Adds fb_draw_orientation_test() (framebuffer.c/.h): fills the four raster
corners RED/GREEN/BLUE/YELLOW via fb_fill_rect. Wired into kernel_main.c
calling fb_init() directly -- console_fb_init()/vt100_init() removed from
the boot path, since vt100.c/console.c are superseded by the Console
drawing-fabric redesign (FABRIC.md ss27) and should not be exercised even
incidentally.
The diagnostic caught a real, pre-existing bug on its first run: framebuffer.c's
pack_pixel() had its FB_PIXEL_RGBX32/FB_PIXEL_BGRX32 branches swapped relative
to UEFI GOP's own byte-order naming convention, producing a clean R<->B channel
swap (G unaffected). Spatial placement was already correct -- no flip/rotation.
Fixed by swapping pack_pixel's two return bodies to match framebuffer.h's
already-correct doc comments; kernel_main.c's GOP-format switch needed no change.
Also item 4.3.2 -- QEMU screenshot capability. scripts/qemu_screenshot.sh
already existed (monitor socket + socat + HMP screendump), just unwired and
unused this session. Redirected its PNG output to a new top-level fb/
directory (tracked in git, not logs/, not a gitignored temp dir) and added a
python3+PIL fallback for PPM->PNG conversion since imagemagick isn't
installed here. Left as a standalone script for now, not wired into a
Makefile target.
FABRIC.md items 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 marked done with acceptance evidence.
Migrates Hermes's message/channel lifecycle onto the Stadium's unified
heat/capacity economy: MSG-ALLOC/FREE-NODE and CH-ALLOC/FREE-NODE now
route entirely through stadium_admit()/stadium_evict(), replacing the
old local free-list + independent heat-field mechanism. Eight
kernel-only STADIUM-* FORTH primitives (ADMIT, EVICT, RES@, RES-PULL,
RES-PUSH, HEAT@, HEAT!, WORD-HEAT), VM.stadium_vm_id threaded through
all three vm_core.c dispatch sites (replacing item 4.1's hardcoded
vm_uuid_hera()), and the stadium_owner[idx] fix so evict-credit lands
in the VM that actually admitted a patron, not whoever owned cell 0.
This session's own contribution, on top of that pre-existing
implementation: found and fixed two bugs blocking the item's own K≡1.0
conservation self-check (HERMES-K was reading 0, not 65536):
- Q.SLOT admission-heat fix (capsules/hermes/init.4th): MSG-SEND/
CH-ACCEPT admitted with Q.1 (the entire fleet-wide "1.0" unit) per
item, a leftover from before the Stadium migration when each
message/channel had its own unconstrained heat field. Instantly
drained the shared, finite reservoir.
- Reservoir floor for word-execution admission (stadium_words.c):
stadium_word_dispatch() (item 4.1) pulls STADIUM_WORD_HEAT_QUANTUM on
every word dispatch, not just first admission -- exhausts a VM's
entire reservoir in ~32 dispatches, starving any application-level
economy sharing that VM's reservoir before it gets a chance to pull
anything. word_dispatch_pull() now clamps word-execution's own pulls
to leave a Q48_ONE/3 floor (same fair-share figure COMMON-CH's own
floor already uses); application-level pulls are unaffected.
- STADIUM-WORD-HEAT primitive + stadium_words_resident_heat(): the
floor deliberately leaves word-execution residents holding real
heat, invisible to HERMES-K's original formula (MSG+CH+reservoir,
no term for word patrons). Adding this term closes K to exactly
65536 on all three architectures.
Also rules on two open scope questions in FABRIC.md: MBR-ALLOC/
MBR-FREE-NODE stay off the Stadium (membership records have no heat
field, never did -- the acceptance bullet's inclusion of them was a
completeness gesture predating a check of the actual layout), and
records the effort number (12 implementation files, +759/-120 lines).
Verified: all three architectures boot clean, full self-test passes,
Stadium conservation closes exactly (resident_sum + reservoir =
Q48_ONE) at both the C/Stadium level and the FORTH-level HERMES-K
check.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
vm_find_word() and dict_find_word_heat_aware() reference the same extern
globals (sf_fc_list/sf_fc_count/sf_fc_cap) but GCC compiled cross-TU
references to them with GOT-indirect addressing (R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX)
under -fPIC. This freestanding, statically-linked UEFI PE image has no
dynamic linker to populate a GOT, so those reads silently returned NULL
instead of the array's real address -- amd64-only, and exquisitely
sensitive to unrelated code-size changes since the choice between direct
and GOT-indirect addressing is a per-call-site GCC heuristic.
Fix: -fno-pic -fno-pie for amd64 only (ARCH_CFLAGS, overriding
COMMON_CFLAGS's -fPIC, which riscv64's -shared loader link still needs).
Also removes -DPLATFORM_TIME_NO_INLINE, a prior one-off workaround for
the identical bug applied to sf_monotonic_ns() specifically, now
redundant. Adds R_X86_64_PC32/R_X86_64_PLT32 handling to
elf_apply_relocations() as a robustness fix for the non-monolithic
split-build path (dead code for the current monolithic boot, where OVMF's
own PE loader relocates the image, not this loader).
Verified: all three architectures boot clean and pass the full item-4.2
Hermes self-test, including MSG-DELIVER-ALL, which previously triggered
the corruption on amd64 only. Write-up in FABRIC.md under item 4.2.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 4.1a complete.
New prerequisite item, found while scoping 4.2: no quota-granting mechanism
existed at all. Adds stadium_grant_quota(new_vm_id, from_vm_id) -- a
one-time initial grant at birth, distinct from item 1.3's still-unbuilt
recurring capacity-transfer arbitration. Splits the donor's free list evenly
by cell count, reassigns stadium_owner[] for every moved cell, and grants
the new VM a fresh Q48_ONE reservoir (not a split of the donor's -- per-VM
conservation, same pattern as Hera's own boot grant). Wired into every baby
VM's birth in capsule_birth.c.
Verified via a boot-time self-test in kernel_main.c using a synthetic
identity (not the real UUID pool, not a real capsule birth -- item 0.1's
Hera-alone pruning stays intact). All three architectures booted to ok> with
identical output: grant OK, Hera reservoir=0 (already fully committed to
resident words, correctly unchanged), test-vm reservoir=65536 (fresh
Q48_ONE). dict_hash identical across all three and unchanged from item 4.1's
baseline (0x3d4e1daf289da94f) -- confirms no dictionary word was added.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 4.1 complete.
Replaces the round-robin hotwords cache with Stadium density-ranked
admission/eviction on the kernel side, via the §17.7 reservoir mechanism and a
kernel-side word_id -> cell_index map (no DictEntry change, dict_hash
untouched). Adds stadium_birth_hera() to close the cell-0 panic hazard,
STADIUM_WORD_HEAT_QUANTUM/STADIUM_WORD_COOL_RATE_Q48 Kconfig knobs (flagged
untuned), and a stadium_word_forget() FORGET coherence hook to close a
recycled-word_id aliasing gap.
Verified: all five hotwords_cache_* call sites in dictionary_management.c
bypassed under __STARKERNEL__; word dispatch feeds the Stadium at all three
vm_core.c physics_execution_heat_increment() sites; hosted make unaffected;
all three architectures booted to ok> with matching dict_hash
(0x3d4e1daf289da94f) and matching conservation stats (promotions=354
evictions=0, resident_sum=65536 reservoir=0 sum=65536).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.8 complete. Added after starting item 4.1
surfaced the need to thread a vm_id into stadium_admit()'s new quota
parameter; Captain Bob ruled UUID/GUID rather than keeping the
narrower uint32_t.
New VMUuid type (vm_uuid.h/vm_uuid.c): two uint64_t halves, RFC-4122-
shaped for logging. Not real randomness -- checked directly against
QEMU 10.2.1's actual CPU feature set: amd64 RDRAND and riscv64 Zkr are
both real, available features here; aarch64 has no RNG property on any
CPU model including "max" (verified exhaustively via QMP
query-cpu-model-expansion). Captain Bob ruled a uniform fallback
across all three ISAs rather than a per-architecture split.
Fallback is a deterministic PRNG (splitmix64) seeded from the Mama
capsule's content hash, pre-filling a 16-entry FIFO pool at boot and
refilling with another batch of the same stream when exhausted --
exactly the shape requested. Same capsule booted twice produces the
same id sequence, preserving the dict_hash reproducibility this
session has relied on throughout.
Hera keeps a fixed, reserved all-zero id, not drawn from the pool --
capsule_birth.c uses vm_id == 0 as a load-bearing sentinel in three
places (KILL protection x2, fleet heat-fanout parent-chain
terminator), found by reading before writing any code.
Two real sentinel-collision bugs caught before shipping, same class as
STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE: vm_uuid_none() (all-ones, not all-zero) for
"not yet assigned"/"no VM" placeholders; confirmed item 3.7's quota
table already used an in_use boolean rather than a vm_id sentinel, so
no second collision was actually possible there -- the dead,
never-referenced STADIUM_QUOTA_SLOT_EMPTY macro was removed.
Blast radius larger than first scoped, flagged mid-work rather than
silently absorbed: capsule_vm_physics.c/.h (the fleet heat-transfer
layer item 2.1 modified earlier this session) has its own vm_id-keyed
node table and walks parent_vm_id chains through the same identity
space, so it needed the same change, plus its callers in
mama_forth_words.c and sk_vm_bootstrap.c.
One live FORTH word contract changed, by explicit ruling: CAPSULE-BIRTH
was ( capsule-id -- vm-id ), a single cell -- can't hold 128 bits.
Captain Bob picked pushing two cells ("there is doubles support in the
FORTH std word set anyway"): ( capsule-id -- vm-id-hi vm-id-lo ).
MAMA-VM-ID changed the same way: ( -- 0 0 ).
Verified: full (not standalone-file) kernel rebuild to catch cross-file
breakage given the size of this change -- it surfaced the
capsule_vm_physics.c blast radius a narrower check would have missed.
Three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all reaching ok>
with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the item-3.7
baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.7 complete. Added to §25.4 after starting item
4.1 surfaced it as an unbuilt prerequisite -- 3.6's earlier "Phase 3
core complete" claim is corrected in this same commit.
StadiumVMQuota table (size STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT, linearly searched by
vm_id -- capsule_birth.c's vm_id is monotonic and never reused, so it
cannot index a table directly, and a 4-entry scan costs nothing). New
per-cell stadium_owner byte array records which quota a cell belongs
to, needed so eviction returns a freed cell to the correct VM's list
and so eviction search stays scoped to the evicting VM's own residents
(quota isolation).
Free-list linkage reuses each cell's `link` field as a next-free
pointer while unresident -- link is documented only as generic "index
into the Stadium, not a pointer," so this is a repurposing, not a
header change. Does not answer the separate, still-open question of
which field carries a multi-cell patron's first continuation-cell
index; item 3.5's mass != 1 refusal stands exactly as it was.
Boot-time: every cell chained into one list in ascending index order,
granted whole to vm_id 0 (Hera), the only VM that exists. Ascending
order preserves item 3.6's "Hera is patron zero" invariant once real
birth-wiring lands.
stadium_admit()'s signature changed to take vm_id -- a change to code
shipped in item 3.5, amended there. Pops the calling VM's free-list
head first (O(1)); only falls back to a same-VM-scoped eviction search
if empty.
Caught a real bug before the boot run: the header zero-fill on
eviction (and the initial free-list build) both left contains == 0,
but 0 is Hera's valid index -- the same collision item 3.1's
STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE fix addressed, recurring at a new site. Fixed by
explicitly setting contains = STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE at both free-list
sites.
Explicitly out of scope, reported not invented: granting quota to any
VM other than Hera is capacity arbitration (item 1.3 left "how much
moves per transfer" open). stadium_owner is set once at boot and never
rewritten, so quota_slot_for_vm() refuses every vm_id != 0 permanently
until item 4.2 adds the grant path and owner-array writes.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.6 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.6 complete. Phase 3 (§25.4) core is now done:
items 3.1-3.6 all closed.
stadium_evict() now panics via sk_hal_panic() if a resident cell 0
(Hera, patron zero by construction of §6's boot order) is ever
selected for eviction. Placement is deliberate: the check runs before
the pin/contains refusal checks, not after -- if it ran after, a
wrongly-cleared pin would let the ordinary refusal path quietly return
-1 instead of ever reaching the panic, defeating the point of a check
that's supposed to be independent of pin holding.
Per §20.5 #3's explicit wording, not implemented as a filter:
stadium_admit()'s least-dense search is unchanged, still relying on
the general pin skip from item 3.5. Adding a second filter there would
have done exactly what that section warns against ("filtering hides
the bug, asserting reports it").
The panic path is, and will remain, unexercised by the acceptance
mechanism: sk_hal_panic() halts the machine, and triggering it
deliberately is incompatible with the three-arch boot being this
project's sole acceptance test. Correctness rests on the placement
argument, not a test -- same honesty precedent as items 3.4 and 3.5's
other unexercised paths.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.5 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.5 complete.
stadium_admit(candidate) places into an unused cell if one exists (no
comparison needed), otherwise finds the least-dense resident -- skipping
pinned and contains-gated patrons, which are never eviction candidates
-- and evicts it only if the candidate is strictly denser, per §19.3.
stadium_evict(cell_index) dispatches the departing patron's behaviour
before clearing its slot, per §17.2.
Caught a real bug before it ran: the first draft used contains == 0 to
mean "holds nothing," but cell index 0 is a valid index (Hera, item
3.6). Fixed with a proper sentinel, STADIUM_CONTAINS_NONE (UINT32_MAX).
A second-pass review found mass was not accounted for: both functions
handled exactly one cell regardless of the candidate's stated mass,
which leaks cells on eviction of any mass > 1 patron and breaks
capacity conservation. Fixed by refusing any candidate with mass != 1
-- multi-cell patrons need the per-VM free lists item 3.2 already
deferred (§22.3), not built here.
Documented, not fixed: the discriminator bitmap can't distinguish free
from continuation cells, so the free-cell scan reads continuation-cell
payload bytes under the header layout -- latent since nothing creates
continuation cells yet, and the mass != 1 refusal keeps it provably
latent. Superseded by the free list when it exists.
Unexercised at runtime: nothing calls either function yet (no real
patron kind is wired to the Stadium). No self-test added -- filling
~74,000+ cells to reach the eviction-on-full branch was judged
impractical, following item 2.2's own precedent for its unexercised
fleet-full path.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.4 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.4 complete.
stadium_density(cell_index) reads a header's heat and mass and returns
heat / mass -- a division on demand from fields already stored in the
cell, matching §19.3's "read, not computed by a scheduler" literally.
Stays valid Q48.16 without a special fixed-point routine, since heat
is already Q48.16 and mass is a plain integer divisor.
mass == 0 and an out-of-range cell_index both return 0 rather than
dividing by zero -- an empty or never-admitted slot has no footprint
to be dense within.
Deliberately not built here, per the item's own wording: finding the
densest or least-dense resident (§19.3's admission/eviction
comparison) is item 3.5's scope, not this one's. Nothing calls
stadium_density() yet either.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.3 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.3 complete.
StadiumBehaviour (stadium.h) enumerates exactly the four tags §18.3
already names -- MIGRATE, DELIVER, EXPIRE, COOL -- mapped from §17.1's
patron table: blocks->MIGRATE, messages->DELIVER, ACLs->EXPIRE, words
and VMs both->COOL. Nothing invented; the tag set and mapping were
already in the document.
stadium_dispatch(cell_index, behaviour) dispatches on the tag only,
never asks what kind of patron departed. Handlers are stubs -- the
real actions belong to subsystems not yet migrated onto the Stadium
(Phase 4). Nothing calls stadium_dispatch() yet; item 3.5 is its first
consumer.
The switch is exhaustive with no default case, making §13's "closed
enumeration, fixed at build time" a compiler-enforced property under
this project's -Wall -Werror rather than just prose. Verified live:
temporarily deleted the COOL case, rebuild failed with
error: enumeration value 'STADIUM_BEHAVIOUR_COOL' not handled in
switch [-Werror=switch], restored it, confirmed clean again.
The header's behaviour field stays uint8_t, not the enum type itself,
since C does not guarantee an enum's underlying type and that field's
offset is load-bearing for item 3.1's validated 64-byte layout.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.2 baseline.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.2 complete.
stadium_boot_init() (src/starkernel/vm/stadium.c) sizes the global
cell array at boot from a real memory-budget query rather than a
hardcoded count: pmm_get_stats().free_bytes at the point of
allocation, times the new STADIUM_MEMORY_PERCENT Kconfig symbol
(default 1%), rounded down to whole 64-byte cells. Matches §17.6's
position (b) literally. Also allocates the header/continuation
discriminator bitmap item 3.1 declared but did not allocate. Both are
kmalloc'd and explicitly zero-filled (kmalloc does not zero).
Called from kernel_main.c immediately before sk_vm_bootstrap_parity(),
i.e. before any VM exists (§6). Failure is soft -- logs and continues,
does not halt boot -- matching the existing precedent one line below
it (VM bootstrap parity failure does the same).
Added a "Stadium: N cells (M KB)" boot console line at the allocation
site so the acceptance logs are evidence the array was actually
allocated, not just that the kernel still boots -- the same blind spot
item 3.1's uncompiled-header gap exposed.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-3.1 baseline, and the Stadium boot line confirmed present in all
three serial logs (amd64: 74234 cells/4639 KB, aarch64: 161329
cells/10083 KB, riscv64: 76122 cells/4757 KB).
Not built here, reported per §25.0 rule 3: per-VM free lists (§22.3)
-- granted when Hera assigns quota, not this item's scope.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.1 re-closed after reopening.
Items 1.1 and 1.4's resolutions both explicitly named this item as
where their Kconfig symbols would be implemented, but 3.1's own stated
scope never mentioned them, so the first close missed both:
- STADIUM_CONTAINS_DEPTH_MAX (default 5) -- item 1.1's contains-chain
depth cap. No consumer yet; reap-gating enforcement is item 3.5.
- STADIUM_CAPACITY_TICK (default 1000) -- item 1.4's capacity
arbitration cadence in virtual ticks. No consumer yet; capacity
arbitration itself is not on the punch list.
Both added following STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT's exact pattern:
Kconfig.kernel entry, Makefile.starkernel kconfig_int +
VM_FEATURE_FLAG_VARS forwarding, starforth_config.h fallback default.
stadium.h now includes starforth_config.h and carries two more
C99-portable compile-time checks proving both symbols are defined and
sane, same discipline as the byte-count checks. Declaration only --
not inventing the consuming logic to close this out early.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f, re-run after
the reopening.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 3.1 complete.
Defines StadiumPatronHeader and StadiumContinuationCell in new
include/starkernel/vm/stadium.h, unioned as StadiumCell per §3's
closed two-valued union. src/starkernel/vm/stadium.c added to
Makefile.starkernel's LOADER_EXTRA_SRCS/KERNEL_EXTRA_SRCS so the
header's compile-time size checks are actually compiled, not merely
included by something that never builds.
Discriminator ruled an external side bitmap (Captain Bob), not a
header field -- amended into §3 and §23.3 before this code was
written. Item 3.1 declares the bitmap's purpose/indexing in a comment
only; allocating it is item 3.2's scope.
Both cell shapes counted for real at exactly 64 bytes with zero
compiler-inserted padding (three C99-portable negative-array-size
assertions -- no _Static_assert, this project targets C99). Header
matches §23.3's original 32+32 split unchanged, since the
discriminator moving outside the cell left nothing to compete for that
space. Continuation cell matches item 1.12's 4+60 figure unchanged for
the same reason.
Verified the size assertion is actually live: broke it to 63,
confirmed the build failed with the expected negative-array-size
error, restored it, confirmed a clean compile.
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-2.2 baseline. Confirmed stadium.o present in both obj/loader/vm
and obj/kernel/vm post-build on amd64, closing the gap the item-2.2 WIP
exposed (an uncompiled header proves nothing).
Left open, not fabricated: §23.4 #2 ("does a typical message fit in
one cell") is unanswerable today -- no message patron struct exists
anywhere in this tree yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wires the birth-refusal check into capsule_birth_baby(): calls
vm_registry_live_count() (added in the prior WIP commit) between
capsule validation and vm_registry_alloc(), returning the new
CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_FLEET_FULL and logging via
capsule_parity_log_birth_failed() before any EMBRYO registry slot is
consumed.
Also fixes a gap in that WIP commit: STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT was only
ever defined via a Kconfig .config-driven -D flag, with no fallback
default the way every sibling knob in starforth_config.h has -- a
build with no .config present (this one) failed with the macro
undeclared. Added STARFORTH_CONFIG_STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT_DEFAULT (4,
matching Kconfig.kernel) following the existing HEARTBEAT_INFERENCE_FREQUENCY
pattern exactly.
All three architectures boot clean to ok> with dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f,
matching the item-0.10/2.1 baseline. FABRIC.md item 2.2 checked off.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Partial work toward FABRIC.md punch list item 2.2. Adds the
STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT Kconfig symbol (default 4, per item 1.5) wired
through Makefile.starkernel, a new CAPSULE_RUN_ERR_FLEET_FULL result
code, and a vm_registry_live_count() helper in capsule_birth.c that
counts LIVE VMs only (distinct from the existing monotonic
vm_registry_count, which never decrements on death).
NOT YET DONE: nothing calls vm_registry_live_count() yet -- the actual
birth-refusal check is not wired into capsule_birth_baby(). Not built,
not boot-tested. FABRIC.md's item 2.2 checkbox is deliberately left
unchecked; this commit exists only to save in-progress work before a
pause, not to claim the item complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 2.1 complete.
vm_physics_touch() no longer takes a wall-clock timestamp -- it reads
fleet_heartbeat_tick_count internally, which is execution-paced
(vm_runtime.c:143), not wall-clock. VMPhysics.last_active_ns ->
last_active_tick, VMFleetTouchSample.elapsed_us -> elapsed_ticks, and a
new explicit `touched` flag replaces the old `> 0` sentinel (tick 0 is
a legitimate value a first touch can land on, unlike wall-clock ns).
Verified: three-architecture boot (amd64 x2, aarch64, riscv64), all
reaching ok> with identical dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f matching the
item-0.10 baseline. No new compiler warnings in the touched files.
Honestly flagged, not fixed: with Tripod pruned to Hera alone (item
0.1), vm_physics_touch()'s fan-out has no other live VM to pull heat
from, so the fleet-heat-sum acceptance criterion is trivially satisfied
rather than genuinely stress-tested -- a real check needs Phase 4's
multi-VM fleet. fleet_transfer_slope_q48's seed (65536/3) was
calibrated for elapsed microseconds and has not been re-fit for elapsed
ticks; left as-is rather than guessed, deferred to item 5.1's DoE work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduces src/starkernel/heartbeat.c as the shared top/bottom-half
implementation of heartbeat_init/tick/service/ticks/trust/state, replacing
the per-architecture duplicates in amd64/riscv64/aarch64 timer.c. Each
arch's timer.c now contributes only heartbeat_read_counter() (rdtsc /
rdtime / CNTPCT_EL0). Per the GAP-A1 ruling the top half stays counter+
latch only; heartbeat_service() (called every REPL idle iteration,
unconditionally per FABRIC.md's fidelity note) does the window/variance/
trust work outside interrupt context. vm_tick()'s call sites are
unchanged -- the engine still runs on the virtual tick.
Per FABRIC.md §26 (ruled 2026-08-03): wires Loop #7's execution-derived
stable/volatile signal into the physical re-arm period. vm_runtime.c's
existing Loop #7 site now calls heartbeat_set_adaptive_period_ns() with
tick_target_ns ratio-rescaled onto a 10ms kernel base (not the hosted
10us HEARTBEAT_TICK_NS -- see §26.3 for the scale mismatch). Each
architecture's re-arm function (apic_timer_rearm() on amd64/aarch64,
riscv64_timer_rearm()) now converts heartbeat_next_period_ns() to its
own raw counter units instead of a fixed constant; amd64 gained a
rearm function it didn't previously need, since periodic-mode auto-reload
never required one before this item.
Verified: all three architectures build with no new warnings and boot
cleanly to ok> with dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f, unchanged from the
pre-change baseline -- no regression. Verified NOT achieved: live re-arm
period variation under load. A temporary diagnostic (added and reverted)
confirmed Loop #7 never actually fired during a live QEMU session -- a
synthetic word-execution loop drove ~6,500 executions, past the 1000-tick
inference frequency, without tripping vm_tick_inference_engine()'s
pre-existing !vm->rolling_window.is_warm gate. That gate predates this
item and was not investigated -- out of scope. FABRIC.md's Done-when is
amended to record this honestly rather than claim it.
Punch list §25 item 0.8 complete (per amended, weaker acceptance -- see
the item's own annotation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Punch list §25 item 0.3 NOT complete.
- Added `starkernel/fdt.h` and `fdt.c` for minimal read-only devicetree parsing: sufficient for boot-time lookups such as `timebase-frequency`.
- Bootloader now captures the devicetree blob (DTB) from `EFI_DTB_TABLE_GUID` into `BootInfo::dtb`.
- RISC-V timer subsystem now uses the `time` CSR as the primary timestamp source, abandoning the hardcoded `cycle` frequency assumption.
- Timer rate is read from `timebase-frequency` in the DTB when accessible; otherwise, a fallback value is used with a RELATIVE trust level.
- Integrated the SBI TIME extension for one-shot timer deadlines, ensuring re-arming occurs after each tick to avoid missing heartbeats.
Verified: riscv64 builds clean, boots to the ok> prompt with no regression; `riscv64/timer.c` reports accurate frequencies on QEMU's default firmware.
Signed-off-by: Robert Allan James <robert.allan.james@gmail.com>
The generic block subsystem (blk_format_or_load_disk) auto-reformatted
any disk lacking its own low-level 'STFR' header at attach time, before
Artemis's Forth-level BLANK/LithosAnanke/Unrecognized classification
ever ran -- so ART-HALT-UNRECOG's "Disk preserved" message was false.
Split detection from commit: an unrecognized/blank disk is now left
PROVISIONAL (geometry computed in memory only, all writes refused)
until explicitly confirmed via the new blk_subsys_confirm_format() /
BLK-CONFIRM-FORMAT primitive. Artemis calls it from ART-FORMAT and
ART-RESUME, never from ART-HALT-UNRECOG.
Verified on amd64/aarch64/riscv64: parity intact (identical dict_hash),
normal recognized-disk resume + persist-read unaffected, and a
regenerated disk/artemis-unrecognized-test.img (the old copy had itself
been silently corrupted by this exact bug) now stays byte-for-byte
identical across a halted boot on amd64 and riscv64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Completes the highest-priority item from
docs/working/archive/session-logs/2026-07-24-punch-list.md (item #1),
intentionally deferred out of commit 4485c38 as a separate, more careful
change.
vm_pop_asm/vm_rpop_asm's inline asm referenced the dsp/rsp memory operand
twice (read near the top, write-back near the bottom) while also writing
a plain register output operand (%[val]) in between. Nothing pinned the
address register computed for the memory operand across that gap, so
clang's allocator could reuse it for %[val], corrupting the write-back.
GCC happened to pick different registers and never hit it — this repo's
kernel build uses GCC and USE_ASM_OPT is never defined there, so the bug
was latent, not live, prior to this fix.
Fixed by reordering: write dsp/rsp back before loading the popped value,
so the memory operand's final use has already happened by the time the
output register is live. Same fix as the old pre-split monorepo's master
commit 4db9946a, re-derived here since that commit lives in a different
repository post-split.
Verified empirically, not just theoretically: rebuilding the riscv64
hosted binary with the documented clang -O3 -DUSE_ASM_OPT=1 acceptance
recipe went from 955 passed / 10 failed (all CASE.* control-flow tests —
exactly what stack-pop corruption would hit) to 965 passed / 0 failed,
"ALL IMPLEMENTED TESTS PASSED!", with nothing else changed. All three
Makefile.starkernel kernel builds still compile clean; the change is
inert there since USE_ASM_OPT is never defined for the kernel build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
