[release/10.0] [mono] Actually free dynamic methods, even if we have profiler attached #119950
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Ever since the early days of mono, freeing dynamic methods was disabled if a profiler was attached. The reason for this was probably that the profiler might store `MonoMethod` instances in its own data, leading to problems if we free those instances. Looking at the profilers nowadays it is not clear where patterns like this would happen. Profilers that do store methods (like aot, coverage), don't process wrapper methods, so we should be safe since dynamic methods have the MONO_WRAPPER_DYNAMIC_METHOD wrapper type. The problem is that, nowadays, we can always have a profiler attached even if no actual profiling happens. macios for example always calls mono_profiler_install. I belive actual callbacks can be added later as necessary.
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I believe it would make more sense to backport this together with fixes on the interpreter side that add freeing of interpreter data. I need to do some more investigations on that front so this will miss RC2. |
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Backport of #119749 to release/10.0
/cc @BrzVlad
Customer Impact
Dynamic methods leak even after they are collected / no longer used.
Regression
Testing
This was tested on applications making use of system reflection emit.
Risk
Low. This just frees various runtime data that is no longer used.