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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion src/coreclr/gc/memory.cpp
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Expand Up @@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ size_t gc_heap::decommit_region (heap_segment* region, int bucket, int h_number)
decommit_succeeded_p));
if (require_clearing_memory_p)
{
uint8_t* clear_end = never_decommit_p ? heap_segment_used (region) : heap_segment_committed (region);

@janvorli janvorli May 11, 2026

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@BenV I am not 100% sure the actual problem is at this place. Last week I've tried to add clearing to all places where we skip it for large pages. And I've found that if I keep it at all the other places except of this one, it still passed the test you've shared. I am going to look into it more today, but that seems to indicate that the clearing we are adding here may be just fixing what should have been done at another place.
I didn't have a chance to read through @cshung's analysis yet though, I am going to do that first.

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@cshung after reading your analysis (thank you for that!), I wonder - why is clearing the memory here better than clearing the necessary part after the compaction / replanning instead? Wouldn't we end up zeroing less memory that way?

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That sounds good, let me know what you find and if you need anything else from us. Thanks again.

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@janvorli, the change will stop the bleeding for now, we can definitely try to optimize to zero less memory.

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I am admittedly biased but I agree it would be great to get the simple fix in and optimize later (particularly if we could backport this to .NET 10) - I'd rather zero a bit of extra memory if it is guaranteed to avoid corruption as GCLargePages is essentially a landmine right now. That being said if some additional investigation reveals a similarly simple fix elsewhere I would be all for that as well.

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Amazing, thanks @cshung - if @janvorli is able to verify it in .NET 10 I'm assuming we should close this out in favor of that change instead, right?

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@BenV, @cshung I can confirm that @cshung's change combined with the gc_heap::decommit_heap_segment early out change I've mentioned above passed the test that @BenV has shared.

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@janvorli Excellent, so would the plan be to backport your proposed gc_heap::decommit_heap_segment combined with #128217 to .NET 10 (and close this out)?

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Yes, that's the plan.

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@BenV, @cshung I've just merged the #128217 and I'll prepare the backport later today or tomorrow.

uint8_t* clear_end = heap_segment_committed (region);
size_t clear_size = clear_end - page_start;
memclr (page_start, clear_size);
heap_segment_used (region) = heap_segment_mem (region);
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