fix(pipeline): make drain boundary exact

[wolf31o2]

Summary

• wait on the exact accepted-submission boundary before reporting pipeline drain completion
• preserve caller cancellation, parent cancellation, and explicit shutdown semantics
• document approximate pending counts and add deterministic lifecycle regressions

Validation

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• make lint
• focused pipeline and ChainSync tests with the race detector
• go build ./...

Fixes #2150

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Summary by cubic

Fixes #2150 by making pipeline drain completion wait on the exact accepted-submission boundary. WaitForDrain previously polled PendingCount, so it could return while an accepted block was still in flight; it now uses the same fence boundary as Fence. Submission and fencing now also reject work as soon as shutdown begins, so a stopped pipeline never accepts new work even when the submit gate is ready.

Lifecycle semantics

• An explicit Stop makes drain succeed even with work in flight; parent context cancellation makes drain return ErrPipelineStopped.
• Caller cancellation takes precedence in Submit, Fence, and WaitForDrain and returns context.Canceled.
• Submit and Fence now reject pre-canceled callers and canceled pipelines without entering the submit gate, and refuse work once Stop has begun.
• PendingCount is now documented as an observational snapshot, not a completion barrier; use Fence or WaitForDrain instead.

^{Written for commit 756bd98. Summary will update on new commits.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved pipeline shutdown and cancellation handling to prevent work from being accepted after stopping begins.
  • Improved drain waiting behavior for more reliable completion detection.
  • Prevented sequence gaps during concurrent submission, cancellation, and shutdown scenarios.

• Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for submission, fencing, draining, cancellation, and concurrent shutdown behavior.

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BlockPipeline now tracks an explicit stopping state. Submission and fence operations check caller cancellation and pipeline shutdown while holding the submission gate. Stop publishes stopping before cancellation. WaitForDrain now waits on the ordered Fence boundary instead of pending-count polling. Tests cover cancellation precedence, shutdown races, lifecycle states, in-flight processing, and caller cancellation. PendingCount documentation now describes its observational behavior.

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 05c93

The PR makes drain completion wait for the exact accepted-submission boundary while preserving cancellation and shutdown semantics. The remaining follow-up is a localized test assertion tightening, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: making the pipeline drain boundary exact.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #2150 by using the exact accepted-submission boundary, preserving cancellation and lifecycle behavior, adding deterministic in-flight regression tests, and documenting Pendin…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to pipeline drain handling, cancellation and shutdown semantics, related documentation, and regression tests. No unrelated changes are present.

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The changes satisfy issue #2150 by using the exact accepted-submission boundary, preserving cancellation and lifecycle behavior, adding deterministic in-flight regression tests, and documenting PendingCount limitations.

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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

pipeline/pipeline_test.go (1)

1455-1458: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the blocked submission fails during shutdown.

Stop cancels p.ctx before release() runs, so Submit re-checks p.ctx.Err() after the hook and returns ErrPipelineStopped. The if err != nil guard makes a nil result pass, which would hide a regression where a submission commits after shutdown starts.

♻️ Tighten the assertion

 	select {
 	case err := <-submitDone:
-		if err != nil {
-			require.ErrorIs(t, err, ErrPipelineStopped)
-		}
+		require.ErrorIs(t, err, ErrPipelineStopped)
 	case <-time.After(time.Second):

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In `@pipeline/pipeline_test.go` around lines 1455 - 1458, Update the submitDone
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- Around line 1455-1458: Update the submitDone result assertion in the shutdown
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[wolf31o2]

Current head 883397e3 has no unresolved review threads and independent exact-head review is clear. The Go, lint, and NilAway failures reproduce from the undefined Byron signing tag on main; #2153 contains the minimal repair and is fully green. Refresh these checks after #2153 lands.