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While a HeapProfiler holds a HeapSnapshot, Heap::didFinishCollection ran removeDeadHeapSnapshotNodes after every collection. That is MarkedSpace::forEachDeadCell over the whole heap plus a binary search in the snapshot for each dead cell, so an eden collection cost as much as the heap is large for as long as the snapshot was kept. The full collection that builds a snapshot marks the cell of each node, and an eden collection keeps mark bits (MarkedSpace::beginMarking only bumps m_edenVersion for it), so no node can die in an eden collection and the eden walk never removed anything. Run the prune only when the scope is CollectionScope::Full.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes a GC-phase invariant in Heap::didFinishCollection and both touched paths are CODEOWNERS-covered, a human look from a JSC/GC reviewer would still be worthwhile.
What was reviewed:
- Confirmed
scopeis already read from*m_collectionScopeindidFinishCollectionand the new guard mirrors the existingCollectionScope::Fullcheck a few lines above. - Checked that
HeapSnapshotBuilder::buildSnapshot()always drives aCollectionScope::Fullcollection andanalyzeNodeassertsisMarked(cell), so snapshot cells are marked and eden collections (sticky mark bits) cannot free them — the stated invariant holds. - Read the new heapProfiler test: it throws on failure, avoids printing, and follows the pattern of neighboring tests in
JSTests/heapProfiler/.
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Overview
The functional change is a single guard in Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/Heap.cpp: removeDeadHeapSnapshotNodes(*heapProfiler) in Heap::didFinishCollection() now runs only when scope == CollectionScope::Full. A comment update in BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder.cpp tracks the new behavior, and a new regression test JSTests/heapProfiler/eden-collections-between-snapshots.js pins the identifier-stability and pruning-before-address-reuse invariants across eden and full collections.
Security risks
None apparent. This is a performance change to when a bookkeeping walk over dead cells runs. It does not touch parsing, JIT codegen, sandboxing, or any externally-reachable input path. The worst-case failure mode would be a stale (cell address, identifier) node surviving into a later snapshot lookup — a heap-profiler correctness/UAF concern rather than an exploitable surface — and the invariant that snapshot cells are marked by a full collection (verified in HeapSnapshotBuilder::buildSnapshot / analyzeNode) means eden collections cannot free them, so pruning after eden was already a no-op for those nodes.
Level of scrutiny
Medium-high. The diff is tiny and reads as obviously correct given JSC's sticky-mark-bit generational design, but it alters an invariant inside the GC end-phase and its correctness rests on "every retained snapshot node's cell was marked by a full collection." The PR itself calls out one edge case (BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder::getOrCreateNodeId adding a node for a weak-edge target the collection did not mark) whose pruning is now deferred to the next full GC; the argument that nothing dereferences such a cell between collections is plausible but is exactly the kind of GC-lifetime reasoning a human JSC reviewer should confirm.
Other factors
.github/CODEOWNERS assigns /Source/JavaScriptCore and /JSTests to @ WebKit/jsc-reviewers, so per guidelines these paths should get human review rather than auto-approval. The new test follows JSTests/README.md conventions (throws on failure, no printing, small iteration counts) and the PR reports 200/200 passes across 8 GC option sets, which is good supporting evidence but not something I can independently verify here.
WalkthroughThe change limits dead heap snapshot node removal to full collections. A heap-profiler regression test verifies identifier retention across Eden collections and identifier removal and non-reuse after full collection. ChangesHeap snapshot GC behavior
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In `@JSTests/heapProfiler/eden-collections-between-snapshots.js`:
- Line 73: Reorder the test setup around fullGC() so replacement objects are
allocated before the full collection: perform the replacement allocation and
edenGC() first, then call fullGC(). Preserve the existing doomedId/ids assertion
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Allocate replacements before the full collection.
The current fullGC() prunes doomed before any replacement can reuse its address. Therefore, !ids.includes(doomedId) does not test the deferred-pruning interval.
Move fullGC() after the replacement allocation and edenGC(). This order detects identifier reuse if an Eden collection frees and reuses the snapshot cell.
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held.doomed = null;
edenCollections();
-fullGC();
// 'doomed' is gone, so fresh objects are free to land on the address it had.
(function() {
held.replacements = [];
for (let i = 0; i < 1000; ++i)
held.replacements.push(new SimpleObject);
})();
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In `@JSTests/heapProfiler/eden-collections-between-snapshots.js` at line 73,
Reorder the test setup around fullGC() so replacement objects are allocated
before the full collection: perform the replacement allocation and edenGC()
first, then call fullGC(). Preserve the existing doomedId/ids assertion so it
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More data for this change, from a second CI symptom with the same cause.
Replay on Linux x64 (release canary
gdb on that worker during One question for the reviewer. This gate keeps the walk after full collections and the 16 bytes per cell. A larger change can remove both: the two builders keep a one-shot snapshot to themselves, only an inspector Heap session registers a chain, and a registered chain is pruned from its own node table after a full collection. Then |
Problem
HeapProfilerholds aHeapSnapshot, every collection ends withHeap::removeDeadHeapSnapshotNodes(Heap::didFinishCollection,heap/Heap.cpp). That isMarkedSpace::forEachDeadCellover the whole heap plus a binary search per dead cell. An eden collection then costs as much as the heap is large.Bun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8")andv8.writeHeapSnapshot(). It is the cell-to-id map for the next snapshot (c1fc048).jscshell, linux x64, 4.5 million live cells:edenGC()takes 0.42 ms before onegenerateHeapSnapshot()and 22 to 24 ms after it.Fix
didFinishCollectionprunes only when the scope isCollectionScope::Full. The sameedenGC()now takes 0.38 to 0.44 ms with the snapshot held.MarkedSpace::beginMarkingonly bumpsm_edenVersion, so a marked cell stays live until the next full collection.JSTests/heapProfiler/eden-collections-between-snapshots.js, 200 of 200 runs across 8 GC option sets. The benchmark is in the notes.Background
HeapSnapshotis a list of(cell address, identifier)nodes. The profiler keeps a chain of them so that a surviving cell keeps its identifier in the next snapshot.forEachDeadCellvisits every cell of everyMarkedBlock, so its cost follows heap capacity, not the amount of garbage.Notes
Where this came from. It is the most frequent flaky annotation in Bun's CI:
test/js/bun/css/color.test.ts"ansi-16 never emits a 256-color escape" times out on darwin x64 in 282 of the last 400 builds.test/js/bun/shell/shell-blocking-pipe.test.tscallsgenerateHeapSnapshot("v8")inside a sharedbun test --parallelworker. The color test later makes 2197expect()calls in one test in the same worker, and CI setsBUN_GARBAGE_COLLECTOR_LEVEL=1, so each call asks for a collection. In a worker with a 1 GB footprint each one takes about 80 ms.sampleplusatoson the stuck worker (darwin x64 CI host) givesHeap::runEndPhase>didFinishCollection>removeDeadHeapSnapshotNodes>MarkedSpace::forEachDeadCell<RemoveDeadHeapSnapshotNodes>>HeapSnapshot::sweepCell. The same numbers on Bun 1.4.3 canary (b99371011, linux x64 release, 147 MB heap): 0.29 ms beforeBun.generateHeapSnapshot("v8"), 24 ms after. Cost data was first posted on oven-sh/bun#34085.Benchmark (
jsc bench.js):A full collection with a snapshot held still pays for the walk (about 30 ms here). Walking the snapshot's own nodes with an
isMarkedtest, not every dead cell inMarkedSpace, would cut that. It is not in this PR.The new test. It takes a snapshot per object to learn its identifier (identifiers follow marking order), runs 20 eden collections between snapshots, and checks that a live object keeps its identifier. It then drops one object, runs a full collection, allocates 1000 objects of the same class so that one can land on the freed address, and checks that none of them inherits the dead object's identifier. It passes on main and on this PR. With the prune removed altogether the
jscshell crashes in the test (5 of 5 runs), becauseHeapSnapshotBuilder::jsonreads the cells of the earlier snapshots in the chain. Option sets run, 25 times each: default,--useConcurrentGC=0,--useGenerationalGC=0,--collectContinuously=1,--useJIT=0,--forceEagerCompilation=1,--useConcurrentGC=0 --useJIT=0,--slowPathAllocsBetweenGCs=13.The other files in
JSTests/heapProfilerfail on main before and after this change (driver/driver.jsasserts snapshot version 2, the builder writes version 3), so the new test reads the snapshot JSON itself.Nodes that were not marked.
BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilder::getOrCreateNodeIdcan add a node for an edge target that the collection did not mark (a weak edge). Such a node was removed by the first collection of any kind. It is now removed by the first full collection. Nothing reads the cell of such a node:BunV8HeapSnapshotBuilderonly compares addresses in the chain, andHeapSnapshotBuilder::jsonruns right after the builder's own full collection has pruned.HeapSnapshotBuilder::analyzeNodeasserts that the cell is marked.