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What type of PR is this?

  • bug
  • api change

What this PR does / why we need it:

PageBroker currently expires staged restores after a fixed two hours and five minutes, so a restore configured to run longer can lose its staging directory before it finishes. Pass the remaining effective restore timeout from the agent to PageBroker, rounded up to seconds, and retain each staged restore for that duration plus the existing five-minute cleanup margin.

The timeout is optional: requests that omit it retain the existing lifetime, and checkpoint expiry is unchanged. Invalid or overflowing timeout values are rejected before staging.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #201

How was this tested?

Validated locally in a Linux/amd64 container with the repository's pinned Go 1.27.1 and protoc 3.21.12 toolchain:

  • make check passed in an isolated copy of the complete change; generation, formatting, and dependency checks left that copy clean.
  • make test and make build passed. CUDA helper tests were also run successfully with make -C agent test-cuda-helper after installing their C++/OpenSSL prerequisites.
  • make -C agent/pagebroker test passed all 22 tests, and the PageBroker daemon built successfully.
  • go test -race ./internal/pagebroker passed from agent/.

Tests cover deadline propagation, expired contexts, shorter and longer restore lifetimes, the cleanup margin, default/checkpoint compatibility, invalid timeout values, and Commit/Abort behavior. Expiry tests advance the supplied clock without waiting for real time to elapse.

Special notes for your reviewer:

GPU and Kubernetes end-to-end restore tests were not run. This change is limited to PageBroker transaction retention and does not establish GPU restore performance. AI tools assisted with implementation and review.

Does this PR introduce an API change?

Adds a backward-compatible optional field to the internal PageBroker protobuf protocol. Kubernetes APIs and Helm configuration are unchanged.

PageBroker staged restore requests now accept an optional restore_timeout_seconds field. The agent supplies the remaining effective restore timeout, and PageBroker retains staging for that duration plus five minutes. Requests without the field keep the existing lifetime.

Additional documentation, e.g. enhancement proposals, usage docs:

Updated timeout and transaction lifetime documentation in agent/pagebroker/v1/pagebroker.proto.

Checklist

  • Commits are signed off (git commit -s), per CONTRIBUTING.md
  • make check test passes locally
  • Documentation is updated where behavior changed

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Restore operations can now specify a custom timeout.
    • Restore requests automatically honor remaining operation deadlines.
    • Staged restore data is retained for the configured timeout plus a five-minute cleanup margin.
    • Requests without a custom timeout continue using the default two-hour retention period.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Expired or canceled restore requests are rejected immediately.
    • Invalid timeout values, including zero, negative, or excessively large values, are rejected before staging.

Signed-off-by: Yiqing Wang <yiqing@wangemail.com>
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Walkthrough

Staged restore timeouts now propagate from context deadlines to PageBroker. PageBroker validates timeout values and retains staged transactions for the requested timeout plus five minutes. Transactions store their own lifetimes, and tests cover cleanup, defaults, rejection, and retries.

Changes

Staged restore lifetime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Timeout contract and client propagation
agent/pagebroker/v1/pagebroker.proto, agent/internal/pagebroker/client.go, agent/internal/pagebroker/client_test.go
StagedRestoreRequest accepts an optional timeout. StagedRestore propagates context deadlines as rounded-up seconds and rejects expired contexts before dialing.
Transaction lifetime management
agent/pagebroker/transaction.hpp, agent/pagebroker/transaction.cpp, agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp
Transactions store their lifetimes. PageBroker applies restore-specific lifetimes and reaps transactions using each stored expiration.
Timeout validation and cleanup coverage
agent/pagebroker/daemon_test.cpp
Tests cover configured cleanup margins, default and checkpoint lifetimes, invalid timeout values, and successful retries.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant StagedRestore
  participant PageBroker
  participant Transaction
  StagedRestore->>PageBroker: Submit restore timeout from context deadline
  PageBroker->>Transaction: Set timeout plus five-minute margin
  PageBroker->>Transaction: Check configured expiration during reaping
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4ddb4

A faulty or misconfigured local agent could retain staging storage unusually long, but this is not externally reachable and does not block merging with owner awareness.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6 | ❌ 1

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 18 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required conventional commit prefix, accurately describes the restore timeout change, and is 52 characters long, below the 72-character limit.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #201 requires PageBroker retention to follow the Snapshot restore timeout and retain a cleanup margin. The agent now sends the remaining context deadline as RestoreTimeoutSeconds, rounded up t…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #201. The protocol field, client propagation, transaction lifetime handling, validation, documentation, and automated tests directly support timeout-based staged-restor…
Breaking Api Changes ✅ Passed PASS: The authoritative pull-request diff contains no changes under api/. The patch only changes agent PageBroker implementation, tests, generated protobuf code, and agent/pagebroker/v1/pagebroker.pro…
Rbac Least Privilege ✅ Passed PASS — The PR changes only PageBroker Go/C++/protobuf files. The authoritative diff adds no kubebuilder RBAC marker, Helm RBAC manifest, wildcard verb, or wildcard resource. The repository’s existing …
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In `@agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp`:
- Line 73: Update the PageBroker restore-timeout validation around
request.restore_timeout_seconds() and max_timeout to enforce a configured
operational maximum, rejecting positive values above that cap while preserving
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if (request.has_restore_timeout_seconds()) {
const auto max_timeout = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::seconds>(
std::chrono::steady_clock::duration::max() - kRestoreCleanupMargin);
if (request.restore_timeout_seconds() <= 0 || request.restore_timeout_seconds() > max_timeout.count())

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🛡️ Analyzed with Security Review | 🔵 Trivial

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sed -n '240,380p' agent/pagebroker/daemon.cpp
rg -n 'pagebroker|restoreTimeoutSeconds|restore_timeout_seconds|max.*timeout|quota|staging|socket|chmod|permissions' agent charts docs | head -n 250

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printf '%s\n' '--- PageBroker callers and restore timeout validation ---'
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rg -n -A12 -B8 'restoreTimeoutSeconds|RestoreSpec|restore_timeout_seconds|controlSocketPath|pagebroker.sock' agent/internal agent/pagebroker/v1 charts/snapshot/templates charts/snapshot/values.yaml docs/reference/api.md
printf '%s\n' '--- deployment security and socket permissions ---'
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sed -n '1,120p' charts/snapshot/tests/role_test.yaml
rg -n -A8 -B8 'securityContext|runAsUser|runAsGroup|fsGroup|defaultMode|control|pagebroker' charts/snapshot/templates charts/snapshot/values.yaml charts/snapshot/README.md docs/reference
printf '%s\n' '--- transaction lifetime, reap, and storage accounting ---'
sed -n '1,90p' agent/pagebroker/transaction.cpp
sed -n '100,230p' agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp
sed -n '430,450p' agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp
rg -n -A10 -B10 'ReserveStaging|HasAvailableSpace|ReapExpiredTransactions|lifetime|transactions_' agent/pagebroker

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Add an operational maximum for PageBroker restore retention. The supported caller is the local agent, and it derives the timeout from its restore context. The socket is shared only by the PageBroker and agent containers, so this is not an externally reachable DoS. PageBroker still accepts any positive representable timeout, retains staging for that duration plus five minutes, and only rejects new staging when storage is full. A configured PageBroker cap would limit retention from misconfigured or faulty trusted callers.

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[warning] 73-73: statement should be inside braces

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In `@agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp` at line 73, Update the PageBroker
restore-timeout validation around request.restore_timeout_seconds() and
max_timeout to enforce a configured operational maximum, rejecting positive
values above that cap while preserving existing invalid and storage behavior.

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/ok to test 4ddb455

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YQ-Wang commented Sep 18, 2026

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HI @hhzhang16, could you approve the pending GitHub Actions workflows?

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PageBroker: derive staged restore lifetime from Snapshot timeout

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