capsule_birth.c hardcoded every new VM's initial Stadium quota grant to split from Hera specifically. Since a grant always halves whatever the donor currently has, Hera's own free list converges toward empty after a bounded number of grants — independent of whether the Stadium as a whole still had spare capacity, since VMs she'd granted to earlier typically still held nearly all of their own share untouched. Past that point every subsequent VM birth's Stadium grant would be silently refused (soft-failed, non-fatal by existing design), even with plenty of capacity sitting idle elsewhere. Fixed by adding an O(1)-maintained free_count to StadiumVMQuota (incremented in stadium_evict(), decremented at both of stadium_admit()'s free-list-pop sites, set/adjusted in stadium_grant_quota()'s own split — this also let grant_quota drop its old O(free-list length) counting walk in favor of an O(1) read) and stadium_best_donor(), an O(live VM count) scan over quota slots returning whichever in-use VM currently has the most free cells. capsule_birth.c's birth path now splits from that VM instead of unconditionally vm_uuid_hera(). Verified with another full rerun of the 3x9x3 std79 DoE campaign from scratch — same discipline as the prior Stadium fix (any defect repair reruns the whole DoE from the top) — one continuous boot per architecture, all 9 identities simultaneously live throughout. 81/81 trials correct, 0 mismatches, DOE-RUN header sequence md5-identical to every prior run. aarch64 ~280s total (vs ~290s for the O(ncells)-scan fix alone — confirms no regression). Both known Stadium defects are now closed together on one clean campaign rerun. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EXieurDfDSsDFdnSyusuWo
include/starkernel/
Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/).
Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared
with hosted code.
uefi.h— UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.elf64.h,elf_loader.h— ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.boot_info_offsets.h— struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.arch.h,apic.h,timer.h— architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).console.h,framebuffer.h,vt100.h— UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.pmm.h,vmm.h,kmalloc.h— physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.pci.h,virtio_blk.h— PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).capsule.h,capsule_birth.h,capsule_loader.h,capsule_run.h,capsule_vm_physics.h,capsule_generated.h— capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (seetools/mkcapsule.c).kernel_args.h,cmdline.h— boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg/ command line).repl.h— kernel REPL.log.h,doe_log.h— kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.q48_16.h— kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.xxhash64.h— content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.hal_memory.h— hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.
Subdirectories:
hal/— top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.vm/— kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).freestanding/— minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h,ctype.h,errno.h,inttypes.h,math.h,sched.h,signal.h,stdio.h,stdlib.h,string.h,time.h,sys/time.h,sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.