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bake test harness: release a batch after the watcher has delivered its changes (Linux) - #47775
One dev.batchChanges() block of the bake harness can reach the page as two hot updates, or lose its last files to the next batch: 8 of 450 batches when the watcher thread stalls 120 ms at a time.
The harness releases a batch 50 ms after any "files seen" frame (test/bake/bake-harness.ts:337). A change that the dev server's watcher thread still holds arrives after the release.
Fix
Linux only. Before the release, the harness appends to a fence file in a watched folder and reads BUN_WATCHER_TRACE until the watcher thread has logged it. It does that twice, then makes one request.
Correct because inotify reports changes in order. The second fence shows that the thread handed on the batch with the first one. The request puts the release behind those tasks.
macOS and Windows keep the old wait: their watchers report no file name.
Verified: the new test in test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts fails with the old harness (24 of 24 runs) and passes with this PR (71 of 71). test/bake/dev/ and dev-and-prod.test.ts pass.
Background
A batch is test-only protocol on the HMR socket: frame H starts it, the dev server holds file changes, a second H releases them as one bundle.
BUN_WATCHER_TRACE is an existing debug log, one JSON line per batch of watcher events. test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts:1101 uses it with a fence.
Considered a flush request in src/watcher: shipped code with one test-only caller. Considered a file count in the "files seen" frame: a late second event of a counted file still splits the batch.
Notes
Numbers. Debug build, linux-x64, 12 cores. A scratch devTest writes N self-accepting modules in one batchChanges() block and records every hot update. A batch is bad unless it arrives as exactly one update with all N modules. "Stalled" stops only the File Watcher thread of the dev server with ptrace, 120 ms of every 160 ms.
The rows for this PR are the sum over its revisions. The wait itself did not change between them.
Every bad batch on main with this PR is one update that lacks a file. That is the watcher hand-off bug of dev server: guard the watcher hand-off with a mutex so no batch is lost #42739, not the harness. The hand-off replaces a queued slot that the dev server thread has not taken, and the files of that slot stay behind until the next dispatch. A fence is a dispatch too: it can carry such files on, and it can leave them behind. No wait in the harness closes that, because the log line of a dispatch comes before its hand-off.
One dev.write: median 96 ms before, 50 ms with the first revision (5 interleaved pairs of 200 writes, spread 4 and 8 ms). The dev suites as a whole take the same time: 365 s before, 347 s and 370 s in two runs now.
What the fence does to a test.
Each release appends one byte to two fence files, .bake-harness-fence-<n>-0 and -1, in one watched folder. The dev server gets folder events for them and bundles nothing. The folder that the batch wrote to last is tried first, so in most batches the fence adds no event to a folder that the batch left alone.
If that folder does not report the fence within 25 ms, the folder that reported the last fence gets one. After 25 ms more, every other candidate gets one: the other folders of the batch, the working directory of the dev server, the folders of the files the test started with. A folder that is gone or read-only is skipped (ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EACCES, EROFS). Every other write error is thrown. If no folder takes a fence, the harness releases as before at once.
A round takes only a fence with its own name. The two rounds of a release have different names, so a fence that round 1 wrote to a second folder cannot end round 2. <n> changes each time a release gives up, so a fence that it left behind cannot end a later round.
The watcher thread logs one entry for each event. One log line can have two entries for the same folder, and JSON.parse keeps only the last. So the harness finds the fence name in the text of the line.
If no folder reports within 2 s times the harness multiplier, the harness warns and releases as before. No test in test/bake/ takes that path. A batch that expects no hot update (expectNoWebSocketActivity) waits 250 ms times the multiplier and does not warn: it can be for files that the dev server does not watch.
The dev server logs to <temp>/.watcher-trace/<test>.jsonl. The folder holds only logs. A dev server that watches the folder of its own log logs without end: with the log next to the test root and a root file that imports ../missing, the log grew 8 MB per second. A test cannot move the log: the harness sets BUN_WATCHER_TRACE after the env of the test. A test reads the path from dev.watcherTrace.
A debug build of the dev server prints debug warn: nothing to bundle for a fence that arrives alone.
The new test.
BUN_INOTIFY_COALESCE_INTERVAL makes the watcher thread keep a change for 300 ms, or until the next change. The test changes a.ts, waits for the "files seen" frame, then changes b.ts and ends the batch. The old harness releases 50 ms later with a.ts only.
The change to b.ts goes through a hard link in a folder that the dev server does not watch. Then inotify reports one event (the file), not two (the file and its folder). The watcher thread sometimes reads two events one by one, and then it does not wait: with two events the old harness passed 1 of 8 runs.
The second test releases an empty batch inside expectNoWebSocketActivity. It checks that the fence changes send no hot update.
A change that arrives while a bundle runs is parked and bundled outside the open batch (start_next_bundle_if_present). The dev server sends no "files seen" frame for it. That needs a dev server change.
macOS and Windows. A flush request in src/watcher would cover them. It needs a maintainer's yes first: REVIEW.md asks for no production code that only a test calls.
…s changes (Linux)
`Dev.batchChanges()` released a batch 50 ms after the dev server reported
any change. A change that the watcher thread of the dev server still held
arrived after the release and got a bundle of its own.
On Linux the harness now appends to a fence file in a watched folder and
reads `BUN_WATCHER_TRACE` until the watcher thread has logged the fence.
It does that twice, makes one request, and then releases. inotify reports
changes in order, so the dev server has every earlier change by then.
macOS and Windows keep the wait for a "files seen" frame and the 50 ms
sleep: their watchers report no file name for a folder.
Status: ready for review. CI is red only for tests that this PR does not touch.
Reproduced on a Linux debug build with a scratch devTest. It writes N self-accepting modules in one batchChanges() block and records every hot update. A ptrace helper stops only the File Watcher thread of the dev server for 120 ms of every 160 ms. On main plus #42739, 8 of 450 eight-file batches break. With this PR, 0 of 2,400.
CI for 20006e1 (build 137002, finished): no test in test/bake fails. test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts passes 5 of 5 tests on debian 13 x64-asan and on ubuntu 25.04 aarch64. The red tests are 26 files in test/aot/ and test/bundler/compile-aot-size.test.ts (26 of these 27 also fail on main), and test/js/web/request/request-clone-leak.test.ts (an RSS delta of 64 MB against a limit of under 64 on the ASAN lane). The PR changes only test/bake/bake-harness.ts and test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts.
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Walkthrough
The development harness traces Linux watcher events to synchronize file batches. It retains the fallback wait when flushing fails. New tests check that batched changes arrive in one hot update and that an empty batch produces no WebSocket activity.
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Linux watcher batch synchronization
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Summary
Configure and flush watcher traces test/bake/bake-harness.ts
Dev accepts an optional trace path and uses alternating fence files to detect watcher events. Linux development tests pass the trace path through BUN_WATCHER_TRACE.
Integrate flush results with batches test/bake/bake-harness.ts, test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts
Development file operations track changed folders. Batch disposal uses the flush result to select its fallback wait. Tests cover grouped updates and empty batches.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 20006
No merge-blocking issue is identified in the Linux watcher synchronization changes. Merge after normal checks pass.
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Minor · Bound the fence search so a watched folder is reached before the… · bake-harness.ts:341-344
test/bake/bake-harness.ts:341-344 Minor · Functional Correctness · Poor tradeoff
Bound the fence search so a watched folder is reached before the deadline.
#flushWatcher fences one folder every 25 ms within a 2000 ms deadline, which covers about 80 folders when WAIT_MULTIPLIER is 1. If a batch writes about 100 new, unwatched directories ahead of the watched working directory, the deadline expires first. The function then returns false, and the batch uses the timing fallback. Order the candidates so watched folders come first, or raise the bound on the search.
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Review comment at @test/bake/bake-harness.ts around lines 341 - 344:
Update #flushWatcher to process watched folders before unwatched folders, so the
existing fence pacing and deadline reach the watched working directory even when
many new directories are present. Use the existing watcher state to identify
watched folders and preserve the current fencing behavior for all candidates.
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Review comments at @test/bake/bake-harness.ts:
- Around line 2207-2208: Update the watcher trace setup around watcherTrace so a
non-empty options.env.BUN_WATCHER_TRACE value becomes the shared trace path
passed to both the server and Dev. Preserve the generated root-based trace path
when the environment value is unset or empty.
- Line 335: Update fence-name generation around #fenceCount so each flush round
uses a name that cannot be reused by a stale record, or reject records logged
before that round’s fence. Ensure a round completes only on its own fence, so
the batch is not released before the dispatch carrying its changes calls
on_file_update.
- Line 343: Update #flushWatcher to handle errors while checking for or
appending a fence file by returning false rather than propagating them. Preserve
the existing batchChanges asyncDispose fallback wait when the flush is
inconclusive.
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Review comments at @test/bake/bake-harness.ts:
- Around line 341-344: Update #flushWatcher to process watched folders before
unwatched folders, so the existing fence pacing and deadline reach the watched
working directory even when many new directories are present. Use the existing
watcher state to identify watched folders and preserve the current fencing
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.
Beyond the inline findings, I also checked that the trace format #flushWatcher parses matches what the dev server emits: src/watcher/WatcherTrace.rs writes one {"timestamp",...,"files":{<folder>:{"events":[...],"changed":[...]}}} line per batch and BUN_WATCHER_TRACE is read via env_var::BUN_WATCHER_TRACE in Watcher.rs, so the env knob and the .files[folder].changed lookup are live. The trace file is opened with O_APPEND by the watcher thread only, so the harness's byte-offset tailing with partial-line handling is consistent with the writer.
Extended reasoning...
The change is confined to the bake dev-server test harness (test/bake/bake-harness.ts) and its self-tests; it touches no production code and no security-sensitive surface. Four inline findings were confirmed (new tests pass without the fix, the flushed path drops the ResultDidNotBundle grace, unwatched-folder writes now wait the full flush deadline, and a feedback loop if the trace folder becomes watched), so a human look is already signalled by them. This note only records that the trace schema and env knob were verified against src/watcher.
…the fence search
- The batch test holds a change in the watcher thread of the dev server
at the release. It fails with the old release point.
- The name of a fence has an epoch. The epoch changes when a flush gives
up, so a fence that it left behind cannot end a later round.
- Every candidate folder has a fence after 50 ms. A folder that cannot
take a fence is skipped.
- The fence is found in the text of a log line. A line can have two
entries for one folder, and JSON.parse keeps only the last one.
- A batch that expects no hot update waits 250 ms for a fence, not 2 s,
and does not warn.
- The 500 ms wait after an empty release is the same as before on every
path.
- The watcher log is in a folder of its own. Dev reads the file that the
dev server writes, also when the test sets BUN_WATCHER_TRACE.
The follow-up finding of the first review (the fence search has no bound) is fixed in a90fbeb. Every candidate folder has a fence after 50 ms: the latest folder of the batch first, the folder that reported the last fence 25 ms later, all the others 25 ms after that. So the 2 s deadline cannot end before a watched folder has a fence.
The same commit also changes how the harness reads the watcher log. The watcher thread logs one entry for each event, so one log line can have two entries for the same folder, and JSON.parse keeps only the last one. The harness now finds the fence name in the text of the line. In 67,971 fence records from my runs, the old lookup did not see 20.
The SeenFiles wait can be satisfied by the setup mkdirSync event.
The listener at lines 117-120 resolves on any SeenFiles event. The payload has no file identity. The no-entry-point branch publishes it for any batch that changes no entry point, including the directory change from mkdirSync(dev.join("link")), which runs before dev.client.
If that event is dispatched after the listener attaches and before the watcher processes a.ts, the test appends b.ts too early. The two marks can still land in one update, so the test can pass without checking that a.ts is seen first. The watcher hold must expire between the batch's Started exchange and the listener attachment for this to happen.
The wait needs to observe the a.ts change itself, or the setup events must be processed before the listener attaches. The inspected code does not establish a safe localized edit for either option. A fixed delay would also conflict with the test guideline against waiting for time.
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Review comment at @test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts around lines 117 - 120:
Update the synchronization wait around `watch_synchronization` and
`appendFileSync` so the test proceeds only after the `a.ts` change is observed,
not on an unrelated `SeenFiles` event. Establish a safe way to identify that
change or ensure setup events are processed before attaching the listener; do
not use a fixed delay or assume an event identity the payload does not provide.
…f the watcher log
- A fence write is skipped only when the folder is gone or read-only
(ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EACCES, EROFS). Every other error is thrown.
- If no folder takes a fence, the flush gives up at once and says so.
- The harness sets BUN_WATCHER_TRACE after the env of the test. Dev and
the dev server always use the same file, in the folder that holds only
logs. The path is absolute.
About the nitpick on test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts:117-120 (the SeenFiles wait can be satisfied by the setup): the setup makes no watcher event, so it cannot end the wait.
mkdirSync and linkSync run before the first request. The dev server adds its first watch when it bundles a file for that request.
I checked it with a scratch test. A mkdir and a file write in the test root before the first request leave the watcher log empty after 700 ms. A write after the page load is logged.
The test now has a comment that says so (20006e1).
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I reviewed the third revision (20006e1) and found no new bugs; since every Linux dev-server test now releases its batches through #flushWatcher, a maintainer's look at the design (fence files in test roots, trace-file polling) is still worthwhile before merging.
What was reviewed:
The fence/trace protocol against src/watcher/Watcher.rs (dispatch_file_updates logs before on_file_update), so a logged second fence does imply the first batch was handed on; partial trailing lines are skipped by reading only up to the last newline.
BUN_WATCHER_TRACE and BUN_INOTIFY_COALESCE_INTERVAL are read by src/ (WatcherTrace.rs, INotifyWatcher.rs:194-249, ns units), and the new batch test cannot pass on the old dispose path (its direct appendFileSync never resets seenFiles, so the base releases after 50 ms with a.ts only).
The fence write now rethrows anything other than ENOENT/ENOTDIR/EACCES/EROFS, the trace lives in <tempDir>/.watcher-trace/ where no test root's ../x resolution watch can land, and BUN_WATCHER_TRACE is merged after options.env; no bake test sets that variable itself.
Non-Linux and NODE_ENV=production runs skip the flush entirely and keep the previous wait unchanged.
Extended reasoning...
The diff is test-only: 166 lines in test/bake/bake-harness.ts adding a Linux-only watcher-flush step to Dev.batchChanges (fence files written into watched folders, BUN_WATCHER_TRACE polled with a bounded deadline, then one HTTP round-trip), plus two new self-tests in test/bake/dev/harness.test.ts; no src/ code and no security-sensitive surface is touched. The third commit addresses the error-swallowing and trace-placement points raised on the earlier revision, and the new batch test is shown to depend on the flush. What keeps this from an outright approve is that the mechanism is intricate synchronization logic on the hot path of every Linux dev-server test, with a known upstream hand-off race the author explicitly leaves to a separate PR, and an unread third-party inline comment on the previous revision that the last commit plausibly but not verifiably addressed.
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Problem
dev.batchChanges()block of the bake harness can reach the page as two hot updates, or lose its last files to the next batch: 8 of 450 batches when the watcher thread stalls 120 ms at a time.test/bake/bake-harness.ts:337). A change that the dev server's watcher thread still holds arrives after the release.Fix
BUN_WATCHER_TRACEuntil the watcher thread has logged it. It does that twice, then makes one request.test/bake/dev/harness.test.tsfails with the old harness (24 of 24 runs) and passes with this PR (71 of 71).test/bake/dev/anddev-and-prod.test.tspass.Background
Hstarts it, the dev server holds file changes, a secondHreleases them as one bundle.BUN_WATCHER_TRACEis an existing debug log, one JSON line per batch of watcher events.test/cli/hot/hot.test.ts:1101uses it with a fence.src/watcher: shipped code with one test-only caller. Considered a file count in the "files seen" frame: a late second event of a counted file still splits the batch.Notes
Numbers. Debug build, linux-x64, 12 cores. A scratch devTest writes N self-accepting modules in one
batchChanges()block and records every hot update. A batch is bad unless it arrives as exactly one update with all N modules. "Stalled" stops only the File Watcher thread of the dev server with ptrace, 120 ms of every 160 ms.dev.write: median 96 ms before, 50 ms with the first revision (5 interleaved pairs of 200 writes, spread 4 and 8 ms). The dev suites as a whole take the same time: 365 s before, 347 s and 370 s in two runs now.What the fence does to a test.
.bake-harness-fence-<n>-0and-1, in one watched folder. The dev server gets folder events for them and bundles nothing. The folder that the batch wrote to last is tried first, so in most batches the fence adds no event to a folder that the batch left alone.ENOENT,ENOTDIR,EACCES,EROFS). Every other write error is thrown. If no folder takes a fence, the harness releases as before at once.<n>changes each time a release gives up, so a fence that it left behind cannot end a later round.JSON.parsekeeps only the last. So the harness finds the fence name in the text of the line.test/bake/takes that path. A batch that expects no hot update (expectNoWebSocketActivity) waits 250 ms times the multiplier and does not warn: it can be for files that the dev server does not watch.<temp>/.watcher-trace/<test>.jsonl. The folder holds only logs. A dev server that watches the folder of its own log logs without end: with the log next to the test root and a root file that imports../missing, the log grew 8 MB per second. A test cannot move the log: the harness setsBUN_WATCHER_TRACEafter the env of the test. A test reads the path fromdev.watcherTrace.debug warn: nothing to bundlefor a fence that arrives alone.The new test.
BUN_INOTIFY_COALESCE_INTERVALmakes the watcher thread keep a change for 300 ms, or until the next change. The test changesa.ts, waits for the "files seen" frame, then changesb.tsand ends the batch. The old harness releases 50 ms later witha.tsonly.b.tsgoes through a hard link in a folder that the dev server does not watch. Then inotify reports one event (the file), not two (the file and its folder). The watcher thread sometimes reads two events one by one, and then it does not wait: with two events the old harness passed 1 of 8 runs.expectNoWebSocketActivity. It checks that the fence changes send no hot update.Not in this PR.
start_next_bundle_if_present). The dev server sends no "files seen" frame for it. That needs a dev server change.src/watcherwould cover them. It needs a maintainer's yes first:REVIEW.mdasks for no production code that only a test calls.saveInOneUpdateon branchrobobun/6d5e6bd2/hmr-reload-orderis not on main. On Linux it is not needed after this PR and dev server: guard the watcher hand-off with a mutex so no batch is lost #42739.[auto-merge] gate passed · iteration 0 · 2 files touched
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