gc: reclaim dead blocks without visiting them in the synchronous full sweep (#10182) [Part 2 pacing does not meet acceptance] - #10217
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… sweep (#10182) A synchronous full sweep walked every arena object; each dead one paid for old-page accounting, finalize_dead_arena_payload and a page-index removal before the block cleanup reset the block wholesale. After a parse/scan loop most blocks hold only dead objects, so a full's cost scaled with garbage. The exact census (ValidPointerSetBuilder) now seals its address-ordered runs at block boundaries and records, per block, the object count, bytes, and whether any header owes per-object work (pinned, forwarded, pre-marked, no ARENA flag, a finalize hook, an error/regexp/lazy-tape hook, raw-f64 array layout bits, or an object while the legacy overflow table or the wasm module-wrapper registry has entries). A successful census membership query marks the query's block as reached; every mark a census-built cycle sets is preceded by one, and the two mark paths that are not (allocate-black births, block-persistence force marks) are excluded by construction (a block whose bump offset moved since the census, and the recent general window, are never skipped). ArenaSweepObjectsState skips a block that is censused, unreached, free of obligations, unchanged since the census, and reclaimed by the cleanup when it has no live object (general blocks outside the recent window, survivor and old blocks). Freed/Eden-dead bytes come from the census sums; the block cleanup's unregister_old_block_pages supersedes the per-object page bookkeeping; element-shape, per-object layout and closure side tables are already dropped by the full trace's dead-owner fan-out. The require-marked old-to-young remembered-set rebuild skips the same unreached blocks. Test builds re-walk every skipped block and assert it holds no marked or pinned header. Budgeted fulls (classifier membership, mutator windows) and minors keep the per-object walk. ArenaSweepObjectsState moves to gc/oldgen/sweep_objects.rs for the 2000-line cap. PERRY_GC_DIAG prints block_skip_reclaimed_blocks / _objects / _bytes on each sweep's [gc] blocks: line.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe GC now records per-arena-block census data during synchronous full tracing. Eligible unreached blocks can be reclaimed without per-object traversal. Remembered-set rebuilding, diagnostics, tests, documentation, and runtime holder records support this path. Budgeted full cycles and minor collections retain their existing walks. ChangesBlock-granular full sweep
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GCTrace
participant BlockCensus
participant GcCycle
participant ArenaSweepObjectsState
GCTrace->>BlockCensus: record block headers and reached runs
GcCycle->>BlockCensus: request unmarked blocks
GcCycle->>ArenaSweepObjectsState: apply census block skips
ArenaSweepObjectsState->>ArenaSweepObjectsState: reclaim eligible blocks
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/block_skip.rs`:
- Around line 305-310: Update the cleanup in the block-sweep test to avoid
reading reclaimed Set storage: remove the post-sweep header_type(neighbour)
assertion and change retire_old_test_set to release the raw elements allocation
directly without accessing the reclaimed Set block or its headers.
In `@docs/src/internals/garbage-collector.md`:
- Around line 43-48: The garbage-collector documentation and changelog should
describe the snapshot-boundary guard in BlockCensus::unmarked_blocks: skip a
block only when the recorded data and data + offset still match the current
arena block, while allocation, reset, or replacement invalidates the snapshot
and preserves the per-object walk; changes in other blocks do not. Keep the
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| assert_eq!( | ||
| header_type(neighbour), | ||
| 0, | ||
| "its dead neighbours are swept per object" | ||
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| unsafe { retire_old_test_set(set, elements, layout) }; |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Avoid accessing the reclaimed Set block after the sweep.
The full sweep walks the dead Set block because GC_TYPE_SET has a per-object finalizer obligation. It still leaves block_has_live false because the Set and its neighbours are unrooted. Cleanup then resets or releases the dead interior block. header_type(neighbour) and the header writes in retire_old_test_set can therefore access reclaimed storage. The raw elements allocation is not registered with the Set registry, so free it directly:
🛠️ Proposed fix
- let neighbour = *objects_in_block(base)
- .iter()
- .find(|&&o| o != set as usize)
- .unwrap();
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synchronous_full();
assert!(!skipped(base), "a block holding a Set must be walked");
- assert_eq!(
- header_type(neighbour),
- 0,
- "its dead neighbours are swept per object"
- );
- unsafe { retire_old_test_set(set, elements, layout) };
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/block_skip.rs` around lines 305 - 310,
Update the cleanup in the block-sweep test to avoid reading reclaimed Set
storage: remove the post-sweep header_type(neighbour) assertion and change
retire_old_test_set to release the raw elements allocation directly without
accessing the reclaimed Set block or its headers.
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| **Block-granular reclamation in the full sweep.** A synchronous full sweep | ||
| reclaims an arena block without entering it when the cycle's exact pointer | ||
| census shows that the trace reached no object in the block and that no object | ||
| in it owes per-object sweep work — no finalizer, no pinned, forwarded or | ||
| already-marked header, and no address-keyed side-table entry that the full | ||
| trace's dead-owner prune does not already drop. The block cleanup then resets |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the snapshot-boundary guard.
BlockCensus::unmarked_blocks skips a block only when its census-recorded data and data + offset still match the current arena block. An allocation that advances that block's offset, or a reset or replacement that changes its base or used end, keeps the per-object walk. An allocation in another block does not invalidate this block.
Update the documentation and changelog to describe these two snapshot checks. Keep the PASS1_MARKED inventory note focused on its non-moving mark-complete-to-sweep-entry window; it does not need to enumerate this predicate.
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In `@docs/src/internals/garbage-collector.md` around lines 43 - 48, The
garbage-collector documentation and changelog should describe the
snapshot-boundary guard in BlockCensus::unmarked_blocks: skip a block only when
the recorded data and data + offset still match the current arena block, while
allocation, reset, or replacement invalidates the snapshot and preserves the
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Draft for #10182. Part 1 (block-granular reclamation) is in and is sound and CPU-neutral or better. Part 2 (pacing parse/scan loops to reclaim dead promoted trees) is not included: every measured variant that reaches the target regime costs +136 to +304 ms of CPU on the target rows. Under the owner rule that is not shippable. The measurements and the structural reason are below. No target row meets both axes on this branch, except
records_array_20m:roundtrip, which already met both on base.Part 1: what changed
A synchronous full sweep now reclaims an arena block without entering it when two facts hold. Both are gathered with no extra heap walk.
The trace reached nothing in the block.
ValidPointerSetBuilder) seals its address-ordered runs at block boundaries and records each run's block. A successful membership query (ValidPointerSet::contains/enclosing_object) therefore names its block for free and marks it reached.try_mark_value,try_mark_raw_root_addr,try_mark_value_or_raw(the conservative words of a full),mark_field_into_worklist, the FORWARDED hop, the incremental barrier (current_heap_header_for_user_ptr), andmark_copy_only_scanner_bits.Nothing in the block owes per-object sweep work. The census already reads every header. It records an obligation for any of:
GC_FLAG_ARENA;GcFinalizeHookKindother than None;GC_ARRAY_RAW_F64_LAYOUT/HOLES(its clear fires a typed-feedback invalidation);Everything else
finalize_dead_arena_payloaddoes is already covered:DEAD_KEY_PRUNES);_reservedheader bits are rewritten to zero by every allocator.The block cleanup is unchanged and still returns the memory. A skipped block contributes nothing to
block_has_live.unregister_old_block_pages, which drops every page of a non-live old block.Also skipped: the require-marked old-to-young remembered-set rebuild in AtomicFinalize skips the same unreached, obligation-free, unchanged blocks.
Not affected: budgeted fulls (classifier membership, mutator windows) and minors keep the per-object walk.
Safety net: in test builds every skipped block is re-walked and asserted to hold no MARKED or PINNED header. The whole 3,758-test runtime suite runs with that check.
Diagnostics:
PERRY_GC_DIAG=1printsblock_skip_reclaimed_blocks= / _objects= / _bytes=on each sweep's[gc] blocks:line.Housekeeping:
ArenaSweepObjectsStatemoves togc/oldgen/sweep_objects.rsfor the 2000-line cap.Cost of a full, before and after
The probe parses
records_array_8m.json, keeps one tree, and callsgc()six times. Quietest of three runs per arm; ms per full; base vs head:build_valid_pointer_set)Tests
New
gc::tests::block_skip. Each protective case has a sabotaged twin: a#[cfg(test)]switch breaks exactly one of the two facts, and the twin shows the harm.FORGET_REACHEDreleases a rooted object's block under its root.FORGET_OBLIGATIONSskips a dead promise'sPromiseCleanup(its three side-table entries survive).FORGET_OBLIGATIONSalso leaves a stale legacy-overflow entry at a recycled address.RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --libgivestest result: FAILED. 3753 passed; 1 failed; 4 ignored. The one failure isgc::tests::heap_generation::a_free_or_move_outside_every_scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds. It asserts that a#[cfg(debug_assertions)]assertion panics, so it cannot pass under--release. It came in with bug(regex): split and replace throw "Regular expression work limit exceeded" on 32,000-unit strings Node handles in under a millisecond #10164, the parent of this branch's base, and has nothing to do with this change.Gates
scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: exactly main's three reds.run_lint_gates: 1 of 77 FAILED (compile tier SKIPPED); 2 CI-only skipped. The failure is[Public benchmark evidence freshness].--list, to keep each step under the foreground timeout.-D warningsproduct check: ok.-D warningshost-compatible, all targets: FAIL, only atobject/global_this_webassembly.rs:192/201/662. These are pre-existing unused functions.scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py: OK.Cell<u64>counters, plus one#[cfg(test)]list of skipped block bases.census.rs:PASS1_MARKEDis re-audited and re-pinned forgc/cycle.rswith a dated note:with_block_skipruns after the snapshot has left TLS.scripts/check_gc_doc_claims.py: OK.garbage-collector.mdgains a paragraph withgc-symbolmarkers pointing at the new tests.Seeded stress (
PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1..4 RATE=0.2 PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 DEPTH=32):retired_set=#lines per seeded run.test_gap_gc*: 44 tests identical to Node and across all four seeds, with the instrument live. Block skip fired instring_literal_operand_rooting.alloc_point_no_movewas skipped (test_gap_gc_alloc_point_no_move.ts does not finish compiling on main (>23 min); #7682 coverage may be dark #8906).call_argument_rooting,http2_pending_event_callback_rooting,net_once_flags_rekey,next_request_import,rest_argument_rooting.staging_args_rootingmatches Node and seeds 1–3, but SIGBUSes under seed 4 (retired_by_minor=#0) on base and head alike, 3/3 runs each.PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1on the worker (8m scan, 20m parse and roundtrip, 1m scan, object_8m parse, 8m parse): exit 0, no stderr, output hashes equal to the unverified run.gc-ratchet
7 repeats, base and head measured back to back on the same host.
Gated counters: every probe's medians are identical (
minor_cycles,step_cycles,copied_*,promoted_*,freed_bytes,heap_used_bytes); onlywall_msand RSS differ, at noise level.check --profile shared_ci: red on base and head with the same 30 rows and the same values.Skip is live on four probes (plain
PERRY_GC_DIAG=1runs without probe env):It is exact:
freed_bytesstayed the same.JSON matrix
22 rows, interleaved, best of 3, same tree; cpu ms / peak MiB.
Rows past +2% CPU, re-measured (best of 7, interleaved):
RSS, re-measured over 7 reps:
wide_1m:parsehas no collections that change: base reads 86 or 87, head reads 87. That is the rounding boundary.records_array_1m:roundtripis 62 against 61 on 7/7 runs, and that one is real. Its eight fulls are alloc-point old-reclaims behind the forced conservative stack scan. From the very first cycle, before any block skip has run, head's scan finds one more root (base/head conservative root counts are 16/17 on cycle 1 and 6/7–8 later), and the root keeps one ~0.9 MB dead string block. That is stack-residue placement in the GC's own frames, not a mark or sweep semantic change: the ratchet counters are identical, and membership answers are unchanged because runs are only partitioned differently.Target rows have the same regime on base and head (
PERRY_GC_DIAG=1). None of them runs a full, so the block-skip counters read 0 on all seven.Target rows against node/bun:
Part 2: measured, not shipped
The cohort-bound patch was applied with a temporary, local-only measurement switch, since removed: old-reclaim is due when bytes promoted since the last full reach
max(floor, k × old live at last full). Single runs,PERRY_GC_DIAG=1; head with Part 1; cpu ms / peak MiB:What the variants show.
k=1, floor 16 MBproduces the intended regime: a full every two to three parses. On the 20 MB rows it brings RSS to 194 MiB, below Node's 220.Structural reason: a full's cost is dominated by the live set, not the garbage. Trace,
k=1variant, one full on 20m:parse; ~601k live objects (one tree):ValidPointerSet::contains→find_arena_floortaking about 46% of the mark's samples. That is two binary searches per traced pointer field.Corrections to the brief and the #10182 plan
GC_FLAG_MARKEDis set." Unnecessary, and the more expensive route. Every census-built mark already passes a census membership query, so run→block recording costs no extra lookup. Hooking the ~12 setters plus allocate-black births would have added a lookup per mark.old_page_account_swept_object,PendingOldUnregister) must move to per block/page." Already redundant for dead blocks. The old dead-block cleanup (unregister_old_block_pages) drops every page's meta and object index for a non-live old block.DEAD_KEY_PRUNES, so the per-dead-objectforget_element_shapein a full was a second pass. The only unpruned per-object clears are the legacy overflow table and the wasm module-wrapper registry, both normally empty. Both are handled as type obligations while non-empty.0956673b5e.records_array_20m:roundtripmeasures 100.5 ms / 260 MiB, not 189.3 / 284, so it already meets both axes.records_array_20m:stringifyandrecords_object_20m:stringifypeak at 198 MiB, not 232.scratchpad/cohort-bound.patchno longer applies cleanly. It conflicts with JSON roundtrip at scale: every minor traces the whole live tree because the large stringify result is malloc-tracked (untraced promotion vetoed) #10169'sGC_YOUNG_LEAF_BORN_OLDand with the census window pin.RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --libgreen." Impossible on this base:heap_generation::a_free_or_move_outside_every_scope_is_caught_in_debug_builds(bug(regex): split and replace throw "Regular expression work limit exceeded" on 32,000-unit strings Node handles in under a millisecond #10164) needs debug assertions.main, and Part 1 does not change which collections run.Summary by CodeRabbit
Performance
Diagnostics
PERRY_GC_DIAG=1, garbage-collection logs now report reclaimed blocks, objects, and bytes.Documentation