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Groundwork for multiple interpreters (PEP 734 / PEP 684), plus a GC data race that
having more than one interpreter exposes. No Python-facing API is added yet:
sys.implementation.supports_isolated_interpreters stays false and there is no
_interpreters module in this PR.

Layering

The types line up with CPython so the stdlib module can be added on top later:

CPython RustPython
_PyRuntimeState.interpreters vm/runtime.rs registry
PyInterpreterState PyGlobalState
PyThreadState VirtualMachine

What changed

Per-interpreter state. PyGlobalState gains interpreter_id / whence /
is_main. Interpreter::create_subinterpreter() builds an interpreter that shares
the process-wide Context (immortal builtin types, safe because builtin types are
IMMUTABLETYPE) but gets its own PyGlobalState, sys.modules, builtins module,
codec registry, warnings state, thread registry and stop-the-world state. Config,
module defs and frozen modules are cloned from the parent.

Interpreter registry (vm/runtime.rs): monotonic ids, weak entries so the
registry never keeps an interpreter alive, whence tracking, and a main_id
recorded from the first is_main interpreter for a future _interpreters.get_main().
There is also a runtime-owned table (store_owned_interpreter / take_owned_interpreter),
which is the ownership anchor _interpreters.create() will need, since Python
receives only an id. It is threading-gated because Interpreter: Send only holds
for Arc-backed builds.

Per-interpreter thread slots. CPython keeps a PyThreadState per
(thread, interpreter) pair; INTERP_THREAD_SLOTS mirrors that, so
sys._current_frames() and stop-the-world are scoped to one interpreter.

Signals stay owned by the main interpreter: subinterpreters no longer reinstall
SIGINT handlers, and _thread._is_main_interpreter() now reflects the caller.

Registry lifetime. An interpreter is registered before initialize() runs any
bytecode, is released when its last PyRc<PyGlobalState> goes away rather than when
the Interpreter handle drops (workers from new_thread() outlive the handle), and
every interpreter — not just the forking one — is repaired in a forked child, since
the collector now stops all of them.

GC. The cyclic collector's generation lists are process-global, so a collection
reads and frees objects owned by every interpreter — but CollectStopTheWorld
stopped only the collecting interpreter, leaving other interpreters' threads free to
mutate the same object graph during the reference-subtraction, reachability and
snapshot phases. It now stops every live interpreter in registry id order and
restarts in reverse. The global collecting mutex serializes collectors
process-wide and fork acquires a single interpreter's exclusion, so the exclusion
orders cannot cycle. StopTheWorldState methods now take &PyGlobalState instead
of &VirtualMachine, since an interpreter's world must be stoppable without
holding a VM for it — that is an API change for embedders calling these directly.

Known limitations

  • The collector is process-wide, not per-interpreter. gc.disable(), thresholds,
    gc.garbage and gc.get_objects() all observe process-wide state. Making it
    per-interpreter additionally requires routing untrack_object — called from
    default_dealloc, where no VM is in scope — to the owning interpreter's lists.
    Documented on gc_state().
  • Entering a second interpreter from inside another interpreter's enter() on the
    same OS thread is not supported yet.
    enter_vm only attaches at the outermost
    section, so a nested cross-interpreter enter would run with the inner slot
    DETACHED. Nothing in tree does this; the _PyThreadState_Swap equivalent belongs
    with the _interpreters work that needs it.
  • Subclassing a shared builtin type from a subinterpreter registers the subclass on
    the shared type, so it is visible through __subclasses__ in other interpreters.

Tests

cargo test -p rustpython-vm --features threading and the default (non-threading)
build both pass, as do clippy and -m test for test_gc, test_threading and
test_fork1.

New tests cover interpreter identity and registration, module/builtins isolation,
subinterpreter creation while the parent is entered, concurrent and overlapping
execution across interpreters, and runtime-owned interpreter lifecycle. The two GC
tests were each checked to fail without their fix:
stop_the_world_parks_threads_of_another_interpreter asserts a thread entered in one
interpreter can park another interpreter's threads.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for creating and managing isolated subinterpreters.
    • Added interpreter identity and lifecycle information.
    • Interpreter support is now accurately reported through sys.implementation.
    • Improved isolation for modules, configuration, threads, runtime state, and garbage collection.
    • Added interpreter-specific object visibility and garbage collection controls.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected signal-handler setup so only the main interpreter installs process-level handlers.
    • Improved garbage collection, traceback, frame inspection, forking, and thread coordination across interpreters.
    • Fixed interpreter-specific thread-state handling during nested execution and cleanup.

- vm/runtime.rs: process-global interpreter registry (monotonic ids, weak
  entries), InterpreterWhence/InterpreterInfo, process main id recording via
  main_interpreter_id(), a threading-gated owner map (store_owned_interpreter/
  take_owned_interpreter/is_owned_interpreter/owned_interpreter_count), and the
  SUPPORTS_ISOLATED_INTERPRETERS constant.
- PyGlobalState gains interpreter_id/whence/is_main and is_main_interpreter();
  PyConfig/Settings derive Clone so a subinterpreter can clone parent config.
- Interpreter: id()/whence()/is_main()/is_process_main(),
  create_subinterpreter() and create_owned_subinterpreter(); unregister on Drop.
- thread.rs: per-interpreter thread slots (INTERP_THREAD_SLOTS), slot swap when
  switching interpreters on one OS thread, cleanup keyed by interpreter id.
- Install signal handlers and init the main-thread ident only on the main
  interpreter; _thread._is_main_interpreter reflects the current interpreter.
- sys.implementation.supports_isolated_interpreters reads the constant.
- Guard the registry static for non-threading builds where rc::Weak is !Send.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8
The generation lists are process-global, so a collection reads and frees
objects owned by every interpreter. CollectStopTheWorld stopped only the
collecting interpreter, leaving other interpreters' threads free to mutate
the same object graph during the reference-subtraction, reachability and
snapshot phases.

Stop all live interpreters instead, in runtime id order, and restart them in
reverse. The global `collecting` mutex serializes collectors process-wide, so
no second collector takes these exclusions in another order; fork acquires a
single interpreter's exclusion, so the orders cannot cycle.

- runtime: add live_interpreter_states(), ordered by interpreter id.
- StopTheWorldState methods take &PyGlobalState instead of &VirtualMachine,
  so an interpreter's world can be stopped without a VM for it; update the
  call sites in frame, _thread, posix, faulthandler and capi.
- Document in gc_state() that the collector is process-wide: gc.disable(),
  thresholds, gc.garbage and gc.get_objects() observe process-wide state, and
  a per-interpreter collector additionally needs untrack_object (called from
  default_dealloc with no VM in scope) routed to the owning interpreter.

Tests: stop_the_world_parks_threads_of_another_interpreter asserts a thread
entered in one interpreter parks another interpreter's threads (it fails
without this change), plus a collect-while-another-interpreter-churns test.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8
The registry held `rc::Weak` in a process-global `OnceLock` and covered the
resulting `!Send`/`!Sync` with an `unsafe impl` justifying it as "non-threading
builds are single-threaded". That is not this codebase's model: `static_cell!`
is thread-local without the `threading` feature precisely so each OS thread can
own its own `Context::genesis()` and `GcState`, so two threads could reach the
same `Rc` counts through the registry.

Use `static_cell!` for the registry as well, matching `gc_state()`, and drop the
`unsafe impl`. Ids are consequently unique per registry rather than per process
in non-threading builds, which is documented on `alloc_interpreter_id`.

Move the recorded main interpreter id into the registry so it follows the same
scoping instead of living in a separate global `OnceLock`.

Also make `CollectStopTheWorld::new` accumulate into a live guard: it built a
bare `Vec` and only moved it into the restarting `Drop` type after stopping
every interpreter, so an unwind partway through the loop left the already
stopped interpreters parked forever with their exclusion held.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8
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The change adds process-wide interpreter registration, isolated subinterpreter creation, per-interpreter garbage collection and thread-local slots, and cross-interpreter stop-the-world coordination. VM, C API, signal, fork, frame, traceback, and synchronization paths now use interpreter state directly.

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Interpreter runtime and isolation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime registry and interpreter initialization
crates/vm/src/vm/runtime.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/setting.rs, crates/vm/src/lib.rs
The runtime assigns interpreter identity and provenance, registers live interpreters, and supports owned interpreters. Shared initialization creates main and subinterpreters with reused configuration and isolated runtime state.
Interpreter isolation and ownership validation
crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs
Tests cover interpreter identity, registration, isolated modules and builtins, nested and concurrent execution, runtime ownership, interpreter-local collection, and type visibility.

Thread and garbage-collection coordination

Layer / File(s) Summary
Per-interpreter thread slots
crates/vm/src/vm/thread.rs
Thread-local storage maps interpreter IDs to frame slots and restores the correct slot during nested entry, VM restoration, cleanup, and fork handling.
Interpreter-owned garbage collection
crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs, crates/vm/src/object/core.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/gc.rs, crates/capi/src/objimpl.rs, crates/vm/src/frame.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/function.rs
Objects record GC owners. Shared object lists and counts combine with per-interpreter policies, statistics, callbacks, garbage, freezing, and collection state.
Cross-interpreter stop-the-world coordination
crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs, crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs
Stop-the-world APIs receive PyGlobalState. Collection stops live interpreters in runtime order, resumes them in reverse order, and handles partial stops during unwinding.
Interpreter-sensitive APIs and fork handling
crates/capi/src/pystate.rs, crates/stdlib/src/faulthandler.rs, crates/vm/src/builtins/frame.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_signal.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_thread.rs, crates/stdlib/src/_queue.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_io.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/_winapi.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/posix.rs, crates/vm/src/stdlib/sys.rs, crates/vm/src/vm/context.rs
Stop-the-world callers pass interpreter state. Blocking mutex paths release VM attachment while waiting. Fork recovery repairs live interpreter state and removes inherited slots for other interpreters. Signal setup is limited to the main interpreter.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 82a7b

This PR changes interpreter isolation and process-wide garbage-collection coordination. Partial collections may reset global generation counts while objects from other interpreters remain tracked, delaying automatic collection; unresolved 32-bit layout and owner-tag lifecycle issues also create build and performance risk. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Interpreter
  participant Runtime
  participant ThreadTLS
  participant PyGlobalState
  participant GarbageCollector

  Interpreter->>Runtime: Register interpreter state
  Runtime-->>Interpreter: Assign interpreter ID
  Interpreter->>ThreadTLS: Enter interpreter-specific slot
  GarbageCollector->>Runtime: Enumerate live interpreter states
  Runtime-->>GarbageCollector: Return states in ID order
  GarbageCollector->>PyGlobalState: Stop interpreter threads
  GarbageCollector->>PyGlobalState: Resume interpreter threads in reverse order
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crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs (1)

423-424: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that state owns this StopTheWorldState.

stop_the_world and start_the_world are pub and take &self and state as independent arguments. Nothing enforces that self is state.stop_the_world.

If a caller passes a mismatched pair, the stop flag is set on one interpreter while another interpreter's threads are parked. suspend_if_needed reads the flag through vm.state.stop_the_world (crates/vm/src/vm/thread.rs Lines 553-573), so the parked threads poll a flag that start_the_world never clears, and they stay SUSPENDED.

All current callers derive both values from the same state. Add a debug assertion to enforce the invariant at no release cost. A stronger option is to expose these as methods on PyGlobalState, which removes the mismatch entirely, but that touches all six caller files.

♻️ Proposed debug assertion
     pub fn stop_the_world(&self, state: &PyGlobalState) {
+        debug_assert!(
+            core::ptr::eq(&state.stop_the_world, self),
+            "stop_the_world called with a state that does not own this StopTheWorldState"
+        );
         self.acquire_exclusion();
     pub fn start_the_world(&self, state: &PyGlobalState) {
+        debug_assert!(
+            core::ptr::eq(&state.stop_the_world, self),
+            "start_the_world called with a state that does not own this StopTheWorldState"
+        );
         use thread::{THREAD_DETACHED, THREAD_SUSPENDED};

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In `@crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs` around lines 423 - 424, Add debug assertions in both
stop_the_world and start_the_world verifying that the supplied state owns this
StopTheWorldState instance, using pointer identity with state.stop_the_world.
Keep the existing exclusion and world-stopping logic unchanged, and ensure the
checks are debug-only with no release-build cost.
crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs (1)

1356-1359: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the resume wait so a failure does not hang the test run.

The loop spins with yield_now() until progress changes and has no deadline. If start_the_world fails to release the worker, the test hangs instead of failing. A hang gives no diagnostic output and blocks CI.

Add a deadline and assert on it.

♻️ Proposed bounded wait
         // After restart the worker makes progress again.
         let resumed_from = progress.load(Ordering::Acquire);
-        while progress.load(Ordering::Acquire) == resumed_from {
-            std::thread::yield_now();
-        }
+        let deadline = std::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(5);
+        while progress.load(Ordering::Acquire) == resumed_from {
+            assert!(
+                std::time::Instant::now() < deadline,
+                "subinterpreter thread did not resume after start_the_world"
+            );
+            std::thread::yield_now();
+        }
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In `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs` around lines 1356 - 1359, Bound the resume
wait in the progress-checking loop by adding a deadline and asserting that
progress changes before it expires; preserve the existing yield behavior while
ensuring a failed start_the_world release causes a diagnostic test failure
instead of an indefinite hang.
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Inline comments:
In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs`:
- Around line 149-205: Update initialize_vm so the interpreter state is
registered with runtime::register_interpreter before entering VmBootstrapGuard
and calling vm.initialize(), ensuring CollectStopTheWorld::new includes the
attached bootstrap interpreter during all bootstrap mutations. Keep registration
lifecycle cleanup correct if initialization fails.

Apply the same fix in `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs` around lines 144 - 212:
Covers the registry-snapshot race and required rollback when registration
precedes initialization.

In `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs`:
- Around line 1192-1196: Replace the exact owned-interpreter count delta
assertion in the test with a membership-based assertion that verifies the newly
stored interpreter remains registered. Keep the existing
store_owned_interpreter, is_owned_interpreter, and lookup_interpreter checks,
and avoid relying on owned_interpreter_count because the table is process-global
and tests run concurrently.

In `@crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs`:
- Around line 748-753: Update the doc comment for the is_main field in the
interpreter state to describe that it identifies a top-level interpreter, not
exclusively the process main interpreter; keep the narrower process-main meaning
documented by Interpreter::is_process_main.

In `@crates/vm/src/vm/thread.rs`:
- Around line 145-159: Update set_current_vm and the nested enter_vm path to
reject nested cross-interpreter entry before switching VM thread slots, or
safely attach and update stop-the-world accounting for the new active
interpreter slot. Preserve same-interpreter nesting, and ensure a detached slot
cannot become current while executing.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs`:
- Around line 1356-1359: Bound the resume wait in the progress-checking loop by
adding a deadline and asserting that progress changes before it expires;
preserve the existing yield behavior while ensuring a failed start_the_world
release causes a diagnostic test failure instead of an indefinite hang.

In `@crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs`:
- Around line 423-424: Add debug assertions in both stop_the_world and
start_the_world verifying that the supplied state owns this StopTheWorldState
instance, using pointer identity with state.stop_the_world. Keep the existing
exclusion and world-stopping logic unchanged, and ensure the checks are
debug-only with no release-build cost.
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  • crates/capi/src/pystate.rs
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Comment thread crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs
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Comment on lines +748 to +753
/// Unique process-global interpreter id (main is [`MAIN_INTERPRETER_ID`]).
pub interpreter_id: i64,
/// How this interpreter was created.
pub whence: runtime::InterpreterWhence,
/// True only for the process main interpreter.
pub is_main: bool,

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the is_main doc comment.

The comment says "True only for the process main interpreter." The code sets is_main: true for every top-level interpreter: InterpreterBuilder::build at crates/vm/src/vm/interpreter.rs Line 332 and Interpreter::with_init at Line 428. An embedder can create several top-level interpreters, and each gets is_main == true.

crates/vm/src/vm/runtime.rs Lines 115-117 state the correct meaning, and Interpreter::is_process_main covers the narrow one.

The distinction matters because is_main_interpreter() gates init_main_thread_ident at Line 1115. A reader trusting this comment would not expect two top-level interpreters to pass that gate.

📝 Proposed doc fix
-    /// True only for the process main interpreter.
+    /// True for every top-level (non-sub) interpreter, which owns its own
+    /// signal and main-thread bookkeeping. Only the first registered one is
+    /// *the* process main; use `runtime::main_interpreter_id` for that.
     pub is_main: bool,
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/// Unique process-global interpreter id (main is [`MAIN_INTERPRETER_ID`]).
pub interpreter_id: i64,
/// How this interpreter was created.
pub whence: runtime::InterpreterWhence,
/// True only for the process main interpreter.
pub is_main: bool,
/// Unique process-global interpreter id (main is [`MAIN_INTERPRETER_ID`]).
pub interpreter_id: i64,
/// How this interpreter was created.
pub whence: runtime::InterpreterWhence,
/// True for every top-level (non-sub) interpreter, which owns its own
/// signal and main-thread bookkeeping. Only the first registered one is
/// *the* process main; use `runtime::main_interpreter_id` for that.
pub is_main: bool,
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In `@crates/vm/src/vm/mod.rs` around lines 748 - 753, Update the doc comment for
the is_main field in the interpreter state to describe that it identifies a
top-level interpreter, not exclusively the process main interpreter; keep the
narrower process-main meaning documented by Interpreter::is_process_main.

Comment thread crates/vm/src/vm/thread.rs
Three gaps where the registry did not describe the interpreters that actually
exist, each of which hides an interpreter from the collector's stop-the-world.

Register before `initialize()`. Registration ran as the last step of
`initialize_vm`, so the whole bootstrap — which executes Python bytecode and
allocates GC-tracked objects — was invisible to `live_interpreter_states()`.
It still cannot run any earlier than this: the init hooks take
`PyRc::get_mut` on the state, which fails as soon as the registry holds a weak
reference to it.

Stop unregistering in `Interpreter::drop`. The handle does not decide the
interpreter's lifetime — every `ThreadedVirtualMachine` from `new_thread()`
holds its own `PyRc<PyGlobalState>` — so an interpreter with running workers
disappeared from the registry while its threads kept mutating the object graph.
The entries are weak, so lifetime is already correct without the removal; dead
entries are now reaped when registering instead. Interpreters are consequently
released rather than unregistered at a fixed point, so the two tests asserting
disappearance now wait for it: a collection in progress legitimately holds a
reference to every live interpreter.

Repair other interpreters after fork. `py_os_after_fork_child` only fixed the
forking interpreter, leaving every other one with slots for threads that did
not survive (still ATTACHED if they were running bytecode) plus locks and
stop-the-world flags held by them. Since a collection stops all interpreters,
the child's first collection would wait for threads that no longer exist. Reset
their locks, stop-the-world state and thread tables, drop this thread's cached
slots for them, and reinit the registry's own locks first, since enumerating
interpreters now takes them.

Tests: test_gc, test_threading and test_fork1 pass, as do the vm tests in both
the threading and default configurations.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8
`enter_vm` decided whether to attach from `was_outermost` (an empty VM_STACK),
which held while a thread could only ever be in one interpreter. With a slot per
(thread, interpreter) pair, entering interpreter B from a thread already inside
interpreter A's section switched CURRENT_THREAD_SLOT to B's slot but attached
nothing: the thread then ran B's bytecode with B's slot DETACHED while A's slot
stayed ATTACHED. A collector stopping B force-parks the DETACHED slot and
concludes B is stopped, and then walks the object graph this thread is still
mutating.

Pair the attach/detach with the slot switch instead (≈ `_PyThreadState_Swap`):
`begin_interpreter_section` detaches the enclosing interpreter's slot, makes the
target slot current and attaches it, and `end_interpreter_section` undoes that
and re-attaches the enclosing interpreter. Both live in `set_current_vm`, which
every path making a VM current already goes through, so `enter_vm` and
`VmBootstrapGuard` no longer track outermost-ness themselves.

`nested_enter_of_subinterpreter_is_stoppable` covers this: it runs a
subinterpreter nested inside the parent's section and asserts the sub's threads
park when the sub's world is stopped. It fails with the previous
attach-at-outermost-only behavior.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-4-8
Interpreters share the context, so `class Foo(int)` in one of them pushes
onto the same `int.subclasses` every other one reads, and
`int.__subclasses__()` returned types no other interpreter can reach.

Record the creating interpreter on `HeapTypeExt` and filter
`__subclasses__` by it, the way `lookup_tp_subclasses` reads
`tp_subclasses` out of per-interpreter state for static builtin types.
Types built before any interpreter exists — the ones the shared context
creates, including the exception hierarchy — carry no id and stay visible
to every interpreter, which is what `_PyStaticType_InitBuiltin` produces
by registering the builtin subclass links once per interpreter.

The other walks over `subclasses` (version-tag invalidation, abc flag
propagation, mro updates, slot propagation) are left as they are: each
starts from a type being mutated, so from a heap type, whose subclasses
all live in the interpreter that created it.

`subinterpreter_subclasses_are_scoped_to_their_interpreter` covers this
and fails without the filter.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
The generation lists stay process-wide, because an object is untracked from
`default_dealloc`, where no interpreter is in scope to route to. What changes
is that a collection no longer acts on every interpreter's objects, and the gc
module no longer reports one interpreter's state to another.

`track_object` stamps the running interpreter into a new `gc_owner` word on the
object header, and a collection takes as candidates only the objects carrying
its own tag plus the ones carrying none. `gc_owner` fits in the padding the
header's alignment already forces, so objects do not grow; an assertion on the
header size keeps it that way.

Objects allocated with no interpreter running — everything the shared context
builds — carry no owner and stay candidates for every interpreter, which is
where they were before. Objects that outlive the interpreter that tracked them
are adopted the same way by the next full collection, rather than being left to
a collector that will never come.

`enabled`, the thresholds, the debug flags, the statistics, `gc.garbage` and
`gc.callbacks` move onto `PyGlobalState` — the last two off the shared
`Context` — so `gc.disable()`, `gc.set_threshold()`, `gc.get_stats()`,
`gc.get_objects()` and `gc.garbage` describe the interpreter that asks. The
occupancy counts behind `gc.get_count()` and `gc.get_freeze_count()` stay
process-wide: they measure how full the shared lists are. Their decrements are
saturating now, since a collection zeroes the generations it emptied while
another interpreter's objects are still sitting in them.

Stop-the-world still stops every interpreter. Unowned objects are candidates
and any interpreter can incref one, so the refcounts a collection reads are
only stable while all of them are parked.

This also fixes a deadlock it exposed: `CollectStopTheWorld` dropped its
references to the stopped interpreters while the collection still held the
generation read locks, so releasing the last reference to one — which frees its
objects, and so untracks them — waited for a write lock behind that read lock.
The references are now held until the guard itself drops.

`collections_only_reach_the_collecting_interpreter` and
`get_objects_only_reports_the_calling_interpreter` cover this and both fail
without the owner check.

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
`_queue.Semaphore` holds its mutex across the `allow_threads` condvar wait,
and `join_internal` holds a thread handle's completion mutex the same way.
Stop-the-world can stop a thread while it holds either one. The remaining
acquisitions ran attached, so a thread blocking on such a mutex had no
safepoint left to reach: the stop never completed, and the holder was never
resumed to release it.

Route those acquisitions through helpers that detach first. The fork-child
reinit paths keep their direct locks.

Assisted-by: Claude
`TextIOWrapper.__repr__` took `data` directly while every other method takes it
through `lock_opt`, which detaches. `Overlapped` holds `inner` across the
`allow_threads` in `GetOverlappedResult`, and all four of its takes were direct.

A thread stopped by stop-the-world can be holding either mutex, so taking one
while attached left the blocked thread with no safepoint to reach.

Assisted-by: Claude

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crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs (1)

297-306: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Record heap-type ownership explicitly.

new_heap uses the ambient VM, but shared types such as exception_group() and _io::unsupported_operation() can be created through Context::genesis() while an interpreter is current. Pass an explicit owner through new_heap; use Some(vm.state.interpreter_id) in type.__new__ and None for shared-context types. Add cross-interpreter visibility coverage.

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In `@crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs` around lines 297 - 306, Update new_heap to
accept an explicit interpreter owner instead of deriving ownership from the
ambient VM. Pass the current interpreter ID from type.__new__, while
shared-context constructors such as exception_group() and
_io::unsupported_operation() pass no owner even when an interpreter is active.
Add coverage verifying heap types remain correctly visible across interpreters.
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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs`:
- Around line 1280-1287: Update the comment in GcInterpreterState::drop to
remove the claim that retiring the owner frees its tag for reuse; state only
that gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner) clears ownership so tracked objects are
handled by future collections. Keep the behavior and the existing
alloc_owner/retire_owner semantics unchanged.
- Around line 539-561: Change the retired-owner tracking in GcState and
retire_owner to use a HashSet<u32>, preventing duplicate tags and providing
constant-time membership checks during collection. Update the collection logic
around the retired lookups to skip adoption work when the set is empty, while
preserving generation-2 cleanup and removal of processed tags.

In `@crates/vm/src/object/core.rs`:
- Around line 409-412: Update the SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD compile-time assertion to
account for target-dependent PyInner<()> layout: expect 28 bytes on 32-bit
targets and retain 48 bytes on 64-bit targets. Keep the assertion anchored to
SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD and use target-aware compilation or sizing rather than
weakening the check.

---

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In `@crates/vm/src/builtins/type.rs`:
- Around line 297-306: Update new_heap to accept an explicit interpreter owner
instead of deriving ownership from the ambient VM. Pass the current interpreter
ID from type.__new__, while shared-context constructors such as
exception_group() and _io::unsupported_operation() pass no owner even when an
interpreter is active. Add coverage verifying heap types remain correctly
visible across interpreters.
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Comment thread crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs
Comment on lines +539 to +561
let retired = self.retired.lock().clone();
let mut collecting: HashSet<GcPtr> = HashSet::new();
for gen_list in &gen_locks {
for obj in gen_list.iter() {
if obj.strong_count() > 0 {
if retired.contains(&obj.gc_owner()) {
obj.set_gc_owner(GC_NO_OWNER);
}
if obj.strong_count() > 0 && is_owned_by(obj, owner) {
collecting.insert(GcPtr(NonNull::from(obj)));
}
}
}

// A full collection is the only one that sees every generation, so it
// is where adoption finishes and the tags stop being tracked.
if generation == 2 && !retired.is_empty() {
for obj in self.permanent_list.read().iter() {
if retired.contains(&obj.gc_owner()) {
obj.set_gc_owner(GC_NO_OWNER);
}
}
self.retired.lock().retain(|tag| !retired.contains(tag));
}

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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the retired tag list and avoid the per-object linear scan.

retired is a Vec<u32> that only shrinks when generation == 2. Each dropped interpreter appends one tag through retire_owner. A workload that creates and drops subinterpreters without ever running a full collection grows this list without bound.

The scan cost is also multiplied: lines 543 and 556 call retired.contains(...) once per scanned object, so candidate gathering becomes O(objects × retired).

Use a set for the lookup, and skip the adoption branch when there is nothing to adopt.

⚡ Proposed change to the lookup structure
-        let retired = self.retired.lock().clone();
+        let retired: std::collections::HashSet<u32> =
+            self.retired.lock().iter().copied().collect();
+        let has_retired = !retired.is_empty();
         let mut collecting: HashSet<GcPtr> = HashSet::new();
         for gen_list in &gen_locks {
             for obj in gen_list.iter() {
-                if retired.contains(&obj.gc_owner()) {
+                if has_retired && retired.contains(&obj.gc_owner()) {
                     obj.set_gc_owner(GC_NO_OWNER);
                 }

Consider also storing retired itself as a HashSet<u32> in GcState so retire_owner de-duplicates.

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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs` around lines 539 - 561, Change the retired-owner
tracking in GcState and retire_owner to use a HashSet<u32>, preventing duplicate
tags and providing constant-time membership checks during collection. Update the
collection logic around the retired lookups to skip adoption work when the set
is empty, while preserving generation-2 cleanup and removal of processed tags.

Comment thread crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs
Comment on lines +1280 to +1287
impl Drop for GcInterpreterState {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// Objects this interpreter tracked can outlive it (another interpreter
// may still hold one). Clearing the tag hands them to every collection
// instead of stranding them, and frees the tag for reuse.
gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner);
}
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the contradictory statement about tag reuse.

Line 1284 states that clearing the tag "frees the tag for reuse". alloc_owner (line 311) only increments next_owner, and its own comment states that tags are never reused. retire_owner does not return the tag to any pool.

The stale claim can lead a later change to reuse a tag and alias a live interpreter.

📝 Proposed comment correction
         // Objects this interpreter tracked can outlive it (another interpreter
         // may still hold one). Clearing the tag hands them to every collection
-        // instead of stranding them, and frees the tag for reuse.
+        // instead of stranding them. The tag itself is retired, never reused.
         gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner);
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impl Drop for GcInterpreterState {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// Objects this interpreter tracked can outlive it (another interpreter
// may still hold one). Clearing the tag hands them to every collection
// instead of stranding them, and frees the tag for reuse.
gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner);
}
}
impl Drop for GcInterpreterState {
fn drop(&mut self) {
// Objects this interpreter tracked can outlive it (another interpreter
// may still hold one). Clearing the tag hands them to every collection
// instead of stranding them. The tag itself is retired, never reused.
gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner);
}
}
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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs` around lines 1280 - 1287, Update the comment in
GcInterpreterState::drop to remove the claim that retiring the owner frees its
tag for reuse; state only that gc_state().retire_owner(self.owner) clears
ownership so tracked objects are handled by future collections. Keep the
behavior and the existing alloc_owner/retire_owner semantics unchanged.

Comment on lines +409 to +412
// ref_count, vtable, gc_pointers (two) and typ are one word each; the gc bits,
// generation and owner share the word of padding their alignment forces. Adding
// to that group is free only while this holds.
const _: () = assert!(SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD == 6 * core::mem::size_of::<usize>());

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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class RefCount32(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("state", ctypes.c_uint32)]

class Pointers32(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("prev", ctypes.c_void_p), ("next", ctypes.c_void_p)]

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        ("gc_generation", ctypes.c_uint8),
        ("gc_owner", ctypes.c_uint32),
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    ]

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    _fields_ = [("state", ctypes.c_uint64)]

class Pointers64(ctypes.Structure):
    _fields_ = [("prev", ctypes.c_void_p), ("next", ctypes.c_void_p)]

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        ("gc_pointers", Pointers64),
        ("typ", ctypes.c_void_p),
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use core::ptr::NonNull;
use core::sync::atomic::AtomicU32;
use core::sync::atomic::AtomicU8;
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struct RefCount {
    state: AtomicUsize,
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}

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Make the header-size assertion target-aware.

On 32-bit targets, PyInner<()> is 28 bytes because gc_owner aligns after the two u8 fields. The assertion expects 24 bytes and causes a compile-time failure. On 64-bit targets, the size is 48 bytes and the assertion holds.

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In `@crates/vm/src/object/core.rs` around lines 409 - 412, Update the
SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD compile-time assertion to account for target-dependent
PyInner<()> layout: expect 28 bytes on 32-bit targets and retain 48 bytes on
64-bit targets. Keep the assertion anchored to SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD and use
target-aware compilation or sizing rather than weakening the check.

`gc_owner` was a u32. With 4-byte pointers its alignment pushed it out of the
padding that follows the gc bits and generation, growing every object by a
word and tripping the `SIZEOF_PYOBJECT_HEAD` assertion on 32-bit targets.

Introduce `GcOwner = u16`, which the `repr(C)` layout places at offset 10 on
32-bit and 18 on 64-bit, leaving the header at 6 words on both. Tags now run
out after 65535 interpreters; `alloc_owner` already falls back to
`GC_NO_OWNER`, so an interpreter past that collects as it did before tagging.

Also widen three test deadlines that measure liveness, not speed.

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563-569: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve shared generation counts after an owner-filtered collection.

Lines 563-569, 739-745, 763-768, and 992-997 reset process-wide counters after collecting only gc.owner and GC_NO_OWNER. Objects owned by another live interpreter remain in the generation lists. Their occupancy is then omitted from maybe_collect, which can delay automatic collection while those lists grow.

Maintain counts through promote_survivors and untrack_object, or recompute them under the generation locks. Do not reset process-wide counters after an owner-filtered collection.

Proposed fix
-            // Reset counts for generations whose objects were promoted away.
-            let reset_end = if generation >= 2 { 2 } else { generation + 1 };
-            for i in 0..reset_end {
-                self.counts[i].store(0, Ordering::SeqCst);
-            }
+            // `promote_survivors` and `untrack_object` maintain the
+            // process-wide generation counts.

Also applies to: 739-745, 763-768, 992-997

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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs` around lines 563 - 569, Update the collection
paths around promote_survivors and untrack_object so process-wide generation
counts remain accurate when collecting a specific owner and GC_NO_OWNER; do not
reset counts after owner-filtered collection, and instead maintain them during
promotion/untracking or recompute them while holding the generation locks. Apply
the same correction to all four count-reset paths.

308-316: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Issue u16::MAX before exhaustion.

GcOwner is u16, so u16::MAX is a valid nonzero tag. When next_owner reaches that value, checked_add fails and the allocator returns GC_NO_OWNER, limiting allocation to 65,534 owned interpreters. Use a permanent exhausted state after issuing u16::MAX, and change the comment from 32-bit to 16-bit.

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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs` around lines 308 - 316, Update alloc_owner so
u16::MAX is returned as a valid final owner tag before transitioning next_owner
to a permanent exhausted state that returns GC_NO_OWNER on subsequent
allocations. Adjust the nearby documentation to describe the 16-bit owner space
and this exhaustion behavior.
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In `@crates/vm/src/gc_state.rs`:
- Around line 563-569: Update the collection paths around promote_survivors and
untrack_object so process-wide generation counts remain accurate when collecting
a specific owner and GC_NO_OWNER; do not reset counts after owner-filtered
collection, and instead maintain them during promotion/untracking or recompute
them while holding the generation locks. Apply the same correction to all four
count-reset paths.
- Around line 308-316: Update alloc_owner so u16::MAX is returned as a valid
final owner tag before transitioning next_owner to a permanent exhausted state
that returns GC_NO_OWNER on subsequent allocations. Adjust the nearby
documentation to describe the 16-bit owner space and this exhaustion behavior.

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