The recorder encoded each controller event batch after
xce_core_push_events() had applied it, and applying moves payload fields
out of the events: a WORKERS_PUSH's resvals (core_apply_worker_resvals
MOVE_PTR), a JOBS_PUSH's allocs, a JOB_RUSAGE's rusages, and a
CONFIG_PUSH's shared resvals (sched_apply_pending_config recorded after
sched_init_config). Recordings silently lost exactly those fields -- a
worker's resval names were written with NULL values, so --sim-verify
replayed "no slots" and turned 3 live DISPATCHes into PENDs.
driver.c now records the batch before the push; the periodic in-stream
SnapshotEntry moves out of sched_record_write_events() into new
sched_record_checkpoint_after_apply(), called after the push so a
checkpoint still reflects the events written ahead of it. The config
push is likewise recorded before sched_init_config().
Regression test: test_recorded_workers_push_keeps_resval_values (RED:
recorded value NULL; GREEN after). Periodic-checkpoint tests updated to
the write-then-checkpoint contract. meson test 109/109; 25 live soak
recordings replay with 0 mismatches.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <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>
sched_on_job_array() expanded a compact array-job push (up to
hundreds of elements: a per-element dedup lookup plus a full deep
clone) inline, synchronously, on whatever vtaskmgr thread handled the
incoming request -- the same shared pool the scheduler's own
controller connection traffic depends on, violating ha-async-io.md's
"bounded handler work only" contract for that pool (a project-wide
design invariant). A prior finding already showed a burst of
6x50-element array pushes (300 job events landing within ~2ms of each
other) causing the scheduler to lose its controller connection within
245ms and enter a reconnect/failover loop -- directly consistent with
this mechanism, and the same reconnect storm whose resync races
motivated the companion JOBS_PUSH fix in this branch.
The request handler now does O(1) work only: validate the descriptor
and enqueue it unexpanded (XCE_SCHED_OP_UPDATE_JOB_ARRAY, mirroring
the existing XCE_SCHED_OP_ADMIN_RECORD deferred-dispatch pattern).
The actual per-element expansion and dedup check moved to
translate_one_pending_update(), which runs on the round-processing
thread (main.c's xce_sched_driver_run_normal_mode_round(), before
xce_core_begin_session() each round) -- a thread with no connection-
liveness responsibility. As a side effect this also closes the
dedup check's own pre-existing cross-thread TOCTOU race (previously
documented as bug-1714 follow-up "Bug B"): only one thread ever runs
it now.
test_job_array_expand.c and test_job_array_wire_e2e.c, which asserted
the old inline-expansion behavior, are updated to assert the new
deferred-enqueue behavior instead; expansion, dedup, and full
drain-push-release ownership coverage moved to new tests in
test_driver_translate.c.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RLSNJhNoULvVcUhXEFafQC
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
sim_loop.c never called plugin_begin_session()/plugin_end_session() at
its round boundary, unlike driver.c's normal-mode round -- a driver-
equivalence gap found by an /xce-audit-invariants scheduler pass.
Currently inert (sim mode's only reachable picker, builtin_fcfs, leaves
both hooks NULL) but structurally identical to bug-1613's class of bug.
Relocated plugin_begin_session()/plugin_end_session() from an implicit
xce_scheduler_t* to xce_sched_core_t* directly (mirroring
sched_account_jobs()'s prior relocation) -- their bodies never touched
anything beyond core->plugins, so driver.c's comment claiming they
"needed the full xce_scheduler_t*" was itself stale. sim_loop.c now
calls both, same relative position as driver.c. A full-tree grep (done
after the first build attempt failed on an untouched file) turned up a
third live call site in scheduler.c's legacy sched_begin_session()/
sched_end_session(), plus four testsuite files with their own stub
definitions of the same functions -- all updated to match the new
signature.
Extended test_sim_session_ordering.c's existing bug-1613 regression
tests with new plugin_begin_session()/plugin_end_session() spies
(call-count + session_active-window proof, same technique as the
existing sched_account_jobs spy). RED/GREEN independently verified:
temporarily disabled the two new call sites, confirmed both new
assertions fail (Expected 2 Was 0 / Expected 1 Was 0), restored,
reconfirmed green. Full scheduler suite: 51/52 green, the one failure
is the pre-existing unrelated bug-1560 sandbox flake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01AgYRU3zDTqNGV5Jk8aiKLg
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>
Bugs fixed, discovered across a day of live-operator testing against a
real deployed cluster:
- bug-1584: clock anchors never initialized to real wall-clock values,
timestamps showed system uptime instead of Unix epoch.
- bug-1585: heap-use-after-free in the normal-mode driver's periodic
resval update path -- core_events.c's RESVALS_FULL/_DELTA handlers do a
shallow zarray_put() of the wire-decoded xce_val_t*, but driver.c's
release_translated_payload() unconditionally freed the same decoded
array right after, so the next periodic report for the same
worker+resource triggered a UAF read via kill_sched_resval(). New
regression test: test_resval_ownership.c.
- bug-1587/1588/1591: raw-ns/raw-uint64 jobid/timestamp prints across the
REPL/SIM family converted to the same human-readable formatting already
used elsewhere (fmt_jobid(), timestamp formatting).
- bug-1590: repl_info.c's XCE_VAL_NUMERIC checks corrected to
Value_u_fvalue, fixing `info worker`/`info resource` falling back to
0.00 for real numeric resvals.
task 12.5 (Req 5.22 amendment) -- five REPL gaps surfaced by a live
operator session, each with its own bug id:
- bug-1594: `continue`/`step` reaching EOF with no breakpoint hit now
re-enters the REPL via xce_repl_on_replay_complete() instead of exiting
the process; step/continue issued after replay is already complete
re-prompt instead of silently exiting.
- bug-1595: `step`/`continue` now echo each input event (not just
decisions) via repl_print_event_summary(), in real event/decision
order.
- bug-1593: `info resource <name>|all` now reports resource definition
metadata restricted to XCE_RESF_GLOBAL/XCE_RESF_SHARED resources, read
from core->sharedInst, instead of aggregating host-based resources
across every worker.
- bug-1596: repl_split_tokens() strips one matching pair of surrounding
quote characters from each token.
See requirements.md's Req 5 AC 22 "Amendment (2026-08-19)" for the full
rationale on each of the five task 12.5 gaps.
Full scheduler suite green (41/42; the one remaining failure,
test_recordstart_symlink_escape_replies_error, is the pre-existing
unrelated bug-1560).
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.
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.
Rewires main.c's live scheduling loop onto the new core-driven
architecture: xce_sched_driver_translate_pending_events() (task 5.1)
-> xce_core_begin_session() -> plugin_begin_session()+sched_account_jobs()
-> xce_core_signal_go() -> decision-drain via the registered
xce_core_decision_cb_t -> plugin_end_session() -> xce_core_end_session(),
all in the new exported xce_sched_driver_run_normal_mode_round()
(driver.c), replacing the old inline sched_update()+sched_begin_session()
+sched_go()+switch+sched_end_session() sequence.
xce_core_go() (task 4.4) is split into xce_core_begin_session()/
xce_core_signal_go() -- a pure decomposition (xce_core_go() itself is
now defined in terms of both, task 4.4's approved test suite passes
unmodified) -- specifically so the driver can interleave
plugin_begin_session()/sched_account_jobs() in the exact safety-critical
window task 4.4 deliberately excluded from pure-core scope: after the
resval reset, strictly before the picker thread is signaled. This is
empirically proven by test_driver_session_ordering.c via real
cross-thread happens-before assertions, not just documented.
xce_sched_driver_on_decision() is the new registered callback:
DISPATCH/PEND forward to the existing sched_publish_dispatch()/
sched_publish_pend_reason(); PREEMPT fails loudly (-ENOSYS, logged)
since no xcecli_preempt() client API exists and nothing in the live
allocator produces one yet (scheduler-preemption's territory).
Adds a --sim CLI flag (parse-only, loud not-yet-implemented failure,
since SimDriver is Phase 3).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dw5WnN3DXStaEaPYfACU1
Adds driver.h/driver.c: xce_sched_driver_translate_pending_events()
drains core->pend_updates via the existing dataq-swap pattern (same
mechanism sched_update() uses), translates all 10 xce_sched_update_
request_t op types into the matching xce_core_event_t, and pushes the
batch through xce_core_push_events(). Scoped to xce_sched_core_t*
alone -- pend_updates already lives on core since task 4.1, and this
task is translation-only (no decision publishing, no mode-selection,
no recording -- all later work). handler.c (the enqueue side) is
untouched. First task in Group 5 (Core: Normal-Mode Driver).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dw5WnN3DXStaEaPYfACU1
