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The branch prevents buffered multiline records from being lost during graceful shutdown, including when the emitter is already paused by backpressure.

Implementation:

  • Adds an opt-in emitter-owner pause callback interface.
  • Uses a shutdown-only atomic gate in filter_multiline to block new callbacks, wait for active concatenations, and flush pending groups exactly once.
  • Drains threaded emitter records and queues shutdown-flushed records before pausing collectors.
  • Allows opted-in, already-paused emitters to receive the shutdown notification and append final records.
  • Keeps ordinary backpressure behavior separate and bounded to Fluent Bit’s 256 KiB chunk hint.

Coverage includes:

  • Normal and pre-paused shutdown flushing.
  • Exact-once preservation of complete and dangling multiline groups.
  • Ordinary pause/resume without premature multiline flushing.
  • Shutdown opt-in behavior and repeated flush idempotency.
  • A real HTTP → multiline filter → HTTP integration scenario for both shutdown patterns.

Verification:

  • Focused CTest: 4/4 passed.
  • Shutdown soak: 50/50 passed.
  • Python integration scenario: 2/2 passed.
  • Strict Valgrind integration run: 2/2 passed with no memory errors.
  • Additional focused Valgrind runs: zero errors and no definite, indirect, or possible leaks.
  • ThreadSanitizer product paths passed; reported races were limited to existing test-harness state.
  • Commit-prefix lint and full master range passed.
  • Strict Sol audit found no P0/P1 issues.
  • Worktree is clean.

Known limitation: normal backpressure still cannot guarantee lossless handling for a single batch larger than the 256 KiB allowance without a separate retry or reservation design. Shutdown flushing bypasses that limit.


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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Pending multiline log groups and partial messages are now flushed during graceful shutdown.
    • Improved reliability when the emitter is paused or under memory pressure.
    • Prevented incomplete or duplicated multiline records during shutdown.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for shutdown flushing, paused emitters, backpressure, and pending Java stack traces.
    • Added documentation for multiline shutdown scenarios.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds emitter pause callbacks and an opt-in shutdown-flush flag. The multiline filter drains active callbacks and flushes pending buffered records during shutdown. Internal, runtime, and integration tests cover these paths.

Changes

Multiline shutdown flush

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shutdown-flush contracts
include/fluent-bit/flb_emitter.h, include/fluent-bit/flb_input.h, plugins/filter_multiline/ml.h
Defines the emitter pause callback contract, adds FLB_INPUT_SHUTDOWN_FLUSH, and stores callback and shutdown-gate state in ml_ctx.
Emitter shutdown path
plugins/in_emitter/emitter.c, src/flb_input.c, src/flb_input_chunk.c
Enables owner callbacks, permits bounded ingestion during shutdown, invokes the callback, and converts emitted records into input chunks.
Multiline callback coordination
plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c
Registers the pause callback, blocks new parser callbacks during shutdown, waits for active callbacks, and flushes pending multiline and partial-message records.
Shutdown-flush validation
tests/internal/*, tests/runtime/filter_multiline.c, tests/integration/scenarios/filter_multiline/*
Adds coverage for shutdown notification, pending-group flushing, partial-message flushing, prepaused emitters, backpressure, and record grouping.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e6e97

The shutdown path now flushes buffered multiline records, but pending data can still be discarded if final enqueue fails, and multi-input setups may associate flushed records with the wrong source. These are concrete correctness and data-preservation risks that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant InputEngine
  participant Emitter
  participant MultilineFilter
  participant Output
  InputEngine->>Emitter: pause during shutdown
  Emitter->>MultilineFilter: invoke pause callback
  MultilineFilter->>MultilineFilter: drain active parser callbacks
  MultilineFilter->>Emitter: flush pending multiline records
  Emitter->>Output: queue emitted chunks
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788-790: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Explain why the test calls flb_ml_flush_pending_now twice.

test_parser_docker_cri_chain calls the helper once and includes a comment. Here two consecutive calls appear with no comment. A reader cannot tell whether the second call is required to emit the trailing single line record or whether it only asserts idempotency. Add a short comment that states the intent. If one call is sufficient, remove the second call.

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In `@tests/internal/multiline.c` around lines 788 - 790, Clarify the two
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Inline comments:
In `@plugins/filter_multiline/ml.c`:
- Around line 112-116: Update cb_ml_exit to iterate over
ctx->split_message_packers when partial_mode is enabled, flush each pending
partial-message group, and destroy its packer before freeing ctx. Preserve the
existing emitter callback teardown for non-partial mode and ensure the packer
collection is fully cleaned up.

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In `@tests/internal/multiline.c`:
- Around line 788-790: Clarify the two consecutive flb_ml_flush_pending_now
calls in test_parser_docker_cri_chain by adding a short comment explaining
whether the second call is required to emit the trailing single-line record or
only verifies idempotency; if one call is sufficient, remove the redundant
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