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jsaddle-wkwebview: invalidate under wkWebViewBatchLock - #173
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jsaddleWebViewInvalidate closed a context's gate after waiting only for an in-flight *send*. runJavaScriptWithSerializer holds wkWebViewBatchLock from a batch's send until its *reply*, so a batch that had been sent but not yet answered lost its reply (the inbound gate drops it and the handler is detached) and its batch thread waited forever while still holding the lock. Every other webview in the process then hung on its next round trip. Seen in a multi-window app that invalidates one window's context when that window closes: the remaining windows froze for 26s, 85s, or until restart. Take the lock before closing the gate (same order as a round trip: the lock, then aliveVar), so any round trip under way finishes first and none can start until the gate is closed. The wait is bounded (~5s), after which the gate closes without the lock as before, and the lock is acquired by polling tryTakeMVar rather than timeout+takeMVar, which can lose the lock if the timeout fires just after the take.
cabal check rejects an unbounded base (missing-bounds-important), which fails every Haskell-CI job since #172.
tested-with (and so the Haskell-CI matrix) is now GHC 9.14.1, 9.12.4, 9.10.3, 9.8.4 and 9.6.7, the latest release of each series; 8.4-9.4 are no longer tested. The workflow is brought up to haskell-ci 0.19.20261010's output: Ubuntu noble container (jammy's libtinfo5 and libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev do not exist there, and none of the packages CI builds needs WebKit), cabal-install 3.16.0.0, actions/checkout@v7 and actions/cache@v6 (the v4 actions run on the deprecated Node 20), and cache keys named after the image.
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Closing an OS window only removed the NSWindow. Its WKWebView (kept alive on purpose by leksah_new_window), WebContent renderer, jsaddle context and the whole reflex network — polls, heartbeat, shared-state subscriptions — ran on until the app quit. Twelve such networks behind one visible window measured ~70% idle CPU, ~120MB per renderer, and a steadily growing count of blocked threads. - IDE.Web.WindowScope: a window's lifetime. Subscriptions register their undo with the CURRENT scope, which IDE.Web.Attach sets around the window's build and each of its frames (sound because every build and frame runs under the one frame lock). cellDyn unsubscribes through it, as do the Local/Remote/TerminalRefresh registries, the js-context registration, and the window-lived reader loops (forkInCurrentScope). - The frame loop exits between frames when the scope closes (woken by an empty batch), never by killThread: all windows share one Spider timeline, and an async exception mid-propagation could corrupt it for the windows that remain. - macWindowClosing then runs closeWindowNetwork off the main thread: close the scope and wait for the frame loop to exit, invalidate the webview's jsaddle context (safe mid round trip since ghcjs/jsaddle#173), and only then leksah_release_webview — hand the closed window an empty content view, -_close the page (WebKit SPI, guarded; releasing alone left the renderer running), detach its handlers and balance the extra retain. leksah_detach_webview is factored out of leksah_close_all_windows. Verified: 15 windows opened and closed; the remaining window's heartbeat never gapped, every renderer exited, no aborted frames, idle CPU ~5-9%.
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Problem
jsaddleWebViewInvalidate(added in #171) closes a context's gate after waiting only for an in-flight send — thealiveVarsection aroundevaluateJavaScript. ButrunJavaScriptWithSerializerholds the sharedwkWebViewBatchLockfrom a batch's send until its reply arrives (sendBatch >> takeResult).So if a context is invalidated after one of its batches has been sent but before the reply comes back, that reply is lost: the inbound gate drops it and the handler is detached. The batch thread then waits in
takeResultforever while still holding the lock, and every other webview in the process hangs on its next round trip. It only recovers if/when the GC notices the orphaned wait.This shows up as soon as a host invalidates one window's context while others keep running. In leksah, closing one window at a time froze the remaining windows for 26s, 85s, or until restart, in 3 of 4 test runs. (The whole-app teardown path didn't hit it because every context goes at once.)
Fix
The invalidator now takes
wkWebViewBatchLockbefore closing the gate and detaching. That is the same order a round trip uses (the lock, thenaliveVarinside the send), so it can't invert against one. Any round trip already under way finishes first, and none can start until the gate is closed.tryTakeMVarundermask, nottimeoutaroundtakeMVar, whose exception can land just after the take succeeds and lose the lock for good.jsaddleWebViewInvalidate's haddock now says it waits for in-flight round trips and must be called off the main thread, where replies are delivered.Testing
Tested in leksah (macOS, several WKWebView windows; closing a window stops its reflex network, invalidates its context, then releases the webview). 15 windows were opened and closed in 5 rounds:
Expected and unchanged: a closed context's leftover threads that try to send still get the
context invalidated — batch droppedIOException, which ends that context's batch pump (stderr shows it as an uncaught exception).Also: fix master's CI after #172
#172 added a
batch-sendertest suite tojsaddle-warp.cabalwhosebasehas no upper bound.cabal checkrejects that (missing-bounds-important, "Hackage would reject this package"), which fails every Haskell-CI job on master. 165fc80 bounds it (base <5), andcabal checkis clean again. Master is merged into this branch (de25f2f) so the fix applies on top of #172.Also: CI on GHC 9.6–9.14 (089f14a)
tested-with, and so the Haskell-CI matrix, is now GHC 9.14.1, 9.12.4, 9.10.3, 9.8.4 and 9.6.7, the latest release of each series. GHC 8.4–9.4 are no longer tested. Bounds are unchanged.actions/checkout@v7/actions/cache@v6(the v4 actions run on the deprecated Node 20), and cache keys named after the image.libwebkit2gtk-4.0-devandlibtinfo5are dropped from apt: neither exists on noble, and none of the packages CI builds (jsaddle, jsaddle-warp, jsaddle-clib) needs WebKit. The file was edited by hand to match that output;haskell-ci regeneratewith that version should reproduce it.