Add OOM auto-dump test and pre-release validation report

The phpt suite covered rdump_dump() and the return value of
rdump_set_oom_dump(), but nothing actually triggered the memory_limit
path, so the headline OOM auto-dump feature was untested. Add
tests/oom_dump.phpt: it spawns a child that exhausts memory_limit with
rdump.oom_dump set and asserts the extension auto-wrote a well-formed
RDUMP file plus its .done marker.

Also add docs/validation.md, recording an end-to-end shakedown of
ext-rdump + reli against real-world memory issues sourced from GitHub
(less.php, HTMLPurifier, PhpSpreadsheet, Doctrine ORM, and the OOM
auto-dump reproducing PhpSpreadsheet#1094's 128MB fatal).

https://claude.ai/code/session_0173cJdvKHwRMbKuMLMRxuqD

Author: claude

docs/validation.md

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+# Pre-release validation: ext-rdump + reli on real-world memory issues
+
+This is a record of an end-to-end shakedown of `ext-rdump` against `reli`
+before release. The goal was not a synthetic benchmark but to answer a
+practical question: **if you take a real PHP program that people actually
+report running out of memory on, can `ext-rdump` capture a dump cleanly, and
+does `reli`'s report tell you something useful about why?**
+
+Real cases were sourced by searching GitHub issues for `"allowed memory size
+of"` and `"php memory usage"` (934 issues match the first query alone), then
+reproducing representative ones locally.
+
+**Verdict: yes, end to end.** Every workload captured a valid RDUMP, `reli`
+analysed all of them, and in each case the top findings pointed straight at the
+real cause — the parser AST, the accumulated array, the `Cell` objects, the
+Doctrine UnitOfWork. The headline feature — the automatic dump on
+`memory_limit` exhaustion — fired correctly and produced a report that
+reconstructs the exact call stack at the moment of death.
+
+## Environment
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| PHP | 8.4.19 (NTS), x86-64 Linux |
+| ext-rdump | this branch, `phpize && ./configure --enable-rdump && make` |
+| reli | `reliforp/reli-prof` 0.13.x-dev |
+| Pipeline | `rdump_dump()` / OOM auto-dump → `inspector:memory:analyze -f rmem` → `inspector:memory:report` |
+
+`ext-rdump`'s own test suite (now 7 tests, see [below](#test-added)) is green.
+
+## Results at a glance
+
+| Case | Real issue | Workload | PHP heap | Dump | Graph | reli's top finding |
+|---|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
+| 1. less.php | [wikimedia/less.php#104](https://github.com/wikimedia/less.php/issues/104) | compile 1.4 MB LESS | 212 MB | 328 MB | 6.5M nodes | `$parser->rules` holds 165 MB via 4,004 children; AST node classes named |
+| 2. HTMLPurifier | [ezyang/htmlpurifier#270](https://github.com/ezyang/htmlpurifier/issues/270) | purify 6,000 docs | 9.8 MB | 22 MB | 60K nodes | `$clean` array 7.4 MB via 6,000 children; `ZendString` 69.7% of heap |
+| 3. PhpSpreadsheet | [PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet#1094](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/1094) | read a 2 MB / 360k-cell xlsx | 214 MB | 743 MB | 7.6M nodes | `Cell` × 360,000 (58% of objects); worksheet↔cell cycle 188 MB |
+| 4. Doctrine ORM | canonical batch OOM (e.g. [sentry-laravel#178](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-laravel/issues/178)) | 40k-order batch, no `clear()` | 198 MB | 225 MB | 4.3M nodes | `$em->unitOfWork->{entityIdentifiers,originalEntityData,identityMap}`; Order↔OrderItem cycle 188 MB |
+| 5. **OOM auto-dump** | reproduces #1094's *exact* 128 MB fatal | read xlsx under `memory_limit=128M` | 125 MB (97.7% of limit) | 971 MB | 4.3M nodes | `near_memory_limit` HIGH + **exact call stack at the fatal** |
+
+In every case the analysed-heap coverage was 94–98.5%.
+
+## Per-case detail
+
+### 1. less.php — cumulative parser growth (#104)
+
+Compiling a 1.4 MB generated stylesheet left the parser holding **212 MB**
+(peak 321 MB) — the cumulative-growth shape the issue describes. `reli` reported:
+
+- `bottleneck_path`: `$parser->rules[...]->rules->referenced` (190 MB)
+- `choke_point` / `large_array`: `$parser->rules` — 165 MB via **4,004**
+  children (exactly the 4,000 components compiled), plus
+  `$parser->cachedEvaldRules` (21 MB)
+- `companion_cluster` / `expensive_property`: the AST node classes by name —
+  `Less_Tree_Ruleset` ×28,000, `Less_Tree_Declaration::$value`, etc.
+
+That is a precise map of where less.php's memory goes, down to the named
+properties on its tree nodes.
+
+### 2. HTMLPurifier — definition cache (#270)
+
+`#270` is a **PHP 7.4-specific `unserialize` engine regression**, so it does
+**not** reproduce on 8.4 — an honest reproducibility caveat. Memory stayed flat
+at ~10 MB. The case still validated `reli` on a real library's live heap: it
+correctly isolated the accumulated `$clean` array (7.4 MB via 6,000 children),
+flagged `ZendString` as 69.7% of the heap, and resolved deep HTMLPurifier
+internals by PHP-syntax path
+(`$config->definitions['HTML']->info`,
+`$purifier->strategy->strategies[1]->zipper->referenced->front->...`).
+
+### 3. PhpSpreadsheet — large-file read OOM (#1094)
+
+A **2 MB** xlsx (360k cells) expanded to **214 MB** of heap on load — the
+classic "small file, huge memory" report. `reli`:
+
+- named the cause: `PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Cell\Cell` — **360,000 instances**,
+  58% of object memory
+- traced the bottleneck path to `…->cellCollection` (188 MB) and detected the
+  worksheet↔cell reference **cycle** (15 classes, 188 MB retained)
+- surfaced a genuine inefficiency: every `Cell` carries an `IgnoredErrors`
+  object — 360,000 of them for **41 MB**, almost all empty
+  (`structural_duplicate` flags 41 MB of identical shapes)
+
+### 4. Doctrine ORM — the framework batch OOM
+
+The single most common real-world "allowed memory size of" in Symfony/Laravel
+batch commands: a long loop that `persist()`s and `flush()`es but never
+`clear()`s, so the `EntityManager` retains every entity. 40,000 orders /
+**160,000 managed entities** → 198 MB. `reli` pointed straight at the
+`UnitOfWork`:
+
+- `$em->unitOfWork->entityIdentifiers`, `originalEntityData` (67 MB **each** —
+  the change-tracking snapshot, the non-obvious cost of skipping `clear()`),
+  `identityMap['App\Order']` (40,000), `identityMap['App\OrderItem']` (120,000),
+  `entityStates` (160,000)
+- the bidirectional `Order`↔`OrderItem` reference **cycle** (188 MB retained)
+
+Any Doctrine developer reading this report would immediately recognise the
+missing `$em->clear()`.
+
+### 5. OOM auto-dump — the headline feature
+
+This is the capability that matters most in production: capture the moment of
+`memory_limit` death **with no code change**, driven only by INI. Re-running the
+PhpSpreadsheet read under `memory_limit=128M` reproduced #1094's exact fatal
+("Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted") and the extension wrote
+`oom-<pid>.rdump` automatically. From that dump `reli` produced a full
+post-mortem:
+
+- `near_memory_limit` **HIGH** — "Peak usage is 97.7% of memory_limit — only
+  2.91 MB headroom" (125 MB / 128 MB), confirming the snapshot is at the
+  exhaustion point
+- the **exact call stack at the fatal**:
+  `preg_match → Coordinate::coordinateFromString:37 →
+  Xlsx::loadSpreadsheetFromFile:913 → BaseReader::load:290 → <main>:18`,
+  matching the engine's "Coordinate.php on line 37"
+- the cause at that instant: 167,134 `Cell` objects (it died roughly half-way
+  through the 360k), the cell cache holding 73.85 MB, plus the in-flight reader
+  arrays
+
+Auto-dump was validated on three independent paths:
+
+- `rdump.oom_dump` via INI (with `%p` PID expansion) — fires
+- `rdump_set_oom_dump()` at runtime, no INI — fires
+- `rdump.oom_dump_marker=1` — the `<path>.rdump.done` marker is written
+- `rdump.oom_dump_max_total` — with the budget set below the directory's
+  existing `*.rdump` footprint, the next OOM dump is **skipped** (the process
+  still dies, but no file is written), as designed
+
+## Notable real-world insight: OOM dumps can be ~1 GB even at a 128 MB limit
+
+The case-5 dump was **971 MB** despite the 128 MB PHP limit, because the dump
+includes the glibc `[heap]` and anonymous mmaps, and PhpSpreadsheet's
+libxml2/libzip allocate the XLSX parse tree in **C memory that `memory_limit`
+never counts**. `reli` shows it plainly: `RSS: 985 MB` vs `Heap: 119 MB`. This
+is exactly the confusing real-world situation where `memory_get_usage()` looks
+fine but the process is huge — and `ext-rdump` captures it faithfully.
+
+The practical consequence: on a worker that OOMs repeatedly, an unguarded
+auto-dump could fill the disk fast. The existing guards
+(`oom_dump_max`, `oom_dump_min_interval`, `oom_dump_max_total`) are the right
+mitigation, and `oom_dump_max_total` is verified above. Worth keeping this
+prominent in the README (it already is).
+
+## Rough edges / recommendations
+
+1. **Analysis is heavy on large dumps.** A 200 MB heap becomes a 4–8M-node
+   graph; `inspector:memory:analyze` took ~1.5 min and ~2 GB RSS on the 1 GB
+   OOM dump, more on less.php. This is reli's side, not ext-rdump's, but it is
+   the practical ceiling for "capture in prod, analyse later." For first-pass
+   triage on big dumps, reach for `--no-full-analysis` and `--memory-limit`.
+2. **Capture worked on every shape tried** — AST-heavy (less.php), object-heavy
+   (PhpSpreadsheet, Doctrine), string-heavy (HTMLPurifier), and mid-syscall at
+   OOM — with no crashes and 94–98.5% analysed coverage. No correctness issues
+   found in `ext-rdump` itself.
+3. **Test gap closed.** Before this run, the phpt suite exercised
+   `rdump_dump()` and the *return value* of `rdump_set_oom_dump()`, but nothing
+   actually triggered the `memory_limit` path — the headline feature was
+   untested. Added `tests/oom_dump.phpt` (below).
+
+## Test added
+
+`tests/oom_dump.phpt` spawns a child that exhausts a 16 MB `memory_limit` with
+`rdump.oom_dump` set, then asserts from the parent that the extension
+auto-wrote a well-formed RDUMP file plus its `.done` marker — i.e. that the OOM
+hook fires end to end, not just that the setter returns `true`.

tests/oom_dump.phpt

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+--TEST--
+rdump.oom_dump writes a well-formed RDUMP dump when memory_limit is exhausted
+--SKIPIF--
+<?php
+if (!extension_loaded("rdump")) die("skip rdump not loaded");
+if (PHP_OS_FAMILY !== "Linux") die("skip Linux only");
+if (!is_file(dirname(__DIR__) . "/modules/rdump.so")) die("skip built modules/rdump.so not found");
+if (!function_exists("shell_exec") || !shell_exec("echo ok")) die("skip shell_exec disabled");
+?>
+--FILE--
+<?php
+// A memory_limit error is fatal, so it can only be observed from a separate
+// process: spawn a child that exhausts memory with rdump.oom_dump set, then
+// verify from here that the extension auto-dumped at the moment of death.
+$so   = dirname(__DIR__) . "/modules/rdump.so";
+$php  = getenv("TEST_PHP_EXECUTABLE");
+if ($php === false || $php === "") {
+    $php = PHP_BINARY;
+}
+
+$dump  = sys_get_temp_dir() . "/rdump_oom_" . getmypid() . ".rdump";
+$child = sys_get_temp_dir() . "/rdump_oom_child_" . getmypid() . ".php";
+@unlink($dump);
+@unlink($dump . ".done");
+file_put_contents($child, '<?php $a = []; while (true) { $a[] = str_repeat("x", 4096); }');
+
+$cmd = escapeshellarg($php)
+     . " -n"
+     . " -d extension=" . escapeshellarg($so)
+     . " -d memory_limit=16M"
+     . " -d rdump.oom_dump=" . escapeshellarg($dump)
+     . " -d rdump.oom_dump_marker=1"
+     . " " . escapeshellarg($child)
+     . " 2>&1";
+$output = (string) shell_exec($cmd);
+
+// The child died on the memory_limit error...
+var_dump(strpos($output, "Allowed memory size") !== false);
+
+// ...and the OOM hook wrote the dump without any rdump_dump() call.
+var_dump(is_file($dump));
+
+// The dump is a well-formed RDUMP file.
+var_dump(file_get_contents($dump, false, null, 0, 8) === "RDUMP\0\0\0");
+
+// The completion marker was written (rdump.oom_dump_marker=1).
+var_dump(is_file($dump . ".done"));
+
+@unlink($dump);
+@unlink($dump . ".done");
+@unlink($child);
+?>
+--EXPECT--
+bool(true)
+bool(true)
+bool(true)
+bool(true)