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doc: Add README for resolver-tests

### What does this PR try to resolve?

This collect the comments from `@Eh2406` about the resolver-tests and add a README to it.

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Maybe Fixed #13319
See  #11938 (comment)
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# resolver-tests

## The aim

This crate aims to test the resolution of Cargo's resolver. It implements a [SAT solver](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT_solver) to compare with resolution of Cargo's resolver.
This ensures that Cargo's dependency resolution is proven valid by lowering to [SAT problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_satisfiability_problem).

## About the test

The Cargo's resolver is very sensitive to what order it tries to evaluate constraints. This makes it incredibly difficult
to be sure that a handful of tests actually covers all the important permutations of decision-making. The tests not only needs
to hit all the corner cases, it needs to try all of the orders of evaluation. So we use fuzz testing to cover more permutations.

13 changes: 12 additions & 1 deletion crates/resolver-tests/src/lib.rs
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resolve_with_global_context(deps, registry, &GlobalContext::default().unwrap())
}

// Verify that the resolution of cargo resolver can pass the verification of SAT
pub fn resolve_and_validated(
deps: Vec<Dependency>,
registry: &[Summary],
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(num_bits::<usize>() as u32 - x.leading_zeros()) as usize
}

// At this point is possible to select every version of every package.
// So we need to mark certain versions as incompatible with each other.
// We could add a clause not A, not B for all A and B that are incompatible,
fn sat_at_most_one(solver: &mut impl varisat::ExtendFormula, vars: &[varisat::Var]) {
if vars.len() <= 1 {
return;
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solver.add_clause(&[vars[1].negative(), vars[2].negative()]);
return;
}
// There are more efficient ways to do it for large numbers of versions.
//
// use the "Binary Encoding" from
// https://www.it.uu.se/research/group/astra/ModRef10/papers/Alan%20M.%20Frisch%20and%20Paul%20A.%20Giannoros.%20SAT%20Encodings%20of%20the%20At-Most-k%20Constraint%20-%20ModRef%202010.pdf
let bits: Vec<varisat::Var> = solver.new_var_iter(log_bits(vars.len())).collect();
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impl SatResolve {
pub fn new(registry: &[Summary]) -> Self {
let mut cnf = varisat::CnfFormula::new();
// That represents each package version which is set to "true" if the packages in the lock file and "false" if it is unused.
let var_for_is_packages_used: HashMap<PackageId, varisat::Var> = registry
.iter()
.map(|s| (s.package_id(), cnf.new_var()))
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let empty_vec = vec![];

// Now different versions can conflict, but dependencies might not be selected.
// So we need to add clauses that ensure that if a package is selected for each dependency a version
// that satisfies that dependency is selected.
//
// active packages need each of there `deps` to be satisfied
for p in registry.iter() {
for dep in p.dependencies() {
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vers
});

// each version of each crate can depend on each crate smaller then it.
// each version of each crate can depend on each crate smaller than it.
// In theory shrinkage should be 2, but in practice we get better trees with a larger value.
let max_deps = max_versions * (max_crates * (max_crates - 1)) / shrinkage;

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