perf_hooks: add NODE_PERFORMANCE_GC_MINOR_MARK_SWEEP constant#63877
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V8's Minor Mark-Sweep collector (enabled with --minor-ms, the default young-generation collector since V8 12.x / Node 22) reports garbage collection performance entries with kind kGCTypeMinorMarkSweep (value 2). perf_hooks exposed constants for every other GC kind (major, minor, incremental, weakcb) but not this one, so consumers inspecting performanceEntry.detail.kind had no constant to compare against and saw an unmapped value. Expose it as perf_hooks.constants.NODE_PERFORMANCE_GC_MINOR_MARK_SWEEP, mirroring the existing v8::GCType mappings, and document it alongside the other GC kinds.
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Would you mind converting this to gcUntil from test/common/gc.js, reducing the flakiness on the gc timing?
This can be like:
let observed = fasel;
const obs = new PerformanceObserver(common.mustCallAtLeast((list) => {
...
observed = true;
}));
gcUntil('minor gc event', () => observed, 10, { type: 'minor' });
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V8's Minor Mark-Sweep collector (enabled with
--minor-ms, the default young-generation collector since V8 12.x / Node 22) reports garbage collection performance entries with kindkGCTypeMinorMarkSweep(value 2).perf_hooksexposed constants for every other GC kind (major, minor, incremental, weakcb) but not this one, so consumers inspectingperformanceEntry.detail.kindhad no constant to compare against and saw an unmapped value.With this PR I expose it as
perf_hooks.constants.NODE_PERFORMANCE_GC_MINOR_MARK_SWEEP, mirroring the existingv8::GCTypemappings, and document it alongside the other GC kinds.