In mutation_reader_merger and clustering_order_reader_merger, the
operator()() is responsible for producing mutation fragments that will
be merged and pushed to the combined reader's buffer. Sometimes, it
might have to advance existing readers, open new and / or close some
existing ones, which requires calling a helper method and then calling
operator()() recursively.
In some unlucky circumstances, a stack overflow can occur:
- Readers have to be opened incrementally,
- Most or all readers must not produce any fragments and need to report
end of stream without preemption,
- There has to be enough readers opened within the lifetime of the
combined reader (~500),
- All of the above needs to happen within a single task quota.
In order to prevent such a situation, the code of both reader merger
classes were modified not to perform recursion at all. Most of the code
of the operator()() was moved to maybe_produce_batch which does not
recur if it is not possible for it to produce a fragment, instead it
returns std::nullopt and operator()() calls this method in a loop via
seastar::repeat_until_value.
A regression test is added.
Fixes: scylladb/scylladb#14415
Closes#14452
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