gecko-dev/dom/interfaces
Kyle Huey 76e3009ab8 Bug 1179909: Refactor stable state handling. r=smaug
This is motivated by three separate but related problems:

1. Our concept of recursion depth is broken for things that run from AfterProcessNextEvent observers (e.g. Promises). We decrement the recursionDepth counter before firing observers, so a Promise callback running at the lowest event loop depth has a recursion depth of 0 (whereas a regular nsIRunnable would be 1). This is a problem because it's impossible to distinguish a Promise running after a sync XHR's onreadystatechange handler from a top-level event (since the former runs with depth 2 - 1 = 1, and the latter runs with just 1).

2. The nsIThreadObserver mechanism that is used by a lot of code to run "after" the current event is a poor fit for anything that runs script. First, the order the observers fire in is the order they were added, not anything fixed by spec. Additionally, running script can cause the event loop to spin, which is a big source of pain here (bholley has some nasty bug caused by this).

3. We run Promises from different points in the code for workers and main thread. The latter runs from XPConnect's nsIThreadObserver callbacks, while the former runs from a hardcoded call to run Promises in the worker event loop. What workers do is particularly problematic because it means we can't get the right recursion depth no matter what we do to nsThread.

The solve this, this patch does the following:

1. Consolidate some handling of microtasks and all handling of stable state from appshell and WorkerPrivate into CycleCollectedJSRuntime.
2. Make the recursionDepth counter only available to CycleCollectedJSRuntime (and its consumers) and remove it from the nsIThreadInternal and nsIThreadObserver APIs.
3. Adjust the recursionDepth counter so that microtasks run with the recursionDepth of the task they are associated with.
4. Introduce the concept of metastable state to replace appshell's RunBeforeNextEvent. Metastable state is reached after every microtask or task is completed. This provides the semantics that bent and I want for IndexedDB, where transactions autocommit at the end of a microtask and do not "spill" from one microtask into a subsequent microtask. This differs from appshell's RunBeforeNextEvent in two ways:
a) It fires between microtasks, which was the motivation for starting this.
b) It no longer ensures that we're at the same event loop depth in the native event queue. bent decided we don't care about this.
5. Reorder stable state to happen after microtasks such as Promises, per HTML. Right now we call the regular thread observers, including appshell, before the main thread observer (XPConnect), so stable state tasks happen before microtasks.
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apps Bug 1182347 - Migrate existing code away from .cookieJar. r=sicking,r=allstars.chh 2015-07-14 19:56:33 -07:00
base Bug 1179909: Refactor stable state handling. r=smaug 2015-08-11 06:10:46 -07:00
canvas Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
core Bug 1117264 - Mark virtual overridden functions as MOZ_OVERRIDE in dom/base code; r=baku 2015-01-06 11:52:45 -05:00
css Bug 1148694 patch 2 - Remove interface and implementation of CSSCharsetRule. r=dbaron 2015-04-21 00:08:36 -07:00
events Bug 1119074 - If we're stopping event propagation from XUL popups, also stop them from crossing process boundaries r=smaug,felipe 2015-05-25 16:54:13 -04:00
gamepad Bug 852944 - Gamepad API IPC; r=ted, r=baku 2015-04-23 15:05:29 -07:00
geolocation Bug 1026535 - Fix mismatched class/struct tags. r=ehsan 2014-06-18 17:57:51 -07:00
html Backed out changeset f5f3827ffcf1 (bug 1166910) for bustage 2015-07-01 08:19:28 +02:00
json
notification Bug 1114554 - Patch 4 - ServiceWorkerRegistration.getNotifications() on main thread. r=wchen 2015-06-25 18:50:25 -07:00
offline Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
permission Bug 985796 - Port the permission settings API to WebIDL; r=bzbarsky 2014-03-22 09:58:24 -04:00
push Bug 1188686 - Clear push subscriptions when forgetting about site. r=kitcambridge 2015-07-29 11:33:48 -07:00
range Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
security Bug 1139297 - Implement CSP upgrade-insecure-requests directive - csp changes (r=sstamm) 2015-07-10 09:13:54 -07:00
settings Bug 1128489 - Direct communication between SettingsService and SettingsRequestManager. r=qdot 2015-02-03 02:45:00 +01:00
sidebar Bug 940206 - Implement Navigator.registerContentHandler and Navigator.registerProtocolHandler for e10s. r=dao 2015-07-31 17:03:37 -07:00
smil Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
storage Bug 660237 - implement nsIDOMStorage with a proxy, r=bzbarsky, r=mayhemer 2014-07-23 01:07:12 -04:00
stylesheets Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
svg Backed out changeset a03d97422b73 to re-land with correct bug number. DONTBUILD 2014-11-14 10:41:36 +13:00
traversal Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
xbl Bug 994964 - Make DOM XPIDL interfaces non-scriptable, and add shim Components.interfaces entries for them; r=bzbarsky,bholley 2014-05-08 16:45:36 -04:00
xpath Bug 1018658 - Convert XPathNSResolver to WebIDL bindings, remove nsIDOMXPathNSResolver. r=bz. 2014-10-14 16:27:25 +02:00
xul Backed out changeset a03d97422b73 to re-land with correct bug number. DONTBUILD 2014-11-14 10:41:36 +13:00