Split dispatch_a_job_()'s combined "(w->ep == NULL) || (w->host.status
!= 0)" check into two branches, checked in order: w->ep == NULL now
resolves directly via record_job_reconcile_pending_fact() (task 2.1) --
no dispatch_fail_count increment, no mark_job_fail(), never reaching
xce_classify_dispatch_fail() at all -- before the code ever tests
w->host.status != 0, which keeps its existing retry-then-terminal-fail
behavior completely unchanged (byte-identical body, confirmed against
HEAD).
Completes Task 2 (all controller job-table reconciliation outcomes:
2.1 reconcile-to-pending, 2.2 reconcile-assign, 2.3 this split).
RED phase caught a genuine pre-existing test bug: test_worker_notready_
resolves_retryable was seeding a NULL-ep worker while claiming to test
the host.status!=0 retry path -- it never actually exercised that path.
Corrected to use a connected-but-busy worker, with self-asserting
TEST_ASSERT_NOT_NULL(w->ep)/TEST_ASSERT_TRUE(status!=0) guards so this
can't silently drift again.
2 new tests, including a full JOB_TRANSITION_APPLIED path proof (WAL
LSN advance, hook-fires-exactly-once per bug-1679, allocs released per
bug-1631) through this exact call site, both using correctly-timed
canary references on both the job and worker objects to catch any
over-release under ASAN. Full controller suite: 1227 tests, 0 failures,
zero regressions across every other dispatch_a_job_ failure site.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4M5MJM2zK6nU43da267Ku
Adds test_rpc_failure_bound_resets_after_intervening_success to
test_dispatch_fail_retry.c, proving Requirement 4.3's literal claim
end-to-end through the real dispatch_a_job_test() entry point: a fail,
then a real success, then another fail resets the consecutive-failure
counter so the second failure is evaluated as failure #1, not #2.
The first draft of this test also asserted job.state/job.allocs revert
to PEND/NULL on that post-success failure -- this genuinely fails
against current code (none of dispatch_a_job_()'s four retryable
branches revert state/allocs when failing from an already-RUN job,
since they were only ever designed for a job whose every attempt starts
from PEND). A debug investigation, independently re-verified even more
exhaustively during review (full trace of every pendJobs-reinsertion
and controller-side state-mutation site), confirmed this scenario is
unreachable via any real caller today -- the scheduler's picker
permanently removes a job from its PEND pool the instant it dispatches
it, and nothing already-implemented ever re-adds a RUN job to it. Only
the not-yet-implemented scheduler-preemption spec could someday create
that path. Logged as bug-1631, deliberately deferred rather than fixed
now (no reachable caller to regression-test against); the two
over-reaching assertions were trimmed, keeping only the counter proof
Requirement 4.3 actually asks for. Independently reviewed and approved.
Scenarios 1 (retryable -> PEND-eligible) and 2 (bound exceeded -> EXIT)
were already fully covered by tasks 2.2's and 3.3's existing tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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
