banger/internal/daemon/ARCHITECTURE.md
Thales Maciel ca4865447c
Refresh daemon docs and mark web UI experimental
internal/daemon/doc.go and ARCHITECTURE.md were written before the
subpackage extractions and still referenced old structure (in-progress
phrasing, missing opstate/dmsnap/fcproc/imagemgr/session/workspace,
mentions of opRegistry by its old name). Both now describe the current
shape: composition root + six leaf subpackages, lock ordering rooted
at vmLocks[id], and the one intra-package dependency (workspace →
session for ShellQuote + FormatStepError).

README.md and AGENTS.md mark the local web UI as experimental. It is
still enabled by default at 127.0.0.1:7777, but the docs now state
plainly that its surface is not stable or hardened and not intended for
anything beyond single-user localhost use. AGENTS.md also points at
ARCHITECTURE.md for the subpackage layout.

No code changes; tests still green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-15 16:44:11 -03:00

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# `internal/daemon` architecture
This document describes the current daemon package layout: the `Daemon`
composition root, the subpackages that own stateless helpers and shared
primitives, and the lock ordering every caller must respect.
## Composition
`Daemon` is the composition root. Subsystem state and locks live on their
owning types:
- Layout, config, store, runner, logger, pid — infrastructure handles.
- `vmLocks vmLockSet` — per-VM `*sync.Mutex`, one per VM ID.
- `createVMMu sync.Mutex` — serialises `CreateVM` (guards name uniqueness
+ guest IP allocation window).
- `imageOpsMu sync.Mutex` — serialises image-registry mutations
(`BuildImage`, `RegisterImage`, `PromoteImage`, `DeleteImage`).
- `createOps opstate.Registry[*vmCreateOperationState]` — in-flight VM
create operations; owns its own lock.
- `imageBuildOps opstate.Registry[*imageBuildOperationState]` — in-flight
image build operations; owns its own lock.
- `tapPool tapPool` — TAP interface pool; owns its own lock.
- `sessions sessionRegistry` — active guest session controllers; owns
its own lock.
- `listener`, `webListener`, `webServer`, `webURL`, `vmDNS` — networking.
- `vmCaps` — registered VM capability hooks.
- `imageBuild`, `requestHandler`, `guestWaitForSSH`, `guestDial`,
`waitForGuestSessionReady` — injectable seams used by tests.
## Subpackages
Pure helpers have moved into subpackages so the daemon package itself stays
focused on orchestration. Each subpackage takes explicit dependencies
(typically a `system.Runner`-compatible interface) and holds no global
state beyond small test seams.
| Subpackage | Purpose |
| --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `internal/daemon/opstate` | Generic `Registry[T AsyncOp]` for async-operation bookkeeping. |
| `internal/daemon/dmsnap` | Device-mapper COW snapshot create/cleanup/remove. |
| `internal/daemon/fcproc` | Firecracker process primitives (bridge, tap, binary, PID, kill, wait). |
| `internal/daemon/imagemgr` | Image subsystem pure helpers: validators, staging, build script gen. |
| `internal/daemon/session` | Guest-session helpers: state paths, scripts, parsing, utilities. |
| `internal/daemon/workspace` | Workspace helpers: git inspection, copy prep, guest import script. |
`workspace` imports `session` for `ShellQuote` and `FormatStepError`; all
other subpackages are leaves (no other intra-daemon subpackage imports).
## Lock ordering
Acquire in this order, release in reverse. Never acquire in the opposite
direction.
```
vmLocks[id] → {createVMMu, imageOpsMu} → subsystem-local locks
```
Subsystem-local locks (`tapPool.mu`, `sessionRegistry.mu`,
`opstate.Registry` mu, `guestSessionController.attachMu` /
`writeMu`) are leaves. They do not contend with each other.
Notes:
- `vmLocks[id]` is the outer lock for any operation scoped to a single VM.
Acquired via `withVMLockByID` / `withVMLockByRef`.
- `createVMMu` and `imageOpsMu` are narrow: each guards one family of
mutations and is released before any blocking guest I/O.
- Holding a subsystem-local lock while calling into guest SSH is
discouraged; copy needed state out under the lock and release before
blocking I/O.
## External API
Only `internal/cli` imports this package. The surface is:
- `daemon.Open(ctx) (*Daemon, error)`
- `(*Daemon).Serve(ctx) error`
- `(*Daemon).Close() error`
- `daemon.Doctor(...)` — host diagnostics (no receiver).
All other `*Daemon` methods are reached only through the RPC `dispatch`
switch in `daemon.go` and are free to move/rename during refactoring.
## Web UI
The optional web UI served at `web_listen_addr` is experimental. It is
enabled by default for local observability but is not considered a stable
or supported interface. Set `web_listen_addr = ""` in config to disable.