ADR-0018 amendment: seed the validated-pages cache at commit; writers probe but never publish - #85
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWrite transactions now probe the shared page-version cache without publishing misses. After the durability barrier, eligible commits publish stamps for dirty leaf and branch pages before snapshot publication. Tests and transaction documentation cover cache behavior, aborts, spills, and transaction-ID reuse. ChangesShared stamp cache
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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RwTxn->>RwTxn: Complete meta durability barrier
RwTxn->>StampCache: Publish stamps for dirty leaf and branch pages
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Untrusted database files can retain corrupt sibling cells through a commit and subsequent cached reads. Validate siblings before copying them during rebalance before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟠 High · up to Malformed database pages can now remain trusted across later transactions without complete validation. Abort and failure protections limit exposure, but do not prevent this successful-commit path. Retained concerns
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… probe but never publish Short-txn workloads (YCSB A / rust-storage-bench) rewrite the root-to-leaf path every commit, so the next reader or writer always missed the cache and re-walked pages the previous commit had just written (short_txn_census: a one- op write txn 15.2 vs LMDB 5.9 us, ~1.6 us/txn in BranchRef/LeafRef validation). - Commit seeds the cache (new step C5a, after C5 / before C6): every tree frame C2 wrote is engine-authored, stamped with the committing txnid, and final once the commit is irrevocable, so (pgno, kind, txnid) names exactly those bytes. Failed/aborted commits publish nothing (txnid reused, TXN-2); still-spilled pages are not published (mid-txn image rewritable in place); trusted envs skip it. - Write txns (and nested read txns sharing their memo) probe the cache via the new for_writer memo but never publish from the miss arm (publish_shared=false): a writer's miss publish could record a non-final spilled image, and an abort would outlive into a reused txnid. A writer probe cannot false-hit (its txnid is above every committed stamp). Tests: btree writer_memo_probes_the_cache_but_never_publishes (probe/no-publish split) + page_version_identity.rs abort-after-spill + txnid-reuse scenario, both green. SPEC 04 TXN-38 and ADR-0018 updated in this change. Approved by Quentin 2026-10-01.
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Validate each sibling before touch during rebalance.
rebalance touches the committed sibling before any full cell walk. LeafMut::remove validates only the moved cell, so a corrupt surviving cell can remain. page_stats also uses prevalidated views.
This PR then publishes the dirty leaf in C5a. Later cache hits skip full cell validation, allowing an untrusted file to commit and serve the corrupt sibling instead of rejecting it. Fully validate the committed sibling before touch(sib_old) and reject any cell-validation error.
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Review comment at @crates/zerodb-core/src/rwtxn.rs at line 4091:
Update `rebalance` to fully validate the committed sibling’s cells before
calling `touch(sib_old)`. Propagate any cell-validation error so the sibling is
not dirtied or published when validation fails.
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What this is
A single-commit follow-up to the performance campaign that merged in #83: the
ADR-0018 amendment — seed the env-wide validated-pages cache at commit, and
let write transactions probe it but never publish.
This was in-flight, uncommitted work that was recovered, verified, and gated.
Everything else from the campaign (A1–A8, B1–B24, C1–C3, ADR-0014…0018 base,
and the ADR-0019/0020 acceptance docs) is already on
main.The change
Short-txn workloads (YCSB A / rust-storage-bench) rewrite the root-to-leaf path
on every commit, so the next reader or writer always missed the validation
cache and re-walked pages the previous commit had just written (census: a one-op
write txn 15.2 µs vs LMDB 5.9 µs, ~1.6 µs/txn in
BranchRef/LeafRefvalidation).
frame C2 wrote is engine-authored, stamped with the committing txnid, and
final once the commit is irrevocable, so
(pgno, kind, txnid)names exactlythose bytes. Failed/aborted commits publish nothing (txnid reused, TXN-2);
still-spilled pages are not published (mid-txn image was rewritable in place);
trusted-mode envs skip it.
for_writermemo,publish_shared = false): a writer's miss-arm publish could record a non-final spilled image,and an abort would outlive it into a reused txnid. A writer probe cannot
false-hit — its txnid is above every committed stamp.
Why it is safe
The soundness invariant is unchanged: an entry
(pgno, stamp)is published onlyfor a byte image that is committed and final, so no two images the env can
expose ever share a pair. Model-checked by the loom test
loom_stamp_cache_never_mixes_publishes.Gate (whole CLAUDE.md battery, run on this commit)
fmt --checkclippy --workspace --all-targets -D warningstest --workspacemiri -p zerodb-corecrash-test-quickloomloom_stamp_cache_never_mixes_publishes(737 s)stress(180 s)fuzz-quickdiff_ops42,304 runs / 601 s, 0 divergences;fuzz_image_open4.37 M runsSurface to review
crates/zerodb-core/src/{btree,rwtxn,env}.rs— thefor_writermemo, guardedmiss-arms, and the C5a commit-seed step.
crates/zerodb/tests/page_version_identity.rs— abort-after-spill + txnid-reuse.crates/zerodb-core/src/btree.rs::tests::writer_memo_probes_the_cache_but_never_publishes.docs/SPEC/04-txn-mvcc.md(TXN-38) anddocs/adr/0018-cross-txn-validation-cache.md(amendment section).Approved by Quentin 2026-10-01.
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