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…ounters (#10944, partial) Partial and labelled as such. It removes three modules from the flaky population and corrects a comment that states the false premise the whole class rests on; it does not close #10944. The decisive measurement first: `cargo test --release -p perry-runtime` single-threaded is **4215 passed, 0 failed**. Every failure anyone has quoted from this suite is interference, not a defect. In parallel the failing SET moves in both directions between runs — 13 then 14 with an unrelated change, 4 tests failing only in the first and 5 only in the second; 20 distinct names over three runs; three lanes on comparable trees reported 0, 11 and 13 the same night. Converted to `per_test_global!`, which gives each test thread its own instance in a test build and expands to the plain `static` byte for byte outside one: * `intl::segments_view` — OPENS and the four DECLINE_* counters * `object::proto_validity` — PROTO_VALIDITY, ANY_PROTOTYPE_MARKED * `json_tape::cached_read` — the ROOTED_READS test witness Over six parallel runs after the change, none of those three modules appears in the failing set again. The `json_tape` one carried the root-cause comment for this entire class: // The runtime suite is serial. This witness holds no managed values. static ROOTED_READS: AtomicU32 = AtomicU32::new(0); It is not serial. libtest runs tests in one process across many threads, so a sibling taking the same safepoint bumped the witness and the assertion failed by exactly one. The comment now says so. What this does NOT fix, measured: over six parallel runs the population is still 17 distinct tests, and names keep appearing that earlier runs never showed (`builtins::fn_metadata`, `object::class_registry::dispatch`, `json::stringify_flat`, four in `json::stringify_tojson_probe`). Converting them one static at a time is whack-a-mole across modules owned by several lanes. The systemic fix is to extend `scripts/global_sink_isolation.py` — which already fails the `lint` gate on a bare `static` behind a GC clear helper — to cover any process-global counter a test asserts on, which is what `per_test_global!`'s own module docs argue for. Recorded on the issue.
Extends `scripts/global_sink_isolation.py` with a second rule, recorded as a
baseline that may only shrink — the same shape as `raw_handle_debt.py` and
`unrooted_local_shape.py`, including their merge-base half.
WHY A RATCHET. The suite's problem is measured, not suspected:
--test-threads=1 4215 passed; 0 failed
parallel (x6) 4198-4205 passed; 10-17 failed, a DIFFERENT set each run
Zero genuine failures — every one is a test's assertion disturbed by another
test's increment, always off by exactly one. But the population is not
enumerable by inspection: six parallel runs after three modules were
converted still produced 17 distinct names, some no earlier run had shown.
Converting them all at once means editing modules owned by several lanes. So
today's 62 are recorded and only ADDITIONS fail; each entry gets converted by
whoever owns the file, and no new instance arrives quietly.
The existing rule covers tables the GC guards CLEAR. This one covers the much
larger class the same module docs already argue for: "a new sink cannot be
added quietly, and a new *reader* never has to remember anything." #7665,
#7671, #7672 and #7975 are the first four instances; #10944 is the fifth,
which is the case for a gate rather than a fifth patch.
DETECTION. A bare `static` of a shared-mutable type (Atomic*, Mutex, RwLock,
OnceLock, ImageTable, RegistryLatch) that is not inside `thread_local!`,
`per_test_global!` or `perry_thread_local!`, whose name appears inside an
`assert*!(...)` in test code.
Only an ASSERTION counts, deliberately. A first draft flagged any mention and
produced 481 entries of mostly noise — a test that arms a feature flag or
reads a census counter it never checks cannot be broken by a sibling. The
tightened rule yields 62, and matches the failure this exists for: a test
asserts a global count, a sibling makes it off by one.
PROVEN ABLE TO FAIL, four fixtures in `--self-test` (which `lint` already
runs): the hazard is reported, and the three near-misses are not — the same
static declared via `per_test_global!`, one a test mentions but never asserts
on, and one asserted only from production code. End to end: the gate passes
on the baseline, a planted `CANARY_10944` fails it by name, and
`--update-asserted` REFUSES to record the canary rather than absorbing it.
The three conversions from the previous commit are absent from the baseline
rather than listed in it — fixed, not recorded.
`--asserted-no-raise-vs <ref>` is wired into the pull-request job beside the
raw-handle-debt rule, because a ratchet measured only against its own file
can be raised by the very PR that needs raising.
OUT OF SCOPE: the timing-shaped failures (`child_process::reactor`, `pty`,
`stdlib_pump`) have nothing to do with shared counters; they fail under load
on a shared box and need their own triage.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change isolates several runtime test globals and adds a ratchet for asserted process-global statics. The ratchet scans source files, compares a shrink-only baseline, validates merge-base changes, and runs in pull request lint. ChangesAsserted global isolation
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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PullRequestLint->>MergeBase: Resolve and fetch base SHA
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GlobalSinkIsolation->>MergeBase: Read baseline at reference
GlobalSinkIsolation-->>PullRequestLint: Pass or reject baseline increase
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new CI gate can both miss test-global state that causes parallel flakes and block unrelated changes through false matches. Resolve these detector defects before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@scripts/global_sink_isolation.py`:
- Line 594: Update the _STATIC declaration matcher to accept optional mut
between static and the identifier, and ensure static mut declarations are
classified as shared mutable state despite primitive types such as u64. Extend
asserted_self_test() with a static mut case that reaches baseline comparison.
- Around line 628-630: Update the safe-macro parsing logic around the depth and
in_safe checks to track the opening delimiter for parenthesized per_test_global!
invocations across lines, preventing in_safe from being cleared until the
matching delimiter closes. Add a multiline parenthesized fixture and assertion
covering a later static declaration, while preserving existing declaration_kind
behavior.
- Around line 646-653: The assertion scan in check_asserted must match each
declaration only against assertions from its declaring module or file, instead
of the globally joined asserted_text. Refactor the asserted-text collection and
matching around bare so declarations in sibling modules cannot be attributed
incorrectly, while preserving the existing companion *_tests.rs handling.
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| _ASSERT_CALL = re.compile(r"\bassert(?:_eq|_ne)?!\s*\(.*?\)\s*;", re.S) | ||
| _STATIC = re.compile(r"^\s*(?:pub(?:\([^)]*\))?\s+)?static\s+([A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*)\s*:\s*(.+?)\s*=") |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
🔎 Supported by static analysis
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Detect asserted static mut declarations.
The asserted-global ratchet covers process-global mutable state that test code reads. _STATIC requires the identifier immediately after static, and _SHARED_TY excludes plain integer types. Therefore, an asserted static mut HITS: u64 passes neither filter and never reaches the baseline comparison. Accept optional mut in the declaration matcher, and classify that declaration as shared mutable state. Add a static mut case to asserted_self_test().
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
In `@scripts/global_sink_isolation.py` at line 594, Update the _STATIC declaration
matcher to accept optional mut between static and the identifier, and ensure
static mut declarations are classified as shared mutable state despite primitive
types such as u64. Extend asserted_self_test() with a static mut case that
reaches baseline comparison.
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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Track delimiters for parenthesized safe macros. When a per_test_global!( invocation spans lines, depth remains zero on the opener, so this branch clears in_safe. A later static can then be reported as bare storage. The existing parenthesized fixture tests declaration_kind only and uses one line; asserted_self_test does not cover this multiline case. Track the matching delimiter and add a multiline parenthesized fixture.
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In `@scripts/global_sink_isolation.py` around lines 628 - 630, Update the
safe-macro parsing logic around the depth and in_safe checks to track the
opening delimiter for parenthesized per_test_global! invocations across lines,
preventing in_safe from being cleared until the matching delimiter closes. Add a
multiline parenthesized fixture and assertion covering a later static
declaration, while preserving existing declaration_kind behavior.
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| m.group(0) | ||
| for text in tests_by_path.values() | ||
| for m in _ASSERT_CALL.finditer(text) | ||
| ) | ||
| for path, decls in bare.items(): | ||
| for name, _ty in decls: | ||
| if re.search(r"\b%s\b" % re.escape(name), asserted_text): |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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printf '%s\n' '--- focused duplicate shared statics and assertions ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
import re
static = re.compile(r'^\s*(?:pub(?:\([^)]*\))?\s+)?static\s+([A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*)\s*:\s*(.+?)\s*=')
shared = re.compile(r'\bAtomic(?:Bool|I8|I16|I32|I64|Isize|U8|U16|U32|U64|Usize|Ptr)\b|\b(?:Mutex|RwLock|OnceLock|LazyLock|RefCell|Cell)\b')
assertion = re.compile(r'\bassert(?:_eq|_ne)?!\s*\((.*?)\)\s*;', re.S)
decls = {}
tests = {}
for p in Path('crates').rglob('*.rs'):
text = p.read_text(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
for n, ty in static.findall(text):
if shared.search(ty):
decls.setdefault(n, []).append((str(p), text.count('\n', 0, text.find(f'static {n}')) + 1))
region = text if p.name.endswith('_tests.rs') else text[text.find('#[cfg(test)]'):] if '#[cfg(test)]' in text else ''
for body in assertion.findall(region):
for n in re.findall(r'\b[A-Z][A-Z0-9_]*\b', body):
tests.setdefault(n, []).append((str(p), body.strip().replace('\n', ' ')[:120]))
for n in sorted(set(decls) & set(tests)):
if len(decls[n]) > 1:
print(f'{n}: declarations={decls[n]}')
print(f' assertion matches={tests[n][:8]}')
PY
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant source locations ---'
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SHARED = re.compile(r'\b(Atomic(?:Bool|I8|I16|I32|I64|Isize|U8|U16|U32|U64|Usize|Ptr)|Mutex|RwLock|OnceLock|LazyLock|RefCell|Cell)\b')
ASSERT = re.compile(r'\bassert(?:_eq|_ne)?!\s*\(.*?\)\s*;', re.S)
SAFE = re.compile(r'\b(thread_local|per_test_global|perry_thread_local)\s*!')
decls = {}
for p in Path('crates').rglob('*.rs'):
text = p.read_text(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
for m in STATIC.finditer(text):
if SHARED.search(m.group(2)) and not SAFE.search(text[max(0, m.start()-80):m.start()]):
line = text.count('\n', 0, m.start()) + 1
decls.setdefault(m.group(1), []).append((str(p), line))
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if len(paths) < 2:
continue
rows = []
for p, line in paths:
text = Path(p).read_text(encoding='utf-8', errors='replace')
marker = text.find('#[cfg(test)]')
region = text if p.endswith('_tests.rs') else text[marker:] if marker >= 0 else ''
local = []
for m in ASSERT.finditer(region):
if re.search(r'\b' + re.escape(name) + r'\b', m.group(0)):
local.append(m.group(0).strip().replace('\n', ' ')[:100])
rows.append((p, line, local[:2]))
if any(row[2] for row in rows):
print(f'NAME {name}')
for row in rows:
print(' ', row)
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printf '%s\n' '--- all baseline ON declarations and local test references ---'
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Keep assertion matches within the declaring module.
asserted_text joins assertions from every source path before matching declaration names. An assertion containing ON can therefore add every bare shared ON static to the result, including statics in sibling or companion *_tests.rs files that the test does not read. check_asserted() treats these hits as asserted globals, which can create false baseline entries and block unrelated changes.
Keep each declaration associated with assertions from its own module or file. Preserve the existing handling for companion *_tests.rs files.
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In `@scripts/global_sink_isolation.py` around lines 646 - 653, The assertion scan
in check_asserted must match each declaration only against assertions from its
declaring module or file, instead of the globally joined asserted_text. Refactor
the asserted-text collection and matching around bare so declarations in sibling
modules cannot be attributed incorrectly, while preserving the existing
companion *_tests.rs handling.
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Review finding on #10947. `_STATIC` required the identifier immediately after `static`, so a `static mut` declaration never matched at all; and had it matched, `_SHARED_TY` would have excluded it anyway, because a `static mut` is usually a plain integer or array rather than an Atomic or a lock. That is a hole exactly where the hazard is worst. An `AtomicU64` read under contention gives a wrong count; racing on a `static mut` is undefined behaviour. The one shape the rule most needed to catch was the one shape it structurally could not. Fixed by capturing an optional `mut` and treating its presence as sufficient on its own -- a `static mut` is shared mutable state by definition, so it does not have to argue its way past a type filter. Latent today, and stated as such rather than claimed as a catch: the tree's only two `static mut` declarations (ohos_napi.rs) are asserted by no test, so the baseline stays at 62 entries and this commit changes no current verdict. It closes the gap before one arrives. The line anchor keeps `&'static mut` references out: the three in test helpers begin with `let` or `fn`, not `static`. Checked against all five real occurrences in the tree plus four constructed near-misses. Self-test gains a `static mut` case that fails without the fix.
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Review finding on #10947. `_STATIC` required the identifier immediately after `static`, so a `static mut` declaration never matched at all; and had it matched, `_SHARED_TY` would have excluded it anyway, because a `static mut` is usually a plain integer or array rather than an Atomic or a lock. That is a hole exactly where the hazard is worst. An `AtomicU64` read under contention gives a wrong count; racing on a `static mut` is undefined behaviour. The one shape the rule most needed to catch was the one shape it structurally could not. Fixed by capturing an optional `mut` and treating its presence as sufficient on its own -- a `static mut` is shared mutable state by definition, so it does not have to argue its way past a type filter. Latent today, and stated as such rather than claimed as a catch: the tree's only two `static mut` declarations (ohos_napi.rs) are asserted by no test, so the baseline stays at 62 entries and this commit changes no current verdict. It closes the gap before one arrives. The line anchor keeps `&'static mut` references out: the three in test helpers begin with `let` or `fn`, not `static`. Checked against all five real occurrences in the tree plus four constructed near-misses. Self-test gains a `static mut` case that fails without the fix.
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Review finding on #10947. `_STATIC` required the identifier immediately after `static`, so a `static mut` declaration never matched at all; and had it matched, `_SHARED_TY` would have excluded it anyway, because a `static mut` is usually a plain integer or array rather than an Atomic or a lock. That is a hole exactly where the hazard is worst. An `AtomicU64` read under contention gives a wrong count; racing on a `static mut` is undefined behaviour. The one shape the rule most needed to catch was the one shape it structurally could not. Fixed by capturing an optional `mut` and treating its presence as sufficient on its own -- a `static mut` is shared mutable state by definition, so it does not have to argue its way past a type filter. Latent today, and stated as such rather than claimed as a catch: the tree's only two `static mut` declarations (ohos_napi.rs) are asserted by no test, so the baseline stays at 62 entries and this commit changes no current verdict. It closes the gap before one arrives. The line anchor keeps `&'static mut` references out: the three in test helpers begin with `let` or `fn`, not `static`. Checked against all five real occurrences in the tree plus four constructed near-misses. Self-test gains a `static mut` case that fails without the fix.
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Review finding on #10947. `_STATIC` required the identifier immediately after `static`, so a `static mut` declaration never matched at all; and had it matched, `_SHARED_TY` would have excluded it anyway, because a `static mut` is usually a plain integer or array rather than an Atomic or a lock. That is a hole exactly where the hazard is worst. An `AtomicU64` read under contention gives a wrong count; racing on a `static mut` is undefined behaviour. The one shape the rule most needed to catch was the one shape it structurally could not. Fixed by capturing an optional `mut` and treating its presence as sufficient on its own -- a `static mut` is shared mutable state by definition, so it does not have to argue its way past a type filter. Latent today, and stated as such rather than claimed as a catch: the tree's only two `static mut` declarations (ohos_napi.rs) are asserted by no test, so the baseline stays at 62 entries and this commit changes no current verdict. It closes the gap before one arrives. The line anchor keeps `&'static mut` references out: the three in test helpers begin with `let` or `fn`, not `static`. Checked against all five real occurrences in the tree plus four constructed near-misses. Self-test gains a `static mut` case that fails without the fix.
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Review finding on #10947. `_STATIC` required the identifier immediately after `static`, so a `static mut` declaration never matched at all; and had it matched, `_SHARED_TY` would have excluded it anyway, because a `static mut` is usually a plain integer or array rather than an Atomic or a lock. That is a hole exactly where the hazard is worst. An `AtomicU64` read under contention gives a wrong count; racing on a `static mut` is undefined behaviour. The one shape the rule most needed to catch was the one shape it structurally could not. Fixed by capturing an optional `mut` and treating its presence as sufficient on its own -- a `static mut` is shared mutable state by definition, so it does not have to argue its way past a type filter. Latent today, and stated as such rather than claimed as a catch: the tree's only two `static mut` declarations (ohos_napi.rs) are asserted by no test, so the baseline stays at 62 entries and this commit changes no current verdict. It closes the gap before one arrives. The line anchor keeps `&'static mut` references out: the three in test helpers begin with `let` or `fn`, not `static`. Checked against all five real occurrences in the tree plus four constructed near-misses. Self-test gains a `static mut` case that fails without the fix.
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Closes the "the suite cannot attribute a regression" problem by making new instances impossible, and converts the first three. Fixes the mechanism; does not sweep other lanes' modules.
The measurement this rests on
Same binary, same tree, one flag apart:
Zero genuine failures. Every failure this suite has produced for anyone — my 13, and the 0 and 11 two other lanes reported the same night on comparable trees — is one test's assertion disturbed by another test's increment. It always presents identically, off by exactly one:
The premise was written down, in
json_tape/cached_read.rs:It is not serial. libtest runs tests in one process across many threads.
Two commits
6e9c6852— convert three.intl::segments_view's five counters,object::proto_validity's two, and that witness, moved intoper_test_global!— per-thread in a test build, the plainstaticbyte for byte outside one. Over six parallel runs afterwards, none of those three modules appears in the failing set again. The false comment is corrected in place.5279c16d— the ratchet. A second rule inscripts/global_sink_isolation.py, baselinescripts/global_sink_asserted_baseline.txt, 62 entries, may only shrink.Why a ratchet and not a sweep
Six parallel runs after the three conversions still produced 17 distinct failing tests, including names no earlier run had shown. The population is not enumerable by inspection, and converting it all at once means editing modules owned by several lanes simultaneously. So today's set is recorded, only additions fail, and each entry gets converted by whoever owns its file.
The existing rule in this script covers tables the GC guards clear. This covers the larger class its own module docs already argue for:
#7665,#7671,#7672,#7975are the first four instances of this class.#10944is the fifth — which is the argument for a gate rather than a fifth patch.Detection, and why it is narrow
A bare
staticof a shared-mutable type (Atomic*,Mutex,RwLock,OnceLock,ImageTable,RegistryLatch), not insidethread_local!/per_test_global!/perry_thread_local!, whose name appears inside anassert*!(…)in test code.Only an assertion counts. A first draft flagged any mention and produced 481 entries of mostly noise — a test that arms a feature flag or reads a census counter it never checks cannot be broken by a sibling. Tightened: 62, and it matches the failure exactly.
Proven able to fail
--self-test(already run bylint) has four fixtures: the hazard is reported, and three near-misses are not — the same static viaper_test_global!, one a test mentions but never asserts on, and one asserted only from production code.End to end, against the real tree:
CANARY_10944(bare static + a test asserting it)--update-assertedwith the canary presentThe three conversions are absent from the baseline rather than listed in it — fixed, not recorded.
--asserted-no-raise-vs <ref>is wired into the pull-request job beside the raw-handle-debt rule, because a ratchet measured only against its own file can be raised by the very PR that needs raising.Out of scope
The timing-shaped failures —
child_process::reactor(3),pty(2),stdlib_pump(2) — have nothing to do with shared counters. They fail under load on a shared box and need their own triage; they are deliberately not swept in here.Interim rule for reviewers
Until the 62 are worked down, compare both arms with
--test-threads=1. ~32 s against ~12 s, and it is the difference between a verdict and a coin flip.The rule behind 481 → 62
A first draft flagged any test mention of a shared static and produced 481 entries. Narrowing to appears inside an
assert*!(…)gave 62.That is not a tuning detail, it is the difference between a gate and a nuisance: a ratchet whose baseline is mostly noise teaches reviewers to ignore it. A gate is read by someone who did none of the investigation, so precision is worth more in a gate than in a report — a report's reader can discount a false positive, a gate's reader learns to discount the gate. Narrowing from "mentions" to "asserts" is what turned a list into a failure shape.
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