Splits xce_scheduler_t along the controller-I/O seam: xce_sched_core_t
(new core.h/core.c) now holds all scheduling state (jobs/queues/workers/
users/projects/resource managers/plugins/three-thread-cbuf pipeline),
while xce_scheduler_t shrinks to {core; apictx; cluster_cfg}. Proven via
an nm-based link-time isolation test (zero netio/xcecli/idgen/delaymgr
symbols reachable from core.c) plus a reproducible wall-clock-call guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dw5WnN3DXStaEaPYfACU1
Closes out group 2 (Core: Builtin FCFS Picker). Confirms builtin_fcfs's
ordering matches legacy fcfs_elect_job (byte-identical comparators, same
sched_queue_is_ready/sched_job_is_ready gates, provably equivalent jobid
sequence), confirms tasks 1.1-2.5 left every pre-existing test file
unmodified, and confirms resreq immutability, pend-reason factory-only
allocation, and select_eval_ctx_t memoization all hold across every file
this spec has touched so far. Adds a durable regression lock for the
pend-reason factory invariant (no direct calloc(pendreason_t) outside
make_pendreason()).
Task 2.4 already made sched_job_picker() delegate entirely to the picker
interface with zero direct queue/job traversal, satisfying Req 1 AC 1/AC 7
as a byproduct. This adds a source-text regression test locking that
property in place: asserts sched_job_picker()'s body contains none of the
forbidden direct-traversal symbols and does contain the expected
picker-interface call sites.
Registers builtin_fcfs at scheduler startup and makes it the default
job_pick_plugin, replacing the hardcoded "xce_sched_fcfs" literal in
sched_job_picker() with a fail-loud lookup through sched_resolve_job_picker().
The picker thread now branches legacy job_elect_fn plugins (delegated
unchanged, preserving their self-contained wbuf-driven loop) from native
xce_job_picker_iface_t pickers (driven by a new per-session loop), and the
allocator now calls on_dispatch/on_pend for every picker as Req 1 AC 4
requires. Closes task 2.3's flagged picker/allocator concurrency race with a
mutex on fcfs_plugin_data_t, and adds cancel points to next_job().
Adds begin_session/next_job/end_session/on_dispatch/on_pend, driving a
dual-cursor walk (queue then job) over builtin_fcfs's private ordq_t
state. next_job() returns candidates in (queue priority desc, job
priority desc, queue_time asc) order and NULL once exhausted;
on_dispatch removes permanently, on_pend is a true no-op.
Review flagged an unsynchronized cross-thread access risk between
next_job() (picker thread) and on_dispatch/on_pend (allocator thread)
once wired live in task 2.4 — recorded in tasks.md Implementation Notes
for that task to close before registering builtin_fcfs as the default.
Requirements: 3.2, 3.4, 3.6
Adds on_queue_update, on_job_push, on_job_state_change, and on_job_update
to builtin_fcfs, driving the picker's private ordq_t candidate sets
directly (no core/sched queries), matching fcfs.c's existing ordering
semantics on the new finer-grained hook interface.
Requirements: 3.2
New src/scheduler/src/plugins/builtin_fcfs.c implements
builtin_fcfs_init()/fini() and the private fcfs_plugin_data_t (ordq_t
queues, per-queue ordq_t pendJobs) that all later builtin_fcfs hooks
build on. fcfs.c (today's live job_elect_fn-based picker) is untouched
-- still production, until task 2.4 flips the registration.
picker == xce_sched_plugin_t* calling convention (private state stored
in plugin->data) confirmed consistent with task 1.2's legacy wrapper.
Requirements: 3.1 (context), 3.3
plugin_register() now adapts an old-style job_elect_fn-only plugin to
xce_job_picker_iface_t via legacy_picker_wrapper_iface (next_job()
forwards to job_elect_fn; other hooks are safe no-ops covered elsewhere
in the existing lifecycle), logging a one-time deprecation warning. A
plugin that already sets picker_iface directly skips the wrapper and
the warning. Reuses the existing plugin_register()/key_find() mechanism
-- no parallel registration system.
Requirements: 1.6, 2.5
Add xce_job_picker_iface_t to plugin.h with all 13 hooks across
lifecycle/state-change/session/post-allocation/optional categories,
matching design.md's literal struct. Documents per-category thread
assignment, next_job() cancel-safety, and begin_session() session-reset
requirements. Forward-declares xce_sched_core_t (built in a later task).
Requirements: 1.2, 1.5, 2.6
buglog.json: corrected bug-1480/1481 (stale "not yet fixed" entries, code
landed same day the entries were written); bug-1483/1484 fixed; bug-1485
investigated, downgraded to low-priority/environment-flake.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXkenK8rqE8mdS1YKjsq78
bug-1485 (flaky test_live_config_push_against_primary_reaches_success_path,
~24/25 fail rate under pytest, primary process going <defunct> after
promotion) could never be diagnosed because controller stderr was
DEVNULL'd -- no ASAN report or signal was ever captured from a real
failure.
Redirects each node's stderr to deploy_dir/logs/<name>.stderr.log and adds
an XCE_KEEP_DEPLOY_DIR=1 debug toggle to preserve the deploy dir across
fixture cleanup for inspection. Ran the live test 40 times in this
environment (25 idle + 15 under concurrent build contention): 40/40
passed, 0/120 captured stderr logs non-empty -- could not reproduce.
Downgraded to low-priority/environment-flake, left open; the capture
infrastructure stays in place for the next real failure.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXkenK8rqE8mdS1YKjsq78
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXkenK8rqE8mdS1YKjsq78
ha_arm_heartbeat_timeout_vtask published a calloc'd liveness_poll_ctx_t
into s_liveness_ctx unconditionally but only ever freed it via
liveness_poll_fn's cancelled-check path, which never runs if
delay_task_ms was never called (c==NULL, delaymgr not running) or itself
failed. Both no-schedule cases now free the ctx immediately, establishing
the invariant that s_liveness_ctx is non-NULL only when a delaymgr task
actually holds a live reference to it.
Regression test drives a real LOST PreVote round without stubbing
ha_prevote_rearm_liveness_hook (every other LOST-path test in the file
stubs it specifically to avoid this code path) and asserts the ctx isn't
left dangling.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LXkenK8rqE8mdS1YKjsq78
- Host admin-state (open/closed/locked) now in scope for the upgrade
snapshot; host and queue admin-state frames migrate to independently-
extensible Cap'n Proto structs (one format-version bump covers both)
- bug-1418 blocker cleared: fixed 2026-07-09 via raft-apply-decoupling,
independently re-verified 2026-07-23 with a clean 10-round chaotic soak
- New Design Invariants section (6 standing rules) and Requirement 7
(regression coverage for host-placeholder/rejoin, overlapping upgrades,
format-mismatch rejection, WAL-trim-under-chaos)
Spec reached GO with 15/15 tasks complete (see prior task-confirmation
commits); these doc artifacts were generated during the design/research
phases but never separately staged.
wal_type_name() never had a case for WAL_CONFIG_MARKER (type 50) -- every
config-change marker entry printed as UNKNOWN instead of a real, defined
type. Added the case plus payload decode (tag/sha256) matching config_repl.c's
config_marker_encode/_decode byte layout, hand-decoded here rather than
linking config_repl.c into xce_test's link graph.
Gap detection also had no way to tell "committed prefix missing!" (real
loss) apart from a normal checkpoint-triggered WAL trim (persist.c's
trim_wal_segments, floor-guarded so it never removes a segment a standby
still needs) -- every long-running node's WAL, once checkpointed, would
false-alarm on every inspection. Cross-checks the sibling data/snap/
directory (snapshot LSN is literally in the filename, snap-<hex>.capnp)
and downgrades the message when a snapshot covers the gap.
Adds waldump_stats_t.leading_gap_explained and 3 new tests plus one
assertion on the existing gap test.
trim_wal_segments + rotate_snapshots run on every checkpoint --
operators don't need to manually purge data/. Documents the
snap_keep_n=2 default and that it's a cluster-config field, not a CLI
flag.
--system-site-packages means pip skips vendoring click/pycapnp/pyyaml/
jsonschema since nix already provides them -- deliberate, to keep
pycapnp's ABI-sensitive build pinned to the exact capnproto C library
nix built it against. Activating the venv outside nix develop (or the
AppImage) hits ModuleNotFoundError immediately; not a packaging bug.
Standby-redirect half is done and correct: OP_upgradeConfig has no
server-side redirect wiring today, matches design.md's own documented
"Out of Boundary" gap, and this test locks in the real current
rejection behavior.
Primary-push success-path half is unreliable (~24/25 live fails in one
investigation round, see bug-1485) -- the elected primary was observed
as a <defunct> zombie shortly after promotion, but a dedicated debug
pass could not reproduce it in 26+ clean runs on an idle host and
captured no crash evidence either way. tasks.md marks 6.3 _Blocked:_
pending re-verification on an idle host with real stderr capture.
30-round chaotic soak reported committed_job_loss=1 at round 25, but the
flagged job was confirmed present on every later verify and the final
sweep -- a real loss never comes back. Root-caused from ctrl-1/ctrl-2/ctrl-3
logs, no controller change needed: a newly-elected primary cannot fold a
prior-term entry into its own committed_lsn merely because it holds it
durably (Raft Figure-8 safety via ha_arm_own_term_gate) -- it needs a fresh
majority ack for its own-term WAL_NOOP first. That normally closes in
<200ms, but chaotic mode's overlapping-restart design let it stretch to
6.232s this run (the peer whose ack was needed was itself mid-catch-up from
its own recent restart). verify_classify ran its expect-job check
immediately on primary detection with no settle/retry, unlike verify_no_loss
(bug-1422) or wait_for_full_convergence, so it landed inside that window.
Added a bounded retry (5 attempts, 2s settle) around the LOSS classification
only, mirroring verify_no_loss's precedent -- a job still missing after that
still counts as a genuine loss. Verified with a fresh 30-round chaotic
re-soak: committed_divergence=0 committed_job_loss=0 result=PASS.
rshen/Letmein was a live, checked-in cluster_admin credential in
auth.yaml. Renamed to a non-identifying username with a clearly-marked
placeholder password.
docs: add full ops deployment guide (src/docs/deployment.md)
Covers building and running all four daemons plus xceadmin, based on
direct source verification (CLI flags, config file shapes, TLS posture)
and a live single-node deploy. Documents real production gaps (no
process supervision, plaintext non-controller traffic, exposed dev
creds) rather than treating the repo as a finished runbook.
Standby-redirect coverage is done and correct (redirect wiring for
OP_upgradeConfig genuinely doesn't exist server-side yet, matches
design.md's own documented gap). Primary-push success-path test is
flaky (bug-1485) -- a dedicated debug round could not reproduce the
crash in 26+ clean runs, so root cause is unconfirmed. Test files left
uncommitted in the worktree pending re-verification on an idle host.
Deploys a real xce_controller (no HA peers) and runs real xceadmin
config build/push over actual TLS+capnp -- no mock server -- regression
locking task 6.1's envelope fix. Skips cleanly when no controller binary
is available. Surfaced a real, out-of-scope finding: single-node pushes
always report ackedCount==0/exit 1 even on full server-side success,
since there are no standbys to ACK.
config push crashed on every real controller with a capnp KjException --
xce_reply() wraps every reply in an outer Request{body.replymsg} envelope,
but discovery.py/push.py decoded raw wire bytes directly as a bare
RequestReply. Adds a shared decode_reply() unwrap point used by both call
sites, and fixes the same wrong-shape assumption baked into task 5.6's
and test_cli.py's mock-server fixtures.
Found a clean, reusable fault-injection technique: vote/PreVote
endpoints are TLS, and endpoint_connect() succeeds at the TCP level
independent of the handshake, so an accept-then-close impostor
listener on a peer's port deterministically causes an async
SSL_do_handshake failure post-connect -- landing in
vote_ep_err_handler/pre_vote_ep_err_handler (task 3.1's fix target),
never the already-fixed bug-1423 connect-refused path.
Independently reproduced by the reviewer from scratch: both a
RequestVote round and a PreVote round resolved via the fast
all-replied-no-quorum path in single-digit milliseconds, vs the
5000ms configured election timeout (confirmed firing later as a
no-op). Requirements 4.2, 4.3, 4.5 proven live, both vote kinds.
All 15 raft-adapter-conformance sub-tasks now complete. 1067 tests,
0 failures, 8 commits' worth of production fixes (config-push reply
integrity, vote/PreVote failure routing, dormant-sender
documentation), plus 6 regression-lock/confirmation/live-soak tasks.
Two residual gaps logged as new bugs during the sweep (bug-1483,
bug-1484), both pre-existing and out of this spec's scope.
Live 3-node cluster soak confirmed handle_repl_config_push's SHA-256
mismatch reject branch fires in production: 3/3 injected mismatched
pushes against a live standby produced a decoded
ReplConfigPushReply{accepted=false, term=<live raft term>, status=0},
seq-correlated, corroborated by the standby's local WARN log. Cluster
stayed healthy throughout (no crash/step-down/fence).
One rejection round: the real elected primary's own push has no
TOCTOU window to inject a mismatch without new relay code (confirmed
by reading config_commit_change/push_config_to_standbys), so the soak
plays the sender/primary role directly against a standby instead --
remediated from log-inference-only to actual decoded wire-reply
verification per reviewer's cheap-fix path.
No production/test code changed -- pure live observation.
Verified 190 tests across 8 files cover Requirements 2.4, 3.1-3.4,
4.1, 4.4, 7.1-7.3, 7.5, 8.1-8.4. 1067 tests, 0 failures -- unchanged,
zero-diff verification task.
Task 7.2's sweep surfaced a real, pre-existing gap (bug-1421, not
this feature's fault): no test anywhere drives the real
repl_ack_decode_and_dispatch path and asserts term adoption fires for
the heartbeat-reply or WAL-NACK term-discovery vectors -- only the
config-push vector this feature added (task 2.2) is actually tested.
Logged as bug-1484; outside this spec's task list to fix.
Verified all 17 cited tests in test_commit_barrier_rollout.c,
test_commit_barrier_reply.c, and test_term_safety_adapter.c exist and
pass, covering Requirements 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.1-6.4. 1067 tests, 0
failures -- unchanged, as expected for a zero-diff verification task.
CLAUDE.md's TLA+ Action-to-Code Mapping table gains corrected/new rows:
production vs. dormant AppendEntries send mechanisms, WAL catch-up and
config-push reply integrity, and vote/PreVote failure routing across
all failure timings -- each citation independently re-verified against
live source. The old AppendEntries row's citations had already drifted
onto unrelated code before this task; corrected, not just appended to.
Protocol Verification Checklist gains 3 new items for the guarantees
this feature closes.
ha-term-safety/spec.json's known_limitations entry for the dormant
send-path drift gets an additive RESOLVED pointer back to this spec's
disposition, so a future reader lands on the answer instead of
re-discovering the drift.
Requirement 1 (systematic conformance audit deliverable) complete.
Adds test_batch_payload_persist_failure_propagates_to_whole_batch,
proving persist_submit_job_payloads_async resolves every payload in a
3-entry batch with the same first-failure rc when the first payload's
append fails, rather than letting later payloads independently
succeed (Req 5.3).
Fault injection: chmod the WAL leaf directory to 0500 to force
open_new_segment's EACCES (surfaced as -EIO), restored the instant the
first failure is observed -- a transient fault, not a permanent one,
so the test genuinely distinguishes propagation from independent
per-payload failure. No existing fault hook was reachable from this
code path; this is a real, previously-uncovered gap.
1066 -> 1067 tests, 0 failures. Task 5 (regression-lock tests for
already-shipped/already-conformant behavior) now complete -- Core
phase of raft-adapter-conformance finished (tasks 1-5).
Adds test_5_1_wal_catchup_reject_sends_nack_reply, driving a genuine
(term,lsn) conflict against a real persisted WAL entry through
ha_apply_term_entry_via_library and asserting
ha_send_wal_ack_reply_ex(success=0) fires via ha_wal_ack_send_hook.
Note: test_config_repl.c's test_bug1479_ae_reject_sends_nack_not_silence
already covers the same call site via a different (forward-gap)
stimulus, added in the original bug-1479 commit. design.md's own File
Structure Plan explicitly calls for this new test in this file
regardless, so this is disclosed, design-sanctioned defense-in-depth,
not accidental duplication -- both tests independently confirmed to
fail together when the reply call is removed.
1065 -> 1066 tests, 0 failures.
New test drives repl_broadcast and ha_stream_wal_to_standby through
real production fixtures (reused from tasks 2.3/6.2), asserts both
actually fired (non-vacuous), and asserts
ha_send_append_entries_stub_call_count stays 0 throughout -- the
Requirement 3.3 non-regression guard. RED-verified: manually invoking
ha_cb_send_append_entries_for_test inside the test reliably trips the
assertion; reverted for GREEN.
1064 -> 1065 tests, 0 failures. Task 4 (dormant sender documentation +
guard) now complete.
ha_cb_send_append_entries_stub's doc-comment now plainly states it is
reachable only via raft_send_append_entries (zero production callers,
grep-confirmed), and names repl_broadcast/ha_stream_wal_to_standby as
the actual production send/retry/backoff mechanism (Req 3.3, amended
to permit this documentation-only resolution over retire-or-wire-in).
Adds an XCE_TESTING-only ha_send_append_entries_stub_call_count
counter, mirroring the ha_wal_ack_send_hook idiom, as the guard against
this ever silently regaining a production caller. Task 4.2 will drive
the real production path and assert it stays zero.
1063 -> 1064 tests, 0 failures. Zero behavior change to any production
send path.
Adds pre_vote_ep_err_handler_for_test (XCE_TESTING-guarded) and two
tests: PreVote post-connect failure reaches pre_vote_reply_dispatch's
tally (Req 4.3), and a round mixing that failure mode with a delivered
reply reaches its quorum decision via the fast all-replied path
without the full round timeout (Req 4.5). Real-vote coverage (Req 4.2)
was already proven by task 3.1's own test, cited not duplicated.
pre_vote_reply_dispatch has no mock hook seam, so both tests assert
directly on raft_state_t's tally fields, mirroring test_ha_prevote.c's
existing verification technique.
1061 -> 1063 tests, 0 failures.
Found during raft-adapter-conformance task 3.2; not fixed (out of that
task's boundary), avoided via the existing stub-and-reset workaround
already used by test_ha_prevote.c's LOST-path tests.
Splits vote_ep_err_handler into a real-vote handler and a new
pre_vote_ep_err_handler, each registered at its existing (already
separate) connection-setup call site. Extracts the identical
CTRL_PRIMARY-role cleanup into a shared vote_ep_handle_promoted_disconnect
helper, behavior unchanged.
Each handler's election-phase branch now routes a post-connect failure
(RDHUP/SSL-error/remote-close after connect, before any reply) through
the same production tally the connect-time failure branches already
use (vote_reply_dispatch / pre_vote_reply_dispatch, bug-1423/1424's
fix), instead of the legacy handle_request_vote_reply that never
updated the tally. Closes the one failure window bug-1423 didn't cover.
1060 -> 1061 tests, 0 failures. PreVote-specific test coverage is
task 3.2's scope (pre_vote_reply_dispatch has no hook seam analogous
to xce_vote_reply_hook; verified only by code symmetry + full-suite
regression here).
Adds the remaining 3 of 4 handle_repl_config_push reject-path tests
(malformed request, missing bytes/sha256, conf_save_config failure via
a deterministic ENOTDIR fixture), the EAGAIN-still-accepts test, and
term-adoption-on-accept (task 2.2's own test only covered the reject
case). Requirement 2.4 (unknown-outcome handling) is already covered
by the pre-existing test_wait_all_with_timeout_slow_threads, cited
rather than duplicated.
1055 -> 1060 tests, 0 failures.
myreq_handler's ReplConfigPushReply branch now routes cack->term
through raft_on_higher_term_observed (same entry point the
heartbeat-reply and WAL-NACK vectors use), regardless of accept/reject,
without altering the existing accept/reject branching.
Adds myreq_handler_for_test (XCE_TESTING-only) to drive the real
dispatcher in tests, following the peer_ctrl_msg_handler_for_test
precedent. Requires cluster.c in controller_unit_test_src plus the
established link-satisfying fake stubs for its unrelated switch-case
dependencies (same pattern already used by test_worker_join.c and
test_commit_barrier_reply.c).
bug-1480/1481: config-push silent-drop reply gap and vote_ep_err_handler
legacy-routing gap, found during raft-adapter-conformance requirements
discovery (not yet fixed at time of logging).
bug-1482: myreq_handler_for_test's doc comment wrongly claimed the
caller owns/frees the io_packet_t after the call; xce_decode actually
consumes and frees it unconditionally. Found + corrected during task
2.2 code review remediation.
handle_repl_config_push now sends a ReplConfigPushReply{accepted,term}
from every exit path instead of silently dropping on the four reject
conditions (malformed request, missing bytes/sha256, sha256 mismatch,
conf_save_config failure). Term is sourced live from c->ha.term.
-EAGAIN activation-defer still replies accepted=1, unchanged.
Adds an XCE_TESTING-only send-hook mirroring ha_wal_ack_send_hook so
tests can observe the reply payload without a live endpoint.
Additive term @2 field on ReplConfigPushReply so a configuration-push
reply can carry the replying member's current term for term-discovery
(Requirement 7.4). Companion repl_config_push_reply_t struct field
added in typemap.h per the existing $C.mapname convention.
Chaotic election churn (config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6's force_elect_node
rotation) can leave a standby log-conflicted after a rejoin. Fixing this
needed three compounding layers, each unit-green but still failing the
identical live scenario until the next layer landed:
1. ha_raft_on_repl_nack (ha.c/ha.h): routes a WAL-ACK NACK into the raft
library's nextIndex backoff and immediately repl_start_catchup's the
standby at the corrected position, instead of the 16-strike silent
eviction with no catch-up driver after it. Correct from the start, but
live soak still failed identically: nothing ever produced the NACK this
code was waiting for.
2. Standby-side NACK sending: ha_apply_term_entry_via_library's logOk-reject
path now calls a new ha_send_wal_ack_reply_ex(..., success=0) instead of
silently dropping the reject. ha_send_wal_ack_reply had hardcoded
success=1 unconditionally -- the only WalAckReply sender in the
controller -- making (1)'s NACK-routing correct but unreachable dead
code. New ha_wal_ack_send_hook (XCE_TESTING) lets a unit test observe
the NACK without a live endpoint. Live-confirmed the NACK now reaches
the primary -- but the scenario still failed for a third reason.
3. ha_compute_repl_stream_ceiling_lsn (ha.c/ha.h): ha_stream_wal_to_standby's
catch-up range was hard-bounded at committed_lsn, which can never advance
in this exact scenario because advancing it requires an ACK from the very
standby that's stuck catching up (2-of-3 alive, this standby is the only
path to a new majority) -- a self-referential deadlock. Widens the
STREAM_WAL ceiling (and the convergence check gating it) to the leader's
own log tail, matching raft.tla's real AppendEntries semantics
(leaderCommit is advisory, never a send-cap), while reusing bug-1478's
exact guard so this doesn't reopen that trap (never widen onto a trailing
local-only checkpoint's own unstreamable LSN).
Verification: controller_unit_test 1053/1053 PASS, clean twice, including
new regression tests for all three layers (test_config_repl.c,
test_term_safety_adapter.c, test_ha_role.c), each RED-confirmed against its
pre-fix behavior before the real fix was restored. Three successive live
run-ha-soak.sh --config-upgrade re-runs tracked each layer landing; the
final run passed end-to-end -- all 3 force_elect_node rounds succeeded
(ctrl-2: 3/3 jobs acked term=6; ctrl-3: 3/3 jobs acked term=7, never
previously reached), zero materialized-state divergence, zero job loss.
Unblocks config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
admin-config-tool's spec.json blocked_on and tasks.md both still described
the OP_upgradeConfig dispatch-gate defect as an open blocker. It was fixed
2026-07-25 (bug-1468, commit 959b0cda) by config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6,
which independently hit the same wall building a live OP_upgradeConfig
sender -- the fix's own comment in cluster.c already cross-references this
spec. The controller-side path has since been exercised live and
successfully many times via config-upgrade-snapshot's --config-upgrade
soak. All 23 admin-config-tool tasks are already [x]; this was pure
tracking-metadata debt, not a reopened implementation gap.
Also appends a cross-spec gap analysis (admin-config-tool x
config-upgrade-snapshot x clusterconfig-schema-split) to all three specs'
research.md, confirming clean schema integration between the latter two
and flagging the one remaining real gap: a new commit-timeout issue in
config-upgrade-snapshot task 8.6's force-elect step, surfaced now that
bug-1477 is fixed, not yet root-caused.
A node that takes myapp_run's skip_election passive path (bug-849 --
"leader already known after the startup stagger") makes exactly ONE
cluster_init_phase2 attempt. All 5 call sites (myapp.c's skip_election
block, raft_cb_become_leader, raft_cb_become_follower,
ha_elect_evaluate_and_signal's two branches) latched ha->phase2_done = 1
unconditionally after calling cluster_init_phase2, discarding its return
value. If that one attempt raced config availability and failed, the node
was permanently stranded: commit_engine_init never ran, so
apply_committed_entry never applied any committed WAL entry for the rest
of the process's life -- and for a skip_election node specifically,
nothing else would ever retry it, since the other 4 call sites only fire
via that node's own raft-library state transitions, which never happen
for a passive standby whose primary keeps heartbeating normally.
Extracted a shared, idempotent retry (ha_phase2_retry_fn, mirrors
upgrade_materialization_retry_fn's shape) plus a delaymgr-scheduled,
self-rescheduling trigger (ha_schedule_phase2_retry) -- self-rescheduling
because, unlike config_activate_retry/upgrade_materialization_retry which
are re-triggered externally by recurring commit-advance events, nothing
else recurs for a node stuck on the passive path. Wired into all 5 call
sites; raft_cb_become_leader additionally refuses promotion on failure
(mirroring the sibling upgrade_materialization_fenced refusal already in
that function -- a promoted primary with an unwired commit engine is far
worse than a delayed promotion).
TDD: 4 new tests, RED confirmed by temporarily reverting the rc-gating.
GREEN: full suite 1044 tests, 0 failures. Live-verified via
run-ha-soak.sh --config-upgrade (the scenario that found this bug): the
retry fires for real (4 failed attempts, then success) and the soak's
checkpoint-identity/config-identity/host-admin-status assertions -- the
things bug-1477 blocked -- all pass.
