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[JSC] The control flow profiler counts the branches of a decision - #894
The control flow profiler counts basic blocks. This adds the other thing a coverage report needs from it: at each place where control flow goes one of several ways, how often it went each way.
It is for branch coverage in bun test --coverage, oven-sh/bun#46534.
Why here
The basic blocks are a flat list of ranges with counts. They do not say that two ranges are the two sides of one if, and they have nothing at all for a side with no text, such as the missing else.
That can be worked out from outside: find each decision in the text, look up the count at the start of each side, and take "how often it was reached, less the other sides" for a side with no text. It takes knowing where the bytecode generator starts each basic block, and the subtraction is wrong whenever a decision is reached and not made: a condition that throws, or a case that falls through to the next.
The bytecode generator has the syntax node in hand when it emits the jumps. So it says which is which, and each way gets a counter of its own.
What is counted
A decision has branches, in this order:
Code
Branches
if, with or without else
The condition is true, it is false
a ? b : c
b, c
a && b, a || b, a ?? b
b is evaluated, it is skipped
a &&= b, a ||= b, a ??= b
b is assigned, it is skipped
a?.b, a?.[b], a?.(), delete a?.b
The rest of the chain is evaluated, it is skipped
A default value, of a parameter or in a pattern
It is used, it is not
switch
Each clause in the order of the text, then no match if there is no default
while, do-while, for with a condition
The condition is true, it is false
for-in, for-of
The body runs
try with a catch
Something is caught, nothing is
ControlFlowProfiler::getBranchesForSourceID(sourceID) lists them as BranchRange: the offsets of the decision, the index of the branch and its count. The end offset is of the last character, as in BasicBlockRange.
The offsets are what tells one decision from another, so that a function compiled twice, or a loop condition, which is emitted twice, adds to the same counters. They also say where it is:
Decision
Starts at
Ends at
One that can only skip something: &&, ||, ??, the logical assignments, ?., a default value
What it skips, which is the range of the basic block that is already there
The same
if
Its condition. An else if node starts at its else
Its end
do-while
Its condition
Its end
a ? b : c and every other statement
Its start
Its end
How
The op. A branch is counted by op_profile_control_flow, with a BasicBlockLocation as its counter, so LLInt and the JITs are not changed: they only read the metadata and add one. It has three more operands: isBranch, branchIndex and countsOtherBranches. When CodeBlock links them, a branch gets its counter from the decisions of the profiler and takes no part in the ranges and gaps of the basic blocks. What lists basic blocks does not see it.
Where only the branch gets to, such as the start of an else block, emitProfileBranch(decision, index) emits the op in place.
Where the branch is a jump to a label that others reach too, such as the false side of an if with no else, the jump goes to newBranchLabel(decision, index, target) in place of target. That is a label at the end of the function, where the op is followed by a jump to target. The handlers of catch are emitted there in the same way (m_exceptionHandlersToEmit). With the profiler off it returns target.
switch. The op is at the label of the clause, and what falls through from the clause before jumps over it. So a clause counts when it matches.
try. Control flow leaves a try block in many ways, and nothing runs only when the catch did not. That branch has a counter where the try starts (emitProfileBranchThatCountsOtherBranches), and the list has it less the other branch. The counter of the catch is before its pattern is bound: if that throws, it was still caught.
Loops. The condition being false gets a label of its own before the break target, so break is not counted.
The test of a case has no basic blocks for ?., a logical assignment or a default value (emitProfileControlFlowOutsideOfCaseTest). It has their branches.
Code that has not run
The bytecode of a function is generated when it is first called, so the profiler knows nothing of a function that was not. A report without its branches would say that a file is fully covered when half of its functions never ran.
generateBytecodeEagerly(sourceID) asks for all of a source. When its program, module or eval code is linked, the profiler generates the bytecode of every function in it and adds the branches with a count of 0. It does so with generateUnlinkedCodeBlockForFunctions() of CodeCache.cpp, which the bytecode cache uses for the same, and which now takes a functor that is called with each code block.
It waits for that code, since a function can be linked first: in a cycle of imports a function declaration of a module is called before the module is evaluated.
One description of what a decision is. The list comes from the code that places the counters.
Nothing is generated twice. These are the executables that the program runs. unlinkedCodeBlockFor() keeps what it generates, and the first call of the function uses it. So the cost is the bytecode of the functions that are never called. It is dropped as any unlinked code that is not used, after a few collections.
Nothing is kept for it, but the ID until that code is linked.
didReplaceSource(replaced, replacement) is for a host that links a provider in place of the one it asked for, as Bun does when a provider wraps another.
It is per source, so that a host can leave out what it does not report, as Bun does node_modules, and what only reads basic blocks, as Web Inspector does, is not changed.
What is not right
(a?.b)?.(): the parser makes one chain of the two, so that the call has its this. When a is null the second ?. counts neither way. (a?.b)?.c is right.
A try that is entered and never left, as with a generator that is not resumed, counts as nothing caught.
What does Bun do that JSC does not like?
Nothing. This is a feature.
Why does upstream not have it?
Web Inspector greys out the code that did not run, which takes the basic blocks alone.
With the profiler off
The bytecode is the same. --dumpGeneratedBytecodes=1 --useJIT=0 on the 6,359 files of JSTests/stress, es6 and controlFlowProfiler that are not marked slow, before and after, with addresses masked: 671,350,031 bytes.
Files
The same
6,331
Not the same in two runs of one binary
26
The new test
1
Prints the properties of $vm, which has one more
1
No file of LLInt or of a JIT is changed. Every new instruction is behind shouldEmitControlFlowProfilerHooks(). The parser is not changed. A loop has one more label, bound where its break target is.
cachedTypesFormatRevision is 15, for the operands.
With the profiler on
6,494 files of the same directories with --useControlFlowProfiler=1, before and after: the exit code and the output are the same in all but the new test.
The basic blocks are as they were: every test in JSTests/controlFlowProfiler passes unchanged.
Tests
JSTests/controlFlowProfiler/branches.js, with $vm.branchExecutionCounts(function, text): the counts of the branches of the decisions that start where the text does. It has each row of the table above, and:
A condition that throws: neither branch is taken.
break, continue and return in an if with no else, and break out of a loop.
Clauses that fall through, empty clauses, a default in the middle, a switch on strings and one with a call as a test.
return and continue out of a try, and a catch pattern that throws.
A generator that is not resumed.
Fields, static fields, a static block and a constructor.
A function that is never called, with an arrow function, a class, a method and a generator in it. $vm.branchExecutionCounts generates the bytecode of the functions in the one it is given. Nothing in jsc can ask for a source before it is loaded, so generateBytecodeEagerly() itself is tested in Bun.
A function that is first called after the branches were listed.
A function that tiers up.
Not in the tree: programs made at random, each with a twin that counts every outcome itself.
Programs
Decisions
Other counts than the twin, or a decision more or less
jsc
1,200
27,587
0
Each run 400 times: no JIT, baseline only, up to DFG, up to FTL
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The change adds bytecode instrumentation and profiler support for counting JavaScript branch outcomes. It exposes the counts through $vm.branchExecutionCounts and adds tests across JavaScript constructs and execution states.
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Branch profiling
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Summary
Encode and emit branch profiles Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecode/BytecodeList.rb, Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecompiler/BytecodeGenerator.*
Control-flow profile instructions now encode branch status, branch index, and whether a count includes other branches. The bytecode generator queues branch labels and emits profiles for deferred targets.
Compiler nodes add branch profiles for logical expressions, conditionals, loops, switches, try/catch paths, and default-value selection.
Register and report branch counts Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/BasicBlockLocation.h, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/CachedTypes.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/CodeCache.*, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/CodeBlock.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/ControlFlowProfiler.*
The profiler registers branch locations, generates bytecode for nested functions, and reports sorted branch counts. The cached bytecode format revision changes from 14 to 15.
Expose and test branch counts Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/JSDollarVM.cpp, JSTests/controlFlowProfiler/branches.js
The test-only $vm.branchExecutionCounts API returns counts for branches matching a source substring. Tests cover expressions, statements, loops, switches, exception handling, generators, classes, nested functions, and repeated execution.
Suggested reviewers: constellation
Priority: Normal
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 180a4
Branch coverage can omit loop-exhaustion and zero-iteration outcomes, so the reported counts should be corrected before merging. A narrower test-helper error-handling concern also remains.
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Review comments at @Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecompiler/NodesCodegen.cpp:
- Line 4840: Update the for...in and for...of code-generation paths that call
emitProfileBranch with branch index 0 to also record branch index 1 at normal
exhaustion, including zero-iteration cases; keep explicit break paths distinct
from normal exhaustion.
Review comments at @Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/JSDollarVM.cpp:
- Line 4007: In functionBranchExecutionCounts, check the existing throw scope
immediately after resolving the argument with value() and return the function’s
empty result if an exception occurred, matching the exception-handling pattern
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🎯 Functional Correctness | Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Record the exhaustion outcome for for...in and for...of.
These sites register only branch index 0. An empty iterable or object never reaches either site, and neither loop registers an exhaustion branch. As a result, coverage cannot report the zero-iteration outcome or count normal exhaustion. Add branch index 1 at each loop’s exhaustion path. Keep explicit break paths separate from normal exhaustion.
Also applies to: 4920-4920
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Update the for...in and for...of code-generation paths that call
emitProfileBranch with branch index 0 to also record branch index 1 at normal
exhaustion, including zero-iteration cases; keep explicit break paths distinct
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🩺 Stability & Availability | Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Check for an exception after value().
functionBranchExecutionCounts declares a DECLARE_THROW_SCOPE at Line 3999. asString(...)->value(globalObject) can throw, for example when a rope string fails to resolve with an out-of-memory error.
The code then calls constructEmptyArray without checking for an exception. If exception-check validation is enabled, this reports an unchecked exception. If value() really throws, the function continues with an empty substring.
functionFindTypeForExpression already uses the correct pattern. Add the same check here.
🐛 Proposed fix
auto substring = asString(callFrame->argument(1))->value(globalObject);
+ RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION(scope, { });
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auto substring = asString(callFrame->argument(1))->value(globalObject);
auto substring = asString(callFrame->argument(1))->value(globalObject);
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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 finding, two other candidates were checked and ruled out: the vm().controlFlowProfiler() dereference now placed before the hasOpProfileControlFlowBytecodeOffsets() check in CodeBlock::insertBasicBlockBoundariesForControlFlowProfiler only runs for code blocks compiled with profiler opcodes, which already dereferenced the profiler on that same path; and the size_t subtraction in getBranchesForSourceID cannot underflow for try, since the counter at the start of the try block is incremented in every activation before its catch counter can be.
Extended reasoning...
The change extends JSC's control flow profiler with per-branch counters: three new operands on op_profile_control_flow, Decision/branch-label plumbing through BytecodeGenerator and NodesCodegen for every conditional construct, out-of-line branch trampolines, eager bytecode generation of uncalled functions via CodeCache, a bytecode cache format bump, and a new $vm hook plus test. It touches no auth, crypto or input-handling surface. It is large (+701/-38) and reshapes bytecode emission for loops, switch and try, with one confirmed finding on the eager-generation recursion depth, so a human reviewer should still look.
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🟡 (optional) When a registered program links deep in the native stack, the branches of its deeper nested functions are silently dropped and coverage reports them as having no uncovered branches. ControlFlowProfiler.cpp:85 recurses with depth numeric_limits::max() from inside CodeBlock::finishCreation (CodeBlock.cpp:871), one parse plus bytecode generation per nesting level on the C++ stack. When Parser.cpp:56 hits the soft limit it sets ParserError::StackOverflow, UnlinkedFunctionExecutable.cpp:66-69 returns null, CodeCache.cpp:99-100 returns, and the whole subtree is skipped; the error at ControlFlowProfiler.cpp:84 is never read. Fix: bound the recursion (or iterate) and surface or retry on a StackOverflow error so no subtree is dropped without notice.
Why this was flagged
Trigger: a program or module registered with generateBytecodeEagerly is linked while the native stack is already deep (ScriptExecutable::prepareForExecutionImpl runs under whatever JS called it, for example a chain of nested require/import calls), and the source has nested function literals. When VM::isSafeToRecurse fails, Parser.cpp:56 sets error, UnlinkedFunctionExecutable.cpp:66-69 returns nullptr, and the lambda at CodeCache.cpp:99-100 returns without visiting that function or anything inside it. ControlFlowProfiler.cpp:84 declares the ParserError and never inspects it, so no log, no exception and no retry. Result for a coverage consumer: getBranchesForSourceID (ControlFlowProfiler.cpp:94) has no entries for those functions, so a file is reported with fewer uncovered branches than it has, depending on how deep the stack happened to be at link time. The base branch had no eager pass, so it had no such stack-dependent result. Remedy: cap the depth or make the walk iterative, and when a StackOverflow error is returned, record the source for a later retry instead of dropping the subtree.
Verification: Trigger: a source registered with generateBytecodeEagerly() is linked while the native stack is already within roughly 64 KB of the VM's hard limit. ControlFlowProfiler.cpp:84-85 declares a local ParserError error; and never inspects it afterwards. On nullptr the lambda does return; (CodeCache.cpp:99-100), so that function and all of its descendants are skipped silently.
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The control flow profiler counts basic blocks. This adds the other thing a coverage report needs from it: at each place where control flow goes one of several ways, how often it went each way.
It is for branch coverage in
bun test --coverage, oven-sh/bun#46534.Why here
The basic blocks are a flat list of ranges with counts. They do not say that two ranges are the two sides of one
if, and they have nothing at all for a side with no text, such as the missingelse.That can be worked out from outside: find each decision in the text, look up the count at the start of each side, and take "how often it was reached, less the other sides" for a side with no text. It takes knowing where the bytecode generator starts each basic block, and the subtraction is wrong whenever a decision is reached and not made: a condition that throws, or a
casethat falls through to the next.The bytecode generator has the syntax node in hand when it emits the jumps. So it says which is which, and each way gets a counter of its own.
What is counted
A decision has branches, in this order:
if, with or withoutelsea ? b : cb,ca && b,a || b,a ?? bbis evaluated, it is skippeda &&= b,a ||= b,a ??= bbis assigned, it is skippeda?.b,a?.[b],a?.(),delete a?.bswitchdefaultwhile,do-while,forwith a conditionfor-in,for-oftrywith acatchControlFlowProfiler::getBranchesForSourceID(sourceID)lists them asBranchRange: the offsets of the decision, the index of the branch and its count. The end offset is of the last character, as inBasicBlockRange.The offsets are what tells one decision from another, so that a function compiled twice, or a loop condition, which is emitted twice, adds to the same counters. They also say where it is:
&&,||,??, the logical assignments,?., a default valueifelse ifnode starts at itselsedo-whilea ? b : cand every other statementHow
The op. A branch is counted by
op_profile_control_flow, with aBasicBlockLocationas its counter, so LLInt and the JITs are not changed: they only read the metadata and add one. It has three more operands:isBranch,branchIndexandcountsOtherBranches. WhenCodeBlocklinks them, a branch gets its counter from the decisions of the profiler and takes no part in the ranges and gaps of the basic blocks. What lists basic blocks does not see it.Where only the branch gets to, such as the start of an
elseblock,emitProfileBranch(decision, index)emits the op in place.Where the branch is a jump to a label that others reach too, such as the false side of an
ifwith noelse, the jump goes tonewBranchLabel(decision, index, target)in place oftarget. That is a label at the end of the function, where the op is followed by a jump totarget. The handlers ofcatchare emitted there in the same way (m_exceptionHandlersToEmit). With the profiler off it returnstarget.switch. The op is at the label of the clause, and what falls through from the clause before jumps over it. So a clause counts when it matches.try. Control flow leaves atryblock in many ways, and nothing runs only when thecatchdid not. That branch has a counter where thetrystarts (emitProfileBranchThatCountsOtherBranches), and the list has it less the other branch. The counter of thecatchis before its pattern is bound: if that throws, it was still caught.Loops. The condition being false gets a label of its own before the
breaktarget, sobreakis not counted.The test of a
casehas no basic blocks for?., a logical assignment or a default value (emitProfileControlFlowOutsideOfCaseTest). It has their branches.Code that has not run
The bytecode of a function is generated when it is first called, so the profiler knows nothing of a function that was not. A report without its branches would say that a file is fully covered when half of its functions never ran.
generateBytecodeEagerly(sourceID)asks for all of a source. When its program, module or eval code is linked, the profiler generates the bytecode of every function in it and adds the branches with a count of 0. It does so withgenerateUnlinkedCodeBlockForFunctions()ofCodeCache.cpp, which the bytecode cache uses for the same, and which now takes a functor that is called with each code block.It waits for that code, since a function can be linked first: in a cycle of imports a function declaration of a module is called before the module is evaluated.
unlinkedCodeBlockFor()keeps what it generates, and the first call of the function uses it. So the cost is the bytecode of the functions that are never called. It is dropped as any unlinked code that is not used, after a few collections.didReplaceSource(replaced, replacement)is for a host that links a provider in place of the one it asked for, as Bun does when a provider wraps another.node_modules, and what only reads basic blocks, as Web Inspector does, is not changed.What is not right
(a?.b)?.(): the parser makes one chain of the two, so that the call has itsthis. Whenais null the second?.counts neither way.(a?.b)?.cis right.trythat is entered and never left, as with a generator that is not resumed, counts as nothing caught.What does Bun do that JSC does not like?
Nothing. This is a feature.
Why does upstream not have it?
Web Inspector greys out the code that did not run, which takes the basic blocks alone.
With the profiler off
The bytecode is the same.
--dumpGeneratedBytecodes=1 --useJIT=0on the 6,359 files ofJSTests/stress,es6andcontrolFlowProfilerthat are not marked slow, before and after, with addresses masked: 671,350,031 bytes.$vm, which has one moreNo file of LLInt or of a JIT is changed. Every new instruction is behind
shouldEmitControlFlowProfilerHooks(). The parser is not changed. A loop has one more label, bound where itsbreaktarget is.cachedTypesFormatRevisionis 15, for the operands.With the profiler on
6,494 files of the same directories with
--useControlFlowProfiler=1, before and after: the exit code and the output are the same in all but the new test.The basic blocks are as they were: every test in
JSTests/controlFlowProfilerpasses unchanged.Tests
JSTests/controlFlowProfiler/branches.js, with$vm.branchExecutionCounts(function, text): the counts of the branches of the decisions that start where the text does. It has each row of the table above, and:break,continueandreturnin anifwith noelse, andbreakout of a loop.defaultin the middle, aswitchon strings and one with a call as a test.returnandcontinueout of atry, and acatchpattern that throws.$vm.branchExecutionCountsgenerates the bytecode of the functions in the one it is given. Nothing injsccan ask for a source before it is loaded, sogenerateBytecodeEagerly()itself is tested in Bun.Not in the tree: programs made at random, each with a twin that counts every outcome itself.
jscbun test --coverage, transpiled and not