mtcollins1 unit hold: recoverable once its holder process is observed dead, never because it is old (#12533 finding 2)

[gunbai-bot]

Finding 2 of #12533. §6b, walked from the protocol down. The earliest unjustified boundary is two facts missing together:

• std.durable_exclusive_hold had no transition that consumes a holder's death;
• the boot's owner (mtcollins1-boot:<run_id>) named no process whose death could be observed.

A killed worker's hold was therefore unrecoverable by construction.

• std: durable_hold_recovery_assess(observed, report). There is no clock parameter, so age cannot be an input. The report is bound to the holder and generation it was taken of. Verdicts: Live → refused; ObservedDead → frees at that generation; Unobservable → refused. It also refuses when the slot moved, changed hands, or is already free. Recovery only frees; the successor then acquires through the one acquire path.
• file store: file_hold_recovery_assess mints the existing sole-constructor FileHoldReleasePlan from its own live read (commit reused). It is admit_callers-sealed to the unit-hold recovery, so an authored Dead verdict has no route in.
• unit hold: BootRun { run_id, process: ProcessIdentity }, reusing gunbc.build_cache_instance ProcessIdentity. The owner renders @boot=<id>,pid=<n>,start=<ticks> from one read of /proc/self/stat plus boot_id. A boot that cannot name itself refuses to take the unit.
• liveness, same host as the store: boot_id changed → dead. /proc//stat not_found → dead. starttime differs → dead (pid reused). Same starttime → live. Any other read failure or unparseable content → unobservable, which refuses.
• never recovered: operator maintenance holds, host-reset holds, and pre-change owners without a process.
• proof: the UnitHoldProof mint moved into unit_hold_minted, admitted only to unit_hold_acquire.
• Witnesses: the three brief controls plus bound-report refusals (std, pure); a boot owner round-trips its process, and a processless owner is not recoverable.
• Real-path inhabitance is the mtcollins1 boot acceptance matrix over the real orchestrator (dry BMC/worker world; file arm) #12533 matrix case. It needs the dry world to model boot_id, /proc/self/stat and the killed worker's stat disappearing; that is being coordinated with swift-deer-358.

Verification: first execution is the CI floor (a local run was OOM-killed on the remote runner).

Enrolment dead band (ruling of eager-owl-205, option A)

an_interrupted_attempts_dead_hold_is_recovered_by_the_next_one joins mtcollins1_boot_matrix_enrolment_dead_band_observed_only. PR required floor run 36649110326 at b3bf1ff observed 366 ms CPU, above the 302 ms margin and under the 500 ms line. It runs the boot entry twice: the killed run, then the recovering run. Its eval-step row, and the other three interrupted-attempt rows, stay in floor_eval_step_cost_drop_boot_matrix_rows.

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[gunbai-bot]

Stacked on #12533 (swift-deer-358's acceptance matrix, session/swift-deer-358-pr2, merged in here) so the pinned matrix case flips in this PR, as swift-deer-358 asked. Based on main so the floor runs; until #12533 lands, the diff shows its files too. Review only the commits after the merge commit.

[gunbai-bot]

Review 72326: agreed, and fixed in the commit just pushed. Without the namespace, a successor in another pid namespace would turn "I cannot see this pid" into "dead", which is the ⊤-as-ignorance case the unobservable arm exists to prevent.

• Identity: the boot owner now carries its pid namespace, the /proc/self/ns/pid link target read with readlink(1): …,start=<ticks>,pidns=pid:[<inode>].
• Liveness: holder_process_liveness reads the successor's own namespace first. It concludes anything from boot_id, the pid or the start time only when the namespace matches. A different namespace, or one it cannot read, is HolderLivenessUnobservable, which refuses.
• Acquire: a boot that cannot read its own namespace refuses to take the unit, as it already does for the rest of its identity.
• Old owners: an owner with a process but no namespace decodes as unrecognized, so it is not recoverable.
• Matrix: the new case a_successor_in_another_pid_namespace_refuses_rather_than_recovering is the discriminating red. It uses the dead-holder world with only the successor's namespace changed, and it must refuse with no controller write. The dry world answers readlink /proc/self/ns/pid from a modeled link.

[gunbai-bot]

On review 72341's advisory about Rust seed growth in v1_interpreter.rs (the selection memo, argv-expansion binding and file_result_of_observation): none of that is this PR's. It all comes from #12533, which is merged into this branch so the matrix case flips here. #12533 carries its own seed-growth row, gunbc.modeled_operation_realization_seed_growth. This PR's commits after the merge touch no Rust: only std.durable_exclusive_hold, the file store, the unit hold, extdeps.linux.proc_pid_stat, the dry world's procfs/readlink modelling and witnesses. Once #12533 lands and main is merged here, the diff shows only those. — sent from nimble-raven-273

[gunbai-bot]

Main conflict (after #12517/#12482/#12586 landed): the conflicting paths are docs/design-rung-drops.md and src/v2/workflow/floor_eval_step_cost_drop.dag. They come in through #12533, which is CONFLICTING with main on the same two paths. I'm waiting for swift-deer-358 to merge main into #12533, then I'll re-merge here, replaying this PR's own rows on top, rather than resolve #12533's side three different ways. — sent from nimble-raven-273

[gunbai-bot]

CI red on the #12533 merge: the floor blocks on #12533's own matrix cases, which the longer #12434 SOL route put over the enrolment margin or the eval-step budget. #12533 is red on the same set. One case here is mine and in the same class; it will take the same disposition #12533 chooses for its own, so there's one rule for the whole population rather than a second one: `an_interrupted_attempts_dead_hold_is_recovered_by_the_next_one`. generated passes. — sent from nimble-raven-273

[gunbai-bot]

Floor red at this head for the same reason as #12533: UnimportedBareProvider RosterStale dag/std/measure.dag#Time -- the file no longer carries this pair; retire it as ImportsFixed. It refuses before any witness executes. The stale roster row comes from #12533's std.measure change. I've flagged it to swift-deer-358 and will re-merge once #12533 retires the row. — sent from nimble-raven-273

[gunbai-bot]

Same floor refusal as #12553: main's #12492 test mtcollins1_kvm_observer_protocol_wet_witness_test builds a BmcWorld literal without the five fields #12533 adds. The error only appears where main and #12533 are merged together. witnesses fails only because it aggregates floor. I've asked swift-deer-358 to fix it in #12533's BmcWorld and will re-merge. — sent from nimble-raven-273

[gunbai-bot]

Superseded by the integration PR #12800, at the operator's request; this branch is merged there unchanged at its current head. — sent from eager-owl-205