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Avi Kivity 04b54f363b Merge 'Enable vnodes-to-tablets migrations with arbitrary tokens' from Nikos Dragazis
This PR removes the power-of-two token constraint from vnodes-to-tablets migrations, allowing clusters with randomly generated tokens to migrate without manual token reassignment.

Previously, migrations required vnode tokens to be a power of two and aligned. In practice, these conditions are not met with Scylla's default random token assignment, so the constraint is a blocker for real-world use. With the introduction of arbitrary tablet boundaries in PR #28459, the tablet layer can now support arbitrary tablet boundaries. This PR builds on that capability to allow arbitrary vnode tokens during migration.

When the highest vnode token does not coincide with the end of the token ring, the vnode wraps around, but tablets do not support that. This is handled by splitting it into two tablets: one covering the tail end of the ring and one covering the beginning.

Testing has been updated accordingly: existing cluster tests now use randomly generated tokens instead of precomputed power-of-two values, and a new Boost test validates the wrap-around tablet boundary logic.

Fixes SCYLLADB-724.

New feature, no backport is needed.

Closes scylladb/scylladb#29319

* github.com:scylladb/scylladb:
  test: Use arbitrary tokens in vnodes->tablets migration tests
  test: boost: Add test for wrap-around vnodes
  storage_service: Support vnodes->tablets migrations w/ arbitrary tokens
  storage_service: Hoist migration precondition
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