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35 changes: 35 additions & 0 deletions JSTests/stress/catch-osr-entry-is-made.js
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//@ runFTLNoCJIT; run("ftl-no-cjit-eager-catch-liveness", "--useFTLJIT=true", "--useConcurrentJIT=false", "--useLazyCatchLiveness=false")

// This handler has to get a catch OSR entrypoint: at some point it runs in optimized code.

function thrower(shouldThrow) {
if (shouldThrow)
throw new Error("thrown");
}
noInline(thrower);

function shouldEnter(f) {
for (let i = 0; i < 10 * testLoopCount; ++i) {
if (f(!(i % 10)))
return;
}
if ($vm.useDFGJIT())
throw new Error(f.name + ": the handler never ran in optimized code");
}

// The completion value of the finally is live at the catch and always the empty value there.
function catchInsideFinally(shouldThrow) {
let optimized = false;
try {
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} catch {
optimized = $vm.dfgTrue();
}
} finally {
thrower(false);
}
return optimized;
}
noInline(catchInsideFinally);
shouldEnter(catchInsideFinally);
98 changes: 98 additions & 0 deletions JSTests/stress/catch-osr-entry-operand-without-sample.js
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//@ defaultRun; run("eager-catch-liveness", "--useLazyCatchLiveness=false")

// A catch OSR entrypoint must not give the DFG an operand without a prediction. The DFG takes SpecNone for code that
// never ran: a double use of such a value is DoubleRep(NotCellNorBigIntUse), which is ToNumber, not a check.

function shouldBe(actual, expected, name) {
if (actual !== expected)
throw new Error(name + ": expected " + expected + " but got " + actual);
}

function thrower(shouldThrow) {
if (shouldThrow)
throw new Error("thrown");
}
noInline(thrower);

const notNumbers = [null, true, undefined, false];

// With Options::useLazyCatchLiveness() these catches run before their value-profile buffer exists and not again
// until the DFG has compiled the function, so the buffer has no sample at all.
const neverSampled = {
localAfterCatch(value, shouldThrow) {
const t = value.p;
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} catch { }
return String(t);
},

localInFinally(value, shouldThrow) {
const t = value.p;
let result;
try {
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} finally {
result = String(t);
}
} catch { }
return result;
},

localInNewArrayInCatch(value, shouldThrow) {
const t = value.p;
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} catch {
return String([t][0]);
}
return t;
},

argumentInNewArrayInCatch(value, shouldThrow, t) {
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} catch {
return String([t][0]);
}
return t;
},
};

for (const name in neverSampled) {
const f = neverSampled[name];
noInline(f);
f({ p: 0.5 }, true, 0.5);
for (let i = 0; i < testLoopCount; ++i)
f({ p: i + 0.5 }, false, i + 0.5);
for (const value of notNumbers)
shouldBe(f({ p: value }, true, value), String(value), name);
}

// With or without the option: the last sample before each update of the prediction has t in its TDZ, the empty value.
function sampledWhileEmpty(skipDeclaration, value, shouldThrow, array) {
switch (skipDeclaration) {
case 0:
let t = value.p;
case 1:
try {
thrower(shouldThrow);
} catch {
if (!skipDeclaration) {
array[0] = t;
return String(array[0]);
}
}
}
}
noInline(sampledWhileEmpty);

sampledWhileEmpty(0, { p: 0.5 }, true, [0.5]);
for (let i = 0; i < testLoopCount; ++i) {
sampledWhileEmpty(0, { p: i + 0.5 }, false, [0.5]);
if (!(i % 20))
sampledWhileEmpty(1, { p: 0.5 }, true, [0.5]);
}
for (const value of notNumbers)
shouldBe(sampledWhileEmpty(0, { p: value }, true, [0.5]), String(value), "sampledWhileEmpty");
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecode/CodeBlock.h
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Expand Up @@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ class CodeBlock : public JSCell {

// Null while Options::useLazyCatchLiveness() defers creating the buffer; op_catch does not profile until then.
ValueProfileAndVirtualRegisterBuffer* ensureCatchLivenessIsComputedForBytecodeIndex(BytecodeIndex);
// Mutator only, on the baseline block, before a DFG / FTL plan parses it: creates the buffers useLazyCatchLiveness deferred. True if it created one.
// Mutator only, on the baseline block: creates the buffers useLazyCatchLiveness deferred. True if it created one, which has no samples.
bool ensureCatchLivenessIsComputedForExecutedCatches()
{
if (m_hasCatchThatExecutedWithoutBuffer) [[unlikely]]
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecode/ValueProfile.h
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Expand Up @@ -157,6 +157,15 @@ struct ArgumentValueProfile : public ValueProfileBase<1, 1> {
};

struct ValueProfileAndVirtualRegister : public ValueProfile {
// An empty bucket means no sample, so the empty value goes to the prediction: a sampled operand never predicts SpecNone.
void sample(JSValue value)
{
if (value)
m_buckets[0] = JSValue::encode(value);
else
mergeSpeculation(m_prediction, SpecEmpty);
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}

VirtualRegister m_operand;
};

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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions Source/JavaScriptCore/dfg/DFGByteCodeParser.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -10207,18 +10207,16 @@ void ByteCodeParser::parseBlock(unsigned limit)
NEXT_OPCODE(op_catch); // This catch has yet to execute. Note: this load can be racy with the main thread.
}

// We're now committed to compiling this as an entrypoint.
m_currentBlock->isCatchEntrypoint = true;
m_graph.m_roots.append(m_currentBlock);

Vector<SpeculatedType> argumentPredictions(m_numArguments);
Vector<SpeculatedType> localPredictions;
UncheckedKeyHashSet<unsigned, WTF::IntHash<unsigned>, WTF::UnsignedWithZeroKeyHashTraits<unsigned>> seenArguments;
bool everyOperandIsSampled = true;

{
buffer->forEach([&](ValueProfileAndVirtualRegister& profile) {
VirtualRegister operand(profile.m_operand);
SpeculatedType prediction = profile.computeUpdatedPrediction();
everyOperandIsSampled &= prediction != SpecNone;
if (operand.isLocal())
localPredictions.append(prediction);
else {
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}
}

if (!everyOperandIsSampled) {
// A buffer exists before its first sample: Options::useLazyCatchLiveness() creates it at a tier-up check, and the
// mutator may still be filling it. The DFG takes SpecNone for code that never ran and converts the value unchecked.
NEXT_OPCODE(op_catch);
}

// We're now committed to compiling this as an entrypoint.
m_currentBlock->isCatchEntrypoint = true;
m_graph.m_roots.append(m_currentBlock);

// We're not allowed to exit here since we would not properly recover values.
// We first need to bootstrap the catch entrypoint state.
m_exitOK = false;
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions Source/JavaScriptCore/dfg/DFGDriver.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -147,8 +147,6 @@ static CompilationResult compileImpl(
vm.typeProfilerLog()->processLogEntries(vm, "Preparing for DFG compilation."_s);

prepareLazyStateOfInlineCandidates(vm, codeBlock, profiledDFGCodeBlock, mode);
if (mode != JITCompilationMode::FTLForOSREntry)
codeBlock->baselineAlternative()->ensureCatchLivenessIsComputedForExecutedCatches(); // the parser makes a catch OSR entrypoint only where the buffer exists

Ref<Plan> plan = adoptRef(*new Plan(codeBlock, profiledDFGCodeBlock, mode, osrEntryBytecodeIndex, WTF::move(mustHandleValues)));

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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Source/JavaScriptCore/jit/JITOperations.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -3254,7 +3254,7 @@ JSC_DEFINE_JIT_OPERATION(operationTryOSREnterAtCatchAndValueProfile, UGPRPair, (
if (!buffer)
OPERATION_RETURN(scope, encodeResult(nullptr, nullptr));
buffer->forEach([&] (ValueProfileAndVirtualRegister& profile) {
profile.m_buckets[0] = JSValue::encode(callFrame->uncheckedR(profile.m_operand).jsValue());
profile.sample(callFrame->uncheckedR(profile.m_operand).jsValue());

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🟡 (optional) Under default lazy catch liveness, a rarely firing catch never gets a DFG or FTL OSR entrypoint, so every caught exception OSR-exits to baseline permanently. The new bail at DFGByteCodeParser.cpp:10241 skips the entrypoint when the buffer has no sample. operationTryOSREnterAtCatchAndValueProfile returns at JITOperations.cpp:3246 before sampling whenever a replacement exists, so the buffer never gains a sample and the FTL plan bails too. Fix: when the replacement has no entrypoint for this catch, still create and sample the buffer so a later plan can make one. The base made an entrypoint with SpecNone predictions instead.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: Options::useLazyCatchLiveness() is on (OptionsList.h:722 default true). A function's catch runs once in LLInt/Baseline before the first DFG threshold. operationOptimize creates the buffer and delays once (JITOperations.cpp:3137-3143). The catch does not fire in that window, so at parse time every operand's computeUpdatedPrediction() is SpecNone and the parser takes NEXT_OPCODE at DFGByteCodeParser.cpp:10237-10241: no catch entrypoint. From then on each caught exception OSR-exits to the baseline op_catch, which calls operationTryOSREnterAtCatchAndValueProfile; with a DFG/FTL replacement it returns at JITOperations.cpp:3240-3246 and never reaches the sample() loop at 3256-3258, so the buffer stays unsampled. The later FTL plan parses the same baseline block and bails identically. Exception exits never jettison (ExitKind.cpp:34-36; DFGOSRExitCompilerCommon.cpp:44-50), so nothing ever recompiles with an entrypoint; the handler and the rest of the call run in baseline on every exception. On the base branch the entrypoint was made (with SpecNone predictions, the bug this PR fixes).

Verification: Triggered when Options::useLazyCatchLiveness() is on (default true, OptionsList.h:722) and a catch executes before the first DFG threshold but not again during the single warm-up delay; the catch then never becomes a DFG or FTL OSR entrypoint. DFGByteCodeParser.cpp:10237-10241: if any operand's computeUpdatedPrediction() is SpecNone the parser does NEXT_OPCODE(op_catch) and never sets isCatchEntrypoint.

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Not in this PR. I built and measured exactly this: on a refused entry the operation samples, and the lazy option stops deferring the buffer once the block has optimized code. It does end the stuck state, but the effect on run time goes both ways.

One loop of 1e9 iterations whose handler first runs after tier-up, release + LTO, median of 5 fresh processes, ms:

exceptions caught without with
0 1752 1742
about 5 1758 2559
about 10 2593 3046
about 20 4784 3281
about 200 6118 3563

Without it the first exceptions are nearly free and each later one costs more. With it the loop settles at about twice the time of one that never throws: the FTL code that has the catch entrypoint runs that loop slower (18 ms against 11 ms for 5 million iterations). In another loop the entrypoint made no difference, and I do not know yet which loops it applies to.

It also changes the state that a catch that first runs after tier-up has always been in, with the option on or off. So it gets its own PR. What leaving it out costs here is in the Performance section of the description.

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep profiling when the replacement has no catch entrypoint.

If lazy catch liveness leaves the buffer unsampled at compile time, the parser now rejects the catch entrypoint until every operand has a prediction. (github.com)

When a DFG/FTL replacement exists, this operation returns from the prepareCatchOSREntry branch before reaching profile.sample(). If the catch has no entrypoint, later exceptions take that same early return, so the buffer cannot gain the missing samples and later plans keep skipping the catch. When prepareCatchOSREntry returns no entry, continue to the profiling path so a later compilation can create the entrypoint.

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Review comment at @Source/JavaScriptCore/jit/JITOperations.cpp at line 3257:
Update the prepareCatchOSREntry flow so a missing catch entrypoint falls through
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Not in this PR. I built and measured exactly this: on a refused entry the operation samples, and the lazy option stops deferring the buffer once the block has optimized code. It does end the stuck state, but the effect on run time goes both ways.

One loop of 1e9 iterations whose handler first runs after tier-up, release + LTO, median of 5 fresh processes, ms:

exceptions caught without with
0 1752 1742
about 5 1758 2559
about 10 2593 3046
about 20 4784 3281
about 200 6118 3563

Without it the first exceptions are nearly free and each later one costs more. With it the loop settles at about twice the time of one that never throws: the FTL code that has the catch entrypoint runs that loop slower (18 ms against 11 ms for 5 million iterations). In another loop the entrypoint made no difference, and I do not know yet which loops it applies to.

It also changes the state that a catch that first runs after tier-up has always been in, with the option on or off. So it gets its own PR. What leaving it out costs here is in the Performance section of the description.

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@dylan-conway Thanks for the measurements and clarification. I should not have described this as a quick win.

Your measurements show a trade-off: collecting samples after refused catch OSR entry removes the profiling gap, but the resulting FTL catch entrypoint can slow normal loop execution. This also changes existing behavior for catches that first execute after tier-up.

Keeping this change in a separate PR makes sense. No change is needed here for this finding.

Would you like me to open a follow-up issue for the separate PR?


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Learning: In JavaScriptCore, catch handlers that first execute after tier-up historically can remain without a catch OSR entrypoint, with lazy catch liveness enabled or disabled. Changing operationTryOSREnterAtCatchAndValueProfile in Source/JavaScriptCore/jit/JITOperations.cpp to collect samples after refused catch OSR entry, together with stopping lazy buffer deferral once optimized code exists, changes that behavior. Maintainer measurements show mixed performance effects: enabling the resulting FTL catch entrypoint can improve repeated-exception performance but slow normal loop execution in some loop shapes. Do not characterize this change as an unconditional performance improvement.

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});

OPERATION_RETURN(scope, encodeResult(nullptr, nullptr));
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Source/JavaScriptCore/llint/LLIntSlowPaths.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -2605,7 +2605,7 @@ LLINT_SLOW_PATH_DECL(slow_path_profile_catch)
if (!buffer)
LLINT_END();
buffer->forEach([&] (ValueProfileAndVirtualRegister& profile) {
profile.m_buckets[0] = JSValue::encode(callFrame->uncheckedR(profile.m_operand).jsValue());
profile.sample(callFrame->uncheckedR(profile.m_operand).jsValue());
});

LLINT_END();
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