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What type of PR is this?

• enhancement

What this PR does / why we need it:

Every failure nsrestore reported arrived under one step, running nsrestore, though the rootfs diff, the CRIU restore, the CUDA restore and the LSM setup are where most restore failures happen. The step added nothing for the common case, and the guide entry had to cover four unrelated failure classes in one place.

• nsrestore wraps each of its phases with one of six steps:

  Step	What runs there	Typical failure
  checking the staged checkpoint	re-reads the manifest from the staged checkpoint, checks the PageBroker execution matches the checkpoint	staged copy is not the one the agent validated; agent and nsrestore from different builds
  preparing CRIU restore	rewrites network addresses for the new pod IP, checks recorded LSM labels, builds CRIU options	AppArmor or SELinux profile mismatch; mount or cgroup layout CRIU cannot express
  applying rootfs diff	extracts the captured rootfs diff over the placeholder root	image mismatch; read-only root; tar permission error
  preparing GPU restore	CUDA job file, GPU device mounts, opens the CUDA tools before CRIU swaps the mount namespace	multi-GPU checkpoint with no CUDA job file; device paths not visible; bundle mount gone after a placeholder restart
  restoring with CRIU	clears sentinels, mounts securityfs, runs the CRIU restore, reads the restored process table	missing file or socket; port taken; resource CRIU cannot recreate
  restoring CUDA state	maps checkpointed PIDs to restored ones, restores GPU mounts and GPU memory, runs the cuinterpose restore for multi-GPU workloads	PIDs not found in the restored tree; device map mismatch; driver or PageBroker refused; cuinterpose restore failed

  running nsrestore stays for failures that never reach those phases or end from outside: nsenter could not start the binary, nsrestore was killed, or an older nsrestore image that sends no step.

• nsrestore's JSON result carries the step next to the error. The agent rebuilds the step from it and drops the while <step>: prefix the text already carries, so the step is not doubled.

• The restore flow wraps with running nsrestore only when the error names no step. A launch failure, a kill, or an nsrestore on a node whose agent pod has not rolled yet reads exactly as before, so an upgrade in progress behaves as today.

• The guide's running nsrestore entry keeps the launch and external endings, and six entries follow it, one per inner step. The drift check enforces them.

Before:

main: while running nsrestore: rootfs diff failed: tar extract failed: exit status 2: tar: ...

After:

main: while applying rootfs diff: rootfs diff failed: tar extract failed: exit status 2: tar: ...

Surfacing only. No flow changes: nsrestore is launched, waited for, aborted and cleaned up exactly as before, and no condition reason changes.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Refs #370

How was this tested?

• go test ./... for the agent module on Linux in the golang:1.27.3 container: all packages pass.
• New tests: an inner step reported by nsrestore reaches the restore result unchanged and is not prefixed again; an unnamed nsrestore failure still gets running nsrestore; the step is rebuilt from the JSON result with and without the prefix in the text, and the timeout suffix is kept after it; failStepUnlessNamed leaves a named error alone and nil nil.
• make verify-troubleshooting-steps passes with the six new entries and fails without them.
• golangci-lint with the agent config, cross-compiled for Linux: clean.

Special notes for your reviewer:

Follow-up to the step-error stack, stacked on the troubleshooting guide PR because the guide entries build on its rewrite and drift check. Two placements to glance at: the CUDA job-file checks at the top of the in-namespace restore report under preparing GPU restore rather than the manifest step, and reading the restored process table reports under restoring with CRIU since it inspects what CRIU produced.

Does this PR introduce an API change?

NONE

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Restore failures now identify the stage where they occurred in JSON results and error messages. Existing stage labels are preserved without duplication, making diagnostics clearer.
  • Failures without a reported stage continue to be attributed to the overall restore operation.

• Documentation

  • Expanded troubleshooting guidance with stage-specific causes and diagnostic checks, including failures that occur before an individual stage is reported or when restore ends externally.

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Walkthrough

The in-namespace restore path now assigns failures to specific restore stages. The nsrestore JSON result includes the stage, and the outer restore path preserves it or assigns a fallback. Troubleshooting documentation describes the stages and diagnostic checks.

Changes

In-namespace restore step attribution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Assign and document inner restore stages agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go, agent/internal/executor/step.go, docs/operations/troubleshooting.md	In-namespace failures are assigned to manifest reading, CRIU preparation, rootfs-diff application, GPU preparation, CRIU restore, or CUDA restore. Troubleshooting documentation describes these stages and related diagnostic checks.
Carry step labels across the nsrestore boundary agent/cmd/nsrestore/main.go, agent/internal/executor/nsrestore_output.go, agent/internal/executor/restore.go, agent/internal/executor/*_test.go	The JSON result includes the failure step. The outer restore path reconstructs named errors and uses StepRunNSRestore when no step is reported. Tests cover step preservation, fallback attribution, and timeout suffixes.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NSRestore
  participant JSONResult
  participant Restore
  NSRestore->>JSONResult: Include error and restore step
  JSONResult->>Restore: Report failure details
  Restore->>Restore: Preserve named step or assign fallback

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A narrow cleanup failure is still surfaced, but its troubleshooting step is misleading.

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[ozbarshalom]

Thanks. Splitting running nsrestore into six steps makes these failures much easier to find, and the drift check is a good guard. This review covers the documentation and the step names only. I checked the six entries against the code they describe.

I would fix the three accuracy comments (preparing GPU restore, restoring CUDA state and restoring with CRIU) before merge, since each would send a reader to the wrong place. The rest are suggestions.

Two points that apply to the whole stack are on #588: the missing CHANGELOG entry, and the vocabulary of the step names.

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Minor · Preserve the inner step for deferred GPU-mount cleanup. · nsrestore.go:181-185

agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go:181-185
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the inner step for deferred GPU-mount cleanup.

If the restore succeeds, gpuMounts.Close(true) can still return an error. The deferred code joins that error without a step, so the CLI omits step and the outer restore reports running nsrestore. Use StepRestoreCUDA for committed cleanup and StepPrepareGPURestore for rollback cleanup. No single existing step accurately covers both paths.

Suggested fix

 		if err := gpuMounts.Close(gpuMountsCommitted); err != nil {
-			retErr = errors.Join(retErr, fmt.Errorf("clean GPU device mounts: %w", err))
+			cleanupStep := StepPrepareGPURestore
+			if gpuMountsCommitted {
+				cleanupStep = StepRestoreCUDA
+			}
+			retErr = errors.Join(retErr, failStep(cleanupStep, fmt.Errorf("clean GPU device mounts: %w", err)))
 		}

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Review comment at @agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go around lines 181 - 185:
Update the deferred GPU-mount cleanup around gpuMounts.Close to preserve the
failure step: use StepRestoreCUDA when gpuMountsCommitted is true and
StepPrepareGPURestore otherwise. Wrap the cleanup error with failStep using the
selected step before joining it into retErr.

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Review comments at @agent/internal/executor/nsrestore.go:
- Around line 181-185: Update the deferred GPU-mount cleanup around
gpuMounts.Close to preserve the failure step: use StepRestoreCUDA when
gpuMountsCommitted is true and StepPrepareGPURestore otherwise. Wrap the cleanup
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