feat(agent): add PageBroker daemon by dfeigin-nv · Pull Request #84 · ai-dynamo/snapshot

dfeigin-nv · 2026-08-20T09:43:51Z

What

Adds the local PageBroker daemon for the v1 filesystem-storage / POSIX-copy contract.

Restore materializes the requested image directory in broker-owned tmpfs.
Checkpoint preparation allocates a broker-owned tmpfs output directory.
Commit publishes checkpoint output with copy then rename, or removes restore staging.
Abort removes broker-owned staging for either transaction.
Commit and Abort retain terminal state so a lost reply can be retried.

The Snapshot Agent sends Commit after CRIU returns.

Scope

No S3, NIXL, GPU path, CRIU provider integration, or direct restore implementation.

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added filesystem-based checkpoint and restore transactions.
- Added recursive snapshot data copying through POSIX filesystem operations.
- Added transaction lifecycle management, including preparation, commit, abort, staging, and cleanup.
- Added validation for paths, symlinks, conflicts, storage capacity, and transaction identifiers.
- Added structured success and failure responses for transaction requests.
- Added safeguards to clean up staged data when operations fail.

coderabbitai · 2026-08-20T09:44:09Z

Walkthrough

The PR adds a POSIX transfer engine and a broker for filesystem-based restore and checkpoint transactions. The broker validates requests, stages data, publishes checkpoints, handles aborts, and returns structured responses.

Changes

Filesystem transaction lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Transfer and transaction contracts `agent/pagebroker/transfer_engine.`, `agent/pagebroker/posix_copy_engine.`, `agent/pagebroker/transaction_descriptor.`	Defines the transfer-engine interface, POSIX recursive directory copying, and descriptors for restore and checkpoint transactions.
Broker setup and request routing `agent/pagebroker/broker.hpp`, `agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp`	Adds broker state, staging-root initialization, request validation, command dispatch, and structured storage-error handling.
Restore staging and rollback `agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp`	Validates restore paths, symlinks, conflicts, and capacity before copying source data into staging. Failed operations remove staged data and transaction state.
Checkpoint preparation and publication `agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp`	Creates checkpoint staging state, publishes through a partial directory during commit, cleans up staged data, and handles abort and repeated transaction states.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 48290

The new daemon can currently delete an existing published checkpoint and fail a commit when the destination has a trailing separator, while unrestricted source and destination paths may expose broker-readable host data or allow destructive filesystem operations. These are high-impact merge-blocking correctness and security risks that should be fixed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Broker
  participant PosixCopyEngine
  participant Filesystem
  Client->>Broker: Restore request
  Broker->>Filesystem: Validate source, transaction path, and capacity
  Broker->>PosixCopyEngine: CopyDirectory(source, staging)
  PosixCopyEngine->>Filesystem: Copy directory tree
  Broker-->>Client: Staged restore response

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Broker
  participant PosixCopyEngine
  participant Filesystem
  Client->>Broker: Prepare checkpoint request
  Broker->>Filesystem: Create checkpoint staging directory
  Broker-->>Client: Staging response
  Client->>Broker: Commit request
  Broker->>PosixCopyEngine: CopyDirectory(staging, partial destination)
  PosixCopyEngine->>Filesystem: Write partial checkpoint
  Broker->>Filesystem: Replace published checkpoint and remove staging
  Broker-->>Client: Commit response

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required conventional commit prefix and clearly describes the added PageBroker daemon; it is 34 characters long.
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Breaking Api Changes	✅ Passed	The PR changes only agent/pagebroker files; the exact HEAD^..HEAD and origin/main...HEAD diffs contain no api/** changes, so no covered API break was introduced.
Rbac Least Privilege	✅ Passed	The PR adds only agent/pagebroker C++/header files; no RBAC markers or Helm RBAC manifests are changed, and scanned RBAC grants contain no wildcard verbs or resources.

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dfeigin-nv · 2026-08-20T09:46:12Z

Unresolved review context carried from Dynamo:

Broker restart does not preserve transaction state; stale staging/partial output recovery remains a follow-up. feat(snapshot): add tmpfs PageBroker daemon dynamo#12958 (comment)
Checkpoint publication crash boundaries are not made atomic by this migration; recovery after remove-before-rename remains a follow-up. feat(snapshot): add tmpfs PageBroker daemon dynamo#12958 (comment)

dfeigin-nv · 2026-08-20T15:10:59Z

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In `@agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp`:
- Around line 246-259: The commit sequence around Engine::CopyDirectory and
published_directory must remain recoverable: preserve the existing published
output as a backup before replacement, publish the partial output, and only
discard the backup after success. On rename or subsequent failure, restore the
backup and retain or clean up the partial output appropriately; ensure restart
recovery also restores the backup so neither checkpoint is lost.
- Around line 145-149: Constrain both storage paths to the mounted checkpoint
root and reject any symlink component before use. In agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp
lines 145-149, update the restore source handling around source, restore_root,
and TransactionDirectory to resolve beneath the mounted checkpoint root; in
lines 179-183, apply the same confinement and symlink validation to the
checkpoint destination before storing it in the transaction descriptor.

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agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp
agent/pagebroker/broker.hpp
agent/pagebroker/checkpoint_transaction_descriptor.cpp
agent/pagebroker/checkpoint_transaction_descriptor.hpp
agent/pagebroker/posix_copy_engine.cpp
agent/pagebroker/posix_copy_engine.hpp
agent/pagebroker/restore_transaction_descriptor.cpp
agent/pagebroker/restore_transaction_descriptor.hpp
agent/pagebroker/transfer_engine.cpp
agent/pagebroker/transfer_engine.hpp

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- Around line 239-241: Update the partial-path setup near published_directory in
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agent/pagebroker/posix_copy_engine.hpp
agent/pagebroker/restore_transaction_descriptor.cpp
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found some bugs

galletas1712 · 2026-09-01T07:50:59Z

actually this looks good

cursor · 2026-09-02T21:32:57Z

+    Engine(transaction.engine_type()).CopyDirectory(staging_directory, partial);
+    fs::remove_all(published_directory);
+    fs::rename(partial, published_directory);


Commit is the right place for this — Snapshot should wait until CRIU/CUDA have finished writing into staging, then send Commit, and this RPC is the publish. There is no later promote step.

The bug is the order inside Commit. After the copy to dest.pagebroker-partial succeeds, remove_all(published_directory) drops the last good checkpoint before rename makes the new tree canonical. A crash, exception, or rename failure in that window loses both copies. Retry then hits TRANSACTION_CONFLICT on the leftover partial.

Keep the old dest until the new tree owns the canonical name, e.g. copy to sibling → rename dest aside → rename partial into dest → delete the aside (or rename/linkat exchange so dest never disappears). Deleting staging after that is fine.

This sequence is still present at the tip in posix_copy_engine.cpp PublishCheckpoint. Restore Commit is a different verb (drop tmpfs) and is not this path.

essentially, let's make sure that if something fails during the commit we don't end up removing the old copy

dfeigin-nv mentioned this pull request Aug 20, 2026

feat(snapshot): add tmpfs PageBroker daemon ai-dynamo/dynamo#12958

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dfeigin-nv requested review from Ronkahn21, danbar2, galletas1712, hhzhang16, hutm, julienmancuso, oleg-kushniriov, shayasoolin and shmuel-runai as code owners August 20, 2026 10:12

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feat(agent): add PageBroker wire contract #83

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