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What does this PR do?

Release JavaScriptCore's retained heap-snapshot metadata when a local node:inspector Session disconnects. Native inspector Heap.snapshot, Heap.startTracking, and Heap.stopTracking still leave node-ID metadata attached to the VM, so later garbage collections continue pruning those snapshots.

Upstream 3a9ea00437 already clears snapshots after the V8 writer finishes. That fixes the original v8.writeHeapSnapshot() case, but does not clear the native JSC inspector snapshots covered here.

The disconnect path calls HeapProfiler::clearSnapshots() through the existing native inspector profiler bindings if the VM already has a profiler. It does not initialize a profiler for Sessions that never captured a snapshot. A worker Session connected to the main thread does not clear the calling worker's VM.

The regression keeps a native inspector observer connected, captures through each of the three JSC paths, confirms the observer can resolve a live marker, and checks that the snapshot is gone after the local Session disconnects. Both callback and promise Session classes are covered. The native observer remains connected throughout, and the marker remains live.

Related: #34719 adds broader inspector support, including HeapProfiler commands. This change only fixes the existing disconnect path. #34085 preserves IDs between successive snapshots; explicit Session cleanup is a separate lifecycle boundary.

Adapted from openclaw/bun#141. AI assistance was used for implementation and validation.

How did you verify your code works?

On Linux x64, all six new JSC cleanup regressions fail on canary 1.4.4-canary.1+b1007f117 after the marker lookup succeeds: the snapshot ID still resolves after disconnect. The other 52 tests in the current inspector-profiler file pass, as do all 24 inspector tests and all 7 V8 heap-snapshot tests.

With this patch, Linux x64 release build 1.4.4-canary.1+edc0d1f03 passes all six regressions and all 89 tests across the inspector-profiler, inspector, and V8 heap-snapshot suites. Prettier, clang-format, and git diff --check pass. Independent Codex review found no actionable P0–P2 issues.

bun run build:release --lto=off -j24 test --expose-internals test/js/node/inspector/inspector-profiler.test.ts
bun run build:release --lto=off -j24 test --expose-internals test/js/node/inspector/inspector.test.ts
bun run build:release --lto=off -j24 test --expose-internals test/js/bun/util/v8-heap-snapshot.test.ts

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Walkthrough

Local inspector sessions now clear retained heap-snapshot metadata when they disconnect. The change adds a JSC host function, tracks main-thread session connections, and tests snapshot cleanup for callback and promise sessions.

Changes

Inspector session cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native heap-snapshot clearing src/jsc/bindings/JSInspectorProfiler.h, src/jsc/bindings/JSInspectorProfiler.cpp, src/js/node/inspector.ts	A JSC host function clears heap snapshots when a VM has a heap profiler. The Node inspector code adds the binding.
Session disconnect behavior src/js/node/inspector.ts, test/js/node/inspector/inspector-profiler.test.ts, docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx	Sessions track main-thread connections and clear heap snapshots on disconnect when they are not marked as main-thread-connected. Tests cover callback and promise sessions. The compatibility entry documents the cleanup.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway, alii

Merge Risk: Low · up to edc0d

Disconnecting a local inspector session can invalidate another client’s snapshot. Clarify that behavior and the main-thread exception in the compatibility documentation; the remaining risk is bounded and does not block merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 315b4

Cleanup stays within the running application, but intentionally invalidates snapshot metadata used by other connected observers. No expanded remote access or privileges were identified. Concurrent cleanup and exceptional failure paths remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The observable destructive scope is retained snapshot metadata shared by observers of the calling VM. The regression asserts that snapshot lookup fails after cleanup while both the observer connection and the live marker remain available.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The changed path is reached through an in-process connected Session, not a newly introduced network entrypoint. Worker-to-main-thread mode explicitly skips the local cleanup binding, limiting the new action to the caller's VM rather than conferring cross-VM authority.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The added regression exercises callback and promise Sessions with a separate native observer and a positive snapshot-lookup control. It establishes the intended normal-path assertions, but does not establish concurrent cleanup, worker snapshot isolation, or exceptional teardown recovery.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: releasing heap snapshot metadata when the inspector Session disconnects. It follows the conventional commit format and is 60 characters, within a normal length. The ti…
Description check		The description fills both required template sections, 'What does this PR do?' and 'How did you verify your code works?'. The first section explains the JSC heap-snapshot metadata leak, the disconnect…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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The title names the main change: releasing heap snapshot metadata when the inspector Session disconnects. It follows the conventional commit format and is 60 characters, within a normal length. The title matches the changeset summary and the PR objectives.

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The description fills both required template sections, 'What does this PR do?' and 'How did you verify your code works?'. The first section explains the JSC heap-snapshot metadata leak, the disconnect fix, the worker-session behavior, and the regression test. The second section lists the failing-before and passing-after results, the Linux x64 builds, the lint checks, and the exact test commands. It is detailed and matches the raw summary and objectives. Minor gap: it does not state whether the docs change in docs/runtime/nodejs-compat.mdx is intended, though the summary covers that file.

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Review comments at @src/js/node/inspector.ts:
- Line 487: Document the heap-snapshot side effect of Session.disconnect() in
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#!/bin/bash
# Find other in-process users of Session connect/disconnect that could clear snapshots held by an attached frontend.
rg -nP --type=ts -C2 'new\s+(inspector\.)?Session\(' src --glob '!src/js/node/inspector.ts'
rg -n -C3 'clearInspectorHeapSnapshots' src

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Document the VM-wide snapshot clear on Session.disconnect().

For a non-main-thread Session, disconnect() calls clearInspectorHeapSnapshots(). That function clears all heap-profiler snapshots of the VM, not only snapshots created by this Session. A snapshot held by another inspector client in the same VM, such as an attached DevTools frontend, can be cleared when an in-process Session disconnects.

If this trade-off is intended, document it in the Node.js inspector compatibility docs. Also state that sessions created with connectToMainThread() are exempt.

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Review comment at @src/js/node/inspector.ts at line 487:
Document the heap-snapshot side effect of Session.disconnect() in the Node.js
inspector compatibility documentation: disconnecting a non-main-thread Session
clears all heap-profiler snapshots for the VM, including snapshots accessible to
other inspector clients, while sessions created with connectToMainThread() are
exempt. Preserve the existing behavior in the disconnect implementation.

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review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr