This part replaces the JSContext *cx argument in most GC-related API
with JSRuntime *rt. When possible, the patch removes the code to obtain
a temporary cx just to run the GC.
The patch also removes JS_DestroyContextMaybeGC. That function is not
used in FF code base and its implementation is broken. It requires that
the context has an entered compartment when it is destroyed, which in
turns implies a missing leave compartment call.
This part changes the signatures for various finalization API to take
not JSContext* but rather either JSFreeOp structure or its
library-private counterpart FreeOp. These structures wrap parameters
that are passed to the finalizers removing most of explicit dependencies
on JSContext in the finalization code.
Currently to serialize principals stored in JSScript we have a rather complex
schema. First there is the transcode callback that the embedding must provide
to transcode principals using XDR API. Second we use rather complex glue code
to implement that callback in terms of writing/reading nsIObjectOutputStream/
nsIObjectInputStream. This glue code is duplicated in 3 places. All this can
be avoided if we simply delegate transcoding of principals to the caller. In
addition, at least in the case of the cached startup scripts we do not even
need to transcode the principals as the the cached scripts always have the
system principal so we can skip all the transcode complexity there.
The patch implemnts this idea. In particular, the code in JS engine
responsible for transcoding of principals is replaced by the single API
function JS_XDRSetPrincipals that the embedding can use to set principals for
decoded scripts and functions. Then the startup cache uses this to set the
principals for the decoded script to the system principals. The other two
places in nsJSContext::Serialize and XBL_SerializeFunction that need to
serialize principals together with a function or script now uses common
utilities in nsXPConnect so the serialization complexity resides in the single
place.
GC_SHRINK is a fairly new type of GC that does more aggressive cleanups than a
normal GC. This patch makes the browser run the GC in this mode when under
memory pressure, or when the user pushes the Minimize Memory Usage button when
on the about:memory page.
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extra : rebase_source : abdd11ee5fa5eb0e3d58122d3d72e98328d47668
The new boolean argument to SetDebugModeWhenPossible is needed because if we allow sync-disable of debug mode we seem to crash when loading pages with Firebug active.