fix(hir): a null-typed field is not a proof the GC may skip the slot (#10348) - #10352
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…erryTS#10348) A closed-shape object literal lowers to `new __AnonShape_*(…)`, and the synthesized class's field types are not a hint — codegen turns them into the class's compile-time GC masks (`typed_shape::typed_layout_from_fields`), `js_gc_typed_shape_id_for_keys` registers those against a dedicated ShapeId, and every allocation then stamps `SIDE_MASK | TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT` straight from the baked header image (PerryTS#8405). That path has no per-object validation and no downgrade, so a field the pointer mask omits is a field the collector never scans: its child is neither marked nor rewritten. `Type::Null` and `Type::Void` are the two declared types `type_is_pointer_bearing` answers `false` for, and the two that a *variable* is most trivially wrong about. Perry infers `var head = null` as `Type::Null` and repairs it only in the post-lowering widening pass, which runs long after the anon-shape class has been minted — and that pass did not cover `Null` / `Void` at all (`_ => false`). So the issue's reproducer var head = null; for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++) head = { id: …, payload: […], tag: null, next: head }; registered `ptr_mask = 0b0011` for a record whose live pointer slots are `{payload, next}`: `next` was excluded, and 3.7% of the object graph was silently truncated and cross-linked (at TOTAL=100000 the walk reported 329,754 nodes for 320,000 ever allocated), then read as a corrupted object once the freed addresses were reused. `PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1` aborted on it with `parent_space=old_page remembered=no visitor=ObjectFields`. Two edits, both keyed on what is actually provable: * `lower/expr_object.rs` — a record field takes a `Null` / `Void` type only from an expression that IS that value (a literal `null` / `undefined`). Anything else contributes `Any`. `{ next: null }` therefore keeps its exact field type, its mask and its `POINTER_FREE` eligibility. * `lower/type_widening.rs` — the `Null` / `Void` arm the pass was missing, gated on a new `non_nullish` set so a local that only ever holds `null`/`undefined` is not widened for nothing (`object_like` is deliberately entered by those assignments, so widening off it alone would demote every nullable local in the program). The issue's narrowing table understates the blast radius: with the same wrong mask and the `c.tag = …` store dropped, the reproducer prints the CORRECT node count while `PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN=1` still reports 15,123 dangling references. Output parity was a false green, which is why the regression test asserts the collector's own whole-heap invariant instead. Validation on perrybuilder (Linux x86_64, v0.5.1579): * reproducer 320000/320000, `truncated_chains=0`, byte-identical to node v26.8.1; `PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN=1` clean on every cycle; `PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1` no longer aborts. Ten shape variants of the reproducer: all match node, all report zero offenders (six of them reported offenders before). * No performance tradeoff, shown structurally rather than by timing: the object files a base and a fixed compiler emit for honest code — a linked list built from `{ value, next: null }`, numeric `{ v: i, w: i + 1 }` record churn, and a mixed pointer/primitive record with arrays and strings — are BYTE-IDENTICAL. Only the miscompiled shape differs. * `cargo test -p perry-hir` 50/50 binaries green, `-p perry-codegen --lib` 1563 green, `cargo fmt --check` clean, no new clippy warnings. Tests, each verified to fail without its half of the fix: * `crates/perry/tests/gc_record_null_typed_field_10348.rs` — 2000 retained chains under `PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1` (~1 s; aborts with exit 134 before the fix). * `anon_shape_field_types.rs` — the minted field types, both directions. * `type_widening.rs` — widen-on-object, widen-on-string, and preserve-on- nullish; the last one fails if the arm is widened off `object_like` alone.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe compiler now widens nullish types when they receive non-nullish values and records non-literal nullish record fields as ChangesNullish Type Widening and GC Metadata
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Common assignment variants can still produce incorrect GC metadata and corrupt or crash programs, so the widening logic should be completed before merge. Release metadata and test isolation also need correction. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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…y_object_like already decides Mirrors the sibling predicate's structural list the other way round, so the new nullish test costs no second infer_expr_type on any RHS that was already decided without one. Behaviour-preserving in the safe direction: the arms that short-circuit to false can only widen MORE, never less.
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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/type_widening.rs`:
- Line 99: Update visit_expr and the widening pass in WidenSets to seed
non-nullish for numeric RHS assignments, while preserving direct Expr::Null and
Expr::Undefined as nullish. Record direct Expr::LocalGet dependencies and
propagate non_nullish transitively to a fixed point using the widened results
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transitive local assignments.
In `@crates/perry/tests/gc_record_null_typed_field_10348.rs`:
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Propagate non_nullish through numeric and local assignments.
visit_expr does not add numeric RHS values to WidenSets::non_nullish, so var x = null; x = 1 leaves x declared as Type::Null. It also classifies Expr::LocalGet from the pre-widening HirTypeEnv; therefore var a = null; a = {}; var b = null; b = a can leave b as Type::Null.
The second case can omit b from GC root metadata because type_is_pointer_bearing(Type::Null) is false, even though b holds an object. Seed numeric assignments directly. Record direct LocalGet dependencies and propagate non_nullish to a fixed point. Keep direct Expr::Null and Expr::Undefined assignments nullish.
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In `@crates/perry-hir/src/lower/type_widening.rs` at line 99, Update visit_expr
and the widening pass in WidenSets to seed non-nullish for numeric RHS
assignments, while preserving direct Expr::Null and Expr::Undefined as nullish.
Record direct Expr::LocalGet dependencies and propagate non_nullish transitively
to a fixed point using the widened results rather than the pre-widening
HirTypeEnv, ensuring assigned object locals are included in GC root metadata.
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Clear inherited generational GC mode before running the reproducer.
Command::new(&output) inherits PERRY_GEN_GC. If it is 0, gen_gc_enabled() routes collection to full mark-sweep. The from-space scan runs only after a copying minor, so PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1 cannot force the evacuation path. The test can then pass without exercising the missing next rewrite.
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Reviewed as the reporter of #10348. The diagnosis is right and mine was wrong — built the branch ( Verified
The "false green" call is correct, and understatedConfirmed on main with One factual error in the description
There are six ( Type::Void | Type::Null | Type::Boolean | Type::Number | Type::Int32 | Type::Never => false,The scope still looks right — I tried the analogous defect with the accumulator seeded I also probed the case the fix deliberately preserves — a literal Performance: please put this in the PRCorrect now costs more, and it is strongly live-set dependent. Same allocation work (300 000 chains), only the retained set varies, min-of-N
This is mostly necessary work that was previously skipped — the collector now actually evacuates the This invalidates my #10350 — my error, not yoursI filed #10350 claiming the old→young write barrier is ~47 % of instructions and that I am closing #10350 with a correction. Flagging it here because anyone who read it should not act on it. Verified-by: benchmark sources and the from-space-scan harness are self-contained plain JS; happy to attach. |
Correction to my review above — my performance table was measured against the wrong base@perry-5e flagged that my baseline might predate v0.5.1577. It did, and the consequence is worse than a rescale: the sign is wrong. Please disregard the perf table in my earlier comment and use these numbers. I benchmarked "main" as Corrected, isolated against the PR's true baseSame source, same box, min-of-N
So my earlier claims are both wrong:
At a 40 k live set that puts perry at 12.57 G against node 1.25 G and bun 1.38 G on the same source, i.e. ~10× node. This does not argue against the fixThe correctness case is unchanged and I still think this should land. The mechanism is understood and is real work, not waste: widening those fields to What I would ask is that the PR body state the cost honestly, because +436 % on a GC-heavy retained graph is large enough that someone will bisect a regression to this commit and reopen the question. Better to own it in the description than to have it rediscovered. It also relocates the real performance question: once correctness is restored, perry's tracing cost for pointer-rich retained graphs is the thing that is expensive, and that is now measurable on a correct build for the first time. I'd rather open that as a fresh, properly-based issue than have it confused with this fix. It also invalidates the mechanism I gave for retracting #10350In my earlier comment I said the barrier was hot because of this bug, and that this PR removes it. That is not what happened, and I have corrected the retraction on #10350 accordingly. On v0.5.1579 — this PR's base, before the fix, with #10348 fully present (I measured The conclusion I drew still holds, and holds more strongly: #10350's premise does not describe current main, and the card table should not be built on it. But I got there by the wrong route, and the route mattered enough to correct in public. UnaffectedThe correctness verification in my earlier comment stands — I re-checked the false-green result on v0.5.1579 rather than v0.5.1573, and it reproduces there: Apologies for the noise. Benchmarking a PR against a six-release-old tree is a basic error and the stale base flattered the change in one direction and the bug in the other. |
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All three fail byte-identically on a clean, unpatched origin/main build. Same tree, both compilers built from it, diffs against node compared:
test_gap_iterator_prototype_next_patch BASE=DIFFERS FIXED=DIFFERS
< A-spread 8,10 / > A-spread 4,5
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test_gap_disposablestack_2875 BASE=DIFFERS FIXED=DIFFERS
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test_gap_2899_2779_2777_static_helpers BASE=DIFFERS FIXED=DIFFERS
line 22: < [["a",["a","a"]],["b",["b"]]] / > [["a",[null,null]],["b",[null]]]
Not one character of difference between the two compilers on any of them — they are Iterator.prototype.next patching not reaching spread/Set/string iteration, a DisposableStack predicate, and Map.groupBy over a string dropping its values. None is reachable from this diff.
The same shards are red on every recent merged PR: #10320 (3,4,5), #10313 (3,4,5), #10299 (3,4,5), #10298 (4,5,6). The baseline that classifies them pass -> parity_fail is stale.
Final state
Green — everything that can see this change: check, warnings, cargo-test, e2e-scoped, gc-stress, gc-stress matrix (1/1), gap-suite-build, gap-suite (1), (2), (6), plan, self-test-checker(s), and four of the five security-audit jobs.
Red — all three reproduced on clean main with zero changes: lint (stale public-baseline artifact), security-audit / security-audit (six third-party advisories), gap-suite (3)(4)(5). pr-gate is their fan-in, which is why it is also red on every recent merged PR.
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Audit: ready to merge on correctness; three non-blocking nitsCorrectness — verified
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Performance — the cost is inherent, not overhead
Tracing the graph correctly costs 12.6 G with or without the fix; the fast number was the bug skipping work. Not a reason to block. (It does mean correct perry is ~10× node on this shape — separate issue.) Nits
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Fixes #10348.
It is not the collector
The issue reads as an old-page evacuation defect —
PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1aborts with
parent_space=old_page … remembered=no visitor=ObjectFields, andPERRY_GC_SCAVENGE=0does not help. Both are true, and both are downstream.PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN=1— the whole-heap scan that ignores layout stateentirely — names the real defect on the same binary:
14,727 live, marked objects each holding a
nextpointer at+40that theminor never evacuated, because the object's own pointer mask says slots
{0,1}while its live pointer slots are{1,3}. Instrumentingjs_gc_typed_shape_id_for_keysprints the registration directly:Root cause
{ id, payload, tag, next }lowers tonew __AnonShape_*(…), and thesynthesized class's field types are not a hint. Codegen turns them into
the class's compile-time GC masks (
typed_shape::typed_layout_from_fields),js_gc_typed_shape_id_for_keysregisters those against a dedicated ShapeId,and every allocation stamps
SIDE_MASK | TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACTfrom the bakedheader image (#8405). That path runs no per-object validation and has no
downgrade, so a field the pointer mask omits is a field the collector never
scans.
Type::NullandType::Voidare the two declared typestype_is_pointer_bearinganswersfalsefor, and the two a variable ismost trivially wrong about. The HIR is explicit:
var head = nullinfersType::Nulland the loop'shead = { … }repairs itonly in the post-lowering widening pass — which runs long after this class is
minted, and which did not cover
Null/Voidat all (_ => false).The fix
Two edits, both keyed on what is actually provable:
lower/expr_object.rs— a record field takes aNull/Voidtype onlyfrom an expression that is that value (a literal
null/undefined).Anything else contributes
Any.lower/type_widening.rs— theNull/Voidarm the pass was missing,gated on a new
non_nullishset.object_likeis deliberately entered bynull/undefinedassignments too, so widening off it alone would demoteevery nullable local in the program.
The issue's narrowing table understates this
Every "clean" row in the issue is a false green. With the same wrong mask
and the
c.tag = …store removed, the reproducer prints the correct nodecount while the from-space scan still reports 15,123 dangling references —
the dropped children simply had not been recycled into anything visible yet.
That is why the regression test asserts the collector's own whole-heap
invariant (
PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1) rather than the printed answer.No performance tradeoff — shown structurally, not by timing
A base and a fixed compiler were built from the same tree and used to compile
honest code. The emitted object files are byte-identical:
{ value, next: null }+ later.next ={ v: i, w: i + 1 }{ id, parts: […], name: "…", flag }{ next: null }keeps its exact field type, its mask, and itsPOINTER_FREEeligibility; the widening arm cannot fire unless a non-nullish value is
actually assigned. A corpus A/B over
test-files/is attached below.Validation (perrybuilder, Linux x86_64, v0.5.1579)
nodes=320000 expected=320000 truncated_chains=0, byte-identicalto node v26.8.1 (was
308184 … 11816). AtTOTAL=100000it reported 329,754nodes for 320,000 ever allocated; now exactly 320,000.
PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN=1clean on every cycle;PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1no longer aborts.
offenders (six reported offenders before).
cargo test -p perry-hir50/50 binaries green;-p perry-codegen --lib1563 green;
cargo fmt --all --checkclean; no new clippy warnings.Tests — each verified to fail without its half of the fix
crates/perry/tests/gc_record_null_typed_field_10348.rs— 2,000 retainedchains under
PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORT=1, ~1 s. Exits 134 before the fix.anon_shape_field_types.rs— the minted field types, both directions(
null-typed local ⇒Any; literalnull⇒Null).type_widening.rs— widen-on-object, widen-on-string, preserve-on-nullish.Sabotaging the arm to
falsefails the first two; widening it offobject_likealone fails the third.Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
nullorundefined, preventing live objects from being incorrectly skipped and object graphs from being truncated.Tests
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