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What does this PR do?

Makes Windows dispatch I/O the way the POSIX backends do: libuv callbacks only record what completed, and every handler of ours runs from the loop's own frame after uv_run returns. Fixes the heap corruption behind the frequent test/bake/deinitialization.test.ts crashes/hangs on Windows CI (e.g. build 102435) and the class of bugs it belongs to. Supersedes #39910 and #39643.

The underlying mistake. uv_run is not re-entrant, and libuv keeps using a handle after that handle's callback returns. Bun's handlers run JavaScript, and JavaScript can always drive the event loop again before it returns (expect(promise).resolves in bun:test, require() of an async module, process.exit()'s drain, the debugger pause loop, …) and close handles from inside their own events. On epoll/kqueue that is fine: epoll_wait returns a batch and us_loop_run_bun_tick dispatches it from our own loop, which was written for nesting. On Windows every socket handler, socket timeout, uWS pre/post/wakeup handler, JS timer, pipe/tty read, uv_write/uv_fs_* completion and subprocess exit ran inside a libuv callback, so a nested wait was a nested uv_run under a live libuv frame. Symptoms, all Windows-only:

  • a socket closed during a nested tick was freed by the nested check_cb while the outer dispatch still held it — the deinitialization.test.ts corruption (us_internal_socket_after_resolve / us_poll_start_rc segfaults, mimalloc free-list hangs);
  • the nested run completed the uv_close of the very poll whose libuv frame was live; libuv then queued its endgame a second time (double close callback);
  • completions the outer uv_run had already dequeued sit in a list libuv detaches before dispatching, so a nested wait depending on one of them never saw it — a socket data() handler (or a child-process stdout handler) waiting for another socket's/pipe's data from the same batch hung; reproducible on main;
  • uv_close has to precede closesocket (uv__poll_close issues an ioctl on the socket; strict-handle-check/AppContainer processes die otherwise), which under the old structure meant closing the handle from inside its own callback.

The change.

  • eventing/libuv.c now has the same shape as us_loop_run_bun_tick: poll_cb/timer_cb/async_cb only link the poll into an intrusive loop-wide ready list; us_loop_run/us_loop_pump run loop_preuv_run → dispatch → loop_post from our own frame. The prepare/check handles are gone. A nested us_loop_run is just another sequential uv_run to libuv and keeps draining the same list; us_poll_stop uv_closes immediately (socket still open); the uv_poll_t and the us_poll_t are freed independently. Closed sockets are still freed only by the outermost loop_post (tick_depth, now maintained on this backend too — upstream uSockets' end-of-iteration rule applied to nesting, shared with POSIX).
  • Everything else Bun registers with libuv follows the same rule through src/libuv_sys/deferred.rs: the callback records and links an intrusive node into its loop's queue, drained in the same tick right after the ready list. Requests (uv_fs_*, uv_write, uv_pipe_connect, uv_getaddrinfo) need no owner cooperation — node, callback and status fit in uv_req_t's spare reserved[6] — so a call site changes from Some(cb) to fs_callback(req, cb); UvHandle::close defers close callbacks (holding back UV_HANDLE_CLOSED until the owner's callback actually ran, so is_closed() keeps its meaning); stream reads (BufferedReader, read_start_ctx users: IPC, named-pipe sockets, the parallel test-runner channel) commit bytes and charge limits inline — libuv may read again before uv_run returns — and hand the parent one chunk at dispatch; subprocess exit, named-pipe accept and the c-ares poll record into their owners. The queue is per loop, so spawnSync's private loop never runs the main loop's handlers.
  • The loop enforces the invariant: us_loop_run aborts in assertion builds if entered while its uv_run is on the stack, and EventLoop::enter debug-asserts the same, so a straggler fails loudly instead of nesting uv_run.
  • Observable ordering on Windows within one tick: socket events (the ready list) are dispatched before pipe/file/process completions (the deferred queue) regardless of completion order, and several pipe reads libuv completed in one uv_run reach JS as one chunk. Chunk boundaries were never guaranteed and already differ on POSIX.
  • JS timers on Windows no longer fire from the uv_timer callback, and their keep-alive is the loop's counter as on POSIX (the one-shot wake timer stays unref'd): auto_tick drains the timer heap after the tick as on POSIX, and the Windows tick now honors the timeout it is given (get_timeout's deadline, tick_possibly_forever's bound) via an unref'd loop-owned deadline timer instead of ignoring the argument. The debugger's pause loop, which drove uv_run(DEFAULT) directly on Windows, goes through the uws loop.
  • --hot on Windows: when the entrypoint's DELETE and its re-creation (rm + rename, an editor's atomic save) land in separate watcher batches, the evicted entry's re-creation was only visible as a directory event, which the Windows path ignored — no reload ever came. It now recovers the way the inotify path already does. (The prompt reload after the DELETE made hot.test.ts hit this window on every run.)

How did you verify your code works?

  • test/js/bun/net/nested-event-loop-fixture.ts (spawned from socket.test.ts): (1) terminate() inside data() followed by nested ticks and same-size allocation churn — segfaults every run on a Windows release build of main; (2) a data() handler that waits for another socket's data collected in the same poll batch; (3) the same through child-process stdout pipes, with the children exiting during the nested wait; (4) a pipe server whose connection handler closes the server and waits while more accepts from the same batch are pending. (2) and (3) fail on main (the nested loop never delivers), all pass with this change. (3) runs on Windows only for now: the epoll builds have the analogous problem for one-shot pipe polls (a nested us_loop_run_bun_tick reuses the outer tick's ready-poll array), which is separate work.
  • test/bake/fixtures/deinitialization: 10/10 on Windows debug and release (crashed/hung most runs before).
  • The strict-handle-check probe from usockets(windows): keep a closed poll alive until the outer tick and libuv are done with it #39643's review (close a socket from its own data() with ProcessStrictHandleCheckPolicy on) survives.
  • Windows debug build (assertions on) and release build across bun/spawn, child_process, process, bun/io, streams, node/fs, dns, bun/net, node/net, websocket, hot/watch, shell, fetch, bun/http, timers, workers, worker_threads, bake, tls, node/http, http2, terminal, udp/dgram, … — results match main's on the same machine (see CI for the full matrix); no nested-uv_run assertion fires anywhere.
  • The deinitialization fixture's afterAll (every JS Server wrapper collected) drained with a fixed 30 setImmediate+GC rounds; under heavy CPU load the last loopback socket close occasionally lands after those (1 in ~40 locally, straggler collected 1–2 rounds later), so it now polls the condition against a 5 s deadline. 60/60 under load after.
  • process-stdin.test.ts: the read(n) polling child's spin cap (~50 ms of setImmediate turns) was shorter than EOF takes to arrive from a parent busy spawning the file's other concurrent tests — flaky on main locally too; widened.

…ibuv callbacks

libuv's uv_run is not re-entrant, and libuv keeps using a handle after
that handle's callback returns. Bun's handlers routinely drive the event
loop again before returning (anything that waits for a promise
synchronously) and close sockets from inside their own events. On
epoll/kqueue that is fine because the dispatch loop is ours and was
written for it; on Windows every socket handler, socket timeout, uWS
pre/post/wakeup handler and JS timer ran inside a libuv callback frame,
so a nested wait was a nested uv_run underneath a live libuv frame. That
one mistake had several symptoms:

- a socket closed during a nested tick was freed by the nested check_cb
  while the outer dispatch still held it (the deinitialization.test.ts
  heap corruption on Windows CI);
- the nested run completed the uv_close of the poll whose libuv frame
  was still live, and libuv queued its endgame a second time on the way
  out (double close callback);
- completions the outer uv_run had already dequeued sat in a list libuv
  detaches before dispatching, so a nested wait that depended on one of
  them never saw it (a data handler waiting for another socket's data
  from the same poll batch hung);
- keeping uv_close ahead of closesocket, which uv__poll_close needs and
  strict-handle-check processes (AppContainer) enforce, was only possible
  by closing the handle from inside its own callback.

The libuv backend now has the same shape as us_loop_run_bun_tick:
poll_cb / timer_cb / async_cb only link the poll into an intrusive,
loop-wide ready list, and us_loop_run / us_loop_pump run loop_pre,
uv_run, the dispatch of that list, and loop_post from our own frame.
prepare/check handles are gone. A nested us_loop_run is then just
another sequential uv_run for libuv, keeps draining the same list (so
nothing the outer run collected is lost), and us_poll_stop can uv_close
immediately, before the socket is closed, because no libuv frame for
that handle can be on the stack. Closed sockets are still freed only by
the outermost loop_post (tick_depth, now maintained here as on POSIX),
which is upstream uSockets' end-of-iteration rule applied to nesting.
us_timer / the wakeup async go through the same list as
POLL_TYPE_CALLBACK polls, like the timerfd/eventfd polls on epoll.

JS timers on Windows fired from inside the uv_timer callback for the
same reason. That callback now only ends the poll phase; auto_tick
drains the timer heap after the tick exactly as it already did on POSIX,
and the tick itself honors the timeout it is given (get_timeout's
deadline, tick_possibly_forever's bound) through an unref'd loop-owned
deadline timer, where it used to ignore the argument on Windows.

--hot on Windows: when the entrypoint is deleted and re-created (rm +
rename, an editor's atomic save) and the two land in separate watcher
batches, the DELETE evicts the entrypoint from the watchlist and the
re-created file was then only reported as a change to its directory,
which the Windows path ignored, so no reload ever came. It now recovers
the way the inotify path already does: remember that the entrypoint's
watch was evicted and reload once its directory changes and the file
exists again. (The loop change makes the reload after the DELETE prompt
enough that hot.test.ts hits this window every run.)

Tests: nested-event-loop-fixture.ts (spawned from socket.test.ts) covers
a socket terminated inside its own data() followed by nested ticks and
allocation churn, and a data handler that waits for another socket's
data collected in the same batch; both fail on Windows before this.
process-stdin.test.ts: the read(n) polling child's spin cap was ~50ms of
setImmediate turns, less than EOF takes to arrive from a parent busy
spawning the file's other concurrent tests; widened.

Beyond sockets, us_timer and the wakeup async, the same rule applies to
everything else Bun registers with libuv on Windows, so that no handler of ours - and therefore
no JavaScript, which can always tick the loop again before it returns -
runs while uv_run is on the stack: pipe/tty reads (BufferedReader,
read_start_ctx users: IPC, named-pipe sockets, the test-runner channel,
the Chrome pipe), uv_write completions, every uv_fs_* completion (file
readers/writers, Blob read/write/copy, node:fs's uv paths, fd closers),
uv_pipe_connect, named-pipe listen/accept, subprocess exit, the c-ares
uv_poll, and close callbacks.

Mechanism (src/libuv_sys/deferred.rs): a libuv callback records what
completed and links an intrusive node into its loop's queue; us_loop_run
drains that queue right after the socket ready list, in the same tick. It
is the split every other backend already has - epoll/kqueue/IOCP return a
batch, the loop walks it - with uv_run in the place of the wait. Requests
need no owner cooperation: the node, the callback and the status fit in
uv_req_t's spare `reserved[6]`, so `uv_fs_read(.., fs_callback(req, cb))`
is the whole change at a call site, and uv_write_t::write /
Pipe::connect defer internally. Close callbacks reuse the handle's own
list links once libuv is done with it (UvHandle::close), and hold back
UV_HANDLE_CLOSED until the owner's callback has actually run so
`is_closed()` keeps meaning what its callers assume. Stream reads commit
bytes and charge limits inline (libuv may read again before uv_run
returns) and hand the parent one chunk at dispatch. The queue is per loop
(uv_loop_t.data), so spawnSync's private loop never runs the main loop's
handlers.

The loop enforces it: us_loop_run aborts (assertion builds) if entered
while its uv_run is on the stack, and EventLoop::enter debug-asserts the
same, so a callback that still ran a handler inline would fail loudly
instead of nesting uv_run.

Also: the debugger's pause loop ticked uv_run(DEFAULT) directly on
Windows; it goes through the uws loop like every other tick now.

Test: nested-event-loop-fixture.ts gains the pipe version of the
starvation case (two child processes answer at once; the first stdout
handler waits for the second's data) - fails on Windows before this.
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The change defers Windows libuv callback dispatch until after uv_run. It adds intrusive readiness tracking, timeout-aware loop execution, deferred stream and I/O callbacks, lifecycle cleanup, timer handling, hot-reload recovery, and nested-event-loop regression tests.

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Deferred libuv execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deferred queue and loop contracts
src/libuv_sys/deferred.rs, src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs, packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/eventing/libuv.h, src/uws_sys/Loop.rs
Adds intrusive deferred queues, callback adapters, loop state, readiness fields, timeout APIs, and uv_run state inspection.
Ready-list and loop execution
packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/libuv.c, packages/bun-usockets/src/internal/eventing/libuv.h, src/jsc/event_loop.rs, packages/bun-usockets/src/socket.c
Defers poll, timer, and async callbacks. Drains readiness and deferred callbacks after uv_run. Adds nested-run and handle-lifecycle guards.
Deferred stream reads
src/io/PipeReader.rs, src/io/MaxBuf.rs, src/runtime/cli/test/parallel/Channel.rs, src/runtime/ipc.rs, src/runtime/socket/WindowsNamedPipe.rs, src/runtime/webview/ChromeProcess.rs
Separates read commits from handler dispatch. Accumulates bytes, errors, EOF, limits, and overflow state before dispatch.
Deferred I/O and lifecycle callbacks
src/io/*, src/runtime/node/node_fs.rs, src/runtime/webcore/Blob.rs, src/runtime/webcore/blob/*, src/runtime/dns_jsc/dns.rs, src/runtime/socket/Listener.rs, src/spawn/process.rs, src/runtime/timer/mod.rs
Routes filesystem, write, DNS, pipe connection, process exit, close, and timer work through deferred callbacks. Teardown cancels pending state.
Runtime behavior and regression coverage
src/runtime/jsc_hooks.rs, src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs, src/jsc/VirtualMachine.rs, src/event_loop/SpawnSyncEventLoop.rs, test/js/bun/net/*, test/bake/fixtures/deinitialization/test.ts, test/js/node/process/process-stdin.test.ts
Updates timer draining and Windows hot-reload behavior, documents callback timing, and adds nested socket, pipe, and cleanup tests.

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…initialization fixture

The fixture's afterAll asserts every JS Server wrapper was collected after
drainServerWrappers, which ran a fixed thirty setImmediate + GC rounds. A
wrapper becomes collectable only once its server's sockets have finished
closing, which is loopback I/O that setImmediate turns do not wait for; on
a loaded machine the thirty turns occasionally ran out first (about one
run in forty with other suites saturating the CPU), and the straggler was
collected a round or two later. Poll the condition with 5ms rounds against
a 5s deadline instead.

No-Verification-Needed: test-only change (test/bake/fixtures/deinitialization/test.ts)
…he pipe starvation case on Windows only

The pipe variant of the nested-tick starvation test fails on the epoll
builds: a nested us_loop_run_bun_tick reuses the outer tick's ready-poll
array, and a one-shot pipe poll the outer tick collected is not re-reported
to the nested wait (sockets are, being level-triggered). That is the same
class of bug on the POSIX backend and out of scope here; the case runs on
Windows, where this change fixes it.
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243-261: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep incoming stable while a libuv read is in flight. libuv can allocate and read again before the deferred on_read runs. on_read then clears the same Vec while the pending read still points into its spare capacity. The next uv_commit appends at offset zero and can discard previously committed bytes. Add an in-flight-read guard like WindowsFlags::HAS_INFLIGHT_READ, or use a separate stable read buffer.

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In `@src/runtime/socket/WindowsNamedPipe.rs` around lines 243 - 261, Update the
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stable until the libuv read is no longer in flight. Add and enforce an
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In `@packages/bun-usockets/src/eventing/libuv.c`:
- Around line 24-32: Update the ASSERT_ENABLED preprocessor condition in libuv.c
to nest the __has_feature(address_sanitizer) check inside a separate
defined(__has_feature) guard, while preserving the existing BUN_DEBUG and
__SANITIZE_ADDRESS__ conditions and fallback values.

In `@src/io/PipeReader.rs`:
- Around line 1819-1826: Update PipeReader::close_impl to notify MaxBuf via
MaxBuf::overflowed before resetting stream_read.over_budget, preserving the
latched overflow state so the subprocess records the max-buffer exit and
spawnSync reports exitedDueToMaxBuffer correctly.

In `@src/jsc/hot_reloader.rs`:
- Around line 907-915: Update the Windows watcher batch-processing flow around
the Directory and File arms so same-batch delete/recreate events are
order-independent: ensure the File arm’s is_waiting_for_dir_change state is
consumed or cleared before a later directory event can enqueue another reload,
while preserving recovery when the directory arm runs first.

In `@src/libuv_sys/libuv.rs`:
- Around line 929-934: Update ReadDeferral::cancel to reset nread and err, using
the same state-clearing behavior as run while still unlinking the deferred node.
Ensure cancellation leaves the deferral representing no pending read result
before any potential reuse.

In `@test/js/bun/net/nested-event-loop-fixture.ts`:
- Around line 80-88: Make the nested socket test’s deadline failure
parent-observable instead of relying on an exception from the data callback. Add
an explicit failure resolver alongside aDone, record the deadline rejection
through it, ensure the callback still settles the completion path, and update
the final wait to await both aDone.promise and the failure signal so missing
delivery reports the intended error rather than hanging.

In `@test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts`:
- Around line 4681-4683: Relax the stdout assertion in the relevant socket test
so it no longer requires stdout to consist exclusively of the runner version
banner; remove or loosen the anchored full-output regex while retaining the
stderr “3 pass” outcome check.

In `@test/js/node/process/process-stdin.test.ts`:
- Around line 170-173: Replace the machine-dependent spin-count limit in the
process-stdin polling loop with a wall-clock deadline using performance.now(),
declared alongside the existing spins state; terminate the loop when the
deadline is exceeded while preserving the current polling behavior and timeout
failure handling.

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In `@src/runtime/socket/WindowsNamedPipe.rs`:
- Around line 243-261: Update the WindowsNamedPipe read lifecycle around on_read
and uv_commit so incoming remains stable until the libuv read is no longer in
flight. Add and enforce an in-flight-read guard using the existing
WindowsFlags::HAS_INFLIGHT_READ pattern, or use a separate stable read buffer,
ensuring uv_commit cannot append into a Vec whose storage on_read has cleared or
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… step

A handler can close its owner and then tick the loop before returning; the
nested tick runs the deferred close callback, which may free the owner. So
a dispatch step that has more to do after a handler hands the remainder
back to the queue first (named-pipe accepts: one per step, re-queued while
more are pending; read_start_ctx: a pending error is re-queued behind the
data delivery) instead of reading the owner afterwards, and Process holds
a ref across its exit handler. The owners' teardown already cancels a
re-queued node.

Test: the fixture gains a pipe server whose connection handler closes the
server and waits while more accepts from the same poll batch are pending.
…der-independent --hot entrypoint recovery; test bounds

- BufferedReader::close_impl still tells the maxBuffer owner when it drops a
  recorded read that overdrew the budget (exitedDueToMaxBuffer keys off it).
- --hot on Windows: check for the re-created entrypoint once per watcher
  batch instead of in the Directory arm, so a same-batch delete + recreate
  (directory record before file record) does not leave the flag armed for a
  duplicate reload later.
- ReadDeferral::cancel also clears what the cancelled dispatch recorded.
- libuv.c: nest the __has_feature test so preprocessors without it parse.
- Tests: process-stdin's read(n) child bounds its wait in wall-clock time;
  the fixture's socket case settles aDone even when the nested wait fails.
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…ardening

- Console stdin in line mode: libuv queues the next line read, alloc_cb
  included, as soon as the read callback returns and fills that buffer from
  a worker thread, so a read is outstanding into `_buffer` by the time the
  parent takes and clears it at dispatch. BufferedReader now stops a tty
  read inside the read callback (nothing is pending at that point) and
  starts it again after the hand-over, unless that paused, closed or
  finished the reader. Pipes read in zero-read mode and are unaffected.
- JS timers keep the loop alive through the loop's counter on Windows too,
  instead of through the wake uv_timer's ref flag: the timer is one-shot,
  so libuv dropped it from its active count whenever it fired and aliveness
  depended on when drain_timers last re-armed it.
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- Fixture: the pipe case's children exit right after answering, so process
  exits and pipe EOFs are dispatched inside the nested wait too.

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Comment thread src/runtime/timer/mod.rs
dylan-conway added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 22, 2026
…xture's module-scope imports, unlink its unix socket path

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…rewriter abandon test tolerates one conservatively pinned handler

- ensure_uv_timer no longer refs the wake uv_timer while JS timers are
  active: the keep-alive is the loop counter now, and a ref'd, armed wake
  timer could hold the process past clearTimeout of the last active timer.
- deferred::arm cancels a node that is still queued before re-arming (all
  request structs are zeroed at creation, so the check reads defined
  memory); re-issuing early stays an owner bug (debug assertion) but can no
  longer corrupt the queue in release.
- html-rewriter-leak "file-backed input are abandoned": the abandon path is
  driven by the handler promise being collected, and the most recently
  started handler's promise can remain conservatively reachable from a dead
  word in the microtask frame the polling loop itself resumes through - a
  heap snapshot in that state shows the Promise live with no incoming edge
  and no root, and a debugger shows its address at a fixed offset in
  JSC::asyncFunctionGeneratorBodyCall's frame (under drainMicrotasks <-
  timer fire <- drain_timers) during the loop's Bun.gc. main needs one extra
  round for the last promise for the same reason; with timers and reads now
  dispatched from different native frames on Windows the residue survived
  the 100 rounds on Windows aarch64 CI. Require all but one and never await
  an unsettled body; a broken abandon path strands all N.
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Additional findings (outside current diff — PR may have been updated during review):

  • 🔴 src/runtime/timer/mod.rs:1191-1201 — The new comment here says "the wake uv_timer stays unref'd", but ensure_uv_timer still contains if self.active_timer_count > 0 { self.uv_timer.ref_() } else { self.uv_timer.unref() } at lines 793-797, and this PR removed the only path that unref'd it on cancel (increment_timer_ref(-1) no longer touches uv_timer). On Windows, after clearing all timers the wake timer stays ref'd + active until its armed deadline, so uv_loop_alive() stays true and the process hangs for up to the longest cleared timeout. Delete lines 793-797 — the lazy-init at line 743 already leaves the handle unref'd.

    Extended reasoning...

    What the bug is

    Commit 8ad5c21 (part of this PR) moved the Windows JS-timer keep-alive from the wake uv_timer's ref flag to the loop's own counter: increment_timer_ref now calls uws_loop.ref_()/unref() on all platforms and its #[cfg(windows)] self.uv_timer.ref_()/unref() calls were deleted. The new comment at lines 1191-1194 states "the wake uv_timer stays unref'd", and ensure_uv_timer's doc comment was updated to "this (unref'd) uv_timer_t" (line 724).

    But ensure_uv_timer still contains, at lines 793-797:

    if self.active_timer_count > 0 {
        self.uv_timer.ref_();
    } else {
        self.uv_timer.unref();
    }

    So the wake timer does not stay unref'd. Every insert() call (line 699) — from setTimeout/setInterval/update()/reschedule(), and from this PR's new drain_timers end-of-drain re-arm at line 1125 — reaches ensure_uv_timer, which refs the uv_timer whenever active_timer_count > 0 at that moment.

    Why nothing unrefs it any more

    Before this PR, when the last ref'd timer was cancelled, increment_timer_ref(-1) at the 1→0 transition called self.uv_timer.unref(). That call is gone from the diff. The remaining unref sites are:

    • Line 743 (lazy-init) — only runs once, before anything refs it.
    • Line 796 (ensure_uv_timer's else branch) — unreachable on the cancel path: remove() (lines 812-834) does not call ensure_uv_timer, and when both heaps are empty ensure_uv_timer early-returns at line 767 (soonest() → None) before reaching line 793.

    So once the wake timer is ref'd, nothing on the clearTimeout/clearIntervalcancel()remove() + increment_timer_ref(-1) path ever unrefs it.

    Step-by-step proof

    On Windows:

    const t1 = setTimeout(() => {}, 60000);
    const t2 = setTimeout(() => {}, 60000);
    clearTimeout(t1);
    clearTimeout(t2);
    1. t1 insertensure_uv_timer runs with active_timer_count == 0 → line 796 uv_timer.unref() (no-op, already unref'd); uv_timer.start(60000) → handle is active + unref'd (contributes 0 to active_handles). Then set_enable_keeping_event_loop_aliveincrement_timer_ref(+1): 0→1 transition, uws_loop.ref_() bumps active_handles by 1.
    2. t2 insertensure_uv_timer runs with active_timer_count == 1 → line 794 uv_timer.ref_(). libuv's uv__handle_ref sets UV_HANDLE_REF and, because the handle is active, increments active_handles by 1. Then increment_timer_ref(+1): 1→2, no transition.
    3. clearTimeout(t1)increment_timer_ref(-1): 2→1, no transition. remove() does not touch uv_timer.
    4. clearTimeout(t2)increment_timer_ref(-1): 1→0 transition, uws_loop.unref() decrements active_handles by 1. remove() does not touch uv_timer.

    Net: active_handles is +1 solely from the ref'd + active wake uv_timer, still armed for ~60 s. WindowsLoop::is_active()uv_loop_alive() stays true, so tick_possibly_forever keeps parking. The process hangs for ~60 s before exiting. Pre-PR, step 4's increment_timer_ref(-1) called self.uv_timer.unref() and cleared the +1.

    The DNS resolver hits it more directly: dns.rs:4114 calls increment_timer_ref(1) before insert(), so even the first DNS timer refs the wake timer; remove_timer no longer unrefs it. And drain_timers' new re-arm at line 1125 calls ensure_uv_timer after firing, so a single setInterval that fires once (active_timer_count > 0 during re-arm) then is clearInterval'd reproduces it too.

    Impact

    Windows-only regression introduced by this PR (specifically by the increment_timer_ref change in commit 8ad5c21). After all ref'd timers are cleared, the process stays alive for up to the longest cleared timer's remaining duration instead of exiting. This is a concrete behavioral regression a user would hit — e.g. clearTimeout on a long timeout no longer lets the process exit promptly.

    Fix

    Delete lines 793-797 in ensure_uv_timer. The lazy-init at line 743 already unrefs the handle, and per both updated comments (lines 724 and 1191-1194) and the 8ad5c21 commit message the design is that the wake timer stays unref'd — keep-alive lives entirely in the loop's counter via increment_timer_ref.

Comment thread src/io/PipeReader.rs
Comment thread test/js/workerd/html-rewriter-leak.test.ts
If the parent's data handler pauses and resumes the reader, start_reading
has already started the stream again; the restart pending from
on_stream_read must not start it a second time (uv_read_start returns
UV_EALREADY, which would surface as a read error). start_reading and
stop_reading now clear it.
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Evidence for the html-rewriter-leak.test.ts change ("never-settling handler promises on a file-backed input are abandoned" now requires N-1 of N), since it attributes the straggler to conservative stack scanning.

Repro. Windows x64, release build of this branch. The straggler only shows up when other work ran earlier in the same process (as in the real test file); a probe that runs the test body several times in one bun test process gives, per run, the number of Bun.gc(true) + setTimeout(1) rounds until all bodies settled and the settled count after each round:

N=1   ITER=2   progress=0,1
N=5   ITER=33  progress=0,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,...
N=20  ITER=67  progress=0,19,19,19,19,19,...
N=20  ITER=203 progress=0,19,19,19,...          (another run)

main (x64 release) on the same probe: progress=0,19,20 every time — the last body always needs one round more than the other 19 — and 10 rounds for a variant that calls Bun.gc from the timer callback after allocating; i.e. the same effect, shorter. Debug-build [filereader] logs show all 20 readers reach onReaderDone() in round 0 in the stuck case, so no I/O is outstanding; what is late is the collection of the last handler's promise.

1. Heap snapshot (generateHeapSnapshotForDebugging() taken in the stuck state, round 3, 4 of 5 settled). Retainer walk of the surviving Transform cell (Structure edges omitted):

HTMLRewriterTransform #532 @0x1a537244848
 <-Internal  NativePromiseContext #510
   <-Internal  InternalFieldTuple #485
     <-Internal  FullPromiseReaction #480
       <-Internal  Promise #474 @0x1a532b68760      <- no incoming edges
 <-transform  Response #538  <-response  HTMLRewriterTransform #532   (cycle)

root reason labels present in the snapshot: StrongReferences, StrongHandles, Output, ProtectedValues, DOMGCOutput
root entries whose node is a Promise/HTMLRewriterTransform/NativePromiseContext/reaction: one unrelated Promise (ProtectedValues); none for #474 or #532

So the head of the chain, Promise #474 (the handler's never-settling promise), is live with no incoming edge and no roots entry.

2. Debugger. Same probe under lldb, breakpoint in JSC::Heap::collectNow armed once the JS side had written the orphan addresses (from a snapshot as above) to a file; at the stop, a script read [sp, end of stack region) and searched for the 8-byte cell addresses:

ORPHANS (live, no edge, no root): Promise=0x22601b68780 Promise=0x22601b689e0
sp=0xd8c1d9dbb8 stack region end=0xd8c1e00000 (393 KB to scan)
Promise 0x22601b68780 found at stack 0xd8c1d9dee0 = frame#8.sp + 0xa0
Promise 0x22601b689e0 found at stack 0xd8c1d9efd0 = frame#19.sp + 0x330

frame sp (from the unwinder)          symbol (PDB, with inlining)
 #0  0xd8c1d9dbb8  JSC::Heap::collectNow
 #1  0xd8c1d9dbc0  JSC__VM__runGC                                  bindings.cpp:5171
 #2  0xd8c1d9dc30  bindgen_bunobject_dispatch_gc                   (Bun.gc)
 #3  0xd8c1d9dc70  bindgen_BunObject_jsGc
 #4  0xd8c1d9dcc0  <jit>
 #5  0xd8c1d9dcd0  <jit>                                           (the test's async function body)
 #6  0xd8c1d9dd90  vmEntryToJavaScript
 #7  0xd8c1d9dde0  JSC::MicrotaskCall::relink
 #8  0xd8c1d9de40  JSC::asyncFunctionGeneratorBodyCall > JSC::callMicrotask (inlined)     <- 0x...68780 at +0xa0
 #9  0xd8c1d9e060  JSC::runInternalMicrotask
 #10 0xd8c1d9e270  JSC::MicrotaskQueue::drainWithUseCallOnEachMicrotask > drainImpl > runMicrotask
 #11 0xd8c1d9e540  JSC::VM::drainMicrotasks > performMicrotaskCheckpoint
 #12 0xd8c1d9e600  Bun::JSNextTickQueue::drain
 #14 0xd8c1d9e730  bun_jsc::event_loop::EventLoop::drain_microtasks_with_global
 #15 0xd8c1d9e7b0  bun_runtime::timer::TimerObjectInternals::fire
 #17 0xd8c1d9eb20  bun_runtime::timer::All::drain_timers
 #18 0xd8c1d9ebd0  bun_runtime::jsc_hooks::auto_tick
 #19 0xd8c1d9eca0  bun_runtime::cli::test_command::TestCommand::run                        <- 0x...689e0 at +0x330
 #20 0xd8c1d9f070  run_all_tests::Context::begin > run_with_api_lock
 ...

The pinned handler promise (0x…68780 — the same heap slot as the stuck promise in every snapshot run) is a word inside asyncFunctionGeneratorBodyCall/callMicrotask's frame while that frame is resuming the test's async function after await setTimeout — its live values are the test function's generator and resumption value, so the word is left over from an earlier activation at that address, and it is inside the range the collector scans conservatively during this Bun.gc(true). Which native frames sit between auto_tick and JS when timers fire and when reads are delivered is exactly what this PR changes on Windows, which is why the residue that used to be overwritten within one extra round now survived the test's 100 rounds on the Windows aarch64 runners.

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