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build: allow enabling the --trace-maps flag in V8 #14018

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  • make -j4 test (UNIX), or vcbuild test (Windows) passes
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This can be useful for tracing map creation.

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refack commented Jul 1, 2017

Context please?

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{
'variables': {
'v8_use_snapshot%': 'false',
'v8_trace_maps%': '0',
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0, not '0'.

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parser.add_option('--enable-trace-maps',
action='store_true',
dest='trace_maps',
help='Enable the --trace-maps flag in v8')
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Consider undocumenting this or add a (use at your own risk) because it introduces an incompatibility between builds with and without the flag.

It adds a field to SharedFunctionInfo that ends up in the code cache so the result of new vm.Script(source, { produceCachedData: true }) from a -DTRACE_MAPS build won't be loadable in a normal build and vice versa. I didn't test but I expect it segfaults.

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I'm +1 to documenting with a warning. Quite a few of configure's switches have wide reaching results...

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@refack It's a tool for tracing hidden class transitions. ('hidden class' == 'map' in V8 parlance.)

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Updated, PTAL

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parser.add_option('--enable-trace-maps',
action='store_true',
dest='trace_maps',
help='Enable the --trace-maps flag in v8 (use at your own risk)')
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Actually, one nit: V8 with a capital V, since we started disambiguating due to Node (v)8 ;)

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LGTM

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mhdawson commented Jul 6, 2017

This can be useful for tracing map creation.

PR-URL: nodejs#14018
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
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Landed in 49d13a1. Thanks!

@evanlucas evanlucas merged commit 49d13a1 into nodejs:master Jul 7, 2017
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@evanlucas This seems to conflict with the snapshot change, can you backport to v8.x?

evanlucas added a commit to evanlucas/node that referenced this pull request Jul 18, 2017
This can be useful for tracing map creation.

PR-URL: nodejs#14018
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
@addaleax addaleax mentioned this pull request Jul 18, 2017
addaleax pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 18, 2017
This can be useful for tracing map creation.

Backport-PR-URL: #14344
Backport-Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Backport-Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #14018
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
Fishrock123 pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 19, 2017
This can be useful for tracing map creation.

Backport-PR-URL: #14344
Backport-Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Backport-Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
PR-URL: #14018
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
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Should this have been semver-minor?

Should we backport to lts?

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ping @evanlucas

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@MylesBorins sorry I somehow missed your previous comment. I think it could be argued either way that this is semver-minor. It isn't exposed in release builds and can only be done when using ./configure. I'll try to get around to opening a backport PR, although this isn't something extremely pressing to backport.

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https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/734648 -- --trace-maps might soon be available by default, no build flags needed.

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I've landed on v6.x. Please lmk if there are any concerns

MylesBorins pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Dec 19, 2017
This can be useful for tracing map creation.

PR-URL: #14018
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Refael Ackermann <refack@gmail.com>
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