perf(codegen): inline monomorphic method shape guards

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Summary

• scope direct-method descriptor invalidation to the receiver and relevant prototype mutations instead of poisoning every site after any unrelated descriptor install
• inline the complete single-arm shape-only method guard at generated call sites
• preserve the unchanged dynamic fallback on every failed proof

Safety contract

The inline path checks the release-published prototype latch with an acquire load, validates the boxed/raw pointer form and target-specific heap range before dereference, then checks GC kind, forwarding state, the per-object descriptor bit, nonzero/exact class id, and valid/exact ShapeId. Prototype descriptor installs retire the process-wide direct-method guard latch; unrelated object descriptors no longer do.

Performance

Qualification on a contended host used a 10,000-object callback-heavy query, 11 alternating pairs, and 64 operations per measured batch. All accumulation runs produced the exact expected sum.

• scoped receiver/prototype descriptor contract versus the old process-wide descriptor gate, with otherwise identical inline checks: 91.07% lower read-only time and 92.31% lower accumulation time; candidate won 11/11 pairs for both
• inline guard versus the scoped out-of-line helper: 7.37% lower read-only time and 8.10% lower accumulation time; candidate won 11/11 pairs for both

These are paired qualification results, not a quiet-host release baseline.

Tests

• ./scripts/test_affected_crates.sh --base upstream/main
  • perry-runtime: 2,620 passed
  • perry-codegen: 1,127 passed
  • perry-ffi: 29 passed
  • Perry CLI/bin and updater scopes passed
• cargo test -p perry --test method_shape_inline_guard
• focused runtime regressions cover unrelated descriptors, own-descriptor rejection, and prototype-descriptor invalidation
• LLVM acquire-load roundtrip and target heap-bound portability tests

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Performance

  • Improved direct method-call performance with optimized shape checks and inline fast paths.
  • Maintained safe fallback to dynamic dispatch when object shapes or prototype definitions change.

• Bug Fixes

  • Scoped descriptor changes so unrelated objects no longer invalidate valid method optimizations.
  • Improved pointer and heap validation across supported platforms.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for prototype invalidation, descriptor behavior, shape changes, and atomic operations.
  • Verified optimized calls continue producing correct results after runtime mutations.

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Walkthrough

The change adds inline monomorphic direct-method shape guards, acquire-ordered LLVM loads, target-specific heap bounds, and scoped prototype descriptor invalidation. Runtime, code-generation, and integration tests cover validation, invalidation, fallback dispatch, and generated execution.

Changes

Inline method shape guards

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Atomic loads and target bounds crates/perry-codegen/src/inst.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/dialect/..., crates/perry-codegen/src/block.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/target_layout.rs	LLVM supports aligned acquire loads. Heap pointer validation uses target-specific address bounds with tests across supported target families.
Runtime guard invalidation crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/objects.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/class_registry/..., crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback/...	Production builds expose an atomic prototype invalidation flag. Descriptor installation invalidates prototype guards. Direct-shape checks use receiver-local descriptor state.
Inline guard lowering and validation crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/method_override.rs, crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/proven_this_routing_tests.rs, crates/perry/tests/method_shape_inline_guard.rs, crates/perry-runtime/src/object/field_get_set/ic_miss.rs, changelog.d/8573-inline-method-shape-guard.md	Single-arm shape-only calls inline pointer, heap, metadata, class, and ShapeId checks. Tests verify direct dispatch, fallback after method replacement, generated guard structure, and unchanged PIC behavior.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 63220

The change narrows method-guard invalidation and adds an inline fast path while preserving the dynamic fallback; the supplied checks and focused regressions support merging after normal review with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GeneratedGuard as Generated inline shape guard
  participant InvalidationFlag as Prototype invalidation flag
  participant ReceiverObject as Receiver object
  participant DirectMethod as Direct method
  participant DynamicDispatch as Dynamic dispatch
  GeneratedGuard->>InvalidationFlag: Acquire-load invalidation state
  GeneratedGuard->>ReceiverObject: Validate pointer, bounds, metadata, class, and ShapeId
  GeneratedGuard->>DirectMethod: Invoke direct method when validation passes
  GeneratedGuard->>DynamicDispatch: Deoptimize when validation fails

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: inlining monomorphic method shape guards in code generation.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly covers the change, safety contract, performance results, and test coverage, although it does not use every template heading.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 84.38% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 32 functions across 15 files.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs (1)

1170-1210: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reset CLASS_PROTOTYPE_FAST_GUARDS_INVALIDATED around the test

per_test_global! creates one instance per worker thread, not per test. global_side_table_test_lock() does not reset this latch. Reset it before and after inline_guard_disable_is_per_declared_field_key, or include it in test_reset_class_field_inline_guard(). CI runs these tests with RUST_TEST_THREADS=1.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs` around lines 1170 -
1210, Update inline_guard_disable_is_per_declared_field_key and its reset helper
test_reset_class_field_inline_guard so CLASS_PROTOTYPE_FAST_GUARDS_INVALIDATED
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shared per-thread latch cannot leak between tests.

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In `@crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs`:
- Around line 1170-1210: Update inline_guard_disable_is_per_declared_field_key
and its reset helper test_reset_class_field_inline_guard so
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• changelog.d/8573-inline-method-shape-guard.md
• crates/perry-codegen/src/block.rs
• crates/perry-codegen/src/collectors/proven_this_routing_tests.rs
• crates/perry-codegen/src/dialect/mod.rs
• crates/perry-codegen/src/dialect/tests.rs
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• crates/perry-codegen/src/lower_call/method_override.rs
• crates/perry-codegen/src/runtime_decls/objects.rs
• crates/perry-codegen/src/target_layout.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/object/class_registry.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/object/class_registry/prototype_methods.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/object/descriptor_state.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback/guards.rs
• crates/perry-runtime/src/typed_feedback/tests.rs
• crates/perry/tests/method_shape_inline_guard.rs

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Merging. Both audited against the specific hazard their class carries, not just "the tests pass".

#8570 — the failure mode here is a hang, not a wrong answer, so the question is whether a needed wakeup can ever be suppressed. It cannot: MICROTASK_RUN_DEPTH is a thread-local Cell, so a cross-thread producer observes depth 0 and keeps the full wake path; suppression fires only when jobs != 0, i.e. inside the drain that will consume the job before returning; timer and rejection phases sit outside that drain and are explicitly carved out. PROFILE_NOTIFY_DRAIN_SUPPRESSED_COUNT makes the subject assertable rather than leaving "nothing threw" as the evidence.

#8573 — same exact-ShapeId guard class that produced #8577 and #8578 within two days, so I read the gate order rather than the benchmark. It acquire-loads the prototype-mutation latch, validates pointer form and target heap range before any dereference, then checks GC kind, forwarding state, the per-object descriptor bit, nonzero/exact class id and exact ShapeId — with dynamic fallback on every failed proof. Fail-closed at each step, and scoping descriptor invalidation to the receiver and relevant prototype mutations is the right narrowing: an unrelated object's descriptor can affect neither method resolution nor the ShapeId proof.

check	result
cargo check --workspace --all-targets	exit 0
all six ratchets	0
cargo fmt --all -- --check	0

Ratchets re-run against the current baseline immediately before merge.

Also PR-keyed #8570's changelog fragment, which was named 8409- after the issue.

Standing caveat on both: these are perf changes validated for correctness, not measured on the quiet-host corpus — that rebuild is currently blocked on disk. #8573's own numbers are explicitly labelled paired qualification on a contended host rather than a release baseline, which is the honest framing.