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fix(runtime): make the all-f64 call trampoline unwindable while its callee runs (#9446) - #9497

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Closes #9446.

The crash

PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 on the Claude Code bundle dies with signal 11 at safepoint 4266, reproducibly. Under gdb the fault is inside libgcc's unwinder, called from the copying minor's native-root walk (_Unwind_Backtracerun_copied_minor_attempt), and the frame chain breaks exactly at perry_runtime::abi_trampoline::call_all_f64_x86_64 — the frame below it is 0xa, and rax = 0xa at the faulting cmpb $0x48,(%rax), which is libgcc's fallback frame probe dereferencing a PC it derived from a garbage return address.

The trampoline's own FDE explains it (readelf -wF on the crashing binary):

000000000cfffa08 rsp+32   c-32  c-16  c-24  c-8      <- CFA rule in force at the `call *%rdi`

while the code between that rule and the call is

mov %rsp,%r12 ; sub %rdx,%rsp ; and $-16,%rsp ; ... ; call *%rdi

The trampoline lowers rsp by the runtime-sized spilled-argument area and leaves it there across the call, inside an asm! block the compiler's frame description knows nothing about. Any callee with more than eight f64 arguments (this counts; a synthesized capture-stashing constructor in a bundle has dozens) puts the return address stack_bytes away from where the FDE says it is. The callee in #9446's stack is OpenTelemetry's LoggerProvider constructor (a class inside a CommonJS module wrapper), reached through the runtime's vtable trampoline.

What it costs beyond the seeded run

Every unwinder that steps through the trampoline while its callee runs reads the wrong slot:

  • GC native-root walk (gc/roots/stack_maps.rs): when the garbage is a mapped address the walk stops there and every frame above the trampoline is silently dropped from the root set for that collection — a young object the caller holds across the call is not copied and the caller later reads a recycled cell. When it is unmapped, the collector crashes as above.
  • Exception transport (_Unwind_RaiseException, the system unwinder on x86-64): a throw inside such a callee never reaches the catch above the trampoline.

aarch64 never showed either because LLVM happened to keep a frame pointer for the trampoline function, so its CFA was x29-relative. That is why this is a Linux-x86-64 finding.

The fix

Both trampolines are now naked functions (#[unsafe(naked)] + naked_asm!) that set rbp / x29 from the entry stack pointer before anything moves, define the CFA off that register in their own .cfi_startproc … .cfi_endproc region, and drop the spill area through it after the call. The dynamic adjustment is then invisible to unwinding on every target and under every frame-pointer setting, and the frame record is what a frame-pointer chain walk expects too. Argument marshalling is unchanged. The CFI directives are dropped on Windows ARM64 (COFF unwinds via .pdata; the runtime uses shadow frames there), where the frame-pointer prologue alone is the status quo plus a frame record.

Evidence

check old trampolines this PR
abi_trampoline::tests::…::the_unwinder_steps_through_a_trampoline_with_stacked_args (x86-64 Linux) SIGSEGV in the test process pass
same test, aarch64 macOS pass (frame pointer by luck) pass
test-files/test_gap_9446_trampoline_unwind.ts, x86-64 Linux, no GC knobs perry segfaults before its first line; node prints all four identical to node, all four lines, exit 0
cc cli_2.1.112.js, PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 FAILURE (signal 11) at safepoints=4266 on the issue's 70eaabe57 build and on its #9444-patched sibling, identical backtrace; abi_trampoline.rs is unchanged since #8291 completes: safepoints=6645 scheduled_collections=6645 moved_objects=960167, answers Not logged in (replay details in the comment below)

The unit test is differential: it walks the stack with _Unwind_Backtrace from inside a 12-argument callee (four stacked on both ABIs) and requires the frames above the caller to be the same ones the caller's own walk sees. The fixture throws through a 9-parameter dynamically dispatched method and through a 9-parameter class-expression constructor, and runs a nursery collection inside a 9-parameter dynamically dispatched method while the caller holds a young object.

The issue's three unexamined leads

Not in this PR

bun_ffi/call.rs's perry_ffi_call_scalar_* trampolines (global_asm!) have no CFI at all, so the same walk stops at an FFI call frame; that is the same class and deserves its own change.

Local verification (not CI)

  • RUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test -p perry-runtime abi_trampoline: 3/3 on x86-64 Linux and on aarch64 macOS with the fix; the new test SIGSEGVs the process on the old trampolines on x86-64 Linux.
  • Full perry-runtime suite, single-threaded, on both hosts: x86-64 Linux 2958 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored; aarch64 macOS 2975 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored.
  • Fixture compiled and run on x86-64 Linux against the same toolchain with and without the fix: segfault before the first line → identical to node.

Ralph Küpper added 2 commits September 2, 2026 10:15
… callee runs (PerryTS#9446)

`abi_trampoline::call_all_f64` lowers the stack pointer by a runtime amount
to spill arguments past the eighth and leaves it there across the call; the
frame description of the surrounding Rust function does not know, so on
x86-64 Linux (no frame pointer) every unwinder stepping through the
trampoline reads a garbage return address for its caller.

Two witnesses, both red on the current trampolines and green once they
carry their own frame:

- `abi_trampoline::tests::unwind_through_the_trampoline::…` walks the
  stack with `_Unwind_Backtrace` from inside a 12-argument callee and
  requires the frames above the caller to be the ones the caller's own
  walk sees. On x86-64 Linux it dies with SIGSEGV inside libgcc's fallback
  frame probe — the same fault as the seeded cc crash.
- `test-files/test_gap_9446_trampoline_unwind.ts` throws through a
  9-parameter dynamically dispatched method and a 9-parameter
  class-expression constructor, and collects inside a 9-parameter
  dynamically dispatched method while the caller holds a young object.
  On x86-64 Linux the compiled program segfaults before its first line.
…allee runs (PerryTS#9446)

The deterministic `PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1`
SIGSEGV on the Claude Code bundle at safepoint 4266 is libgcc's unwinder
faulting inside the copying minor's native-root walk, one frame above
`abi_trampoline::call_all_f64_x86_64`. The trampoline's FDE says
`CFA = rsp+32` at the `call` while the inline asm has already lowered
`rsp` by the spilled-argument area, so for any callee with more than
eight f64 arguments the trampoline's return address is read from a
spilled argument or a saved register. A mapped garbage address ends the
walk there — every frame above the trampoline silently leaves the root
set for that collection, and a `throw` inside the callee never reaches
the `catch` above — and an unmapped one crashes the collector.

Both trampolines are now naked functions that set `rbp` / `x29` from the
entry stack pointer before anything moves, define the CFA off that
register in their own `.cfi_startproc … .cfi_endproc` region, and drop
the spill area through it after the call. The dynamic adjustment is then
invisible to unwinding regardless of the compiler's frame-pointer choice
(aarch64 was only ever safe because LLVM happened to keep one). Argument
marshalling is unchanged; the directives are dropped on Windows ARM64,
which unwinds through `.pdata` and uses shadow frames.
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The runtime now uses naked x86-64 and non-Windows aarch64 trampolines with explicit frame-pointer CFI metadata. Windows ARM64 retains inline assembly with compiler-emitted SEH metadata. Tests cover unwinding, exceptions, GC preservation, stacked arguments, and dynamic dispatch.

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Trampoline unwind support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Argument split and trampoline contract
crates/perry-runtime/src/abi_trampoline.rs
call_all_f64 separates the first eight register arguments from stacked arguments and passes the rounded spill size to the architecture-specific trampolines.
Naked trampolines and platform unwind frames
crates/perry-runtime/src/abi_trampoline.rs
Non-Windows aarch64 and SysV x86-64 trampolines establish frame-pointer-based CFI metadata. Windows ARM64 retains inline assembly with compiler-emitted SEH metadata.
Unwind and runtime regression coverage
crates/perry-runtime/src/abi_trampoline.rs, test-files/test_gap_9446_trampoline_unwind.ts, changelog.d/9446-trampoline-unwind-frame.md
Tests validate backtraces, exception propagation, GC root preservation, stacked arguments, dynamic dispatch, and dynamic construction. The changelog records the defect and implementation.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 77cbe

The runtime trampoline changes stack and exception unwinding, but the Windows ARM64 path still lacks validated unwind metadata and has not been tested on that platform. This could cause incorrect caller recovery during exceptions or stack walking, so the change needs a fix or explicit owner acceptance before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant call_all_f64
  participant abi_trampoline
  participant callee
  participant unwinder
  call_all_f64->>abi_trampoline: split arguments and pass spill size
  abi_trampoline->>abi_trampoline: establish CFA frame and adjust stack
  abi_trampoline->>callee: marshal arguments and call target
  unwinder->>abi_trampoline: walk using emitted CFI or SEH metadata
  callee-->>abi_trampoline: return or propagate exception
  abi_trampoline-->>call_all_f64: restore stack and return result
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Move the diagnostic leads out of the release-note fragment.

Lines 1-61 describe shipped behavior, the root cause, and the validation. That part fits a defect-fix entry.

This last paragraph is different. It records two verifier false positives and one segfault that was not investigated, and Line 70 defers the reader to the pull request. None of it is behavior this release changes. In assembled release notes it reads as an open, unresolved lead.

Keep this analysis in the pull request description or the issue. End the fragment at Line 61.

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On Windows ARM64 unwinding is SEH: `js_throw` raises with `RaiseException`
and the unwinder reads `.pdata`/`.xdata` codes the compiler emits for the
prologue it generates. A naked trampoline carries none of that and would be
treated as a leaf whose return address is the current `x30` — which the
callee's `blr` has overwritten — so a throw through it could not find its
handler. That target keeps the inline-`asm!` shape (its frame-chained
prologue already makes the dynamic `sp` adjustment invisible to SEH); the
naked, self-described frame is used on every DWARF-unwound target.

Also drops the issue-triage paragraph from the changelog fragment; it lives
in the PR and the issue.
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Replay on the fixed binary (build host, x86-64 Linux)

cli_2.1.112.js compiled at f1e9c370a + this PR with PERRY_KEEP_SYMBOLS=1, run exactly as in #9446 (-p --input-format stream-json --output-format stream-json --verbose, one hi record, fresh HOME):

run base (70eaabe57, the issue's build) this PR
PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_SEED=1 PERRY_GC_SCHEDULE_RATE=1 FAILURE (signal 11) at safepoints=4266, inside _Unwind_Backtrace above call_all_f64_x86_64 completes: done: seed=1 safepoints=6645 scheduled_collections=6645 copying_minors=6645 moved_objects=960167, answer Not logged in · Please run /login (node's)
same + PERRY_GC_PROTECT_FROMSPACE=1 …_DEPTH=800 first stale use at safepoint 818 (a dynamic-dispatch receiver — the #9417 shape #9479 closed) first stale use at safepoint 4746, a different defect: the awaited value handed to js_async_step_chain names a Promise retired by minor #4744 → filed as #9506
PERRY_CONSERVATIVE_STACK_SCAN=1, no seed (the issue's first unexamined lead) segfault, 3/3 correct answer, 3/3 (Not logged in; 3m41s / 5m30s / 3m54s wall on a loaded host — the middle one had written its full output when the driver's 300 s cap cut it as it exited)
no knobs (health) 3/3 Not logged in, exit 1

So the issue's crash is gone, and its first lead was the same bug.

The two red satellite gates are red on main

  • gc-ratchet fails the pinned-baseline comparison with the same cell set as main's own last six runs (Aug 31 → today, 605a26fdc) — a stale baseline, not this change.

  • gc-native-roots (ubuntu-24.04-arm, aarch64, ELF) fails at "Provider dylib host-boundary GC and Response" on main's latest run (0a1c137d9) at the same step; the steps that exercise the frame walk — walker agreement, probe matrix under forced evacuation, both non-default walkers — pass here.

  • gc-root-dominance reports 0 violations here (checked 5615 functions / 81 modules, violations: 0) and fails only its own --min-funcs 6000 corpus floor — a size ratchet on the natively compiled dependency corpus, not a finding about this change; main's own runs of that workflow (last four) fail earlier, at the corpus emit step.

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  • abi_trampoline unit tests: 3/3 on x86-64 Linux and aarch64 macOS on the final tree; the new test SIGSEGVs the process on the old trampolines (x86-64 Linux).
  • Full perry-runtime suite, RUST_TEST_THREADS=1: x86-64 Linux 2958 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored; aarch64 macOS 2975 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored.
  • test-files/test_gap_9446_trampoline_unwind.ts on the same x86-64 toolchain without and with the fix: segfault before the first line → identical to node.

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* style: rustfmt after the #9496/#9497/#9498/#9504 batch

* refactor: split four files back under the 2000-line cap

#9505 took child_process/reactor.rs to 2283 and fs/stream.rs to 2140, #9507
took dynamic_dispatch.rs to 2029, #9508 took date.rs to 2067. Each split
follows its file's existing sibling convention: date/tests.rs,
property_get/dispatch_receiver_class.rs, fs/stream/options_init.rs, and
reactor/{kill,stdin_drain}.rs as child modules reaching parent privates.
cp_live_kill keeps pub(crate) for emitter.rs's cross-module call.

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Co-authored-by: Ralph Küpper <ralph@skelpo.com>
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