fix(gc): convert gc/census.rs to hot TLS and classify its holders (#9740) - #9774
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…rryTS#9740) `crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/census.rs` was the last file keeping `tls-budget` / `self-test-checkers` red on `main`. It declared two shipping raw `thread_local!` blocks, which `scripts/check_thread_locals.py` rejects, so every open PR inherited a red X that hid real failures. Converting them to `crate::perry_thread_local!` makes `gc_runtime_root_holders.py` see the declarations for the first time — it enumerates `perry_thread_local!`, so a raw block is audited by NEITHER gate. That is the wrong way round, and PerryTS#9740's first finding: the declarations that skipped the convention are exactly the ones whose GC contract nobody checked. The file's `#[cfg(test)]` block is folded into the macro as well (the checker does not count it, but the inventory should see it), so no declaration in `census.rs` is now outside the inventory. `ARMED`, `SEQ`, `LABEL` and `TEST_PATH_OVERRIDE` are a flag, a counter, a `&'static str` and `#[cfg(test)]` storage — `not_a_gc_pointer` and `test_only`. `PASS1_MARKED` is what PerryTS#9740 was filed for, and it needed a new verdict. It holds real GC header addresses, so `not_a_gc_pointer` — defined as an id, a counter, an epoch, a code address, .rodata or Rust-owned state — would be a false statement about it. `covered_elsewhere` names a scanner, and no root scan can observe this holder at all: it is empty outside the window. `open_gap` and `unverified` assert a defect or an open question and both fail the gate. The holder is correct precisely BECAUSE it is untraced — tracing the marked set would make the census a participant in the reachability it exists to report. `untraced_in_nonmoving_window` states that contract: a GC address, untraced, written and consumed inside one window in which nothing moves, nothing is freed and the mutator never runs, used as a key rather than dereferenced. Verified against the source rather than taken from the issue: both call sites in `gc/cycle.rs` are guarded by the identical predicate (`self.minor.is_none() && !progress_kind.is_budgeted()`, since `full_trace = self.minor.is_none()`), so pass 1 running implies pass 2 consuming it; not-minor means no evacuation and no `rewrite_forwarded_references` in that cycle; not-budgeted means `run_to_completion` drives every phase on an unbounded budget, so no mutator window exists between them; and the addresses are only `binary_search` keys at census.rs:389. The window is the entire safety argument, so the window is what the gate pins. An entry must name it with `window_opens` / `window_closes`, and `window_problems` checks against the holder's own source — the same shallow same-file method the script already uses for coverage — that both functions still exist and both still name the holder. Renaming a boundary, deleting one, or moving the write or the take out of it turns the gate red. Proven by sabotage: renaming `census_take_if_armed_at_full_sweep_start` and replacing the `take()` each produce the corresponding failure, and neutering `window_problems` makes `--self-test` object. `--self-test` drives all three rejections against a planted tree. PerryTS#9740's other finding — that a raw `thread_local!` is invisible to the holder inventory for the ~120 files still on the allowlist — is a separate campaign and is left open on the issue. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YPfnmWZmSpSWpmnoXvH8z2
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change converts census thread-local declarations to ChangesCensus GC inventory
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change moves census TLS into the runtime inventory and adds validation for untraced GC-address windows. The boundary validator can be bypassed by duplicate function names, potentially allowing later changes to invalidate the GC lifetime contract without detection; the release note also needs to describe the shipped behavior rather than development history. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Report
participant InventoryChecker
participant SourceChecker
participant CensusSource
Report->>InventoryChecker: validate holder inventory with repository root
InventoryChecker->>SourceChecker: validate named window boundaries
SourceChecker->>CensusSource: read holder source
CensusSource-->>SourceChecker: return boundary function content
SourceChecker-->>InventoryChecker: return boundary validation results
InventoryChecker-->>Report: return inventory problems
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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 6 functions across 2 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)
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In `@changelog.d/9740-census-tls-and-window-verdict.md`:
- Around line 1-5: Revise the changelog fragment to remove development-state
details about main, open PRs, and checker failures; describe only the shipped
conversion of gc/census.rs to hot TLS and the root-holder inventory validation
against its pass-1 snapshot.
In `@scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py`:
- Line 1168: Update function_bodies() and the lookup around bodies.get(fn) to
reject ambiguous duplicate boundary function names, or retain and validate a
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| **Convert `gc/census.rs` to hot TLS, and give the root-holder inventory a | ||
| verdict that fits its pass-1 snapshot.** `census.rs` was the last file keeping | ||
| `tls-budget` / `self-test-checkers` red on `main`: it declared two shipping | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove development-state details from the release note.
The main status and inherited checker failure describe PR history, not shipped behavior. State the final TLS conversion and inventory validation behavior instead.
Based on learnings, changelog fragments must describe final shipped behavior and exclude development-slice narratives.
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the changelog fragment to remove development-state details about main, open PRs,
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Reject ambiguous boundary function names.
function_bodies() merges every same-named function body in one file. If an impl method or inline-module function has the configured name and mentions the holder, this lookup can pass after the real boundary stops touching the holder. The gate then fails to detect a widened GC-address lifetime.
Reject duplicate boundary names, or preserve and validate a qualified function path. Add a self-test with two same-named functions where only the unrelated one mentions SNAP.
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In `@scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.py` at line 1168, Update function_bodies()
and the lookup around bodies.get(fn) to reject ambiguous duplicate boundary
function names, or retain and validate a qualified function path so only the
intended boundary body is checked. Ensure the gate cannot pass using an
unrelated same-named function, and add a self-test with two same-named functions
where only the unrelated function mentions SNAP.
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Closes #9740 (first finding fixed; second finding left open, see the end).
What was red
tls-budget/self-test-checkersrunspython3 scripts/check_thread_locals.pyunconditionally on every PR. On
origin/mainit exits 1:Because that job is unconditional and compiler-free, every open PR inherited
the red X, and it hides the failures people actually need to see.
The blocked conversion
gc/census.rswas left raw deliberately, not by omission — #9740 records why.Converting to
crate::perry_thread_local!makesscripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.pyenumerate the declarations (rule T), andone of them had no truthful verdict available:
Those
usizes are real GC header addresses.not_a_gc_pointercovered_elsewhereopen_gapunverifiedtest_only#[cfg(test)].The verdict, verified against the source
untraced_in_nonmoving_window: the stored value IS a GC heap address and iscorrect BECAUSE it is untraced — written and consumed inside one window in
which nothing moves, nothing is freed and the mutator never runs, and used as a
key rather than dereferenced.
I checked the window rather than taking it from the issue:
census_pass1_if_armed, gc/cycle.rs:1182) and pass 2(
census_take_if_armed_at_full_sweep_start, gc/cycle.rs:1670) are guarded bythe identical predicate —
self.minor.is_none() && !progress_kind.is_budgeted(),since
full_trace = self.minor.is_none()at :1654. So pass 1 running impliespass 2 consuming it; the vector cannot be left populated across a cycle.
evacuate_selected_old_pages_collectingand norewrite_forwarded_referencesin that cycle (both are inside theif let Some(minor)arm). Nothing moves.run_to_completiondrives every phase onGcWorkBudget::unbounded(), and the sliced atomic-finalize subphases onlyreturn to the mutator when
budget.work_units != usize::MAX. No mutatorwindow exists between the two boundaries.
binary_searchkeys (census.rs:389) — compared,never dereferenced.
census's observation, and tracing it would make the observer a participant in
the reachability it reports.
Worth flagging for review:
map.rs'sMAP_COMPACTION_LOGis also address-keyedand carries
not_a_gc_pointer. The difference is that it is long-lived andmaintained across moves (
map_header_moved_for_gcre-keys it,js_map_allocdrops stale entries, a dead-owner pruner is registered).
PASS1_MARKEDhas nosuch machinery and needs none, because it cannot survive a move. Giving both the
same label would erase exactly the distinction a reviewer needs.
The verdict is checked, not just asserted
A new verdict is only worth more than an exemption if the thing it claims is
pinned. The safety argument is entirely "the window is shut", so the window is
what the gate pins: an entry must name
window_opens/window_closes, andwindow_problems()checks against the holder's own source — the sameshallow, same-file method the script already uses for coverage — that both
functions still exist and both still name the holder.
Sabotage proof, run on this branch:
census_take_if_armed_at_full_sweep_startwindow_closes names ... which is not a function in ... — the window's boundary was renamed or removed→ exit 1PASS1_MARKED...take()in the closer... no longer mentions PASS1_MARKED — the holder outlives the window the verdict was granted for→ exit 1window_problemsitself--self-testFAILS: "the window verdict accepted window_closes='renamed'…"--self-testdrives all three rejection directions against a planted tree, sothe check cannot quietly degrade into "the field is non-empty".
Also in this PR
ARMED,SEQ,LABEL→not_a_gc_pointer(a flag, a counter, a&'static strfrom string literals).
#[cfg(test)]block is folded into the macro too and classifiedtest_only.check_thread_locals.pydoes not count it, so this was notrequired for green — but it means no declaration in
census.rsis leftoutside the inventory, which is the point of gc_runtime_root_holders: raw thread_local! blocks escape classification, and no verdict fits census.rs's PASS1_MARKED #9740's first finding.
docstring, the
VERDICTSvocabulary, and the inventory's_README.census.rsnow has zero raw blocks.Before / after
cargo check -p perry-runtime --all-targets: clean.Left open
#9740's second finding stands: a raw
thread_local!is still invisible to theholder inventory, and ~120 files remain on the cold allowlist. Making the
inventory enumerate raw blocks too would surface all of them at once and is a
separate campaign, so the issue keeps that half.
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