perf(gc): gate the residual prototype registry on an owner header bit (#10362) - #10611
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…PerryTS#10362) The registry holding an explicit [[Prototype]] for a non-meta-capable owner was gated only by OBJECT_PROTOTYPES_NONEMPTY, a process-global latch. One re-prototyped object anywhere armed it for the rest of the run, after which every traced owner-capable cell paid a lock plus a SipHash probe to ask a question that is false for almost all of them. A latch is a cliff: it turns the fast path off for every cell at once, invisibly to any benchmark that does not contain the trigger. Bit 6 of _reserved is OBJ_FLAG_NULL_PROTO, which has exactly one setter (returning *mut ObjectHeader) and seven readers, every one provably unreachable with a non-GC_TYPE_OBJECT cell: three by an explicit obj_type check, three by a converter that returns None first, one by a preceding conjunct in the same && chain. The registry excludes GC_TYPE_OBJECT by construction, so the bit is free across the registry's whole population, not only for arrays -- which is why both existing witnesses exercise it, one of them a lazy array that an array-scoped bit would have missed. GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNER is set at the single funnel, under the registry lock and before the insert: the proof is published before the fact it guards. It is never cleared, and that is sound. Entries outlive owners only when the owner is dead; the prune touches only dead owners; both rekey paths keep the entry while _reserved rides the move (PerryTS#10381's contract, enforced by assert_relocation_copied_the_header). One writer under one lock writes both, so the dangerous direction -- entry present, bit absent -- has no producer. A GC_TYPE_OBJECT owner that reaches the registry anyway keeps the latch-only gate, since bit 6 means something else there. The latch stays as the first test -- one byte load, false for any process that never re-prototyped a non-object -- and the bit is the second, which is what stops an ARMED process paying per traced cell. Sabotage: with the setter made a process-wide no-op, both existing witnesses in gc/tests/residual_prototype_relocation.rs fail at their real verdicts, the registry entry no longer following the lazy header nor the array owner. The bit is load-bearing, not decorative. Measured on main 9df5075, exact instruction counts: the fixture that arms the latch -0.408%, and three that do not are flat (+0.015%, -0.060%, -0.021%). Attributed: -94.3M RandomState::hash_one, -58.2M SipHash write, -36.9M run_copied_minor_attempt, -30.0M transfer_residual_prototype. pointer_slots_read is identical between arms: the collector does bit-identical work.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds a residual-prototype owner bit to non-object headers. Registry insertion sets the bit before recording the entry. Garbage collection and relocation use the bit to gate residual-prototype processing. Tests cover suppressed bit publication during owner relocation. ChangesResidual prototype tracking
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243-249: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winTest the slot-visit gate independently.
The copying collector calls
layout_transfer, sets the forwarding address, and queuesnew_headerfor scanning. With the owner bit suppressed, the rekey does not move the entry fromownertoowner_after. The visitor then looks upowner_after, finds no entry, and performs no remove/reinsert.object_static_prototype(owner_after)remainsNone, so this assertion can pass without exercising the slot-visit gate.Add a direct slot-descriptor assertion or separate sabotage controls for the visitation and rekey gates.
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In `@changelog.d/10611-residual-proto-owner-bit.md`:
- Line 5: Correct the registry description in the changelog so it states that
GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNER covers the non-object registry population, not the
entire registry. Preserve the note that GC_TYPE_OBJECT owners may enter the
registry when meta_capable_object rejects them for another reason and use
latch-only behavior.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/residual_prototype_relocation.rs`:
- Around line 243-249: The test around GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNER does not
independently exercise the slot-visit gate because the disabled owner bit
prevents rekeying first. Add a direct slot-descriptor assertion or separate
sabotage controls so visitation is tested independently from layout_transfer
rekeying, and verify the slot-visit behavior through the relevant symbols in
gc/layout_slot_visit.rs and gc/layout/transfer.rs.
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| - **The residual prototype registry is gated on an owner header bit instead of a process-global latch (#10362).** An explicit `[[Prototype]]` on a non-meta-capable owner lives in an address-keyed registry (#9304) whose relocation obligations were gated only by `OBJECT_PROTOTYPES_NONEMPTY`. One re-prototyped object anywhere armed that latch for the rest of the run, and every traced owner-capable cell then paid a lock plus a SipHash probe to ask a question false for almost all of them — a cliff, not a slope, invisible to any benchmark without the trigger. Measured: routine code leaves it alone (`class X extends Error`, live Array/Map/Set/Error subclass instances: 372–405 relocation-hook calls), while one `Object.setPrototypeOf` on an array takes it to 400,000. | ||
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| `GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNER` reuses bit 6 of `_reserved`, which is `OBJ_FLAG_NULL_PROTO` for `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` and free for every other kind — audited to all seven readers, each provably unreachable with a non-object cell (three by an explicit `obj_type` check, three by a converter returning `None` first, one by a preceding conjunct). Since the registry excludes `GC_TYPE_OBJECT` by construction the bit covers the registry's whole population, which is why both existing witnesses exercise it — one of them a lazy array an array-scoped bit would have missed. Set-only at the single funnel, under the registry lock and before the insert, so the proof is published before the fact it guards; never cleared, because the dangerous direction (entry present, bit absent) has no producer when one writer under one lock writes both. The latch stays as a one-load first test for processes that never re-prototype anything. |
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Correct the GC_TYPE_OBJECT registry statement.
The registry does not exclude GC_TYPE_OBJECT by construction. prototype_chain.rs permits a GC_TYPE_OBJECT owner to fall through when meta_capable_object rejects it for a non-type reason. Such owners use latch-only behavior.
State that the bit covers the non-object registry population instead of the whole registry population.
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In `@changelog.d/10611-residual-proto-owner-bit.md` at line 5, Correct the
registry description in the changelog so it states that GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNER
covers the non-object registry population, not the entire registry. Preserve the
note that GC_TYPE_OBJECT owners may enter the registry when meta_capable_object
rejects them for another reason and use latch-only behavior.
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Gate corrections — one upgrade, one limitation, one harness bugAmending disclosure 2 in the description and adding a stress result, after the run finished. The from-space scan is live here, not darkI previously said it was green but not evidence. Half of that was my own instrumentation error — the per-cycle census it prints is real and I had been grepping for it in the wrong place. On the armed fixture the scan walked 1,137,680 objects across 4 cycles; oldyoung 258,884 across 3; alloc 35 across 7. Every cycle reported So it is a working gate, not a dark one. What is still true: I could not make it fire on this defect class even on a sabotage binary where the bug exists by construction, because the fixture roots the prototype and the owners promote early, so the window never recurs. The demonstrated-live witness for this change remains the unit-test pair, and the scan is corroboration rather than proof. Seeded stress
A harness bug that manufactured a deterministic failureWorth recording because of how convincing it looked. The stress loop first reported It was the harness: Same class as the earlier inert gate on #10584 (a harness reading |
Correction: the clippy claim in the description was asserted, not measured — now measuredThe description says "Clippy reports 12
So: parity is exact, the errors are pre-existing on main and are not introduced here, and the count is 13 rather than 12. The conclusion in the description survives; the number in it was wrong and it was not measured when written. Credit where due — the agent that built this change flagged the gap itself, wrote it into its handoff as an open item with the exact command and expected answer rather than leaving a sentence that reads like a result, and said plainly that if the number came back different its claim needed correcting before the PR landed. It came back different by one. One practical note for a reviewer re-running any of this: the full runtime suite must use |
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Landed via merge train #10652 (v0.5.1596). All source commits preserve authorship; merged main matches the validated train exactly. |
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Part of #10362. Based on main
9df5075fb.Problem
The registry holding an explicit
[[Prototype]]for a non-meta-capable owner (#9304) was gated only byOBJECT_PROTOTYPES_NONEMPTY, a process-global latch. One re-prototyped object anywhere arms it for the rest of the run, after which every traced owner-capable cell pays a lock plus a SipHash probe to ask a question that is false for almost all of them.A latch is a cliff rather than a slope: it turns the fast path off for every cell at once, invisibly to any benchmark that does not contain the trigger. Measured — the latch is not armed by routine code (
class X extends Error, live subclass instances of Array/Map/Set/Error all leave it alone: 372–405 relocation-hook calls) but oneObject.setPrototypeOfon an array arms it and takes that to 400,000.Fix
GC_RESIDUAL_PROTO_OWNERon the owner's own header, so the per-owner question is answered from a word the collector has already loaded.Bit 6 of
_reservedisOBJ_FLAG_NULL_PROTO, which has exactly one setter (returning*mut ObjectHeader) and seven readers, every one provably unreachable with a non-GC_TYPE_OBJECTcell:prototype_equality.rs:68heap_object_addrreturnsNoneunlessobj_type == GC_TYPE_OBJECTformatting.rs:1085else if gc_type == GC_TYPE_OBJECTarmsobject_proto.rs:3object_ptr_from_valuereturnsNonefor non-objects; the?returns firsttail.rs:284object_is_regular(obj)is the preceding conjunct in the same&&chainaccessors.rs:288,for_in_stable.rs:142,field_set_by_name.rs:183obj_typechecksThe registry excludes
GC_TYPE_OBJECTby construction, so the bit is free across the registry's whole population, not only arrays — which is why both existing witnesses exercise it, one of them a lazy array that an array-scoped bit would have missed.object_proto.rsisObject.prototype.toString, which can be.call()ed on an array; the array simply never gets past the?.Set-only, and that is sound. One site, the single funnel, under the registry lock and before the insert — the proof published before the fact it guards. Entries outlive owners only when the owner is dead; the prune touches only dead owners; both rekey paths keep the entry while
_reservedrides the move (#10381's contract, enforced byassert_relocation_copied_the_header). One writer under one lock writes both, so the dangerous direction — entry present, bit absent — has no producer. AGC_TYPE_OBJECTowner that reaches the registry anyway keeps the latch-only gate, since bit 6 means something else there.The latch stays, as the first test: one byte load, false for any process that never re-prototyped a non-object. The bit is the second, and is what stops an armed process paying per traced cell. It remains the right mechanism for Temporal cells, buffers, closures, native handles, proxies.
Sabotage
With the setter made a process-wide no-op, both existing witnesses in
gc/tests/residual_prototype_relocation.rsfail at their real verdicts — the registry entry no longer follows the lazy header, and no longer follows the array owner. Reverted; all three green on the final build. The invariant (a live non-object owner with an entry carries the bit) is additionally asserted undercfg(any(test, debug_assertions)), the shape that does run undercargo test --release.Numbers (exact instruction counts, main
9df5075fb)Attributed, not assumed: −94.3M
RandomState::hash_one, −58.2M SipHashwrite, −36.9Mrun_copied_minor_attempt, −30.0Mtransfer_residual_prototype.pointer_slots_readis identical between arms — the collector does bit-identical work.Gates
18/18 fixtures node-identical · runtime tests base vs fix
--test-threads=1: same two pre-existing failures on both trees, zero regressions · seeded stress on a fixture built for this change (635 forced collections, live re-prototyped Array/Map/Error owners) 8/8 · fmt · file-size, root-holders, scanner-latches, rekeyed-key-tables, thread-locals, env-knobs all OK. Clippy reports 12approximate_constanterrors in six files this PR does not touch.Three disclosures
transfer_residual_prototypegoing to ~zero (−30.0M). Same work, different attribution.PERRY_GC_FROMSPACE_SCAN_ABORTis green but is not evidence here. I could not make it fire even on a sabotage binary where the defect exists by construction (635 forced collections, 12,996 moved objects, still correct output, rc=0) — the fixture roots the prototype and the owners promote early, so the window never recurs. The demonstrated-live witness is the unit-test pair.array::subclass_tests,json::stringify_record_output,json_tape::cached_read, all in populations this change touches, which is exactly what a real regression looks like. All three pass in isolation on both trees; their assertions are on process-global counters that concurrent tests perturb. Use--test-threads=1for this comparison.Summary by CodeRabbit
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