perf(prune): reclaim a live unit's superseded .dwo generations

[wenzowski]

Closes CLOUD-2105

split-debuginfo = "unpacked" writes one .dwo per codegen unit per build, and each incremental rebuild gives those units new names. So every rebuild of a live unit left another full set in deps. CLOUD-1293 only reaches a .dwo once its owner's fingerprint is gone.

Measured straight after a lap-close prune: 5,210 MB of target/debug/deps's 7,786 MB was .dwo files, and the batten rlib's owner held 8,960 of them while the rlib names exactly 256. This growth pushes lap close below the warm floor. The escalation then dropped perf* and semver* whole, and the next lap rebuilt everything cold (6,634 CPU-s).

• reclaim_superseded_debuginfo reads each owner's own artifacts (rlib, so, binary) for the .dwo names they carry, and removes that owner's .dwo files that none of them names. An owner with no readable artifact, or whose artifacts name none, keeps everything. The pass runs under the same build lock as the rest of the reclaim.
• Test prune::tests::a_live_units_superseded_dwo_are_reclaimed_and_its_current_set_kept. Mutant superseded-dwo-kept was killed by hand, and its sed script was dry-run to confirm it matches its line.
• All 41 prune unit tests and all 82 target_prune integration cases pass.

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reclaim_superseded now removes stale split-debuginfo files after orphaned debuginfo cleanup and adds the removal count and bytes to its totals. The new pass groups regular .dwo files by hashed owner. It retains files named by readable owner artifacts and keeps all files when no artifact names are found. A test covers removal of an unnamed generation and retention of a named generation and a file whose owner has no artifact.

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to c896e

The pruning change has no established functional failure, but its documentation includes consumer-run measurements that should move out of the core. This is a bounded issue to address before or shortly after merge.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🟡 Medium · up to c896e

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: crates

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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — crates (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/batten/src/prune.rs: reclaim_superseded now adds the stale-debuginfo removal count and bytes to its totals after orphaned-debuginfo cleanup.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/batten/src/prune.rs: Added reclaim_superseded_debuginfo, which groups regular .dwo files by hashed owner and removes files not named by the owner’s current artifacts. It retains all of an owner’s files when no readable artifact names are found, and returns zero totals if the dependency directory cannot be read.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/batten/src/prune.rs: Added named_debuginfo, which scans the owner’s regular rlib, shared library, executable, and .exe artifacts for embedded .rcgu.dwo names. It returns the names found, or an empty set if the regex cannot be built; unreadable or absent artifacts contribute no names.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/batten/src/prune.rs: Added a test where an owner artifact names one of two .dwo generations: the named file remains, the unnamed file is removed, and a .dwo with no owner artifact remains.

Reliability and maintainability

• inferred — Risk-relevant change factors for crates: blast_radius_1; blast_radius_3; blast_radius_4; direct_dependents_1; direct_dependents_2

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: reclaiming superseded .dwo generations for live units.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the .dwo cleanup, its rationale, implementation, and reported tests. It is related to the changeset.

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sed -n '2225,2255p' crates/batten/src/prune.rs

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- AGENTS files ---'
rg --files -g 'AGENTS.md' -g '!target' | while IFS= read -r f; do
  printf '\n--- %s ---\n' "$f"
  cat -n "$f"
done
printf '\n--- PR diff for prune.rs ---\n'
git diff --unified=5 73176175b5c19c229bc249d78720aea651e1b8c7 c896eb385f625beb792fe4344f53f49f8c4dacc9 -- crates/batten/src/prune.rs | sed -n '/reclaim_superseded_debuginfo/,$p' | head -100
printf '\n--- package identity and relevant exact-string hits ---\n'
rg -n '^(name|default-run) = "batten"|target/debug/deps|batten-74d53bfe8b80e4a5|CLOUD-2105' Cargo.toml crates/batten
printf '\n--- workspace manifests ---\n'
sed -n '1,100p' Cargo.toml
sed -n '1,100p' crates/batten/Cargo.toml

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Move the consumer-specific measurements out of the core documentation.

target/debug/deps is a generic build path, and batten-74d53bfe8b80e4a5 names Batten’s own artifact, not a consumer. The paragraph still records one consumer run’s measurements and its effect on lap close. Keep the general pruning rationale here and move those facts to the consumer’s batten.toml or documentation.

Suggested fix

 /// [`reclaim_orphaned_debuginfo`] reaches a unit only once its fingerprint is
 /// gone. A live unit rebuilt incrementally gets fresh codegen-unit names on every
 /// build, so each rebuild left one more full `.dwo` set beside the current one.
-/// Measured 2026-10-03, straight after a lap-close prune: 5,210 MB of 7,786 MB in
-/// `target/debug/deps` was `.dwo`, and `batten-74d53bfe8b80e4a5` alone had 8,960
-/// files across 9.7 hours while its rlib named exactly 256, all present. That
-/// growth put lap close under the warm floor, and the escalation then took
-/// `perf*` and `semver*` whole.
 ///
 /// **THE ARTIFACT IS THE AUTHORITY.** An rlib's object members and a linked

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Review comment at @crates/batten/src/prune.rs around lines 2233 - 2235:
Remove the consumer-specific run measurements and lap-close impact from the core
documentation near `reclaim_orphaned_debuginfo`, keeping the general pruning
rationale and artifact-authority guidance. Move those facts to the consumer’s
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