Close out the open pool issues: special-pool sizes, stalled region queries, VS refusals, and two cache keys - #102
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`special_pool_placement` took the allocation size from `_POOL_HEADER.PreviousSize`, which is eight bits wide, so a 0x140 block presented as a 0x40 one. Nothing could tell that from a genuine 0x40 by value, so the placement leaned on Verifier's fill to reject it — a content heuristic over driver-controlled bytes, which a buffer whose leading bytes happen to be the fill value satisfies. `nt!ExpFreeHeapSpecialPool` says where the size really lives. It is handed the block pointer and bug checks (0xc1/0x21) unless the page's own fields place the block exactly there, so its reading defines a well-formed special-pool page. Measured on Server 26100.32995: the size is the low **thirteen** bits of `Ulong1`, Verifier's tracking block adds eight bytes to the header when bit 0x4000 is set, and the fill byte is recorded on the page in `BlockSize`'s byte rather than being 0xfd by definition. So the size can no longer wrap — thirteen bits hold anything a page can — and the fill check goes back to being corroboration, now over both runs the kernel checks rather than only the leading one. Special-pool pages also stop going through `decode_pool_header`, whose plausibility guard was testing fields that are not there: on such a page `BlockSize`'s byte is the fill pattern. The walk gains a test of its own for the page-granular skip, which had none. Closes #83
`walk_region` gave up on everything behind a `valid_region` query that could not advance — while the sibling branch one line above, a query reporting a *gap*, recorded the hole and carried on. On a live 26100 walk that branch fired 3,285 times and became the walk's largest diagnostic category, inside regions of 0x10fd0 and 0x3afc0 bytes rather than at their tails. Two states were arriving there as one. The engine naming a base beyond the span it was asked about is the region *ending*: its tail has already been filed by the hole branch, nothing is behind it, and reporting that as a failure is a complaint about nothing — likely most of the 3,285. What is left is a real stall, and that now steps over one page and asks again. The advance is unconditional, since a query that keeps answering the same way would otherwise spin, and bounded at eight consecutive pages so a region that is dead all the way down still costs a fixed number of round trips rather than one per page of its length. The walk also carries what the decision covered. `WalkStalls` travels on the snapshot, the index and the report: pages stepped over, bytes skipped, and bytes of committed memory read on the far side of a stall — the last being what the old `break` reported as nothing at all, so the change is judged by what it recovers rather than by whether a diagnostic category shrank. Closes #94
The first live 26100 walk that reached the VS decoder refused 884 — except that 884 counted *extents that contained a refusal*, because the message was latched behind a bool. How many chunks were refused was recorded nowhere, and a refusal is not free: the walk then advances sixteen bytes and decodes every later header in that extent at a guessed offset, so one header rewritten under us and one systematically misdecoded field produce the same line and the same count. `decode_vs_chunk` now answers the way `decode_lfh_subsegment` does, with the failing predicate as prose that carries no digits — so `PoolDiagnostics` keeps the three cases apart while folding their numbers — and with the `Sizes` word as read, so a refused header can be re-decoded by hand against another candidate mix without another walk. The tally is per extent and states the number, and the walk's total travels on the snapshot as `refused_chunks`. `_HEAP_VS_CHUNK_HEADER.PreviousSize` was decoded and discarded (`let _ =`). It is a free corroboration of the walk's own stride, independent of the plausibility bounds, and it is what separates the two explanations: a chain that holds either side of one bad chunk is a header rewritten while we read it, a chain that never holds says the stride is wrong and the chunks behind it are fiction. A disagreement is now reported rather than assumed away. The subsegment bound is left as it was, and now says why: the end test is `>` and not `>=`, so a subsegment's last chunk reaching its boundary exactly is accepted. Closes #93
Dropping `target` from the layout key fixed unbounded growth (#84) and left the opposite failure: a programmatic host switching to a different Windows build whose kernel loads at the same address gets no notification, so the lookup returns the previous build's type offsets and globals and the walker decodes the new target with them. Growth is a leak; a wrong layout is wrong data reported confidently. `DebugEngine::kernel_image` reads the build alongside the base — `TimeDateStamp` and `SizeOfImage` are the identity a symbol server keys the binary on, so they change with the build by construction — and `SessionKey` carries that rather than a bare address. Entries are now shared across engines looking at the same build, which is what keeps the cache from growing per engine, and never across builds. The rule that a layout is not keyed on the target moved into the cache with it. It lived in one caller, as a `SessionKey { target: 0, .. }` before the call, which is a discipline rather than a guarantee; `LayoutCache` now takes anything that converts into a `LayoutKey` and does the narrowing itself, so there is no key a caller can hand it that reintroduces #84. Writing the test is what found this: called directly, the cache still keyed on the whole session. Closes #87
…apper A borrowed engine's identity was its `IDebugClient6` pointer. That was stable across the wrappers an extension rebuilds per command — which is what it was for — and it meant every lifecycle event died with the wrapper that saw it: an `end_session` bumped a field on a value dropped moments later, so the next wrapper around the same client restored the original pointer-derived identity and could be served a snapshot and a layout gathered from the target it had just released. The identity now lives in a process-global registry keyed by client, so the bump outlives the wrapper. An entry is only ever cache warmth — identities come from a counter that never repeats, so forgetting one costs a re-resolve and can never resurrect a previous target's — which is why the registry simply drops everything past a cap rather than needing an eviction policy to reason about. An engine that opens its own session reissues rather than adopting whatever it finds at its address, so a recycled pointer is harmless for the case we control. What it does not fix, and now says so: a client released by its host and another allocated at the same address inherits the first one's identity. That was equally true of the pointer-derived scheme, and closing it needs an identity read from the debuggee rather than from the client holding it. Closes #82
…ssing The contiguity check compared `end()`, which lands on the raw chunk end, with the next span's `header_address`, which for a VS chunk is a chunk header past its start. Every genuinely adjacent pair differs by exactly that header, so `previous` and `next` were `None` for every VS allocation — the one question `chunk_at` exists to answer, disabled for a whole backend. The fix landed in ce8bce2 without the fixture that would have caught it, because every test built its spans with `PoolSpan::allocation`, whose LFH geometry puts `header_address` and `usable_address` at the same place and so never reproduces the offset. This builds a span the way `walk_vs` reports one, with the raw chunk start, the physical `_POOL_HEADER` and the usable bytes at three addresses, and fails against the pre-fix comparison — verified by restoring it. Closes #85
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| // number of queries rather than one per page of its length. Consecutive: | ||
| // the single unreadable page in the middle of a live region — the shape these | ||
| // samples actually have — resets it and costs one extra query. | ||
| if consecutive_stalls > MAX_CONSECUTIVE_STALLS { |
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When a region never advances, the limit is checked only after the page has already been skipped and uses >, so a configured limit of eight performs nine debugger queries and records nine stalled pages. This contradicts the fixed eight-round-trip bound documented for slow KD links; check the count before skipping again or use >= after the eighth stall.
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Fixed in 6c388aa. Confirmed: the check ran with > after the page it counts had already been stepped over, so a limit of eight performed nine queries and recorded nine stalled pages — and the test asserted the off-by-one (<= MAX + 1) rather than the figure the doc comment promises. Now >=, and the test asserts equality with MAX_CONSECUTIVE_STALLS, so a dead region costs exactly the limit in round trips. Verified it fails against >.
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1674-1705: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueThe slicing invariant holds, and it is worth stating why in one place.
decode_special_pool_headerrefusesaligned + header_size > PAGE_SIZE, soheader.header_size <= startandstart + header.requested <= PAGE_SIZE. Both slices at Line 1686 and Line 1687 are therefore in range wheneveravailable == PAGE_SIZE. The coupling is correct but implicit across two files. If the decoder's bound test is ever relaxed to>=or the alignment step changes, these two slices panic instead of declining.Consider making the dependency non-load-bearing with a cheap guard that falls through to the conservative branch.
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In `@src/dbgeng.rs`:
- Around line 2954-2955: Rename the test function
a_clients_identity_outlives_the_wrapper_it_was_issued_to to use the required
test_* prefix, preserving the existing test behavior.
- Around line 726-731: Update create_from_windbg_client and its CreateClient
path to reissue the newly created client’s identity after from_client_interface,
matching DebugEngine::new. Ensure the wrapper uses the fresh identity rather
than any identity_of result for a recycled address, while preserving existing
identity handling for externally supplied clients.
- Around line 653-665: Update identity_for and reissue_for to recover poisoned
client_identities mutexes with unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner()) instead of
unwrap(). In identity_for, check whether key is already present before enforcing
MAX_REMEMBERED_CLIENTS, and clear only when the key is absent and the cap is
reached, preserving existing identities while maintaining the size bound.
- Around line 915-935: Update the GetModuleParameters call in kernel_image to
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Four findings, each pinned by an assertion that fails against the behaviour reported. The stall bound was checked with `>` *after* the page it counts had been stepped over, so a limit of eight performed nine queries and recorded nine stalled pages — contradicting the fixed eight-round-trip bound its own doc comment promises for a slow KD link. The test asserted the off-by-one rather than the documented figure; it now asserts the figure. `identity_for` cleared the registry before looking the key up, so a client that was already known — live, mid-session — lost its identity to a cap it was not responsible for reaching, and was handed a new one. That is a cache thrown away for the caller that arrived rather than for the ones that left. Only a client never seen before can push the map over, and only then is anything dropped. The registry locked with `unwrap()`, where the rest of this file recovers from poisoning. The map holds `u64` and no invariant a panic could leave half-applied, while `from_client_interface` is infallible — so propagating a poisoning would turn one unrelated panic into a panic on every later wrap. `create_from_windbg_client` creates a client through `CreateClient` and then adopted whatever identity the registry held for that address, which is a released client's identity the moment the allocator reuses one. `new` already reissues for exactly this reason; now both do, and the documented caveat narrows to the case this code cannot observe — a client the *host* released. Also renames the new test to the repository's `test_*` convention.
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When a VS header is refused between two otherwise valid chunks, walk_vs omits that chunk and resynchronizes at a later header, leaving the surrounding spans consecutive in the index with the same allocator identity. Because VS spans have different header and usable addresses, this predicate now accepts them unconditionally and reports the chunks on either side of the omitted extent as direct neighbors, corrupting the grooming geometry returned by chunk_at. Compare raw VS chunk boundaries instead of disabling the touching check.
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| // time — while a shared constant would collide across two programmatic hosts holding | ||
| // unrelated targets that happen to share a kernel base. See `client_identities` for | ||
| // why this is a registry and not the client pointer it used to be. | ||
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When two DebugEngine wrappers coexist around the same IDebugClient6, this copies the registry value into a wrapper-local atomic. If one wrapper calls end_session, only that wrapper and the registry receive the new identity; the other wrapper continues returning the old value and can reuse a cached snapshot after a same-image target is opened. Keep the identity in shared storage or have target_identity() consult the per-client registry so all existing wrappers observe reissues.
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Good catch, and a fair one — I made the registry authoritative for construction and left the field authoritative for reads, which is a source of truth plus a stale copy of it.
Fixed in 16e7ee3, taking the second of your two suggestions: the field is gone and target_identity() consults the registry. Every live wrapper now observes a release performed through any of them, and the three constructors and end_session stop carrying a value they only had to keep in step.
One behaviour changes with it, and the doc comment now says so: a client whose entry was dropped to keep the registry bounded is issued a later identity on the next read rather than holding the one it was built with. That costs a re-walk, and in set_scope — the only place two reads are compared — a restore refused rather than a restore onto the wrong target. Both are the safe direction.
There is a test for it now (test_every_live_wrapper_sees_a_release_through_any_of_them): two wrappers around one client, end_session through one, both must agree afterwards. I checked it against a reintroduced per-wrapper copy and it fails there with exactly the divergence you describe.
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2266-2295: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBound rejected VS-header resynchronisation.
chunksincrements only after a successfuldecode_vs_chunkcall. A rejected header advances by 16 bytes and continues without consumingtraversal_limit.A corrupted large extent can therefore decode every 16-byte offset. This can consume substantial CPU despite the configured traversal limit.
Count every attempted header, or add a separate resynchronisation limit. Mark the snapshot incomplete when that limit is reached. Add a fixture with more invalid headers than
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- let mut chunks = 0usize; + let mut attempts = 0usize; ... - && chunks < self.traversal_limit + && attempts < self.traversal_limit ... Err(rejection) => { // existing diagnostic and refusal handling + attempts += 1; offset = offset.saturating_add(16); continue; } ... - chunks += 1; + attempts += 1; } ... - if chunks >= self.traversal_limit { + if attempts >= self.traversal_limit {Also applies to: 2352-2372
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…of it The registry was made authoritative for *construction* and the field left authoritative for *reads*, which is a source of truth and a stale copy of it. Two wrappers can be live around one client at once — an extension builds one per command over a client its host holds — and an `end_session` through one moved that one and the registry while the other went on answering with an identity whose target was gone. A layout or snapshot cached against it is then served for whatever is opened next: the same stale read #82 was about, arriving through a second wrapper instead of a later one. So the field goes, and `target_identity()` reads the registry. Every live wrapper now observes a release performed through any of them, and the three constructors and `end_session` stop carrying a value they only had to keep in step. The one behaviour that changes with it: a client whose entry was dropped to keep the registry bounded is issued a later identity on the next read rather than holding the one it was built with. That costs a re-walk, and in `set_scope` — the only place two reads are compared — a restore refused rather than a restore onto the wrong target. Both are the safe direction, and the doc comment says so. The test builds two wrappers around one client and ends the session through one. Verified against a reintroduced per-wrapper copy, where it fails with the divergence the review described.
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| // The advance is **unconditional**. A query that keeps answering the same way | ||
| // would otherwise spin here without end, which is the reason this used to | ||
| // abandon the region outright. | ||
| let skip = PAGE_SIZE.min(requested_end - valid_base); |
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When a valid-region query stalls at a non-page-aligned valid_base—a possibility already suggested by the observed 0x10fd0/0x3afc0 extents—advancing by a full PAGE_SIZE crosses into the following page. For example, a stall at page offset 0xfd0 marks the final 0x30 bytes of that page plus the first 0xfd0 bytes of the next page unreadable, so the walker can discard a healthy page rather than only the stalled one. Advance only through the remainder of the current page (bounded by requested_end) so the next query starts on the following page boundary.
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Taken — fixed in 093a68c. You are right that the samples already say region bases are unaligned (…de6030, …e02130), so this is not hypothetical: the first stall in a region lands at an arbitrary page offset, and at 0xfd0 the old skip wrote off 0x30 bytes of the page that stalled plus 0xfd0 of the page after it. Discarding a healthy page in order to skip a bad one is this branch's own mistake in miniature, which is a good catch.
The advance now runs to the next page boundary, so what is written off is the page that stalled and nothing else, and every stall after the first is aligned by construction. The unconditional-advance invariant is unchanged and now stated where it can be checked: the boundary is always past valid_base, and so is requested_end, because the valid_base >= requested_end branch above returned otherwise — so the skip cannot be zero.
The existing stall tests missed this because their region is page-aligned, which is exactly the shape the samples are not. The new one (test_a_stall_part_way_through_a_page_does_not_swallow_the_next_one) starts a region 0x30 bytes short of a boundary and asserts both halves — that 0x30 is written off rather than 0x1000, and that the healthy page behind it is still walked. Verified it fails against the old skip, with 4096 against 48.
… bytes A region begins wherever the allocator put it — `…de6030` and `…e02130` in the live samples this branch was written from — so a stall lands at an arbitrary page offset. Advancing `PAGE_SIZE` from there covers the tail of the page that stalled *and* the head of the page after it: at an offset of 0xfd0, 0x30 bytes of the bad page and 0xfd0 of a healthy one, filed unreadable and never probed again. That is this branch's own mistake in miniature — discarding a good page in order to skip a bad one. Now the advance runs to the next page boundary, so what is written off is the page that stalled and nothing else, and every stall after the first is aligned by construction. The unconditional-advance invariant is unchanged and now stated: the boundary is always past `valid_base`, and so is `requested_end`, since the branch above returned otherwise. The existing stall tests missed this because their region is page-aligned, which is exactly the shape the samples are not. The new one starts a region 0x30 bytes short of a page boundary and fails against the old skip with 4096 against 48.
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When chunk_at examines real LFH spans around a page-straddling skipped slot, this condition disables the contiguity check: walk_lfh sets usable_address to header_address + pool_header.size, so comparable is always false rather than only for VS spans. Consequently, allocations separated by allocator slack are reported as immediate neighbors, corrupting the grooming geometry; the test misses this because its synthetic PoolSpan::allocation helper makes the two addresses equal. Compare backend-specific raw chunk boundaries instead of using header/usable equality as the gate.
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…ape nothing has `touching` skipped the contiguity check unless both spans reported `header_address == usable_address`. No walker emits such a span: `walk_lfh`, `walk_vs` and `walk_page_ranges` all put the usable bytes a pool header past the header. So the gate was false for every real span, the check never ran outside the fixtures, and LFH allocations separated by the slack the allocator leaves — the slot it skips rather than straddle a page — were reported as immediate neighbours. That is the grooming geometry `chunk_at` exists to describe, wrong in the direction that invents a border. It is also #85 again from the other side: that fix restored VS neighbours by turning the check off for spans whose two addresses differ, which is all of them. The exemption now names the backend it is for. `end()` is the raw chunk end everywhere, and `header_address` is the raw chunk *start* everywhere except VS, where the chunk header sits in front of it — so VS is exempt and LFH keeps the check. `predecessor`/`successor` only pair spans from one backend, so testing either side tests both. The fixture is the root cause of both bugs and now says so. `PoolSpan::allocation` builds geometry no walker produces; the slack test uses a real LFH shape instead, and fails against the old gate.
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Addressed in 79971ce — and this one was right in a way I should have caught when I wrote the VS fixture for #85.
It is #85 from the other side, too — that fix restored VS neighbours by disabling the check for spans whose two addresses differ, which is all of them. The exemption now names the backend it is for:
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glslang/dbgscope#102 is on `main` at cbccef8, so `PoolSnapshotReport` carries `stalls` and `refused_chunks` and the commit before this one builds. Ran the dump tier for the bump (`WINDBG_MCP_SMOKE_DUMP=1 cargo test --test mcp_smoke`), which is what CLAUDE.md asks for after `cargo update -p win-kexp`: 37 passing, and with it the walker changes that came along — special-pool sizes read from the thirteen bits the kernel keeps them in, stalled region queries stepping over a page rather than abandoning the region, and VS chunk refusals counted as chunks.
`coverage: partial` says a walk did not cover the pool. It cannot say by how much, and neither can the diagnostics: they collapse messages by shape, so the count beside a category counts occurrences of *that shape* — not bytes, not chunks. A caller reading "partial" has no way to tell one unreadable page from a third of the pool. win-kexp now carries the figures as figures, so `walk.gaps` reports them on every pool answer: pages a valid-region query could not advance over, the bytes those steps wrote off, the bytes of committed memory read *past* them, and chunk headers a decoder refused and resynchronised past. The recovered figure is the one the walker's stall handling is judged by — it is coverage a walk that abandoned the region at the first stall reported as nothing at all — and it is only meaningful next to the skipped figure, which is why they travel together. Absent when a walk met none of it, which is the ordinary case: four zeroes on every healthy answer would be noise on the answers that are fine. Also updates the three `PoolSnapshotReport` fixtures the new fields reach, onto a `quiet_walk()` base the diagnostic-rendering tests spread their own fields over. Requires glslang/dbgscope#102; the pin has to move before this builds.
glslang/dbgscope#102 is on `main` at cbccef8, so `PoolSnapshotReport` carries `stalls` and `refused_chunks` and the commit before this one builds. Ran the dump tier for the bump (`WINDBG_MCP_SMOKE_DUMP=1 cargo test --test mcp_smoke`), which is what CLAUDE.md asks for after `cargo update -p win-kexp`: 37 passing, and with it the walker changes that came along — special-pool sizes read from the thirteen bits the kernel keeps them in, stalled region queries stepping over a page rather than abandoning the region, and VS chunk refusals counted as chunks.
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#83 — the special-pool size was read from eight bits that cannot hold it.
special_pool_placementtook the size from_POOL_HEADER.PreviousSize, so a 0x140 allocation presented as a 0x40 one, and nothing but Verifier's fill could tell that from a genuine 0x40 — a content heuristic over driver-controlled bytes.nt!ExpFreeHeapSpecialPoolsays where the size really lives. It is handed the block pointer and bug checks (0xc1/0x21) unless the page's own fields place the block exactly there, so its reading defines a well-formed special-pool page. Measured on Server 26100.32995 (nt0x65f57999): the size is the low thirteen bits ofUlong1, Verifier's tracking block adds eight bytes to the header when bit 0x4000 is set, and the fill byte is recorded on the page inBlockSize's byte rather than being 0xfd by definition. Thirteen bits hold anything a page can, so the value can no longer wrap and the fill check goes back to being corroboration — now over both runs the kernel checks, not just the leading one.#94 — a stalled region query cost the region, not the page.
3,285 lines on a live 26100 walk, the largest category. Two states were arriving at one branch: the engine naming a base beyond the span asked about is the region ending (its tail already filed, nothing behind it — likely most of the 3,285), and that is now silent. What is left steps over one page and asks again, unconditionally so it cannot spin, bounded at eight consecutive pages so a dead region costs a fixed number of round trips.
#93 — 884 counted extents, not chunks.
The message was latched behind a bool, so what was reported was extents containing a refusal.
decode_vs_chunknow answers the waydecode_lfh_subsegmentdoes — failing predicate as digit-free prose, values as numbers, theSizesword as read — with a per-extent tally and a walk total.PreviousSizewas decoded and thrown away (let _ =); it is now checked against the walk's own stride, which is what separates a header rewritten under us from a stride that is simply wrong.#87 — two builds at one kernel base shared a layout. Keyed on
KernelImage(base +TimeDateStamp/SizeOfImage/CheckSum, the identity a symbol server keys the binary on), entries are shared across engines on one build and never across builds.#82 — a borrowed identity died with its wrapper. Held in a process-global registry keyed by client, so an
end_sessionbump survives the per-command wrapper that made it.#84, #85, #86 were fixed by ce8bce2 and left open. All three are verified here and, more to the point, pinned:
SessionKey { target: 0, .. }before the call. Writing the test found that the cache still keyed on the whole session when called directly, so the narrowing moved intoLayoutCache.PoolSpan::allocation, whose LFH geometry never reproduces the offset. Added, and confirmed to fail against the pre-fix comparison.Measurement
WalkStalls(pages stepped over, bytes skipped, bytes read on the far side of a stall) andrefused_chunkstravel on the snapshot, the index and the report. The recovered figure is the one #94 is judged by — it is exactly what the oldbreakreported as nothing at all — and neither can be read off a diagnostic, becausePoolDiagnosticscollapses the numbers that would carry them.Downstream
PoolSnapshotReportgained two fields. windbg-mcp's own code is unaffected; three of its test fixtures construct the struct and need the new fields, which is a follow-up there once this is onmain. Surfacing the two figures throughpool_diagnosticsis the obvious next step and is where a live run can size the fix.Verified
cargo test(94 + 2, all passing),cargo clippy --all-targets(one pre-existing warning inprocess.rs),cargo fmt. The live 26100 numbers this reports against still need a KDNET run — the fixtures pin the behaviour, not the field counts.Closes #82
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