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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b031b802e3 Rename FABRIC series: FABRIC.md->0, FABRIC-2.md->1, FABRIC-3.md->2, FABRIC-4.md unchanged
FABRIC.md -> FABRIC-0.md
FABRIC-2.md -> FABRIC-1.md
FABRIC-3.md -> FABRIC-2.md (the current/living document)
FABRIC-4.md unchanged (new #3 to follow separately)

Every cross-reference repo-wide updated to match, including doc-comment
citations inside kernel source (.c/.h) files -- done via an ordered
placeholder substitution (FABRIC-3.md->placeholder2, FABRIC-2.md->
placeholder1, FABRIC.md->placeholder0, then placeholders resolved to
final names) in a single pass per file to avoid double-shifting
already-renamed references.

One line in capsules/font.4th grew past the 64-char block-format limit
as a side effect of the longer filename; shortened it and reverified
with mkcapsule --lint (34/34 pass) before rebuilding.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground) after the fix; logs and DoE CSVs from this session's
verification runs included per this repo's own audit-artifact
convention.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
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/*
StarForth — Steady-State Virtual Machine Runtime
Copyright (c) 20232025 Robert A. James. All rights reserved.
Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0.
*/
/**
* timer.c (riscv64) - Timer using the `time` CSR.
*
* RISC-V provides `cycle` (per-hart clock cycles) and `time` (fixed-frequency
* wall clock). The primary timestamp source is `time`, read via rdtime, and
* its rate comes from the devicetree property timebase-frequency.
*
* This was `cycle` at an assumed 1 GHz until punch-list item 0.3. Two things
* forced the change: the SBI TIME extension arms deadlines against `time`, so
* mixing the two counters would compare unrelated clocks; and `cycle` has no
* discoverable frequency, so every heartbeat variance and TIME-TRUST figure
* riscv64 produced before this was measured against a wrong expected interval
* (FABRIC-0.md §16.2). Figures from before and after are not comparable.
*/
#include "timer.h"
#include "console.h"
#include "q48_16.h"
#include "uefi.h"
#include "starkernel/fdt.h"
#include <stdint.h>
#include <string.h>
/* FABRIC-2.md §I.5, 2026-09-04: real hypervisor-vs-hardware detection.
* s_cal.vm_mode was hardcoded to 1 unconditionally below -- see
* aarch64/timer.c's own running_under_hypervisor() doc comment for why
* that's wrong to reuse as a general "are we in QEMU" signal elsewhere
* (contrib-capsule trust-tier enforcement, §I.5). RISC-V has no ACPI
* here (this file's own devicetree-only timebase-frequency discovery
* above is the proof) but does have a devicetree, already parsed for
* exactly one other property -- the root node's "compatible" property
* carries QEMU's own machine-model string ("qemu" appears in it for the
* virt board) on every QEMU riscv64 target; real hardware vendors set
* their own compatible strings, never this one. bytes_contain() is a
* tiny local substring search -- no strstr dependency assumed available
* in this translation unit. */
static int bytes_contain(const uint8_t *hay, uint32_t haylen, const char *needle) {
size_t nlen = strlen(needle);
if (nlen == 0 || haylen < nlen) return 0;
for (uint32_t i = 0; i + nlen <= haylen; i++) {
if (memcmp(hay + i, needle, nlen) == 0) return 1;
}
return 0;
}
static int running_under_hypervisor(BootInfo *boot_info) {
if (!boot_info || !fdt_valid(boot_info->dtb)) return 0;
uint32_t len = 0;
const void *prop = fdt_find_prop(boot_info->dtb, "compatible", &len);
if (!prop) return 0;
return bytes_contain((const uint8_t *) prop, len, "qemu");
}
/**
* @brief Read the RISC-V wall-clock counter (@c rdtime, CSR @c time 0xC01).
*
* @c time is the memory-mapped real-time counter mandated by the privileged
* spec: fixed frequency, common to all harts, and — unlike @c cycle — its
* rate is discoverable, published by firmware as the devicetree property
* @c timebase-frequency.
*
* This replaces the earlier @c rdcycle() source. Two reasons, and the first
* is not optional:
*
* - **The SBI TIME extension is defined against @c time.** @c sbi_set_timer()
* takes an absolute value on this counter, so arming a timer from a
* @c cycle reading would compare two unrelated clocks.
* - **@c cycle's frequency is not discoverable**, which is why the previous
* implementation hardcoded an assumed 1 GHz. Every heartbeat variance and
* TIME-TRUST figure riscv64 has produced was therefore computed against a
* wrong expected interval.
*
* @return Current 64-bit @c time value.
*/
static inline uint64_t rdtime(void)
{
uint64_t val;
__asm__ volatile (
"rdtime %0" : "=r"(val));
return val;
}
/* Fallback when firmware publishes no devicetree, or none carrying
* timebase-frequency. 10 MHz is the QEMU virt machine's value. Named rather
* than inlined so that a boot running on the fallback is greppable and
* obviously distinct from a discovered rate. */
#define RISCV_TIMEBASE_HZ_FALLBACK 10000000ULL
/**
* @brief Print @p val in decimal via @c console_putc().
*
* Same shape as the file-local helper in @c arch/amd64/timer.c — there is no
* shared decimal printer in @c console.h, and the freestanding build has no
* @c printf(). Prints "0" for zero.
*
* @param val Value to print.
*/
static void print_dec(uint64_t val)
{
char buf[32];
int i = 0;
if (val == 0)
{
console_putc('0');
return;
}
while (val > 0 && i < (int)sizeof(buf))
{
buf[i++] = (char)('0' + (val % 10));
val /= 10;
}
while (i-- > 0)
{
console_putc(buf[i]);
}
}
static uint64_t s_counter_hz = RISCV_TIMEBASE_HZ_FALLBACK;
static uint64_t s_ns_per_tick = 0;
static uint64_t s_base_count = 0;
static uint64_t s_base_ns = 0;
static timer_calibration_record_t s_cal;
/*
* @brief Initialise the RISC-V timer subsystem (M5 milestone).
*
* RISC-V has no CSR reporting the counter frequency (unlike AArch64's
* @c CNTFRQ_EL0), so the rate is read from the devicetree property
* @c timebase-frequency, located via the blob the firmware publishes under
* @c EFI_DTB_TABLE_GUID and carried in @c BootInfo::dtb.
*
* Steps performed:
* 1. Reads @c timebase-frequency from @c boot_info->dtb when present;
* otherwise keeps @c RISCV_TIMEBASE_HZ_FALLBACK and says so on the console.
* 2. Snapshots @c rdtime() into @c s_base_count as the ns origin.
* 3. Computes @c s_ns_per_tick as @c (1e9 << 16) / @c s_counter_hz in
* Q16.16 fixed-point to avoid floating-point in the freestanding build.
* 4. Fills @c s_cal, setting @c TIMER_TRUST_ABSOLUTE only when the rate came
* from firmware. On the fallback the counter is still invariant, but its
* scaling to real time is a guess — which is @c TIMER_TRUST_RELATIVE.
*
* @param boot_info Kernel @c BootInfo; @c ::dtb supplies the counter rate.
* NULL, or a NULL/invalid blob, selects the fallback.
* @return 0 always.
*/
int timer_init(BootInfo *boot_info)
{
uint32_t hz = 0;
int discovered = 0;
/* Discover the counter rate rather than assuming it. The devicetree is
* the only source: RISC-V has no CNTFRQ_EL0 equivalent. boot_info->dtb is
* NULL when firmware published no devicetree, in which case the named
* fallback stands and the banner says so. */
if (boot_info && fdt_valid(boot_info->dtb))
{
if (fdt_prop_u32(boot_info->dtb, "timebase-frequency", &hz) && hz != 0)
{
s_counter_hz = (uint64_t)hz;
discovered = 1;
}
}
s_base_count = rdtime();
s_base_ns = 0;
s_ns_per_tick = (1000000000ULL << 16) / s_counter_hz;
s_cal.tsc_hz_mean = s_counter_hz;
s_cal.hpet_hz = 0;
s_cal.pit_hz_mean = 0;
s_cal.converged = 1;
s_cal.vm_mode = running_under_hypervisor(boot_info) ? 1 : 0;
/* ABSOLUTE only when the rate came from firmware. On the fallback the
* counter is still monotonic and invariant, but its scaling to real time
* is a guess, which is exactly the RELATIVE case. */
s_cal.trust = discovered ? TIMER_TRUST_ABSOLUTE : TIMER_TRUST_RELATIVE;
console_puts("Timer: RISC-V time CSR @ ");
print_dec(s_counter_hz);
console_println(discovered ? " Hz (devicetree)" : " Hz (FALLBACK, no devicetree)");
return 0;
}
/**
* @brief Return the `time` counter frequency in Hz.
*
* Returns @c s_counter_hz — discovered from the devicetree's
* @c timebase-frequency when available, otherwise
* @c RISCV_TIMEBASE_HZ_FALLBACK. Used by @c apic_timer_init() to compute the
* expected inter-tick period and by the shim time backend to convert `time`
* counts to nanoseconds.
*
* @return `time` counter frequency in Hz.
*/
uint64_t timer_tsc_hz(void)
{
return s_counter_hz;
}
/**
* @brief Return a monotonic nanosecond timestamp.
*
* Reads @c rdtime(), computes the elapsed delta from @c s_base_count
* (captured at @c timer_init()), and converts to nanoseconds using the
* Q16.16 fixed-point @c s_ns_per_tick:
*
* @code
* ns = s_base_ns + ((delta * s_ns_per_tick) >> 16)
* @endcode
*
* The 64-bit product of @c delta × @c s_ns_per_tick wraps once elapsed real
* time reaches 2^48 ns (~3.26 days) — this bound is **independent of
* @c s_counter_hz**, since @c s_ns_per_tick scales inversely with frequency
* and the two effects cancel. Verified by direct computation, not carried
* over from the earlier @c cycle-based comment here, which claimed "~18
* seconds" and did not match the arithmetic either. Beyond ~3.26 days
* uptime @c timer_now_ns() wraps and produces incorrect values — a
* theoretical concern only for this single-hart POST-only kernel.
*
* @return Monotonic nanosecond count since @c timer_init(), starting at 0.
*/
uint64_t timer_now_ns(void)
{
uint64_t delta = rdtime() - s_base_count;
return s_base_ns + ((delta * s_ns_per_tick) >> 16);
}
/**
* @brief Check for `time` counter drift (RISC-V stub — always returns 0).
*
* On x86-64 this cross-checks the TSC against the HPET. The RISC-V @c time
* counter has no independent reference to check against at this milestone —
* and per the privileged spec it is architecturally required to be a fixed,
* synchronised rate across harts, unlike @c cycle. Always returns 0 (no
* drift) to satisfy the common call site.
*
* @return 0 always.
*/
int timer_check_drift_now(void) { return 0; }
/**
* @brief Return a pointer to the timer calibration record.
*
* Returns @c &s_cal, populated by @c timer_init() with the discovered (or
* fallback) frequency and the corresponding trust level — @c
* TIMER_TRUST_ABSOLUTE when @c timebase-frequency came from the devicetree,
* @c TIMER_TRUST_RELATIVE on the fallback. Consumed by @c kernel_main() for
* boot-log reporting and by the heartbeat subsystem's trust init.
*
* @return Pointer to the module-static calibration record; valid for the
* lifetime of the kernel.
*/
const timer_calibration_record_t *timer_calibration_record(void)
{
return &s_cal;
}
/**
* @brief Read the raw counter the riscv64 heartbeat is paced against.
*
* Item 0.8 (FABRIC-0.md §25.1): the shared heartbeat.c now owns
* heartbeat_init()/heartbeat_tick()/heartbeat_service()/heartbeat_ticks()/
* heartbeat_trust()/heartbeat_state(). This is the one piece that stays
* per-architecture -- the same @c rdtime() the timer deadline is armed
* against, not @c rdcycle() or any other source. Must read the same
* counter the deadline was programmed against: @c expected_delta is
* derived from timebase-frequency and is therefore in @c time units;
* measuring the interval with @c cycle instead would difference two
* unrelated clocks.
*
* @return Current `time` CSR value.
*/
uint64_t heartbeat_read_counter(void)
{
return rdtime();
}