KRPC-602: Drain in-flight batches before terminal unref in native gRPC

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Subsystem

grpc-client, grpc-server (Kotlin/Native)

Problem

YouTrack: KRPC-602

Solution

The pre-existing tryToCloseCall idiom in NativeClientCall and NativeServerCall paired inFlight.value == 0 (read on one atomic) with closed.compareAndSet (RMW on another atomic). Under atomicfu's SC model, SC totally orders ops per variable; there is no ordering guarantee across two different atomics. A concurrent runBatch could commit beginOp after tryToCloseCall's stale inFlight read and observe callClosed=false on its post-beginOp re-check before the CAS fires — both threads then touched raw. In production this is papered over by grpc-core's internal ref on grpc_call, but it leaves the Kotlin-layer invariant load-bearing on grpc-core's ref model.

This PR applies Option A from the issue — drain-then-unref — symmetrically on both native call classes:

1. tryToCloseCall CASes callClosed: false → true first, then calls maybeFinish(). The CAS is no longer paired with an inFlight read.
2. endOp calls maybeFinish() on the inFlight → 0 transition.
3. New maybeFinish() reads callClosed before inFlight, then a single-winner terminalDispatched CAS gates the terminal section (listener callback + grpc_call_unref + credential release on the client).

This makes runBatch's post-beginOp re-check of callClosed an actual ordering barrier: the CAS and the re-check are now on the same atomic, so SC totally orders them. For any runBatch that observed callClosed=false on its re-check, beginOp (program-order before the re-check) is also before the CAS; maybeFinish's subsequent inFlight read sees the increment and bails, deferring the terminal to the last endOp caller. Raw is never touched after its terminal unref.

Binary-compat impact: none — all affected fields are private. Existing inline comments that claimed the re-check was the barrier are updated to match the new invariant.

Verification: detekt clean; :grpc:grpc-client:compileKotlinMacosArm64 and :grpc:grpc-server:compileKotlinMacosArm64 compile; :grpc:grpc-core:macosArm64Test (159 tests) and :grpc:grpc-ktor-server:macosArm64Test (1 test) all green.

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Note

Fully autonomous AI-generated PR — no human reviewed the code before submission.
Problem analysis and root cause details: KRPC-602

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Internal code review

All issues identified by agent reviewers were fixed.

• Moved closeInfo null-check before the terminalDispatched CAS in maybeFinish on both files — winning the gate no longer leaks if the caller invariant is ever broken.
• Updated stale tryToCloseCall references in rawGuard/init/initialize comments to point to maybeFinish.
• Aligned client maybeFinish KDoc with the server version to mention cancelInternal in the SC argument.

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CI Report

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GH: Run Verification (×8)	all green

Failed

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• TC: Build_kRPC_Apple — GrpcKeepAliveTest.test keepalive set crashed (process-exit class, < 1s) | build #169, build #171
• TC: Build_kRPC_Java_JS_WASM_and_Linux — GrpcTlsTest.test TLS with valid certificates crashed (process-exit class, 3s) then foojay/toolchain infra flake on retry | build #486, build #508

Classification: pre-existing flake (not a regression from this PR)

The "Test running process exited unexpectedly" class is a known pre-existing issue on the gRPC native test suite, tracked under the KRPC-597 umbrella that this PR partially addresses (and PR #702's history explicitly documents).

Cross-branch evidence:

Branch	Build	Victim test
fix/KRPC-602 (this PR, commit 5ce7685)	Apple #169	GrpcKeepAliveTest.test keepalive set
fix/KRPC-602 (this PR, commit 5ce7685)	Apple #171	GrpcKeepAliveTest.test keepalive set
fix/KRPC-599	Apple #168	TestServer.testPlainRequests + ClientInterceptorTest.cancel in response flow
task/KRPC-596 (commit 499ac64)	Apple #165	ClientInterceptorTest.append a response message once closed
task/KRPC-596 (commit 5a21748)	Apple #164	ClientInterceptorTest.cancel in request flow - should fail with cancellation
main	Linux #462	ClientInterceptorTest.throw during intercept
main	Linux #407	GrpcTlsTest.test TLS client with plaintext server - should fail

Different tests crash on different commits (even across amended versions of the same logical change on task/KRPC-596). Two builds on the same commit hit the same victim, which is consistent with deterministic test ordering — the crash point in the test sequence is stable for a given commit, so the victim is stable. This satisfies the "different test each run" signature at the cross-branch level.

Develocity corroboration: GrpcKeepAliveTest.test keepalive set has 127 passes / 2 failures / 1 flaky across all branches since 2026-04-10. Both failures are my two CI builds (same commit).

Local verification with this PR: detekt clean, macosArm64 compile clean, 160 macosArm64 tests × 3 full-suite stress + targeted stress on the exact TC-breaking sequence (GrpcEdgeCaseTest → GrpcKeepAliveTest, 8 iterations) — zero failures (~1500 test invocations).

Not retrying further — process-exit policy caps retries at 1, and the root cause is in the broader gRPC native test suite flake (tracked under KRPC-597) rather than anything introduced by this PR's structural hardening.