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swung0x48andClaude Opus 5 a54ae47ab9 [MG_Remote] (P6/lk): the pre-flight itemisation, and a correction to c6's regroup design
CONTRACT-P6 §8.5 requires lk to publish its blast radius before it starts,
because an earlier draft's ratchet baseline was wrong by a factor of three and
a ratchet installed on the wrong number is red on its first CI run for reasons
that have nothing to do with a leak. The itemisation is mechanical, per file,
with the grep spelling stated: 250 seam-identifier references outside
Transport/ across 23 files (127 production, 123 test), and 44 member-access
sites that the regroup itself must rewrite, across 9 files - 17 of them in
MG_IntegrationTest, which is why lk builds with the integration tests ON.
The earlier build did not, and a missed edit there would have been green.

THE CORRECTION. Measuring that radius turned up a mistake in c6, landed two
commits ago. §8.3 and ILink.h both said lk should promote eventRingFull and
eventDropped into the watermark group and called the result single-writer.
eventRingFull has TWO writers: the server latches it with store(1) when
SEG_EVENT fills (EventRing.h:140) and the CLIENT clears it with an exchange(0)
on EVERY DRAIN (:200). Promoting it would put a per-drain read-modify-write by
the client on the same cache line as appliedSeq - which the server
release-stores every 64 records and the client's spin predicate reads 1e5-1e6
times a frame. That is new false sharing on the hottest line in the system,
and it would land in exactly the numbers this package's gate has to hold
constant. It is also the same class of error the earlier draft made with
submittedSeq, one field over.

So LinkProgress is now the four consumer-written watermarks and nothing else -
genuinely single-writer - and the two flags stay in the doorbell/generation
group, where mixed writers already live beside consumerParked/producerParked,
crossing the seam through a separate EventFlags() accessor on its own line.
The contract records the correction and its reasoning rather than quietly
restating the rule.

ALSO CORRECTED, from running the baseline suite: a6's link-experiment report
said the silently-empty build stamp had "no log and no gate to say so". That
is false. SessionHandshakeTest.cpp:140 asserts BuildStamp[0] != '\0' and :180
asserts that perturbing it changes the fingerprint, and BOTH GO RED in this
configuration right now - the worktree's .git holds a Windows path WSL's git
cannot resolve, so GIT_COMMIT_HASH_SHORT is "". The finding is therefore
stronger, not weaker: the gate that catches it already exists and is already
red. What is silent is the BUILD, and hs owes a named configure-time failure
rather than a new gate.

Baseline for lk, recorded: 3878 tests, two failures, both environmental and
understood - the fingerprint one above, and PipeCatalogue.FrontendNeverTakes-
AnApplierAddress, which walks up from cwd looking for MobileGL/MG_Impl and so
fails for any out-of-source build directory.

No behaviour change. The headers are still included by nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 08:54:48 -04:00
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