numeric stores against boxed fallbacks
is_numeric_expr does not read local_type_hint for locals, but it also admits declared numeric fields and numeric-array reads. These reads can still return boxed values through cold fallbacks. Add !expr_may_return_boxed_value_from_raw_f64_fallback(ctx, value) to this pointer-free gate, as done in property_set.rs; otherwise a boxed pointer can bypass layout tracking and the write barrier. Add a regression for an erased value written through this proxy path.
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/proxy_reflect.rs` around lines 695 - 696,
Update the pointer_possible gate in the proxy reference path to also reject
expressions where expr_may_return_boxed_value_from_raw_f64_fallback(ctx, value)
is true, matching the guard used in property_set.rs. Add a regression test
covering an erased value written through this proxy path, ensuring boxed
fallback values cannot bypass layout tracking or the write barrier.
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Keep the schedule seed prerequisite explicit at every diagnostic entry point. PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE is inactive without PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED and applies only at eligible handled safepoints. Update this diagnostic command to provide a seed or state that the caller must set one, and revise the nearby documentation to describe scheduled collection as conditional rather than unconditional.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/pin.rs` at line 417, Update the diagnostic
command in crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/pin.rs lines 417-417 to include a
concrete PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED value or explicitly require the caller to
provide one. Update the schedule-rate description in
crates/perry-runtime/src/dyn_eval/mod.rs lines 197-198 to describe conditional
scheduled collection at eligible handled safepoints rather than an unconditional
force; both changes should preserve the documented seed requirement.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/perry-runtime/src/dyn_eval/mod.rs` around lines 197
- 198: The documentation wording has the same missing-seed prerequisite.
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Closes #8184. Does the actionable half of #8185.
lower_put_value_static_write_ic'sput.pic.hitblock emitted threeunconditional
gc-leafbookkeeping calls wheneverpointer_possiblewastrue — and
pointer_possibleis a compile-time claim about the RHS, so itis true for every
o.x = vwhose RHS is an untyped local. Emitted IR for theconst v = f(); o.x = vshape, before:After — one live test of the bits being stored, and a branch over all three:
emit_jsvalue_slot_store_pointer_tested(#7511) already ships on theclass-field store path (
expr/property_set.rs:506,1217,1499). The store itselfstays unconditional. The
_awarevariant's pre-store load of the slot's oldvalue goes away too.
Measurement
Quiet M1 mini (load 1.4), best-of-5, instructions retired primary, exit code
and stdout hash checked on every run. Instrument noise floor 0.14% —
min-to-max spread over 5 runs of an unchanged control (
w8184_nostore, whichalso measures 0.00% between arms, as it must).
Hygiene:
-p perry -p perry-runtime-static -p perry-stdlib-static, identical-pset both arms,PERRY_NO_AUTO_OPTIMIZE=1, per-armPERRY_RUNTIME_DIRandPERRY_CACHE_DIR. The twoperrybinaries differ; the twolibperry_runtime.aare byte-identical, which is the right answer for acodegen-only change and removes the runtime as a variable.
const v = f(); o.x = v×12M — instructionsLargest corpus cell either way is
asyncpipeat −0.105%; every cell is insidethe 0.14% noise floor. RSS is flat everywhere — this buys compute without
spending memory.
Cross-check against #8184's own numbers: the static PIC's write cost 104
instructions more than the sibling dynamic-key IC on the same program shape,
and now costs 6 more. With the issue's measured 118, the new cost is ~20 —
parity with the dyn IC's 22, by two independent derivations.
★ The corpus number is a no-regression check, not a measurement of this lever
An IR census over all 19 corpus programs finds zero
put.pic.hitblocks:The static write PIC never fires anywhere in that corpus. So "−0.002% on the
corpus" says nothing about this change and everything about the corpus.
Reporting it as a null result without checking whether the subject was live
would have been CLAUDE.md hazard 4, and it is the reason the microbench carries
the claim.
The two things #8184 said a PR must establish, not inherit
1.
GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT∈WRITE_PIC_BLOCKING_FLAGS— verified onmainWRITE_PIC_BLOCKING_FLAGS = 0x1907(expr/proxy_reflect.rs:51) and0x1907 & 0x1000 == 0x1000, so it containsGC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT. Theflags_clearterm (icmp eq i16 (reserved & 0x1907), 0) is ANDed into allfour of
hit/hit2/hit3/hit4, so a PIC hit proves INTACT is CLEAR.Verdict: the argument holds, and it is worth stating that it is two
independent arguments, not one:
pointer_testedusesjs_gc_note_slot_layoutand skips it when the valuecarries no pointer, which drops the clearing half — an old pointer
overwritten by a double no longer removes the slot's side-mask bit. That is
safe on its own terms: a stale-SET bit is strictly weaker than
GC_LAYOUT_UNKNOWN, the collector's DEFAULT for a generic object.heap_payload_slot_selectionturnsMaskedandAllinto the sameHeapChildSlot::Childitems — only the telemetryReadKinddiffers — so theworst case is the collector examining a slot holding a double, which is
exactly what it already does for every unknown-layout object. It cannot
STRAND a child, and stranding is the only direction that is a bug.
layout_note_slot's one arm that MUST fire,SlotVerdict::Downgrade, isunreachable here twice over: it sits behind
claimed_intact(false at aPIC hit, above), and it needs a pointer value, which is the case
pointer_testeddoes not skip.The same fact retires
layout_note_conforming: its comparand isGC_LAYOUT_SIDE_MASK | GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT(0x9000), provably false ata PIC hit, so the PIC passes
falserather than emitting a load, a mask, acompare and two blocks that always take the same edge.
2. The
hit_end_labelblock hazardConfirmed and handled.
hit_end_labelis the merge phi's predecessor for thestored value (
proxy_reflect.rs:796), and the new emitter takesctxandsplits blocks — on return
ctx.current_blockis itsput.pic.gc_bookkeeping.done. Both thebrto the merge and the label capturemoved BELOW the call, with a
BLOCK HAZARD:comment saying so and why. Checkedin emitted IR rather than assumed:
(This one would in fact have failed loudly rather than silently — a phi naming a
predecessor that cannot reach it is invalid IR — but it was checked in the IR,
not argued.)
#8185: the evidence discipline, done first
docs/src/internals/gc-rooting-invariant.mdhad 561 lines on rooting and zerooccurrences of "barrier". The mirror-image rule is now written down: for a
missing or deleted write barrier the runtime instruments are the ones that
cannot see it, and a static IR assertion is the only detector. A dropped
barrier corrupts nothing at the store — it leaves the remembered set merely
INCOMPLETE — so an observable failure needs the parent tenured, the child still
young, a minor landing in that window, and that edge being the only path to
the child.
FORCE_EVACUATE/VERIFY_EVACUATIONverify rewriting, notremembering;
PERRY_GEN_GC=0does not consult the remembered set at all, soit makes the bug unreachable rather than visible. The section also documents
the
GC_STORE_AUDITconvention and is explicit thatscripts/gc_store_site_inventory.pyaudits the comment claim, not the IR.The assertions now run on pull requests. #8183's barrier tests were in
crates/perry-codegen/tests/native_proof_regressions.rs;cargo-testis--lib --binsande2e-scopedonly runs suites the diff names, so they gated their ownPR and no future one — including this one, which moves a store on a GC slot.
They are moved (not duplicated, so they cannot rot in two places) to
crates/perry-codegen/src/expr/write_pic_barrier_tests.rs, joined by two newtests for the static PIC.
emit_jsvalue_slot_store_pointer_testedgains astemparameter — the samething its sibling
emit_write_barrier_slot_generation_testedalready took — soits blocks are named per call site (
put.pic.gc_bookkeeping,put.pic.barrier).Not cosmetic: the census identifies the guarded arm by label, and two sites
sharing a stem would let one site's guard satisfy the other site's assertion.
Class-field callers pass
"class_field_set", so their IR is unchanged — provedby
native_proof_regressions.rs's existingclass_field_set.gc_bookkeepingassertion still passing.
Sabotage: five arms, five reds
Fix committed before the first sabotage, tree restored and re-verified green
after the last.
write_barrier_needed = false)br i1 true, leaving the predicate as dead IRif false && write_barrier_emitted)S5 is the #8185 case in its pure form: the barrier and nothing else. S3 is the
reason the condition is walked by def-chain (
cond → or i1 → {or i1, and i1}) rather than matched as nearby text — a nearby-text check passes S3, whichis the near-miss #8183 recorded.
Gates
cargo fmt --all -- --check,check_file_size.sh,gc_store_site_inventory.py,gc_runtime_root_holders.py,shape_descriptor_census.py,addr_class_inventory.py,check_gc_env_knobs.py,gc_pin_sites.py,gc_gate_wiring_check.py,check_test_registration.py,class_id_collisions.py,workspace_architecture.py --check— all pass.raw_handle_debt.py: 990 (baseline 990), unchanged.gc_root_dominance_check.py— every audit mode (--self-test,--audit-alloc-re,--audit-poll-capable,--audit-poll-reach,--audit-immovable-sources) passes, and the full IR corpus was regenerated withthis PR's compiler (
gc_root_dominance_corpus.sh, 144/144 sources compiled,0 skipped, 171
.ll) and scanned in all three gated modes with the allowliststill empty:
Tests — diffed by name, zero new failures:
cargo test -p perry-codegen --no-fail-fast: 1482 passed / 9 failedagainst the 1480/9 baseline. The +2 is exactly this PR's arithmetic: 4 new
--libtests, 2 moved out of an integration target. The 9 are the same 9(
artifact_records_buffer_read_*×4,explicit_width_guard_proves_wide_buffer_read,proven_buffer_and_typed_array_reads_are_numeric_operandsinnative_proof_buffer_views.rs;canonical_str_local_keeps_shadow_binding_and_tag_dispatched_opsinshadow_slot_hygiene.rs;proven_numeric_counted_loop_emits_no_back_edge_pollin
loop_safepoint_purity.rs;typed_feedback_guards_direct_class_field_specializationin
typed_feedback.rs).To be exact about what was verified rather than assumed: the failure COUNT
matches the stated baseline, every failing test lives in a file this PR does
not touch, and none of the nine asserts on a renamed label — while the one
test that DOES assert on
class_field_set.gc_bookkeeping(
native_proof_regressions.rs:15038) passes, which is the direct evidencethat the
stemrefactor left the class-field IR unchanged. A clean-mainrun of this suite was not done (it is a ~40-minute build on a box already
running three other agents), so the by-name claim rests on those three checks
rather than on a side-by-side.
cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib: 2477 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored —exactly the stated main reference (this PR touches
perry-runtimeonly in aprinted string and a doc comment).
cargo test -p perry --bin perry: 985 passed / 0 failed, the stated reference.Per the owner's instruction, CI was not chased; local validation is the gate.
Adjacent — fixed, and one deliberately not
Fixed:
PERRY_GC_ZEALhas no live parser anywhere in the tree, yetgc/pin.rs's young-pin incoherence report PRINTS it as the first variable ofthe reproduce command it hands the reader, and
dyn_eval/mod.rslists it as alive instrument. Both now say
PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE. Found becausecheck_gc_env_knobs.pyrejected the new doc section for citing it — adiagnostic that hands you a dead variable sends you to run the DEFAULT
configuration and read its green as a result, which is this PR's own subject one
level up. (The measured binaries predate this commit; it is a string literal and
a doc comment in
perry-runtimeand cannot affect codegen — the twolibperry_runtime.aused for the A/B were byte-identical to each other.)Not done, deliberately:
gc_store_site_inventory.pyto verify claims against emitted IR.gc: a deleted write barrier passes every runtime probe — only a static IR assertion can catch it #8185's real long-term ask. It currently audits a
GC_STORE_AUDIT(...)comment, so deleting a barrier while leaving its
(BARRIERED)marker is aclean pass. Making it check the claim is a different and much larger change
(it would need per-site IR provenance); doing it here would bury the
measurable part of this PR. The limitation is now written down in the doc
instead of being implied by the script's name.
_awarefor the plain note. Input.dynic.store.refthe value is already proven pointer-tagged, sojs_gc_note_slot_layout_aware's "neither side is a pointer" early-out cannever fire — the old-value load, its bitcast and the fourth argument are
dead weight (~2 instructions). Not taken: it is a different store site,
worth ~2 instructions against this PR's 98, and it would require editing the
very assertion perf(codegen): store reference values inline in the dynamic-key write IC (#8108) #8183 landed a day ago to catch a deleted barrier. Churning
that assertion to bank two instructions is the trade gc: a deleted write barrier passes every runtime probe — only a static IR assertion can catch it #8185 exists to argue
against. Noted here rather than filed, so whoever next touches that arm has
it in hand.
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