perf(codegen): bound TailCallElim's alloca walk on wide statepoint functions - #8894
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…nctions `TailCallElimPass::markTails` walks the transitive SSA uses of every alloca; only loads/stores and nocapture call arguments stop it. On a statepoint-rewritten function an alloca handed to any runtime call reaches the statepoint token, its gc.relocates and, through their gc-live bundles, every later statepoint, so each walk covers the whole function and the pass costs allocas x uses. Coop's Next.js route (jsonwebtoken's bundled entry: 400 allocas, 643k post-RS4GC instructions, 3.4k statepoints, 477k relocates; ~1.6M visited uses per alloca) held one LLVM worker for ~100 CPU-minutes in that walk on a unit whose remaining `-Os` passes take ~16 s. Before the optimization pipeline runs, estimate the walk as `allocas x instructions` per function and stamp `"disable-tail-calls"="true"` on any function over the budget (default 2^26; `PERRY_LL_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALK=<n>` raises/lowers it, `0`/`off` disables). That attribute is TRE's own early-out, so the function keeps every other pass at the requested level (#8421); it gives up exactly tail-recursion-to-loop and sibling-call codegen, and it is not `optnone` (#8583). The trip is logged with the function's name and factors, and the knob is a build/object cache input. Fixes #8883 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe in-process LLVM backend adds a configurable per-function budget for TailCallElim alloca walks. Over-budget functions receive the ChangesTailCallElim budget
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The optimization safeguard does not account for byval parameters in some wide functions, allowing expensive compiler walks to remain enabled and potentially preserving the compile-time problem this PR targets. The omission is localized but should be fixed and covered by a regression test before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/inprocess.rs`:
- Around line 777-790: Update alloca_walk_factors to count each function
argument with hasByValAttr() as an additional root alongside Alloca
instructions, ensuring defined functions with only byval parameters are included
in the budget; add a regression fixture covering a no-alloca function with a
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| fn alloca_walk_factors(function: inkwell::values::FunctionValue<'_>) -> (usize, usize) { | ||
| let mut allocas = 0usize; | ||
| let mut instrs = 0usize; | ||
| for bb in function.get_basic_blocks() { | ||
| let mut inst = bb.get_first_instruction(); | ||
| while let Some(i) = inst { | ||
| instrs += 1; | ||
| if i.get_opcode() == inkwell::values::InstructionOpcode::Alloca { | ||
| allocas += 1; | ||
| } | ||
| inst = i.get_next_instruction(); | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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For LLVM 22's TailRecursionElimination.cpp, verify that markTails calls AllocaDerivedValueTracker::walk for each Argument with hasByValAttr(), independently of AllocaInst roots.
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Yes, it is verified that in LLVM's TailRecursionElimination.cpp, the markTails function calls AllocaDerivedValueTracker::walk for each Argument with the hasByValAttr attribute, independently of AllocaInst roots [1][2][3]. The implementation iterates through the function arguments and processes those marked with the byval attribute separately from the scan for AllocaInst roots [1][4]: // The local stack holds all alloca instructions and all byval arguments. AllocaDerivedValueTracker Tracker; for (Argument &Arg: F.args) { if (Arg.hasByValAttr) Tracker.walk(&Arg); } for (auto &BB: F) { for (auto &I: BB) if (AllocaInst *AI = dyn_cast(&I)) Tracker.walk(AI); } This structure confirms that both byval arguments and alloca instructions are used as independent root values for the AllocaDerivedValueTracker, which is responsible for analyzing escape points and tracking alloca-derived values to determine tail call eligibility [1][2][4].
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- 1: https://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/TailRecursionElimination_8cpp_source.html
- 2: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/cbe77ca9bd05393b1df1abf016b01f44d1d10a49/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/TailRecursionElimination.cpp
- 3: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/05e908609227e1e8d993659e604a63668dfd2825/llvm/lib/Transforms/Scalar/TailRecursionElimination.cpp
- 4: https://cs6340.cc.gatech.edu/LLVM8Doxygen/TailRecursionElimination_8cpp_source.html
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Include byval formal parameters in the budget.
When a defined function has byval parameters but no Alloca instructions, alloca_walk_factors reports zero roots, so disable_tail_call_elim_over_budget never stamps it under any enabled cap. LLVM 22's TailRecursionElimination.cpp independently calls AllocaDerivedValueTracker::walk for each Argument with hasByValAttr(). Add these roots to the estimate and add a no-alloca byval regression fixture.
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In `@crates/perry-codegen/src/inprocess.rs` around lines 777 - 790, Update
alloca_walk_factors to count each function argument with hasByValAttr() as an
additional root alongside Alloca instructions, ensuring defined functions with
only byval parameters are included in the budget; add a regression fixture
covering a no-alloca function with a byval parameter.
Six measured (allocas × instructions, TailCallElimPass seconds) pairs from the fixture's 24 native units, showing 2^26 sits in the knee. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd
* fix(hir): late-bind `new X()` to a class declared later; name the ReferenceError Coop's Next.js App Route fixture died at module init on 0.5.1519 with the nameless `ReferenceError: identifier is not defined`. The identifier is `SentinelNode` in next/dist/server/lib/lru-cache.js: the CJS wrap hoists `LRUCache` out of the module IIFE but never sees `SentinelNode` (its doc comment closes on the `class` line, and the textual hoister anchors on `class ` at column 0), so the hoisted constructor's `new SentinelNode()` is lowered before the `__perry_cjs_factory` body registers the class. The unresolved-`new` guard from #8643 (905017b, inside the 1516..1519 window) turned that lowering-time miss into an unconditional nameless throw; before it, the by-name `Expr::New` bound at codegen through the module class table, which is why 0.5.1516 loaded. - `pre_scan_class_decl_names` records every class DECLARATION name in the module at any depth; the guard keeps the late-bound by-name construction for those. - Any other unresolved constructor is read off `globalThis` when the `new` executes (`js_global_get_or_throw_unresolved`, shared with the bare-identifier arm via `unresolved_global_get_expr`), so a runtime-created global constructs and a true miss throws `ReferenceError: <name> is not defined` -- with the identifier, as #8730 and #8882 asked. The compile log names it too, with the same "unknown identifier" warning the bare-identifier arm prints. Regression tests: a hoisted class constructing a sibling declared inside a later closure keeps `New { class_name }` (fails without the new guard clause, verified); a `typeof`-guarded `new IntersectionObserver()` lowers to the named runtime lookup; the #8739 positive control now expects the named form. Fixes #8882. Refs #8730. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd * fix(runtime): make the class registries per image so one process can host several apps Every class-id-keyed table module init writes — vtables, static methods and accessors, constructors and flags, the parent map and its dense mirror, names, lengths, registered ids, bind lengths, the extends-Error / DataView / typed-array marks, the hasInstance / toStringTag hooks, generic-origin and fetch-parent maps, anon-shape ids — was a process-global static keyed by a compile-time class id. Class ids come from a small sequential counter in codegen, so N dlopen'd copies of one application register the SAME ids with DIFFERENT func_ptrs (each image's own code addresses) into one HashMap, and insert is last-writer-wins: after the last image's init every class of every earlier image dispatched into the last image's code, and only the last-initialised application worked (#8546). No write order over a shared table works, so the 21 tables move into one ClassImageTables per image. A thread resolves its image through a perry_thread_local! handle, falling back to the process-wide primary image. js_gc_init — codegen's first runtime call in both `main` and `perry_module_init`, on the thread that runs that image's module init — enters an image: the first thread to enter owns the primary, every later one gets a fresh image. perry/thread workers and worker_threads Workers adopt their spawner's image before running anything, because they never run module init. A thread that neither entered nor adopted (a pump firing JS for the primary heap, a reactor thread, a libtest thread) uses the primary, i.e. the process-global table it saw before, so single-image programs are unchanged. Each former `static RwLock<..>` is a `static ImageTable<RwLock<..>>` whose read()/write() return the same guard types, so the call sites are untouched. Latches and VTABLE_GEN stay process-global on purpose. Tests: two application threads registering the same class id with different method addresses each dispatch to their own (sabotage-verified: with the enter made a no-op the last writer wins and the test fails on the func_ptr); a spawned worker shares its spawner's image while a second application sees neither; a thread without an image reads the primary. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd * docs(changelog): fragment for #8893 (per-image class registries, #8546) Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd * perf(codegen): bound TailCallElim's alloca walk on wide statepoint functions `TailCallElimPass::markTails` walks the transitive SSA uses of every alloca; only loads/stores and nocapture call arguments stop it. On a statepoint-rewritten function an alloca handed to any runtime call reaches the statepoint token, its gc.relocates and, through their gc-live bundles, every later statepoint, so each walk covers the whole function and the pass costs allocas x uses. Coop's Next.js route (jsonwebtoken's bundled entry: 400 allocas, 643k post-RS4GC instructions, 3.4k statepoints, 477k relocates; ~1.6M visited uses per alloca) held one LLVM worker for ~100 CPU-minutes in that walk on a unit whose remaining `-Os` passes take ~16 s. Before the optimization pipeline runs, estimate the walk as `allocas x instructions` per function and stamp `"disable-tail-calls"="true"` on any function over the budget (default 2^26; `PERRY_LL_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALK=<n>` raises/lowers it, `0`/`off` disables). That attribute is TRE's own early-out, so the function keeps every other pass at the requested level (#8421); it gives up exactly tail-recursion-to-loop and sibling-call codegen, and it is not `optnone` (#8583). The trip is logged with the function's name and factors, and the knob is a build/object cache input. Fixes #8883 Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UZJbhb2FTuakurTHPAKQgd --------- Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com> Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph3@skelpo.com>
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What is slow, measured in isolation
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benchmarks_next_small_node_modules_next_dist_compiled_jsonwebtoken_index_jsunit 1/2 of the Coop Next.js fixture (24 MB of constructed IR, 467 functions). Dumped withPERRY_SAVE_LL, fed through Perry's real prelude (always-inline,function(mem2reg,sccp),rewrite-statepoints-for-gc) and then through Perry's real pipeline (default<Os>;PERRY_LL_SIZE_OPTunset) withopt -time-passeson the pinned LLVM 22.1.4:opt -passes='default<Os>' -time-passeson the post-RS4GC unit"disable-tail-calls"="true"sampleof thatoptshows the same frames as the issue:TailCallElimPass::run → AllocaDerivedValueTracker::walk → SmallPtrSetImplBase::insert_imp_big.The function is
perry_closure_…_jsonwebtoken_index_js__229(the bundled jsonwebtoken entry, which webpack inlines into the route). At the point the pipeline sees it: 400 allocas (all[N x i64]argument arrays whose address is passed to runtime calls), 642,892 instructions, 3,366 statepoints with 476,709gc.relocates. A simulation ofmarkTails' walk on the IR dumped-print-before=tailcallelim(610k instructions, 400 allocas) visits ~1.6 M uses per alloca (max 1.79 M) — ~6.5 × 10⁸SmallPtrSetinsertions per TRE run — because the walk does not stop at a call: an alloca handed to any statepoint reaches the token, all of its relocates, and through theirgc-livebundles every later statepoint. Onlyload/storeandcaptures(none)arguments end a branch, and Perry's runtime declarations carry nocaptures(none)(in this unit only thellvm.memset/memmoveintrinsics do). So the pass isallocas × useson exactly the shape Perry emits for a wide, GC-heavy function. The next-widest function in the two jsonwebtoken units is 46 allocas × 46,740 instructions — 120× smaller by that product.The change
crates/perry-codegen/src/inprocess.rs: immediately beforerun_passes("default<O*>")— i.e. on the module exactly as the optimizer sees it, after RS4GC and the post-RS4GC budget — every defined function'sallocas × instructionsis computed in the same linear walk the unit census already makes. A function over the budget is stamped"disable-tail-calls"="true", which isTailCallElim's own early-out (eliminateTailRecursionreturns beforemarkTails), and a line names it:Budget:
PERRY_LL_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALK, default2^26(67,108,864).<n>raises or lowers it,0/off/falsedisables it. Nothing is stamped at-O0(no TRE there). The knob is a build-cache and object-cache input (build_cache.rs,object_cache.rs), likePERRY_LL_RS4GC_MAX_INSTRS.Calibration of the default,
opt -passes='default<Os>' -time-passeson the fixture's post-RS4GC native units (the six largest estimates across all 24 units, 117 modules):__229)__3288)__720)2²⁶ sits in the knee: everything below it spends about a second in TRE, the three functions above it 35 s, 41 s and 983 s — TRE is 82–98 % of their units' pipelines. The cost grows faster than the product (the per-walk
Visitedset stops fitting in cache), so the cap is not a linear extrapolation. The text-path modules top out at 1.3 × 10⁶.Contract (fix: make compile output TypeScript-developer friendly #8421): the stamped function still runs the entire
default<Os>/-O3pipeline. This is a deliberate one-pass deviation, and the code comment and the log line say so: the attribute is read by TRE (skips tail-recursion-to-loop) and by SelectionDAG'scanTailCall/ GlobalISel'sCallLowering(calls in return position are not emitted as jumps;musttailis exempt and Perry emits none). No other pass reads it, and it is not an inline-compatibility attribute.Not
optnone([perf][regression] Large minified bundle becomes a multi-hour compile after RS4GC/opt-tier changes (83 CGUs, ~17 GiB RSS) #8583): the attribute is stamped after RS4GC, and it changes nothing about roots or relocations.The per-unit stats gain
tail_call_elim_skippedso the shipped path is testable.Verification actually run
optbefore/after on the isolated unit: table above.perry compile --no-codegen --no-auto-optimize --march generic --output-type dylib handlers/main.ts,PERRY_CODEGEN_UNIT_TIMINGS=1, fresh cache, same loaded box, load average 50–60), twice: 763 s wall / 1442 s user and 736 s wall / 1252 s user for the whole 117-module deployment (79 MB dylib), against 92–116 min in the issue. The jsonwebtoken unit reportsrs4gc 6.9s, opt 48.5s, emit 55.0s. The budget tripped on exactly the three functions in the calibration table; the next-largest estimate in the deployment is 2.2× under the cap.inprocess.rs: the budget spellings; the estimate isallocas × instructionsper function with an inclusive cap and only the function over it is stamped; the attribute really stops TRE at the pinned LLVM (a self-recursive tail call is turned into a loop bydefault<Os>without the attribute and survives with it — the control asserts the pass was live, per CLAUDE.md); and the shippedoptimize_and_emitpath applies the budget (with_test_tre_walk_budget(0)stamps every function with an alloca, the stats name them, the unit still emits, and-O0stamps nothing).object_cache_tests::key_changes_with_codegen_env_varsandbuild_cachetests cover the new key.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy -p perry-codegen -p perry(no new warnings; the two remaining are pre-existingtoo_many_arguments),cargo test -p perry-codegen --lib inprocess:: native_emit::(27 passed), the fiveperrycache tests,scripts/check_file_size.sh,scripts/addr_class_inventory.py.Not covered
PERRY_LLVM_INPROCESS=0) does not get the attribute: the check lives where the in-process module is, and that path is the bisection fallback, not the default.allocas × instructions), not the walk itself, so a function with many allocas but little relocate fan-out can trip without being expensive. In this fixture that did not happen (every tripped function was TRE-dominated), but the margin is one measured corpus wide.captures(none)— is left as is. A Perry-side change that keeps allocas out of the statepoint walk (declaring the runtime's array parameterscaptures(none)where that is true, or fewer address-taken argument arrays) would make this budget moot for such functions and is a separate issue.Fixes #8883
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PERRY_LL_TRE_MAX_ALLOCA_WALKto configure the optimization budget, with a default limit and an option to disable it.Build Caching