Fix standalone updateMany transaction boundaries

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Standalone updateMany currently accumulates every matching document in one storage transaction. For example, updating 72 documents of roughly 1 MiB each fails with TxError[7] / TransactionTooLarge, even though each document fits within the transaction write-set limit.

Allow UpdateStage to commit each document and its index changes independently when there is no enclosing transaction. A failure preserves earlier successful updates; the failing document rolls back. Explicit transactions retain their existing commit/rollback boundary and write-set limit.

• Remove command-wide transactions and whole-command replay for ordinary updates and legacy OP_UPDATE; retry write conflicts at the current document.
• Restore transactional catalog state after commit/yield, retain schema version values instead of transaction-owned pointers, and invalidate cursors when the table schema changes.
• Add and use the operation-context-aware backoff so conflicting commands can yield their shared coroutine worker. Include its service_context library dependency and retain the existing three-argument overload and delay tiers.
• Add five regression tests covering large write sets, index movement and partial failure, explicit transactions, concurrent retries, and legacy writes. Register the new core tests in eloq_core and adapt existing array-filter/DBRef assertions to writeErrors.

Validation:

• Reproduced the missing-overload compilation error with an isolated upstream checkout before the dependency fix. After the fix, all nine affected C++ translation units compile in both Debug and RelWithDebInfo using GCC 10 on Linux amd64. Handwritten headers come exclusively from the upstream checkout and its pinned data-substrate submodule; generated MongoDB headers and third-party libraries come from the existing compiler environment, and protobuf headers were regenerated from the pinned upstream sources.
• Linked the new backoff implementation with undefined-symbol checking and verified both overloads are exported. Loaded all six rebuilt frontend shared libraries into an existing CentOS 7 x86_64 TiKV-backed runtime. All 13 targeted regression tests passed, including 1,856 observed write-conflict retries. An additional 32,694-document update with nine indexes completed and passed index checks.
• Clang-format 18 and git diff --check passed. The upstream format check passed for commit 39260730; the full upstream build matrix is running in CI.

The local integration run used a single-node runtime and does not establish sustained multi-node behavior or an OOM limit.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Update boundaries and cursor state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Eloq cursor schema restoration src/mongo/db/modules/eloq/src/eloq_recovery_unit.*, src/mongo/db/modules/eloq/src/eloq_index.cpp, src/mongo/db/modules/eloq/src/eloq_record_store.cpp, src/mongo/db/modules/eloq/src/eloq_cursor.cpp	Cursors retain schema timestamps and table versions. Cursor operations restore table metadata before resuming. Closed index scans clear the current batch tuple.
Per-document update execution src/mongo/db/concurrency/*, src/mongo/db/service_entry_point_common.cpp, src/mongo/db/ops/write_ops_exec.cpp, src/mongo/db/query/plan_executor.cpp, src/mongo/db/query/plan_yield_policy.cpp	Standalone updates use per-document commit and retry boundaries. Explicit transactions retain interrupt-only yielding. Write-conflict backoff receives the operation context.
Update boundary validation tests/jstests/core/update_many_*.js, tests/jstests/eloq_basic/update_many_*.js, tests/jstests/core/update_arrayFilters.js, tests/jstests/core/update_dbref.js, scripts/buildscripts/resmokeconfig/suites/eloq_core.yml	Tests cover commit boundaries, large write sets, transactions, legacy updates, write-conflict retries, and updated write-error accessors. New core tests are added to the Eloq suite.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpdateCommand
  participant receivedUpdate
  participant performUpdates
  participant PlanExecutor
  participant WriteConflictException
  UpdateCommand->>receivedUpdate: execute update command
  receivedUpdate->>performUpdates: process update operations
  performUpdates->>PlanExecutor: run per-document update
  PlanExecutor->>WriteConflictException: back off with OperationContext
  WriteConflictException-->>PlanExecutor: sleep interruptibly and retry
  PlanExecutor-->>performUpdates: return document result
  performUpdates-->>receivedUpdate: return update result

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 39260

Write conflicts during standalone updates can block shared workers and ignore interruption during backoff. Pass the operation context to the retry backoff before merging.

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src/mongo/db/concurrency/write_conflict_exception.h (1)

111-111: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Pass opCtx to the retry backoff.

writeConflictRetry receives a valid OperationContext*, but line 111 selects the legacy overload that calls blocking sleepmillis. The update upsert path reaches this loop before creating its WriteUnitOfWork, so a write conflict bypasses the interruptible, coroutine-yielding backoff.

Proposed fix

-            WriteConflictException::logAndBackoff(attempts, opStr, ns);
+            WriteConflictException::logAndBackoff(opCtx, attempts, opStr, ns);

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In `@src/mongo/db/concurrency/write_conflict_exception.h` at line 111, Update the
writeConflictRetry call to WriteConflictException::logAndBackoff so it passes
the available OperationContext* (opCtx), selecting the interruptible
coroutine-yielding overload instead of the legacy blocking sleepmillis path.

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In `@src/mongo/db/concurrency/write_conflict_exception.h`:
- Line 111: Update the writeConflictRetry call to
WriteConflictException::logAndBackoff so it passes the available
OperationContext* (opCtx), selecting the interruptible coroutine-yielding
overload instead of the legacy blocking sleepmillis path.

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