sched_record_session_add_decision() (recording_session.c) grows its
per-round decisions array via realloc(), doubling from 8. On a failed
growth it silently dropped the current decision and every one after it
that round, without marking the round incomplete -- finalize() then
wrote the short array as an ordinary, apparently-complete ReplaySession.
--sim-verify's replay comparison had no way to distinguish that from a
genuinely smaller live round, producing spurious "expected: <none>"
mismatches for jobs that were, in reality, correctly decided live and
simply never recorded. Live scheduling itself was unaffected either
way -- only the .replay file's own record of that one round lost its
tail.
This refutes the leading theory from the prior investigation (replay
seeing a job's first appearance "one round early" via coarser event
batching in sim_loop.c) -- confirmed via targeted diagnostic
instrumentation against the original captured .replay file: replay
deterministically reproduces the full candidate set every round;
the recording itself has the one-round gap.
Fix: track truncation on the session ctx; finalize() now refuses to
write an incomplete session and fails loudly through the same
sched_record_abort_on_error() path every other recording failure in
this subsystem already uses.
TDD: added a regression test forcing a real, deterministic realloc()
failure via -Wl,--wrap=realloc (scoped to this one test binary --
no prior malloc/realloc fault-injection harness existed in this
codebase). Verified genuine red -> green: the test fails without the
fix, passes with it. Full 85/85 scheduler suite green.
Note: this prevents future recordings from losing decisions this way;
it cannot retroactively repair an already-captured .replay file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
User-reported: replaying a captured session dispatched 44 single-slot jobs
onto a 22-slot host. Root cause traced through two layers:
- bug-1836: sim_reconcile_unaccounted_jobs() (the "Recorded-Decision
Reconciliation" backstop) force-applied any recorded DISPATCH decision
it found, with zero live capacity check. Added
sim_reconciled_alloc_fits_capacity(), reusing the same
sched_check_host_satisfy()/sched_check_shared_satisfy() admission checks
the live picker/allocator path already uses.
- bug-1838: even with that gate, reconciliation still preempted every
freshly-PEND job before the live picker/allocator got a turn each round
-- unnecessary now that scheduler-sim-live-allocation gave sim mode the
same real, capacity-checked picker/allocator threads normal mode uses.
Narrowed reconciliation's trigger back to JOB_IS_RUN-only (undoing a
2026-09-11 widening whose own justification no longer holds), so a
freshly-pushed job now always flows through the same live, verified
decision path as normal mode. Reconciliation now only ever fires for a
job already RUN from before the replay's own observation window --
the one case structurally invisible to the live picker.
Also logged (bug-1837, not fixed here, needs its own design decision):
sim_reconcile_unaccounted_jobs() calls a picker's on_dispatch() hook from
the driver thread instead of the allocator thread plugin.h documents it
belonging to -- currently inert since the only real picker plugin happens
to lock internally, but not contract-safe for a future lock-free one.
Fixing bug-1838 required re-examining every test exercising the old
PEND-inclusive trigger; several needed their fixtures corrected to
register a real worker (harmless before any capacity check existed), and
others needed their actual intent re-derived and their assertions
inverted or restated now that a PEND job is never eligible for
reconciliation. Dated correction notes added in place to the
scheduler-sim-eager-reconciliation spec, matching its own existing
2026-09-11 correction-note precedent.
Verified: full scheduler suite 85/85, independently re-confirmed by
running the four most affected binaries directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
bug-1790's fix worked but put limit-plugin-specific logic in the wrong
place: seqjob_prepare_allocation()/parjob_prepare_allocation() (the
allocator plugins) unconditionally pre-computed a job-wide total for
every per-host resource in the job's rusages, "just in case" some
global limit needed one. That's the allocator plugins' concern leaking
into limit evaluation -- duplicated across both allocators (a third
would need it too), and wasteful (computed for resources no limit
actually references).
Moved ownership to sched_fill_limit_requests() (resource.c), called
once centrally from plugin_prepare_allocation() regardless of which
allocator ran:
- Removed calc_wanted_host_resval_job_totals() and its calls from both
allocator plugins entirely.
- Added calc_wanted_job_total_resval() (resreq.c): an on-demand,
single-resource lookup by name (no resmgr/key_find needed -- the
caller already has the resolved xce_resource_t), computing the same
job-wide-total formula only for the one (scope, underlying-resource)
combination that needs it -- a GLOBAL limit on a per-host resource.
The other three combinations are unchanged, still reading straight
out of alloc_req.
- sched_fill_limit_requests() gains rusages/nhosts/nslots parameters
back (a genuine need this time, not a re-added unused one).
plugin.c's two call sites pass obj->u.primary->resreq->rusages
(NULL for COMPOUND/ALTER, matching this codebase's existing scope
convention for those tags) and ctx->nhosts/ctx->nslots.
All 23 testsuite link-satisfying stubs mechanically updated. Removed
the two allocator-level regression tests from the first pass (the
behavior they proved no longer exists by design); rewrote
test_fill_limit_requests_global_limit_on_host_resource_reads_host to
exercise the new on-demand path directly, nslots=3 to prove the job's
WHOLE total is used.
Full xce-build.sh all asan --incremental: 94/94 Ok, zero regressions.
Live re-verified against the same ug1_global_mem deploy/scenario:
byte-identical scheduler trace to the pre-refactor result, confirming
behavior-preserving.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GLfB5uWRdmx2WiZSFC7Fm7
sched_fill_limit_requests() used to read a limit's underlying resource's
want from the same vector its own virtual-resource entry gets written to.
That's wrong whenever the two differ in scope -- e.g. a GLOBAL limit built
on top of a per-host resource like "slots" (limits.yaml's
ug1_normal_slots): the limit's own vres entry belongs in alloc_req->shared,
but "slots"'s want is only ever staged into alloc_req->host by
seqjob/parjob_prepare_allocation(), so the old code always read a zero and
silently never enforced the cap.
Now both the read source and write destination are derived independently
from each resource's own XCE_RESF_GLOBAL flag (vres->res for the source,
vres->vres for the destination) -- the same flag
calc_wanted_global_resvals()/calc_wanted_host_resvals() (resreq.c) already
dispatch on, so this is the existing rule applied consistently rather than
a new one. Also drops sched_fill_limit_requests()'s unused xce_scheduler_t*
parameter.
Full scheduler suite: 76/77 (the one failure, test_job_rusage_reconciles_
mem_reservation_against_usage, is bug-1762, pre-existing and unrelated).
Live-verified against a fresh single-node deploy.
Filed bug-1790 to track a known, deliberately out-of-scope residual gap:
a future global limit on a per-host resource other than "slots" would need
calc_wanted_host_resvals() to also run during the global phase for that
resource, which nothing currently does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GLfB5uWRdmx2WiZSFC7Fm7
sched_reconcile_job_resource_usage() was only reachable from
sched_apply_job_rusage() (scheduler.c's sched_update(), which has no live
caller), so real-usage reconciliation never actually ran outside tests.
Wire it into core_events.c's XCE_CORE_EVENT_JOB_RUSAGE handler instead,
the actual live path shared by both normal-mode (driver.c) and sim/replay
mode (sim_loop.c). Adds link-satisfying stubs to the testsuite files that
#include core_events.c directly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4M5MJM2zK6nU43da267Ku
Relocates sched_account_jobs()/sched_charge_account()/sched_uncharge_account()/
sched_update_account()/sched_update_res_accounts()/sched_commit_job_alloc()
from xce_scheduler_t* to xce_sched_core_t*, mirroring the sched_resolve_job_picker()
precedent, so the simulation driver can call the same accounting service the
normal-mode driver already uses. Pure signature relocation -- every body
reference was already sched->core.*, no logic change. Updates the 3 real call
sites (driver.c's normal-mode round, scheduler.c's sched_begin_session and
sched_commit_decision) and 7 existing tests' link-satisfying stub signatures.
Adds test_resource_accounting.c proving Requirement 1.4: the relocated
accounting produces identical resInUse/sharedInUse output whether called
against a core embedded in xce_scheduler_t or xce_sched_sim_driver_t.
43/44 scheduler tests pass; the 1 failure is pre-existing bug-1560
(unrelated recording.c sandbox-permission ordering issue).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the scheduler's first request-reply opcode (OPCode_schedAdmin).
sched_handle_admin_request() (handler.c) decodes SchedAdminRequest and
dispatches by action: recordStatus answers synchronously (pure read);
recordStart/recordStop are deferred onto the existing pend_updates queue
(XCE_SCHED_OP_ADMIN_RECORD) since sched_record_start()'s snapshot call
requires the session_active==0 precondition only guaranteed on the driver
thread, not the async request-handling thread. driver.c's
xce_sched_driver_translate_pending_events() performs the deferred action
and sends the reply via a new xcecli_reply_schedadmin() (client.c/client.h),
correlated by seq copied before the original request is freed.
Adversarial review found a genuine cross-thread race: sched_record_status()
read driver-owned recording state (including a pointer the driver thread
frees) from the vtask thread with no lock -- the codebase's first such
race, missed by ASan (doesn't detect races). Fixed with a dedicated
record_lock scoped strictly to in-memory field access, never spanning file
I/O; sched_record_status() now strdup()s under the lock instead of
returning a borrowed live pointer. Verified with a real two-thread
lock-contention test (independently confirmed non-vacuous by removing the
lock and observing the test fail) plus a deterministic use-after-free
reproduction.
26/26 scheduler suite, clang-format clean.
Periodic checkpointing hooks into sched_record_write_events(): once per
call, when record_snapshot_interval > 0 and record_event_count crosses a
multiple of it, writes a fresh SnapshotEntry via the same
write_snapshot_entry() helper sched_record_start() already uses (made
non-static, zero duplication). Safe from the session_active precondition
because this call site is only ever reached from
xce_sched_driver_translate_pending_events(), which always runs strictly
between sessions.
Confirmed the write-failure error-handling half (AC 10) was already
complete from task 9.2's sched_record_abort_on_error() -- added the
missing end-to-end test using a genuine closed-fd write failure rather
than a mocked return code, proving the driver keeps processing sessions
afterward.
25/25 scheduler suite, clang-format clean. Two non-blocking follow-ups
logged in tasks.md: --record-snapshot-interval has no CLI wiring yet
(AC 11's own struct-field mechanism is fully tested, but nothing sets it
in production), and test_record_lifecycle.c has grown past this suite's
prior size precedent with a natural future split point identified.
Adds recording-state fields directly to xce_scheduler_t (no new
xce_sched_driver_t type, per task 9.1's precedent). sched_record_start()/
sched_record_stop() implement AC 10: validate via task 9.1's path
validator, open with a TOCTOU-hardened sequence (O_NOFOLLOW, no O_TRUNC,
fstat()+st_nlink==1 check before ftruncate()), snapshot the core, write
ReplayHeader+SnapshotEntry on start, ReplayEvent{endSession} on stop.
driver.c gains boolean-gated recording hooks in
xce_sched_driver_translate_pending_events() (per-event-batch ReplayEvent
writes, new recording_events.c) and xce_sched_driver_run_normal_mode_round()
(per-session ReplaySession writes, new recording_session.c) -- zero I/O/
allocation when inactive.
Two real bugs found and fixed during implementation: bug-1498 (O_TRUNC
would have truncated a hard-linked victim file before the TOCTOU check
could reject it) and bug-1499 (a transient edit dropped
xce_core_signal_go(), causing a 3-way thread deadlock).
test_record_lifecycle.c decodes the full start->events->session->stop
cycle with the real capnp decoders and asserts the exact message
sequence; TOCTOU regression tests use real symlink(2)/link(2) syscalls.
25/25 scheduler suite, clang-format clean.
