Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Replaces STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT (Kconfig, hardcoded default 4) with a boot-time computation, mirroring the pattern stadium_boot_init() already used for the cell pool. New Kconfig STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT (default 50): max_vm_count = (kmalloc_get_stats().free_bytes after the cell array * STADIUM_VM_MEMORY_PERCENT / 100) / VM_MEMORY_SIZE, floored to 1, no ceiling (population is not knowable in advance - could be 4, could be 4000). stadium_quotas and word_slots (plus stat_promotions/stat_evictions) are now kmalloc'd to the computed count instead of declared with a macro. New accessor stadium_max_vm_count() replaces every STADIUM_MAX_VM_COUNT reference, including capsule_birth.c's birth-refusal gate. Two things found and fixed along the way: - The existing cell-pool budget was sourced from pmm_get_stats(), which reflects physical pages PMM hasn't handed to any subsystem yet - but the actual allocation is kmalloc(), which draws from the separate, fixed-size heap kmalloc_init() (M6) already carved out of PMM before stadium_boot_init() ever runs. Budgeting against PMM's leftover and allocating from the kmalloc heap are two different pools. Both the cell budget and the new VM-count budget now source from kmalloc_get_stats() instead. - stadium_owner[] (which VM's quota owns each cell) was uint8_t, capped at 255 slots by a compile-time assert tied to the old macro. Widened to uint16_t (65535 slots of headroom) with a runtime clamp + log if the computed count ever exceeds that, since there's no ceiling anymore. Three-arch QEMU acceptance: all clean to ok>, computed VM count genuinely differs by actual available RAM (amd64/riscv64: 50 slots at -m 1024, aarch64: 101 slots), Stadium conservation invariant identical across all three (resident_sum=43691 reservoir=21845 sum=65536). logs/20260815-080526/amd64, logs/20260815-080826/aarch64, logs/20260815-080952/riscv64. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/
Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers
live under include/starkernel/.
Core VM
vm.h— theVMstruct and all core types (DictEntry,DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.vm_api.h— external VM API surface.vm_host.h,vm_debug.h,startup.h,version.h— host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.cli.h,repl.h,io.h,log.h— CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.word_registry.h— word registration system shared by everysrc/word_source/*.cfile.compudynamics.h— the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()) consumed byssm_jacquard.c.
Memory / blocks
memory_management.h,dictionary_management.h— dictionary allocator and search.block_subsystem.h,blkcfg.h,blkio.h,blkio_factory.h— logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).platform_alloc.h,platform_lock.h,platform_time.h— platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.h— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.h— Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.physics_metadata.h— per-wordDictPhysicsmetadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.h— Loop #4, word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.h— execution instrumentation hook points.rolling_window_of_truth.h,rolling_window_knobs.h— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.inference_engine.h— Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.dictionary_heat_optimization.h— Loop #1 heat counters.ssm_jacquard.h— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.doe_metrics.h— Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.profiler.h— performance profiling hooks.
Arithmetic / codegen
q48_16.h— Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).math_portable.h— portable math helpers.arch_detect.h,starforth_config.h— architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a.cfile is compiled by hand withoutmake).vm_asm_opt.h,vm_asm_opt_arm64.h,vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h,vm_inner_interp_asm.h,vm_inner_interp_arm64.h,vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h— per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.