Restore the out-of-line GC liveness checks and x86_64 fences removed in #403 - #466
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#403 #403 removed the December 2025 arrangement (b2beff6) on the grounds that the upstream WTF::opaque() volatility fix (308243@main) was the root cause of the linux x64 musl LTO liveness failures it was added for. On x86_64 the liveness paths do not depend on opaque(): Dependency::fence discards its opaqueMixture input there and loadAndFence only calls opaque() on ARM, so that fix does not reach the configuration that failed, and the failure has come back. Since #403 reached Bun (08-11), the linux x64 musl lane has crashed three times in GC marking threads on cells that had already been collected (oven-sh/bun CI builds 96675, 97509, 100350: a zapped cell reaching MethodTable::visitChildren, and twice a contiguous butterfly slot holding a non-pointer under JSObjectWithButterfly:: visitChildren). No other lane has hit this and the failed builds of the preceding week show nothing comparable. This puts back what #403 removed, unchanged except for comments: - Heap::isMarked, MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const void*) and both MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads are defined NEVER_INLINE in Heap.cpp / MarkedBlock.cpp again (isLive keeps upstream's interleaving comment) - Dependency::fence and Dependency::loadAndFence are NEVER_INLINE again - the x86_64 loadLoadFence / loadStoreFence / storeStoreFence use std::atomic_thread_fence again - ALWAYS_INLINE / ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA are not enforced again - JSFinalizationRegistry::reconcileWeakReferencesAtGCEnd (renamed from finalizeUnconditionally by the 47f7250 upgrade) is NEVER_INLINE again The comments now record what is and is not known, so the next attempt to inline these comes with evidence from that lane rather than a build.
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.h`:
- Line 612: Audit the moved-out-of-line GC predicates and add or confirm
JS_EXPORT_PRIVATE on the declarations required by cross-link-unit callers:
update MarkedBlock.h lines 361-362 for MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const
void*), confirm Heap.h for Heap::isMarked(const void*) corresponding to Heap.cpp
lines 138-147, and confirm both Handle::isLive declarations in MarkedBlock.h for
the templates referenced by MarkedBlockInlines.h line 102. No direct change is
needed in Heap.cpp or MarkedBlockInlines.h unless inspection shows their
declarations are missing the export annotation.
In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlockInlines.h`:
- Line 102: Preserve the separate out-of-line definitions of both
MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads; do not merge the convenience overload
into the parameterized overload or inline either one, so forEachLiveCell and
forEachDeadCell retain their current per-cell liveness behavior.
In `@Source/WTF/wtf/Compiler.h`:
- Around line 194-204: Restrict the plain-inline definitions of ALWAYS_INLINE
and ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA in Compiler.h to the failing Linux x64 musl LTO
configuration; retain the upstream forced-inlining behavior for all other
builds. Ensure both macro paths are gated consistently, including lambdas used
by MarkedBlockInlines.h.
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| return header().m_marks.concurrentGet(atomNumber(p), dependency); | ||
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| // MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const void*) is defined out of line in MarkedBlock.cpp; see the note there. |
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Audit export annotations for every GC predicate that moved out of line. Each of these sites relocates a predicate that was previously defined inline in a header. While the definitions were inline, every translation unit emitted its own copy and no exported symbol was required. Each predicate now has exactly one definition, so cross-link-unit callers depend on an export annotation that was never needed before.
Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.h#L612-L612: addJS_EXPORT_PRIVATEto theisMarked(HeapVersion markingVersion, const void*)declaration at Line 362 if any caller lives outside the JavaScriptCore link unit; the sibling overload at Line 361 already carries it.Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/Heap.cpp#L138-L147: confirmHeap.hdeclaresisMarked(const void*)withJS_EXPORT_PRIVATE, since the single definition is now in this file.Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlockInlines.h#L102-L102: confirm bothHandle::isLivedeclarations inSource/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.hcarryJS_EXPORT_PRIVATE, because the inlineisLiveCell,forEachLiveCell, andforEachDeadCelltemplates instantiate in other translation units and now emit external calls.
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.h` at line 612, Audit the
moved-out-of-line GC predicates and add or confirm JS_EXPORT_PRIVATE on the
declarations required by cross-link-unit callers: update MarkedBlock.h lines
361-362 for MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const void*), confirm Heap.h for
Heap::isMarked(const void*) corresponding to Heap.cpp lines 138-147, and confirm
both Handle::isLive declarations in MarkedBlock.h for the templates referenced
by MarkedBlockInlines.h line 102. No direct change is needed in Heap.cpp or
MarkedBlockInlines.h unless inspection shows their declarations are missing the
export annotation.
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| // Both MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads are defined out of line in MarkedBlock.cpp; see the note above MarkedBlock::isMarked in heap/MarkedBlock.cpp. |
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cpp = Path("Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.cpp").read_text()
inlines = Path("Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlockInlines.h").read_text()
for name in (
"MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive(HeapVersion markingVersion, HeapVersion newlyAllocatedVersion, bool isMarking, const HeapCell* cell)",
"MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive(const HeapCell* cell)",
):
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rf"inline IterationStatus MarkedBlock::Handle::{name}\b.*?(?=\n}}\n\n|\Z)",
inlines,
re.S,
)
body = match.group(0) if match else ""
print(f"{name}: convenience isLive(cell) calls = {len(re.findall(r'(?<![\w:])isLive\(cell\)', body))}")
body = re.search(
r"NEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(const HeapCell\* cell\).*?(?=\n}\n\n)",
cpp,
re.S,
).group(0)
print("convenience overload forwards to parameterized overload:",
bool(re.search(r"return isLive\(space\(\)->markingVersion\(\),\s*space\(\)->newlyAllocatedVersion\(\),\s*space\(\)->isMarking\(\),\s*cell\)", body, re.S)))
parameterized = re.search(
r"NEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(HeapVersion markingVersion.*?(?=\n}\n\nNEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(const HeapCell\*)",
cpp,
re.S,
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inlines = Path("Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlockInlines.h").read_text()
signatures = [
"MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive(HeapVersion markingVersion, HeapVersion newlyAllocatedVersion, bool isMarking, const HeapCell* cell)",
"MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive(const HeapCell* cell)",
]
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rf"inline IterationStatus MarkedBlock::Handle::{name}\b.*?(?=\n}}\n\n|\Z)",
inlines,
re.S,
)
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print(f"{name}: convenience isLive(cell) calls = {call_count}")
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r"NEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(const HeapCell\* cell\).*?(?=\n}\n\n)",
cpp,
re.S,
).group(0)
forwarder_pattern = (
r"return isLive\(space\(\)->markingVersion\(\),\s*"
r"space\(\)->newlyAllocatedVersion\(\),\s*"
r"space\(\)->isMarking\(\),\s*cell\)"
)
print("convenience overload forwards to parameterized overload:",
bool(re.search(forwarder_pattern, body, re.S)))
parameterized = re.search(
r"NEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(HeapVersion markingVersion.*?"
r"(?=\n}\n\nNEVER_INLINE bool MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive\(const HeapCell\*)",
cpp,
re.S,
).group(0)
print("parameterized overload Dependency::fence calls:",
len(re.findall(r"Dependency::fence\(", parameterized)))
PY
echo
echo "=== Restore commit hunks for the two overloads ==="
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Measure per-cell liveness iteration before merging. forEachLiveCell and forEachDeadCell call isLive(cell) once per cell. Both MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads are NEVER_INLINE, so the convenience overload adds a second out-of-line call before the parameterized overload performs multiple Dependency::fence calls. Keep both overloads out of line until the documented GC-liveness failure is understood.
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlockInlines.h` at line 102, Preserve the
separate out-of-line definitions of both MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads;
do not merge the convenience overload into the parameterized overload or inline
either one, so forEachLiveCell and forEachDeadCell retain their current per-cell
liveness behavior.
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| /* Upstream defines ALWAYS_INLINE as inline __attribute__((__always_inline__)) in NDEBUG builds. This tree | ||
| * leaves it as plain inline: it is part of the arrangement described above MarkedBlock::isMarked in | ||
| * JavaScriptCore/heap/MarkedBlock.cpp (GC liveness failures on the linux x64 musl LTO build), and it is | ||
| * not known which part of that arrangement is the one that matters. */ | ||
| #if !defined(ALWAYS_INLINE) | ||
| #define ALWAYS_INLINE inline | ||
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| * Therefore we need to give up on the enforcement of ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA when building with ASAN. https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67368 */ | ||
| #if !defined(ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA) && defined(NDEBUG) && !(COMPILER(GCC) && ASAN_ENABLED) | ||
| #define ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA __attribute__((__always_inline__)) | ||
| #endif | ||
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Gate the macro relaxation to the failing configuration. Compiler.h now removes forced inlining from thousands of ALWAYS_INLINE uses and 196 ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA uses across WTF, JavaScriptCore, and WebCore. This affects normal builds outside the Linux x64 musl LTO configuration. The existing NEVER_INLINE annotations cover selected GC functions but not the MarkedBlockInlines.h lambdas.
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In `@Source/WTF/wtf/Compiler.h` around lines 194 - 204, Restrict the plain-inline
definitions of ALWAYS_INLINE and ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA in Compiler.h to the
failing Linux x64 musl LTO configuration; retain the upstream forced-inlining
behavior for all other builds. Ensure both macro paths are gated consistently,
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I reviewed this PR and found no issues. Because it touches concurrent-GC liveness paths, x86_64 memory-ordering primitives, and the tree-wide ALWAYS_INLINE definition, a human look would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- Confirmed the moved function bodies (
Heap::isMarked,MarkedBlock::isMarked, bothHandle::isLiveoverloads) are byte-identical to the inline versions they replace. - Checked that the header declarations for the now-out-of-line functions are not
inline-qualified, so no ODR/linker issues. - Verified
NEVER_INLINEon theDependency::fence/loadAndFencetemplates is safe (in-class template definitions remain implicitly inline for linkage; the attribute only suppresses inlining). - Checked the x86_64 fence change:
std::atomic_thread_fence(acquire/release)is at least as strong ascompilerFence()on x86_64, so this is strictly a strengthening.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR reverts #403 by restoring the December 2025 (b2beff6) arrangement: Heap::isMarked, MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const void*), and both MarkedBlock::Handle::isLive overloads are moved from their ALWAYS_INLINE header definitions back to NEVER_INLINE out-of-line definitions in the corresponding .cpp files; Dependency::fence / loadAndFence are marked NEVER_INLINE; the x86_64 loadLoadFence / loadStoreFence / storeStoreFence use std::atomic_thread_fence instead of compilerFence(); ALWAYS_INLINE / ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDA in Compiler.h are demoted to plain inline / empty; and JSFinalizationRegistry::reconcileWeakReferencesAtGCEnd regains NEVER_INLINE. Eight files across heap/, runtime/, and wtf/.
Security risks
None introduced. The change strictly strengthens memory ordering (a std::atomic_thread_fence is at least as strong as a compiler-only fence on x86_64) and forces call boundaries where inlining previously happened. These are the paths that decide GC liveness, so a mistake here would be a use-after-free / type-confusion vector — but the moved bodies are byte-for-byte the ones removed, and this is the exact configuration Bun shipped for eight months without incident.
Level of scrutiny
High. This touches (a) the concurrent-GC read protocol that decides whether a cell survives collection, (b) the WTF memory-fence primitives every ordering-sensitive path in the tree relies on, and (c) the tree-wide ALWAYS_INLINE macro, which changes codegen for thousands of call sites. It is a revert to a known-good state with a very thorough justification, but the underlying mechanism is explicitly stated to be unknown, and the Compiler.h change has blast radius far beyond the GC. That combination warrants a human reviewer signing off, not just an automated pass.
Other factors
- The moved function bodies match the removed inline versions exactly (only the trailing comment paragraph in
isLiveabout "Probably many users of CountingLock…" was reworded to point at the new note; the code is unchanged). - Header declarations in
Heap.handMarkedBlock.hfor the moved functions are already plain (non-inline) member declarations, so the out-of-line definitions link cleanly. NEVER_INLINEon the header-definedDependencytemplates is fine: they remain implicitly inline for linkage (linkonce_odr), so no multiple-definition risk.- Verification is limited to
-fsyntax-onlyon one target; the PR description is upfront that the actual proof is the musl lane going quiet, which cannot be observed from a single build. That is another reason a human should be in the loop on merging and follow-up.
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Preview build autobuild-preview-pr-466-b9632ab6 published across the matrix, including bun-webkit-linux-amd64-musl-lto. Bun's build and test suite is running against it in oven-sh/bun#39500; I will report the result here. The thing this change is for (the linux x64 musl lane crashing about once per thousand builds) is not something one run can confirm either way, so that run is a build/link and general regression check, not the proof. |
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Closing this. A review of the argument found the anchor of it to be wrong, and I have verified that:
What does stand, for whoever picks this up: Bun's linux x64 musl lane has had three GC-marking crashes on already-collected cells since 08-14 (oven-sh/bun CI builds 96675, 97509, 100350) and none in the 07-29 to 08-14 window (3081 failed and about 6000 canceled builds scanned); both crash shapes are consistent with either an embedder missing root or barrier or a collector-side liveness error, and nothing so far distinguishes the two. The discriminating instruments are the cores from those three builds (what the dead cell was, and who appended it) and a soak of that lane with If a maintainer does want this arrangement back as a soak candidate, the right shape is a cmake option enabled only for the musl prebuilt, not this tree-wide change; the bodies here are the payload for that, but I would run the |
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Problem
Segmentation fault at address 0xD0inMethodTable::visitChildren(SlotVisitor::visitChildren), i.e. a zapped cell (structureID 0, so a nullClassInfo) was popped off the mark stack. 306 ms into anode:httptest.Segmentation fault at address 0x3E1D000020inMarkedBlock::aboutToMark<-SlotVisitor::appendValuesHidden<-JSObjectWithButterfly::visitButterflyImpl(the contiguous-elements lambda, JSObject.cpp:138). A slot of a contiguous butterfly held a non-pointer, i.e. the object being visited was dead and its butterfly memory had been reused. 2.5 s into verdaccio's startup, beforenode:httphad even been required.0x9036000020, same verdaccio process 5 s in. This is thetest/cli/install/bun-audit.test.tsfailure that started this investigation; the test is only the victim.test/js/web/fetch/blob-write.test.tshad a promise collected while it was still awaited, only on the linux x64 musl LTO build; the stopgap's own comments attribute it to x86_64 compiler barriers. With the arrangement in place nothing of the kind was reported for eight months, and the scan above covers the last two and a half weeks of it, including the period after the July switch of the Linux LTO prebuilts to ThinLTO, with nothing found.WTF::opaque()(upstream 308243@main). On x86_64 the liveness paths do not depend onopaque()at all:Dependency::fencecomputesopaqueMixture(...)and then discards it (UNUSED_PARAM(input); the fence there isloadLoadFence()),Dependency::loadAndFenceonly callsopaque()underCPU(ARM64) || CPU(ARM), andensureStillAliveHerehas its ownasm volatile. So the upstream fix changed nothing about the code that failed in December, and Remove the December 2025 LTO de-inlining stopgap now that WTF::opaque() is volatile #403's validation was a single Bun CI run, which cannot see a failure that shows up about once per thousand builds.Fix
Heap::isMarked,MarkedBlock::isMarked(HeapVersion, const void*)and bothMarkedBlock::Handle::isLiveoverloads are definedNEVER_INLINEin their .cpp files again;Dependency::fence/loadAndFenceareNEVER_INLINEagain; the x86_64loadLoadFence/loadStoreFence/storeStoreFenceusestd::atomic_thread_fenceagain;ALWAYS_INLINE/ALWAYS_INLINE_LAMBDAare not enforced again; andJSFinalizationRegistry::reconcileWeakReferencesAtGCEnd(the function Remove the December 2025 LTO de-inlining stopgap now that WTF::opaque() is volatile #403 un-marked, renamed fromfinalizeUnconditionallyby the 47f7250 upgrade) isNEVER_INLINEagain. The function bodies are the ones Remove the December 2025 LTO de-inlining stopgap now that WTF::opaque() is volatile #403 removed, unchanged;isLivekeeps upstream's interleaving comment.Dependencyinline on ARM64, where it has a real cost and where nothing has ever failed) should be done by soaking the candidate on the linux x64 musl lane, not by a build. The comments now say this, so the next attempt starts from what is known.isLive, inline consume loads on ARM64) are given back.MarkedBlock.cppandJSFinalizationRegistry.cpp, plus a TU definingHeap::isMarkedout of line against the modifiedHeapInlines.h/MarkedBlockInlines.h/Atomics.h/Compiler.h, compile with clang 21 using the flags and headers of the eeab040 linux x64 prebuilt (-fsyntax-only). The preview build will cover the rest of the matrix; a Bun PR pinned to the preview will follow for the link step. Neither can demonstrate the crash going away at this frequency; the measure of this change is the linux x64 musl lane staying quiet again.WEBKIT_VERSIONbump (Bun is at eeab040, the current tip, so nothing else rides along). TheObjectPrototypeInlines.hinclude that rode along with Remove the December 2025 LTO de-inlining stopgap now that WTF::opaque() is volatile #403 stays correct either way.Background
MarkedBlockheader carries a marking version and a mark bitmap;isMarked/isLivedecide whether a cell survived by reading the version, then the bits, and (inisLive) validating the read against the block'sCountingLock. On x86_64 the ordering between those reads is expressed purely as compiler fences, so these functions are the place where codegen decides whether the protocol holds; the December stopgap took them out of the inliner's hands.isMarked(weak references not cleared) orisLive(conservative roots, sweeping) cannot be told from the cores.What else was considered
Other candidates in the window, and why they fit less well
MI_LIBC_MUSL,-ftls-model=local-dynamic), so a musl-specific allocator bug was the first suspect. It would apply equally to alpine aarch64, which has not hit this, and an allocator fault would not be expected to land exclusively in the GC's liveness-dependent crash shapes. It cannot be excluded on timing alone; if the lane keeps crashing with this change in, it is the next thing to look at.