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What this PR does / why we need it

Implement the PageBroker PVC artifact-storage backend so artifact-addressed checkpoint, restore and metadata requests resolve real storage instead of returning "not implemented". PageBroker parses the chart's --storage-config argument, derives the store identity from it at startup, publishes each checkpoint at the fixed path artifacts/<contentUID>/containers/<name>/, and validates the store binding and the handle on every restore and metadata read.

The backend follows SNEP-237 as merged. A PVC publication has no index file: the directory is the publication and its relative path is the handle; storeID is the only derived identity. The fixed path holds exactly one publication per content and container, so a target that is already published or still being published is refused at Prepare and again at Commit (TRANSACTION_CONFLICT) and left untouched, and a retried Commit on the same transaction returns the same PublishedArtifact without publishing again.

Publication copies the staged image across the tmpfs/PVC boundary into a partial directory, fsyncs it, and renames it into place. An unreachable or unreadable store reports STORAGE_UNAVAILABLE or ACCESS_DENIED, never a missing publication; an explicit I/O engine the store cannot serve is refused. The C++ store-ID computation and artifact identity validation mirror the Go contract, including its UTF-8 and Unicode whitespace rules, and the shared test vectors pin the store-ID encoding. A --storage-config that cannot be read, parsed or resolved stops the daemon with INVALID_ARGUMENTS instead of serving against no store.

Which issue(s) this PR addresses

Part of #237.

How was this tested?

• make test inside the PageBroker image build stage: 76 PageBroker tests across the store, broker, identity, storage-config and wire-contract suites, plus the GPU engine, NIXL transfer and storage manifest tests, all pass. Run locally on linux/arm64; the amd64 CI image build also links the GPU test binaries.
• Helm: 9 suites / 59 tests and chart lint passed; the cluster-free Python tests and the CPU e2e workflow validation passed on the first revision, and this PR touches no chart or e2e file.
• Physical GPU testing remains outstanding.

Special notes for your reviewer

Based on #492 (feat/pvc-restore), which provides the chart configuration. The lifecycle tests in #493 follow this backend and, once it is below them, drop the temporary rollout switches so PageBroker always receives the store configuration.

The second commit aligns the backend with the merged SNEP and with the base, which had already dropped artifact_format_version from PublishedArtifact and CommitID from the Go contract; the first commit predates both and no longer compiled against the base, which is what made the pagebroker-image check red.

Not in this PR, tracked as follow-ups: direct restore and direct GPU output for bound PVC content.

Replaces #496 on the same branch. During the stack reorder, pushing before updating PR bases caused GitHub to mark #496 merged into the lifecycle branch. This replacement keeps the backend independently reviewable against #492; that event did not merge the backend into main.

Does this PR introduce an API change?

PageBroker serves artifact-addressed checkpoint, restore and metadata requests against a configured PVC store. A publication lives at `artifacts/<contentUID>/containers/<name>/` with no index file, exactly one per content and container, and a retried `Commit` returns the same descriptor. The store configuration comes from the chart's `storage.yaml` introduced in #492. A PageBroker started with an unreadable or invalid `--storage-config` now exits instead of serving requests without a store.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added artifact-based checkpoint publication, restoration, and metadata retrieval using PVC-backed storage.
  • Added storage configuration for artifact requests. Artifact operations require a configured PVC store; unsupported storage configurations and I/O engines are rejected.
  • Added validation for artifact references and storage targets, with specific errors for conflicts, unavailable or invalid artifacts, and insufficient restore capacity.
  • Retrying a successful checkpoint commit returns the same publication descriptor without publishing again.
• Documentation
  • Clarified that publications are represented by directory paths and conflicting requests leave existing publications untouched.
  • Documented the two-minute transaction sweep after the 2-hour, 5-minute lifetime; active GPU operations are skipped during cleanup.

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Walkthrough

PageBroker adds PVC-backed artifact checkpoint publication, metadata retrieval, and restore. It parses storage configuration to compute a store ID. Publications use a fixed directory layout, and commit retries return the published descriptor.

Changes

Artifact storage flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Storage identity and configuration agent/pagebroker/identity.*, agent/pagebroker/identity_test.cpp, agent/pagebroker/storage_config.*, agent/pagebroker/storage_config_test.cpp, agent/pagebroker/main.cpp, agent/pagebroker/daemon.*, agent/pagebroker/Makefile	The daemon accepts --storage-config and resolves a store ID for PVC storage. Identity validation and configuration parsing include test coverage. The build includes the new source and test files.
PVC artifact publication and staging agent/pagebroker/artifact_store.*, agent/pagebroker/artifact_store_test.cpp	The artifact store validates targets, copies checkpoints through a partial path before publication, resolves artifact handles, and stages metadata or restore data. Tests cover publication conflicts, storage errors, and staging results.
Broker artifact request lifecycle agent/pagebroker/checkpoint_transaction_descriptor.*, agent/pagebroker/broker.*, agent/pagebroker/transaction.hpp, agent/pagebroker/daemon_test.cpp, docs/operations/storage.md	The broker routes artifact checkpoint, commit, metadata, and restore requests through the artifact store. Transactions retain published descriptors for commit retries. Tests cover configured-store flows and failure cases. The storage documentation describes publication layout, failure codes, and transaction cleanup.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Broker
  participant PVCArtifactStore
  participant PVCStorage
  Client->>Broker: PrepareCheckpoint with ArtifactTarget
  Broker->>PVCArtifactStore: ValidateTarget
  Client->>Broker: Commit transaction
  Broker->>PVCArtifactStore: PublishCheckpoint
  PVCArtifactStore->>PVCStorage: Copy staging data and rename publication
  PVCArtifactStore-->>Broker: PublishedArtifact
  Broker-->>Client: Commit response

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0d7f0

Artifact publication and error-handling risks remain unresolved, and clients are not told how expired transactions are reported. Resolve these before merging.

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Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/artifact_store.cpp:
- Around line 209-215: Update the published artifact handle validation in the
code around `requested` and `normalized` to require exactly the
`artifacts/<uid>/containers/<name>` layout. Validate each component with
`IsSafePathComponent`, then recompute the commit ID with `ComputeCommitID` and
reject the publication if it differs from `publication.commit_id`.
- Around line 95-101: Update WritePublication and the artifact publication flow
to make the rename durable: fsync every copied payload file and
publication.json, then fsync the partial directory before renaming; after the
rename, fsync the parent directory. Apply the same ordering to the other
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- Around line 168-193: Add recovery for stale paths in the publish flow using
`PartialPath`, `PreviousPath`, and `RestorePreviousOnFailure`: preserve an
existing partial and return `TRANSACTION_CONFLICT` rather than copying over or
deleting it, and restore `previous` to `published` when the published target is
absent. When both exist, safely resolve the stale previous path before starting
the rename shuffle so republishing can proceed without discarding recoverable
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Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/artifact_store.hpp:
- Around line 60-66: Update the `PublishCheckpoint` header comment to state that
publication copies the staging directory’s contents and leaves staging-directory
cleanup to the caller; remove the claim that the directory is consumed or absent
after success.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp:
- Around line 811-836: Serialize concurrent PublishCheckpoint calls in
PVCArtifactStore with a mutex keyed by the target artifact path, ensuring
attempts for the same (uid, container) cannot overlap while unrelated targets
remain independent. Apply the lock across partial and previous path operations;
keep Broker::PublishArtifactCheckpoint’s transaction handling unchanged.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/checkpoint_transaction_descriptor.cpp:
- Around line 17-56: Update PrepareDirectCheckpoint in broker.cpp to check that
an existing descriptor is not artifact-addressed with is_artifact_addressed()
before calling engine_type(). Treat an artifact-addressed descriptor as a
transaction conflict rather than allowing destination_storage() or engine_type()
to throw.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/identity_test.cpp:
- Around line 16-27: Update ReadFixtures in identity_test.cpp so it does not
rely on the test process’s current directory, and ensure the fixture used by
this test stays byte-for-byte synchronized with
api/storage/testdata/identity.json, using a symlink or an existing CI comparison
check.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/identity.cpp:
- Around line 229-231: Update whitespace validation in NormalizeBasePath to
reject leading and trailing Unicode whitespace using the same rule as Go’s
PVC.NormalizedBasePath, rather than checking only ASCII spaces and tabs. Ensure
this validation occurs before hashing so both implementations produce consistent
acceptance and store IDs.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/main.cpp:
- Around line 24-49: Update ResolveStoreID so failures to open or parse an
explicitly supplied storage config, and failures from ComputeStoreID, propagate
as std::invalid_argument for main to handle instead of returning an empty ID.
Preserve the empty-ID fallback for unsupported config types.

Review comments at @agent/pagebroker/storage_config.cpp:
- Around line 22-32: Update Unquote in storage_config.cpp to reject values
containing a backslash after removing matching surrounding quotes, rather than
returning escaped content as a valid scalar. Preserve the existing handling of
quoted and bare values otherwise, and make the rejection explicit.

Review comments at @docs/operations/storage.md:
- Line 127: Update the PageBroker lifetime description to say expired entries
are cleaned up by the periodic two-minute ReapExpiredTransactions sweep,
independently of requests, and note that cleanup may be deferred while a GPU
operation is running or retried after cleanup fails.

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Does this introduce sha256 calculation into the restore path? @oleg-kushniriov

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No. SHA-256 runs once at startup

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Document the request-path expiry response.

Broker::Commit returns TRANSACTION_EXPIRED when it receives a Commit for an expired transaction that remains registered (agent/pagebroker/broker.cpp:775-812). The two-minute reaper is a separate cleanup path. Document the Commit response and its condition for clients.

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Update the transaction-expiry documentation near the two-minute sweep
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Closing: this PR wired PVC's own store-identity resolution into PageBroker (storage_config.hpp, --storage-config, ComputeStoreID). We're taking S3 support in a different direction that doesn't need it — the operator computes and hands PageBroker a pre-resolved store ID instead of PageBroker deriving its own (see #662/#663). Plain PVC checkpoint/restore already works on main without this; only PVC's bound/artifact-addressed capture path needed it, and nothing currently depends on that landing.