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dev server: guard the watcher hand-off with a mutex so no batch is lost - #42739
Regression in 1.2.20 from Fix Bake WatcherAtomics #21328. When three watcher batches arrive before the dev server takes the queued one, the second is lost until a later change. No bundle has to run: on an idle server (release build of main), rewriting 90 files left stale modules in 13 of 20 rounds.
Cause: watcher_release_and_submit_event (src/runtime/bake/dev_server/watcher_atomics.rs:280) replaces an event that already waits. Nothing queues the replaced event again.
Fix
The hand-off state is two fields behind a mutex: the event the dev server thread holds, and whether the other event waits. watcher_acquire_event takes a waiting event back, so the new batch joins it.
Deleted: the atomic byte, the watcher-only fields that mirrored it, the third event slot, NextEvent and dbg_server_event.
Verified: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts (one new test: a release build of main fails 50 of 50 runs, this change passes 50 of 50). More in Notes.
Self-reviewed: 9 concerns raised, 7 addressed. Notes names the two not done.
Background
The watcher thread hands changed paths to the dev server thread in pre-allocated HotReloadEvent slots. It holds Watcher.mutex for the whole callback.
A watcher batch takes two uncontended lock sections: about 12 ns more than the compare-exchange on a proxy benchmark.
The watcher thread can wait on the lock while the dev server thread clears one event.
Notes
History.#15181 had two events, and the watcher kept appending to the one the dev server had not taken. #21328 (first release: 1.2.20) changed to three slots and one atomic byte, with the rule "this new event will replace the pending one, and the pending one will become available". The replaced slot is not reset, so its files are not dropped: they ride along when a later batch reuses that slot. This change goes back to two events and the append.
Trace on main. Three batches a, b, c arrive while the dev server is busy (it runs a bundle, or it has not yet run the task for a):
a: the dev server is idle, so the event is posted to it.
b: an event is out, so slot 0 (with b) is queued in next_event.
c: the watcher fills slot 2, and the swap replaces slot 0 with it. Slot 0 still holds b, and nothing points at it.
The dev server processes a, then the queued c. b is not bundled.
The next batch, whenever it comes, reuses slot 0, and b rides along.
With more batches the two spare slots alternate, and every second batch waits for a later change. A batch is not a save. The watcher hands over at most 128 events per batch, and a folder that holds a bundled file is watched too. One editor save that writes a temp file and renames it is several batches.
The new state.dev: Option<u8> is the event that the dev server thread was given and has not recycled. queued: bool says that the other event has files and waits. Each function is one lock section:
watcher_acquire_event clears queued and returns the event that dev does not name. A debug assertion checks that the event has files if and only if it was taken back.
watcher_release_and_submit_event sets queued if dev is set. If not, it sets dev and posts the task.
recycle_event_from_dev_server resets the old event, then takes the queued one or clears dev. The reset is inside the lock section, so its position in the function cannot matter.
queued is only set while dev is set. A free event is always empty. Drop for DevServer reads dev where it read next_event.
Lock order. The watcher thread takes Watcher.mutex and then this lock. The dev server thread takes this lock alone, for a few field writes and one reset(). process_file_list, which can lock Watcher.mutex, runs outside it.
Measurements. Linux x64, release builds of main (179664e) and of this change (1dc7d44), same machine.
Check
main
this change
New test, 50 runs
50 fail
50 pass
Idle server, plain loop that rewrites 90 files, 20 rounds
stale in 13
0
Idle server, plain loop that rewrites 200 files, 20 rounds
stale in 13
0
Idle server stopped with SIGSTOP while 64 files are rewritten, 5 rounds
0
0
The same with 65 files (more than 256 inotify events, so three batches)
stale in 4
0
Seven modules (one of 8 MB) saved 0, 1, 4 and 12 ms apart, 20 rounds
stale in 5
0
size: text, data, bss
107556528, 116336, 1819272
the same
A round is stale when the served bundle, once it is stable, has an old version of a module. With 65 files the stale set is 32 modules: the second batch.
The regression, with the burst of seven modules (one of 4 MB): bun 1.2.19 is stale in 0 of 77 rounds, bun 1.2.20 in 12 of 77. Both old servers also crashed four times in those runs, and those rounds are not counted.
Interleaving search. A model of both threads, one lock section or one slot access per step, is in this comment. With 14 watcher batches it visits 2563943 states. No slot is touched by two threads, no end state has files left in a slot, and the debug assertion holds. Two mutants (no take-back, no reset) fail it.
Test. A [serve.static]onLoad plugin holds one bundle open while a marker file exists. Five files are then saved. Each save is one positioned write with no truncate, and the test waits for the line that the watcher logs for it (BUN_WATCHER_TRACE) before the next save. The trace file is in the harness directory, beside the roots of the tests (the harness exports that path as devServerTestingDir). On Linux it asserts that the five saves were five batches. The two waits that no event reports (a line in the trace file, the served bundle) are polls with a bound of 10_000 * WAIT_MULTIPLIER, and they stop when the dev server exits. Without the fix the bundle after the held one misses exactly b and d: 50 of 50 runs on a release build of main, 20 of 20 on bun 1.4.2, 3 of 3 on a debug build with the source files of main. An earlier revision of the test failed 60 of 60 runs on the 1.4.3 canary.
The test drives the drain of a parked event (start_next_bundle_if_present). The idle path (HotReloadEvent::run) goes through the same hand-off, and only the measurements above cover it.
Platforms. Everything above ran on Linux x64. macOS and Windows run the same hand-off code. The check that one save is one batch is Linux-only, because other watchers can report one write in two batches.
Cost. Per watcher batch: two uncontended lock and unlock pairs, in place of one swap and at most one compare-exchange. Per event the dev server recycles: one pair, in place of a swap and a compare-exchange. A proxy benchmark (std::sync::Mutex against AtomicU8, 20 million iterations, best of 7, three runs) gives 23.9 to 24.1 ns against 11.9 to 12.0 ns per batch. WatcherAtomics has two events in place of three.
Self-review, not done.
A second test for the idle path. It needs the server stopped with SIGSTOP and at least 65 rewritten files to force three batches, and it depends on the inotify batch size.
Comments on the related PRs. This description links them.
Related. No issue reports this. #44743 describes it first-hand: with saves that write a temp file and rename it, "every other save showed up one save late".
All three touch the lines this change rewrites. This PR changes nothing else, so it can land first, and the other two can then drop their hunks for this file.
Suites run on a debug build with the fix: hot, bundle, html, css, esm, plugins, stress in test/bake/dev/, test/bake/dev-and-prod.test.ts, test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts, test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts, test/bake/hmr-socket-protocol.test.ts, test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.ts and test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html-hot-reload-drop.test.ts. cargo clippy -p bun_runtime reports nothing in bun_runtime.
no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts
…watcher batch arrives
The watcher thread hands file changes to the dev server in events. While
the dev server is busy, one event waits in next_event. The watcher thread
used to fill a spare event for the next batch and swap it into
next_event. That replaced the queued event, and the files in it stayed
in the spare slot until a later change happened to reuse it. Three saves
during one slow bundle lost the second one.
watcher_acquire_event() now takes the queued event back with a
compare-exchange and returns it, so the new batch joins the files that
already wait. If the dev server took the event first, the watcher thread
picks a free one as before.
Reproduced on main with the new test in test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts ("watcher batches that arrive while a bundle runs all reach the next bundle"). A release build of main (179664e) fails it in 50 of 50 runs, and bun 1.4.2 in 20 of 20. The bundle after the held one always misses b and d.
A debug build with the source files of main fails the same way (3 of 3).
With the fix the test passes: 50 of 50 on a release build, and on a debug build. bun bd test test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts passes (13 tests).
The hand-off is two fields behind a mutex (1dc7d44). The compare-exchange version is the commit before it (f4ae5ad).
These numbers are for the test as it is at cd26fa7. The two commits after it are merges of main.
CI: build 132923 (cd26fa7) passed on every lane. Build 134990 (05b0b0e, the same change on a newer main) passed 187 of 188 jobs. The red job is one darwin x64 test shard. Two AOT tests failed there: test/aot/parallel/node-http/objects-closed-through-others.ts and objects-closed-in-other-ways.ts. This PR does not touch AOT or node:http. The other three darwin x64 shards and all darwin aarch64 shards passed.
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Walkthrough
The watcher event protocol now uses two event slots and guarded state instead of the previous three-slot atomic protocol. Lifecycle cleanup checks the guarded state. A regression test checks five module updates made during a paused bundle and verifies that the next served bundle includes them.
WatcherAtomics now coordinates two event slots through guarded state. Acquisition, recycling, and submission use the queued flag and dev-server-held slot instead of the former three-slot rotation and replacement protocol.
Lifecycle integration and regression coverage src/runtime/bake/dev_server/lifecycle.rs, src/runtime/bake/dev_server/mod.rs, test/bake/bake-harness.ts, test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts
DevServer::drop checks the guarded state when selecting its existing cleanup path. The hot-reload test pauses a bundle, saves updates to five modules, and checks that the next served bundle includes every update. On Linux, it also checks that each save appears in a separate watcher batch.
Possibly related PRs
oven-sh/bun#46706: Changes the watcher event protocol to reclaim a queued event before processing a new watcher batch.
oven-sh/bun#46879: Changes watcher atomics to reclaim a pending event before processing a new batch.
Suggested reviewers: alii, jarred-sumner
Priority: Normal
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review cd26f
The regression test follows the repository’s approved waiting pattern, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.
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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it changes the lock-free handoff between the watcher thread and the dev server thread in WatcherAtomics, a human familiar with this code should also confirm the interleaving analysis.
What was reviewed:
Traced the withdraw-then-resubmit CAS in watcher_acquire_event against recycle_event_from_dev_server's swap/CAS loop for all three orderings (withdraw-first, dev-server-swap-first, and dev-server-fully-DONE before acquire) — no lost slot in any of them.
Checked that a withdrawn event with files can't hit the is_empty() early-return in watcher_release_and_submit_event, so it is always re-queued.
Verified the Acquire on CAS-failure synchronizes with the dev server's reset() of the previous current_event slot before the watcher reuses it.
Test's Bun.sleep(100) between saves is spacing to force separate watcher batches (commented as such per REVIEW.md); if batches merge on a slow machine the test over-passes, it cannot spuriously fail.
Extended reasoning...
Overview
This PR fixes a lost-update bug in the Bake dev server's WatcherAtomics (src/runtime/bake/dev_server/mod.rs), the lock-free three-slot ring that hands HotReloadEvents from the file-watcher thread to the dev-server thread. Previously, when a third watcher batch arrived while one bundle was running and one event was already queued, watcher_release_and_submit_event overwrote the queued index and the files in that slot were never bundled. The fix moves the merge into watcher_acquire_event: it withdraws the queued index via compare_exchange and reuses that slot so the new batch is appended to the waiting files; if the CAS fails the dev server already took it, so it is promoted to current_event. watcher_release_and_submit_event is simplified accordingly, with the now-unreachable "index already queued" arm demoted to debug_assert!(false). A new devTest in test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts reproduces the race by holding a bundle open with an onLoad plugin gated on a marker file, firing three spaced saves, then asserting all three land in the next served bundle.
Security risks
None. This is internal dev-server hot-reload plumbing with no attack surface — no parsing of untrusted input, no auth/crypto, no network protocol changes. The only correctness stakes are dev-time HMR reliability.
Level of scrutiny
High. The change is small (~40 lines) but sits in unsafe lock-free code with hand-picked memory orderings and raw-pointer field accesses across two threads. Correctness depends on the invariant that only the watcher thread ever stores an index into next_event, so a successful CAS(pending → WAITING) proves exclusive ownership of that slot. I walked every interleaving with recycle_event_from_dev_server (swap-then-CAS-to-DONE loop) and each resolves without a lost or double-owned slot, including the edge case where the dev server has already run and recycled the pending event (next_event == DONE) before the watcher's CAS — the stale current_event = Some(pending) there is harmless because the release finds DONE and reinitializes both bookkeeping fields. The Acquire failure ordering on the CAS establishes happens-before with the dev server's reset() of the freed slot. That said, this reasoning is subtle enough that a maintainer who owns this subsystem should independently confirm it.
Other factors
The test follows the bake-harness devTest pattern and lands in the existing hot.test.ts. The three await Bun.sleep(100) calls are not waiting on a condition — they space writes so the watcher delivers separate batches, and the comment names why no observable signal exists (satisfying REVIEW.md's rule). If the spacing is defeated on a slow CI runner, the batches merge and the test still passes with the fix, so it cannot flake red. The PR description states the test fails 3/3 on main and passes on the debug build, and the surrounding bake dev suites were run. No CODEOWNERS entry covers src/runtime/bake/ or test/bake/.
I worked on the same report in parallel and reached the same fix, so I did not open a second PR. My branch is robobun/048cffeb/devserver-lost-pending-watch-events. It has the same compare_exchange(pending, WAITING) in watcher_acquire_event. Two things from it can be useful here.
The third slot is dead after this change.pending_event is always None when watcher_acquire_event selects a free slot, so the loop returns index 0 or 1 and never 2. On my branch events is [HotReloadEvent; 2], the selection is match current_event { Some(0) => 1, _ => 0 }, and the index arm of the release is unreachable!().
More evidence for the protocol.
I ran an exhaustive search over the interleavings of the atomic steps of both threads (acquire, fill or fill nothing, swap, arm, run or park, process and reset, recycle swap, compare-exchange, bundle end). It checks that two threads never touch one slot, and that no end state has files left in a slot.
Protocol on main, 4 watcher batches: 7 of 49 end states have files left in a slot. One of them has no bundle in flight: three batches land while the dev server thread is inside one recycle_event_from_dev_server loop.
Protocol with the compare-exchange, 8 watcher batches: 111323 states, 1379 end states, 0 with files left, no violation. The index arm of the release and the DONE arm of recycle_event_from_dev_server are never reached.
A burst repro: one 3 MB module plus six small files (ts, txt, json, css) are saved 1 to 4 ms apart. A page load follows after the dev server is quiet for 700 ms. 1.4.3-canary serves the old m2.ts and d.json (the third and the fifth save) in 9 of 10 rounds. That is the slot alternation from the Notes above: {m0} is parked, then {m1}, {m2}, {m1,txt}, {m2,json}, {m1,txt,css} take turns in next_event, and {m2,json} stays behind. A debug/ASAN build with the fix shows 0 of 40 rounds (gaps of 0, 1, 4 and 12 ms, 10 rounds each).
The test on my branch makes five saves during the held bundle. Without the fix the route serves {a:1, b:0, c:1, d:0, e:1} until the deadline. With the fix all five are in one rebuild.
Interleaving model (run with MODE=old BATCHES=4 bun model.ts and MODE=new BATCHES=8 bun model.ts)
// Exhaustive interleaving check of the watcher <-> dev server event hand-off.// MODE=old checks the three-slot protocol on main, MODE=new checks the two-slot protocol.constMODE=process.env.MODE??"new";constNSLOTS=MODE==="old" ? 3 : 2;constW=254,D=255;constMAX_BATCHES=+(process.env.BATCHES??5);typeS={next: number;slots: number[][];// file ids per slotheld: ("none"|"watcher"|"dev")[];// who may touch the slot// watcher-onlycur: number|null;pend: number|null;wpc: number;// watcher program counterwev: number;// acquired slotwold: number;// swap resultbatches: number;// batches produced so far// dev serverqueue: number[];// posted tasks (slot index)dpc: number;dcur: number;// slot being processeddnext: number;parked: number|null;bundle: boolean;// a bundle is in flightnextBundleHasFiles: boolean;seen: number[];// files the dev server processed (sorted)};constkey=(s: S)=>JSON.stringify(s);constclone=(s: S): S=>JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(s));constfail=(s: S,why: string,trace: string[])=>{console.log("VIOLATION:",why);console.log(trace.join("\n"));console.log(JSON.stringify(s));process.exit(1);};constinit: S={next: D,slots: Array.from({length: NSLOTS},()=>[]),held: Array.from({length: NSLOTS},()=>"none"asconst),cur: null,pend: null,wpc: 0,wev: -1,wold: -1,batches: 0,queue: [],dpc: 0,dcur: -1,dnext: -1,parked: null,bundle: false,nextBundleHasFiles: false,seen: [],};// Each function returns the successor states for one atomic step of that thread (or [] if it cannot move).functionwatcherSteps(s0: S): [string,S][]{constout: [string,S][]=[];consts=clone(s0);switch(s.wpc){case0: {// idle -> acquireif(s.batches>=MAX_BATCHES)return[];if(MODE==="old"){constavail=Array(NSLOTS).fill(true);if(s.cur!==null)avail[s.cur]=false;if(s.pend!==null)avail[s.pend]=false;s.wev=avail.indexOf(true);}else{letidx=-1;if(s.pend!==null){constp=s.pend;s.pend=null;if(s.next===p){s.next=W;idx=p;}// cmpxchg successelses.cur=p;}if(idx<0)idx=s.cur===0 ? 1 : 0;s.wev=idx;}if(s.held[s.wev]!=="none")return[["acquire",{ ...s,wpc: -1}]];// flagged belows.held[s.wev]="watcher";s.wpc=1;out.push(["acquire "+s.wev,s]);returnout;}case1: {// fill: either a file or nothingconsta=clone(s);a.batches++;a.slots[a.wev].push(a.batches);a.wpc=2;out.push(["fill "+a.wev+" +"+a.batches,a]);constb=clone(s);b.batches++;b.wpc=2;out.push(["fill "+b.wev+" (nothing)",b]);returnout;}case2: {// release: empty -> return, else swapif(s.slots[s.wev].length===0){s.held[s.wev]="none";s.wpc=0;out.push(["release empty",s]);returnout;}s.wold=s.next;s.next=s.wev;s.held[s.wev]="none";s.wpc=3;out.push(["swap in "+s.wev+" old="+s.wold,s]);returnout;}case3: {if(s.wold===D){s.cur=s.wev;if(MODE==="old")s.pend=null;s.next=W;s.held[s.wev]="dev";s.queue.push(s.wev);s.wpc=0;out.push(["DONE arm: post "+s.wev,s]);}elseif(s.wold===W){if(MODE==="old"){if(s.pend!==null)s.cur=s.pend;}s.pend=s.wev;s.wpc=0;out.push(["WAITING arm: pending "+s.wev,s]);}else{if(MODE!=="old")return[["index arm reached",{ ...s,wpc: -2}]];s.pend=s.wev;s.wpc=0;out.push(["index arm: replace "+s.wold+" with "+s.wev,s]);}returnout;}}returnout;}functiondevSteps(s0: S): [string,S][]{constout: [string,S][]=[];consts=clone(s0);switch(s.dpc){case0: {// idle: run a posted task, or finish the bundleif(s.queue.length){consta=clone(s);constfirst=a.queue.shift()!;if(a.bundle){a.parked=first;out.push(["run: park "+first,a]);}else{a.dcur=first;a.dpc=1;out.push(["run: start drain at "+first,a]);}}if(s.bundle){constb=clone(s);b.bundle=false;if(b.parked!==null){b.dcur=b.parked;b.parked=null;b.dpc=1;out.push(["bundle done: drain parked "+b.dcur,b]);}elseout.push(["bundle done",b]);}returnout;}case1: {// process_file_list(current) + resetif(s.held[s.dcur]!=="dev")return[["process",{ ...s,dpc: -1}]];for(constfofs.slots[s.dcur])s.seen.push(f);s.seen.sort((a,b)=>a-b);if(s.slots[s.dcur].length)s.nextBundleHasFiles=true;s.slots[s.dcur]=[];s.held[s.dcur]="none";s.dpc=2;out.push(["process+reset "+s.dcur,s]);returnout;}case2: {// swap(WAITING)s.dnext=s.next;s.next=W;s.dpc=3;if(s.dnext!==W&&s.dnext!==D){if(s.held[s.dnext]!=="none")return[["take",{ ...s,dpc: -1}]];s.held[s.dnext]="dev";}out.push(["recycle swap got "+s.dnext,s]);returnout;}case3: {if(s.dnext===D)return[["recycle saw DONE",{ ...s,dpc: -3}]];if(s.dnext===W){if(s.next===W){s.next=D;s.dpc=0;if(s.nextBundleHasFiles){s.bundle=true;s.nextBundleHasFiles=false;}out.push(["cmpxchg W->D ok",s]);}else{s.dpc=2;out.push(["cmpxchg W->D failed",s]);}}else{s.dcur=s.dnext;s.dpc=1;out.push(["next event "+s.dcur,s]);}returnout;}}returnout;}constseen=newMap<string,{prev: string|null;step: string}>();constq: S[]=[init];seen.set(key(init),{prev: null,step: "init"});consttraceOf=(k: string)=>{constt: string[]=[];letc: string|null=k;while(c){conste=seen.get(c)!;t.push(e.step);c=e.prev;}returnt.reverse();};letterminal=0,lostTerminals=0,example: string[]|null=null;while(q.length){consts=q.pop()!;constk=key(s);constsucc=[...watcherSteps(s).map(([n,t])=>["W: "+n,t]as[string,S]), ...devSteps(s).map(([n,t])=>["D: "+n,t]as[string,S])];if(succ.length===0){terminal++;// quiescent: every file that was appended must have been processedconstappended=newSet<number>();for(constfofs.seen)appended.add(f);conststuck=s.slots.flat();if(stuck.length){lostTerminals++;example??=[...traceOf(k),"STUCK FILES: "+JSON.stringify(s.slots)+" next="+s.next];}continue;}for(const[name,t]ofsucc){if(t.wpc===-1||t.dpc===-1)fail(t,"slot touched by two threads at "+name,[...traceOf(k),name]);if(t.wpc===-2)fail(t,"index arm reached",[...traceOf(k),name]);if(t.dpc===-3)fail(t,"recycle saw DONE",[...traceOf(k),name]);consttk=key(t);if(!seen.has(tk)){seen.set(tk,{prev: k,step: name});q.push(t);}}}console.log(`mode=${MODE} states=${seen.size} terminal=${terminal} terminal-with-undelivered-files=${lostTerminals}`);if(example)console.log("example:\n"+example.join("\n"));
…event
main moved WatcherAtomics from dev_server/mod.rs to
dev_server/watcher_atomics.rs (#45489). The change of this branch is
applied there without any other change.
The watcher thread now takes the queued event back before it fills one,
so it never holds a second event next to a queued one. Two events are
enough: the dev server thread holds at most one, and the watcher thread
fills the other. The index arm of the release cannot be reached, and the
store that cleared pending_event there was dead.
The compare-exchange uses SeqCst. The test makes five saves during the
held bundle, so that the queued event is taken back more than once.
The hand-off kept its state in one atomic byte and two fields that only
the watcher thread read. It is now two fields behind a mutex: the event
that the dev server thread holds, and whether the other event waits for
it. Each of the three functions is one lock section. The watcher thread
already holds Watcher.mutex for the whole callback, so every batch
already pays for a lock.
The test paces its saves by the watcher trace in place of sleeps, and
saves with one write, so that each save is one watcher batch.
Interleaving model for the hand-off as it is at 1dc7d44 (two fields behind a mutex). It replaces the model in the earlier comment, which checked the compare-exchange version.
Each lock section is one step, and each access to the contents of a slot is one step. The search visits every interleaving of the watcher thread (up to BATCHES batches, each with a file or with nothing) and the dev server thread (run or park a posted task, process, recycle, end of a bundle). It fails if two threads can touch one slot, if an end state has files left in a slot, if the debug assertion in watcher_acquire_event can fire, or if recycle_event_from_dev_server runs with no held event.
Run
States
Result
BATCHES=8 bun model.ts
22697
no violation
BATCHES=11 bun model.ts
251272
no violation
BATCHES=14 bun model.ts
2563943
no violation
MUTANT=no-take-back BATCHES=5 bun model.ts
slot touched by two threads
MUTANT=no-reset BATCHES=5 bun model.ts
end state with files left in a slot
model.ts
// Exhaustive interleaving check of the watcher <-> dev server event hand-off with the mutex-guarded state.// Shared state under the lock: dev (slot the dev server thread holds, or null) and queued (the other slot waits).// Each lock section is one atomic step. Slot contents are touched outside the lock.// MUTANT=<name> breaks one clause, to show that the checks can fail.constMAX_BATCHES=+(process.env.BATCHES??8);constMUTANT=process.env.MUTANT??"";typeHolder="none"|"watcher"|"dev";typeS={dev: number|null;queued: boolean;slots: number[][];// file ids per slotheld: Holder[];// which thread may touch the slot's contents// watcher threadwpc: number;wev: number;wpost: boolean;// release decided to post (between the lock section and the post)batches: number;// dev server threadqueue: number[];// posted tasks (slot index)dpc: number;dcur: number;// slot being processedparked: number|null;bundle: boolean;// a bundle is in flightnextBundleHasFiles: boolean;};constkey=(s: S)=>JSON.stringify(s);constclone=(s: S): S=>JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(s));constinit: S={dev: null,queued: false,slots: [[],[]],held: ["none","none"],wpc: 0,wev: -1,wpost: false,batches: 0,queue: [],dpc: 0,dcur: -1,parked: null,bundle: false,nextBundleHasFiles: false,};typeStep=[string,S]|[string,S,string];functionwatcherSteps(s0: S): Step[]{consts=clone(s0);switch(s.wpc){case0: {// acquire: one lock sectionif(s.batches>=MAX_BATCHES)return[];consttakenBack=s.queued;if(MUTANT!=="no-take-back")s.queued=false;constidx=s.dev===0 ? 1 : 0;if(s.held[idx]!=="none")return[["acquire "+idx,s,"slot touched by two threads"]];if((s.slots[idx].length===0)!==!takenBack)return[["acquire "+idx,s,"debug assertion: empty != !taken_back"]];s.held[idx]="watcher";s.wev=idx;s.wpc=1;return[["acquire "+idx+(takenBack ? " (taken back)" : ""),s]];}case1: {// fill outside the lock: one file, or nothingconsta=clone(s);a.batches++;a.slots[a.wev].push(a.batches);a.wpc=2;constb=clone(s);b.batches++;b.wpc=2;return[["fill "+s.wev+" +"+a.batches,a],["fill "+s.wev+" (nothing)",b]];}case2: {// release: empty -> return, else one lock sectionif(s.slots[s.wev].length===0){s.held[s.wev]="none";s.wpc=0;return[["release empty",s]];}if(s.dev!==null){s.queued=true;s.held[s.wev]="none";s.wpc=0;return[["release: queued "+s.wev,s]];}s.dev=s.wev;s.held[s.wev]="dev";s.wpc=3;return[["release: dev = "+s.wev,s]];}case3: {// post the task, outside the locks.queue.push(s.wev);s.wpc=0;return[["post "+s.wev,s]];}}return[];}functiondevSteps(s0: S): Step[]{constout: Step[]=[];consts=clone(s0);switch(s.dpc){case0: {// idle: run a posted task, or finish the bundleif(s.queue.length){consta=clone(s);constfirst=a.queue.shift()!;if(a.bundle){if(a.parked!==null)out.push(["run: park "+first,a,"second event parked"]);else{a.parked=first;out.push(["run: park "+first,a]);}}else{a.dcur=first;a.dpc=1;out.push(["run: start drain at "+first,a]);}}if(s.bundle){constb=clone(s);b.bundle=false;if(b.parked!==null){b.dcur=b.parked;b.parked=null;b.dpc=1;out.push(["bundle done: drain parked "+b.dcur,b]);}elseout.push(["bundle done",b]);}returnout;}case1: {// process_file_list(current), outside the lockif(s.held[s.dcur]!=="dev")return[["process "+s.dcur,s,"slot touched by two threads"]];if(s.slots[s.dcur].length)s.nextBundleHasFiles=true;s.dpc=2;return[["process "+s.dcur,s]];}case2: {// recycle: reset and the state change in one lock sectionif(s.dev!==s.dcur)return[["recycle",s,"recycle without a held event"]];if(MUTANT!=="no-reset")s.slots[s.dcur]=[];s.held[s.dcur]="none";if(s.queued){s.queued=false;constnext=s.dcur^1;if(s.held[next]!=="none")return[["recycle",s,"slot touched by two threads"]];s.dev=next;s.held[next]="dev";s.dcur=next;s.dpc=1;return[["recycle: take "+next,s]];}s.dev=null;s.dpc=0;if(s.nextBundleHasFiles){s.bundle=true;s.nextBundleHasFiles=false;}return[["recycle: idle",s]];}}returnout;}constseen=newMap<string,{prev: string|null;step: string}>();constq: S[]=[init];seen.set(key(init),{prev: null,step: "init"});consttraceOf=(k: string)=>{constt: string[]=[];letc: string|null=k;while(c){conste=seen.get(c)!;t.push(e.step);c=e.prev;}returnt.reverse();};letterminal=0;while(q.length){consts=q.pop()!;constk=key(s);constsucc: Step[]=[
...watcherSteps(s).map(([n,t,bad])=>["W: "+n,t,bad]asStep),
...devSteps(s).map(([n,t,bad])=>["D: "+n,t,bad]asStep),];if(succ.length===0){terminal++;conststuck=s.slots.flat();if(stuck.length||s.dev!==null||s.queued){console.log("VIOLATION: end state with undelivered files or a held event");console.log([...traceOf(k),JSON.stringify(s)].join("\n"));process.exit(1);}continue;}for(const[name,t,bad]ofsucc){if(bad){console.log("VIOLATION:",bad,"at",name);console.log([...traceOf(k),name,JSON.stringify(t)].join("\n"));process.exit(1);}consttk=key(t);if(!seen.has(tk)){seen.set(tk,{prev: k,step: name});q.push(t);}}}console.log(`guarded${MUTANT ? " mutant="+MUTANT : ""}: batches=${MAX_BATCHES} states=${seen.size} end-states=${terminal} violations=0`);
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dev server: stop dropping watcher batches, and guard the hot-reload hand-off with a mutex
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline nit, I checked the lock ordering of the new state mutex (the watcher thread takes Watcher.mutex first, the dev-server thread only ever holds state inside recycle_event_from_dev_server/reset and never takes Watcher.mutex under it, and the task post in watcher_release_and_submit_event happens after drop(state)), the Drop for DevServer change (dev.is_some() is the same predicate the old next_event != DONE encoded, so the leave-to-queued-task path is unchanged), and the merge interleaving (acquire clears queued and reuses the non-dev slot, so a re-release re-queues the merged batch) — none of these turned up a problem. One thing for whoever lands this: the PR description still describes the earlier three-slot compare-exchange fix, while the code now uses two slots and a mutex, so the description should be refreshed before merge.
Extended reasoning...
The diff reworks the cross-thread hand-off of HotReloadEvent slots in src/runtime/bake/dev_server/watcher_atomics.rs (lock-free AtomicU8 state machine replaced by a two-slot Guarded mutex), adjusts Drop for DevServer in lifecycle.rs to read that state, removes the NextEvent type from mod.rs, and adds one devTest in test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts; it touches no security-sensitive surface. The code is unsafe Rust on a watcher-thread/JS-thread boundary, which is enough to want a human look even though the interleavings I traced hold, and the PR description no longer matches the implementation.
The test made a temp directory of its own for the trace file and never
removed it. The trace now goes beside the roots of the tests, in the
directory that the harness already owns.
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The description matches the code at 0eecf54: two event slots, and the hand-off state behind a mutex. The last review read the earlier text, so its note about the three-slot compare-exchange description no longer applies.
Two changes since that review:
The new test writes its watcher trace file in the temp directory of the test harness (0eecf54). A run leaves nothing behind.
Use a condition-driven wait without a local timeout.
This helper adds a fixed 30-second timeout and a fixed 10 ms polling delay. The test/** guidance forbids test timeouts and arbitrary time-based waits. Wait for the matching watcher-trace condition through an event-driven or existing harness helper, and let Bun control the test timeout.
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Review comment at @test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts around lines 761 - 764:
Replace the polling loop around done() with an event-driven wait or existing
harness helper for the matching watcher-trace condition. Remove the local
30-second deadline and fixed 10 ms sleep, and let Bun control the test timeout.
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Review comments at @test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts:
- Around line 761-764: Replace the polling loop around done() with an
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The two polls (the watcher trace file and the served bundle) had a fixed
30 s bound. That is also the test timeout of a local release run, so the
bound did not fire first there. The bound is now 10 s times
WAIT_MULTIPLIER, as in the harness.
A poll also stops when the dev server exits. The test waits for the held
bundle with a line on stdout, which the harness reports as an event, and
no longer with a marker file.
About the wait helper in the new test (test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts). cd26fa7 changes three things:
The wait for the held bundle is now an event. The plugin prints a line, and the test uses dev.output.waitForLine.
The bound of the poll was a fixed 30 s. That is also the test timeout of a local release run, so the bound did not fire first there. It is now 10_000 * WAIT_MULTIPLIER, the scale that the waits of the harness and test/bake/dev-and-prod.test.ts use. It is at most a third of the test timeout on every lane.
The poll stops when the dev server exits.
Two waits stay as polls, because no event reports them. While a bundle runs, a batch that the watcher queues is visible only in the trace file. The last wait reads the served bundle.
The poll keeps its bound. With the bound, a wait that never comes true fails inside the test and the error names the wait. Without it, the test ends only when the test runner times out and kills the dev server.
ReadDirectoryChangesW reports each file in the tree of the project, so
a gate file in the project made a file event on Windows. The dev server
keeps one file event behind the one that waits for a bundle, and a
newer one replaces it (#42739 is the open change for that). In the test
of a hold at its cap, the event of the second gate file waited behind
the bundle, and the event of the first gate file replaced the event of
the emptied file. No hold started, and the test timed out on both
Windows lanes.
loadPage and Client.nextAck give their promise a handler. A test makes
the request or registers the wait some steps before it awaits it. If
the test fails in between, the rejection must not fail the next test.
Merged main (bf80135) into this branch. The PR merges clean again.
Two conflicts, both from Remove 70 unsafe blocks by borrowing instead of holding raw pointers #47273, which allocates WatcherAtomics with heap::alloc_nn. WatcherAtomics::init keeps this PR's fields (two events, state) in main's alloc_nn form. In Drop for DevServer the comment names heap::alloc_nn, and the check is still state.lock().dev.is_some().
test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts passes (17 tests) on a debug build of bf80135 that had this branch and eight other open PRs merged in. cargo check -p bun_runtime passes on this branch alone.
A data point from #47775 (bake test harness). On a Linux debug build of main 271b65e, a devTest that writes 4 modules in one batchChanges() block gets a hot update that lacks one of them in 28 of 3,000 batches on an idle machine and in 14 of 3,000 under 12 busy loops. With the src/ diff of this PR applied to that commit (the conflict in dev_server/mod.rs is one use line), the count is 0 of 3,000 and 0 of 3,000.
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Problem
WatcherAtomics#21328. When three watcher batches arrive before the dev server takes the queued one, the second is lost until a later change. No bundle has to run: on an idle server (release build of main), rewriting 90 files left stale modules in 13 of 20 rounds.watcher_release_and_submit_event(src/runtime/bake/dev_server/watcher_atomics.rs:280) replaces an event that already waits. Nothing queues the replaced event again.Fix
watcher_acquire_eventtakes a waiting event back, so the new batch joins it.NextEventanddbg_server_event.test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts(one new test: a release build of main fails 50 of 50 runs, this change passes 50 of 50). More in Notes.Background
HotReloadEventslots. It holdsWatcher.mutexfor the whole callback.Downsides
Notes
History. #15181 had two events, and the watcher kept appending to the one the dev server had not taken. #21328 (first release: 1.2.20) changed to three slots and one atomic byte, with the rule "this new event will replace the pending one, and the pending one will become available". The replaced slot is not reset, so its files are not dropped: they ride along when a later batch reuses that slot. This change goes back to two events and the append.
Trace on main. Three batches
a,b,carrive while the dev server is busy (it runs a bundle, or it has not yet run the task fora):a: the dev server is idle, so the event is posted to it.b: an event is out, so slot 0 (withb) is queued innext_event.c: the watcher fills slot 2, and the swap replaces slot 0 with it. Slot 0 still holdsb, and nothing points at it.a, then the queuedc.bis not bundled.brides along.With more batches the two spare slots alternate, and every second batch waits for a later change. A batch is not a save. The watcher hands over at most 128 events per batch, and a folder that holds a bundled file is watched too. One editor save that writes a temp file and renames it is several batches.
The new state.
dev: Option<u8>is the event that the dev server thread was given and has not recycled.queued: boolsays that the other event has files and waits. Each function is one lock section:watcher_acquire_eventclearsqueuedand returns the event thatdevdoes not name. A debug assertion checks that the event has files if and only if it was taken back.watcher_release_and_submit_eventsetsqueuedifdevis set. If not, it setsdevand posts the task.recycle_event_from_dev_serverresets the old event, then takes the queued one or clearsdev. The reset is inside the lock section, so its position in the function cannot matter.queuedis only set whiledevis set. A free event is always empty.Drop for DevServerreadsdevwhere it readnext_event.Lock order. The watcher thread takes
Watcher.mutexand then this lock. The dev server thread takes this lock alone, for a few field writes and onereset().process_file_list, which can lockWatcher.mutex, runs outside it.Measurements. Linux x64, release builds of main (179664e) and of this change (1dc7d44), same machine.
size: text, data, bssA round is stale when the served bundle, once it is stable, has an old version of a module. With 65 files the stale set is 32 modules: the second batch.
The regression, with the burst of seven modules (one of 4 MB): bun 1.2.19 is stale in 0 of 77 rounds, bun 1.2.20 in 12 of 77. Both old servers also crashed four times in those runs, and those rounds are not counted.
Interleaving search. A model of both threads, one lock section or one slot access per step, is in this comment. With 14 watcher batches it visits 2563943 states. No slot is touched by two threads, no end state has files left in a slot, and the debug assertion holds. Two mutants (no take-back, no reset) fail it.
Test. A
[serve.static]onLoadplugin holds one bundle open while a marker file exists. Five files are then saved. Each save is one positioned write with no truncate, and the test waits for the line that the watcher logs for it (BUN_WATCHER_TRACE) before the next save. The trace file is in the harness directory, beside the roots of the tests (the harness exports that path asdevServerTestingDir). On Linux it asserts that the five saves were five batches. The two waits that no event reports (a line in the trace file, the served bundle) are polls with a bound of10_000 * WAIT_MULTIPLIER, and they stop when the dev server exits. Without the fix the bundle after the held one misses exactlybandd: 50 of 50 runs on a release build of main, 20 of 20 on bun 1.4.2, 3 of 3 on a debug build with the source files of main. An earlier revision of the test failed 60 of 60 runs on the 1.4.3 canary.The test drives the drain of a parked event (
start_next_bundle_if_present). The idle path (HotReloadEvent::run) goes through the same hand-off, and only the measurements above cover it.Platforms. Everything above ran on Linux x64. macOS and Windows run the same hand-off code. The check that one save is one batch is Linux-only, because other watchers can report one write in two batches.
Cost. Per watcher batch: two uncontended lock and unlock pairs, in place of one swap and at most one compare-exchange. Per event the dev server recycles: one pair, in place of a swap and a compare-exchange. A proxy benchmark (
std::sync::MutexagainstAtomicU8, 20 million iterations, best of 7, three runs) gives 23.9 to 24.1 ns against 11.9 to 12.0 ns per batch.WatcherAtomicshas two events in place of three.Self-review, not done.
Related. No issue reports this. #44743 describes it first-hand: with saves that write a temp file and rename it, "every other save showed up one save late".
watcher_acquire_event(commit 47b2f06) and keeps three slots.HotReloadSharedand keeps the replace arm.All three touch the lines this change rewrites. This PR changes nothing else, so it can land first, and the other two can then drop their hunks for this file.
Suites run on a debug build with the fix:
hot,bundle,html,css,esm,plugins,stressintest/bake/dev/,test/bake/dev-and-prod.test.ts,test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts,test/bake/serve-plugins-dev-server.test.ts,test/bake/hmr-socket-protocol.test.ts,test/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html.test.tsandtest/js/bun/http/bun-serve-html-hot-reload-drop.test.ts.cargo clippy -p bun_runtimereports nothing inbun_runtime.no test proof · iteration 0 · platform-specific test(s) that do not run on this machine, deferring to CI, which covers all platforms: test/bake/dev/hot.test.ts