[JSC] Run a CommonJS module's generator before its importing graph links, not when its fetch completes - #662
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…orting graph links, and fetch synchronously in a top-level synchronous load A SyntheticSourceProvider's generator ran in makeModule(), that is whenever the module's fetch completed. For a CommonJS module the generator evaluates the module, so two CommonJS modules imported by one ES module ran in the order their fetches finished, and code in them saw sibling modules mid-fetch. SyntheticSourceProvider::createDeferred() makes a provider whose generator runs in a pass at the start of AbstractModuleRecord::link(): once the whole graph has loaded, depth first in import order, and before InnerModuleLinking, since the generator runs user code that can start a nested load of the same graph. Other synthetic providers still generate in makeModule(). JSModuleLoader::loadModule(specifier) reused the pending fetch promise of an entry in the Fetching state, so a synchronous load of a module that another graph was still fetching never settled. It now runs the embedder's fetch again synchronously, as hostLoadImportedModule already did for dependencies; both use JSModuleLoader::fetchSynchronously().
WalkthroughThe change adds deferred synthetic-module providers and records. Module loading retries pending fetches and defers export generation. Linking generates deferred modules across cyclic dependencies and propagates generator errors. ChangesDeferred synthetic module execution
Priority: ⬇️ Low Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A synchronous module load can still return pending when an embedder refetch is asynchronous, defeating the intended synchronous loading behavior. Resolve this before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/SourceProvider.h`:
- Around line 214-225: Guard the Bun-specific SyntheticSourceProvider API with
USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS): wrap createDeferred(), isDeferred(), and the
corresponding m_isDeferred member declaration in matching conditional
compilation directives, leaving the general provider API unchanged.
In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSModuleLoader.cpp`:
- Line 842: Update the retry call to fetchSynchronously in the
dependency-loading flow to pass a copy of the original module request
parameters, matching the initial fetch that uses moduleRequest.m_attributes,
instead of nullptr. Preserve the HostDefined type data and import attributes
across the refetch.
In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/SyntheticModuleRecord.cpp`:
- Around line 128-130: Update the initialization flow around initializeExports
so that when it throws, the exception is captured, m_deferredGenerator is
cleared, and the captured exception is returned afterward. Preserve the existing
successful initialization behavior while ensuring a later link cannot rerun the
generator or duplicate export entries.
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| // For a generator that evaluates a module written by the user to find out what it exports (a CommonJS module). | ||
| // It does not run when the module record is created, which happens whenever that module's fetch completes, but | ||
| // once the whole graph importing it has loaded, in import order, right before that graph is linked. See | ||
| // AbstractModuleRecord::generateDeferredSyntheticModules(). | ||
| static Ref<SyntheticSourceProvider> createDeferred(SyntheticSourceGenerator&& generator, const SourceOrigin& sourceOrigin, String sourceURL) | ||
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| Ref provider = create(WTF::move(generator), sourceOrigin, WTF::move(sourceURL)); | ||
| provider->m_isDeferred = true; | ||
| return provider; | ||
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| bool isDeferred() const { return m_isDeferred; } |
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Guard the deferred provider API with USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS).
createDeferred(), isDeferred(), and m_isDeferred implement Bun-specific module loading behavior. Wrap all three declarations with #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS).
As per coding guidelines: “Guard Bun-specific features with USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS).”
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/SourceProvider.h` around lines 214 - 225, Guard
the Bun-specific SyntheticSourceProvider API with USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS): wrap
createDeferred(), isDeferred(), and the corresponding m_isDeferred member
declaration in matching conditional compilation directives, leaving the general
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Not changing this one. The whole SyntheticSourceProvider class is a Bun addition and none of it is guarded in this header, including createWithLazyExports() and LazySyntheticSourceGenerator directly above. Guarding only these three members would make the class inconsistent with itself. Everything that uses them (makeModule(), SyntheticModuleRecord, AbstractModuleRecord::link()) is behind USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS).
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printf '%s\n' '--- Deferred/lazy API call sites and preprocessor context ---'
rg -n -C 8 'createDeferred\s*\(|isDeferred\s*\(|createWithLazyExports\s*\(|LazySyntheticSourceGenerator' Source/JavaScriptCore --glob '*.{cpp,h}'
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rg -n -C 6 'USE\(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS\)|createDeferred\s*\(|isDeferred\s*\(' Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSModuleLoader.cpp Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/SyntheticModuleRecord.cpp Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/AbstractModuleRecord.cppLength of output: 863
@dylan-conway, I could not verify the call-site guard context because repository access failed.
The provided header confirms that related SyntheticSourceProvider extensions are also unguarded. However, I cannot confirm that all deferred API uses are behind USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) from the available evidence. Please retry the verification when repository access is available.
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Checked: all 23 uses of the deferred API outside SourceProvider.h (createDeferred/isDeferred, createWithDeferredGenerator, runDeferredGenerator, generateDeferredSyntheticModules, m_deferredGenerator*) in JSModuleLoader.cpp, SyntheticModuleRecord.{h,cpp} and AbstractModuleRecord.{h,cpp} sit inside #if USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS); none is unguarded. So a build without the flag never references these members, the same as for the unguarded createWithLazyExports() next to them. Leaving the header as is.
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@dylan-conway, the repository verification failed because the sandbox could not clone the repository.
Your explanation is consistent with the unguarded adjacent createWithLazyExports() API and with the stated guard scopes. However, I could not independently verify the USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS) boundaries for all deferred API uses. The finding remains open until verification succeeds.
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Repo: oven-sh/WebKit PR: 662
File: Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/SourceProvider.h:214-225
Timestamp: 2026-09-15T04:28:00.451Z
Learning: In oven-sh/WebKit, `SyntheticSourceProvider` Bun-specific APIs in `Source/JavaScriptCore/parser/SourceProvider.h`, including `createWithLazyExports()`, are intentionally unguarded at the declaration site. Their runtime uses are guarded with `USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS)`.
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File: Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/Heap.h:0-0
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Learning: When supporting Bun startup snapshots in JavaScriptCore, guard snapshot-only state, functions, and options with `USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS)`. Keep hot-path predicate APIs available as constant-false or zero stubs when the feature is disabled so existing checks compile away. Leave `BlockDirectoryBits::Immortal` declared because it is assigned only under the Bun guard and its masks are no-ops otherwise. Leave `WTF::RandomDevice::reopenForSnapshotRestore()` unguarded because the constructor calls it.
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…consumes the generator, and the synchronous refetch keeps the request's attributes runDeferredGenerator() cleared m_deferredGenerator only when the generator itself threw. If initializeExports() threw, the generator stayed set and a later link ran it again over a record that already had export entries. Both failures now store the error and consume the generator. hostLoadImportedModule's synchronous refetch of a dependency passed no ScriptFetchParameters, while the fetch it replaces passes moduleRequest.m_attributes. It passes the same parameters now.
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In `@Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSModuleLoader.cpp`:
- Line 842: Update fetchSynchronously() to handle a pending replacement promise
returned by the moduleLoaderFetch path: attach fulfillment and rejection
handling to the replacement so its result is forwarded, or reject the
synchronous retry when it cannot complete synchronously. Preserve the existing
pipeFrom() reaction for the initial fetch and ensure loadModuleSync() does not
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Bumps `WEBKIT_VERSION` from `c28156899e5f` to `000c48997255` (current oven-sh/WebKit `main`). The `autobuild-000c48997255272cd7e3ae7047e87b955b38989b` release exists. oven-sh/WebKit changes picked up: - [JSC] Count an adopted typed array vector once, and stop counting the ArrayBuffers an eden collection freed (oven-sh/WebKit#684) - [JSC] Run a CommonJS module's generator before its importing graph links, not when its fetch completes (oven-sh/WebKit#662) - SourceCodeKey: restore source string comparison in operator== (oven-sh/WebKit#346) - [JSC] Hand Bun__reportUnhandledError the async context the failed queueMicrotask job ran in (oven-sh/WebKit#685) - [JSC] AbstractModuleRecord::link: one throw scope for the whole function (oven-sh/WebKit#688) - [JSC] An Exception remembers the async context it was thrown in (oven-sh/WebKit#689) Not built or tested locally; relying on CI.
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What does this PR do?
Two module loader fixes for Bun. Both are behind
USE(BUN_JSC_ADDITIONS).1. A CommonJS module imported by an ES module ran whenever its fetch completed
JSModuleLoader::makeModule()runs aSyntheticSourceProvider's generator as soon as that module's fetch settles. Bun's generator for a CommonJS module evaluates the module (its named exports are the keys of the evaluatedmodule.exports), so:SyntheticSourceProvider::createDeferred()makes a provider whose generator does not run inmakeModule().makeModule()creates theSyntheticModuleRecordwithout exports (createWithDeferredGenerator), andAbstractModuleRecord::link()starts with a pass,generateDeferredSyntheticModules(), that runs the pending generators of the graph depth first in import order. By then every module of the graph has been fetched.The pass runs before
InnerModuleLinkingrather than fromSyntheticModuleRecord::link(). The generator runs user code, and user code canrequire()an ES module that imports back into the graph being linked. A load started from insideInnerModuleLinkingfinds the outer records in theLINKINGstate and treats them as linked; in a build that did it that way, the importing module's body never ran. Before linking starts, every record of the graph is stillUNLINKED, which is the state such a nested load already sees today.A generator that throws has its error stored on the record and rethrown by every later link, as the rejected
makeModule()promise did. A generator re-entered through such a nested load initializes the record from the exports at that point, as the inlinemakeModule()replay did.Every other synthetic provider (Bun's builtin modules) still generates in
makeModule().2.
require()of a module another graph is still fetching reported it as asyncJSModuleLoader::loadModule(specifier, ...)reused the fetch promise of an entry in theFetchingstate. During a synchronous load that promise never settles, so the load stayed pending and Bun reportedrequire() async module ... is unsupportedfor a module without top-level await.hostLoadImportedModulealready handles this for dependencies by running the embedder's fetch again synchronously; that code is nowJSModuleLoader::fetchSynchronously()and the top-levelloadModuleuses it too.How did you verify your code works?
Built Bun (release) against this change on the commit Bun currently pins, with Bun's CommonJS provider switched to
createDeferred():abin 100 of 100 runs, and 30 of 30 with a 1.4 MBa.cjs(23 of 30 werebabefore);require()of an ES module that a sibling static import is still loading: 80 of 80 runs succeed (9 of 80 threw before);require()of a module that is an in-flight dependency of a dynamicimport(), called after 2^0 to 2^13 event loop turns: all 14 succeed (4 to 10 threw before);require()s an ES module importing its importer: same output as before the change;require-esm-*,builtin-esm-lazy-exports,import-defer,dynamic-import-tla-cycle,esModule*,run-cjs) pass.The branch is rebased onto
main, which is five commits past that pin; the rebase had no conflicts and that tree has not been compiled locally. The regression tests live in Bun and come with the PR that bumps the WebKit version.