Implements the message-arrival eligibility signal FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII.1 left open (has_work per-slot flag, set via new SWITCH-MARK-WORK primitive from MSG-SEND) so an idle VM never becomes a switch target purely by waiting out the readiness threshold. Also root-causes and fixes a second, independent switch-storm: the tick's "who is current" check used vm_log_attributed_vm(), which can't see a VM parked in switch.c's own raw trampoline. Replaced with a dedicated g_switch_current_vm tracked by the switch mechanism itself, and moved target-slot eligibility reset to the switch decision point instead of relying on ISR polling to observe a window that can be only a few instructions wide. Verified live on all 3 architectures: clean boot to zuse@Hera] ok>, live cross-VM message dispatch, and (since a quiet log looks identical to a livelocked storm once the DoE probe is gone) confirmed genuine REPL liveness via QMP send-key + screendump on aarch64/riscv64, not log inspection alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
include/starkernel/vm/
Headers for the kernel-side VM subsystem (src/starkernel/vm/).
arena.h— the capsule arena allocator: fixed-region allocation for capsule payload data, separate fromkmalloc's general kernel heap.parity.h— the birth/execution parity-record logger: declares the logging interface used to record VM ID, capsule content hash, and dictionary hash on every capsule birth, enabling offline determinism verification across independent kernel runs.
See include/starkernel/vm/bootstrap/README.md for the VM bootstrap
subsystem.