xce_scheduler -i -s <replay>: WARN "failed to resolve job picker
plugin (rc=-2)" on load, and every job already present in the
replay file's INITIAL snapshot stayed PEND forever -- never even
reached the picker, let alone got dispatched.
Root cause: sched_sim_driver_start() (sim.c) loads the initial
snapshot via xce_sched_core_load_snapshot() BEFORE any picker
plugin is registered (sim.h's own documented "Known scope
boundary" -- only the picker's NAME is threaded through from the
ReplayHeader). sched_resolve_job_picker() therefore always returns
-ENOENT there, and xce_sched_core_load_snapshot()'s own
picker-rebuild walk (on_queue_update/on_job_push per queue/job) is
silently skipped. The real builtin_fcfs picker only gets registered
moments later in sched_sim_driver_run() -- but nothing then replayed
that rebuild walk, so any job/queue from the INITIAL snapshot (as
opposed to one arriving later via a ReplayEvent, which correctly
reaches the picker through xce_core_push_events()'s own picker!=NULL
check) was permanently invisible to next_job().
Fixed by a new file, sim_picker.c: sim_bootstrap_picker() (replacing
sim_loop.c's sim_register_default_picker(), moved out because
sim_loop.c was already at its own documented 800-line "zero
line-budget headroom" cap) registers the picker AND then replays the
missed rebuild walk against it. Wired into scheduler_srcs,
sched_sim_isolation_lib, and all 9 white-box test TUs that #include
sim_loop.c directly.
New regression test (test_sim_event_loop.c): a job baked into a
fixture's INITIAL snapshot (not a ReplayEvent) now gets a live PEND
decision. RED confirmed by temporarily no-op'ing the rebuild walk
(test failed as expected), GREEN with the real fix. Full scheduler
suite green (41/41, excluding the pre-existing unrelated bug-1560).
Note: sim mode still never DISPATCHes (only PENDs) -- that is a
separate, intentionally out-of-scope gap (real resource-matching
allocation belongs to the not-yet-designed scheduler-allocation
spec), not addressed here.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three related enhancements to make /xce-deploy-ha's output a
self-contained, directly-usable cluster for manual testing:
- xceadmin now builds an installable wheel (meson-build.sh) with
correct dependencies (click/pycapnp/PyYAML/jsonschema, verified
against actual imports -- pyproject.toml was missing several).
- deploy-ha.sh resolves the deploy environment's own bash
($BASH_BIN, baked into every generated script's shebang -- this
environment's deploy-ha.sh had drifted to #!/bin/sh while still
using bash-only syntax) and generates scripts/start-worker.sh /
scripts/start-scheduler.sh sharing the controllers' --peers, plus
a standalone xceadmin install (wheel extracted directly, resolved
$PYTHONPATH baked into a wrapper script -- nix devShell packages
are $PYTHONPATH entries, not merged into python3's own
site-packages, so a --system-site-packages venv can't see them).
- bug-1566: xceadmin's --controller option had no relationship to a
deployment's actual peers (hardcoded localhost:9991 default) --
every command required an explicit --controller or silently tried
the wrong port. Fixed via a $XCEADMIN_CONTROLLER envvar fallback
(click precedence: explicit flag > envvar > bare default),
exported by deploy-ha.sh's generated scripts/xceadmin wrapper.
Fixed/validated via TDD + live reproduction against a real deployed
cluster in a fully stripped environment.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
setup_build() unconditionally rm -rf'd the whole profile build
directory on every single-component invocation -- running
/xce-build xceadmin after /xce-build controller silently deleted
xce_controller/xce_test/etc. from the same build dir.
Added an opt-in --incremental flag (meson setup --reconfigure in
place instead of wiping) rather than changing the default: this
project's capnp-generation custom_target has known missing-
dependency-edge races that a full wipe currently papers over as a
loud, retry-fixable failure. Making incremental the default risked
turning that same gap into silent stale-generated-code instead, so
the safer full-wipe behavior is preserved unless explicitly opted
into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
persist_flush()'s synchronous fdatasync path advanced durable_lsn on
success but never called on_durable_advance() -- only the async
fsync_worker did. This gap was previously masked by bug-1563's own
busy-spin (a fast accidental repoll covered for the missing
notification); fixing that spin unmasked it, causing
test_durable_majority_commit_end_to_end to fail deterministically
(3/3 runs).
Fixed by firing on_durable_advance() from persist_flush() too,
whenever it genuinely advances durable_lsn. Fixed via TDD (RED test
before the fix, GREEN after) and re-validated with a fresh 40-round
sequential + chaotic HA soak (both pass cleanly, zero fdatasync
errors, zero divergence/loss).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bug-1562: ha_on_primary_ctrl_fd_rdhup's 5.10b debounce branch (ha.c) returned
without re-arming the liveness watchdog when a debounced RDHUP landed after
the in-flight PreVote round had already concluded (e.g. a lone cold-booting
node whose first round loses in milliseconds with no peers up yet). That was
the last timer ever scheduled -- the node froze permanently in CTRL_STANDBY,
so a 3-node cluster with a long inter-node start stagger could never elect a
primary. Root-caused via a live local reproduction matching the reporting
user's exact timing (byte-for-byte match of their hung ctrl-1.log), fixed by
re-arming the watchdog in that branch (mirroring the function's own 5.2
branch), and confirmed end-to-end: the same scenario now reaches CTRL_PRIMARY
and full 3-node config convergence.
bug-1563: fsync_worker's retry loop (persist.c) only backs off when no work
is pending, but flusher_work_pending_locked() can't distinguish "fresh work
just landed" from "still stuck from the last failed fdatasync" -- a
sustained sync failure left durable_lsn permanently behind tip, so the loop
skipped its wait every iteration and spun fdatasync as fast as the CPU/lock
allowed (a 40-round chaotic /xce-test-ha soak hit 300k+ failed attempts on
one node in under a minute). Fixed by waiting out the normal wal_sync_ms
cadence when a flush was pending but made no progress, leaving the
legitimate idle and just-succeeded fast paths untouched.
Both fixed via TDD (RED test before the fix, GREEN after) and live-validated
by re-running 40-round sequential and chaotic HA soaks end-to-end: both pass
cleanly, and the chaotic run's excluded fdatasync-error count dropped from
304,689 to 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ha-config-bootstrap, scheduler-controller-msg-gap, and resval-id-decoupling
were the only 3 specs (of ~40) carrying a nonstandard status:"active"
field, each paired with a note about residual gap-audit findings that
never got refreshed once later work actually resolved them:
- ha-config-bootstrap: all 3 known deviations resolved/superseded
(redirect fields -> libxce-failover; WAL majority-commit scope -> the
deliberate wal_classify() WAIT/RETAIN design; commit-timeout durability
-> bug-661 fix via ha-commit-durability, live-reverified 2026-07-18).
One narrower, genuinely new gap found in passing (OP_upgradeConfig
replies lack redirect wiring, admin-config-tool task 6.3) is flagged
in the note for a future spec, not folded back into this one.
- scheduler-controller-msg-gap: both open items (sched_pend_update_killer
leak, test coverage) were fixed via bug-765 across 4 commits on
2026-06-19, verified directly in current scheduler.c and the test
suite -- the note just never caught up.
- resval-id-decoupling: not just an investigation -- the recommended
name-keyed collect_resval() fix shipped one day after the spec was
created (commit d47b3375), verified as the sole implementation left
in current code. Description no longer named the deleted function;
status:"active" flipped to "closed" and a note added to match its
sibling specs' convention.
All three verified via direct code/commit/buglog inspection (not just
trusting stale spec text) before closing. status:"active" -> "closed"
in all three; phase stays "implemented" (already correct).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Task 6.3's own "before deciding" gate (re-run the flaky primary-push
E2E 20-25x standalone with real stderr capture) was already satisfied
by bug-1485's 2026-08-01 follow-up: 40/40 clean runs, zero captured
crash evidence, after replacing the DEVNULL stderr redirect with real
per-node log capture. Decision reached there (mergeable as-is, bug-1485
downgraded to low-priority/environment-flake) was never reflected back
into tasks.md/spec.json. Marks 6.3 and its parent task-group 6 [x], and
reconciles spec.json's stale "tasks-generated" phase (21/21 tasks were
already complete) to "implementation-complete" with a validate_impl
block recording the known limitations (bug-1485 stays open/low-priority,
single-node ackedCount==0 exit-1 behavior, no CI live-E2E run yet).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- config-upgrade-snapshot, raft-adapter-conformance: correct stale
phase metadata (both showed "tasks-generated" though every task was
already complete) and record their validate-impl GO decisions with
known-limitations notes (bug-1471/bug-1472-remainder, bug-1474
angle-b) for future spec ownership.
- component-failover-adoption: catch up design/requirements/research
docs to the Phase 6 fix (bug-1548/bug-1549, commit d479b707) that
landed after this spec was already marked closed.
- Promote 3 roadmap backlog items to specs (2026-08-10 discovery):
component-rejoin-resync (apiserver/scheduler rejoin resync),
worker-rejoin-resync (worker job-fact resync, hard prereq for
raft-apply-decoupling's facts half), scheduler-sim-diagnostics
(open-ended scheduler REPL debug/troubleshoot capability).
- roadmap.md updated to reflect all of the above.
- kiro-steering/kiro-steering-custom SKILL.md: fix stale template path
(templates/steering/ -> .kiro/settings/templates/steering/) plus
minor doc corrections in the other kiro-spec-* skills.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
xcecli_jobsubmit() could return rc>=0 (success) while leaving its *jobid
output parameter at 0, reproducible under concurrent client load
immediately after a fresh single-node election (~1-3/9 clients per round
in the original repro).
Root cause: XCECLI_FAILOVER_CALL's idempotent-replay rule
(client_failover.c's xce_failover_classify) normalizes a retried resend
that hits the server's EEXIST/inflight-collision rejection into overall
success -- but that rejection reply carries no payload
(handle_jobsubmit's EEXIST branches reply with RequestReply_data_nodata,
job.c), so xce_jobsubmit() never populates *jobid on the winning
attempt, nor did it on the earlier failing attempt (raw status was
already negative).
Adds jobsubmit_finalize_jobid() (client_internal.h/client.c), called
from xcecli_jobsubmit() right after XCECLI_FAILOVER_CALL returns. Sets
*jobid = submit->jobid (the client-generated id already on the wire --
the controller commits/echoes this exact value on every genuine success
reply, bug-786/job.c:1439) whenever the overall call succeeded,
otherwise leaves it untouched. Placed at the jobsubmit-specific wrapper
layer, not the generic classify/decide layer, which stays fully generic.
3 new socket-free unit tests in test_libxce_retry.c (following this
codebase's direct-state-simulation style for I/O-adjacent logic).
Live-validated: full ASAN rebuild clean, libxce test suite 1/1 OK with
all 3 new tests passing, and a 5-round/45-client concurrent-submit
repro against a live single-node cluster showed 0 "no clean ack"
failures (vs. 1-3/9 per round pre-fix).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundles the fixes validated this session across ha.c/persist.c/worker.c:
- raft-apply-decoupling Task 7.4: apply-pump O(N^2) throughput regression
fixed via a segment-read cache.
- bug-1416: boot-time TOCTOU race in persist_verify_apply_correctness()
closed with a recovery-complete gate that closes at process-lifecycle
start, not function entry.
- bug-451: HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_RUSAGE_UPDATE now has its own persist hook arm
instead of silently falling through the default job-state case.
- bug-1426: trim_wal_segments() also caps its trim floor at the local
apply pump's own progress, not just remote standby-acked positions.
- bug-1427: persist_verify_apply_correctness() extended with a worker-count
check mirroring the existing job-count check (count_jobmgr_entries and
count_workermgr_entries now share one count_manager_entries(var) helper).
- bug-1428: persist_register_pending_apply's critical section widened to
close the actual race instead of patching a symptom.
- bug-1472 (remainder): WORKER_DEAD replay in worker_from_capnp() now
applies mark_worker_unavail()'s mutations via a shared
apply_worker_dead_mutation() helper instead of duplicating them.
- bug-1474 (angle-a): on_standby_connected's stale-duplicate detection
fixed for promoted vote endpoints via a shared votes_idx_for_peer()
index-scale converter.
Each fix independently verified via TDD (RED before fix, GREEN after).
Full ASAN rebuild + controller_unit_test: 1101 tests, 0 failures. Live
single-node HA deployment validated Task 7.4 and bug-1416 across 5
restart/recovery cycles (45/45 job submissions, zero APPLY_DIVERGENT
fences).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `xceadmin config dump CLUSTER_BIN_PATH`, the reverse of `config
build` -- decodes a serialized ClusterConfig back to human-readable text
so a built config can be inspected without a throwaway pycapnp script.
Motivated directly by how bug-1556 (hosts.yaml's max_slot: -1 auto-detect
sentinel silently becoming mxj=0) was actually found: by hand-decoding a
live cluster.bin. The dump renders the same sentinel as
"max_slot=-1 (auto-detect from CPU count)", not the raw uint32.
Also adds parse_size_or_number() to xcecommon.mapping so a queue/host's
sched_stop threshold on a byte-valued resource (maxmem/mem/tmp/maxswap/
maxtmp) can be written as a human-friendly size string ("500MB", "2GB")
instead of a raw byte count; a plain number still passes through
unchanged for non-byte resources like load averages. hosts.schema.json
and queues.schema.json's sched_stop schema gains a matching SizeOrNumber
type. dump_cluster_config() humanizes the same byte-valued thresholds
back on the way out (_format_bytes_human).
New ClusterBinFileError covers every local cluster.bin read/decode
failure mode without letting a raw OSError/capnp.KjException escape the
CLI. RESOURCE_VALTYPE/RESOURCE_ORDTYPE/RESOURCE_FLAG_* made public in
mapping.py so dump_cluster_config can reuse the same int<->name tables
build_cluster_config already uses, keeping both directions in sync by
construction.
256 xceadmin tests pass (incl. new test_config_dump.py and the
parse_size_or_number/SizeOrNumber cases in test_mapping.py/test_cli.py),
verified via `xce-build.sh xceadmin`'s full pinned out-of-tree install
+ pytest run before this commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
XCECLI_FF_CALL (backing xcecli_heartbeat) can silently rotate+reconnect
the transport entirely inside a single call and still return success, so
heartbeat.go's failure-to-success transition detector could never observe
a reconnect that completes within one heartbeat tick -- the common case,
since elections finish in single-digit seconds against a default 30s
interval. apiserver's application-level rejoin never fired on a real
idle-period failover, and job pushes silently stopped reaching it.
Adds a monotonic reconnect_gen counter to endpoint_t (netio.h), bumped by
xce_ctx_reconnect() (xcectx.c) on every successful reconnect regardless of
trigger path. heartbeat.go now compares this generation every tick instead
of tracking success/failure transitions. Re-validated live against task
5.2's exact scenario (apiserver alone, zero write traffic): rejoin fired
22s after a primary kill, 12s after election.
Reopens and closes out component-failover-adoption's own NO-GO -> GO
validation cycle from 2026-08-15.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
apiserver now returns pending_reason as an object ({main_reason,
main_reason_name, host_reasons, res_reasons}) since the PEND-reason work.
xcecli's QueryJob.PendingReason was a plain string, so every job list
failed with "cannot unmarshal object into string". Two fixes:
- xcecli/models/jobs.go: PendingReason is now a string-backed type with a
custom UnmarshalJSON that accepts null / empty string / plain string
(older API) / the object form (current API, rendered as readable text —
LSF bjobs -p style: "match_fail; host t1: match_fail; ..."). Unknown
objects fall back to the raw bytes instead of erroring, so a job list
can never fail on an unexpected pending_reason shape.
- apiserver/models/jobs.go: JobAdditionalFields gains PendingReason so the
fields= query (xcecli `jobs list -l`) no longer rejects pending_reason
with "unsupported query field".
- xcecli/common/output/page_print_jobs.go: adapt the verbose printer to the
new type.
Tests: xcecli/models/jobs_test.go — 6 cases (null / empty / plain string /
object / within QueryJob / unknown object). xcecli 9 packages + apiserver
models/controllers/utils all pass.
Verified on the test cluster: `xcecli jobs list` (no unmarshal error) and
`xcecli jobs list -l` show "PENDING REASONS: host_unavail; host t1:
host_unavail; host t2: match_fail; host t3: match_fail".
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Covers the case where the worker process stays alive and only the TCP link
to the controller drops (or the controller fails over): libxce's failover
loop reconnects transparently and xcecli_hello() returns 0, so
checking_connection() sees ret==0 and never takes its
xcecd_join_cluster()/resend_job_status() path — job state changes that
occurred while disconnected are never re-reported, leaving stale RUN/UNKWN
jobs on the controller.
- worker/controller_connector.c: new xcecd_reconnect_cb registered via
xcecli_set_reconnect_handler after a successful join, resending the actual
job state (bug-1509 semantics) on every transparent reconnect.
- lib/client.c (bug-1522): xcecli_start no longer resets rejoin_cb/rejoin_arg
to NULL — it is initialized by xcecli_ctx_init's calloc, and a pre-start
registration (scheduler sched_reconnect_cb, worker xcecd_reconnect_cb) must
survive first connect; the failover loop invokes it after a transparent
reconnect (xce_ctx_reconnect), which never re-runs xcecli_start. Previously
every pre-start registration was dead code.
- scheduler.c: move xcecli_set_reconnect_handler to AFTER a successful join —
xcecli_join also runs the failover loop, and a candidate-iteration rotate
(standby redirect) must not fire the rejoin hook before the session exists
(was firing sched_reconnect_cb during initial join → rejoin on
uninitialized state → invalid-opcode crash).
- test_libxce_retry.c: regression test for bug-1522
(test_reconnect_handler_survives_start_state_reset). Suite 296/296.
Functional verification on the test cluster: worker joins (host OK), runs a
job, and after a controller-link break re-joins ("Rejoined cluster
successfully after retry N"). Scheduler stays up (no invalid-opcode crash).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add queue dispatch-window support so a queue whose window is closed
(queues.yaml dispatch_window, e.g. 19:00-08:30) is treated as
non-electable and reports PREASON_TIME_WINDOW.
- lib/window.c: new xce_timewindow_is_open() — NULL/empty always open,
same-day and overnight (close < open) segments, day-scoped (0=every day,
1-7=Mon..Sun).
- scheduler: make_sched_queue duplicates dispatchwindow_config onto
xce_sched_queue_t.dispatchwindow (freed by kill_sched_queue);
sched_queue_is_ready() checks it; sched_queue_status_reason() now takes
the queue (was a bare status bitmask) and maps a closed window to
PREASON_TIME_WINDOW.
- fcfs: keep the windowed-out queue skip; do NOT attach the queue-status
reason to job->schedobj from the picker thread (bug-1521: races the
allocator thread's MOVE_PTR(obj->reason,...) and corrupts the heap).
- tests: test_window.c (5 cases) covers no-window/daily/overnight/
day-scoped/multi-seg; full suite 295/295 pass.
Cluster-verified: with a 09:00-17:00 window on the xce queue (currently
outside the window), fcfs reports "queue xce ... ready=0 reason=8"
(PREASON_TIME_WINDOW).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two bugs surfaced by the new scheduler_pend_reasons tool:
1. The apiserver returns job_status as the numeric XCE state bitmask
(PEND=0x01, RUN=0x02, EXIT=0x04, DONE=0x08), but getJobs read it with
rowStr (string), which returns "" for a number → every job mapped to URM
"unknown", so the pending/running status filter matched nothing.
→ JobStatusFromXCEState(int) + rowURMStatus fallback.
2. pending_reason is a JSON object in the row, not a string; rowStr returned
"" so Extensions["pending_reason"] was empty and the reason never parsed.
→ rowJSON(key) stores the raw JSON value; the MCP pend_reasons parser
handles the map form.
schedulerclient tests updated (JobStatusFromXCEState table). mcp-server +
schedulerclient test suites pass; live MCP call now returns the bjobs -p style
explanation for a PEND job.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
New read-only tool that answers "why is my job waiting": lists PEND jobs (or
one by id) and translates each job's pending_reason into a human-readable
scenario (LSF bjobs -p style). Maps the PREASON_* codes surfaced by the
PEND-reason work (4e2ac86): no_resource / match_fail / limit_global /
limit_host / queue_closed / queue_draining / time_window / host_unavail.
- internal/pendreason.go: pending_reason JSON parsing (mirrors apiserver
rawPendReason) + reasonScenario() translation + bjobs -p style summary.
- internal/app.go: HandlePendReasons — id param for one job, else pending
list filtered by queue/owner/limit.
- cmd/main.go: register scheduler_pend_reasons (read-only).
- 5 unit tests (known/unknown codes, parse from JSON, missing reason,
summary format). go test ./... + go vet clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
P0 (done, cluster-verified):
- main_reason was always 0: add_job_preason only set it when BOTH host and res
were NULL, but the allocator always attaches host/res detail rows. Now the
first detail add wins as main_reason, so the API's main_reason_name is
meaningful (was "unknown(0)"). Verified live: PEND jobs now report
main_reason=3/match_fail + per-host reason_name.
- limit plugin attach: host-based quota hit (hg1_slots_per_host) -> LIMIT_HOST
+ limit name; global quota hit (ug1_slots, ...) -> LIMIT_GLOBAL + limit name.
Previously both blocks were silent (job just stayed PEND).
- Extended the PREASON_* enum (was 3 codes) with LSF-style classes:
LIMIT_GLOBAL/LIMIT_HOST/QUEUE_CLOSED/QUEUE_DRAINING/TIME_WINDOW/HOST_UNAVAIL.
apiserver pendReasonName maps them; host/res detail rows now carry reason_name.
P1 (implemented):
- queue status: sched_queue_is_ready no longer a stub — closed/inactivated
queues are not electable; the fcfs election attaches QUEUE_CLOSED /
QUEUE_DRAINING to every PEND job in a skipped queue.
- worker filter: sched_try_alloc_on_host_ skips UNAVAIL/CLOSED workers and
attaches HOST_UNAVAIL instead of trying to allocate on them.
Unit tests: preason suite updated for the main_reason change + 3 new tests
(limit host/global, first-add-wins); 295 lib tests pass under ASAN.
apiserver backend tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The apiserver stayed circuit-breaker-degraded after a full controller
restart until manually restarted. Two root causes:
1. Breaker recovery was decoupled from the breaker itself. The breaker can
be tripped by a backend write failure (e.g. E_XCE_STANDBY -10014 while
the controller is electing) with no heartbeat ever failing, but
StartHeartbeat only recovered on a fail→success heartbeat transition
(prevFailed), so the breaker stayed degraded forever.
→ extract needsRejoinAfterHeartbeat(hbOK, prevFailed): recover when
prevFailed OR the breaker is currently tripped. 5 new unit tests.
2. The 30s heartbeat's fire-and-forget reconnect only fires when the lib's
internal ctx state is XCE_CTX_ERR. After a controller restart whose
election outlasts the FAILOVER_CALL retry budget, the retry loop's
xcecli_ctx_recover leaves the ctx RUN on a half-open connection, so the
FF path never reconnects and the client stays disconnected forever.
→ lib: new xcecli_force_reconnect() forces a rotate+recover regardless
of state; apiserver: 2s recoveryLoop force-reconnects + rejoins while
degraded.
Verified on cluster: after controller kill+restart, the apiserver logs
"backend re-joined controller after reconnect" and job submissions resume
without a manual restart; a fresh job runs to DONE. Controller, scheduler
(rejoin ok, bug-1513) and workers all auto-recover.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The "libxce reconnect heap corruption" (ASAN bad-free, free(): invalid
pointer) was NOT a libxce bug — xce_ctx_reconnect is fine. The crashes are
in the scheduler's rejoin state re-sync path (config/dataset re-push),
fixed with the reconnect/rejoin feature now integrated:
1. group.c makeGroup refresh: FREEUP(m->u.name) raw-freed shared interned
xstrings (makeString is a global refcounted table); the correct release
is dereference(), matching group_killer. → dereference().
2. limit.c limit_update_config: after key_add returns -EEXIST (rejoin
re-push — limit name already present) it called kill_limit(limit), but
xkvmgr_add's vclear already freed the limit via the kvmgr datakiller
(=kill_limit). → skip on -EEXIST (idempotent re-push).
3. handler.c/scheduler.c: the config push was applied inline on the vcpu
thread (sched_init_config adds queues/plugin queues) while job updates
flow through pend_updates on the main loop — concurrent rejoin re-push
let fcfs_update_job see a NULL j->queue (SIGSEGV). Route the config
push through pend_updates (XCE_SCHED_OP_UPDATE_CONFIG, killer case
already existed) and process config requests FIRST in sched_update via
a staging queue so jobs always see their queues/resources.
Verified: 295 lib unit tests pass under ASAN (incl. 2 new group-refresh
regression tests), scheduler survives 3 consecutive controller restarts
(each rejoin ok), full job lifecycle (submit→dispatch→DONE) on the
cluster. Also fixed stale build deps (libxce_deps missing librtti_dep,
scheduler_deps missing ssl_dep/c_capnproto_dep, unity include path).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
component-failover-adoption Req 4: when the apiserver's controller connection
is down, backend-requiring API requests must return a clear service-unavailable
error rather than hanging. Adds:
- health.go: an atomic circuit breaker (IsDegraded/MarkDegraded/MarkHealthy).
- callBackend: the four write calls (jobsubmit/jobctrl/queuectrl/hostctrl)
now route through it — degraded ⇒ immediate "backend controller unavailable"
error without invoking the lib; a transport OR XCE not-ready/masterless/
standby failure (E_XCE_NOMASTER/REDIRECT/NOT_READY/STANDBY) trips the breaker
so the NEXT call fails fast. Semantic rejections (-EINVAL/-ENOENT/E_XCE_BAD_*)
never trip it.
- StartHeartbeat: a failed tick marks degraded; recovery re-joins (rejoinBackend)
and marks healthy.
Verified live (t1 cluster): kill controller → first submit returns
xcecli_jobsubmit failed: -10013 (bounded, no hang), second submit returns
"backend controller unavailable (reconnecting)" in ~11ms. 7 unit tests.
Recovery-via-heartbeat after a FULL controller death is NOT yet reliable — the
lib transport reconnect does not always re-establish to the restarted
controller (same class as the scheduler reconnect; tracked under task 13).
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deep-dive: the rejoin works but crashes ~3-8s later with a REAL heap corruption
(ASAN bad-free freeing a pointer 56B into a 60B region, all-loader frames;
non-ASAN debug build aborts with free(): invalid pointer, gdb stack corrupted).
The endpoint-unmonitor fix (correct, matches xce_ctx_stop) did not help.
Candidate roots: config re-push re-running sched_init_config non-idempotently
(sharedInst MOVE_PTR/zarray_put), lib reconnect vs in-flight vtask, or
state-resync merge. All scheduler reconnect changes reverted to keep the
scheduler stable; this is a dedicated deep-debugging task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Closes the G-5 test gap mirroring the G-8 routing test: the rusage notify
handler enqueues XCE_SCHED_OP_JOB_RUSAGE and sched_update() must dispatch it to
sched_apply_job_rusage(), storing the report on the matching job (bug-765 G-5
remediation, production fix already in 93124c5). Driving the real sched_update()
dequeue loop with a recording stub, asserts the request reaches
sched_apply_job_rusage and the job's rusages field is set.
11/11 sched_redispatch_test PASS; full scheduler suite 6/6 OK. Live: job ran to
DONE on the deployed scheduler (G-3 leak fix in place), zero ASAN errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
