Violates this project's own recorded Decision Log entry: "No client
reply-wait timeout as a fix for a hung request -- fail loud at the real
transport/source instead of masking with a deadline backstop."
OPCode_schedAdmin (cluster.c) and on_fetchfile (job.c, the worker proxy
-- cluster.c's own comment says schedAdmin "mirrors on_fetchfile's proxy
pattern", confirming one shared design mistake, not two independent
bugs) both blocked on a multi-second pthread_cond_timedwait, replying
"timeout" on expiry. handle_scheduler_leave()/handle_worker_leave() (the
actual disconnect handlers) only nulled the endpoint pointer -- neither
ever signaled the pending waiter, so a mid-wait disconnect was invisible
until the deadline lapsed. The timeout was the ONLY failure-detection
mechanism, exactly what the decision forbids.
Both sites already had a working signal function on their success path
(schedadmin_signal(), fetchfile_signal()) -- just never wired to the
disconnect handlers. Fixed by calling them from
handle_scheduler_leave()/handle_worker_leave() with a distinguishable
-ECONNRESET outcome, so the waiter wakes immediately on disconnect
instead of only on the deadline. Timeouts kept as defensive backstops
for a genuinely wedged peer that never disconnects cleanly either --
this fix is about not relying SOLELY on the timeout, not removing it.
schedadmin_signal_disconnect() must be called BEFORE handle_scheduler_leave()
acquires c->sched.lock -- the dispatch wait holds that same lock for its
entire duration, so signaling after acquiring it would deadlock.
Found by an /xce-audit-invariants controller pass (Decision Log fidelity
dimension). New test_fetchfile_disconnect.c plus extensions to
test_sched_admin_dispatch.c/test_sched_worker_change.c; RED/GREEN
independently verified against real elapsed-time assertions (pre-fix:
5001ms full-timeout wait; post-fix: <1s immediate wake). Full controller
suite: 1181 tests, 2 failures -- both the pre-existing, unrelated
bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox flake, confirmed via a clean meson-driven run.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
Last of the five field-parity gaps from the original audit (bug-1678,
bug-1687, bug-1689, bug-1690, bug-1691). set_preason()/clear_preason()
set job.pend_reasons (host/resource-based pending-job explanations), but
persist_job_hook_fun's default: arm only ever captured {jobid, state}.
Neither apply seam restored pend_reasons after a restart.
Reuses the ALREADY-EXISTING JobPendReason/HostBasedReason/ResourceBasedReason
capnp structs -- no schema change needed, unlike bug-1690's WAL_JOB_RUSAGE.
Safety-checked against bug-1690's lesson (RTTI/makeString()-backed fields
need merge-not-replace, not free-and-replace): pend_reasons is plain
malloc/strdup-backed throughout (erase_job_preason is FREEUP()-only,
add_host_preason/add_res_preason use strdup()/calloc()), so a
straightforward free-and-replace is safe here, matching bug-1678/1687's
pattern instead.
New wrinkle beyond the four prior fixes: pend_reasons has a genuine CLEAR
operation, and "trailing bytes present or absent" can't distinguish a
legitimate clear from an old-format payload -- added an explicit presence
byte (0=cleared/adopt NULL, 1=capnp bytes follow), verified by two
dedicated "clear survives restart" tests.
11 new tests in test_wal_job_preason_fact.c; RED/GREEN independently
verified (7 genuine pre-fix failures, one test's own wrong premise about
capnp's garbage-byte behavior caught and corrected during RED/GREEN
iteration). Full controller suite: 1178 tests, 2 failures -- both the
pre-existing, unrelated bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox flake. No ASAN findings.
This closes the field-complete apply parity invariant class the
xce-audit-invariants controller dimension 7 was added for.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
Same class as bug-1678/1687/1689/1690: on_job_ckpt() sets job.ckptinfo
(a plain char*, xstring-backed via makeString()) but is purely hook-driven
-- persist_job_hook_fun's default: arm only ever captured {jobid, state}
for WAL_JOB_CKPT. Neither apply seam restored ckptinfo after a restart.
Simplest of the five field-parity fixes: ckptinfo is a bare string, so no
capnp struct is needed -- mirrors WAL_QUEUE_CTRL's existing NUL-terminated-
string-after-header wire shape instead. Adoption is unconditional (not
gated on a state transition), matching bug-1690's precedent: a checkpoint
report never changes job.state. restore_job_ckpt_state() releases the
prior value via dereference() (the correct RTTI verb for an xstring), not
free().
Found by an /xce-audit-invariants controller pass (field-complete apply
parity dimension) -- the last of five sibling gaps found together
(bug-1678, bug-1687, bug-1689, bug-1690, this one). 7 new tests in
test_wal_job_ckpt_fact.c; RED/GREEN independently verified (5 genuine
pre-fix failures, 2 backward-compat tests correctly passed unchanged).
Full controller suite: 1167 tests, 2 failures -- both the pre-existing,
unrelated bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox flake. No ASAN findings.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
Same class as bug-1678/1687/1689: the WAL fact for WAL_JOB_RUSAGE only
carried {jobid, state}, so job.run_usage (client-reported per-host
CPU/mem usage) was never restored on either apply seam after a restart.
Unlike the prior three, xce_job_runusage_t/xce_host_runusage_t had no
existing Cap'n Proto mapping -- a genuine new schema addition
(HostRunusage/JobRunusage in controller.capnp, mirroring JobPendReason's
List(NestedStruct)+$C.maplistcount style), verified against the real
struct definitions in types.h, codegen confirmed via nm on the built
binary rather than assumed.
Two deliberate deviations from the established precedent, found by
reading the real code rather than copying the pattern blindly:
1. Adoption is unconditional, not gated on a state transition -- a
rusage report almost never changes job.state (repeat reports keep
state at RUN), so gating on JOB_TRANSITION_APPLIED like START/FINISH/
DISPATCH do would make the fix dead code for the realistic case.
2. Merge, not free-and-replace. update_host_runusage() builds run_usage
with host_name sourced from makeString() -- an RTTI-managed pointer,
not malloc() -- and the primary's own live apply pump re-applies every
fact it just wrote. A naive free_JobRunusage_ptr()-then-adopt (matching
the prior three fixes exactly) would free() a non-malloc'd pointer on
the very first live rusage report for a new host -- guaranteed heap
corruption. Fixed with merge_job_runusage(): existing hosts get
scalar-only in-place updates (host_name pointer never touched), only
genuinely new hosts adopt their freshly-decoded (safe, malloc'd)
host_name. Proved via a real makeString()-backed test asserting
pointer identity survives, not just value equality. job_destroy()
(src/lib/jobj.c) was found to have this identical latent mismatch,
pre-existing and independent of this fix -- flagged, not fixed here.
Found by an /xce-audit-invariants controller pass (field-complete apply
parity dimension). 8 new tests in test_wal_job_rusage_fact.c; RED/GREEN
independently verified. Full controller suite: 1160 tests, 2 failures --
both the pre-existing, unrelated bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox flake. No
ASAN/heap-corruption findings. Backward compatibility confirmed for
old-format bare-payload entries.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
Same class as bug-1678/bug-1687: record_job_finish_fact() wrote only
{jobid, state} for WAL_JOB_FINISH. Both apply seams either fabricated
finish_time via time(NULL) or touched nothing beyond state.
Worse than "lost on restart": apply_job_finish_transition() -- the only
function that ever set job.exit_info -- is dead code on the real
production apply path. The raft-apply-decoupling redesign routes actual
mutation through the leaner apply_job_update_transition() instead, so
exit_info was never populated at all, restart or not, before this fix.
job_exitinfo_t ({int exitcode;}) has no existing capnp mapping, so this
uses a small native (non-capnp) trailing payload -- wal_jobstate_t header
+ uint64_t finish_time + int32_t exit_code -- mirroring wal_jobstate_t's
own native-struct style rather than inventing a capnp wrapper for one
field. run_time is never carried on the wire, always re-derived as
finish_time - start_time at apply time. Both apply seams updated;
old-format payloads (exactly sizeof(wal_jobstate_t)) decode unchanged
(fabricated finish_time, NULL exit_info) -- full backward compatibility.
Found by an /xce-audit-invariants controller pass (field-complete apply
parity dimension). 6 new tests in test_wal_job_finish_fact.c; RED/GREEN
independently verified (4 genuine pre-fix failures with real
expected-vs-fabricated mismatches, 2 backward-compat tests correctly
passed both before and after). Full controller suite: 1152 tests, 2
failures -- both the pre-existing, unrelated bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox
flake (confirmed flaky across repeated re-runs of the same binary).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
Same class as bug-1678: apply_job_start_transition() sets the real
job->job.pidinfo (worker-reported PIDs/PGIDs/exdata) and start_time, but
the WAL fact for WAL_JOB_START only carried the shared wal_jobstate_t
{jobid, state} header -- both apply seams (apply_committed_entry() for
primary boot replay, apply_wal_entry() for standby catch-up) restored
state only. pidinfo stayed permanently NULL after a restart; start_time
was fabricated with time(NULL) at replay instead of being carried,
drifting from the true value.
Mirrors bug-1678's exact fix shape: capnp_encode_pidinfo()/decode_pidinfo()
(persist.c, using the pre-existing JobPIDInfo capnp struct -- no schema
change needed) serialize job_pidinfo_t into the WAL payload, trailing a
new uint64_t start_time field appended after wal_jobstate_t.
persist_submit_job_start_fact() replaces the old state-only
persist_submit_job_fact() call for this type. Both apply seams updated;
a payload of exactly sizeof(wal_jobstate_t) (any entry written before
this fix) decodes with pidinfo left NULL and start_time fabricated via
time(NULL), exactly matching pre-fix behavior -- full backward
compatibility, verified by every pre-existing WAL_JOB_START test using
the old bare-struct shape.
Also fixed a genuine, unrelated deadlock this change's larger payload
exposed in test_commit_barrier_reply.c: cbrp_count_jobstate_entries_ex()
matched WAL entries by exact payload size (==), so once WAL_JOB_START
legitimately grew it silently undercounted to 0 and a downstream test
spun forever polling an uncounted target. Fixed the match to >= (jobid/
state always live at a fixed leading offset) -- bisected via /proc/*/wchan
futex inspection (no ptrace in this sandbox), confirmed as the actual
cause, not the teardown-ordering red herring first suspected.
Found by an /xce-audit-invariants controller pass (field-complete apply
parity dimension, added after bug-1678). 6 new tests in
test_wal_job_start_fact.c; RED/GREEN independently verified (4 tests
genuinely failed pre-fix with exact expected-vs-fabricated value
mismatches, 2 backward-compat tests correctly passed both before and
after). Full controller suite: 1146 tests, 2 failures -- both the
pre-existing, unrelated bug-1561 overlayfs sandbox flake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
dispatch_a_job_() (tasks 3.1-3.3) now owns notification entirely for
every outcome -- notify_dispatch() on a retryable failure, mark_job_fail()'s
own hook chain on a terminal failure, nothing on success. handle_jobdispatch()'s
loop still unconditionally called notify_dispatch() itself for every job
regardless, producing two conflicting outcome reports for any failed
dispatch. Removed that caller-side call; the loop is now a thin
dispatch-and-free loop with no notification logic of its own.
New test_jobdispatch_no_double_notify.c drives a 3-job batch (success,
retryable, terminal) through handle_jobdispatch() and confirms exactly
one notification fires (from the retryable job only), not four.
Independently reviewed and approved. Confirmed handle_jobdispatch()'s
sole caller never depended on its notification behavior (always returns
0 unconditionally). Flagged that test_commit_barrier_reply.c's
test_jobdispatch_receipt_ack_no_wal_append is now stale for a second,
independent reason (notify count, not just WAL count) -- both left for
task 5.4 per Requirement 5.3.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cxa1PmqAB5PyXfJaNvj8TN
The four retryable-classified failure sites in dispatch_a_job_() (worker
lookup, worker null, worker not ready, RPC failure) now resolve instead
of just returning an error code: lock(j, RTTI_LOCK_WRITE) -> genuinely
classify via xce_classify_dispatch_fail() -> increment dispatch_fail_count
-> within XCE_DISPATCH_FAIL_RETRY_BOUND (3) resolves retryable (nothing
further under the lock), past it resolves terminal via mark_job_fail()
exactly like task 3.2's sites -> unlock(j) -> dereference(j) (closing
bug-1627's 4-site reference leak) -> outside the lock, notify_dispatch()
fires only on the retryable outcome. Each site's natural error code is
captured into a stable local before any intervening call, since errno
isn't guaranteed stable once lock()/ERROR()/free_launchinfo() sit between
the original failure and the eventual return.
handle_jobdispatch() is intentionally untouched -- it still unconditionally
calls notify_dispatch() itself for every outcome, so the retryable path
now temporarily double-notifies until task 4.1 removes that caller-side
call. Expected, not a defect.
New test_dispatch_fail_retry.c (4 tests, including a bounded-escalation
test driving 4 consecutive RPC failures on the same job: 3rd retries,
4th resolves EXIT) plus a fixed stale assertion in test_dispatch_commit.c
and additive, read-only notify-capture accessors in
test_commit_barrier_reply.c (the binary's sole notify() stub host).
Independently reviewed and approved, including explicit scrutiny of the
cross-file test accessor addition and the stale-assertion fix -- both
confirmed legitimate, not scope creep or regression-hiding.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cxa1PmqAB5PyXfJaNvj8TN
The two terminal-classified failure sites in dispatch_a_job_() (invalid
allocation, queue-exec-info lookup failure) now actually resolve the job
instead of leaving it stuck at PEND forever with a dangling reference to
nowhere. Each site: lock(j, RTTI_LOCK_WRITE) -> genuinely calls
xce_classify_dispatch_fail(site) and branches on the result (not a
hardcoded assumption) -> mark_job_fail() under the lock (stage=0 routes
apply_job_fail_transition() to JOB_STAT_EXIT) -> unlock(j) -> the existing
dereference(j) (kept exactly where it was, not duplicated) -> the existing
return code, unchanged. No notify_dispatch() added -- mark_job_fail()'s
own hook chain is the sole notification for a terminal outcome per
design.md; handle_jobdispatch()'s still-unconditional notify_dispatch()
call is untouched (task 4.1's job).
New test_dispatch_fail_terminal.c proves both sites resolve to
JOB_STAT_EXIT with allocs left NULL, using a canary-reference technique
to prove no reference over-release (job_t's real refcount has no test
accessor). Independently reviewed and approved; applied the reviewer's
one non-blocking fast-follow (arm the canary before the call under test,
not after, so it's an independent proof rather than relying on other
assertions to crash first) and re-verified with a clean incremental build.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cxa1PmqAB5PyXfJaNvj8TN
dispatch_a_job_()'s previously-unconditional job.allocs commit is now
gated on xce_startjob_req() actually succeeding (rc >= 0). In that same
successful branch, under a newly-acquired lock(j, RTTI_LOCK_WRITE) (a
real pre-existing locking gap this call site had -- it took no lock on
the job object itself before this), the job transitions to JOB_STAT_RUN,
dispatch_fail_count resets to 0, and a WAL_JOB_DISPATCH fact is appended
for durability. The failure path is otherwise unchanged -- classification
and resolution of the six failure sites is tasks 3.2/3.3's job, not this
one's.
Adds an XCE_TESTING-only dispatch_a_job_test() wrapper (dispatch_a_job_()
is static) and test_dispatch_commit.c, proving: state->RUN, allocs
committed correctly, counter resets, and durability survives a real
persist_recover() replay with no WAL_JOB_START present.
Independently reviewed and approved. Two pre-existing, out-of-boundary
findings surfaced and logged for later tasks: test_commit_barrier_reply.c's
test_jobdispatch_receipt_ack_no_wal_append will need updating by task 5.4
(Req 5.3 anticipates this), and bug-1429's hang was reconfirmed a 3rd time
(unrelated to this change).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cxa1PmqAB5PyXfJaNvj8TN
Add uint32_t dispatch_fail_count to the job_t wrapper struct (xce/types.h,
alongside submit_lsn, same in-memory-only/reset-on-failover precedent),
per Requirement 4.3. Data model only -- xce_job_t (wire type) untouched,
job.c untouched; increment/reset wiring and the bounded-retry threshold
check are tasks 3.1/3.3.
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New wal_entry_type WAL_JOB_DISPATCH=12, reusing wal_jobstate_t verbatim
(_pad=0, absolute-value semantics), wired into both apply_wal_entry()'s
and apply_committed_entry()'s existing job-state fall-through groups per
Requirement 2.4. Restart-replay test writes only WAL_JOB_SUBMIT+
WAL_JOB_DISPATCH to a real on-disk WAL and confirms job.state==RUN after
a fresh persist_recover(), independent of WAL_JOB_START.
Review found apply_wal_entry() has zero production call sites today
(persist_recover() and standby catch-up both route through
apply_committed_entry() post the 2026-07-10 ha_apply_single_entry
refactor) -- design.md's stale characterization corrected; the dual
case-label registration itself is unaffected and correct.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Define xce_dispatch_fail_site_t/xce_dispatch_fail_class_t and
xce_classify_dispatch_fail() in job.c, mapping each of dispatch_a_job_()'s
six post-lookup failure points to retryable or terminal per Requirement
4.1/4.2. Standalone, not yet wired into dispatch_a_job_() (deferred to
tasks 3.2/3.3). Also adds this spec's requirements/design/research/tasks
docs (first commit touching this spec).
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Adds the spec's one and only src/controller/ change: a new
case OPCode_schedAdmin in myreq_handler() (cluster.c) that mirrors the
existing OPCode_upgradeConfig case -- primary-only gate, explicit reply
on every path, stateless pass-through with no WAL entry.
Forwards to the scheduler via a new xce_schedadmin_req() (async send,
mirrors xce_fetchfile_req) and blocks the vtask thread on a condvar with
a 5s deadline while holding c->sched.lock for the round-trip, matching
this spec's own research-phase design decision (parity with
OPCode_upgradeConfig's no-RBAC posture, blocking wait accepted for
low-frequency admin traffic). A new branch in the existing
OPCode_reply case demuxes the scheduler's SchedAdminReply to a
process-global single-slot pending-waiter mechanism, serialized by
c->sched.lock, matching job.c's existing fetchfile-proxy pattern.
Adversarial review independently traced double-free/cleanup, the
timeout/signal race, and reply-opcode demux correctness against source;
found and a follow-up round closed a narrow-window leak via a carefully
lock-ordered unlock->unregister->relock sequence (avoiding an AB-BA
inversion against schedadmin_signal()'s lock acquisition order).
New test_sched_admin_dispatch.c drives the real myreq_handler via the
existing myreq_handler_for_test seam: not-primary rejection (proven via
a poison-pointer sched.ep that would crash if forwarding were ever
attempted), not-connected rejection, and a genuine two-thread round-trip
test exercising the real signal/demux path.
Controller suite 3/3 (1090/1090 assertions), scheduler suite 26/26
unaffected, clang-format clean.
bug-1421 added two term-discovery fallback vectors so a stale-term primary
steps down instead of retrying AppendEntries forever: heartbeat-reply
state-report term adoption and WAL-NACK reply_term adoption, both inside
repl_ack_decode_and_dispatch. Neither had a test driving the real
production dispatch path and asserting raft_on_higher_term_observed
actually fires.
Adds two tests mirroring test_config_repl.c's existing config-push term
test, driving peer_ctrl_msg_handler -> repl_ack_decode_and_dispatch via
wire-shape capnp packets. Both pass immediately -- the underlying bug-1421
code was already correct, just unverified end-to-end -- closing
raft-adapter-conformance's Requirement 7.5 unverified claim.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXkenK8rqE8mdS1YKjsq78
Prove Requirement 6.2 with a real, code-backed mechanism instead of the
originally hypothesized lost_and_found re-homing, which turned out to be
aspirational and never implemented (confirmed by exhaustive grep at both
the pre-fix baseline commit and HEAD — bug-857 itself was flagged in
buglog.json as never empirically reproduced).
test_bug857_regression.c demonstrates both halves of the requirement
entirely within controller_unit_test, no live soak or old-commit build
needed: schedule_checkpoint's pre-existing WAL-threshold trigger is
decoupled from the config-marker boundary and produces genuinely
divergent per-member checkpoint content, while the marker-triggered
checkpoint this spec added converges members regardless of differing
per-member processing pace.
design.md's Requirements Traceability table and Testing Strategy section
are corrected to match; the redirection reasoning is recorded in
tasks.md's Implementation Notes for the benefit of tasks 8.6-8.9, which
still need live multi-process HA-soak infrastructure for Requirement 6.1
that this task deliberately did not build.
Build configcompare_paths(), an offline sibling to snapdiff/walcompare that
recomputes each member's active-config sha256 fresh from its own on-disk
workdir/name/conf bytes and reports identical vs. divergent (Req 4.2).
Wire it as a cmd_configcompare CLI subcommand in test.c, matching its
siblings, after review caught it shipped as an unreachable library function
in round 1.
Extend snapverify to match the current on-disk checkpoint format: bump
SNAP_FORMAT_VERSION to 2, replace the stale raw queue-frame decode with the
capnp length-prefixed walk, add host-frame and config-bytes-section
structural walks, and decode (not just presence-check) the header's
cfgref tag/sha. Without this fix snapverify rejected every checkpoint
written by the current codebase.
Adds an explicit case WAL_CONFIG_MARKER to apply_committed_entry,
replacing its no-op treatment, that forces a checkpoint at exactly the
marker's own (term, lsn) via two new helpers:
persist_checkpoint_write_locked(p, checkpoint_lsn) -- the checkpoint
core (pin lsn, scan config ref, write_snapshot, trim, rotate) taking
an explicit LSN and never acquiring apply_pump_lock itself
persist_checkpoint_marker_triggered(p, lsn) -- shares the existing
checkpoint_in_progress CAS guard, calls the above with the marker's
own lsn
This fixes two hazards design.md's "call persist_checkpoint() directly"
text didn't account for: (1) apply_committed_entry's live-pump caller
(persist_apply_pump_run, used by both primary and standby online-apply)
already holds apply_pump_lock across the dispatch call -- a direct
persist_checkpoint() call would self-deadlock on that mutex; (2)
last_applied_lsn/replay position only advance AFTER apply_committed_entry
returns at both call sites, so pinning checkpoint_lsn from
last_applied_lsn inside the marker case would label the checkpoint with
the previous entry's LSN, not the marker's own -- fixed by threading the
marker's own lsn parameter through explicitly. A -EBUSY outcome (a
concurrent periodic checkpoint mid-flight) is logged at TRACE and treated
as expected/self-resolving, never retried. The new case has no effect on
entity interpretation/re-homing (Req 1.8).
New test_upgrade_snapshot_apply.c drives WAL_CONFIG_MARKER through the
REAL production call paths (persist_apply_pump_run and boot replay via
persist_recover), not a bare apply_committed_entry() call, so the fix is
actually proven against the lock-holding context rather than assumed.
Also fixes a genuine regression in test_config_repl.c surfaced by
WAL_CONFIG_MARKER apply having a real side effect for the first time
(bug-1466): an fsync-worker-thread race (t42_wait_applied polling helper,
mirrors test_apply_pump.c's tap_wait_applied) and one test call site
trusting an unreliable raft-derived LSN. Surfaces (but does not fix, out
of this spec's boundary) a pre-existing ha-term-safety/raft-log-replication
gap: persist_write_checkpoint_marker bypasses ha_primary_log_append,
breaking its documented current_lsn==log_len+1 invariant once a
checkpoint interleaves with primary appends -- log_len feeds real
RequestVote freshness comparisons, not advisory-only as first assumed;
severity corrected in bug-1466. Task 5 of 19.
Requirements: 1.1, 1.5, 1.8, 4.4, 5.2, 5.3
Adds restore_host_state(cluster_t*, const char*, uint32_t admin_status)
to worker.c: OR's admin bits into an existing worker's status on hit;
on miss, creates a minimal XCE_WORKER_UNAVAIL placeholder via
makeWorker (mirroring the lost_and_found sentinel host precedent),
with a valid non-NULL hostattrs_t so the host's later real join routes
through rejoin_worker (not init_worker) and preserves the restored
admin status. Idempotent under retry (find first, create only if
missing). Standalone -- not yet wired into load_snapshot (task 4).
Requirements: 1.10, 1.11, 5.8
replay_wal() now halts logical apply and engages persist_mark_apply_resource_fenced()
on a negative apply_committed_entry() return during boot/restart replay, mirroring
persist_apply_pump_run()'s existing live-path halt-and-fence behavior (task 4.1).
Physical scan bookkeeping (current_lsn, CRC chain) stays unconditional per entry,
consistent with persist_recover()'s own established current_lsn/last_applied_lsn
divergence precedent.
Went through one remediation round: round 1 exercised the wrong ha.c gate (periodic
re-alert timer); round 2 corrected the test to drive the real election-time gate
(raft_cb_become_leader_with_cluster_for_test()), with teeth independently confirmed
via a temporary fence-clear RED/GREEN cycle. Round-2 reviewer APPROVED.
Documents a real, NOT-fixed residual gap found during this task: a node's very
first-ever promotion evaluation in a fresh process runs before that node's own
first persist_recover()/replay_wal() call, so this fence is invisible to that one
promotion check (ha.c:1303-1408 gate runs before ha.c:1427-1439's first-boot
recovery). Every promotion evaluation after a process's first one is protected.
Out of this task's persist.c-only boundary; flagged for a dedicated ha.c follow-up.
New test_job_array_fence.c exercises the full Requirement 9.4-9.6
engage-refuse-clear-recover sequence through real production seams:
forced array-expansion failure -> fence engages -> promotion refused
at a real ha.c gate site -> zero partial elements visible -> a second,
independent node's progress is unaffected -> clearing the failure and
retrying self-heals the fence and re-opens promotion eligibility.
Deliberately drives this through task 3.1's construction-phase
(scratch-build) seam rather than the bulk-insert-phase seam: the
bulk-insert seam has a known, separately-tested residual gap (an
already-inserted element prefix can survive a mid-pass key_add()
failure with no key_del to undo it), so asserting "no partial set"
against it would misrepresent an already-documented open gap as
resolved. That gap remains open and unowned (see tasks.md
Implementation Notes) -- Phase 4 delivers the generic halt/fence/gate
machinery for it, not the partial-visibility guarantee itself.
Task 4.4 of job-array-single-wal-record (Requirements 9.4, 9.5, 9.6).
This completes Phase 4 (Live Apply Resource Fence).
Adds the shared N-way array expansion primitive: decodes a committed
WAL_JOB_ARRAY_SUBMIT payload, scratch-builds every element via a
throwaway kv-table (never touching c->jobmgr during construction),
then makes the whole set visible in one bulk pass under a single
write-lock acquisition -- no window where a concurrent reader can
observe a partially-constructed array. Idempotent per index (skips
already-existing jobids; whole-record no-op if all exist). Includes
an XCE_TESTING-guarded fault-injection seam. Not yet wired into any
live dispatch path (tasks 3.2/3.3).
Two review rounds: round 1 found the bulk-insert pass silently
claimed success even when key_add() itself could fail on allocation
exhaustion (c->jobmgr grows via realloc, no reservation primitive
exists anywhere in kv.c/kvmgr.c/zarray.c to pre-check this). Fixed
by checking key_add()'s return and reporting failure honestly
instead of a false success. The underlying table has no key_del, so
an already-inserted prefix on this specific failure mode can remain
genuinely visible while the call reports failure -- documented as a
residual gap in design.md and tasks.md for tasks 3.2/4.x to account
for (that prefix is never pushed to scheduler/API server, even on a
later successful retry, since it's never included in out_new_jobs).
Task 3.1 of job-array-single-wal-record.
Replace the deliberate election-carrier leak with an atomic refcount:
a bias reference held by ha->elect_ctx plus one reference per captured
vote endpoint, released via a new endpoint_t.on_fini teardown-completion
hook (fired once, before ep->data is freed). Both real-election and
PreVote capture sites (raft_cb_send_vote_request,
raft_cb_send_pre_vote_request) increment on capture; both publish sites
(ha_start_election_async, ha_start_prevote_async) now atomic_exchange
the outgoing carrier and release it instead of leaking or freeing
outright, so a still-outstanding vote endpoint keeps the superseded
carrier alive until its own teardown completes.
Verified: 758+ controller tests green, isolated LeakSanitizer run shows
zero ha_elect_ctx_t leaks across many election/PreVote rounds, no
premature-free/UAF under supersession, and a live 10-round HA soak
(36 jobs, zero loss, all 3 nodes served as primary).
Add test_apply_pump_integration.c (2 tests), no production changes.
Exercises the full live pump (real commit engine, real apply
dispatch, real hook subscribers) for both a job submission and a
fact: proves reply-after-visibility ordering for commands, and zero
fact-reaction side effects during a delayed-commit/quorum-loss
window (polled repeatedly across real time, not checked once).
Confirms Req 4.3 by construction, not assertion: the apply walk only
ever invokes apply_committed_entry() for LSNs already <= committed_lsn,
so a consumer acting on the post-apply notification never needs to
separately re-check a commit watermark.
Independently verifies apply_committed_entry()'s generic
HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_UPDATE routing (unchanged by task 6.1's _pad fix)
makes the type-specific sched.c/apiserver.c hook handlers
structurally unreachable for live-applied facts -- confirmed their
va_arg-typed signatures would type-confuse-crash if ever called with
the job_t* apply_committed_entry() actually passes, making the
single generic reaction spy a sound design, not a coverage gap.
Repo-wide audit confirms exactly 2 live call sites ever fire these
hook details (the guarded apply seam, and job_ctrl's legitimate
SIGCONT/SIGSTOP path) -- no orphaned third site.
Build persist_apply_pump_run()/persist_apply_pump_kick() -- the
ordered walk from last_applied_lsn+1 through committed_lsn, applying
every entry via apply_committed_entry() regardless of commit mode.
This is the first live (non-replay) consumer of that dispatch
function. Kick is wired into commit_resolve_pending() (the single
choke point all 6 internal committed_lsn-advancing paths funnel
through, discovered in task 1.2), dispatched via
vtask_enq_classified(VTASK_LIVE_BLOCK) with a CAS-coalesced
fire-and-forget trigger.
Fixes the two hazards flagged since task 4.1 as required before
going live:
1. Double-append: a thread-local call-provenance guard
(t_apply_seam_notifying) prevents persist_job_hook_fun/
persist_queue_hook_fun/persist_worker_hook_fun from re-appending
entries the apply pump itself just applied, while preserving
job_ctrl's legitimate live command-path appends (a naive
detail-based filter would have broken SIGCONT/SIGSTOP). Also
closes an undocumented instance of the same hazard in the
queue/worker hook functions.
2. Merge-staleness: record_job_fail_fact/postdone's fact recording
previously baked a receipt-time-computed final job state into the
WAL entry, which goes stale under deferred apply -- a FINISH
followed shortly by an ordinary post-exec FAIL could silently
clobber a correct DONE completion with a stale RUN|EXIT|PERR, no
guard catching it. Fixed by repurposing wal_jobstate_t's unused
_pad field to carry just enough data (FAIL's stage) to recompute
against the job's actual current state at apply time via the real
apply_job_fail_transition()/new apply_job_postdone_transition()
guard cores, instead of overwriting with a stale absolute value.
Backward compatible: _pad==0 (all prior data) routes to the same
legacy overwrite behavior.
Also fixes bug-1409 (unbounded busy-loop in apply_pump_drain when
committed_lsn advances without a corresponding on-disk entry) and a
genuine test-flakiness hazard (a second, independent apply-pump
kicker from the fsync_worker thread that existing tests didn't
account for).
Two pre-existing tests in test_commit_barrier_reply.c now fail as
expected -- their own assertions state "no job may be constructed
until task 6's apply pump exists," now correctly invalidated by this
task landing; updating them is task 7.3's explicit job.
Add apply_verdict_t (APPLY_CLEAN/APPLY_DIVERGENT) computed alongside
the existing structural (CRC) recover_verdict_t. Dual-check design:
an entity-count check (WAL_JOB_SUBMIT entries scanned vs live jobmgr
growth, genuinely independent of apply_committed_entry()'s return
code) and a position check against a new last_applied_lsn field
(forward-looking infrastructure for task 6's live pump).
Fixes a real bug found during review: the position check's
expectation was computed from the physical WAL-scan tip
(current_lsn - 1), which advances past checkpoint markers and
unknown entry types that never reach apply_committed_entry(). A
crash between persist_checkpoint()'s marker-fsync step and its
later snapshot-persist step leaves a trailing checkpoint marker on
next boot, which falsely reported APPLY_DIVERGENT on a perfectly
clean recovery -- reachable today, not gated behind a future task.
Fixed by reading last_applied_lsn directly, which only advances for
entries actually dispatched through the apply seam.
Known accepted gap: entity-count check covers jobs only, not
workers (which can genuinely be created via WAL_WORKER_CTRL) --
documented for future extension.
Add test_apply_reapply_idempotency.c (3 tests, no production changes):
triple-reapplication of an identical job submit with hook-count and
pointer-identity assertions across every call, the NOOP_DUPLICATE
guard branch (untested by task 2.2), and the task's named scenario --
real SUBMIT then real FINISH then a stale out-of-order START, all
through the real apply_committed_entry() dispatch -- confirming the
job stays terminal with no spurious notification.
Closes out task-group 2 (shared apply seam for committed entries).
Rewire replay_wal()'s per-entry apply call from apply_wal_entry() to
apply_committed_entry() (task 2.2's shared dispatch seam), so restart
replay and the future live commit-advance pump (task 6.1) both
produce materialized state deterministically from the committed log.
apply_wal_entry() is not retired -- it remains ha.c's live standby
catch-up/replicated-apply dispatch, untouched.
Documents a real hazard: replay now fires AFTER_EVENT hooks for the
full post-checkpoint WAL range on every restart, including entries
already applied+notified in a prior process life. Traced and
confirmed inert today for both hook consumers (scheduler registers
post-boot, apiserver gates notify on a connected endpoint empty at
boot); flagged in tasks.md and in-line at the call site for
re-verification before tasks 4.1/6.1/6.2/6.3 make this path broadly
live.
Add apply_committed_entry(persist_t*, wal_type, lsn, payload, len) in
persist.c/persist.h as the single seam that turns a committed WAL
entry into an in-memory mutation plus its post-mutation notification
hook, covering job submit, job-state facts, queue control, and
worker control. Job-state facts route through 2.1's guard-only
apply_job_update_transition() core and fire a generic
HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_UPDATE, not per-type hooks — the wire format
(wal_jobstate_t {jobid, state}) cannot supply what the type-specific
cores/hooks require. This is a real, documented deviation from
design.md's per-type dispatch wording; tasks.md's Implementation
Notes flags it as unresolved and blocking for whoever wires this
into a live path (4.1/6.2/6.3).
Not yet wired into any live call site (replay wiring is 2.3).
Split mark_job_start/finish/fail/update in job.c into four hook-free
core functions (apply_job_*_transition) containing only the
monotonic-rank guard and mutation. Wrappers now peek the same guard
to decide hook-firing, then delegate to the core, preserving exact
pre-extraction hook-firing timing. Prerequisite for task 2.2's
apply_committed_entry() dispatch and the ordered apply pump (6.1).
commit_submit_async() lets a WAIT-mode caller register a continuation
against an appended LSN instead of blocking on pthread_cond_timedwait,
reusing the existing admission-cap discipline (wait_admit_locked/
wait_release_locked) so the bounded-capacity guarantee carries over
unchanged. Purely additive: no existing call site (repl_wait_majority_ack)
is touched yet -- that switch lands in task 3.2 once commit_resolve()
(task 1.2) exists to drive it.
ha_send_snapshot_to_standby ignored the network send's return value in its
chunk loop, silently truncating a transfer on a mid-stream error while still
logging "complete" (bug-1386). Fixing the silent drop exposed a second,
independent bug in the same pipeline: ha_handle_snapshot_chunk appended
received chunks in arrival order instead of at their wire-carried
chunk_offset, so out-of-order delivery across the vtask pool corrupted the
reassembled file even though every chunk's bytes were individually correct
(bug-1389). Fixed by checking every fallible call in the send loop and
switching the receiver to pwrite-at-offset with a count-based completion
tracker.
Adds snapverify/snapdiff xce_test commands (offline checkpoint-file
structural validator and byte-level comparator) used to diagnose bug-1389 and
kept as standing diagnostic tools for future snapshot-transfer triage.
g_drive_async_configpush_offload flipped back ON after both fixes, validated
via 6-round chaotic + 3/3 force-snapshot soak (raft-drive-async task 3.3).
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Adds the ha-entity-snapshots Kiro spec (requirements, design, research,
tasks) for task 5.10a / raft-ha-core-safety: making the HA checkpoint an
actually-restorable copy of committed job/queue state instead of a
position-only sentinel, closing the residual chaotic-soak divergence gap.
Task 1.1 (foundation): reusable test fixture snapent_make/snapent_teardown
in a new test_persist_snapshot_entities.c, seeding N jobs (varying state)
and M queues (varying status) into a real persist_t+cluster_t for later
write/load/rotation-guard tests to build on. Build clean; new suite 1/1;
regression spot-checks (test_persist_hooks 19/19, test_commit_barrier_reply
22/22) clean.
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New test_ha_core_safety.c with deterministic gate/probe seams (no sleeps,
drain-before-fini per bug-1224): payload-controllable WAL writer, on-disk
(term,pcrc,len) readback probe, walcompare observer, apply-gap + kill/
election injection for phases 2.3/4.1/5.1. Smoke-RED (Expected 64 Was 0)
proves the payload-blind (term,lsn)-only guard at persist.c:822 drops a
corrective full-payload write at a committed LSN. 5 tests/1 RED/4 seam
PASS, no ASAN errors.
With the dispatch flags flipped ON in-test, prove the three receiver-side
liveness properties (production defaults stay OFF):
- P1: while a snapshot (and config-push) transfer is parked in flight on the
slow lane, another endpoint's peer-control message is still processed
promptly on the vtask pool (different thread), with the transfer still
parked — the offloaded transfer does not block the drive path.
- P2: a peer-control ack (classified VTASK_LIVENESS) runs promptly even while
the pool is saturated to the LivenessAdmission reservation boundary with
REQ_BLOCK tasks (one more REQ_BLOCK fast-rejects with -E_XCE_NOT_READY,
proving real saturation). Narrowed to the liveness-dispatch-under-saturation
assertion; commit-advance itself is covered by the commit-engine tests.
- P3: while one endpoint's peer-control body is parked (holding a worker + that
ep busy), another endpoint's body runs concurrently on a different worker —
per-endpoint FIFO does not serialize across endpoints.
All deterministic (cond-var gates, bounded polls). Fixed a flaky teardown-race
hang (bug-1224): the tests released a parked vtask body then immediately called
the cancel-based vtaskmgr_fini while the just-released body was still unwinding
(P2's REQ_BLOCK bodies racing blk_lock teardown the worst). Fix adds end-of-body
completion counters polled to the full expected count before fini, so every
pool body has fully returned (worker idle) before the cancel. slowlane_fini is
graceful (join) so the lane side was already safe.
Verified: 5/5 deterministic isolated runs; full controller suite EXIT=0;
ASan-clean. Completes task 3.4 (3.4a UAF fix + 3.4b tests); the production
flag-flip remains deferred to after the 4.1 partition soak + 4.2 regression
sweep.
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When the (still-default-OFF) peer-control dispatch flag is ON,
raft_cb_become_follower runs as a vtask pool worker and frees every peer
vote-ep while other pool workers may still hold those eps' data — a UAF
(bug-1197). This makes that path quiescence-safe so the flag can later be
flipped ON (deferred to the 4.x prod-flip gate; production stays OFF here).
Mechanism (no libxce-wide endpoint refcount; reuses the existing per-ep FIFO +
busy serialization):
- Deferred teardown-as-vtask: the loser loop, when dispatch is ON and the pool
is wired, does per vote-ep endpoint_mark_tearing_down -> iomgr_unmonitor ->
enqueue a VTASK_IO/VTASK_LIVENESS teardown vtask bound to that ep. Per-ep busy
FIFO makes it run strictly after any in-flight/queued same-ep peer-control
vtask; the body NULLs iod->ep before endpoint_fini+free(ep) to disarm
run_task's post-body endpoint_unblock_tasks (which would touch the freed
ep->lock). OFF / pool-unwired path is byte-for-byte the legacy endpoint_fini.
- RCU-like drain closes the dispatch/teardown TOCTOU window: new _Atomic int
endpoint_t.dispatch_inflight (+ tearing_down:1 bit). The ON dispatch brackets
its flag-check+enqueue with fetch_add/fetch_sub (seq_cst);
endpoint_mark_tearing_down sets the flag under ep->lock, releases, then spins
until dispatch_inflight drains to 0. So every dispatch that read the flag
false finishes its enqueue before mark returns (FIFO-before the teardown
vtask); any later dispatch reads the flag set and drops the packet. ep->lock
is deliberately NOT held across the enqueue (it inverts with the taskq lock in
vtask_eligible); the counter is the lock-free handshake. Drain is bounded: the
held window is just a calloc + non-blocking enqueue on the single io_worker.
Still open before the production flag flip (4.x): the borrowed-ep race in
snapshot_lane_fn/configpush_lane_fn is distinct (slowlane thread vs io_worker
RDHUP teardown, not the vtask-pool FIFO) and needs its own per-standby-ep
discipline.
Tests: test_ha_vep_teardown.c — 5 ASan tests (ordering, late-event drop, run_task
unblock disarm, OFF-path unchanged, deterministic mark-drains-inflight-dispatch).
xcelib_test 282/0; controller_unit_test EXIT=0; ASan-clean. Adversarial
cpp-review: no CRITICAL/HIGH; handshake formally sound, flag-ON path race-free.
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vtaskmgr gains vtask_class_t (LIVENESS/LIVE_BLOCK/REQ_BLOCK) + a pool-level
blocking reservation: REQ_BLOCK fast-rejects -XCE_ERR_NOT_READY past
n_vcpus-R; LIVENESS never gated (deadlock-freedom). commit_submit folds its
inflight_waits onto the pool via commit_set_pool; production wired in
cluster.c phase2 (vtaskmgr_set_liveness_reserved(R) + commit_set_pool).
Lock order p->lock->ce->lock->blk_lock. Dormant until 3.1. Commit suites
38/30/22/38 green; lib 282/0, controller 196/0, ASAN clean. Phase 1 done.
Dedicated-pthread pool isolated from the vtask pool; non-blocking slowlane_submit
(0 enqueued / -EEXIST deduped / -EAGAIN cap-full-deferred), admission cap on
running tasks, per-key in-flight dedup, run-exactly-once, drain+join fini. Wired
into controller lifecycle (dormant; consumers land in 2.x/3.x). 7 unit tests,
mutation-verified cap+dedup; full suite 194/0 green, 15x ASAN.
drive_async_liveness_reserved = max(1, min(n_peers-1, n_vcpus-1)) — single
source of truth for VTASK_LIVENESS_RESERVED (deadlock-freedom floor applied
last). New DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS / DEFAULT_SLOWLANE_* constants. Resolved
reservation logged at init; under-provisioned (n_vcpus<n_peers) clamp WARNs
loudly, never self-terminates. 8 unit cases, mutation-verified.
Diffs member WALs by (lsn -> term, pcrc) over the committed prefix, exits non-zero
on any committed-prefix divergence with the diverging LSN + per-member entry
identities. Reuses the canonical waldump decoder via a new per-entry visitor seam
(no second WAL parser). Detects same-LSN/diff-term and same-LSN/diff-content
divergences (the bug-851 class) that an LSN-range check would mask.
persist_set_term sets the live election term so appends stamp hdr.term (fixes the
G1 term-0 stamping); replay_wal builds an in-memory per-LSN term index (freed in
persist_fini, no on-disk change); persist_entry_term reads it back (0=absent).
Legacy-0 -> WAL_LEGACY_TERM=1 at read-back only (raw 0 retained so present-legacy-0
is distinguishable from absent). 40-byte wal_entry_hdr_t preserved (value fix, R1.7).
5 new tests (test_term_safety_adapter.c); reviewer APPROVED. Feeds task 2.2.
All controller test groups report 0 failures; the meson full-suite timeout is the
bug-924 overlayfs /tmp fdatasync artifact, not this task.
Test-only: exercises the real ha_vote_self_freshness/handle_request_vote gate.
A heartbeat raise via ha_observe_heartbeat_committed lifts the floor to
max(durable=5, raised=9); candidate at 7 denied, at 9/12 granted; a lower
heartbeat never lowers it. Discriminating constants fail under either regression
(floor->durable-only or fold->min). No production/vote-path change (Req 3.2).
123/0.
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Strict-monotonic updater for a standby's learned committed position: advance
last_known_committed_lsn only when strictly greater (zero/lower no-op), set the
config tag together (tag-before-lsn release ordering for reader safety). No
ha_rejoin_reconcile, no truncation, no other mutation (Req 2.1-2.3, 3.1, 3.3).
4 revert-detecting unit tests; controller suite 0 failures.
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ha_on_primary_ctrl_fd_rdhup + liveness_poll_fn now begin a PreVote round via
ha_begin_failover -> ha_start_prevote_async instead of electing directly; WAL
truncate + CTRL_ELECTING deferred to PreVote WON (ha_enter_real_election).
Connection teardown + config-less voter guard preserved at the trigger.
ha_on_heartbeat_received cancels an in-progress round and re-attaches as standby
with no term change. Single-node immediate-WON synchronously enters the real
election. PreVote now live; full controller suite 563 pass / 0 fail; bug-339/340
preserved.
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