WebContent process keeps session history entries for pages we have
navigated away from. Before this change, those entries could prevent GC
objects (e.g. PolicyContainer and its CSP PolicyList) from being
collected, since the GC-allocated SHE/DocumentState held live GC::Ref
pointers into the heap.
By making both classes RefCounted and storing SerializedPolicyContainer
instead of a live PolicyContainer, history entries no longer keep alive
any GC objects. This eliminates the leak and is also a step toward
moving the session history entry tree to the UI process.
Previously, the active document's lifecycle was bound to
SessionHistoryEntry via DocumentState. The ownership chain was:
Navigable → SessionHistoryEntry → DocumentState → Document
This made it impossible to move SessionHistoryEntry to the UI process
(which cannot own DOM::Document). This commit decouples the two by
giving Navigable a direct m_active_document field that serves as the
authoritative source for active_document().
- Navigable owns m_active_document directly; active_document() reads
from it instead of going through the active session history entry.
- DocumentState no longer holds a Document pointer. Instead, it stores
a document_id for "same document?" checks. Same-document navigations
share a DocumentState and thus the same document_id, while
cross-document navigations create a new DocumentState with a new ID.
- A pending_document parameter is threaded through
finalize_a_cross_document_navigation → apply_the_push_or_replace →
apply_the_history_step so the newly created document reaches
activation without being stored on DocumentState.
- For traversal, the population output delivers the document.
A resolved_document is computed per continuation from either the
pending document, the population output, or the current active
document (for same-document traversals).
Remove 11 heavy includes from Document.h that were only needed for
pointer/reference types (already forward-declared in Forward.h), and
extract the nested ViewportClient interface to a standalone header.
This reduces Document.h's recompilation cascade from ~1228 files to
~717 files (42% reduction). Headers like BrowsingContext.h that were
previously transitively included see even larger improvements (from
~1228 down to ~73 dependents).
Before this change, we were going through the chain of base classes for
each IDL interface object and having them set the prototype to their
prototype.
Instead of doing that, reorder things so that we set the right prototype
immediately in Foo::initialize(), and then don't bother in all the base
class overrides.
This knocks off a ~1% profile item on Speedometer 3.
Resulting in a massive rename across almost everywhere! Alongside the
namespace change, we now have the following names:
* JS::NonnullGCPtr -> GC::Ref
* JS::GCPtr -> GC::Ptr
* JS::HeapFunction -> GC::Function
* JS::CellImpl -> GC::Cell
* JS::Handle -> GC::Root
The main motivation behind this is to remove JS specifics of the Realm
from the implementation of the Heap.
As a side effect of this change, this is a bit nicer to read than the
previous approach, and in my opinion, also makes it a little more clear
that this method is specific to a JavaScript Realm.
