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fix(kio): order a log read before the thread's next epoch pin - #7134
The problem is in crossbeam-epoch's reclamation handshake. The log's base/hint protocol is fine, and so is its loom integration. Off x86, crossbeam-epoch 0.9.21 Local::pin publishes the pinned epoch with a Relaxed store followed by a SeqCst fence. On x86 it uses a SeqCst CAS, which loom treats as a release RMW. A collector moves to the next epoch when it sees each participant unpinned, or pinned in the current epoch. If it sees the reader's next pin rather than its unpin (a Release store), nothing orders the reads of the reader's previous pin before the free that follows. Under the C++/Rust memory model, that free is a data race with those reads. Loom reports it as the concurrent UnsafeCell read/write in Segment::free that the 2026-10-28 Loom job aborted on.
The failing interleaving: the racer reads segment 0 under pin 1 and unpins. It then pins again (pin 2, for entry 1) at the epoch the writer's collect just advanced to. The collector sees pin 2 as current, advances once more, and frees segment 0. Pin 1's reads do not happen before that free.
To confirm this, I ran a crossbeam-only loom model with no kio code. A thread pins, reads a cell guarded by an AtomicBool link, unpins and pins again. Another thread unlinks the cell, defers its free and collects. The model fails on the non-x86 pin path, passes on the x86 path, and passes on the non-x86 path once a Release fence follows the read.
Change
kio::log::Read now holds its epoch guard in a private ReadGuard whose Drop issues fence(Release) before the guard unpins. The fence sits in the wrapper, not in a Drop on Read itself, so a Read still releases its Reader borrow at last use. Every later store to the thread's epoch then carries the read's accesses to the collector's Acquire fence. This covers any later pin on the thread, including another crate's, and nested guards. On x86 the fence compiles to nothing; on aarch64 it adds one dmb ish per Read.
crate::sync re-exports fence, so loom sees the fence.
The loom test's doc now says only an ARM run checks this path.
Removes the quest and its link from the Nightly epic.
Public API: none. Wire: none.
Validation
To force crossbeam-epoch's non-x86 branch on this x86 host, I used a scratch copy of 0.9.21 with the cfg! on the x86 branch negated. It was patched in through --config patch.crates-io..., so Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock stay untouched.
Before the fix, a_log_reader_racing_eviction_never_touches_freed_memory on the forced non-x86 path aborts with Causality violation: Concurrent read and write accesses to UnsafeCell, as the Nightly did.
After the fix, all 18 kio loom models pass on the forced non-x86 path. The log eviction model takes 96 s. moq-net's loom (19) and expiry-loom (2) also pass there.
just rs loom, unpatched on the x86 path, passes.
just check origin/main passes for rs (check and test), markdown, quest, shell and gh. Its toml step failed only because it formatted the scratch crossbeam copy under .tmp/. After removing that copy, taplo format --check passes.
Choices made without asking
I worked around this in kio instead of waiting on crossbeam-epoch. The fence is placed at the end of each Read, not before each pin. Placing it before the pin would miss pins made by other code on the same thread.
The fence is unconditional rather than cfg'd off x86. It costs nothing on x86, and it is also needed under miri, where crossbeam-epoch takes the non-x86 path too.
I didn't dispatch a full Nightly on this branch to see the ARM runner pass. The forced-branch reproduction runs the same crossbeam code the ARM runner does. The next scheduled Nightly confirms it.
Suggested follow-ups
Report this upstream to crossbeam-rs/crossbeam, which needs maintainer approval because it is outside our orgs. The non-x86 pin could store with Release, the way repin already does, or use a SeqCst RMW. The crossbeam-only loom model above is a ready reproduction. crossbeam-rs/crossbeam#977 asks a related question and has no answer. If upstream fixes it, kio's fence can go after a version bump.
The PR gate's x86 loom run can't see this class of bug. A lane that runs just rs loom with crossbeam-epoch's non-x86 pin forced, or on ARM, would catch it before Nightly.
moq-dev/moq#6993 touches rs/kio/src/log.rs in Writer only. It shouldn't conflict.
Off x86, crossbeam-epoch 0.9.21 pins with a Relaxed store followed by a
SeqCst fence. A collector that advances past a reader because it saw the
reader's next pin is then not ordered after the reads of its previous
pin, so the free of an evicted segment races those reads. Loom flags it
on the ARM Nightly; on x86 the pin's SeqCst CAS hides it.
End every `Read` with a Release fence so any later store to the thread's
epoch carries its reads to the collector's Acquire fence. It compiles to
nothing on x86.
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Log eviction passes the ARM concurrency model
fix(kio): order a log read before the thread's next epoch pin
Oct 29, 2026
No actionable bugs found. The release fence in Read::drop executes after accesses through the borrowed read and before the guard's field destructor unpins; placing it here, rather than only before kio's next pin, also covers later epoch pins made elsewhere on the thread. Re-exporting the fence through the loom/std abstraction keeps the model and production paths aligned. This is a small, localized workaround without changing the log's hint/eviction protocol or adding a new reclamation mechanism.
Verification: static review of the diff, read/retire lifetime paths and existing eviction model. I did not run Loom, reproduce the scratch crossbeam experiment, or validate the ARM Nightly. The reported forced-non-x86 results are author-provided; keeping an ARM/forced-path regression gate matters because the x86 path alone cannot validate this ordering fix.
Read now performs a Release fence when it is dropped, before its epoch guard unpins. Synchronization imports include fence. The Loom test comments explain the ARM-specific read-end ordering check and the ordering provided by x86’s SeqCst CAS. The nightly README entry and the log-eviction task document were removed.
Priority: Normal
Merge Risk: Low · up to 00346
Some existing callers may need to explicitly drop a read before starting another. The change is mergeable with awareness of this compatibility break.
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- Line 476: Move the release fence out of the generic Read destructor to a
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A Drop on the generic Read held its Reader borrow until scope end, so a
second reader.read() after the first's last use stopped compiling.
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The independent borrow-lifetime finding, missed by my earlier review, is addressed. Moving Drop from generic Read into the private non-generic ReadGuard restores last-use borrowing of Reader, while the wrapper's destructor still executes the release fence before its epoch::Guard field unpins. Read::get continues to tie returned references to the read borrow.
No new actionable bugs found. This small wrapper is justified: it preserves the existing API's borrowing behavior without changing the reclamation protocol or weakening the fence.
Verification: static comparison against the previous reviewed commit and inspection of read construction, returned references, and destructor ordering. No compiler borrow-check probes, Loom models, ARM/forced-non-x86 runs, or tests executed; the prior architecture-specific verification limits remain.
Root cause is upstream in crossbeam-epoch 0.9's non-x86 Local::pin (Relaxed store then SeqCst fence), now reported as crossbeam-rs/crossbeam#1352. This PR works around it in kio with a Release fence at the end of each kio::log::Read; moq-dev/moq#7195 plans the waiting quest to drop the fence once upstream ships a fix.
Review fix (95d2d8a): CodeRabbit pointed out that a Drop on the generic Read kept the Reader borrow live until scope end. The fence now lives in a private ReadGuard wrapper, which still runs before the epoch guard unpins. The OpenAI review and Codex both cleared the new head.
Local checks on 95d2d8a: just ci origin/main passes, the kio loom models pass on x86 (18/18), and quest check --base origin/main passes. The forced non-x86 reproduction was not rerun: the fence and its position before the unpin are unchanged.
The next scheduled Nightly's ARM loom run is the proof on real hardware. Landing without waiting for it, per the maintainer.
Main fixed the Loom log race (#7134) and the three mechanical breaks
(#7047, #7120, #7121), and #7119 planned render-capabilities and
browser-baseline, so remove loom-log, render-sw, and small-breaks, and
narrow browser-legs to the Firefox VideoFrame leak. Drop the Related link
to the finished cargo-deny quest.
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Finishes log eviction passes the ARM concurrency model, a child of Nightly passes on main.
Cause
The problem is in crossbeam-epoch's reclamation handshake. The log's base/hint protocol is fine, and so is its loom integration. Off x86, crossbeam-epoch 0.9.21
Local::pinpublishes the pinned epoch with a Relaxed store followed by a SeqCst fence. On x86 it uses a SeqCst CAS, which loom treats as a release RMW. A collector moves to the next epoch when it sees each participant unpinned, or pinned in the current epoch. If it sees the reader's next pin rather than its unpin (a Release store), nothing orders the reads of the reader's previous pin before the free that follows. Under the C++/Rust memory model, that free is a data race with those reads. Loom reports it as the concurrentUnsafeCellread/write inSegment::freethat the 2026-10-28 Loom job aborted on.The failing interleaving: the racer reads segment 0 under pin 1 and unpins. It then pins again (pin 2, for entry 1) at the epoch the writer's collect just advanced to. The collector sees pin 2 as current, advances once more, and frees segment 0. Pin 1's reads do not happen before that free.
To confirm this, I ran a crossbeam-only loom model with no kio code. A thread pins, reads a cell guarded by an
AtomicBoollink, unpins and pins again. Another thread unlinks the cell, defers its free and collects. The model fails on the non-x86 pin path, passes on the x86 path, and passes on the non-x86 path once a Release fence follows the read.Change
kio::log::Readnow holds its epoch guard in a privateReadGuardwhoseDropissuesfence(Release)before the guard unpins. The fence sits in the wrapper, not in aDroponReaditself, so aReadstill releases itsReaderborrow at last use. Every later store to the thread's epoch then carries the read's accesses to the collector's Acquire fence. This covers any later pin on the thread, including another crate's, and nested guards. On x86 the fence compiles to nothing; on aarch64 it adds onedmb ishperRead.crate::syncre-exportsfence, so loom sees the fence.Public API: none. Wire: none.
Validation
To force crossbeam-epoch's non-x86 branch on this x86 host, I used a scratch copy of 0.9.21 with the
cfg!on the x86 branch negated. It was patched in through--config patch.crates-io..., so Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock stay untouched.a_log_reader_racing_eviction_never_touches_freed_memoryon the forced non-x86 path aborts withCausality violation: Concurrent read and write accesses to UnsafeCell, as the Nightly did.loom(19) andexpiry-loom(2) also pass there.just rs loom, unpatched on the x86 path, passes.just check origin/mainpasses for rs (check and test), markdown, quest, shell and gh. Its toml step failed only because it formatted the scratch crossbeam copy under.tmp/. After removing that copy,taplo format --checkpasses.Choices made without asking
Read, not before each pin. Placing it before the pin would miss pins made by other code on the same thread.cfg'd off x86. It costs nothing on x86, and it is also needed under miri, where crossbeam-epoch takes the non-x86 path too.Suggested follow-ups
pincould store with Release, the wayrepinalready does, or use a SeqCst RMW. The crossbeam-only loom model above is a ready reproduction. crossbeam-rs/crossbeam#977 asks a related question and has no answer. If upstream fixes it, kio's fence can go after a version bump.just rs loomwith crossbeam-epoch's non-x86 pin forced, or on ARM, would catch it before Nightly.rs/kio/src/log.rsinWriteronly. It shouldn't conflict.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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