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Draft, and stacked. This branch sits on top of #9827 (perf/gc-overhead),
so the first two commits below belong to that PR and are not for review here.
GitHub will not take a fork-only branch as a base, hence main. Review only
165aa78b and 93ffee5d.
It stays draft until the memory falsifier (F4) is
settled on a quiet host — see "What is not settled" at the bottom.

What this changes

The 4-way round-robin cache in front of PageGenerationMap becomes a
direct-indexed table over the arena's 1 MiB address classes, so a
classification is a bounds compare and one load instead of a linear probe.
PageGenerationMap stays authoritative and every miss falls through to it
exactly as before: this is a cache replacement, not a map replacement, and
the whole change is confined to PageGenerationCacheSet and its two callers.

Why not simply widen the cache

Because that was already measured and rejected. #7469 found 16 ways to be an
8.6 % regression
on the same row (0/7 pairs) for 1.5 % fewer misses, and five
further associativity changes measured flat. The rule from those — associativity
pays only when a miss is expensive
— says that a miss which is just a hash
lookup wants the cache to become unnecessary, not larger. ways_distinct_max
was already 4, so every way was in use and the shortfall was ~120x.

It can become unnecessary: the registered classes occupy a span of
1,018–1,021 classes at ~40 % density, so a table over that span holds every
one of them in 160 KB per classifying thread.

Motivation: the cost is per execution, under callers that have no other fix

remembered_child_needs_tracking runs 35,871,391 times per turn on the
compiled claude-code TUI, and 95.23 % of those take its cheapest arm — one
cached classification and a compare. The expensive arm is 0.043 %, 1 in 2,300.
There is no barrier predicate left to fix; what remains after the predicate
is already optimal is the classification itself. mark_addr (233 of 760
classify* leaf samples) and the side-table prunes pay the same cost.

Results

Both arms are the same binary; the control is PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0.
Rig: secret-tests/cc-permission-harness/stream_scale.py, sandbox ov.

The counter — load-independent, and the decision

3300-char reply 4-way (control) table
lookups 382,589,551 422,291,253
hits 311,882,708 (81.52 %) 397,083,664 (94.03 %)
misses 70,706,843 (18.48 %) 25,207,589 (5.97 %) 3.1x lower rate
— on registered classes 50,297,750 2,336,644 21.5x fewer
— on unregistered addresses 20,409,093 22,870,945 unchanged
span / rebases / refused — / 0 / 0 4096 / 0 / 0
400-char reply 4-way table
misses 20,893,676 (13.17 %) 8,484,189 (4.94 %) 2.7x lower rate
— on registered classes 14,403,789 1,196,257 12.0x fewer
span / rebases / refused — / 0 / 0 4096 / 0 / 0

The control arm independently reproduces the capture this design was built on
(382.6 M lookups/turn at 18.48 %, against that capture's 440 M at 20.0–21.6 %),
so the premise is replicated rather than assumed.

Leaf share — sample, 3300-char turn, leaf sum == thread header exactly

symbol 4-way table
classify_heap_space_in_range_uncached 269 35
classify_heap_generation_uncached 185 50
the two _uncached = pure miss cost 454 (3.37 %) 85 (0.59 %) 5.3x
CopyingPointerSet::classify_arena (inlined probe) 300 (2.22 %) 316 (2.18 %) flat
narrow classify* 754 (5.59 %) 401 (2.77 %)
active samples 13,486 14,483

The _uncached fall (5.3x) is larger than the miss count fell (2.8x) because the
misses differ in kind: the 4-way arm's are 71 % on registered classes, where the
map lookup succeeds and is followed by slot.find(addr) and an insert; the
table's are 91 % on unregistered addresses, where the probe finds nothing and
returns early. A failed lookup is cheaper than a successful one plus an insert.

classify_arena is flat, and that refutes part of my own model. Its leaf
samples carry the #[inline(always)] hit arm, so I predicted the probe going
from a 4-way scan to one compare and one load would show there. 300 vs 316 is
inside n=1 sampling noise. The 4-way probe was never the expensive part of that
function
— the range/header guard and space matching around it are, and the
entire win is on the miss path.

Numbered fact: the span check does NOT reject unregistered addresses

The design spec asserted that addresses in no registered block would be
"rejected by the same bounds check that indexes the table — no separate filter
needed". The counter refutes it:

  1. Of 22,870,945 unregistered-address misses, 32,144 are out of span —
    0.14 %
    . Over 99.8 % fall inside the table, hit a dead entry, and go on
    to the map exactly as before.
  2. Out-of-span is not even sound as a proof of unregistered: a registration
    past PAGE_CLASS_TABLE_MAX_SPAN is refused and deliberately left outside the
    span, so an out-of-span key may be perfectly well registered.
  3. This population is now 90.7 % of every miss that remains (85.9 % at 400),
    and it is untouched by this change — 5.33 % of lookups before, 5.42 % after.

Negative caching is therefore the entire remaining headroom on this line, and it
is cheap: the epoch bump already invalidates exactly when such an entry could go
stale, and the precondition ("no registered range in this class") is already
computed and then discarded by pages.get(&key).and_then(|slot| slot.find(addr)).
Filed as #9852, deliberately not in this PR.

Four things the measurement did not settle, each handled and each pinned

A wrong answer here is a misclassified pointer, so none is left to inference.
Each guard has a test that fails when the guard is removed:

  • The base moves per process (0x43daa2 vs 0x57e3c2 — ASLR). Taken from
    the first insert, never compiled in.
  • The span can grow (1,018 → 1,021 across two runs of one binary). An insert
    outside the table rebases it up to a 16,384-class cap; past the cap the key is
    left uncached and falls through, never mis-indexed.
  • The sizing is not obvious. With base first_key - S and a table of N,
    the span covered is min(S + 1, N - S), maximised at S = N / 2. The
    natural pairing N = 4096, S = 1024 covers 1,025 classes — four above the
    measured 1,021 — while S = N / 2 covers 2,048 for identical memory. A
    const assert now fails the build for any pairing covering less than twice the
    measured span; the natural pairing fails it. Measured outcome: 0 rebases,
    0 refusals
    at both lengths.
  • A key match is not an address match. A class can hold more than one range,
    so a hit still requires range.contains(addr).

Invalidation is an epoch bump: O(1), same "clear everything" contract the 4-way
set met by wholesale reset. That contract matters more here — the table holds
~2,000 entries where the set held 4, so a missing invalidation the old structure
survived by luck would be live — so all three PageGenerationMap mutation sites
were enumerated and each ends with an unconditional
invalidate_generation_cache().

The arm is a plain u8 field in the set's first cache line, not the env
OnceLock. That path runs 440 M times per turn and an acquire load on each would
have been charged to both arms of the A/B — hiding it in the very comparison
meant to isolate it — while still being paid against main.

Sabotage matrix

Each row removes exactly one guard from an otherwise identical file:

guard removed base outofspan contains invalidate
none ok ok ok ok
self.base = 0 instead of first_key - SLACK FAIL FAIL ok ok
no rebase/refuse branch in insert ok FAIL ok ok
no e.range.contains(addr) in lookup ok ok FAIL ok
no epoch bump in invalidate ok ok ok FAIL

Every failure is on the guard's own named assertion, and two are literal
misclassified pointers — left: Old, right: Nursery and left: Nursery, right: Old. The base row fails two tests because the out-of-span test's setup
presumes a working base; that is not separable.

What is not settled — why this is draft

Rebase hazard: scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json conflicts with #9838 — do NOT let a resolver pick a side

Found by perry-b4 rebasing this branch onto #9838's head for the quiet-host
memory arm (644b9d362 ⨯ 93ffee5de = ee4ef5d6a). gc/policy.rs auto-merged
clean — different hunks — but scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
conflicted: both sides re-pinned PASS1_MARKED and added holder entries.
The
arm took #9838's copy, which is fine there because that file is a lint inventory
and never enters the runtime build; it is not fine for whichever PR lands
second.

Whose conflict this is. It is between #9827 and #9838, not this PR's two
commits. scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json and gc/policy.rs are touched
only by 2e99865be, which belongs to #9827; 165aa78b and 93ffee5d touch only
arena/page_meta.rs, arena/mod.rs, gc/copying.rs and a changelog fragment. So
if #9827 lands first and this branch is rebased onto the new main, this PR's
diff no longer contains that file at all
and the conflict becomes #9838-vs-main.
It surfaces here only because this branch carries #9827.

Why a naive resolution is worse than a conflict. window.sources is a map of
pinned file → SHA-256 of that file's contents, verified by
scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py, which fails with "source changed: …;
re-audit the window before updating its pin"
. Both #9827 and #9838 modified
gc/policy.rs, so both recomputed the same key to different values.
Taking either side's hash gives a value that matches neither the merged
policy.rs nor anything else
— the pin has to be recomputed from the merged
file, not chosen:

python3 - <<'EOF'
import hashlib; print(hashlib.sha256(
    open('crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs','rb').read()).hexdigest())
EOF
python3 scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py   # must exit 0

The why field is the second half: it is an append-only re-audit narrative, and
#9827 and #9838 each appended a dated paragraph for a different change. Both
paragraphs must survive
— keeping one silently drops the audit record for the
other change, which is exactly what the field exists to preserve. The holder
entries each side added are additive and should be unioned.

On this branch as it stands all five pins verify and
scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py exits 0.

Note also that arm T carries #9827 as well, so its memory numbers are for
main + #9827 + #9838 + this table, not for the table alone; the within-binary
PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0 control is what isolates the table in that arm.

Memory at 3300 is inconclusive. Peak RSS reads 889 → 1284 MB on minima, but
the control arm's own spread across three rounds is 889/1078/1314 MB — a
425 MB range that exceeds the 395 MB gap between the minima — while the
table arm's is 1284/1320/1324. Variance exceeds the effect, so that is one
sample, not a measurement. At 400 chars memory is better on all three metrics.
The table's structural cost is bounded and counter-confirmed — 4,096 × 40 B =
160 KB per classifying thread, allocated once, rebases = 0
— which cannot
produce 395 MB, but that is an argument and the falsifier is the measurement:
peak RSS and 120 s settled RSS within the base arm's own spread at both
lengths, both arms rotated, on a quiet host.
Being re-taken there now.

CPU minima favour the table at both lengths (400: 4.88 → 4.37 s; 3300:
20.42 → 19.64 s) but the box was at load 40–88 with a 45.17 s outlier in the
table arm against 19.64/19.99 in the same arm. Not claimed.

Gates

cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- gc:: arena::1,138 passed,
0 failed
, all four page-class tests included. Clippy clean for this change.
Label run-extended-tests applied, without which the GC gates silently skip.

F4 settled on a quiet host (perrymaster, 2026-09-06)

One binary at 644b9d362 (main + #9838), one runtime-only relink of this branch (ee4ef5d6a, carries #9827), T-off = the same app with PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0 as the positive control. 7 rotating rounds at 3300, 5 at 400, then 120 s idle rows ×2 per arm at both lengths. Load 0.5–0.9.

Schedule flat (the prediction): minors A 18/106, T 17/105, T-off 18/106; fulls 7/7/8; ≤1 %-yield steps 11/11/12; tiny-parse requests 11 everywhere.

Counter line, one 3300 reply:

CPU, per pair: 3300 A→T −0.53 −0.69 −0.43 −0.34 −0.69 (+3.94 +4.10 are mode flips: T drew the 18 s mode against a fast A) → −2.5…−5 % in-mode; T-off→T −0.78 −0.73 −0.66 in-mode (−4.8…−5.3 % against its own kill switch); A→T-off in-mode +0.0…+0.4 (kill switch ≈ base). Ranges A 13.58–18.21, T 13.16–17.85, T-off 13.77–18.55 — T's fast mode is the lowest of the three. Means are mode-count artefacts and are not quoted. 400: A→T −0.11 −0.06 −0.02 −0.02 −0.08 (5/5); T-off→T −0.13 −0.09 −0.11 −0.10 −0.09 (5/5) → −4…−6 %, every pair.

Memory, inside A's spread at both lengths: 3300 post-turn A 947–952 | T 953–961 | T-off 947–962; peak (VmHWM) A 1114–1124 | T 1112–1133 | T-off 1115–1123 (per-pair Δpeak −12…+15); 120 s settled A 671/754 | T 614/674 | T-off 674/754. 400 post-turn A 761–776 | T 759–767; 120 s settled A 555/557 | T 531/547. Peak inside spread, settled at-or-below A, no hundreds of MB anywhere — the 160 KB/thread once-allocated prediction holds. The dev-box F4 reading (a 425 MB within-arm spread) was variance, as suspected.

Raw on perrymaster: /root/rig9831/combT.jsonl, idleT.jsonl, combT_{A,T,Toff}_{diag,trace}3300.*, idleT_*.diag. Measured by session perry-b4.

Landing note: this branch is based on main but carries #9827's two commits (fork-only base); only 165aa78b and 93ffee5d are the table. The scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json conflict is #9827-vs-#9838 — the window.sources pin is a SHA-256 of policy.rs and must be recomputed from the merged file (scripts/gc_snapshot_contracts.py), with both why paragraphs kept; if #9827 lands first and this rebases, this diff stops containing that file.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014knX724SYDogwzsXybCGxp

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Improved garbage-collection trigger and barrier paths by caching frequently accessed thread-local state.
    • Replaced the page-generation cache with a direct-indexed table for faster lookups, with automatic fallback for unsupported ranges.
  • Diagnostics

    • Added per-minor-cycle page-cache reporting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation of thread-local declarations to catch unexpected additions.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for thread-local initialization safety and GC trigger-path caching.

Ralph Küpper and others added 4 commits September 5, 2026 22:38
`gc_check_trigger` runs on every `gc_malloc`, and `gc_budgeted_due_trigger`
resolved eleven raw `thread_local!` declarations one `_tlv_get_addr` call at
a time. Measured with `sample` on the compiled claude-code TUI streaming a
3300-char reply (14,578 active main-thread samples, callers resolved by an
explicit ancestor walk): `_tlv_get_addr` was 380 main-thread leaf samples,
71 of them with `gc_budgeted_due_trigger` as the immediate caller, 36 in
`old_page_account_dirty_slots`, 31 in `scan_dirty_object_slots`, 27 in
`gc_malloc_header_is_tracked`.

Sixty-seven declarations move to `crate::perry_thread_local!`.

Why they were still cold is a measurement bug in the gate, not an oversight:
`scripts/check_thread_locals.py` ratchets on raw `thread_local!` BLOCKS per
file, and a block holds any number of declarations — so `gc/policy.rs`
counted as 6 while declaring 28, and adding a `static` to a recorded block
passed silently. In the same unit as the hot side, main was 318 hot against
339 cold declarations. The gate now ratchets on declarations (385/272) and
`--self-test` gained the direction that catches it.

`ARENA_TOTAL_BYTES`, `BLOCK_POOL` and `BLOCK_POOL_BYTES` stay raw and say so:
they are read from `Arena::new`, which runs as `tls_hot::fill`'s first
provider, so a `HotKey` there re-enters `fill` — which has not yet written
the `temp_roots` field it gates on — and re-runs `ARENA`'s initializer
without bound.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014UZWia6L37DpA93VLtNK9m
…TABLE

WIP — committed to preserve state while the lane is paused for box load
(load 298, 19.8/21.5 GB swap). NOT measured on the rig; do not land as is.

Replaces the 4-way round-robin page-generation cache with a direct-indexed
table over the arena's 1 MiB address classes. `PageGenerationMap` stays
authoritative: every miss falls through to it exactly as before, so this is a
cache replacement, not a map replacement. The 4-way set is retained in the same
binary behind `PERRY_GC_PAGE_CLASS_TABLE=0` as the positive control.

STATE OF THIS COMMIT

Applied, complete:
  * the table itself (`lookup`/`insert`/`rebase_to_cover`/`invalidate`), base
    taken from the first insert, epoch-stamped entries, O(1) whole-table
    invalidation;
  * sizing: `INITIAL_SPAN = 4096`, `BASE_SLACK = SPAN / 2`. The draft's
    `S = 1024` was mis-tuned — with base `first_key - S` the span covered is
    `min(S + 1, N - S)`, maximised at `S = N / 2`, so `S = 1024` covered 1,025
    classes against a measured span of 1,021 while `S = N / 2` covers 2,048 for
    the same 160 KB. A `const` assert now fails the build for any pairing
    covering less than twice the measured span; the old pairing fails it;
  * out-of-span coverage: an insert outside the table rebases it up to a
    16,384-class cap, and past the cap the key is left uncached and falls
    through to the map — never silently mis-indexed;
  * the arm is a plain `u8` field in the set's first cache line, not the
    `OnceLock` env read the draft had on the lookup path. That path runs ~440 M
    times per turn and an acquire load on each would have been paid by BOTH
    arms of the A/B while still being charged against main;
  * `#[repr(C, align(64))]` so "the hot fields share one cache line" is true
    rather than likely;
  * counters (`hits`/`misses`/`inserts`/`oos`/`rebases`/`refused`) and the
    `[gc-page-class]` line, emitted per copying minor under `PERRY_GC_DIAG`
    because the rig SIGKILLs the process. `oos` is on the miss path only and is
    what distinguishes a residual miss that is an unregistered address from one
    that is the table failing.

Verified:
  * all four tests pass on the pristine tree (`cargo test -p perry-runtime
    --lib page_class_table`, dev profile, 4 passed);
  * the four sabotages each fail on their own named assertion — base-from-first-
    registration, out-of-span handling, range containment, and invalidation.
    Two of them produce a literal misclassified pointer (`left: Old, right:
    Nursery` and `left: Nursery, right: Old`), which is the failure mode this
    structure has to be proof against;
  * every `PAGE_GENERATIONS` mutation site was enumerated (three, plus one
    read-only census walk) and each ends with an unconditional
    `invalidate_generation_cache()`. The table holds ~2,000 entries where the
    4-way set held 4, so a missing invalidation the old structure survived by
    luck would be a live misclassification here.

NOT done — this is what the lane owes:
  * the rig. The relink was killed mid-`cargo build` at the coordinator's
    pause, so there is no candidate binary and NO number in this commit has
    been measured on cc;
  * `cargo test -p perry-runtime --release -- gc:: arena::`;
  * `cargo fmt` (the `arena/mod.rs` re-export is not in sorted order) and
    clippy;
  * a changelog fragment.

Pre-registered falsifiers, written before any measurement, are in
`secret-tests/cc-perf-campaign/RESULT_page_class_table.md`. The headline is
that the spec's "miss rate below 2 %" bar is arithmetically unreachable: 22.3 %
of today's misses are on addresses in no registered block, which the map cannot
answer either, so nothing is cached for them in either arm. The derived floor
is ~4.5 %, and the decision turns on misses to REGISTERED classes going to ~0.
…xport

Formatting and documentation only; no behaviour change.

`cargo fmt` on the touched files, restricted to the lines this branch added.
Note for whoever runs the fmt gate: `arena/mod.rs` is ALREADY not rustfmt-clean
on main at an unrelated `#[cfg(test)]` re-export, and reformatting it would have
put that pre-existing churn in this diff, so it is deliberately left alone.
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The change migrates GC runtime TLS declarations to the hot cache, adds safeguards and regression tests, strengthens the raw-TLS declaration gate, and replaces the page-generation cache with a bounded direct-indexed table with epoch invalidation and diagnostics.

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GC hot TLS migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Hot TLS declarations and access updates
crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/*, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/*
GC and arena thread-local declarations now use crate::perry_thread_local! where safe. Reentrant arena state and named HotTls fields remain raw.
TLS regression tests and declaration gate
crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/*, scripts/check_thread_locals.py, scripts/thread_local_cold_allowlist.json, scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json, changelog.d/9827-gc-trigger-path-hot-tls.md
Tests verify hot-slot resolution and fill behavior. The checker and allowlist now count raw declarations instead of blocks.

Direct page-class cache

Layer / File(s) Summary
Direct-indexed cache model and lookup paths
crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs
PageGenerationCacheSet gains a direct-indexed table, bounded rebasing, range checks, arm selection, and fallback to the existing 4-way cache.
Invalidation, reporting, and runtime wiring
crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/mod.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs, changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md
Epoch invalidation, cache statistics, diagnostics, exports, and per-minor reporting are added.
Cache behavior tests
crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs
Tests cover initial bases, rebasing limits, range containment, and invalidation.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 93ffe

Valid Rust syntax can bypass the raw-TLS declaration ratchet, so the checker should be corrected before merge. The diagnostics placement and cache-ratio release note also need small fixes.

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In `@changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md`:
- Line 19: Correct the quantitative claims in the release-note entry: replace
the ~120× figure with the value supported by 402–432 classes and
ways_distinct_max = 4, and revise the N = 4096, S = 1024 assertion description
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  • crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/mod.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/arena/page_meta.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/barrier/mod.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/malloc.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/old_free.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/policy.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tenuring.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/mod.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/tls_fill_reentrancy.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/tests/trigger_path_tls.rs
  • crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/trace.rs
  • scripts/check_thread_locals.py
  • scripts/gc_runtime_root_holders.json
  • scripts/thread_local_cold_allowlist.json

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reply: **440 M lookups per turn at 20.0–21.6 % miss**, with **59.7–61.8 % of
misses on a key evicted within the last 64 evictions** — capacity, not conflict —
against a working set of **402–432 registered classes**. `ways_distinct_max` was
4, so every way was already in use and the shortfall is ~120x.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the quantitative claims in the release note.

The stated inputs do not support two values:

  • 402–432 registered classes with ways_distinct_max = 4 gives 100.5–108×, not ~120x.
  • N = 4096, S = 1024 covers 1,025 classes, while twice the stated 1,018–1,021 span is 2,036–2,042. The assertion description therefore contradicts the preceding configuration.

Update the measurements or describe the actual assertion invariant.

Based on learnings: “For PerryTS/perry changelog fragments in changelog.d/, describe the final shipped behavior as one coherent release-note entry. Do not include separate development-slice narratives that may contradict one another when the release notes are assembled.”

Also applies to: 47-47

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In `@changelog.d/9845-gc-page-class-direct-table.md` at line 19, Correct the
quantitative claims in the release-note entry: replace the ~120× figure with the
value supported by 402–432 classes and ways_distinct_max = 4, and revise the N =
4096, S = 1024 assertion description to match its 1,025-class coverage or state
the actual invariant. Keep the changelog fragment as one coherent description of
the final shipped behavior.

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restore_surviving_dirty_coverage(&snapshot, &dirty_scan_covered, "copying_minor");
// Per minor, not at exit: the rig SIGKILLs cc. Cumulative counters, so
// the last line before the kill is the answer.
crate::arena::page_class_table_report();

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Move the report outside the skip_remembering guard.

A traced in-place promotion can set collector.skip_remembering to true while untraced is false. The !untraced path still calls scan_remembered_dirty_slots_copying, which performs page-generation lookups. The current nesting then skips page_class_table_report(), so cumulative per-minor diagnostics omit those lookups. Call the report after the guarded restore_surviving_dirty_coverage block.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/gc/copying.rs` at line 1621, Move the
page_class_table_report call outside the skip_remembering guard, placing it
after the guarded restore_surviving_dirty_coverage block so diagnostics include
lookups from the !untraced path even when skip_remembering is true.

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if line == "#[cfg(test)]":
continue
count += 1
open_at, close_at = brace_span(src, m.start())

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make macro-body parsing Rust-lexically aware.

brace_span treats braces in literals and comments as structural braces. For example, a valid raw TLS block containing static A: &str = "}"; closes at the string character. The checker then misses later declarations in that block. After --update, the allowlist records the undercount and the declaration ratchet no longer detects those additions.

Skip comments, quoted literals, character literals, and raw strings while matching braces. Add this case to self_test.

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[warning] 241-241: XPath query is request-/variable-derived; use parameterized XPath to prevent injection.
Context: DECL_RE.findall(src[open_at + 1 : close_at])
Note: [CWE-643] Improper Neutralization of Data within XPath Expressions ('XPath Injection').

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In `@scripts/check_thread_locals.py` at line 241, Update brace_span to track Rust
lexical contexts and ignore braces inside comments, quoted strings, character
literals, and raw strings while finding the matching brace. Add a self_test case
covering a raw TLS block with a brace inside a literal, ensuring later
declarations are still counted and the existing allowlist/ratchet behavior
remains correct.

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proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…name

Two build breaks the merge produced:

- `old_gen_in_use_bytes_slot_index` was re-exported twice from
  `arena/mod.rs` (E0252) after #9853 and #9827 both added the line.
- `VisitedLevels` gained a lifetime parameter when its levels became
  RuntimeHandles, and an associated `Self::INLINE` is not permitted in
  the array length of a generic struct, so it became the free const
  `VISITED_INLINE`. enumeration_tests.rs still named the old path.
proggeramlug pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 6, 2026
…he LIFO handle stack

Four gate failures the assembled tree produced, and the rooting bug the
suite caught:

- The runtime handle stack is strictly LIFO (`Drop` truncates to the
  scope's base), so rooting into an OUTER scope while an inner one is
  live has the inner scope's drop discard the handle. #9869's
  `visited.push(&scope, ..)` sat inside #9864's per-level scope and hit
  "runtime handle used after its scope was dropped". The per-level scope
  now closes before the push. Caught by
  gc::tests::rooted_for_in::for_in_grown_result_and_receiver_survive_prototype_collection.

- shape_descriptor_census asserted `gc_malloc(.. GC_TYPE_REGEXP)` at
  `js_regexp_new`; #9845 deliberately moves that birth to the nursery, so
  the assertion now accepts either allocator. What it checks is unchanged
  and is the point: RegExp is born with its OWN GcHeader kind, never as a
  generic object something later re-identifies by payload magic. Verified
  the updated gate still fails when the birth kind is blunted.

- #9853's page-class table pushed arena/page_meta.rs to 2559 lines. Split
  into page_meta/{mod,page_class,tests}.rs; the page-class tests move next
  to their subject. Both feature configurations build.

- That split also stranded six frontier entries in
  gc_runtime_root_holders.json on the old path, and the PASS1_MARKED
  census pin needed its re-audit for #9860's and #9845's gc/mod.rs
  re-export additions before the hash could move.
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Landed on main via merge train #9883. Validated as a tree: 64/64 lint gates, and perry-runtime/codegen/hir/stdlib all green (5,910 tests, 0 failures). Thanks!

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