[DawnofGenX]

Fixes #22241

A parallel worker can find a module's cache entry missing when the cache write was dropped: SqliteMetadataStore.write() returns False on sqlite3.OperationalError ("database is locked" after the busy timeout) and write_cache deliberately tolerates that, as sequential mypy does. In -n mode two places turned that tolerated condition into an assertion:

• State.reload_meta() asserted that the meta exists. It now keeps the interface hash it already has, so dependents revalidate against the cache. Its only caller (maybe_load_deps) is already guarded by parallel_worker, so the sequential path is untouched.
• State.load_tree() left self.tree as None when the data file was missing, which crashed later in fix_cross_refs() ("method must be called on parsed file only"). A parallel worker now parses the source instead — a dropped cache write is a cache miss, not an internal error. Without this second half the first one only moved the crash downstream, which is why both are here.

Verification

Reproduced first: a two-process harness (a helper holds the sqlite write lock for 7s while mypy -n 4 --cache-dir cache runs) produces the reported crash on pre-fix code — three workers fail with assert new_meta_pair is not None (INTERNAL ERROR). A clean parallel run with no lock succeeds 5/5, so the crash comes from the dropped write.

Each half has a regression test that bites:

• test_reload_meta_missing_cache_is_noop: with a cache directory that has no meta for the module, restoring the old assert new_meta_pair is not None makes this test fail with AssertionError; with the fix the existing interface hash is kept.
• test_load_tree_parses_when_cache_data_is_missing: with a real source file and an empty cache directory, removing only the load_tree() fallback makes this test fail (state.tree stays None); with the fix the source is parsed.

Both tests use a real temporary cache directory and a real source file instead of mock.patch on mypy.build: patching module-level functions has no effect in mypyc-compiled builds (globals are resolved statically there), so a mock-based version passes interpreted and fails compiled.

On this PR's base (upstream/master at the time of writing): pytest mypy/test/testgraph.py → 14 passed; pytest mypy/test/testcheck.py -k "parallel or cache" → 49 passed, 3 skipped. ruff 0.14.3 check and black 26.1.0 --check are clean on both changed files.

Scope

The dropped write can leave the meta present but the data file missing, or vice versa; both are now treated as cache misses. This does not change the cache format, and it does not make concurrent runs that share one cache directory supported (#13916) — it removes the assertions that turned a tolerated condition into a crash.

Not run here: the two-mypy -n-processes variant from the issue (the single-process + lock-holder harness triggers the same dropped-write path).

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According to mypy_primer, this change doesn't affect type check results on a corpus of open source code. ✅