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What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #11106, close #10671, close #10746, ref #7780

Based on #11110. Until that merges, this pull request also lists its commit.

A PD member reports itself as the leader until unsetLeader runs, regardless of whether it is still serving: GetMembers reads GetLeader directly, and the v1 redirector serves a request locally when the cached leader name matches its own. The microservice primary loops have the same exposure through GetServingUrls.

unsetLeader was reached only after a lease revoke against the local etcd server and the log calls surrounding it, which have no upper bound on a stalled volume. This PR clears the identity first.

What is changed and how does it work?

Member.Resign and Participant.Resign now unset the in-memory leader identity
before resetting the lease. In campaignLeader every exit from the loop goes
through one helper that resigns before it logs. The tso, scheduling and
resource manager primary loops resign before logging in the same way.

Add two integration tests, one per ordering, and reversing either ordering
fails its test. The first waits for an instant at which the leader is nil, the
leader value is still set, the lease reads as expired, and the lease ID is
unchanged; that conjunction can hold only inside a blocked Lease.Close. The
second captures the log and asserts that the step-down reason is absent at that
instant and present once the blocked close returns.

One failpoint supports them: blockLeaseClose in Lease.Close, matched as
"<purpose>@<name>".

No additional waiting and no additional remote calls. A member that resigns
voluntarily stops reporting itself as the leader slightly earlier, and the
redirector waits for the successor instead.

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  • Integration test

Release note

None.

A PD leader that can no longer make raft progress steps down because its lease
stops being renewable, not because its cached etcd leader view catches up -
only the etcd Ready loop refreshes that view, so it can stay stale for as long
as the stall lasts.

The lease can be trusted that way only because the election client has no
health checker and so never leaves the local member. Renewing it has to be
answered here, and the local server answers only after proving its own
leadership, so the two signals cannot fail together. Pinning the client was
deliberate, but it landed for a different reason - tikv#9986 closes tikv#9981,
"Improve the high availability of the tso and election" - so the consequence
for leadership safety was never written down and nothing asserted it. The same
change moved the TSO timestamp storage onto that client, so a later change made
for TSO availability is a plausible way to undo the pinning.

Record the reason at the call site, and in newClient, where AutoSyncInterval
must stay unset. Document on GetEtcdLeader what may and may not depend on it,
listing every current caller and why none of them is a safety decision on its
own.

Then assert it. One test pins the property itself: the election client must
stay on the local member while the health checked server client discovers its
peers, so a checker that never ran cannot make the assertion pass by accident.
Two more assert what the property buys. Renewals that fail locally, and a lease
revoked out from under the member, must each end the term on their own, while a
staleEtcdLeaderView failpoint keeps the colocation check from being what fires.

The lease failpoints carry a member name, matched as "<purpose>@<name>", so
that enabling one degrades a single member of an in-process test cluster rather
than every member of it.

No behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Yuhao Zhang <yhzhang00@outlook.com>
Stepping down clears two things: the lease, and the in-memory identity. Only
the second decides what the member says about itself. GetMembers reads
GetLeader directly, and the v1 redirector serves a request locally when the
cached leader name is its own, so neither consults IsServing. Both were
cleared behind a revoke against the local etcd and the log calls around it,
which on a stalled volume can take arbitrarily long - so a member that had
already lost its term could go on answering as the leader well after it
stopped serving.

Resign first, then log. Inside Resign, unset the identity before touching the
lease, in Participant too. In campaignLeader every exit from the loop goes
through one helper, so the ordering is a property of the function rather than
something each branch has to remember. The tso, scheduling and
resource-manager primary loops get the same treatment, since GetServingUrls
reports a primary without consulting IsServing either.

Two tests pin the two halves. One waits for the instant when the leader is
already nil, the leader value is still set, the lease reads as expired, and it
is still the same lease - a conjunction that holds only inside a blocked
Lease.Close, since every campaign installs a different lease. The other
captures the log and asserts the reason for stepping down has not been written
at that instant, and that it does arrive once the close finishes. Reversing
either ordering fails its own test.

No new waiting and no new remote calls - the same work in a different order. A
member that resigns voluntarily therefore stops answering as the leader a
little earlier, and lets the redirector wait for the successor instead.

Signed-off-by: Yuhao Zhang <yhzhang00@outlook.com>
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Walkthrough

The change adds member names to election leases, adds targeted lease failpoints, pins election clients to local etcd endpoints, and clears leadership state before blocking cleanup or step-down logging. Tests cover lease loss, stale leader views, endpoint locality, and cleanup ordering.

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Election lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Named election leases and failpoints
pkg/election/..., pkg/encryption/key_manager_test.go, pkg/storage/storage_tso_test.go
Leadership and Lease now carry member names. Lease failpoints target <purpose>@<name>. Constructor call sites and tests pass the new name.
Member and service cleanup ordering
pkg/member/..., pkg/mcs/..., pkg/tso/allocator.go
Resignation clears in-memory leadership before lease reset. Resource manager, scheduling, and TSO cleanup use guarded reset functions before step-down logs.
PD election client and step-down flow
server/server.go, pkg/utils/etcdutil/etcdutil.go
Election clients remain pinned to local etcd endpoints. Step-down paths resign leadership before logging and before raft shutdown.
Election locality and cleanup validation
tests/server/member/member_test.go
Tests cover endpoint locality, lease revocation, failed renewals, stale leader views, blocked cleanup, and logging order.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f98e8

The PR changes step-down ordering so leadership identity is cleared before potentially blocking cleanup. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; only localized code-quality follow-up is warranted during normal review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PDServer
  participant Member
  participant ElectionLease
  participant Etcd
  participant Logger

  Etcd-->>PDServer: Lease expiry or leadership change
  PDServer->>Member: stepDownAndLog
  Member->>ElectionLease: Cancel keepalive and resign
  ElectionLease->>Etcd: Revoke election lease
  Member-->>PDServer: Clear leadership state and service gauge
  PDServer->>Logger: Log step-down reason
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pkg/tso/allocator.go (1)

373-380: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consolidate the two reset closures that share resetPrimaryOnce.

campaignPrimary now registers two different bodies against the same sync.Once: the closure at lines 345-348 resigns without clearing ServiceMemberGauge, and resetPrimary at lines 375-379 also clears the gauge. The current code is correct only because ServiceMemberGauge is set to 1 at line 372 and no return path exists between line 372 and line 380. If a return or an error check is later added in that window, the first closure wins and the gauge stays at 1 for a member that has resigned.

Use one closure for both registrations. Compute tsoLabel before the first defer.

♻️ Proposed consolidation
 	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(a.ctx)
+	tsoLabel := fmt.Sprintf("TSO Service Group %d", a.keyspaceGroupID)
 	var resetPrimaryOnce sync.Once
-	defer resetPrimaryOnce.Do(func() {
-		cancel()
-		a.member.Resign()
-	})
+	// A named function rather than an inline defer because the step-down branch
+	// below calls it before it logs; see the comment there.
+	resetPrimary := func() {
+		cancel()
+		a.member.Resign()
+		member.ServiceMemberGauge.WithLabelValues(tsoLabel).Set(0)
+	}
+	defer resetPrimaryOnce.Do(resetPrimary)
-	tsoLabel := fmt.Sprintf("TSO Service Group %d", a.keyspaceGroupID)
 	member.ServiceMemberGauge.WithLabelValues(tsoLabel).Set(1)
-	// A named function rather than an inline defer because the step-down branch
-	// below calls it before it logs; see the comment there.
-	resetPrimary := func() {
-		cancel()
-		a.member.Resign()
-		member.ServiceMemberGauge.WithLabelValues(tsoLabel).Set(0)
-	}
-	defer resetPrimaryOnce.Do(resetPrimary)
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In `@pkg/tso/allocator.go` around lines 373 - 380, In campaignPrimary, consolidate
the two reset closures sharing resetPrimaryOnce into one reset closure that
always cancels, resigns the member, and clears ServiceMemberGauge. Compute
tsoLabel before the first defer, then reuse the same closure for both defer
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In `@pkg/election/lease.go`:
- Around line 322-334: Update the error created in the keepAliveFailed failpoint
handling within the lease renewal flow to use a lowercase, space-separated
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In `@pkg/tso/allocator.go`:
- Around line 373-380: In campaignPrimary, consolidate the two reset closures
sharing resetPrimaryOnce into one reset closure that always cancels, resigns the
member, and clears ServiceMemberGauge. Compute tsoLabel before the first defer,
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  • pkg/election/leadership.go
  • pkg/election/leadership_test.go
  • pkg/election/lease.go
  • pkg/election/lease_test.go
  • pkg/encryption/key_manager_test.go
  • pkg/mcs/resourcemanager/server/server.go
  • pkg/mcs/scheduling/server/server.go
  • pkg/member/member.go
  • pkg/member/participant.go
  • pkg/storage/storage_tso_test.go
  • pkg/tso/allocator.go
  • pkg/utils/etcdutil/etcdutil.go
  • server/server.go
  • tests/server/member/member_test.go

Comment thread pkg/election/lease.go
Comment on lines +322 to +334
failpoint.Inject("keepAliveFailed", func(val failpoint.Value) {
// Falsify only this caller's view of the renewal. The
// request above has already reached etcd and succeeded, so
// the lease is still being renewed server side and the
// leader key never expires on its own. That is deliberate:
// it leaves the local deadline as the only thing that can
// end the term, which is what the renewal tests need to
// isolate. Injecting ahead of the request instead would let
// the key really expire and prove something weaker.
if l.matchesFailpointTarget(val) {
res, err = nil, errors.New("keepAliveFailed")
}
})

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use a lowercase error string.

Line 332 creates the error text "keepAliveFailed". Change it to lowercase, such as "keep alive failed".

As per coding guidelines, “Wrap error strings in lowercase with no trailing punctuation.”

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In `@pkg/election/lease.go` around lines 322 - 334, Update the error created in
the keepAliveFailed failpoint handling within the lease renewal flow to use a
lowercase, space-separated message without trailing punctuation, while
preserving the existing failure behavior.

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