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Increment 2: WIREBIND user VMs (the ones that actually run FORTH work; console VMs are pure REPL proxies and never participate) register as Stage 3 switch-signal participants at attach, unregister at teardown. Slot table bumped 8 -> 16, matching messaging.4th's own VM-MAX -- a real, already-agreed ceiling, not an invented number. Added sk_vm_switch_signal_unregister() (compaction-based; Tripod VMs never needed removal, WIREBIND VMs cycle constantly and would otherwise exhaust the bounded table). Increment 3: implements the plan's own ratified option (A) for the async-detach UAF risk -- mark-and-defer via a new pending_reap flag on VMRegistryEntry, deliberately not a new VMState (capsule_vm_kill() already treats VM_STATE_DEAD as idempotent success, which would silently swallow a reap attempt; SWITCHED_OUT still accurately describes a tombstoned VM until the moment it's actually freed). unclean_detach() sets it when capsule_vm_kill() refuses a SWITCHED_OUT target; the Stage 3 checkpoint (vm_core.c) checks it before ever attempting to resume a pending switch target, and calls the new capsule_vm_force_reap() instead -- the one caller allowed to bypass capsule_vm_kill()'s own refusal, because it runs at the exact safe cooperative point the switcher itself controls. A new idle-tick sweep cleans up the WIREBIND live-table entry once the reap has actually happened. Verified clean on all 3 architectures (baseline regression -- no WIREBIND attach happens in a plain boot). The reap mechanism's own correctness under a genuinely parked context is verified separately, next, via a temporary deterministic probe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
src/starkernel/
LithosAnanke — the bare-metal UEFI kernel that boots StarForth directly on
hardware (amd64/aarch64/riscv64). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; the
only valid acceptance test is the three-arch QEMU boot (see
.claude/CLAUDE.md), never make test.
kernel_main.c— kernel entry point, driving the boot milestones (console init, PMM, VMM, interrupts, timers, kmalloc heap, VM bootstrap).repl.c— kernel REPL.doe_log.c— kernel-side DoE (Design of Experiments) metrics logging.
Subdirectories:
arch/{amd64,aarch64,riscv64}/— per-architecture support (APIC/GIC/ PLIC interrupt controller, timers, boot/ISR assembly).boot/— UEFI loader, ELF loading, kernel command-line parsing.capsule/— capsule birth/run/load/validate pipeline.hal/— hardware-abstraction-layer implementation (console, framebuffer, VT100, memory, host services).hash/— XXHash64 content-addressing implementation.math/— kernel-build Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.memory/— physical/virtual memory managers and the kernel heap.pci/— PCI bus enumeration.virtio/— VirtIO block device driver.vm/— kernel VM subsystem (bootstrap, core interpreter, parity logging, capsule arena).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the corresponding headers.