Fix: HUNG-dump signals forked descendants + drains pump before tail

[hw-native-sys-bot]

Summary

The dispatcher's session-timeout handler in the root conftest.py was
producing empty HUNG groups for the common deadlock pattern in sim
distributed tests. Caught in CI run
25773352155
on PR #763: test_ep_dispatch_combine hung for 585.9 s, the HUNG body
contained only the pytest startup banner and no faulthandler traceback
— zero diagnostic value.

Root cause (two bugs)

1. Signal only goes to the dispatched pid, not its descendants.
   python/simpler/worker.py::_start_hierarchical os.forks
   ChipWorker / SubWorker / next-level children at lines 833, 854, 895.
   When the actual deadlock is in one of those forked grandchildren,
   the dispatched pytest is calmly waiting in waitpid — useful frame
   for that pid, but the stuck thread (in the grandchild) sees no
   signal and faulthandler never dumps from where the bug lives.

2. Tail buffer is read without joining the pump thread. After
   time.sleep(2.0), the handler did
   tail = "".join(rj.output_lines[-200:]) directly. Every other path
   in parallel_scheduler.py (_reap_one line 265, the cancel path
   line 322) calls rj.pump_thread.join(timeout=2.0) first. Bytes that
   the faulthandler signal trampoline had written to the pipe but the
   daemon pump hadn't yet spliced into output_lines were lost when
   SIGTERM closed the pipe right after.

Fix

• New _collect_descendant_pids(pid) in conftest.py that walks
  /proc/<pid>/task/*/children BFS. Best-effort: empty list on
  non-Linux and on pid races; no exception.
• The session-timeout handler now signals the dispatched pid and
  every descendant, so the forked grandchild's faulthandler fires
  where the deadlock actually is.
• HUNG group header now includes descendants=[<pids>] — useful even
  when the body itself is sparse.
• rj.pump_thread.join(timeout=0.5) before reading the tail buffer,
  mirroring the convention from _reap_one / cancel.

Tests

tests/ut/py/test_session_timeout.py:

Test	What it verifies
test_collect_descendant_pids_sees_fork_tree	Fork a child that forks a grandchild; both pids appear
test_collect_descendant_pids_returns_empty_for_dead_pid	/proc walk on a reaped pid returns [] (no exception)
test_session_timeout_surfaces_forked_child_traceback	End-to-end: real _install_session_timeout handler + a forking deadlocking pytest target; HUNG body contains _grandchild_deadlock_sentinel frame and header has descendants=[...]

All three skip on non-Linux (no /proc).

Reverted the fix locally to confirm the regression tests really exercise
it: without the change, all 3 fail (the importlib load fails on the
helper before reaching the assertions).

Known gap (not fixed here)

pytest's default --capture=fd dup2s the test's stderr onto a
capture pipe that is never flushed when the test hangs. The
descendants fix correctly gets faulthandler to fire in the right
process, but its writes still land in pytest's capture and never
reach the parent's pump unless the dispatched pytest is invoked with
-s. The e2e test uses -s to isolate the descendants/pump logic.

A follow-up could route faulthandler to a pre-capture dup of fd 2
(e.g., os.dup(2) at conftest module load, passed as file=fd to
faulthandler.register). I prototyped this but the timing of pytest's
capture initialization vs. conftest module load is subtle enough that
I want to verify it carefully in a separate PR rather than bundle.

Test plan

• python -m pytest tests/ut/py/test_session_timeout.py -v passes
  locally (3/3).
• Same suite fails 3/3 with the conftest changes reverted (proves
  the tests really exercise the fix).
• Pre-commit hooks (ruff check, ruff format, pyright,
  check-headers) pass on both touched files; no SKIP=.
• Full CI run on this branch.

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Code Review

This pull request introduces a mechanism to collect and signal descendant processes during a session timeout, ensuring that faulthandler tracebacks from deadlocked sub-processes are captured. It adds a new utility to walk the Linux /proc tree and updates the timeout handler to drain output buffers before reporting hung jobs. Feedback includes correcting the tree traversal from DFS to the documented BFS, optimizing the process lookup complexity, reducing the join timeout for output pump threads to minimize cumulative delays, and refining the cleanup logic in the new unit tests.