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Hendrik Liebau 5b0aa04b10 Persist 'use cache: private' entries in dev (#94694)
Private caches were never stored in a cache handler, so every reload in
`next dev` re-ran them from scratch and they registered as a cache miss
on each load. This change persists `'use cache: private'` entries in
development in a dedicated built-in in-memory handler so that warm
reloads are fast. The handler is gated on
`process.env.__NEXT_DEV_SERVER` and is kept out of the kind-keyed
handlers map so it can never be replaced by a user-configured `default`
handler: private cache entries can hold data specific to the incoming
request (for example, derived from its cookies or headers) and must
never reach a remote or otherwise persistent handler. Production keeps
private caches non-persisted as before.

The coarse cache-handler key for a dev private cache is scoped by the
request's cookies and headers so entries for requests with different
request data don't collide. It excludes Next-internal cookies that
aren't application data (the HMR refresh hash, already part of the cache
key, and the instant-navigation cookie, which toggles while a navigation
lock is held) and the transport and content-negotiation headers that
vary between otherwise-equivalent requests (a browser reload adds
`cache-control`, and `accept` and `sec-fetch-*` differ between an HTML
navigation and an RSC request). Keying by only the cookies and headers a
cache actually reads is left as a follow-up; read root params are
already tracked that way, the same as for public caches. The cache life
is forced to `revalidate: 0` with a 5-minute `expire`, so each read
serves the stale entry immediately and warms a fresh one in the
background through the existing stale-while-revalidate path.

Cross-request deduplication now applies to private caches in development
too, so concurrent requests with identical request data share a single
fill; it remains skipped in production where request-specific data must
not be shared across requests. To make this deterministic,
`saveToCacheHandler` resolves the metadata a cross-request joiner awaits
only after the entry has been written to the handler, so the joiner
finds it when re-reading its recomputed key. This closes a pre-existing
race in that path, present for public caches too but never surfaced by
their cross-request test, where the joiner's metadata could resolve
before the handler write had landed.

The defensive invariant that rejected reading a private entry from a
handler is removed: it only existed to narrow `cacheContext.kind` for a
code path that no longer needs it, and dev now legitimately reads
persisted private entries while production never registers a private
handler to read from.
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