Mutexes spend a significant amount of time in `rb_fiber_serial`
because it can't be inlined (except with LTO).
The fiber struct is opaque the so function can't be defined as inlineable.
Ideally the while fiber struct would not be opaque to the rest of
Ruby core, but it's tricky to do.
Instead we can store the fiber serial in the execution context
itself, and make its access cheaper:
```
$ hyperfine './miniruby-baseline --yjit /tmp/mut.rb' './miniruby-inline-serial --yjit /tmp/mut.rb'
Benchmark 1: ./miniruby-baseline --yjit /tmp/mut.rb
Time (mean ± σ): 4.011 s ± 0.084 s [User: 3.977 s, System: 0.011 s]
Range (min … max): 3.950 s … 4.245 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: ./miniruby-inline-serial --yjit /tmp/mut.rb
Time (mean ± σ): 3.495 s ± 0.150 s [User: 3.448 s, System: 0.009 s]
Range (min … max): 3.340 s … 3.869 s 10 runs
Summary
./miniruby-inline-serial --yjit /tmp/mut.rb ran
1.15 ± 0.05 times faster than ./miniruby-baseline --yjit /tmp/mut.rb
```
```ruby
i = 10_000_000
mut = Mutex.new
while i > 0
i -= 1
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
mut.synchronize { }
end
```
The changes are to `io.c` and `thread.c`.
I changed the API of 2 exported thread functions from `internal/thread.h` that
didn't look like they had any use in C extensions:
* rb_thread_wait_for_single_fd
* rb_thread_io_wait
I didn't change the following exported internal function because it's
used in C extensions:
* rb_thread_fd_select
I added a comment to note that this function, although internal, is used
in C extensions.
This rewrites the class allocator search to be faster. Instead of using
RCLASS_SUPER, which is now even slower due to Box, we can scan the
superclasses list to find a class where the allocator is defined.
This also disallows allocating from an ICLASS. Previously I believe that
was only done for FrozenCore, and that was changed in
e596cf6e93dbf121e197cccfec8a69902e00eda3.
If we don't have uint128, then rb_int128_to_numeric emits a strict
aliasing warning:
numeric.c:3641:39: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
3641 | return rb_uint128_to_numeric(*(rb_uint128_t*)&n);
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The #ifdef is currently not taken because include/ruby/backward.h is
not included at this point. The attribute is unnecessary in an internal
header, so remove it.
[Bug #21710]
- struct.c: `struct_alloc`
It is possible for a `NEWOBJ` tracepoint call back to write fields
into a newly allocated object before `struct_alloc` had the time
to set the `RSTRUCT_GEN_FIELDS` flags and such.
Hence we can't blindly initialize the `fields_obj` reference to `0`
we first need to check no fields were added yet.
- object.c: `rb_class_allocate_instance`
Similarly, if a `NEWOBJ` tracepoint tries to set fields on the object,
the `shape_id` must already be set, as it's required on T_OBJECT to
know where to write fields.
`NEWOBJ_OF` had to be refactored to accept a `shape_id`.
Previously this held a pointer to the Fiber itself, which requires
marking it (which was only implemented recently, prior to that it was
buggy). Using a monotonically increasing integer instead allows us to
avoid having a free function and keeps everything simpler.
My main motivations in making this change are that the root fiber lazily
allocates self, which makes the writebarrier implementation challenging
to do correctly, and wanting to avoid sending Mutexes to the remembered
set when locked by a short-lived Fiber.
This reverts commit 2998c8d6b99ec49925ebea42198b29c3e27b34a7.
We need to find a better way to fix this bug. Even with this refcount
change, errors were still being seen in CI. For now we need to remove
this failing test.
Calling the usual rb_iclass_classext_free() causes SEGV because
duplicating a newer classext of iclass had set the reference from superclass
to the newer classext, but calling rb_iclass_classext_free() deletes it.
to adopt strict shareable rule.
* (basically) shareable objects only refer shareable objects
* (exception) shareable objects can refere unshareable objects
but should not leak reference to unshareable objects to Ruby world
* `RB_OBJ_SET_SHAREABLE(obj)` makes obj shareable.
All of reachable objects from `obj` should be shareable.
* `RB_OBJ_SET_FROZEN_SHAREABLE(obj)` same as above
but freeze `obj` before making it shareable.
Also `rb_gc_verify_shareable(obj)` is introduced to check
the `obj` does not violate shareable rule (an shareable object
only refers shareable objects) strictly.
The rule has some exceptions (some shareable objects can refer to
unshareable objects, such as a Ractor object (which is a shareable
object) can refer to the Ractor local objects.
To handle such case, `check_shareable` flag is also introduced.
`STRICT_VERIFY_SHAREABLE` macro is also introduced to verify
the strict shareable rule at `SET_SHAREABLE`.
The st_insert in RCLASS_SET_NAMESPACE_CLASSEXT may overwrite an existing
rb_classext_t, causing it to leak memory. This commit changes it to use
st_update to free the existing one before overwriting it.
to fix inconsistent and wrong current namespace detections.
This includes:
* Moving load_path and related things from rb_vm_t to rb_namespace_t to simplify
accessing those values via namespace (instead of accessing either vm or ns)
* Initializing root_namespace earlier and consolidate builtin_namespace into root_namespace
* Adding VM_FRAME_FLAG_NS_REQUIRE for checkpoints to detect a namespace to load/require files
* Removing implicit refinements in the root namespace which was used to determine
the namespace to be loaded (replaced by VM_FRAME_FLAG_NS_REQUIRE)
* Removing namespaces from rb_proc_t because its namespace can be identified by lexical context
* Starting to use ep[VM_ENV_DATA_INDEX_SPECVAL] to store the current namespace when
the frame type is MAGIC_TOP or MAGIC_CLASS (block handlers don't exist in this case)
While accessing the ivars of other types is too complicated to
realistically generate the ASM for it, we can at least provide
the ivar index as to not have to lookup the shape tree every
time.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.5.0dev (2025-08-27T14:58:58Z merge-vm-setivar-d.. 5b749d8e53) +YJIT +PRISM [arm64-darwin24]
built-ruby: ruby 3.5.0dev (2025-08-28T17:58:32Z yjit-get-exivar efaa8c9b09) +YJIT +PRISM [arm64-darwin24]
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:--------------------------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_ivar_get_on_obj | 930.458| 936.865|
| | -| 1.01x|
|vm_ivar_get_on_class | 134.471| 431.622|
| | -| 3.21x|
|vm_ivar_get_on_generic | 146.679| 284.408|
| | -| 1.94x|
```
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
`vm_setinstancevariable` had a codepath to try to match the inline
cache for types other than T_OBJECT, but the cache population path
in `vm_setivar_slowpath` was exclusive to T_OBJECT, so `vm_setivar_default`
would never match anything.
This commit improves `vm_setivar_slowpath` so that it is capable of
filling the cache for all types, and adds a `vm_setivar_class` codepath
for `T_CLASS` and `T_MODULE`.
`vm_setivar`, `vm_setivar_default` and `vm_setivar_class` could be unified,
but based on the very explicit `NOINLINE` I assume they were split to minimize
codesize.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.5.0dev (2025-08-27T14:58:58Z merge-vm-setivar-d.. 5b749d8e53) +PRISM [arm64-darwin24]
built-ruby: ruby 3.5.0dev (2025-08-27T16:30:31Z setivar-cache-gene.. 4fe78ff296) +PRISM [arm64-darwin24]
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:------------------------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_ivar_set_on_instance | 161.809| 164.688|
| | -| 1.02x|
|vm_ivar_set_on_generic | 58.769| 115.638|
| | -| 1.97x|
|vm_ivar_set_on_class | 70.034| 141.042|
| | -| 2.01x|
```
