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When debugging the issue of high LWT contention metric, we (the
drivers team) discovered that at least 3 drivers (Go, Java, Rust)
cause high numbers in that metrics in LWT workloads - we doubted that
all those drivers route LWT queries badly. We tried to understand that
metric and its semantics. It took 3 people over 10 hours to figure out
what it is supposed to count.
People from core team suspected that it was the drivers sending
requests to different shards, causing contention. Then we ran the
workload against a single node single shard cluster... and observed
contention. Finally, we looked into the Scylla code and saw it.
**Uninitialized stack value.**
The core member was shocked. But we, the drivers people, felt we always
knew it. It's yet another time that we are blamed for a server-side
issue. We rebuilt scylla with the variable initialized to 0 and the
metric kept being 0.
To prevent such errors in the future, let's consider some lints that
warn against uninitialized variables. This is such an obvious feature
of e.g. Rust, and yet this has shown to be cause a painful bug in 2024.
Fixes: scylladb/scylladb#19654
(cherry picked from commit 36a125bf97)
Closes scylladb/scylladb#19657