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Fixes #54918.

Wake a blocking worker drain when an immediate foreground task is posted, and flush foreground work while waiting for user-blocking worker tasks. A generation counter updated under the worker queue mutex prevents a wakeup delivered during foreground flushing from being lost before the next condition-variable wait.

Add a bounded cctest in which a user-blocking worker posts a foreground task and waits for it. Without the fix, the test reports the timeout instead of hanging indefinitely.

Validation of the rebased patch:

  • git apply --check --whitespace=error-all against the exact current/ blobs
  • applied blob hashes match the reconstructed fixed files
  • reverse application restores the exact supplied blobs
  • apply/reverse-apply succeeds on an LF worktree and a CRLF worktree with core.autocrlf=true
  • standalone 10,000-iteration concurrency stress harness
  • AddressSanitizer and UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer run

The patch-conflict bundle contains only the three affected source/test files, so a full Node.js cctest build was not possible from this snapshot.

Signed-off-by: ulofiai <monsterking@tutamail.com>
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Validation of the rebased patch

Did you validate that your testing hardness fails 100% of the time in the previous Node.js version (e.g. if you ran a test script 10,000 times, would running that script several times result in a consistent failure rate (say 1 in 10,000, or something))?

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ulofiai commented Aug 8, 2026

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Good question. I have not yet measured this against the actual parent Node.js revision.

The 10,000-iteration result in the PR description came from a standalone synchronization harness, not 10,000 runs of the Node.js cctest, so it should not be read as a measured Node.js failure rate.

The new cctest is intended to fail deterministically on the parent implementation, but that is currently a code-level expectation rather than an empirical A/B result. I’ll run the test unchanged against the parent revision, with only the new test applied, and against this PR head, then report the exact pass/fail counts and update the PR description.

Thanks for catching the ambiguity.

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