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add transcript pseudo-events: init, snapshot save/load, shutdown
This introduces four new pseudo-delivery events to the transcript: * 'initialize-worker': a new empty worker is created * 'load-snapshot': a worker is loaded from heap snapshot * 'save-snapshot': we tell the worker to write a heap snapshot * 'shutdown-worker': we stop the worker (e.g. during upgrade) These events are not actually delivered to the worker: they are not VatDeliveryObjects. However many of them are implemented with commands to the worker (but not `deliver()` commands). The vat-warehouse records these events in the transcript to help subsequent manual/external replay tools know what happened. Without them, we'd need to deduce e.g. the heap-snapshot writing schedule by counting deliveries and comparing them against snapshot initial/interval. The 'save-snapshot'/'load-snapshot' pair indicates what a replay would do. It does not mean that the vat-warehouse actually tore down the old worker and immediately replaced it with a new one (from snapshot). It might choose to do that, or the worker itself might choose to replace its XS engine instance with a fresh one, or it might keep using the old engine. The 'save-snapshot' command has side-effects (it does a forced GC), so it is important to keep track of when it happened. As before, the transcript is broken up into "spans", delimited by heap snapshots or upgrade-related shutdowns. To bring a worker up to date, we want to start a worker (either a blank one, or from a snapshot), and then replay the "current span". With this change, the current span always starts either with 'initialize-worker' or with 'load-snapshot', telling us exactly what needs to be done. The span then contains all the deliveries that must be replayed. Old spans will end with `save-snapshot` or `shutdown-worker`, but the current span will never include one of those: the span is closed immediately after those events are added. When the kernel replays a transcript to bring a worker up to date, that replay will never see 'save-snapshot' or 'shutdown-worker'. But an external tool which replays a historical span will see them at the end. The `initialize-worker` event contains `workerOptions` (which includes which type of worker is being used, as well as helper bundle IDs like lockdown and supervisor), as well as the `source.bundleID` for the vat bundle. The `save-snapshot` event results contain the `snapshotID` hash that was generated. The `load-snapshot` event includes the `snapshotID` in a record that could be extended with additional details in the future (like an xsnap version). The types were improved to make `TranscriptDelivery` be a superset of `VatDeliveryObject`. We also record TranscriptDeliveryResult, which is currently a stripped down subset of VatDeliveryResult (just the "ok" status), plus the save-snapshot hash. In the future, we'll probably record the deterministic subset of metering results (computrons, maybe something about memory allocation). In the slog, the `heap-snapshot-save` event details now contain `snapshotID` instead of `hash`, to be consistent. refs #7199 refs #6770
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