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Context

Internal group-lock misuse and impossible private publication states returned recoverable errors, adding error plumbing to valid grouped operations.

Behavior before and after

Caller-contract violations use assertions. Successful group acquisition returns void, so readers and writers no longer construct or propagate a Status for it. Normal concurrent invalidation, structural fallback, IO errors, storage validation and resource exhaustion retain their runtime handling.

Implementation

Assert acquisition ordering, prohibited upgrades, duplicate pending acquisitions and enum validity. Assert protected Hash leaf versions, private plan/count consistency, fixed-width root encoding and prepared-batch dependency pins. Keep encoding outside assertions so Release still writes every header.

Design decisions and alternatives

IS/IX retain their standard multi-granularity meanings. Comments distinguish parent intention modes from the VLL scheduling intents registered by every mode. RefreshLockedGroup keeps runtime revalidation because select-then-delete operations can release read locks before acquiring mutation locks.

Documentation and comments

Updated the group-lock API and architecture contract, plus nearby publication invariants. No durable or wire format changes.

Test plan

  • Debug build passed.
  • 77 focused unit tests passed, including death tests and lock compatibility, cancellation and wakeup cases.
  • 27 grouped E2E tests passed, including Hash/Set native-replica TTL fallback, zset selection revalidation, prepared-write failure atomicity and cold recovery.
  • All 10 changed production translation units passed syntax checks using their configured Release compiler flags with NDEBUG, replacing object generation with -fsyntax-only and omitting PCH/LTO options.
  • Formatting hooks and git diff --check passed.

Exact build/test/hook commands (the E2E run used NO_PROXY=127.0.0.1,localhost and no_proxy=127.0.0.1,localhost):

Validation commands
cmake --build build_debug --target lavik lavik_unit_tests lavik_grouped_hash_write_e2e_test lavik_grouped_ordered_write_e2e_test --parallel 4

build_debug/lavik_unit_tests '--gtest_filter=TxLockTest.*:GroupedLockTest.*:GroupedLockDeathTest.*:GroupedHashTest.*:GroupedHashDeathTest.*:SortedSetPublicationTest.*:SortedSetPublicationDeathTest.*:StorageGroupedReadTest.*:StorageGroupedReadDeathTest.*'

ctest --test-dir build_debug --output-on-failure --stop-on-failure -R '^lavik_grouped_hash_write_e2e\.(GroupedHashSetSamplingE2e\.|GroupedSetIntentE2e\.|GroupedHashWriteE2e\.(Intent|ConcurrentFinalDeletion|StructuralRetry|PublicationHandoffOom|OrderedTypesPipeline))|^lavik_grouped_ordered_write_e2e\.GroupedSortedSetWriteE2e\.(PreparedPublicationAssignsRevisionAfterWaiting|PreparedBatchFailureLeavesNoPartialPublication|PreparedBatchFailureDoesNotLeakIndirectKeyReferences|ConcurrentGroupsWaitWakeAndRecover|ConcurrentAmbiguousMemberBoundsFallBackToX|MemberReadsLockOnlyRequestedLeaves|RangeReadsKeepOneCutWhileOtherGroupsPublish|SamplingReadsLockOnlyTheirWindow|BatchWritesOrderAllGroupsAndPublishAtomically|SelectedWritesProtectPredicatesAndAllowMemberReads|PopRevalidatesSelectionAfterReleasingReadLocks|IndexedPointAndBatchWritesKeepTiesAndBothIndexesAcrossRecovery)$'

pre-commit run --files docs/architecture/09-grouped-collections.md include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/collection.h include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/hash.h include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/lock.h include/lavik/tx/fingerprint.h src/storage/engine/grouped/collection.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/hash.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/hash_random.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/lock.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/mutation.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/ordered_mutation.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/zset.cpp src/storage/engine/grouped/zset_members.cpp src/storage/engine/hash_api.cpp src/storage/engine/write.cpp tests/grouped/hash_test.cpp tests/grouped/lock_test.cpp tests/grouped/ordered_object_test.cpp tests/storage_write_buffer_test.cpp

Risk assessment

The changed checks rely on internal caller contracts in Release. Runtime population/routing revalidation and data-integrity checks remain necessary; the concurrency and failure-injection regressions exercise that boundary.

Rollback plan

Revert this commit. No data migration is required.

Reviewer guide

Start with grouped/lock.cpp and its callers, then the Hash/Zset merge and private-plan assertions, followed by write.cpp and the death tests.

Follow-up work

None required for this scope.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Behavior Changes

    • Lock acquisition and grouped data consistency violations are now checked primarily in Debug builds rather than reported as runtime errors. Callers must release held locks before replanning or requesting stronger locks.
    • Lock acquisition no longer returns a status.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified grouped-lock ordering, lock-mode behavior, and consistency requirements for grouped data updates.
  • Tests

    • Updated coverage to verify the revised lock and consistency contracts, including Debug-build assertion cases.

Treat invalid group acquisition order, upgrades and overlapping acquisitions
as caller bugs. Return void after acquiring a group and remove Status handling
from every caller. Assert protected Hash leaf versions and private plan,
encoding and dependency-pin invariants while retaining normal concurrent
invalidation, structural fallback, storage validation and resource failures.

Keep standard IS/IX mode names and distinguish them from VLL scheduling
intents in the public lock-mode comments. Update the group lock contract and
cover misuse with Debug death tests.

Validation: Debug build; 77 focused unit tests; 27 grouped E2E tests; NDEBUG
syntax checks for all 10 changed production translation units; pre-commit.
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Walkthrough

Grouped lock acquisition now returns void, and Debug assertions enforce selected lock-contract violations. Selected grouped-storage publication, mutation, and write invariants also move from runtime error returns to assertions. Callers, tests, and documentation are updated to reflect these changes.

Changes

Grouped locks and invariants

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lock acquisition contract and callers
docs/architecture/09-grouped-collections.md, include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/lock.h, include/lavik/tx/fingerprint.h, src/storage/engine/grouped/lock.cpp, src/storage/engine/grouped/hash_random.cpp, src/storage/engine/grouped/zset.cpp, src/storage/engine/hash_api.cpp, tests/grouped/lock_test.cpp, tests/storage_write_buffer_test.cpp
Awaiter::await_resume now returns void. Lock-order, upgrade, invalid-request, and overlapping-pending-acquisition violations are asserted in Debug. Callers and tests no longer check acquisition statuses.
Publication consistency checks
include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/collection.h, include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/hash.h, src/storage/engine/grouped/collection.cpp, src/storage/engine/grouped/hash.cpp, tests/grouped/hash_test.cpp, tests/grouped/ordered_object_test.cpp
Selected hash and Sorted Set publication consistency checks now use Debug assertions instead of runtime errors. Tests check the assertion cases.
Prepared mutation and write invariants
src/storage/engine/grouped/zset_members.cpp, src/storage/engine/grouped/mutation.cpp, src/storage/engine/grouped/ordered_mutation.cpp, src/storage/engine/write.cpp
Selected prepared-plan, grouped-member preparation, dependency-pin, and record-encoding checks now use assertions instead of runtime error returns.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Possibly related issues

  • eloqdata/lavik#444: The PR adds Debug assertions for protected Hash leaf versions, which relates to the issue’s protected group version checks.

Possibly related PRs

  • eloqdata/lavik#439: This PR changes MergeHashPublication checks introduced by that PR.
  • eloqdata/lavik#437: This PR changes the checked-changes precondition for grouped Sorted Set member preparation.
  • eloqdata/lavik#422: This PR changes the GroupedLockTable acquisition contract introduced by that PR.

Suggested reviewers: liunyl

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 3c4b2

No concrete merge-blocking issue is established. The change appears mergeable subject to normal build and test checks.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

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  • docs/architecture/09-grouped-collections.md
  • include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/collection.h
  • include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/hash.h
  • include/lavik/storage/detail/grouped/lock.h
  • include/lavik/tx/fingerprint.h
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/collection.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/hash.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/hash_random.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/lock.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/mutation.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/ordered_mutation.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/zset.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/grouped/zset_members.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/hash_api.cpp
  • src/storage/engine/write.cpp
  • tests/grouped/hash_test.cpp
  • tests/grouped/lock_test.cpp
  • tests/grouped/ordered_object_test.cpp
  • tests/storage_write_buffer_test.cpp

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Remove redundant build-mode wording from the lock and publication contracts. Keep grouped death tests registered without NDEBUG guards in the assertion-enabled test configurations.

Validation: Debug unit-test build; 77 focused unit tests; formatting hooks and git diff --check.
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