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WalkthroughThe troubleshooting guide adds restore and checkpoint failure diagnostics. A verification script checks that each executor step has a matching troubleshooting heading, and the Makefile runs that check. ChangesRestore and Checkpoint Troubleshooting
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Linked Issues check Issue [ #370] requires failure messages to identify the checkpoint or restore flow step. The reviewed implementation wraps failures aswhile <step>: <cause>and exposes the step throughStepOf. Thi…Out of Scope Changes check The troubleshooting guide, its step-coverage verifier, and the Makefiletarget all support [#370]. The guide also resolves the noted log-selection concern by finding the agent pod on the workload no…Docstring Coverage No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1… Breaking Api Changes The pull request changes only Makefile,docs/operations/troubleshooting.md, andhack/verify-troubleshooting-steps.sh. The authoritative diff contains no changes underapi/, so it does not alte…Rbac Least Privilege The PR changes only Makefile, troubleshooting documentation, and a verification script. It does not change any kubebuilder RBAC marker or Helm RBAC manifest, so it introduces no wildcard verbs or reso… Full details: Linked Issues check
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- Around line 130-136: In the “building GPU context” troubleshooting section,
add checkpoint-specific guidance that directs operators to inspect GPU discovery
and allocation in the source container, rather than directing them only to the
restore pod; retain the existing restore guidance for restore failures.
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- Line 18: Update the heading check around `grep` in the troubleshooting-steps
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with the step text cannot satisfy the check. Keep each step’s validation
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- Around line 305-307: Revise the troubleshooting guidance for GPU capture and
CRIU dump failures to state that the agent attempts to terminate the source
process, rather than implying termination always succeeds.
- Around line 212-215: Update the PageBroker commit description to qualify that
the process has passed restored-process validation before the commit occurs.
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| After the process is running, the agent tells PageBroker the transaction is | ||
| complete so it can release what it staged. A failure here does not undo the | ||
| restore: the pod is marked restored, and the failure is reported on a | ||
| `RestoreCleanupFailed` warning event and in the agent log. |
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Qualify the PageBroker commit outcome.
If PageBroker commit fails and restored-process validation also fails, the validation error replaces the cleanup error. The controller calls failRestore instead of taking the RestoreCleanupFailed completion path. Qualify the restored-status statement to apply only when validation succeeds.
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--- "a/docs/operations/troubleshooting.md"
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### committing PageBroker restore
-After the process is running, the agent tells PageBroker the transaction is
-complete so it can release what it staged. A failure here does not undo the
-restore: the pod is marked restored, and the failure is reported on a
-`RestoreCleanupFailed` warning event and in the agent log.
+After the process is running and passes validation, the agent tells PageBroker
+the transaction is complete so it can release what it staged. A failure here
+does not undo the restore: the pod is marked restored, and the failure is
+reported on a `RestoreCleanupFailed` warning event and in the agent log.
Likely causes: PageBroker restarted during the restore
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| After the process is running, the agent tells PageBroker the transaction is | |
| complete so it can release what it staged. A failure here does not undo the | |
| restore: the pod is marked restored, and the failure is reported on a | |
| `RestoreCleanupFailed` warning event and in the agent log. | |
| After the process is running and passes validation, the agent tells PageBroker | |
| the transaction is complete so it can release what it staged. A failure here | |
| does not undo the restore: the pod is marked restored, and the failure is | |
| reported on a `RestoreCleanupFailed` warning event and in the agent log. |
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Update the PageBroker commit description to qualify that the process has passed
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| cuinterpose when the shim is in use. A failure here, or in the CRIU dump that | ||
| follows, leaves the source process unsafe to resume, so the agent terminates | ||
| it. |
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Qualify source termination as an attempt.
Both GPU capture and CRIU dump failures trigger the source-kill path, but killCheckpointProcess can fail. The guide should not state that termination always occurs.
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| cuinterpose when the shim is in use. A failure here, or in the CRIU dump that | |
| follows, leaves the source process unsafe to resume, so the agent terminates | |
| it. | |
| cuinterpose when the shim is in use. A failure here, or in the CRIU dump that | |
| follows, leaves the source process unsafe to resume, so the agent terminates | |
| it attempts to terminate it. |
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Review comment at @docs/operations/troubleshooting.md around lines 305 - 307:
Revise the troubleshooting guidance for GPU capture and CRIU dump failures to
state that the agent attempts to terminate the source process, rather than
implying termination always succeeds.
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Extract step declarations with trailing comments.
If a maintainer adds StepFoo Step = "foo" // explanation, this sed pattern skips the valid Go declaration. The check then passes even when the guide has no ### foo entry. Accept trailing comments, and check that every Step declaration was extracted. Based on learnings, a verification script must not report a clean result when its pattern misses valid entries.
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Update the step-extraction pipeline in the verification script to accept valid
Step declarations with trailing comments, and verify that every Step declaration
was extracted so missed entries cause the check to fail rather than pass.
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- Around line 201-205: Add a sibling troubleshooting entry for the `nsenter`
exit 126 case alongside the existing exit 127 entry, explaining that `nsrestore`
is not executable and directing operators to check the agent image and binary
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| - `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 127, ...)`: | ||
| the placeholder's root filesystem could not run the binary handed to it. | ||
| nsrestore comes from the agent image, not the workload image, so this is | ||
| usually a placeholder without `/proc` mounted or an unusual root filesystem, | ||
| not a missing binary. nsenter's own message follows the colon. |
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Document the nsenter exit-126 launch failure.
StepRunNSRestore reports exit 126 when nsrestore is not executable, but this section documents only exit 127. Add a sibling entry so operators can identify and correct this restore-start failure.
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--- "a/docs/operations/troubleshooting.md"
+++ "b/docs/operations/troubleshooting.md"
@@ -198,7 +198,10 @@
nsrestore applies the rootfs diff, runs the CRIU restore and restores CUDA
state. The cause tells you which of those stopped:
+- `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 126, not executable)`:
+ the `nsrestore` binary is not executable in the placeholder. Check the agent
+ image and the binary's execute permission, then retry the restore.
- `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 127, ...)`:
the placeholder's root filesystem could not run the binary handed to it.
nsrestore comes from the agent image, not the workload image, so this is
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| - `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 127, ...)`: | |
| the placeholder's root filesystem could not run the binary handed to it. | |
| nsrestore comes from the agent image, not the workload image, so this is | |
| usually a placeholder without `/proc` mounted or an unusual root filesystem, | |
| not a missing binary. nsenter's own message follows the colon. | |
| - `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 126, not executable)`: | |
| the `nsrestore` binary is not executable in the placeholder. Check the agent | |
| image and the binary's execute permission, then retry the restore. | |
| - `nsenter could not start nsrestore inside the placeholder (exit 127, ...)`: | |
| the placeholder's root filesystem could not run the binary handed to it. | |
| nsrestore comes from the agent image, not the workload image, so this is | |
| usually a placeholder without `/proc` mounted or an unusual root filesystem, | |
| not a missing binary. nsenter's own message follows the colon. |
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Review comment at @docs/operations/troubleshooting.md around lines 201 - 205:
Add a sibling troubleshooting entry for the `nsenter` exit 126 case alongside
the existing exit 127 entry, explaining that `nsrestore` is not executable and
directing operators to check the agent image and binary execute permissions
before retrying the restore.
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…step Failure messages now open with the step they came from, so the guide is organised the same way: one entry per step with what the step does, the likely causes, what to check and what to do. A short section explains how to read a message and where the agent logs the same failure with a step key. The step list lives in agent/internal/executor/step.go. A new verify-troubleshooting-steps target, run as part of make check, reads it from the source and fails when a step has no entry in the guide, so the two cannot drift apart silently. Refs #370 Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
… chart keys The guide read the agent log through the DaemonSet, which picks an arbitrary pod, while the detail is only in the agent on the node where the pod ran. It now finds that pod first and uses it for the PageBroker commands too. The log level is daemonset.snapshotLogLevel and the restore timeout is config.restore.restoreTimeoutSeconds; the keys the guide named do not exist in the chart. The timeout entry follows the message nsrestore failures now carry, a trailing "; the restore timeout expired" after whatever cause was running, and the condition no longer points at the agent log. The building GPU context entry covers the checkpoint side of the step, which maps the source container's CUDA processes and GPUs. The drift check matches the whole heading line, so a step whose name is a prefix of another's cannot pass on the longer entry. Refs #370 Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
… steps The checkpoint now names the rootfs diff capture as its own step, between the CRIU dump and the commit, and the drift check requires an entry for it. Refs #370 Signed-off-by: Oleg Kushniriov <okushniriov@nvidia.com>
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What this PR does / why we need it:
Failure messages now open with the step they came from, so the troubleshooting guide is organised the same way: one entry per restore and checkpoint step with what the step does, the likely causes, what to check and what to do. A short section explains how to read a message and where the agent logs the same failure with a
stepkey.The step list lives in
agent/internal/executor/step.go. A newverify-troubleshooting-stepstarget, run as part ofmake check, reads the list from the source and fails when a step has no entry in the guide, so the two cannot drift apart silently. It is asedandgrepscript, so it runs on any host without building the Linux-only agent module.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes #370
How was this tested?
make verify-troubleshooting-stepspasses; with the guide missing entries it lists each absent step and exits 1.hack/verify-spdx-format.shpasses for the new script.Special notes for your reviewer:
Last of three stacked PRs for #370. The two sections at the top of the guide are unchanged; the storage section was folded into the step entries that cover it.
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