fix: isolate/runtime lifetime — worker startup race, teardown use-after-free, and leaks by edusperoni · Pull Request #2006 · NativeScript/android · GitHub

Crash and leak fixes around isolate/runtime lifetime. They share one invariant:

State bound to a runtime is owned by that runtime, and released on its own thread while its isolate is still alive.

1. The crash this started from

The suite intermittently died with SIGSEGV — roughly 1 run in 5 — always in a Worker thread. Device tombstones for this app go back to 2026-07-26, all in W<n>: ./EvalWork threads.

Reproduced and symbolized:

signal 11 (SIGSEGV), SEGV_MAPERR, fault addr 0x7100000000000072
tid 24248, name: W41: ./EvalWork
  #00 std::less<v8::Isolate*>::operator()
  #01-07 std::map<v8::Isolate*, std::map<std::string,double>>::insert   (__find_equal)
  #08 tns::Console::createConsole
  #09 tns::Runtime::PrepareV8Runtime
  #12 Java_com_tns_Runtime_initNativeScript

The fault address is not a pointer — it is freed red-black-tree node memory.

Several subsystems kept per-isolate state in process-wide maps keyed by v8::Isolate*. Keying by isolate does not make the container private: workers bootstrap on detached threads and initNativeScript holds no process-wide lock, so one runtime inserts its entry while another erases its own, and the container is corrupted mid-operation. The isolate Locker does not help — it is per-isolate, so two runtimes never exclude each other.

2. The fix: own the state, don't guard the container

RuntimeState is a typed, per-runtime slot bag owned by Runtime. A subsystem declares a state struct — usually in its own .cpp — and reaches it with RuntimeState::For<MyState>(isolate). A lookup is an isolate data-slot read plus a vector index: no lock, no hash, no shared container to race on. The bag is destroyed once in DestroyRuntime, while the isolate is alive.

Moved onto it: Console (timer labels + the compiled inspect.js), ArgConverter (java-long helpers), JSONObjectHelper (the compiled serializer), MetadataNode (per-isolate node cache, array template, and the constructor functions).

Console now has no global mutable state and no mutex at all.
Teardown's walk over every metadata node is gone. MetadataNode's constructor functions hung off each shared node as a map keyed by isolate, so onDisposeIsolate iterated all of s_treeNode2NodeCache — on a dying worker's thread, while other threads inserted — to erase one entry each.
Four onDisposeIsolate hooks deleted. Nothing is keyed by isolate any more.

3. Use-after-free at teardown (a crash, not a leak)

~Runtime called CallbackHandlers::RemoveIsolateEntries and FrameCallbacks::RemoveIsolateEntries, whose entry destructors call v8::Global::Reset(). ~Runtime runs after isolate->Dispose(), so those writes land in a freed handle table.

Worse, nothing dropped those entries earlier either: between DestroyRuntime and ~Runtime, the main thread could pick up a queued __runOnMainThread entry and take a v8::Locker on an already-disposed isolate — a main-thread crash attributed to the wrong runtime. Both calls move into DestroyRuntime, which fixes the write-after-free and closes the window.

4. Leaks

URLImpl / URLSearchParamsImpl / URLPatternImpl each carried a copy of the same weak-handle/finalizer block and freed themselves only from the GC finalizer. V8 does not run weak callbacks at isolate disposal, so every instance alive when a runtime died leaked its ada state — and URLPattern its compiled v8::Global regexps. They now share an IsolateTracked base: registered per runtime, deleted either by the GC finalizer or by SweepAll at teardown. Mirrors fix: delete self-owned URL wrappers at isolate teardown ios#438, with the registry in RuntimeState rather than Caches.
PerIsolateV8Constants was never deleted — 19 handles per runtime. Its destructor was also missing DISCARDED_ERROR_PERSISTENT and only Reset the handles rather than freeing them; both fixed, since it now actually runs.
m_context and m_gcFunc — never released.
The com.tns.Runtime JNI global ref was never deleted, pinning the Java runtime object and every Java object the runtime had strongly registered through it, for the life of the process. Released in ~Runtime — after ObjectManager teardown, which calls Java through that same object, and before the worker thread detaches.
TypeLongOperationsCache was deleted without a destructor, leaking two Persistents per isolate.
~MetadataNodeCache did not free the constructor caches. CtorCacheData::ft and ExtendedClassCacheData::extendedCtorFunction are owning raw pointers, so each runtime leaked a Persistent and its global handle per materialized class and per .extend(). They are freed from the maps, not by giving those two structs destructors: both are stored and returned by value (GetCachedExtendedClassData returns a copy) and the copies share the pointers, so a struct destructor would turn every copy into a double free. (Raised in review.)

5. Still-shared caches that genuinely are shared

MethodCache::s_mthod_ctor_signature_cache and JEnv::s_classCache/s_missingClasses are string-keyed and hold only JNI handles, so sharing them across runtimes is correct — they just were not synchronized. Both now use a std::shared_mutex: shared for lookups (the common case on the Java-interop hot path), exclusive only to publish. The JNI work stays outside the lock, so MethodCache resolution calling JEnv::FindClass does not nest them; a double-resolve is idempotent and first-publish wins, with the loser releasing its global ref instead of leaking it.

6. Runtime::TryGetRuntime

Five subsystems had each grown a private "read the isolate slot because GetRuntime throws" workaround — three identical GetRuntimeOrNull helpers (Performance.cpp, NativeScriptException.cpp, ErrorEvents.cpp, comments copy-pasted verbatim) plus inline reads in Events.cpp and FrameCallbacks.cpp. They all share Runtime::TryGetRuntime now — non-throwing, no lock — which is also what makes RuntimeState's lookup safe to call from a GC weak callback.

Also fixed

console.time / console.timeEnd dereferenced the iterator from a failed find() — both had a // throw? comment on the not-found branch and then used the end iterator anyway.

Verification

The runtime installs a SIGSEGV handler that throws a C++ exception from a signal handler (Runtime.cpp:65-83), which displaces debuggerd, so faults produce no tombstone and surface as NativeScriptException: JNI Exception occurred (SIGSEGV) — why this read as flaky tests for weeks. (Removed separately in #2007.)

Verification therefore runs with that handler temporarily disabled (not part of this PR), so every fault is fatal and tombstoned:

Build	Full-suite runs	Crashes
Before (main)	reproduced on iteration 5 of 20; 2 of 4 in earlier ad-hoc runs	~1 in 5
First cut of the fix (mutexes on the three caches)	20 / 20 clean	0
Per-runtime rewrite, before the teardown fixes	13 / 13 clean (stopped early to fold in more fixes)	0
Final tree	20 / 20 clean	0

If the fault rate were unchanged, 20 consecutive clean runs would happen about 1% of the time. Suite is 879 / 0 throughout.

Every row was measured, none extrapolated.

The first run of the final tree failed all 20 — PerIsolateV8Constants declares 20 handles but its constructor allocates 19 (DEBUG_NAME_PERSISTENT is never assigned), and the pre-existing destructor reset it unconditionally. That destructor had simply never run before, because the object was leaked rather than deleted; deleting it made the latent fault reachable. Every member is default-initialized now. CI caught the same thing independently, as a missing results file.

Deliberately not in this PR

ObjectManager teardown — it has no destructor at all, and with the default none marking mode the paths that would drain its maps never run (three of them are declared with no definition anywhere). A worker that touched Java objects leaks up to 1000 JNI weak global refs; ART's weak-global table is bounded, so enough worker cycles turn this into an abort rather than a leak. It needs a two-phase sweep split across DestroyRuntime (V8 handles) and a new ~ObjectManager (JNI refs), on the runtime's hottest path. Stacked PR next.
Completing ~MetadataNodeCache (CtorFuncCache, ExtendedCtorFuncCache, and the External-attached PODs). ExtendedClassCacheData is copied by value into its map while holding a raw Persistent*, so adding a destructor to the struct turns every copy into a double-free — it must be freed from the map instead. Goes with the ObjectManager PR.
NativeScriptException::m_javascriptException — the raw pointer is handed to Java as a jlong and reclaimed later, so fixing it changes a cross-language ownership contract.
HMRSupport's three path-keyed global maps — same cross-isolate shape as the ES-module registry, which feat: ESM loader overhaul — Web/Node parity, ns:module dev surface, HTTP module loader #1965 is already reworking.
The three MetadataNode static node caches and the metadata tree / MetadataReader buffers — genuinely process-wide, so they need a narrow lock rather than per-runtime storage, and GetOrCreateTreeNodeByName mutates them while calling into Java, which makes a coarse lock hazardous.

Summary by CodeRabbit

Bug Fixes
- Improved runtime cleanup and resource management during isolate shutdown.
- Reduced the risk of stale data, memory leaks, and crashes during teardown.
- Improved thread safety for shared caches and concurrent runtime operations.
- Strengthened lifecycle handling for JavaScript-backed native objects and console timers.

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The changes add per-runtime state storage, centralized weak-handle tracking, ordered runtime teardown, synchronized JNI and method caches, and non-throwing runtime lookup through Runtime::TryGetRuntime.

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Runtime lifecycle and state ownership

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runtime state and teardown test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime, RuntimeState, IsolateDisposer.cpp, CMakeLists.txt	RuntimeState stores lazy subsystem state. Runtime teardown clears tracked objects, V8 persistents, context state, and runtime state before isolate disposal.
Tracked native objects test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/IsolateTracked, URLImpl.h	IsolateTracked manages weak-handle finalization and teardown sweeping. URL native objects use the shared base class.
Runtime-scoped subsystem caches ArgConverter, JSONObjectHelper, MetadataNode, console/Console, V8StringConstants.h	Per-runtime caches replace isolate-keyed global maps. Cache owners release persistent resources during state cleanup.
Non-throwing runtime lookup callers ErrorEvents.cpp, Events.cpp, FrameCallbacks.cpp, NativeScriptException.cpp, Performance.cpp, napi/NapiEnv.cpp	Runtime retrieval uses Runtime::TryGetRuntime while existing null-runtime behavior remains.
Concurrent JNI and method cache publication JEnv.cpp, MethodCache.cpp	Shared locks protect cache reads. Exclusive locks protect publication and duplicate-reference cleanup.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e7b3d

The current change is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related issues

Runtime lifetime: deferred leaks, cross-isolate sharing, and startup robustness #2010: The issue covers runtime-lifetime and cross-isolate cleanup addressed by RuntimeState and tracked-object teardown.

Possibly related PRs

NativeScript/android#2004: Both changes modify Runtime, NapiEnv, and per-runtime environment teardown.
NativeScript/android#1989: Both changes modify JSONObjectHelper.cpp and isolate-scoped serializer state.
NativeScript/android#1990: Both changes modify isolate teardown and disposal callbacks.

Suggested reviewers: nathanwalker

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A rabbit sorts state by runtime,
Weak handles fade at twilight.
Locks guard caches as threads arrive,
V8 persistents leave alive.
Teardown clears the burrow bright.

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Workers bootstrap on detached threads and are not serialized, so several runtimes are inside PrepareV8Runtime while another is in disposeIsolate. A handful of subsystems kept their per-isolate state in process-wide maps keyed by v8::Isolate*, which makes the *container* shared even though the entries are not: one runtime inserting its own entry while another erases its own corrupts the map. Holding the isolate's Locker does not help, because each thread holds only its own isolate's lock, so two runtimes never exclude each other. The reproduced crash walked a freed red-black tree node: std::less<v8::Isolate*>::operator() std::map<v8::Isolate*, std::map<std::string,double>>::insert tns::Console::createConsole tns::Runtime::PrepareV8Runtime Java_com_tns_Runtime_initNativeScript (thread W41: ./EvalWork) Rather than guard each container, remove the sharing: RuntimeState is a typed per-runtime slot bag owned by Runtime. A subsystem declares a state struct, usually in its own .cpp, and reaches it with RuntimeState::For<T>(isolate) -- an isolate data-slot read plus a vector index, with no lock and no shared container. The bag is destroyed once in DestroyRuntime, on the runtime's own thread and while the isolate is still alive, which is what state holding v8::Persistents requires. Moved onto it: - Console: console.time() labels and the compiled inspect.js instance. Console now has no global mutable state and no mutex at all. - ArgConverter: the java-long conversion helpers. - JSONObjectHelper: the compiled JS->org.json serializer. - MetadataNode: the per-isolate node cache and the array wrapper template, plus the constructor functions that used to hang off every node as a map keyed by isolate -- which is why teardown had to walk every node in s_treeNode2NodeCache to erase one entry. That walk, running on a dying worker's thread while other threads inserted, is gone. Four onDisposeIsolate hooks disappear with it: nothing is keyed by isolate any more, so there is no per-isolate entry to erase. Also: - MetadataNode::s_profilerEnabled and Runtime::s_mainThreadInitialized are now atomic. The latter gated the one-time BuildMetadata, so as a plain bool there was no happens-before edge between the main thread's metadata construction and a worker's first read of s_metadataReader. - TypeLongOperationsCache gains a destructor; it was deleted without one, leaking two v8::Persistents per isolate. - console.time/timeEnd no longer dereference the iterator returned by a failed find (both had a "// throw?" comment and then used it anyway). Verified on an arm64 emulator with the SIGSEGV handler temporarily disabled, so faults are fatal and tombstoned rather than swallowed: the earlier, narrower mutex-based version of this fix ran 20/20 full-suite runs clean against a baseline that reproduced roughly 1 in 5. Re-verification of this version is running; suite is 879/0. Still shared, and deliberately left for a follow-up: the metadata tree and MetadataReader's buffers (genuinely one blob for the process, so they need a narrow lock rather than per-runtime storage), and the string-keyed MethodCache::s_mthod_ctor_signature_cache and JEnv::s_classCache.

Follows the same invariant as the per-runtime state change: anything holding v8 handles has to be released on the runtime's own thread, before the caller disposes the isolate. Use-after-free, and a crash rather than a leak: ~Runtime ran CallbackHandlers::RemoveIsolateEntries and FrameCallbacks::RemoveIsolateEntries, whose entry destructors call v8::Global::Reset(). ~Runtime runs after isolate->Dispose(), so those writes land in a freed handle table. Nothing dropped the entries earlier either, so between DestroyRuntime and ~Runtime the main thread could still pick up a queued __runOnMainThread entry and take a v8::Locker on an isolate that had already been disposed. Both calls move into DestroyRuntime, which fixes the write-after-free and closes the window, since the removal now happens under the worker's own Locker before disposal. URL, URLSearchParams and URLPattern each carried a copy of the same weak-handle/finalizer block and freed themselves only from the GC finalizer. V8 does not run weak callbacks when an isolate is disposed, so every instance still alive when a runtime went away leaked its ada state, and URLPattern its compiled v8::Global regexps with it. They now share an IsolateTracked base that registers each instance per runtime; instances die either in the GC finalizer or in SweepAll at teardown. Mirrors NativeScript/ios#438, with the registry in RuntimeState rather than Caches. Also released in DestroyRuntime, none of which had any cleanup at all: PerIsolateV8Constants (19 handles per runtime, and its destructor was missing DISCARDED_ERROR_PERSISTENT and only Reset the handles rather than freeing them), m_context and m_gcFunc. The com.tns.Runtime JNI global ref is deleted in ~Runtime. It was never released, which pinned the Java runtime object and every Java object the runtime had strongly registered through it for the life of the process. It has to happen there, after ObjectManager's teardown, which calls Java through that same object, and before the worker thread detaches. Five subsystems had each grown a private copy of "read the isolate slot because Runtime::GetRuntime throws" -- three identical GetRuntimeOrNull helpers plus two inline reads. They share Runtime::TryGetRuntime now, which also gives RuntimeState a lookup safe to call from a GC weak callback. Verified on an arm64 emulator with the SIGSEGV handler temporarily disabled so faults are fatal and tombstoned; suite 879/0.

PerIsolateV8Constants declares 20 Persistent<String>* members but the constructor allocates 19: DEBUG_NAME_PERSISTENT is never assigned. Its destructor reset that member unconditionally, so it would have faulted on an uninitialized pointer the first time it ran -- which nothing ever did, because the object was leaked rather than deleted. Deleting it exposed the fault immediately: every worker teardown segfaulted in ~PerIsolateV8Constants. Default-initialize every member so the destructor is safe regardless of which ones the constructor populates; ResetAndDelete already skips nulls.

Actionable comments posted: 3

🧹 Nitpick comments (6)

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Performance.cpp (1)
12-14: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the now-empty anonymous namespace.

The helper it contained was moved to Runtime::TryGetRuntime. The empty block serves no purpose.
♻️ Proposed cleanup
-namespace {
-
-}  // namespace
-
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Performance.cpp` around lines 12 - 14, Remove
the now-empty anonymous namespace block in Performance.cpp, leaving the moved
Runtime::TryGetRuntime implementation unchanged.
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.cpp (1)
199-206: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Lazy creation returns an empty cache; callers dereference its members without a check.

RuntimeState::For<TypeLongOperationsCache> default-constructs the cache on first use. Both members are now null-initialized. ConvertFromJavaLong at Line 173 dereferences *cache->LongNumberCtorFunc with no null check. Before this change the cache existed only after ArgConverter::Init populated it, because the old map insertion and the population happened together. Now any call to GetTypeLongCache that precedes ArgConverter::Init creates a cache with null handles and turns Line 173 into a null-pointer dereference.

Add an explicit check so the failure is diagnosable.
🛡️ Proposed guard
 ArgConverter::TypeLongOperationsCache* ArgConverter::GetTypeLongCache(v8::Isolate* isolate) {
     // Per runtime, so there is no shared table to race on; see RuntimeState.h.
     auto* cache = RuntimeState::For<TypeLongOperationsCache>(isolate);
     if (cache == nullptr) {
         throw NativeScriptException("Long conversion cache requested after the runtime was torn down");
     }
     return cache;
 }
At the ConvertFromJavaLong call site:
         auto cache = GetTypeLongCache(isolate);
+        if (cache->LongNumberCtorFunc == nullptr) {
+            throw NativeScriptException("ArgConverter::Init has not run for this runtime");
+        }
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.cpp` around lines 199 - 206,
Update ConvertFromJavaLong to validate the handles returned by GetTypeLongCache
before dereferencing LongNumberCtorFunc or related cache members, and raise a
diagnosable NativeScriptException when the cache is uninitialized. Preserve the
existing conversion path when ArgConverter::Init has populated the cache.
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.cpp (1)
1091-1091: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

emplace leaks the allocation when the key already exists.

emplace evaluates new Persistent<Function>(isolate, wrappedCtorFunc) before it checks the key. If CtorFunctions already holds an entry for node, the map keeps the old value and the new Persistent is never freed. GetConstructorFunctionTemplate recurses into base classes at Line 1061 and inserts the CtorFuncCache guard entry only at Line 1100, after this line, so a repeated visit of the same node reaches this statement twice.
♻️ Proposed fix
-    cache->CtorFunctions.emplace(node, new Persistent<Function>(isolate, wrappedCtorFunc));
+    auto ctorFuncIt = cache->CtorFunctions.find(node);
+    if (ctorFuncIt == cache->CtorFunctions.end()) {
+        cache->CtorFunctions.emplace(node, new Persistent<Function>(isolate, wrappedCtorFunc));
+    } else {
+        ctorFuncIt->second->Reset(isolate, wrappedCtorFunc);
+    }
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.cpp` at line 1091, Update the
CtorFunctions insertion in GetConstructorFunctionTemplate to avoid allocating a
Persistent<Function> before determining whether node is already present; check
for an existing entry first, and only create and insert the Persistent when the
key is absent, preserving the existing cached value on repeated visits.
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/RuntimeState.h (1)
73-90: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Document the thread contract for For<T> and GetOrCreate.

slots_ and disposed_ carry no synchronization. The class comment explains that the state is not shared between runtimes, but it does not state that a single runtime's state must be touched only on that runtime's own thread. For<T> takes an arbitrary v8::Isolate*, so a caller on another thread can reach the same RuntimeState and mutate slots_ concurrently with the owning thread. Add that constraint to the class comment, next to the teardown note.
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/RuntimeState.h` around lines 73 - 90, Update
the RuntimeState class comment near the teardown note to state that For<T> and
GetOrCreate must be called only from the owning runtime’s thread, since slots_
and disposed_ are unsynchronized. Clarify that cross-thread access to the same
RuntimeState is unsupported.
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h (1)
118-132: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

The new runtime-state destructors delete v8::Persistent objects without resetting them. v8::Persistent uses NonCopyablePersistentTraits by default, and that trait does not reset the handle in its destructor. This PR states that fact in test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/V8StringConstants.h and adds ResetAndDelete for it, but the four new state structs delete their handles directly. Each delete abandons a V8 global handle slot for the remaining lifetime of the isolate. Apply the same reset-then-delete pattern in each destructor.

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h#L118-L132: reset LongNumberCtorFunc and NanNumberObject in ~TypeLongOperationsCache before deleting them.

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/JSONObjectHelper.cpp#L13-L22: reset func in ~SerializeFuncState before deleting it.

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/console/Console.cpp#L40-L43: reset inspect in ~ConsoleState before deleting it, and apply the same reset at the delete state->inspect reassignment in initInspect at Line 136.

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.h#L303-L310: reset MetadataKey, PackageKey, ArrayObjectTemplate, and each CtorFunctions value in ~MetadataNodeCache before deleting them.

Consider promoting the existing V8StringConstants::PerIsolateV8Constants::ResetAndDelete helper into a small shared template so every runtime-state destructor uses one implementation.
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h` around lines 118 - 132, Reset
each v8::Persistent handle before deleting it, using the existing ResetAndDelete
pattern or a shared equivalent. Apply this in
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h lines 118-132 for
TypeLongOperationsCache::LongNumberCtorFunc and NanNumberObject;
JSONObjectHelper.cpp lines 13-22 for SerializeFuncState::func; Console.cpp lines
40-43 for ConsoleState::inspect and the delete state->inspect reassignment in
initInspect; and MetadataNode.h lines 303-310 for
MetadataNodeCache::MetadataKey, PackageKey, ArrayObjectTemplate, and every
CtorFunctions value.
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/napi/NapiEnv.cpp (1)
50-50: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Update the lookup comment.

The comment immediately above Line 50 describes direct isolate-slot access, but NapiEnv::ForIsolate now uses Runtime::TryGetRuntime. Update the comment so it documents the centralized non-throwing lookup.
Suggested comment update
-  // Read the isolate slot directly: the Runtime::GetRuntime* accessors throw
-  // NativeScriptException when the slot is unset, and a C++ exception must
-  // not cross the extern "C" Node-API surface this is called under.
+  // Use the non-throwing Runtime::TryGetRuntime lookup because a C++
+  // exception must not cross the extern "C" Node-API surface.
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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/napi/NapiEnv.cpp` at line 50, Update the
comment immediately above Runtime::TryGetRuntime in NapiEnv::ForIsolate to
describe the centralized non-throwing runtime lookup, replacing the outdated
explanation of direct isolate-slot access.

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Inline comments:
In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.h`:
- Around line 288-310: Update ~MetadataNodeCache to iterate through
CtorFuncCache and ExtendedCtorFuncCache, deleting each owning ft and
extendedCtorFunction pointer during destruction. Preserve the existing cleanup
for MetadataKey, PackageKey, ArrayObjectTemplate, and CtorFunctions.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.cpp`:
- Around line 626-628: Update PrepareV8Runtime around s_mainThreadInitialized
and InitializeV8 to serialize initialization and main-runtime election with an
exclusive guard, preventing overlapping calls from both becoming the main
runtime or overwriting s_mainEventLoop. Introduce and use a separate readiness
signal for worker callers, preserving the existing initialized-state behavior
for subsequent runtimes.

Apply the same fix in `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.h` at line 331: The
declaration-level atomic check participates in the same unsynchronized
check-then-act sequence.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/RuntimeState.h`:
- Around line 54-57: Update PrepareV8Runtime exception handling to roll back
partial native initialization: remove the cached Runtime/isolate entry, dispose
the isolate, and delete the Runtime while ensuring no V8-handle destructors run
after isolate disposal. Reuse the existing RuntimeState cleanup path where
applicable, and preserve normal successful initialization behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.cpp`:
- Around line 199-206: Update ConvertFromJavaLong to validate the handles
returned by GetTypeLongCache before dereferencing LongNumberCtorFunc or related
cache members, and raise a diagnosable NativeScriptException when the cache is
uninitialized. Preserve the existing conversion path when ArgConverter::Init has
populated the cache.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h`:
- Around line 118-132: Reset each v8::Persistent handle before deleting it,
using the existing ResetAndDelete pattern or a shared equivalent. Apply this in
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.h lines 118-132 for
TypeLongOperationsCache::LongNumberCtorFunc and NanNumberObject;
JSONObjectHelper.cpp lines 13-22 for SerializeFuncState::func; Console.cpp lines
40-43 for ConsoleState::inspect and the delete state->inspect reassignment in
initInspect; and MetadataNode.h lines 303-310 for
MetadataNodeCache::MetadataKey, PackageKey, ArrayObjectTemplate, and every
CtorFunctions value.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.cpp`:
- Line 1091: Update the CtorFunctions insertion in
GetConstructorFunctionTemplate to avoid allocating a Persistent<Function> before
determining whether node is already present; check for an existing entry first,
and only create and insert the Persistent when the key is absent, preserving the
existing cached value on repeated visits.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/napi/NapiEnv.cpp`:
- Line 50: Update the comment immediately above Runtime::TryGetRuntime in
NapiEnv::ForIsolate to describe the centralized non-throwing runtime lookup,
replacing the outdated explanation of direct isolate-slot access.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Performance.cpp`:
- Around line 12-14: Remove the now-empty anonymous namespace block in
Performance.cpp, leaving the moved Runtime::TryGetRuntime implementation
unchanged.

In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/RuntimeState.h`:
- Around line 73-90: Update the RuntimeState class comment near the teardown
note to state that For<T> and GetOrCreate must be called only from the owning
runtime’s thread, since slots_ and disposed_ are unsynchronized. Clarify that
cross-thread access to the same RuntimeState is unsupported.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize main-runtime initialization and election.

The atomic check does not make the check-then-act sequence atomic. Overlapping Runtime::initRuntime / PrepareV8Runtime calls can both run InitializeV8(), elect a main runtime, overwrite Runtime::platform, and replace s_mainEventLoop. Protect the complete initialization and election sequence with std::call_once or an exclusive guard, and use a separate ready signal for workers.

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In `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.cpp` around lines 626 - 628, Update
PrepareV8Runtime around s_mainThreadInitialized and InitializeV8 to serialize
initialization and main-runtime election with an exclusive guard, preventing
overlapping calls from both becoming the main runtime or overwriting
s_mainEventLoop. Introduce and use a separate readiness signal for worker
callers, preserving the existing initialized-state behavior for subsequent
runtimes.

Apply the same fix in `@test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.h` at line 331: The
declaration-level atomic check participates in the same unsynchronized
check-then-act sequence.

Checked this rather than assuming, and the concern is valid but pre-existing and out of scope here.

I expected the Java side to serialize it — Runtime(StaticConfiguration, DynamicConfiguration) does hold synchronized (Runtime.currentRuntime) — but initRuntime calls the constructor and then runtime.init(), and init() (which reaches initNativeScript → PrepareV8Runtime) is outside that block. So the check-then-act genuinely is not serialized by the monitor.

What makes it unreachable today is ordering, not locking: workers are only ever created from JS running in an already-initialized main runtime, so s_mainThreadInitialized is already true before any worker reaches PrepareV8Runtime. It would become reachable if two runtimes were ever bootstrapped concurrently — an embedding host, or something like the reloadApplication work.

Worth noting this PR improves the situation rather than causing it: the flag was a plain bool with no happens-before edge at all, which is why it was made atomic here — the atomic gives workers a correct view of BuildMetadata, it just does not make the election atomic, exactly as you say.

Serializing the whole init-and-elect sequence (std::call_once plus a separate ready signal) is a real change to startup on the hottest path, so I would rather not fold it into a leak/crash-fix PR. Filing it separately.

@edusperoni, thanks for the detailed verification. I agree with the scope decision.

The race is pre-existing. Current worker startup ordering prevents it in supported flows. The atomic load and store in this PR still correct the missing visibility guarantee for s_mainThreadInitialized.

A separate change should serialize InitializeV8() and main-runtime election before concurrent runtime bootstrap becomes supported. Please link the follow-up issue here when it is available.

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Repo: NativeScript/android PR: 2006
File: test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.cpp:626-628
Timestamp: 2026-08-14T22:45:22.021Z
Learning: In the NativeScript Android runtime, `Runtime::PrepareV8Runtime` uses `Runtime::s_mainThreadInitialized` to initialize V8 and elect the main runtime. Java `Runtime.initRuntime` constructs the runtime under `synchronized (Runtime.currentRuntime)`, but it calls `runtime.init()` outside that monitor; therefore the check-then-act sequence is not serialized. Current worker creation starts from JavaScript in an already initialized main runtime, so startup ordering prevents concurrent election in supported flows. The atomic `s_mainThreadInitialized` change provides visibility for worker initialization but does not serialize concurrent V8 initialization or main-runtime election. A separate follow-up should address this if concurrent runtime bootstrap becomes supported.

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