fix(gc): retire the typed-layout intact claim when no descriptor backs it - #8182
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…s it `GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT` (`0x1000`) is documented to mean "a canonical `TypedLayoutDescriptor` is reachable for this object". #7834's at-allocation bake sets it with no descriptor behind it, and `set_layout_state` masks `!(GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK | GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS)` = `!0xE000`, so the generic pointer-mask branch in `layout_note_slot` could publish `GC_LAYOUT_SIDE_MASK | GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT` **without** a descriptor. Three codegen consumers read that state as a licence to skip a map: `class_field_inline_guard` (which tests the bit and no layout state at all), `element_shape_guard`'s packed `0x1800_80FF` header compare, and `class_field_store_layout_note_is_conforming`, which elides the layout note on `_reserved & 0xD000 == 0x9000`. Clear the bit where the broken state is observable: the fall-through past `layout_note_slot`'s descriptor probe, which is reached only when BOTH maps answered `None`. A descriptor-backed object returns from the `Some(verdict)` arm long before it, so the legitimate `SIDE_MASK | INTACT` case is untouched. Refs #8115, #7834. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AHvBYz7E6wWKv8kmvLLGpj
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In `@changelog.d/8182-typed-layout-intact-residual.md`:
- Around line 23-25: Update the test path references to use the full
repository-relative path
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/typed_layout_intact_residual.rs in both
changelog.d/8182-typed-layout-intact-residual.md lines 23-25 and
docs/engine-plan.md lines 229-231.
In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/layout.rs`:
- Around line 744-783: Add a regression test covering tagged non-pointer stores
using TAG_TRUE, TAG_UNDEFINED, and INT32_TAG. Verify each value fails
layout_raw_f64_bits, clears GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT, and preserves
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| Acceptance: `perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/typed_layout_intact_residual.rs` (7 | ||
| tests). It reaches `SIDE_MASK` without a descriptor through the real | ||
| `layout_note_slot`, from the exact header the inline `new` bakes, and then |
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Use the full repository-relative test path in both documents.
changelog.d/8182-typed-layout-intact-residual.md#L23-L25: change the path tocrates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/typed_layout_intact_residual.rs.docs/engine-plan.md#L229-L231: apply the same path correction.
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In `@changelog.d/8182-typed-layout-intact-residual.md` around lines 23 - 25,
Update the test path references to use the full repository-relative path
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/typed_layout_intact_residual.rs in both
changelog.d/8182-typed-layout-intact-residual.md lines 23-25 and
docs/engine-plan.md lines 229-231.
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| // #8115: reaching here with the bit still set means BOTH descriptor maps | ||
| // answered `None` — the probe above is exhaustive — so the object is | ||
| // INTACT and descriptor-less, and the invariant documented on | ||
| // [`GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT`] ("intact ⟹ a canonical descriptor is | ||
| // reachable") is false for it. Restore the invariant here, at the one | ||
| // place that observes it broken. | ||
| // | ||
| // The state stores in the generic pointer-mask branch below CANNOT do | ||
| // it: `set_layout_state` masks `!(GC_LAYOUT_STATE_MASK | | ||
| // GC_LAYOUT_ALL_POINTERS)` = `!0xE000`, and this bit is `0x1000`. So | ||
| // before this clear the branch could publish `SIDE_MASK | INTACT` | ||
| // WITHOUT a descriptor — a state three separate consumers read as a | ||
| // proof they may skip a map: | ||
| // | ||
| // * `class_field_inline_guard` (codegen) tests this bit ALONE before | ||
| // reading/writing a slot as a bare `double`; | ||
| // * `element_shape_guard`'s packed `0x1800_80FF` header test folds it | ||
| // in for the same license; | ||
| // * `class_field_store_layout_note_is_conforming` (codegen | ||
| // `expr/helpers.rs`) elides the layout note outright on | ||
| // `_reserved & 0xD000 == 0x9000`, whose proof is "a descriptor built | ||
| // from this class's mask globals is reachable". | ||
| // | ||
| // #7834's at-allocation bake is what made that reachable: it stamps | ||
| // `POINTER_FREE | INTACT` into the inline `new`'s header constant with | ||
| // no descriptor behind it, deliberately, on the argument that the | ||
| // generic branch below downgrades correctly. It does — for the | ||
| // collector. The bit it leaves behind is the half that was missing: | ||
| // `docs/engine-plan.md`'s construction-cost section, item 2, named this | ||
| // mechanism exactly — it used to forbid the bake outright, and now | ||
| // records the residual and this repair. | ||
| // | ||
| // Cost: one 16-bit store, only on the fall-through, which for a baked | ||
| // object is only ever a store the descriptor path would have called | ||
| // `layout_set_typed_unknown` for. Pre-#7834 that is precisely what it | ||
| // did — every pointer-free class carried a real descriptor, and any | ||
| // non-conforming store evicted it, bit included. | ||
| if claimed_intact { | ||
| header_clear_typed_layout_intact(header); | ||
| } |
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Add a regression test for tagged non-pointer stores.
TAG_TRUE, TAG_UNDEFINED, and INT32_TAG fail layout_raw_f64_bits while remaining non-pointer values. They therefore clear GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT and leave GC_LAYOUT_POINTER_FREE, retiring the raw-f64 fast path. Add a test that defines this intended behavior.
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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/layout.rs` around lines 744 - 783, Add a
regression test covering tagged non-pointer stores using TAG_TRUE,
TAG_UNDEFINED, and INT32_TAG. Verify each value fails layout_raw_f64_bits,
clears GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT, and preserves GC_LAYOUT_POINTER_FREE, thereby
disabling the raw-f64 fast path without classifying the value as a pointer.
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Closes #8115.
Which end I fixed, and why
(b) — stop producing the bad state.
layout_note_slotclearsGC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACTat the fall-through past its descriptor probe. Thatpoint is reached only when both descriptor maps answered
None, so the bitis provably stale there; clearing it restores the invariant the bit's own doc
comment states and that four readers already assume.
(a) would have had to teach
class_field_inline_guardabout layout states itknows nothing about, and it could not simply reject
SIDE_MASK—expr/helpers.rs:242documents a guard that legitimately requires exactlySIDE_MASK | INTACT. (b) also coverselement_shape_guard, which folds the samebit into its packed
0x1800_80FFheader compare, andclass_field_store_layout_note_is_conforming, without touching either.There is precedent for (b) three hundred lines away:
layout_rebuild_from_slots_with_policyalready clears the bit with the comment"reconstructs only the pointer mask (no raw-f64 layout), so the object no longer
has a canonical typed descriptor".
Does the legitimate
SIDE_MASK | INTACTcase still workYes, and structurally rather than by luck: a descriptor-backed object returns
from
layout_note_slot'sSome(verdict)arm, which is above the clear. Twotests establish it rather than assert it —
a_descriptor_backed_side_mask_object_keeps_its_intact_claiminstalls a realshared descriptor with a non-empty pointer mask, drives a conforming pointer
store and a conforming raw-f64 store through it, and asserts both codegen
predicates still hold;
a_contradicting_store_still_downgrades_through_the_descriptor_pathasserts the pre-existing
layout_set_typed_unknowndowngrade is not displaced.a_conforming_raw_f64_store_leaves_the_bake_intactis the third control: #7834'sbake keeps its licence while nothing contradicts it, so "clear the bit" cannot be
implemented as "clear it on every store".
The test
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/typed_layout_intact_residual.rs, 7 tests.The acceptance case reaches
SIDE_MASKwithout a descriptor through the reallayout_note_slot, from the exact headerlower_call/new_alloc.rsbakes, andthen evaluates the codegen predicate over the header the runtime produced —
the_inline_raw_f64_arm_must_not_read_a_pointer_slot_as_a_doublecarries itthrough to the value the emitted fast path would hand the program.
Both premises come from the maps, never from the bit under test: a new
#[cfg(test)] layout_descriptor_reachableprobesTYPED_LAYOUTS/SHAPE_LAYOUTSdirectly (layout_has_typed_descriptorreads the bit, so a testbuilt on it could not tell "the bit is honest" from "the bit lies"), and
per_object_slot_maskproves the generic branch really minted a mask, so a runwhere
layout_note_slotreturned early cannot pass as green.Sabotage: with the clear disabled, exactly the two residual tests fail and
the four controls still pass:
0x9000isSIDE_MASK | INTACT— the state #8115 names.Correction to the issue: the "defence that does not hold" does hold
The issue argues
mark_object_dynamic_shape_unknownis "structurally inert onexactly the objects it would need to protect", because a baked instance is
POINTER_FREEwith no descriptor so both conjuncts of the early return hold.The second conjunct is false.
layout_has_typed_descriptoranswers byreading
GC_OBJ_TYPED_LAYOUT_INTACT— the bit the bake set — so the guard doesnot fire and
layout_mark_unknownheals the object. The stale claim was itsown antidote.
Measured, not argued:
the_bake_healed_itself_only_because_the_descriptor_probe_reads_the_same_bitpins the coupling, so making that probe honest cannot silently re-open the hole.
This is why an end-to-end TypeScript repro does not produce a wrong answer on an
unfixed tree — verified on a real baked binary, see below. After this change
nothing depends on the coincidence: healing happens in
layout_note_slotitself.Doc:
docs/engine-plan.mditem 2Rewritten. It forbade code that shipped four days after the ⛔ was written
(
d2dca58232026-08-07 →d04cc3f292026-08-11) and is covered by an IR censuswith a negative control. It now records that the bake shipped, keeps the hazard
in full because the shape recurs, states what #8115 changed and what makes it
sound, and is honest about two things: the old severity was over-stated for what
was reachable (the lost-child use-after-free needs the note elision, whose
precondition — the class declares a pointer slot — is mutually exclusive with the
bake's requirement that the pointer mask be statically empty), and the bake still
rests unchanged on
TypedShapeProof::FreshlyAllocated.Validation
cargo test -p perry-runtime --lib— 2452 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored(2445 baseline + 7 new).
cargo test -p perry-codegen --no-fail-fast— 1476 passed / 9 failed,identical to the documented baseline, zero new by name. (perry-codegen has
no
perry-runtimedependency, so a runtime change cannot reach it.)lint-job commands generated from.github/workflows/test.yml, plusscripts/check_gc_env_knobs.py— green.class Point { a: number; b: number }constructed in a loop with a runtime bound emits the baked header word
store i64 241860346370(_reserved = 0x5000=POINTER_FREE | INTACT) andzero
js_gc_declare_typed_shape_layoutcalls, so the bake is live. Boththe pre-fix and post-fix runtimes match
node --experimental-strip-typesbyte-for-byte (A/B by swapping the
libperry_{runtime,stdlib}.apair, sametarget dir, identical
-pset) — consistent with the correction above.baked class, with the type violation in the middle, under
PERRY_GC_ZEAL=1 PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 PERRY_GC_DIAG=1:6 ×
[gc-fromspace-protect] mode=ProtectPages retired_set=#N, up tobytes_protected=51380224, and copying minors that actually moved(
copied_objects=2050 / 54 / 2276). Exit 0, output matches node. Clean againwith
PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1, and underPERRY_GC_FORCE_EVACUATE=1 PERRY_GC_VERIFY_EVACUATION=1.Found, not fixed
The bake's birth window still has
layout_has_typed_descriptoransweringtruefor an object with no descriptor. That is
TypedShapeProof::FreshlyAllocated'sexisting contract (#7510/#7512), not new here, and it is now the only remaining
place the bit outruns a descriptor. Recorded in
docs/engine-plan.mdand in theconstant's doc comment.
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