Bound a VS subsegment by its own size, and follow its chunk chain across holes - #107
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#103: 106,516 VS chunk headers refused on one live 26100 walk, ~196 per extent, and every single one of them failing the same predicate — the chunk runs past the end of its subsegment. One predicate at 100% looked like a predicate that was wrong, and the bound it tests was the suspect. The bound is right, and provably so. `RtlpHpVsSubsegmentCreate` writes `Size = (bytes - first) >> 4` into the subsegment and puts the first chunk at `+ first`, so `region.address + region.size` is exactly where the chunks end. The refusals were not corruption either: against a garbage `Sizes` word that bound is the *only* predicate with any selectivity, since a zero size and a size below the headers are one value each in 65,536. Their expected count across 106,516 refusals is under two apiece. Zero of each is what a correct check does, not evidence against it. What was actually wrong sits one level up. A VS chunk is variable-size, so it can only be found from the end of the chunk before it — but `walk_region` hands `walk_vs` one *committed extent* at a time, and `RtlpHpVsSubsegmentCommitPages` commits and decommits page ranges anywhere inside a subsegment, tracking them in `_HEAP_VS_SUBSEGMENT.CommitBitmap`. Holes are the allocator's steady state. Every extent after one was being decoded from the extent's own first sixteen-byte boundary — a guess — and the refusals were the walk scanning sixteen bytes at a time to find its way back. The refusals were the harmless half: whatever the scan landed on that decoded plausibly went into `spans` as an allocation, tag and all. So follow the chain instead. A decommitted range is always the interior of a free chunk, because the allocator has to keep its own headers readable, which means the chunk before a hole records a size that reaches past it and names the header on the far side. `walk_vs` now takes that address and returns the next one; when it cannot be placed, the extent is skipped rather than guessed at, and `unplaced_bytes` says how much that cost — the number that keeps the refusal honest, since declining to decode buys correctness with coverage. A regression test reproduces the live signature in miniature: a fixture with no corruption and a correct bound produced 128 refusals in one extent, all of them "runs past the end of its subsegment". Also cross-checks the bound against the subsegment's own `Size`, which was read for the signature and thrown away. Reported rather than preferred: it is corroboration from a second source, and trusting it over the descriptor would let one misread field truncate every VS region on a build we resolve wrongly.
#104 asked whether `recovered_bytes: 0` — across 1,619 stalls and 6.6MB stepped over on a live 26100 walk — meant nothing was behind those stalls, or meant nothing was being counted. It is the former. `stalled_here` latches for the rest of the region and every later successful read adds to the figure, and `test_a_stalled_query_costs_a_page_not_the_region` already pins it at two pages for a stall with committed memory behind it. So the coverage half of #94 recovers nothing on that target, and the doc now says so rather than leaving a zero for someone to read as a broken counter. Kept, because the cost is bounded at eight queries per dead region and what it replaced was losing every committed page behind one bad one. What is missing to decide it properly is why the query stalls at all, and the walk knew that and threw it away: two different answers arrive at this branch — a region reported *behind* the cursor, and a zero-length region reported ahead of it — and they need opposite fixes. The engine's own answer now travels with the diagnostic, so one live run can tell them apart. Also unmangles the message, which has been emitting twenty-two spaces mid-sentence since a source line was wrapped without a continuation.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pool walker now validates VS region sizes, carries chunk boundaries across extents and holes, records unplaced bytes, and preserves these values through indexes, filtered snapshots, and reports. Tests cover boundary recovery, stalled regions, chunked reads, partial reads, and size mismatches. ChangesVS walk boundary tracking and reporting
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR improves VS chunk discovery across subsegment holes, but !poolmap still does not display completeness and coverage diagnostics such as unplaced bytes. The change is mergeable with owner awareness that incomplete pool maps may be difficult to distinguish from complete ones until those fields are surfaced. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PoolSnapshot
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PoolSnapshot->>walk_region: Walk committed extents with the next VS boundary
walk_region->>walk_vs: Decode from the known chunk boundary
walk_vs-->>walk_region: Return the next boundary or lost-chain state
walk_region-->>PoolSnapshot: Record decoded, recovered, and unplaced bytes
PoolSnapshot->>PoolIndex: Copy unplaced_bytes during index construction
PoolIndex->>PoolSnapshotReport: Copy unplaced_bytes into the report
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When this shared walker is used by walk_user_segment_heaps and a VS chunk boundary falls inside a hole, this counter records the skipped committed bytes, but from_pool_snapshot does not copy it into HeapWalkReport. As a result, every public user-heap query loses the new coverage measurement and reports only generic partial coverage/refused headers; requesting diagnostics separately can trigger a different walk because incomplete snapshots are not cached. Add the counter to HeapWalkReport and propagate it alongside refused_headers and stalls.
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The user segment heap goes through the same `walk_vs`, so it can lose the chunk chain the same way. `refused_headers` travels there already; this is the other half of the same measurement.
Measured on a live 26100 kernel, which is what settles #103. The chunk-chain fix in the previous commit was real but was the smaller half: refusals fell 106,516 -> 76,398, not to zero, and the remainder had the same signature as before — one predicate, ~248 per affected extent. 248 * 16 is a page, and that is exactly what it turned out to be. The page range holding a VS subsegment is one unit larger than the subsegment: 053 flags=0f UnitSize=11 UnitOffset=00 a VS range, 17 pages 054..063 UnitSize=00 UnitOffset=01..10 its 16 continuation units 064 flags=03 UnitSize=01 and the next range begins while the subsegment at that address declared Size 0xffd — 0xffd0 bytes of chunks, plus `first`, is 0x10000. Sixteen pages of subsegment in a seventeen page range, at both the 0x10000 and 0x20000 sizes, on 1,388 subsegments. `UnitSize` is read correctly; it simply is not the subsegment's size. So the walk was decoding a page that holds no chunks, and refusing a header every sixteen bytes across whatever part of it happened to be committed. The bound was wrong after all — too large rather than too small, which is why the refusals looked like corruption at the tail of every affected extent. `nt!RtlpHpVsSubsegmentInitialize` writes `Size = (bytes - first) >> 4` and lays the first chunk at `+ first`, so the subsegment's own `Size` is the chunk area. Preferred over the descriptor rather than compared with it, because it is already checked: a subsegment is only accepted when `Signature ^ Size` is 0x2bed, so a `Size` resolved from the wrong offset cannot reach the walk. Clamped so it can only ever shrink the region, and a declaration that is zero or larger than the range keeps the descriptor's bound and says so. The diagnostic added in the previous commit fired 1,388 times and is what found this; it now fires only for a declaration that cannot be the chunk area, since one spare page is the ordinary shape and a line per subsegment is noise.
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Closes #103 — verified on a live 26100 kernel, not argued. Answers #104.
#103: two defects, and my first reading of it was wrong
I originally concluded from
ntdll!RtlpHpVsSubsegmentCreatethat the bound wasprovably correct and that the refusals came entirely from the walk starting each
committed extent at a guessed offset. The live run refuted that: refusals fell
106,516 → 76,398, not to zero, and the remainder had the same one-predicate
signature as before. Your original suspicion in #103 — that
region.sizeis theproblem — was right. It is too large, not too small.
1. The page range is not the subsegment
Read off the target's own descriptor array:
while
_HEAP_VS_SUBSEGMENTat that address holdsSize = 0xffd, i.e.0xffd0bytes of chunks after
first—0x10000in total. Sixteen pages of subsegmentinside a seventeen-page range, at both the
0x10000and0x20000sizes, on 1,388subsegments in one walk.
UnitSizeis read correctly; it is simply not thesubsegment's size.
So the walk was decoding a page that holds no chunks, refusing a header every
sixteen bytes across whatever part of it was committed:
0x1000/16= 256 persubsegment, against 248 measured. That is the entire remainder.
nt!RtlpHpVsSubsegmentInitializewritesSize = (bytes - first) >> 4and lays thefirst chunk at
+ first, soSizeis the chunk area. It is preferred over thedescriptor rather than compared with it, because it is already checked — a
subsegment is only accepted when
Signature ^ Size == 0x2bed, so aSizeresolvedfrom the wrong offset cannot reach the walk. Clamped so it can only shrink a
region, never point outside the range.
2. The chunk chain does not survive a hole
Real, and worth fixing on its own, but the smaller half. A VS chunk is
variable-size, so it is only findable from the end of the one before it —
and
RtlpHpVsSubsegmentCommitPagescommits and decommits page ranges anywhereinside a subsegment (
CommitBitmap), sowalk_regionhandswalk_vsextents thatdo not begin on a chunk. It was starting each at its own first 16-byte boundary.
The refusals were the harmless half: whatever the resync scan landed on that decoded
plausibly went into
spansas an allocation, tag and all.walk_vsnow takes the expected header address and returns the next one — adecommitted range is always the interior of a free chunk, so the chunk before a hole
names the header on the far side. Where it cannot be placed, the extent is skipped
rather than guessed at, and
unplaced_bytessizes that.Measured, same target, three states
refused_chunksEvery VS refusal category is gone, and so is the chain-break category — which is the
independent corroboration, since a chain break is the walk mis-striding and there is
now nowhere for it to mis-stride.
unplaced_bytessettles at 290,816 over 19 extents:holes whose far side the chain could not reach, reported rather than guessed at.
#104: the counter was right
recovered_bytesis 0 on all three runs, withstalled_pagesat 1,619 / 2,174 /1,116.
stalled_herelatches for the rest of the region and every later read addsto it —
test_a_stalled_query_costs_a_page_not_the_regionpins that at two pages —so the figure means what it says: on this target every stall sits at the end of its
region's readable content.
Kept anyway: it costs at most eight queries per dead region, against losing every
committed page behind one bad one. The diagnostic now carries the engine's own answer
(
reported_base/reported_size), which is what a later run needs to decide whetherstepping can become stopping. It also unmangles that message, which had been emitting
22 spaces mid-sentence since a line was wrapped without a continuation.
Verification
cargo test(124 pass),cargo clippy --all-targetsclean. Live tier(
live_kernel, 8 tests) green against a real KDNET 26100 target. The three unittests for the chain fix were each checked to fail against the old behaviour.
Follow-up in windbg-mcp:
WalkGapsgainsunplaced_bytes(branchagent/pool-walk-gaps-unplaced, pinned to this branch until it merges).