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Fixes #25145

Problem

  • The process can exit with code 0 while WebAssembly.compileStreaming() or instantiateStreaming() still compiles. The promise never settles. zxing-wasm fails this way.
  • JSC registers a streaming compile as WorkType::AtSomePoint: work that may never be scheduled. JSCTaskScheduler::onAddPendingWork (src/jsc/bindings/JSCTaskScheduler.cpp:57) holds no event loop ref for such a ticket.

Fix

  • refEventLoopForPendingWork moves the compiler's ticket to the tickets that hold an event loop ref. handleResponseOnStreamingAction and finalizeBody call it when the compiler gets its last byte.
  • JSC returns the ticket only to the compiler. TicketCapture records it while StreamingCompiler::create() registers the work, so the promotion is one hash lookup.
  • Correct: a compile with every byte is certain to finish. The existing schedule and cancel paths release the ref.
  • Verified: test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming.test.ts, 13 new cases. A release build of main fails 9. Self-reviewed: 4 concerns raised, 3 addressed.

Background

  • JSC's DeferredWorkTimer tracks work that another thread finishes as a ticket. Bun's JSCTaskScheduler receives the tickets.
  • A streaming compile is AtSomePoint because its response body can stall for ever. A compile from bytes is imminent work, which holds a ref.
  • Considered the promotion in JSC: it needs an oven-sh/WebKit change. Considered a lookup by promise: a scan of all pending tickets, 1.1 ms per compile beside 100,000 Atomics.waitAsync() promises.

Downsides

  • A streaming compile runs 1,072 more instructions (13,103 to 14,175 for an empty module). Each compiler wrapper has one more field (8 bytes). Release .text: +1,856 bytes.
  • A timed Atomics.waitAsync() has the same kind of ticket and still holds no ref, as in Node.
Notes
  • This is the change of Keep the process alive while a streaming WebAssembly compilation is pending #33220, which a cleanup of stale pull requests closed without a review of the fix. The lookup of the ticket and the tests are new.
  • The 13 cases run a fixture in a child process that nothing else keeps alive. 8 compile a valid module: compileStreaming() and instantiateStreaming() with a body from bytes and from a ReadableStream, instantiateStreaming() with a body from a file and with the Response of fetch() (the server is in the test process), and 2 with a top-level await. 5 compile a module that fails: its last function is invalid, or its bytes end early. A release build of main exits before the callback in 9 of the 13. The 4 others pass there: a top-level await polls the loop on main, and a truncated module rejects inside finalize().
  • With zxing-wasm 3.1.0, prepareZXingModule({ fireImmediately: true }) ends with "module ready" in 1 of 3 runs on 1.4.3 and in 6 of 6 runs with this change.
  • Give up a promise wait on an idle loop: unsettled top-level await exits 13 #47553 builds on this: it ends a top-level await that nothing can settle. Without this ref it would end await WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming() too.
  • The self-review ran on this change together with Give up a promise wait on an idle loop: unsettled top-level await exits 13 #47553. Its concerns for this part: make it a PR of its own (done), shrink the test module and remove the raised timeouts (done), add a top-level await case (done), and promote the ticket inside JSC (not done, see Background).
  • The first push found the ticket by a scan of the pending AtSomePoint tickets for the promise. Measured with release builds, 2,000 streaming compiles of an empty module beside N pending Atomics.waitAsync() promises, per compile: with the scan 4.8 us (N = 0), 9.0 us (N = 1,000) and 1,094 us (N = 100,000). With the capture 2.9 to 4.2 us for every N. Main: 2.5 to 3.6 us.
  • An index of the tickets by target was the other way to remove the scan. It adds a hash insert and a hash erase to every Atomics.waitAsync() call, for programs that never compile a stream. The capture adds one null check there.
  • Release a JSC deferred-work keep-alive on the event loop that took it #43415 changes the release sites in the same file (the loop that a ticket's ref is released on). The two changes do not depend on each other: a promoted ticket keeps the PendingWork that onAddPendingWork recorded.
  • Measured with release builds on Linux x64. Size, main a47a315dc4 against this branch: size text 139,709,787 to 139,711,643 bytes (+1,856). Stripped bun: 139,897,120 to 139,901,216 bytes. The instruction counts are from main 34cbc70fa1, before the rebase. Instructions (instructions:u from perf_event_open, 20,000 streaming compiles of an empty module, medians of 7 interleaved runs): 13,103 to 14,175 per compile, which is the capture, the promotion, and the loop ref with its release. A program that does not use streaming WebAssembly runs one more null check for each Atomics.waitAsync() call and nothing else.
  • The branch is on main a47a315dc4 now (AOT: bun test --aot on large suites, module loading fixes, fuzzer fixes #47316, which moves WebKit to 4d45755fed). The rebase changed no line of the diff. On that base a release build of main still fails 9 of the 13 cases, and this branch passes wasm-streaming.test.ts (46), atomics.test.ts (30) and 39900.test.ts (12).
  • Suites run before the rebase, with a release build of this branch: test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming.test.ts (46 pass), test/js/web/atomics.test.ts (30 pass), test/regression/issue/39900.test.ts (12 pass), test/bundler/transpiler/macro-test.test.ts (34 pass). With a debug build that also has Give up a promise wait on an idle loop: unsettled top-level await exits 13 #47553: wasm-streaming.test.ts (46 pass), atomics.test.ts (28 pass, 2 skip), 39900.test.ts (12 pass), macro-test.test.ts (34 pass).

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Updated 10:24 AM PT - Oct 31st, 2026

@robobun, your commit e6a31ce is building: #136136

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Status: ready for review. The branch is on main a47a315dc4 now.

How I reproduced it, with a release build of main on Linux x64: the fixture test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming-keeps-alive-fixture.ts starts a streaming compile of a module with 200 functions in a child process that nothing else keeps alive. The child exits with code 0 before it prints settled. With this PR it prints settled. 9 of the 13 new cases of test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming.test.ts fail on main and pass with this PR.

CI on 477380c5d6 (build 136225): every lane that ran is green. The tests that failed there passed on a retry, and none of them is a case of this PR. The macOS x64 test lane has not run yet. Its jobs wait behind a backlog of other builds, and they expired twice without an agent.

#47553 is stacked on this PR.

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The change captures scheduler tickets for pending WebAssembly streaming work and references the event loop for eligible compiler work. Subprocess tests cover both streaming APIs with multiple response sources and valid, invalid, or truncated modules.

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WebAssembly streaming liveness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Pending-work ticket capture
src/jsc/bindings/JSCTaskScheduler.h, src/jsc/bindings/JSCTaskScheduler.cpp
The scheduler captures tickets for work that is not imminently scheduled. It promotes eligible pending tickets to the event-loop keep-alive set.
Streaming compiler ticket wiring
src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWasmStreamingCompiler.h, src/jsc/bindings/webcore/JSWasmStreamingCompiler.cpp, src/jsc/bindings/ZigGlobalObject.cpp
The streaming response handler captures a ticket and assigns it to the compiler wrapper for readable streams. Synchronous bytes and compiler finalization reference the event loop using the ticket.
Streaming subprocess coverage
test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming-keeps-alive-fixture.ts, test/js/web/fetch/wasm-streaming.test.ts
A fixture selects the streaming API, response source, and promise handling mode. Subprocess tests check settlement for valid, invalid, and truncated modules.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e6a31

The streaming keep-alive change avoids the previously identified ticket-scan overhead. No remaining merge-blocking issue is established; merge after normal checks pass.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: keeping the process alive during pending streaming WebAssembly compilation.
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#25145] requires the zxing-wasm WebAssembly operation to return results or report an error instead of exiting silently. TicketCapture records the streaming compiler ticket, and `refEventLoo…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The scheduler ticket capture, event-loop reference promotion, compiler ticket storage, and streaming WebAssembly tests directly support [#25145]. The additional response-source and failure cases test …
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Issue [#25145] requires the zxing-wasm WebAssembly operation to return results or report an error instead of exiting silently. TicketCapture records the streaming compiler ticket, and refEventLoopForPendingWork adds an event-loop reference when the final byte arrives. handleResponseOnStreamingAction and finalizeBody use this path. The added child-process tests cover fulfillment and CompileError rejection for compileStreaming() and instantiateStreaming() across buffered, stream, file, and fetch responses.

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The scheduler ticket capture, event-loop reference promotion, compiler ticket storage, and streaming WebAssembly tests directly support [#25145]. The additional response-source and failure cases test the same process-lifetime behavior. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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Minor follow-up Avoid scanning every pending ticket under mlock on each streaming finalize.

115-118: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Poor tradeoff

Avoid scanning every pending ticket under m_lock on each streaming finalize.

refEventLoopForPendingWork scans all of m_pendingTicketsOther while it holds m_lock, but only tickets for one target match. The set has no size limit, so each finalize costs time that grows with the number of outstanding tickets. Threads that need m_lock wait during the scan. Index these tickets by target.

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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 traced the new event-loop ref through every release site in JSCTaskScheduler.cpp (runPendingWork, onCancelPendingWork, Bun__deleteDeferredWorkTask, and the shutting-down branch of onScheduleWorkSoon): each checks m_pendingTicketsKeepingEventLoopAlive before m_pendingTicketsOther, so a promoted ticket releases exactly once, and the m_isShuttingDown guard in refEventLoopForPendingWork prevents a ref that nothing would drop. The new m_promise WriteBarrier is visited in visitChildrenImpl in the same change.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a ticket-promotion helper to the JSC deferred-work scheduler, a rooted promise field on the JSWasmStreamingCompiler wrapper, two call sites at the points where the streaming compiler has all bytes, and a spawned-fixture test matrix; it touches no auth, crypto, or input-parsing surface. It is native event-loop ref-counting in the binding layer, and three test nits were posted inline, so a human look is still appropriate rather than an approve.

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742c24316d and a799e1741f take all four findings.

  • Scan of every pending ticket at each finalize. It is gone. The scan cost 1,094 us per streaming compile beside 100,000 pending Atomics.waitAsync() promises (3.6 us on main). The scheduler now records the ticket while StreamingCompiler::create() registers it (TicketCapture), the wrapper keeps a weak pointer to it, and the promotion is one hash lookup: 2.9 to 4.2 us per compile with 0 and with 100,000 pending tickets. I did not index the tickets by target: that adds a hash insert and a hash erase to every Atomics.waitAsync() call, for programs that never compile a stream. The wrapper no longer holds the promise, so its visitChildren is gone too.
  • The "fetch" case passed no fetch body. It passes the Response of fetch() now. The server is in the test process, so only the compilation keeps the child alive. The case fails on main.
  • No case for a compile that fails after the promotion. There are 5: a module whose last function is invalid (the compiler thread finds it) and a module whose bytes end early (finalize() finds it), with a body from bytes, from a stream and from fetch(). The fixture no longer calls process.exit(), so a ref that is never released shows as a child that does not end. 3 of the 5 fail on main, where the rejection never arrives.
  • The "file" case wrote into os.tmpdir() and used inline require(). The test writes the module with tempDir and passes the path. The fixture has one module-scope import and writes no file.

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

Commit a799e17 covers the three points from the earlier pass (a real fetch() body, failing/truncated modules, tempDir for the file case). Beyond the one inline nit, I also checked the ref balance of a promoted ticket: every path that removes an entry from m_pendingTicketsKeepingEventLoopAlive (runPendingWork, onCancelPendingWork, the shutting-down branch of onScheduleWorkSoon, Bun__deleteDeferredWorkTask) releases the ref, a second refEventLoopForPendingWork call is a no-op once the ticket has left m_pendingTicketsOther, and nothing between the TicketCapture constructor and take() can run JS, so m_ticketCapture cannot dangle. The JSC side (StreamingCompiler registering exactly one AtSomePoint ticket in its constructor and always scheduling or cancelling it after finalize) is not in this checkout, so a human familiar with the WebKit fork should confirm that part.

Extended reasoning...

The change adds a TicketCapture RAII helper and refEventLoopForPendingWork to JSCTaskScheduler, stores a WeakTicket on JSWasmStreamingCompiler, and promotes the streaming compiler's AtSomePoint ticket to the keep-alive set right before finalize in both the synchronous-bytes path of ZigGlobalObject.cpp and the JS finalize host function; tests add a spawned fixture with 13 subprocess cases. It touches no security-sensitive surface. Deferring rather than approving because the correctness of the event-loop ref hinges on JSC DeferredWorkTimer/StreamingCompiler behaviour that lives in the WebKit fork and is not visible in this checkout, and the remaining inline finding is a test-assertion nit.

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I reviewed the latest push and didn't find any bugs; the earlier feedback on the fixture and the run() helper is addressed in the current code. Because this changes event-loop ref accounting inside JSCTaskScheduler (a lock-guarded raw pointer to a stack TicketCapture, plus a new promotion between the two pending-ticket maps), a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Ref balance for a promoted ticket: runPendingWork, onCancelPendingWork, the shutdown branch of onScheduleWorkSoon, and Bun__deleteDeferredWorkTask all drain m_pendingTicketsKeepingEventLoopAlive, so a promoted ticket releases on success, fail(), cancel, and shutdown; the early-reject path in handleResponseOnStreamingAction never promotes, so nothing leaks there.
  • TicketCapture lifetime: take() is called unconditionally right after StreamingCompiler::create, and the destructor clears m_ticketCapture otherwise, so the scheduler never holds a dangling pointer; every access to it is under m_lock.
  • JSWasmStreamingCompiler::m_ticket is a weak handle destroyed via the existing destroy(), and refEventLoopForPendingWork is a no-op for an empty, cancelled, or already-moved ticket, so double finalize() or a wrapper created without a ticket is harmless.
  • Tests: the fixture's stream path goes through consumeStream -> finalize(), the fetch case now feeds the native body stream, and the invalid/truncated rows pin the release on the failure path.
Extended reasoning...

The diff adds a RAII TicketCapture and a static refEventLoopForPendingWork to src/jsc/bindings/JSCTaskScheduler.{h,cpp}, stores the captured WeakTicket on JSWasmStreamingCompiler, and promotes it to an event-loop-ref'd ticket at both finalize sites (synchronous bytes in ZigGlobalObject.cpp and finalizeBody in JSWasmStreamingCompiler.cpp), with a new spawned fixture and 13 subprocess cases. It touches no security-sensitive surface (no auth, parsing of untrusted input, or data exposure), but it does touch cross-thread event-loop liveness bookkeeping in the JSC binding layer where an imbalance would hang or prematurely exit the process. The hunt ran dry with no findings and all of my prior inline nits are addressed by commits a799e17 and e6a31ce, but the WebKit side (StreamingCompiler, DeferredWorkTimer::WeakTicket) is not in this checkout so the JSC-side cancel/destructor behavior could only be reasoned about, not read; that plus the lock/raw-pointer design decided defer over approve. No CODEOWNERS entry covers the changed files.

…ending

WebAssembly.compileStreaming() and instantiateStreaming() register their
pending work with the DeferredWorkTimer as work that may never get
scheduled, so Bun's task scheduler holds no event loop ref for it. Once
the response body is fully delivered, nothing keeps the event loop alive
while the module compiles on the worklist threads, and the process can
exit with the promise pending.

Promote the streaming compiler's ticket into the set of tickets that hold
an event loop ref at the moment the compiler receives its last byte (the
buffered-Response path in C++ and the ReadableStream pump in the
consumeStream builtin). The existing schedule and cancel paths drop the
ref. Tickets that may never be scheduled (Atomics.waitAsync) do not change.
…for its promise

refEventLoopForPendingWork looked for the ticket of a promise in every
pending WorkType::AtSomePoint ticket, under the scheduler's lock, at each
finalize. With 100,000 pending Atomics.waitAsync() promises one streaming
compile took 1.1 ms (4 us without the scan).

JSC returns the ticket only to the compiler. The scheduler now records it
while StreamingCompiler::create() registers the work (TicketCapture), the
wrapper keeps it as a weak pointer, and the promotion is one hash lookup.
The wrapper no longer holds the promise, so it has no GC edge to visit.
…dule file in tempDir

- The "fetch" case passes the Response of fetch() to the compiler. The
  server is in the test process, so only the compilation keeps the child
  alive.
- Five cases compile a module that fails (its last function is invalid, or
  its bytes end early). The fixture no longer calls process.exit(), so an
  event loop ref that is never released shows as a child that does not end.
- The test writes the module with tempDir and passes its path. The fixture
  has no require() and writes no file.
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zxing-wasm library causes Bun to silently exit without errors when calling readBarcodes(). The same code works in Node.js.

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