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This is an automated cherry-pick of #11259

What problem does this PR solve?

A stuck TiCDC GC barrier can retain obsolete data for days and cause disk pressure. Operators need to identify the retaining barriers before deciding whether they can be advanced or removed.

Issue Number: ref #11260

What is changed and how does it work?

Observe valid GC barriers whose timestamps lag the current time by more than 24 hours after successful transaction safe point advancement, reusing the existing barrier and keyspace metadata reads. Export physical timestamps with scope, keyspace ID, keyspace name, and barrier ID labels, excluding the reserved keyspace gc_worker barrier.

Use the same fixed 24-hour threshold for warning logs, at most once per barrier every 10 minutes. Update or clear observed entries on successful writes, expiry, metadata removal, and leadership changes without periodic storage scans or changes to GC advancement.

Observation follows the existing advancement API scope, including compatibility requests. Global barriers and NullKeyspace use an empty keyspace name. Discovery requires a successful advancement request; writes alone do not discover barriers. The age threshold applies to the barrier timestamp, not the barrier's creation time or how long GC has been blocked. No warning-age configuration is added; alert rules can choose a separate threshold.

Only barriers that meet the reporting conditions retain metric and warning state. Keyspaces without qualifying barriers do not create entries, and each global barrier is retained once across keyspace observations. Scrapes inspect the retained entries and remove expired barriers without storage reads.

Legacy HTTP/pd-ctl force deletion runs under GC manager serialization and removes the observation only after a successful storage commit. This prevents concurrent advancement from republishing a deleted barrier while preserving reserved gc_worker deletion and idempotent deletion of absent services. Failed deletes retain the metric and warning suppression.

Routing boundary: normal HTTP/pd-ctl requests are handled by the leader. A caller that explicitly supplies PD-Allow-follower-handle can still force follower-local deletion and leave the leader's observation stale; this existing middleware override is unchanged.

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Tests

  • Unit and embedded-etcd integration tests for GC barrier observation and keyspace lifecycle, including the fixed 24-hour threshold and warning throttling.
  • Full affected package tests with default and NextGen builds; targeted collector, GC integration, and keyspace lifecycle race tests.
  • Scoped make check and make basic-test for the affected root packages, including server/api for force deletion.
  • Actual HTTP force-delete regression in both client discovery modes, including -race: an observed non-expiring barrier disappears from metrics immediately after deletion without another advancement.
  • Manager tests for failed commits, successful retry, recreation, absent-service cleanup, and unchanged normal/force-delete validation; GC and HTTP integration lint pass.

Code changes

  • Adds pd_gc_barrier_timestamp_seconds{scope,keyspace_id,keyspace_name,barrier_id} and warning logs for valid barrier timestamps more than 24 hours old.

Side effects

  • Adds retained state proportional to reported barriers, plus map capacity overhead, and allocation work when observations are refreshed. No entries are created for barriers that do not meet the reporting conditions.
  • Successful advancement requests inspect the already-loaded barrier collections; scrapes inspect the retained entries. No additional storage reads or background scans are added.

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Release note

Expose GC barriers whose timestamps lag the current time by more than 24 hours through per-barrier timestamp metrics and warning logs to help diagnose delayed garbage collection.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Prometheus metrics for active GC barriers, including keyspace and global barrier visibility.
    • Added warnings for barriers that remain active for more than 24 hours.
    • Added support for force-deleting service GC safe points, including already-absent barriers.
    • Added automatic GC barrier metric updates when keyspaces or barrier entries are removed.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved metric and cache cleanup during leadership changes and server shutdown.
    • Ensured service safe-point deletion immediately removes associated barrier metrics.

ref tikv#11260

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The GC subsystem now tracks local and global barriers with Prometheus metrics and age-based warnings. GC lifecycle events clear or publish metrics. Safe-point advancement records observations. Service safe-point deletion uses the GC manager. Keyspace invalidation wiring and extensive tests were added, but several submitted ranges contain unresolved merge-conflict markers.

GC barrier observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Barrier metrics collector
pkg/gc/metrics.go, pkg/gc/metrics_test.go
Adds scoped barrier timestamp metrics, warning throttling, expiration handling, keyspace labels, concurrency handling, leadership ownership, and cleanup tests.
GC manager observation and deletion flow
pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go, pkg/gc/gc_state_manager_test.go
GC state advancement records local and global barriers, updates warnings and metrics, handles leadership changes, and adds idempotent ForceDeleteServiceGCSafePoint.
Keyspace invalidation wiring
pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go, pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go, pkg/keyspace/*_test.go
Adds invalidation callbacks, cache cleanup, group-removal behavior, and state-transition tests. The submitted code contains unresolved merge-conflict markers.
API deletion and shutdown integration
server/api/service_gc_safepoint.go, server/server.go, tests/integrations/client/http_client_test.go
Routes service safe-point deletion through GCStateManager, closes metrics during shutdown, and verifies metric removal through the HTTP client.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ServerAPI
  participant GCStateManager
  participant barrierMetrics
  participant Prometheus
  Client->>ServerAPI: DeleteGCSafePoint(serviceID)
  ServerAPI->>GCStateManager: ForceDeleteServiceGCSafePoint(serviceID)
  GCStateManager->>barrierMetrics: delete barrier observation
  Prometheus-->>barrierMetrics: scrape updated metrics
  barrierMetrics-->>Prometheus: omit deleted barrier sample
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go`:
- Around line 158-159: Resolve all cherry-pick conflict markers in
pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go at lines 158-159, 193, 376-377, 381, 479-480, and
491, and implement the missing production pieces: nodeLeadership with
nodeIsLeader(), gcStateCache with gcStateCacheEntry, and the gcSafePoint
assignment. In pkg/gc/gc_state_manager_test.go, remove conflict markers at lines
1788-1789 and 2012, ensuring the production API and helpers used by the tests
exist, including GetGCStateWithGlobalGCBarriers, gcStateCache.remove, and
trackGCStateCacheAccessCounters.

In `@pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go`:
- Line 102: Resolve every remaining Git conflict by removing all conflict
markers and selecting the intended code: in pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go lines
102-102, retain the correct Manager fields and GC invalidation methods; in
pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go lines 427-427, retain the intended
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  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go
  • pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔴 Critical | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Unresolved cherry-pick conflict markers break the gc package build. The automated cherry-pick committed literal <<<<<<< HEAD, =======, and >>>>>>> a3f0b17749 lines into Go source. The package cannot compile, so the server build and all tests fail. The incoming side also references symbols that the current files do not define, so removing the markers alone is not sufficient.

  • pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go#L158-L159: remove the markers at lines 158-159, 193, 376-377, 381, 479-480, and 491. Then carry over the missing production code: the nodeLeadership field and nodeIsLeader() used at lines 165, 179, 184, 189-191; the gcStateCache field and gcStateCacheEntry type used at lines 169, 182, 486-489; and the assignment of gcSafePoint, which is declared at line 378 and read at line 488 but never set.
  • pkg/gc/gc_state_manager_test.go#L1788-L1789: remove the markers at lines 1788-1789 and 2012, and make sure the production symbols the new tests call exist, including GetGCStateWithGlobalGCBarriers, gcStateCache.remove, and trackGCStateCacheAccessCounters.
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// nextPatrolStartID is the next start id of keyspace assignment patrol.
nextPatrolStartID uint32
// cached keyspace meta info for each keyspace ID.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Resolve all remaining Git conflicts before merge.

The unresolved conflict markers make the keyspace package and its tests invalid Go code.

  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go#L102-L102: select the intended Manager fields and GC invalidation methods, then remove all conflict markers.
  • pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go#L427-L427: retain the intended RemoveKeyspacesFromGroup implementation, then remove all conflict markers.
  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go#L1074-L1074: retain the intended lifecycle tests, then remove all conflict markers.
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[error] 102-102: Swagger generation failed during 'SWAGGER=1 make build' because the Go parser found an unexpected '<<' token and two additional errors; expected '}'.

🪛 GitHub Actions: Check PD / statics

[error] 102-102: Swagger generation failed during 'SWAGGER=1 make build' / 'swag init'. Parse error: expected '}', found '<<' (and 2 more errors).

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[error] 102-102: : # github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/keyspace [github.com/tikv/pd/pkg/keyspace.test]
pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go:102:1: syntax error: unexpected <<, expected field name or embedded type
pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go:105:1: syntax error: unexpected ==, expected field name or embedded type
pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go:124:1: syntax error: unexpected >>, expected }
pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go:124:78: invalid character U+0023 '#'
pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go:427:1: syntax error: non-declaration statement outside function body
pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go:512:1: syntax error: non-declaration statement outside function body
pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go:512:78: invalid character U+0023 '#'
pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go:1074:1: syntax error: non-declaration statement outside function body
pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go:1290:1: syntax error: non-declaration statement outside function body
pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go:1290:78: invalid character U+0023 '#'
pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go:1290:78: too many errors

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[error] 102-102: expected '}', found '<<'

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📍 Affects 3 files
  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go#L102-L102 (this comment)
  • pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go#L427-L427
  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go#L1074-L1074
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pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go lines 102-102, retain the correct Manager fields and GC
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In `@pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go`:
- Around line 158-159: Resolve all cherry-pick conflict markers in
pkg/gc/gc_state_manager.go at lines 158-159, 193, 376-377, 381, 479-480, and
491, and implement the missing production pieces: nodeLeadership with
nodeIsLeader(), gcStateCache with gcStateCacheEntry, and the gcSafePoint
assignment. In pkg/gc/gc_state_manager_test.go, remove conflict markers at lines
1788-1789 and 2012, ensuring the production API and helpers used by the tests
exist, including GetGCStateWithGlobalGCBarriers, gcStateCache.remove, and
trackGCStateCacheAccessCounters.

In `@pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go`:
- Line 102: Resolve every remaining Git conflict by removing all conflict
markers and selecting the intended code: in pkg/keyspace/keyspace.go lines
102-102, retain the correct Manager fields and GC invalidation methods; in
pkg/keyspace/tso_keyspace_group.go lines 427-427, retain the intended
RemoveKeyspacesFromGroup implementation; and in pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go
lines 1074-1074, retain the intended lifecycle tests.

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  • pkg/keyspace/keyspace_test.go
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