FABRIC-3.8.md Stage A: per-VM stack-ownership gate for drain and switch

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Replaces the global g_vm_interpret_depth test at both execute_colon_word()
checkpoints (kernel-Hermes drain, switch-signal take) with
sk_vm_owns_outermost_frame(vm): the VM physically owns the stack
(sk_vm_switch_current_vm() == vm), is at its own outermost vm_interpret()
frame (new per-VM VM.interpret_depth), and is not compiling. Once VMs
interleave on their own native stacks, a global depth count across all VMs
no longer means "this VM owns this stack"; this is the invariant it was
approximating. The global and the old function stay until Stage I.

Acceptance, all three ISAs, foreground with the framebuffer visible, coupled
disk images reset before each: zero UNKNOWN WORD, zero self-test failures,
dict_hash identical across ISAs and unchanged from the pre-Stage-A boot, and
the live WIREBIND mint -> attach -> USE -> 1 2 + . -> 3 relay with
stadium_conserved(self)=true. Logs: 20260923-140120 (amd64), -140654
(aarch64), -141303 (riscv64).

FABRIC-3.8.md also records Captain Bob's ruling that preemption comes from
the compudynamics, not the timer: principle 5 is corrected and the design
question is opened as SS3.11, to be ruled before Stage C.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Robert Allan James

2026-09-23 14:18:55 -04:00

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