fix: drain account readers before snapshot compaction

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What changed

Drain scoped AccountsDB readers before snapshot compaction relocates account images or truncates their mmap backing file. Admission reopens after packing, before snapshot copying.

• Use per-thread reader slots with Linux's expedited private membarrier and a hardware-fenced fallback on macOS.
• Keep account reads scoped through AccountLoader::read and callback-based AccountsDB::program; make raw load explicitly unsafe.
• Preserve zero-copy transaction loading under the existing sequencer barrier, and materialize borrowed accounts before asynchronous subscriber handoff only when a live subscriber exists.
• Add a deterministic regression that holds an old index view across attempted compaction, blocks a new reader, and requires actual relocation and truncation after the old reader exits.

Closes #143

Related: magicblock-labs/magicblock-validator#1683; the validator fix requires migrating to the updated Engine.

Impact

The on-disk format is unchanged. Registered, uncontended readers take no mutex; first registration and readers encountering compaction may block. Transaction account loading bypasses reader registration, slot updates, and admission fences because execution already participates in the sequencer barrier.

This changes the account-read API: downstream callers must migrate raw program iteration to program(owner, callback) and ordinary loads to scoped read callbacks. Raw execution loads require an explicit safety contract. MBV must adopt these APIs when updating its Engine dependency.

Linux database opening now requires expedited private membarrier support and propagates registration errors. Long-lived guarded loaders or iterators delay compaction; scopes must remain synchronous.

Reviewer notes

Review the gate/slot ordering and exit notification in accountsdb/src/readers.rs: a racing reader must either be visible to the drain or observe closed admission before opening an index transaction. Cached transactions must drop before their reader guards. Pause ownership serializes maintenance and reopens admission on errors or unwind.

Reader admission protects against relocation, not account writes. Snapshot callers still exclude writers and unguarded views. The unsafe execution loader relies on the sequencer covering execution, commit, and owned subscriber fanout; ordinary readers and simulation retain guarded scopes.

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Walkthrough

The change adds reader admission to accountsdb, with per-thread scopes, nested participation, platform-specific memory ordering, and a maintenance pause that drains readers before defragmentation and truncation. Loader and program APIs now support guarded callbacks, while borrowed loading requires explicit unsafe contracts. Keeper, processor, engine, and tests adopt the new APIs. Keeper also materializes borrowed transaction data before subscription publication and lazily prepares subscription values.

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The lazy-send behavior is correct, but its documentation promises preparation will be skipped in a race where it may still occur. Clarify the guarantee before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #143 requires safe reads across relocation, index publication, and truncation, lifetime coverage for batch reads, program iteration, simulation, and borrowed callback values, documented reader o…	Add or provide the required repeated redshift/snapshot_read_race coverage across seals and restart. Add steady-state benchmarks against the current implementation and separate maintenance measurements for reader wait time and defragmentat…

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: draining account readers before snapshot compaction.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description is directly related to the changeset and explains reader draining, API changes, synchronization behavior, compatibility effects, and regression coverage.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed dependency declarations, AccountsDB reader protocol, snapshot compaction changes, API migrations, tests, and documentation directly support issue #143. Keeper and processor changes protect…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 97.67% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 43 functions across 14 files. (5 skipped: 5…

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Explanation

Issue #143 requires safe reads across relocation, index publication, and truncation, lifetime coverage for batch reads, program iteration, simulation, and borrowed callback values, documented reader ordering and failure behavior, live tail reclamation, supported-platform synchronization, and benchmark evidence. The PR summary shows reader admission, compaction draining, scoped loader and program APIs, owned subscriber handoff, documentation, Linux membarrier, a macOS fallback, and a deterministic truncation regression test. The summary does not show the required redshift/snapshot_read_race repeated seal and restart test. It also does not show steady-state throughput/latency benchmarks or separate reader-wait and defragmentation-duration measurements.

Resolution

Add or provide the required repeated redshift/snapshot_read_race coverage across seals and restart. Add steady-state benchmarks against the current implementation and separate maintenance measurements for reader wait time and defragmentation duration. Preserve the documented reader-scope and failure guarantees.

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In `@keeper/src/subscriptions.rs`:
- Line 157: Update the rustdoc for the live-receiver preparation method to
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📒 Files selected for processing (19)

• Cargo.toml
• accountsdb/Cargo.toml
• accountsdb/README.md
• accountsdb/src/lib.rs
• accountsdb/src/readers.rs
• accountsdb/src/snapshot.rs
• accountsdb/src/tests.rs
• engine/src/testkit.rs
• keeper/README.md
• keeper/src/accessor.rs
• keeper/src/builder.rs
• keeper/src/lib.rs
• keeper/src/subscriptions.rs
• keeper/src/tests/recovery.rs
• keeper/src/tests/subscriptions.rs
• processor/README.md
• processor/src/callback.rs
• processor/src/executor.rs
• processor/src/tests.rs

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