Proposal

When iterating over a FxHashMap or FxHashSet in a query, it is easily possible for the iteration order to influence the
behavior of that query. This can lead to either huge difference based on small inputs, which is mostly fine but makes ui tests annoying, if the HashMap hashes something for which the Hash and HashStable implementations differ, e.g. DefId, this can even lead to inconsistent query results, causing a few bugs in the past.

I've implemented a lint in rust-lang/rust#89558 which triggers whenever using methods marked with #[rustc_lint_query_stability] and added that attribute to "unstable" methods of both HashMap and HashSet.

I think that it probably makes sense to use this lint by default and require us to explicitly allow it in all places where the iteration order does not matter. We could also use the results of that lint to fix any issues which exist rn and try to be careful in the future without denying it by default, but that seems slightly worse to me.

It caused about 70 warnings for me locally (errors without a custom config.toml) a bunch of which did not reveal any bugs, but there were definitely a few cases which were either far from trivial or actually incorrect.

Mentors or Reviewers

🤷 someone from @rust-lang/wg-incr-comp probably

Process

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