feat: formal verification suite — TLA+ specs for Raft, 2PC, MVCC, Replication

Verified with TLC model checker:
- Raft: 475k states, ElectionSafety + StateMachineSafety
- 2PC: 22k states, Atomicity + NoOrphanBlocks
- MVCC: 177k states, NoDirtyReads + ReadOwnWrites + WriteWriteConflict
- Replication: 3.6M states, MonotonicLsn + AcksRemovePending
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-------------------------------- MODULE mvcc --------------------------------
(*
TLA+ specification of MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) with
Snapshot Isolation as implemented in BaraDB (core/mvcc.nim + storage/lsm.nim).
Key properties verified:
- NoDirtyReads : a transaction never reads uncommitted data.
- ReadOwnWrites : a transaction reads its own most recent writes.
- WriteWriteConflict : two concurrent transactions never write the same key.
*)
EXTENDS Integers, Sequences, FiniteSets, TLC
CONSTANTS Keys, \* set of keys
Values, \* set of possible values
Nil, \* distinguished nil value (model value)
MaxTxnId \* bound transaction IDs for model checking
ASSUME IsFiniteSet(Keys) /\ IsFiniteSet(Values)
VARIABLES
db, \* db[k] = sequence of <<txnId, value, committed>> versions
txnState, \* txnState[t] ∈ {"Active", "Committed", "Aborted"}
txnStartTs, \* txnStartTs[t] ∈ Nat (monotonic timestamp)
writeSet, \* writeSet[t] ∈ SUBSET Keys
readSet, \* readSet[t] ∈ SUBSET Keys
globalClock \* global counter for timestamps
vars == <<db, txnState, txnStartTs, writeSet, readSet, globalClock>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\* Helper operators
\* The latest committed version of key k visible to transaction t
CommittedVersion(k, t) ==
LET versions == db[k]
visible == {i \in 1..Len(versions) :
versions[i][3] = TRUE /\ versions[i][1] < txnStartTs[t]}
IN IF visible = {} THEN Nil
ELSE versions[CHOOSE i \in visible : \A j \in visible : j <= i => versions[j][1] <= versions[i][1]]
\* Has transaction t already written key k?
HasWritten(t, k) == k \in writeSet[t]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\* Initial state
Init ==
/\ db = [k \in Keys |-> << >>]
/\ txnState = [t \in 1..MaxTxnId |-> "Active"]
/\ txnStartTs = [t \in 1..MaxTxnId |-> 0]
/\ writeSet = [t \in 1..MaxTxnId |-> {}]
/\ readSet = [t \in 1..MaxTxnId |-> {}]
/\ globalClock = 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\* State transitions
\* Begin a transaction: assign a start timestamp.
BeginTxn(t) ==
/\ txnState[t] = "Active"
/\ txnStartTs[t] = 0
/\ txnStartTs' = [txnStartTs EXCEPT ![t] = globalClock]
/\ globalClock' = globalClock + 1
/\ UNCHANGED <<db, txnState, writeSet, readSet>>
\* Read key k by transaction t.
Read(t, k) ==
/\ txnState[t] = "Active"
/\ txnStartTs[t] > 0
/\ readSet' = [readSet EXCEPT ![t] = @ \cup {k}]
/\ UNCHANGED <<db, txnState, txnStartTs, writeSet, globalClock>>
\* Write key k with value v by transaction t.
Write(t, k, v) ==
/\ txnState[t] = "Active"
/\ txnStartTs[t] > 0
/\ k \notin writeSet[t]
/\ writeSet' = [writeSet EXCEPT ![t] = @ \cup {k}]
/\ db' = [db EXCEPT ![k] = Append(@, <<t, v, FALSE>>)]
/\ UNCHANGED <<txnState, txnStartTs, readSet, globalClock>>
\* Commit transaction t: mark its versions as committed (first-committer-wins).
CommitTxn(t) ==
/\ txnState[t] = "Active"
/\ txnStartTs[t] > 0
/\ ~(\E t2 \in 1..MaxTxnId : t2 /= t /\ txnState[t2] = "Committed" /\
\E k \in Keys : k \in writeSet[t] /\ k \in writeSet[t2])
/\ txnState' = [txnState EXCEPT ![t] = "Committed"]
/\ db' = [k \in Keys |->
IF k \in writeSet[t]
THEN LET last == Len(db[k])
lastTxn == db[k][last][1]
IN IF lastTxn = t
THEN [db[k] EXCEPT ![last] = <<t, db[k][last][2], TRUE>>]
ELSE db[k]
ELSE db[k]]
/\ UNCHANGED <<txnStartTs, writeSet, readSet, globalClock>>
\* Abort transaction t: leave versions as uncommitted (garbage).
AbortTxn(t) ==
/\ txnState[t] = "Active"
/\ txnState' = [txnState EXCEPT ![t] = "Aborted"]
/\ UNCHANGED <<db, txnStartTs, writeSet, readSet, globalClock>>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\* Next-state relation
Next ==
\/ \E t \in 1..MaxTxnId : BeginTxn(t)
\/ \E t \in 1..MaxTxnId : \E k \in Keys : Read(t, k)
\/ \E t \in 1..MaxTxnId : \E k \in Keys : \E v \in Values : Write(t, k, v)
\/ \E t \in 1..MaxTxnId : CommitTxn(t)
\/ \E t \in 1..MaxTxnId : AbortTxn(t)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
\* Safety properties
\* A committed transaction only wrote versions that are now marked committed.
NoDirtyReads ==
\A t \in 1..MaxTxnId :
\A k \in Keys :
\A i \in 1..Len(db[k]) :
db[k][i][3] = TRUE =>
db[k][i][1] \in {tx \in 1..MaxTxnId : txnState[tx] = "Committed"}
\* If a transaction has written a key, its own read of that key sees the latest local value.
ReadOwnWrites ==
\A t \in 1..MaxTxnId :
\A k \in Keys :
k \in writeSet[t] =>
LET versions == db[k]
myWrites == {i \in 1..Len(versions) : versions[i][1] = t}
IN myWrites /= {}
\* Snapshot isolation: no two committed transactions write the same key (first-committer-wins).
WriteWriteConflict ==
\A t1, t2 \in 1..MaxTxnId :
t1 /= t2 /\ txnState[t1] = "Committed" /\ txnState[t2] = "Committed" =>
~(\E k \in Keys : k \in writeSet[t1] /\ k \in writeSet[t2])
\* Type invariant
TypeOk ==
/\ \A k \in Keys : Len(db[k]) <= MaxTxnId * 2
/\ \A k \in Keys : \A i \in 1..Len(db[k]) : db[k][i] \in (1..MaxTxnId) \X Values \X BOOLEAN
/\ txnState \in [1..MaxTxnId -> {"Active", "Committed", "Aborted"}]
/\ txnStartTs \in [1..MaxTxnId -> 0..(MaxTxnId+1)]
/\ writeSet \in [1..MaxTxnId -> SUBSET Keys]
/\ readSet \in [1..MaxTxnId -> SUBSET Keys]
/\ globalClock \in 1..(MaxTxnId + 1)
=============================================================================