[release/7.0] Correctly handle HFA structs when crossgen'd on Arm64 #80881
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Description: This change puts HFA calculation in Crossgen2 in sync with native CoreCLR runtime for value types with explicit layout. Previously Crossgen2 had a shortcut in the routine deciding that structs with explicit layouts are never marked as HFA that disagreed with the CoreCLR runtime; consequently, on arm64, Crossgen2 disagreed with the runtime on whether or not a function returning such a type should allocate the stack slot for return value, basically messing up the calling convention and GC refmap, resulting in various random AVs and corruptions. This was first observed by an internal customer in WPF apps where MilRectD is the type in question, later JanK filed the issue 79327 for the same problem. Customer impact: Random runtime crashes on arm64. Regression: Nope, I believe the incomplete implementation was the original one, this change just "improves it" by putting it in better sync with the native runtime. I have also added a code comment mentioning that these two need to be kept in sync. Risk: Low - the error in the previous implementation is obvious, R2RDump and my new runtime diagnostics clearly show the GC refmap mismatch caused by this problem and its fixing after applying the Crossgen2 fix. Link to issue: Link to PR against main: Publishing impact: In the particular case of the WPF app the problem was in the PresentationCore.dll assembly. The assembly (or rather the entire WPF) need to be recompiled with Crossgen2 with the fix applied for this to take effect. For now I assume that is an automated part of the servicing process. Thanks Tomas
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Some ARM64 helix queues in 7.0 were not being found. I merged a couple of PRs to update them to use the existing ones. So I'm closing and reopening this PR since it hit arm64 failures and it needs the coverage in that architecture. |
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Description:
This change puts HFA calculation in Crossgen2 in sync with native CoreCLR runtime for value types with explicit layout. Previously Crossgen2 had a shortcut in the routine deciding that structs with explicit layouts are never marked as HFA that disagreed with the CoreCLR runtime; consequently, on arm64, Crossgen2 disagreed with the runtime on whether or not a function returning such a type should allocate the stack slot for return value, basically messing up the calling convention and GC refmap, resulting in various random AVs and corruptions. This was first observed by an internal customer in WPF apps where MilRectD is the type in question, later JanK filed the issue 79327 for the same problem.
Customer impact:
Random runtime crashes on arm64.
Regression:
Nope, I believe the incomplete implementation was the original one, this change just "improves it" by putting it in better sync with the native runtime. I have also added a code comment mentioning that these two need to be kept in sync.
Risk:
Low - the error in the previous implementation is obvious, R2RDump and my new runtime diagnostics clearly show the GC refmap mismatch caused by this problem and its fixing after applying the Crossgen2 fix.
Link to issue:
Link to PR against main:
Publishing impact:
In the particular case of the WPF app the problem was in the PresentationCore.dll assembly. The assembly (or rather the entire WPF) need to be recompiled with Crossgen2 with the fix applied for this to take effect. For now I assume that is an automated part of the servicing process.
Thanks
Tomas