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synth/generator_tree_recursion reds CI with guard_failures 2951 -> 2955,
identically on ubuntu-x86_64 and windows-x86_64, against a baseline recorded on
darwin-arm64. It is not a regression.

What the counter actually follows

JitCounter::new registers invoke_after_minor_collection, which bumps a decay
generation every 32 minor collections, and warmstate calls
set_decay(40) — so tick multiplies every guard counter by 0.96 ** generations before using it (majit-trace/src/counter.rs). With
trace_eagerness = 200, a guard whose warm-up window straddles a decay
generation needs a different number of failures before its bridge attaches, and
guard_failures counts exactly the deopts taken before that bridge lands. The
counter therefore follows the minor-collection count during warm-up, which moves
with allocation volume and layout — including target architecture.

Measured on one machine, one binary, one arch (darwin arm64), with check.py's
own pins otherwise:

nursery minor collections guard_failures
512KB 316 2957
768KB 226 2958
1MB 180 2954
1.5MB 135 2952
2MB / 4MB / 8MB 112 / 78 / 61 2951

loops_compiled=3 bridges_compiled=26 on every row. CI's 2955 sits inside the
band one host produces by itself.

The falsifying test: PYRE_JIT=decay=0 reads 2999 at every one of those
nursery sizes
. Turning the decay off removes the entire variance. A decay sweep
at a fixed 4MB nursery reads 0 -> 2999, 20 -> 3002, 40 -> 2951,
80 -> 2955 — non-monotone, with loops_compiled=3 bridges_compiled=26 FIRED=26 on all four.

This is upstream-faithful: rpython/jit/metainterp/counter.py decays its
counters from the same GC hook. Nothing in the JIT is changed here.

Why the existing devices do not reach it

JITSTATS_STABILITY_RUNS re-runs the same binary in the same invocation and
un-gates a fixture that fails to reproduce itself. This fixture reproduces
exactly — five consecutive runs gave byte-identical snapshots — so that device
provably never fires. The variance is across hosts, and check.py runs on one
host at a time.

Trip-count reduction (the str_fstring precedent) does not apply either:
startup allocation alone costs ~49 minor collections, so no shortening reaches
zero decay generations, and cutting 9000 -> 3600 drops bridges_compiled
26 -> 18, deleting the mechanism the fixture exists to cover. A
.<platform>.jitstats overlay cannot express arch. Re-recording to 2955 moves
the red to macOS.

What this adds

# pyre-check: jitstats-band=<field>=<width> — a per-fixture, per-counter
allowance, symmetric around the recorded baseline, read from the first 20 lines
like the other # pyre-check: headers.

  • Unknown fields, duplicates, non-integer and non-positive widths are errors
    rather than silent no-ops, following skip-backends.
  • A badness counter cannot be banded: its healthy value is exactly zero, so an
    allowance there would let a real defect through.
  • An absorbed move is reported, not swallowed. _jit_stats_change returns a
    third list, and a run whose only movement was absorbed gets the new
    non-failing banded status — a yellow line naming the field, both values and
    the width, plus an end-of-run summary row. When the row is already failing for
    another counter, the absorbed move is appended to the same reason. This keeps
    the band as accountable as the unstable arm it is modelled on.

Only generator_tree_recursion opts in, at guard_failures=8: one unit of
margin over the measured 2951..2958 span, 0.27% of the counter. The regressions
this gate exists for move by hundreds to thousands (828 -> 4923, 404 -> 812,
937 -> 7408), and loops_compiled / bridges_compiled — invariant under every
perturbation above — stay gated exactly.

Verification

Against the real committed baseline and the real fixture header:

change result
guard_failures 2951 -> 2958 banded only
2951 -> 2959 (delta 8, boundary) banded only
2951 -> 2942 (delta 9) gated
2951 -> 4923 gated
2955 and bridges_compiled 26 -> 0 bridges gated, guard move listed as banded
same inputs, no bands identical to pre-change behaviour

Fed through the real pipeline (_jit_stats_snapshot on measured stderr), the
4MB run (2951) passes either way and the 768KB run (2958) fails without the band
and passes with it. Parser validation covers unknown / badness / duplicate /
zero / negative / non-integer / empty and the 20-line boundary. ruff reports
the same two pre-existing findings as main.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for per-fixture tolerance bands when evaluating JIT statistics.
    • Changes within declared tolerance bands are reported as warnings without failing checks.
    • Stability retries now ignore expected in-band variation while continuing to detect genuine counter drift.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation for JIT statistics configuration, including malformed, duplicate, or unsupported fields.
  • Documentation

    • Added explanations of guard-failure measurements, decay behavior, benchmark observations, and threshold selection.

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The PR adds per-fixture JIT-stat tolerance bands. It validates band declarations, classifies in-band changes, adjusts stability retries, and reports banded runs as visible non-failing results. The recursive benchmark declares an eight-count guard-failure band.

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JIT statistics tolerance bands

Layer / File(s) Summary
Band configuration and benchmark declaration
pyre/bench/synth/generator_tree_recursion.py, pyre/check.py
The benchmark declares a guard-failure tolerance. Fixture headers support validated per-counter bands and reject invalid declarations.
Banded comparison and stability handling
pyre/check.py
JIT-stat comparison separates banded changes from regressions and improvements. Stability retries ignore differences within configured bands while detecting genuine repeated movement.
Banded result reporting
pyre/check.py
Backend results and summaries display banded changes as successful, non-failing notes. Failing statuses retain the existing failure path.

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The new band configuration can silently ignore duplicate declarations, making a fixture’s intended allowance differ from what the file declares. This localized validation issue should be fixed before merging; the remaining requested checks should also be run.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Fixture
  participant Check
  participant JITStatsComparison
  participant BackendReporting
  Fixture->>Check: provide JIT-stat band directives
  Check->>JITStatsComparison: compare counters with configured bands
  JITStatsComparison-->>Check: return banded and failing changes
  Check->>BackendReporting: report gate status and affected counters
  BackendReporting-->>Fixture: display visible non-failing banded result
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Eight little failures stay within sight.
Bands mark the changes that need no alarm,
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return "banded", (
"jit-stats within band — " + ", ".join(banded)
+ _jit_stats_context(jitstats)
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P2 Badge Run remaining gates before returning a banded status

When a counter differs within its declared band, this early return bypasses the later --snapshot-diff output comparison and --threshold time comparison. For the newly annotated fixture, hosts that consistently observe guard_failures slightly above the committed baseline will therefore skip those requested gates on every run, potentially accepting a snapshot or performance regression. Preserve the banded status but continue through the remaining checks before returning it.

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moved = _jit_stats_change(jitstats, drifted, jitstats_bands)
# Snapshot text can drift inside a band without making any
# gated counter unstable.
if moved[0] or moved[1]:

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P2 Badge Classify repeat runs against the committed baseline

Applying the band between the first run and its repeat makes the stability decision depend on which sample ran first. For example, with baseline 2951 and band 8, an initial 2960 is gated, but a repeat of 2958 differs by only 2 and is ignored here, so the run fails as stable even though the repeat is within the allowed baseline band; reversing the samples passes without any repeats. Compare each repeat with the committed baseline and check whether it reproduces the original classification, rather than treating the baseline-relative band as a tolerance between samples.

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- Around line 1509-1541: Update the jit-stats band directive parsing loop to
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…tree_recursion's guard_failures

`# pyre-check: jitstats-band=<field>=<width>` suppresses an integer-valued
jit-stats move whose absolute delta is at or below the width, in both
directions. Unknown fields, duplicates, non-integer and non-positive widths are
errors rather than silent no-ops, and a badness counter cannot be banded because
its healthy value is exactly zero. Read from the first 20 lines like the other
`# pyre-check:` headers; below that window it is not read and the fixture gates
normally.

`_apply_snapshot_gate` passes the fixture's bands to both `_jit_stats_change`
calls. The second one selects its `drifted` snapshot by comparing text, so a
repeat that moved only inside a band would report "jit-stats unstable —
re-running the same binary moved" with nothing after it; the unstable path is now
taken only when the banded comparison is non-empty.

`generator_tree_recursion` gets `guard_failures=8`. Measured on one host, one
binary, one arch: the jitcounter decays by 0.96 every 32 minor collections
(majit-trace/src/counter.rs), so the counter follows the minor-collection count
during each guard's warm-up. Sweeping the nursery from 512KB to 8MB reads
2951..2958, and `PYRE_JIT=decay=0` reads 2999 at every one of those sizes.
`loops_compiled=3` and `bridges_compiled=26` hold throughout and stay gated
exactly.

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`_jit_stats_change` returns `(regressions, improvements, banded)`. A field the
band suppresses is listed in `banded` as `field old -> new (within band N)` and
in neither of the other two, so the move is reclassified rather than hidden.

A run whose only movement was absorbed returns the new non-failing `banded`
status, which renders like `unstable` — a yellow line, the bench still passes —
and is tallied in the end-of-run summary as "jit-stats within band (not gated)".
When the row is already failing for another counter, the absorbed move is
appended to the same reason as a `within band:` part.

`unstable_line` becomes `note_line` at the call site, since it now carries
either note, and the label is derived from the status.

Assisted-by: Claude
A banded verdict is assigned rather than returned. Every other verdict reached
before it is a failure, so leaving the function early costs those nothing; a band
means the run is fine, and returning there carried the fixture past the
`--snapshot-diff` output comparison and the `--threshold` time comparison — on a
host that sits inside its band, on every run.

The repeat-drift comparison no longer takes the bands. It compares two samples of
the same invocation, so a band applied there measures from whichever sample ran
first instead of from the recorded baseline: with baseline 2951 and band 8, a
first run of 2960 was gated while a repeat of 2958 was absorbed as a difference of
2, and swapping the samples changed the verdict. Unbanded, two snapshots that
differ textually must differ in a `JITSTATS_SNAPSHOT_FIELDS` entry, so the guard
added with the bands is unreachable and the original unstable path is restored.

`synth_jitstats_bands` scans the whole 20-line window and raises on a second
directive instead of returning at the first. It already rejects a duplicate field
inside one line, so dropping a duplicate line silently would let one of two
per-field directives do nothing.

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