perf(gc): build the stack-map index on first collection, not at startup (−26% startup, −42% RSS) - #9191
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change defers stack-map index construction and adds an explicit build operation. Three GC collection entry points now build the index before collection begins. ChangesGC stack-map initialization
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The PR defers GC stack-map construction until collection, but concurrent image initialization can leave the collector using stale root metadata or trigger several large index builds at once. Missing native roots could reclaim live objects and corrupt the process, so merge should wait for synchronized invalidation/publication or an equivalent generation-safety fix. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GCInitialization
participant StackMaps
participant GCCollection
participant StackMapIndex
GCInitialization->>StackMaps: initialize()
StackMaps->>StackMaps: read PERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS
GCCollection->>StackMaps: ensure_stack_maps_built()
StackMaps->>StackMapIndex: build index when not initialized
StackMapIndex-->>StackMaps: completed index
StackMaps-->>GCCollection: continue collection
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/stack_maps.rs`:
- Line 670: Synchronize stack-map invalidation, initialization, and rebuilding
around STACK_MAPS_INITIALIZED and StackMapIndexStore::rebuild_with so js_gc_init
cannot race with collection and publish a stale initialized state. Ensure
concurrent first collections coordinate through a shared build state or
generation check, allowing only one 117 MB index build and forcing later
collections to rebuild before scanning newly loaded image roots.
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| /// Re-arms on every call: a newly loaded image calls `js_gc_init` again, and | ||
| /// the next collection must decode its section too. | ||
| pub(in crate::gc) fn initialize() { | ||
| STACK_MAPS_INITIALIZED.store(false, Ordering::Release); |
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Synchronize stack-map invalidation and rebuilding.
If js_gc_init overlaps a collection, STACK_MAPS_INITIALIZED can become true after initialize() resets it. A later collection can then skip ensure_built() and scan a stale index, missing roots from the newly loaded image and corrupting the heap. Also, StackMapIndexStore::rebuild_with locks only after building, so concurrent first collections can each allocate the 117 MB index. Use a synchronized build state or generation-based invalidation.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/roots/stack_maps.rs` at line 670, Synchronize
stack-map invalidation, initialization, and rebuilding around
STACK_MAPS_INITIALIZED and StackMapIndexStore::rebuild_with so js_gc_init cannot
race with collection and publish a stale initialized state. Ensure concurrent
first collections coordinate through a shared build state or generation check,
allowing only one 117 MB index build and forcing later collections to rebuild
before scanning newly loaded image roots.
Source: Coding guidelines
`js_gc_init` decoded the entire gc-map section at every process start. For claude-code that is 17.4MB, 72,713 functions and 2,151,926 records, producing a 117MB index — and a run that never collects never reads a byte of it. The build now happens at the first collection instead. Measured on one binary switched with PERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS, a 1,500-function program carrying 3.87MB of source, medians of interleaved pairs of 40 runs on a quiet machine: startup 17.25 ms -> 12.77 ms (-26%) peak RSS 61.4 MB -> 35.6 MB (-42%) A hello-world is unchanged (3.51 -> 3.47 ms), which is the shape you would expect: its section is small, so there was little to defer. WHY THIS IS SAFE TO DO NOW, AND WAS NOT BEFORE. Scanning against an unbuilt index is indistinguishable from an image with no native roots — both are empty — and the consequence is that the collector finds no roots on the frame and frees live objects with no diagnostic. Correctness therefore rests on every path that can reach the root scan first passing through the build, and neither I nor the analysis this came from could enumerate those paths reliably: an initial claim of "two chokepoints" was withdrawn as unverified, and tracing found at least three fan-in points plus untraced allocation-triggered entries. So PerryTS#9182 landed the fail-closed assert FIRST, against the eager build, where it could not fire. This change is what it was for. That decision paid immediately. The assert caught THREE entry points I had not enumerated: the first safepoint-triggered collection, and two more surfaced by sweeping the differential corpus. It also caught my own misplacement — I had put the build in `gc_finish_{arena,malloc}_trigger_collection`, which take a `GcCollectOutcome` and therefore run AFTER the collection they name. Every one of those would have been a silent heap corruption found weeks later; each was instead a loud abort found in minutes. The build is now at the three functions every collection actually funnels through — `gc_collect_minor_with_trigger`, `gc_collect_forced_evacuating_minor` and `gc_collect_full_mark_sweep_with_trigger` — where allocation is still legal, which is the constraint that stops the build being deferred any further: the root scan itself must stay allocation-free once the collector owns the heap. `initialize` re-arms rather than builds, so a newly loaded image's section is decoded by the next collection. Validation: 39 runs across 13 programs under PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE with seeded aggressive schedules — up to 193,052 moved objects — assert firing zero times and output byte-identical to node, except two pre-existing differences (PerryTS#9173 and the class-prototype accessor gap) that reproduce identically with the kill switch on. Kill switch: PERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS=0 restores the eager decode. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01F1dt1jfzK2cheMZyus6y6p
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Merged. The two-PR sequence worked, and that's the headline. #9182's assert caught three unenumerated entry points and one genuinely nasty misplacement — the build sitting in Verified the subject is live rather than trusting the numbers. A number moving is not evidence the deferral is what moved it, so I A/B'd one binary on That's −15%, not your −42%, and the gap is my fixture rather than a disagreement: mine carries far less source text, so there is a much smaller section to defer. Same direction, smaller subject. Startup didn't resolve at all on it (both arms 0.00 s), so I can't independently corroborate the −26% — your interleaved-medians methodology on a 3.87 MB program is the better measurement and I'd quote yours, not mine. Correctness: 12 arms across 4 GC-heavy programs (linked-list churn with a rolling live set, symbol-keyed property lookup, throw-in-loop under allocation churn, typed-array and class-hierarchy work) under default, One thing to keep in view: CLAUDE.md's GC knob kill-policy says every GC knob needs a required CI arm exercising its OFF state, or it gets deleted after one release of soak. Added the Unrelated: the |
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Step 2 of the sequence #9182 opened. #9182 must be in main before this — it is, and this is what it was for.
What was wrong
js_gc_initdecoded the entire gc-map section at every process start. For claude-code: 17.4 MB, 72,713 functions, 2,151,926 records, producing a 117 MB index. A run that never collects never reads a byte of it.Numbers
One binary switched with
PERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS. A 1,500-function program carrying 3.87 MB of source; medians of interleaved pairs of 40 runs on a quiet machine:A hello-world is unchanged (3.47 vs 3.51 ms), which is the shape to expect: its section is small, so there was little to defer.
Why this was not safe before, and is now
Scanning against an unbuilt index is indistinguishable from an image with no native roots — both are empty — so the collector finds no roots on the frame and frees live objects with no diagnostic at all. Correctness therefore rests on every path that can reach the root scan first passing through the build, and that enumeration could not be established: an initial claim of "two chokepoints" was withdrawn as unverified, and tracing found at least three fan-in points plus untraced allocation-triggered entries.
So the fail-closed assert landed first (#9182), against the eager build, where it could not fire.
That decision paid immediately, and this is the part worth reading. The assert caught three entry points I had not enumerated — including the first safepoint-triggered collection — and it caught a mistake of mine: I had put the build in
gc_finish_arena_trigger_collectionandgc_finish_malloc_trigger_collection, which take aGcCollectOutcomeand therefore run after the collection they name. A placement that is useless, invisible to every timing test, and would have been a silent heap corruption discovered weeks later. Instead it was a loud abort in minutes, four separate times.That is precisely the failure the two-PR sequence was designed to catch, catching precisely that failure, on the first run.
Where the build goes
The three functions every collection funnels through —
gc_collect_minor_with_trigger,gc_collect_forced_evacuating_minor,gc_collect_full_mark_sweep_with_trigger— where allocation is still legal. That is the constraint that stops the build being deferred any further: the root scan itself must stay allocation-free once the collector owns the heap, which is why it was hoisted to init in the first place.initializere-arms rather than builds, so a newly loaded image's section is decoded by the next collection.Scope of the win
Worth stating so the 26% is not quoted for the wrong workload: a non-collecting run (
--version, shell completions, health checks) avoids the decode entirely. A run that does collect —cc --helpspends 16.4% of wall time in minor collections — only has it deferred, not removed. Avoiding the decode for functions never on a stack needs the per-functionstream_offsetin a v5 map format, which is a separate change.Validation
39 runs across 13 programs under
PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACEwith seeded aggressive collection schedules — up to 193,052 moved objects — with the assert firing zero times and output byte-identical to node.Two programs differ from node in both arms: the
Buffer.isBufferdefect (#9173) and a class-prototype accessor-descriptor gap. Both reproduce identically withPERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS=0, so they are pre-existing and not from this change.Gates
-D warningsclean; hir 591/0; codegen 1842/0; runtime lib 2847/0; census, address-classification, file-size and raw-handle-debt lints all pass with none raised. Integration: 7/7, 5/5, 7/7, 2/2, 3/3, 3/3.Kill switch
PERRY_LAZY_STACK_MAPS=0restores the eager decode atjs_gc_init.Summary by CodeRabbit
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