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openswarm/backend/apps/system/loop_liveness_watchdog.py

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"""Out-of-loop event-loop liveness watchdog (lifted from hermes-agent
gateway/shutdown_watchdog.py::start_loop_liveness_watchdog, MIT; their incident #66892: the
asyncio loop froze and every recovery path needed that same frozen loop, so a wedged-but-alive
gateway sat as a zombie forever, because supervisors only restart DEAD processes).
Our three watchdog layers (sidecar heartbeat, delegation backstop, wedge unwedger) are all
asyncio tasks INSIDE the backend loop; if that loop wedges, none of them can fire, and Electron's
respawn only triggers on process exit. This plain OS thread probes the loop with
call_soon_threadsafe; three consecutive unanswered probes means the loop is provably frozen, so
it dumps every thread's stack to a forensics file and hard-exits with the restart code Electron's
supervisor already backs off on.
Hermes's own rules kept: the watchdog never shares a fate with the loop it watches (daemon OS
thread), every failure inside the watchdog fails OPEN (returns, never kills), and generous
strikes so a slow-but-alive loop (sync httpx on the loop is a known 2s block here) never dies."""
import asyncio
import faulthandler
import logging
import os
import threading
import time
from typing import Optional
from typeguard import typechecked
from backend.config.paths import DATA_ROOT
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
PROBE_INTERVAL_S = 30.0
PROBE_TIMEOUT_S = 10.0
MAX_STRIKES = 3
# 75 = EX_TEMPFAIL, hermes's "restart me" exit language; Electron respawns any non-zero exit.
RESTART_EXIT_CODE = 75
DUMP_PATH = os.path.join(DATA_ROOT, "loop-watchdog-dump.log")
@typechecked
def p_dump_and_exit(strikes: int) -> None:
try:
logger.critical(f"backend event loop missed {strikes} consecutive liveness probes; dumping stacks and exiting {RESTART_EXIT_CODE} so Electron respawns a working process")
except Exception:
pass
try:
with open(DUMP_PATH, "a", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
fh.write(f"\n=== loop watchdog fired pid={os.getpid()} t={time.time():.0f} strikes={strikes} ===\n")
fh.flush()
faulthandler.dump_traceback(file=fh, all_threads=True)
fh.write("=== end dump ===\n")
except Exception:
pass
try:
faulthandler.dump_traceback(all_threads=True)
except Exception:
pass
os._exit(RESTART_EXIT_CODE)
@typechecked
def start_loop_liveness_watchdog(loop: "asyncio.AbstractEventLoop") -> Optional[threading.Event]:
"""Arm the watchdog against `loop`. Returns the stop event, or None when arming failed
(fail open: a backend without a watchdog beats a backend killed by a broken one)."""
stop_event = threading.Event()
def p_wait_for_probe(probe: threading.Event) -> Optional[bool]:
deadline = time.monotonic() + PROBE_TIMEOUT_S
while True:
if stop_event.is_set():
return None
remaining = deadline - time.monotonic()
if remaining <= 0:
return probe.is_set()
if probe.wait(timeout=min(remaining, 0.05)):
return True
def p_watchdog() -> None:
strikes = 0
while not stop_event.wait(timeout=PROBE_INTERVAL_S):
probe = threading.Event()
try:
loop.call_soon_threadsafe(probe.set)
except RuntimeError:
# A closed loop is a normally exiting process; no backstop needed.
return
except Exception:
logger.debug("loop liveness probe scheduling failed", exc_info=True)
return
responded = p_wait_for_probe(probe)
if responded is None:
return
if responded:
strikes = 0
continue
strikes += 1
logger.warning(f"backend event loop missed liveness probe ({strikes}/{MAX_STRIKES})")
if strikes >= MAX_STRIKES and not stop_event.is_set():
p_dump_and_exit(strikes)
return
try:
threading.Thread(target=p_watchdog, daemon=True, name="loop-liveness-watchdog").start()
except Exception:
logger.debug("failed to start loop liveness watchdog", exc_info=True)
return None
return stop_event