fix(runtime): abort instead of silently degrading when Loop::new fails - #11080
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Both production `AgentLoop::new` call sites in `event_pump/agent_loop.rs`
-- first creation (`ensure_loop_with`) and the Wait->Net profile upgrade
(`upgrade_profile`) -- routed a failed `turnloop::Loop::new` into
`LoopState::Declined`, pinning that thread to the legacy tokio park for
the rest of its life. `STATE` is `perry_thread_local!` and neither
`net_available()` nor `eligible()` ever retries a `Declined` state, so a
single transient failure was permanent. The only evidence was a
`[perry-loop] driver=legacy` line printed *only* under `PERRY_LOOP_STATS`,
so in production an fd-limit bug presented as an unexplained per-thread
throughput and RSS regression. No caller could recover either: every
caller's fallback *is* that degradation.
Both arms now call a new `#[cold] loop_creation_failed()`, which prints a
`[PERRY ABORT]` line naming the agent, the profile, the turnloop
`ErrorKind`, the OS errno and the compiled-in backend, then aborts.
`abort` rather than panic matches the runtime's existing fatal convention:
perry-runtime ships `panic = "abort"` but is built `panic = "unwind"`
under `cargo test`, and a panic on a `perry/thread` or `worker_threads`
agent kills only that thread -- swallowable in exactly the place this bug
lives.
The message names three causes and the errno that discriminates them:
descriptor exhaustion (EMFILE/ENFILE), a sandbox denying one of the
backend's syscalls (EPERM/EACCES), and a host with no turnloop backend.
The sandbox case is the behavioural risk: turnloop's epoll backend probes
`epoll_pwait2` and treats only ENOSYS as "old kernel, fall back to
timerfd", so a seccomp filter answering EPERM makes `Loop::new` fail
deterministically on every attempt. A sandboxed Linux/Android/HarmonyOS
process that previously degraded silently now aborts at its first park.
That is the intended trade -- a loud, actionable failure instead of an
invisible one.
The third cause cannot happen at run time, so it is gated at compile time
instead of with a `cfg` fallback: `turnloop::Loop` is
`Driver<backend::Platform>`, and `backend::Platform` exists only under
`turnloop_backend = kqueue | epoll | iocp | wasi_p2 | wasi_p3 | web`.
turnloop's `build.rs` maps every other target to "unsupported", where the
crate does not compile. A `cfg` arm keeping the legacy park for such a
host would be a branch that can never be taken, so `agent_loop.rs` carries
`const _: () = assert!(!backend_name_is(b"unsupported"), ...)` instead: if
turnloop ever gains a stub backend, the build fails on the affected target
rather than a user's program aborting at run time.
HarmonyOS is not the exception it looks like: Perry builds it as
`{aarch64,x86_64}-unknown-linux-ohos`, whose rustc cfg is
`target_os = "linux"` + `target_env = "ohos"`, so turnloop selects epoll
there exactly as for any other Linux target.
Also documents the one cause `LoopState::Declined` still has (the P1
coexistence rule, decided by `claim_route()` before any loop is built) and
adds `every_profile_is_constructible_on_a_supported_host`, which asserts
the fatal path's subject rather than its absence: a real backend is
compiled in, and both `wait_config()` and `net_config()` are accepted by
`Driver::new`.
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLoop construction failures in ChangesTurnloop failure handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ensure_loop_with
participant upgrade_profile
participant AgentLoopNew as AgentLoop::new
participant loop_creation_failed
participant Process as std::process
alt ensure_loop_with creates a loop
ensure_loop_with->>AgentLoopNew: construct AgentLoop
AgentLoopNew-->>ensure_loop_with: return Err
ensure_loop_with->>loop_creation_failed: report creation failure
else upgrade_profile rebuilds a loop
upgrade_profile->>AgentLoopNew: construct AgentLoop
AgentLoopNew-->>upgrade_profile: return Err
upgrade_profile->>loop_creation_failed: report creation failure
end
loop_creation_failed->>Process: abort
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Make the fatal diagnostic a best-effort write.
If stderr is nonblocking or its pipe is broken, eprintln! can panic before std::process::abort() runs. In an unwind build, this can terminate only the worker thread instead of enforcing the new process-fatal behavior. Write the diagnostic through a fallible stderr operation, ignore its write error, and then abort unconditionally. Rust documents this panic behavior for eprintln!. (doc.rust-lang.org)
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A failed
turnloop::Loop::newno longer silently degrades that thread to thelegacy tokio park. It aborts, naming the cause.
Why
The decline was per-thread (
STATEisperry_thread_local!) and terminal —net_available()returns false forDeclinedand never retries, so a singletransient failure pinned that thread to tokio for its whole life. It converted
an fd-ceiling bug into an invisible performance and memory regression on one
thread of an otherwise-healthy process.
It really was invisible: the
[perry-loop] driver=legacyline prints onlyunder
PERRY_LOOP_STATS, so the old comment's "the stats line says so" wasfalse for any normal run.
What changed
Both production
Errarms now callloop_creation_failed(profile, agent, error) -> !, which aborts. The message discriminates the causes by errno, because theyneed different responses:
EMFILE/ENFILE— descriptor exhaustion; checkulimit -nEPERM/EACCES— a sandbox; check the policy forepoll_pwait2,eventfd2,timerfd_createbackend=unsupported— cannot occur (see below)abortrather than panic is deliberate:perry-runtimeshipspanic = "abort"but buildspanic = "unwind"undercargo test, and a panicon a
perry/threadorworker_threadsagent kills only that thread — i.e. apanic is swallowable in exactly the place this bug lives.
The third cause cannot happen, so it is a compile-time tripwire
There is no reachable "unsupported host".
turnloop::LoopisDriver<backend::Platform>, andbackend::Platformis exported only under thefive real backend cfgs — on
turnloop_backend="unsupported"the crate does notcompile. Every Perry target is apple / linux / android / ohos / windows, and
wasm32 excludes the dependency outright.
A
cfgcarve-out would therefore have been a branch that can never be taken.Instead there is
const _: () = assert!(!backend_name_is(b"unsupported"), …):if turnloop ever ships a no-op backend, the BUILD breaks on the affected target
rather than a user's program aborting.
HarmonyOS is not an exception —
aarch64-unknown-linux-ohosreportstarget_os = "linux",target_env = "ohos", and turnloop'sbuild.rsmaps"linux" | "android"to epoll.Known risk, accepted deliberately
Epoll::newprobesepoll_pwait2and treats onlyENOSYSas "old kernel, usetimerfd". A seccomp policy answering
EPERM— which a sandboxed OHOS appprocess plausibly does — would make
Loop::newfail deterministically, andsuch a device would now abort at its first park where today it silently runs on
the tokio park. No CI job cross-compiles
perry-runtimefor*-linux-ohos, sothis is uncovered.
This is the intended trade and was signed off explicitly: if it is real, OHOS is
running entirely on tokio today, which makes it a blocker for removing tokio at
all rather than a detail — better surfaced loudly now. The errno in the abort
message is what makes it diagnosable in one line instead of a bisect.
Not affected
The other
Declinedcause — a second thread acting for an agent another threadalready owns — is untouched and stays a quiet decline.
claim_route()sets itand returns before
AgentLoop::newis reached, so the two were alreadystructurally separate; the existing test
a_second_thread_of_the_same_agent_is_declinednow doubles as a guard, since arouting regression would take the test binary down rather than pass.
install_unrouted_for_testis unchanged.Verification
cargo check --workspace --all-targets(UI crates excluded): exit 0, 686 unitsRUST_TEST_THREADS=1 cargo test --release -p perry-runtime --lib event_pump:32 passed, 0 failed, including the new
every_profile_is_constructible_on_a_supported_host, which asserts the fatalpath's subject — that a real backend is compiled in and both
wait_config()and
net_config()are accepted byDriver::newrustfmt --check,check_file_size.sh,lock_no_downgrade.py --vs origin/main(3170 edges, nothing backwards): all clean
Public benchmark evidence freshnesslint step passes on this treeINCLUDING the version bump — main's long-standing red cleared with the
baseline regeneration at
2f854511e9Caveat stated plainly: the release test binary was built before four later
edits, all comment text plus one
eprintln!string literal on the abort paththat no test executes. The final tree's compilation, test target included, is
covered by the clean workspace check; the machine did not have the ~9 GB of
headroom to rebuild the release test binary.
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