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WalkthroughAdds a per-VM JSC allocation sampler and exposes sampling profiles through ChangesHeap Allocation Sampling
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Issue #45082 objectives are implemented by Bun::HeapSampler, the HeapProfiler.startSampling, getSamplingProfile, and stopSampling handlers, worker profiling handlers, and focused tests. The sa… |
Update scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts to the released autobuild-<merge sha> WebKit build that contains the sampler changes. Then rerun the allocation-sampling and worker profiling tests. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly identifies the main changes: JSC allocation sampling for the three node:inspector HeapProfiler commands and worker.startHeapProfile. It is somewhat long, but it is specific and direc… Description check The description explains the problem, implementation, verification, scope limitations, performance impact, and design details. It does not use the exact template headings, but it provides the required… Out of Scope Changes check The changed files support issue #45082. The benchmark measures sampler overhead. The profile URL helper supports sampled call-frame output. The documentation, CLI comment, native bindings, and tests d…Full details: Title check
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The title clearly identifies the main changes: JSC allocation sampling for the three node:inspector HeapProfiler commands and worker.startHeapProfile. It is somewhat long, but it is specific and directly related to the changeset.
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#45082. The benchmark measures sampler overhead. The profile URL helper supports sampled call-frame output. The documentation, CLI comment, native bindings, and tests describe or support the new profiling behavior. The PR does not add the deferred WebSocket,--heap-profoutput, orGetAllocationProfilework.
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#45082objectives are implemented byBun::HeapSampler, theHeapProfiler.startSampling,getSamplingProfile, andstopSamplinghandlers, worker profiling handlers, and focused tests. The sampler provides per-VM attribution, weighted byte samples, GC handling, and profile output. Optional--heap-profoutput is not required. The reviewed head still pinsscripts/build/deps/webkit.tstoautobuild-preview-pr-823-586aa0a6. The current PR description requires a releasedautobuild-<merge sha>pin before merge.Resolution
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Review comments at @bench/snippets/heap-profiler-sampling.mjs:
- Around line 40-46: Move HeapProfiler.startSampling out of the timed callback
into setup and HeapProfiler.stopSampling into teardown for each
samplingInterval, so the benchmark measures fn(count) without lifecycle
overhead. Use the benchmark API’s setup and teardown hooks for each interval.
Review comments at @src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp:
- Around line 303-338: Bound Options::stackDepth to a depth safe for supported
thread stacks before sampling can retain frames, so the recursive nodeJSON
serialization cannot exhaust the native stack; preserve the existing profile
output for depths within the cap.
Review comments at @test/js/node/inspector/inspector-profiler.test.ts:
- Line 1073: In makeStrings, build the 40-character padding string once before
the loop using Buffer.alloc(...).toString(), then reuse it when constructing
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the normalizeProfileURL extraction in BunCPUProfiler.cpp against the three removed copies (same conditions and same fileURLWithFileSystemPath call, applied at the same points after the sourcemap callback, so behavior-preserving), and the worker cross-VM result path in JSWorker.cpp (the profile string is isolatedCopy()'d before being posted to the parent, and the unaccepted-task path takes back the request and rejects the promise).
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The change adds a new per-VM allocation-sampling heap profiler in native code plus node:inspector and worker_threads surfaces, and bumps the WebKit pin; it touches no auth or credential surface but does unsafe stack walking inside GC callbacks. The inline findings already call for a human look; this note only records the refactor and marshaling paths that were examined and found sound.
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🔴 Anyone building main after this merges downloads JSC from a PR preview release, which can be deleted or rebuilt, instead of a merged oven-sh/WebKit SHA. scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6 pins WEBKIT_VERSION to "autobuild-preview-pr-823-586aa0a6" (the description names a185c82e, so the code and the text already disagree). Fix: before merge, land oven-sh/WebKit#823 and pin WEBKIT_VERSION to the autobuild- release so prebuilt downloads and local vendor/WebKit checkouts resolve to the same permanent commit.
Why this was flagged
The WEBKIT_VERSION constant at scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6 is read by prebuiltUrl (webkit.ts:80-82) and turned into https://github.com/oven-sh/WebKit/releases/download/autobuild-preview-pr-823-586aa0a6/... for every prebuilt build (CI and developers). Preview releases are produced per PR push; the description itself says the pin should move to the autobuild- release before merging and names a different preview sha (a185c82e) than the code (586aa0a6). On the base branch the pin is the merged commit 87ee10da087b63e011bd1ada64d1814a850a4395. If this merges as is, a later push to or close of WebKit PR 823 can remove or change the artifact, and every fresh build of main fails at the WebKit download step or links against a JSC that differs from what the sampler was tested with.
Verification: The PR description says "Move the pin to the autobuild-<merge sha> release before this merges", but that is not enforced by anything in the diff. scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6 pins WEBKIT_VERSION to "autobuild-preview-pr-823-586aa0a6", which flows into webkit.ts:80-82. On the base it was a full merged sha, so merging as-is makes every prebuilt build of main depend on a transient PR preview asset.
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Agreed. The preview pin is temporary. It moves to autobuild- once oven-sh/WebKit#823 merges, and the PR body says the PR is not mergeable before that.
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No new issues were found in this update; 7 findings from earlier reviews are still open above.
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scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6—Anyone building main after this merges downloads JSC from a PR preview release, which can be deleted or rebuilt, instea… - 🔴
src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp:153—Operators sampling a long-running process can hit a use-after-free of an interned function name once a collection's end… - 🔴
src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp:155—Anyone sampling a long-lived, allocation-heavy process sees the sampler's memory grow for as long as sampling stays on,… - 🔴
src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp:335—Anyone profiling a deeply recursive program with a large stackDepth gets a native stack overflow (SIGSEGV) at getSampli… - 🔴
src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWorker.cpp:902—User code that calls the new public Worker.prototype.startHeapProfileInternal with missing or non-number arguments gets… - Also unresolved: 2 minor or pre-existing.
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… stable ids, depth cap, validated host-function arguments, stop without a profile, bench per mode
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🟠 Major · Use the required WebKit release pin. · webkit.ts:6
scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:6
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winUse the required WebKit release pin.
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autobuild-preview-pr-823-586aa0a6. The premerge requirement requiresautobuild-<merge sha>. Update this pin to the WebKit release built for the PR merge commit before merging.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @src/js/node/inspector.ts:
- Line 796: Update the JavaScript validation for stackDepth before
startAllocationSampling so it rejects non-integer values and values greater than
INT32_MAX, while preserving existing validation and avoiding truncation.
Review comments at @src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp:
- Around line 51-53: Update the sampleInterval parsing in the shared sampler
options path to call V::validateFiniteNumber before the existing lower-bound
V::validateNumber check, preserving the minimum value of 1 and rejecting
positive infinity without adding an upper limit. Keep RETURN_IF_EXCEPTION
handling before assigning options.intervalBytes.
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Review comments at @scripts/build/deps/webkit.ts:
- Line 6: Update the WEBKIT_VERSION constant to the WebKit release artifact
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Fixes #45082
Problem
session.post("HeapProfiler.startSampling")fromnode:inspectorfails withInspector error -32601: 'HeapProfiler.startSampling' wasn't found, as dogetSamplingProfileandstopSampling. Node returns a{head, samples}profile of where sampled allocations came from.worker.startHeapProfile()resolves to an empty profile.Session.#handleMethod(src/js/node/inspector.ts) had no arm for the domain, and JavaScriptCore had no allocation sampler. [JSC] Heap::startAllocationSampling: pick allocations at exponential byte intervals and report them to a client WebKit#823 adds one.Fix
Bun::HeapSampler(src/jsc/bindings/BunHeapSampler.cpp), one per VM onJSVMClientData, is the engine'sAllocationSamplerClient: it attributes each pick to the JS stack, weighs it as V8 does, and drops or keeps dead samples at GC end perincludeObjectsCollectedBy{Major,Minor}GC.Sessiongets the sixHeapProfilercommands with V8's codes, messages and session rules.worker.startHeapProfile(options)gets two cross-VM handlers inJSWorker.cppwith node's defaults.WEBKIT_VERSIONis the preview build of [JSC] Heap::startAllocationSampling: pick allocations at exponential byte intervals and report them to a client WebKit#823 (autobuild-preview-pr-823-a185c82e). Move the pin to theautobuild-<merge sha>release before this merges.test/js/node/inspector/inspector-profiler.test.ts, 2 intest/js/node/worker_threads/worker_threads.test.ts(the released bun fails them). Also the vendoredtest-worker-heap-profile.jsandinspector.test.ts.Background
JSC::HeapProfiler(feat(jsc): add byte-based heap allocation sampling openclaw/WebKit#2): then every format change is a WebKit release. Here the engine picks and Bun formats, next toBunCPUProfiler.cpp.inspector.open()WebSocket path,--heap-profoutput,V8HeapProfiler::GetAllocationProfile.Downsides
jscA/B, 1.05x on object and array allocation loops at 32 KiB, 1.6x to 1.9x at 1 KiB, 1.0x on string andJSON.parseloops. Throughnode:inspectorin a debug build of Bun: 1.03x to 1.06x at 32 KiB, 2.3x to 2.8x at 1 KiB (no release build of Bun and noperfhere).allocateSlowCaseentry and perJSStringcreation,libJavaScriptCore.atext +5,321 bytes, loops within the run-to-run spread ([JSC] Heap::startAllocationSampling: pick allocations at exponential byte intervals and report them to a client WebKit#823). In Bun: 3 host functions (12 to 15), 2DontEnumWorker.prototypemethods, oneunique_ptrper VM.RefPtrto each allocating function'sSourceProvideruntilstopSampling.Notes
Repro from the issue (
sampling.cjs): bun 1.4.3 printsstartSampling: ERR_INSPECTOR_COMMAND Inspector error -32601: 'HeapProfiler.startSampling' wasn't found; this branch prints{"profile":true,"samples":true,"integralBytes":true}, the same as node.Session semantics follow V8's
V8HeapProfilerAgentImpl: default interval 32768;samplingIntervalthat is not a finite number or an include flag that is not a boolean is-32602: Invalid parameters; an interval below 1 is-32000: Invalid sampling interval(V8 rejects 0 and below; a fraction of a byte cannot be sampled);getSamplingProfile/stopSamplingwith sampling off is-32000: V8 sampling heap profiler was not started.; the profile is taken after a full collection (V8'skSamplingForceGC). Weights arebytes * round(1 / (1 - exp(-bytes / interval))), V8'sScaleSample.worker.startHeapProfiledefaults: 512 KiB, 16 frames, no forced GC;stop()is idempotent.vm.topCallFrameis not trustworthy at an arbitrary allocation: a JIT finalization from the LLInt prologue (CodeBlock::setJITCodereporting extra memory) runs with the poison an ASSERT build leaves after a JIT operation, and in release with a frame that has returned.collectJSFrameschecks every frame pointer against the thread's stack bounds and everyCodeBlockagainstheap.codeBlockSet()before it dereferences anything, likeSamplingProfiler::FrameWalker, and expands inlined frames from the call site index.The test for collected objects drops them inside a helper and reads the profile synchronously. A dropped array can stay reachable from a slot of a dead frame that a collection conducted by the collector thread scans, and a local of top-level async module code stays reachable from the suspended frame; both hold in the released bun too, with no sampler involved.
Design alternatives weighed: sampling only at free-list refills (no free-list change) has a resolution of one MarkedBlock (16 KiB, 64 KiB on Linux arm64), so an interval below that would be accepted and ignored. A websocket
InspectorHeapSamplingAgentcannot tell which frontend started sampling when one disconnects, so theinspector.open()path stays for a later change.Credit: the mechanism follows openclaw/WebKit#2 and the Session semantics follow openclaw#107 and #140 by @steipete.