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Problem

• A generator or async function that starts while the type profiler or the control flow profiler is on crashes when it resumes after the profiler is turned off: SEGV at bytecode/CodeBlock.cpp:827 or :4041 (null profiler).
• An inspector client that disconnects with the type profiler on is enough (bun 1.4.3: 3 of 3).
• Cause: VM::disableTypeProfiler() and VM::disableControlFlowProfiler() destroy the profiler. A started body keeps its mode, so its bytecode links against the profiler again.

Fix

• A disable keeps the profiler and empties its log and type sets. typeProfiler() and controlFlowProfiler() still return null while off.
• While off, TypeProfilerLog::processLogEntries drops what instrumented bytecode writes. The collector does not visit it.
• A profiler that is off is destroyed when all linked code is deleted. Instrumented bytecode linked later makes a new one.
• Verified: 2 tests in JSTests/stress (5 runs, all crash on main), JSTests/typeProfiler, JSTests/controlFlowProfiler.

Background

• Instrumented bytecode holds raw pointers into the profiler: TypeLocation, BasicBlockLocation, the type log.
• Only bytecode with the same frame layout can resume a suspended generator body, so JSC pins the mode of a body when it first runs.
• Weighed: keep the profilers for the life of the VM. That costs 97 MB and 10 ms per eden collection after a session over 20,000 functions.

Downsides

• A body that started under the type profiler keeps its instrumentation: one 24 B log write for each profiled value, also after the disable.
• None found for a VM that never turns a profiler on: it makes no profiler object.

Notes

Repro

jsc shell, default options (the $vm toggles are added here and do what the inspector's Runtime agent does):

const make = "(function* gen(a) { let y = a; let x; x = ++y + (yield 1); let z = x * 2; const w = yield z; return x + y + z + w; })";
const generator = (0, eval)(make)(10);
// Runtime.enableTypeProfiler
generator.next();        // starts in bytecode for the profiler
// Runtime.disableTypeProfiler, or the inspector client disconnects
generator.next(5);       // SIGSEGV: the body is linked again against a null profiler

bun, release build of main (1.4.3-canary.1+367d939d9), bun --inspect:

• A client sends Runtime.enableTypeProfiler, a generator and an async function start, the client closes its socket, both resume: exit 139, 3 of 3. With the client left connected, or with no profiler: right values.
• The same with Runtime.disableTypeProfiler, and with Runtime.enableControlFlowProfiler then Runtime.disableControlFlowProfiler: exit 139.

No user has reported this. Upstream JavaScriptCore has the same code (runtime/VM.cpp, disableTypeProfiler and disableControlFlowProfiler).

The life of a profiler

• Before: made at enable, destroyed at disable. The caller deletes all code after both.
• Now: made at enable, or at the link of instrumented bytecode when there is none. Destroyed at the end of Heap::deleteAllCodeBlocks when it is off. At that point no CodeBlock is left and completeAllJITPlans() has run. Every disable caller deletes all code right after the disable (InspectorRuntimeAgent::setTypeProfilerEnabledState, setControlFlowProfilerEnabledState, the $vm toggles).
• Destroying inside the disable, as before, frees the profiler before the compilations are complete.
• typeProfiler() and controlFlowProfiler() mean "the profiler, if it is on". Every caller that tests them for "is it on" is unchanged, in JSC and in Bun (JSInspectorProfiler.cpp, ZigSourceProvider.cpp, InternalModuleRegistry.cpp, bindings.cpp).
• typeProfilerForInstrumentedCode() and controlFlowProfilerForInstrumentedCode() mean "the profiler, if there is one". Only the sites that link instrumented bytecode use them: CodeBlock, SymbolTable, TypeLocationCache.
• The collector's two hooks (the marking constraint that visits the log, Heap::pruneDeadReferences) and the log flush before a Baseline or DFG compile are unchanged: they do nothing while the profiler is off. That is safe because the log and the type sets are empty then. The disable empties both, and TypeProfilerLog::processLogEntries drops the entries that instrumented bytecode writes afterwards, without a read of them.
• So the log keeps no value alive while the profiler is off, and no type set holds a Structure that nobody prunes. The next enable starts with empty type sets, also for a variable whose SymbolTable outlived the profiler.
• Baseline code with a profiler's instructions is not shared between CodeBlocks (emit_op_profile_type and emit_op_profile_control_flow clear m_isShareable), so no JIT code outlives the CodeBlocks.
• An enable that finds a profiler drops what instrumented bytecode wrote while it was off: the log, and the control flow profiler's execution counts. The TypeLocation and BasicBlockLocation objects stay, because bytecode points at them.

Measurements

jsc shell, Release with assertions, linux x64. 20,000 small functions, type profiler on, all called, off, all called again, 8 s later (2 runs each):

	footprint	eden collection (min of 200)
never on	93.8 to 94.6 MB	0.86 to 0.87 ms
on then off, this PR	110.7 to 111.2 MB	0.55 to 0.75 ms
on then off, main's engine	111.0 to 111.7 MB	0.72 to 0.95 ms
on then off, profiler kept for the life of the VM (first revision of this PR)	209.9 MB	11.50 ms

• JSTests/typeProfiler and JSTests/controlFlowProfiler in 4 configurations: 172 runs, 0 failures. Stress tests with profil, generator, async, function, iterator, debugger, cache, coverage, eval, jettison, shrink, idle, delete-all, code-block or unlinked in the name, in 3 configurations, on the top of the stack ([JSC] Do not inline a function that has debug hooks #837): 2,585 of 2,589 runs pass. The other 4 are two tests that need options my runner does not pass (disable-function-dot-arguments.js, check-stack-overflow-before-value-profiling-arguments.js). They fail the same way on main.

The tests

code-generated-for-a-profiler-runs-after-the-profiler-is-turned-off.js, in 3 modes (default, --useJIT=0, eager JIT on the main thread):

• Bodies that start under a profiler and run through off, on and off again. One runs hot enough for every tier (testLoopCount).
• A second session starts empty: the loop body's execution count is 10 and not the count of both sessions, and the type seen is Boolean, not Integer, String, Boolean.
• The type set of a variable starts empty too, with and without a run of the body and a code deletion while the profiler is off. Without the clear in the disable it reports Undefined, Boolean, Integer and the object shape of the first session.
• A body that outlived the profiler fills the log with objects that die. Without the drop in processLogEntries the test crashes in all 3 modes.
• No value is alive that was logged before the disable, or by a body after it (WeakRef, 32 values each). The first revision of this PR kept the 32 that were logged after the disable.

module-that-started-under-a-profiler-resumes-after-the-profiler-is-turned-off.js: a module that is suspended at a top-level await keeps its mode like a generator body. Run with --useTypeProfiler=1 and with --useControlFlowProfiler=1.

All 5 runs end in SIGSEGV on main (e8a8efc09c with only the $vm helpers of this PR added).

Other pull requests

• [JSC] The control flow profiler's basic blocks and function ranges match the text #828 landed first, and this PR is rebased on it. [JSC] The control flow profiler's basic blocks and function ranges match the text #828 removed the dummy basic block, so the line that took it is gone. The test no longer has a body for it.
• [JSC] Keep the code a generator body started in, and give held code only to callers of its mode #830 is rebased on this one.

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The VM now retains profiler instances while generated code may still use them, resets profiler data when profiling is re-enabled, and releases disabled profilers after code deletion. New $vm controls and stress tests exercise profiler transitions during generator execution.

Changes

Profiler Lifecycle and Instrumented Code

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Profiler state reset Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/BasicBlockLocation.h, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/ControlFlowProfiler.*, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/TypeProfiler.*, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/TypeProfilerLog.h, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/TypeSet.*	The type profiler, type-profiler log, type sets, and control-flow profiler can clear recorded data while retaining their location objects.
VM profiler lifecycle Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/VM.*	VM accessors distinguish enabled profilers from profiler instances available to instrumented code. Enable operations clear existing profiler data, and off profilers are released through releaseProfilersThatAreOff().
Instrumented-code profiler access Source/JavaScriptCore/bytecode/CodeBlock.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/dfg/DFGDriver.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/heap/Heap.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/jit/JIT.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/JSGlobalObjectInlines.h, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/SymbolTable.cpp, Source/JavaScriptCore/runtime/TypeLocationCache.cpp	Code creation and profiler consumers use profilers available to instrumented code. Code-block deletion releases profilers that are off.
Idle profiler toggle hooks Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/JSDollarVM.cpp	New $vm functions schedule profiler state changes at VM idle time and can delete code when regeneration is requested.
Profiler enable-disable stress tests JSTests/stress/code-generated-for-a-profiler-runs-after-the-profiler-is-turned-off.js	The test exercises generators across profiler transitions, type-profiler collection, and weak-reference collection under three JIT configurations.

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Turning the type profiler back on after code has been discarded may show types recorded before profiling was turned off, so profiler results can be misleading. Clearing profiler data before releasing the profiler should be addressed before merge. Whether partial code deletion can leave running code pointing at a released profiler was not confirmed and deserves owner attention.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline findings, I also checked two parts of the new lifetime: releasing an off profiler at the end of Heap::deleteAllCodeBlocks (runs after completeAllJITPlans() with no CodeBlock left to point into it), and TypeProfilerLog::clear() resetting the entry pointer while a concurrent marker may be visiting the log (the visit only walks up to the pointer it reads, so a reset to the start cannot run it past the end). Neither turned up a bug.

Extended reasoning...

The change rewires VM::TypeProfiler/TypeProfilerLog/ControlFlowProfiler ownership so profilers survive a disable until all code is deleted, and adds lazy re-creation in CodeBlock::finishCreation plus clear() paths on re-enable; it touches no injection, auth or data-exposure surface. Three inline findings are posted, so the ruled-out note is the only body content.

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[claude]

Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

The revised commit addresses the three points from my earlier review: entries logged while the profiler is off are now dropped in TypeProfilerLog::processLogEntries, and disableTypeProfiler clears the log and every TypeLocation's instruction and global TypeSet, so nothing stale or off-time reaches a later session or pruneDeadReferences.

Beyond the inline nit, I also checked that releaseProfilersThatAreOff() runs after completeAllJITPlans() and after clearCode drops linked code in both ClearCode modes, so the TypeProfilerLog pointer cached in baseline and DFG code (JITOpcodes.cpp, DFGSpeculativeJIT.cpp) cannot outlive the log; and that the remaining typeProfiler()/controlFlowProfiler() callers in JSC (JIT.cpp, DFGDriver.cpp, InspectorRuntimeAgent, ProgramExecutable, CyclicModuleRecord) all mean "is it on", so the new nullptr-while-off semantics do not change them. A human look is still worthwhile given this changes profiler lifetime in VM and Heap.

Extended reasoning...

The change touches VM.h/VM.cpp profiler lifetime, Heap::deleteAllCodeBlocks, CodeBlock::finishCreation, TypeProfilerLog, TypeSet, and ControlFlowProfiler, plus two new stress tests and $vm toggles. It touches no security-sensitive surface. The single pushed commit after the prior review addresses the earlier inline concerns, and the remaining finding is a test-convention nit, but the lifetime change spans the GC constraints and all JIT tiers in core JSC code, so a human review is still appropriate rather than approval.

[claude]

I re-reviewed the latest push and found no bugs; the points I raised inline on earlier versions are addressed in the code as pushed. Because this changes the profiler lifetime across VM, Heap::deleteAllCodeBlocks and the collector's log/type-set hooks, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

• Every remaining typeProfiler()/controlFlowProfiler() caller is an "is it on" check (Heap marking constraint and pruneDeadReferences, JIT/DFG log flush, inspector agent, Program/Module executables); the three linking sites use the ForInstrumentedCode accessors after the ensure calls in CodeBlock::finishCreation.
• releaseProfilersThatAreOff() runs after completeAllJITPlans() and clearCode; KeepWhatNeedsParsing never keeps linked code, and baseline code with profile ops is unshareable, so nothing outlives its CodeBlock.
• Enable clears the log before the count goes non-zero, so the marking constraint never visits entries written while off; the disable-side cursor reset mirrors the pre-existing one in processLogEntries.
• The $vm toggles return early when the state already matches, so the module test's unconditional disable calls cannot trip the RELEASE_ASSERT on the enabled count.

Extended reasoning...

The change keeps TypeProfiler/TypeProfilerLog and ControlFlowProfiler alive after disable so pinned generator, async and top-level-await bodies can relink against them, clears the log and type sets on disable, drops log entries written while off, and destroys off profilers from Heap::deleteAllCodeBlocks; it touches VM.h/VM.cpp, Heap.cpp, CodeBlock.cpp, SymbolTable.cpp, TypeLocationCache.cpp, the profiler classes, JSDollarVM and two new stress tests. It touches no injection, auth or data-exposure surface. The latest commit addresses all four of my earlier inline points, and no new defect was found this run. It is not approved outright because it is an object-lifetime redesign across the VM, the heap's code deletion path and the collector's marking/pruning hooks, with concurrent-GC interactions that a JSC maintainer should weigh.