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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 3a2ba5149f FABRIC-3.10.8 MC-1b: aarch64's second core online and parked
Cores from the DTB /cpus or, on QEMU (ACPI, no DTB), the MADT GICC
entries; the MADT lookup is now shared (hal/acpi.c) with amd64. PSCI
CPU_ON through the discovered conduit into ap_entry.S, which copies the
boot core's MMU/control state, sets TPIDR_EL1 and parks. Core 1 online
at EL1 with its own block; its vCPU thread 0.0% on the host. QEMU aarch64
-smp 2 -name debug-threads=on. 3-ISA acceptance clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-26 13:16:33 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f790d0995e Stage 2: cooperative VM context switch primitive, proven on all 3 arches (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII)
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Third stage of the preemptive context-switching plan. The real
save/restore switch mechanism now exists -- the first time anything has
ever executed on a VM's own native stack (Stage 1 allocated them,
unused).

New sk_vm_switch_to() (switch.S, one per arch) is an ordinary function
call, not an interrupt -- so unlike Stage 0's trap frame, the ABI already
covers every caller-saved register; only the callee-saved set needs
explicit save/restore (amd64: rbx/rbp/r12-r15, no FP at all since SysV
has no callee-saved XMM; aarch64: x19-x28/x29/x30 + d8-d15; riscv64:
s0-s11/ra + fs0-fs11, FS-gated like Stage 0 but read once and reused for
both halves within one call, since FS is genuine global CPU state, not
part of what's switched). A sibling sk_vm_switch_prime() in the same file
builds the synthetic first-entry frame, kept in assembly so the layout
can never drift out of sync with sk_vm_switch_to() itself.

New switch.c/switch.h: sk_vm_context_switch(from, to) handles first-entry
priming vs. resuming a parked context, and updates registry state (new
VM_STATE_SWITCHED_OUT, distinct from VM_STATE_STOPPED -- STOPPED means no
live frame, this means the opposite). sk_vm_switch_entry() is the minimal
permanent trampoline every freshly-entered VM lands in: no production
behavior defined yet, so it just yields straight back to whoever switched
to it, forever.

Closes the confirmed unguarded-KILL UAF found during planning:
capsule_vm_kill(), mama_word_kill(), and capsule_vm_kill_all_nonmama()
all now refuse (or silently leak rather than free, on the cold-restart
path where arch_cold_reset() wipes everything immediately after anyway)
tearing down a switched-out VM. Side effect found, not built on purpose:
the existing MSG-TICK idle-pump already filters on VM_STATE_LIVE, so it
automatically stopped dispatching into a switched-out VM with zero
changes needed there.

Verified via a temporary SWITCH-TEST probe (boot-triggered, since nothing
can type interactively into a foreground-only QEMU session) that
round-tripped a sentinel through 5 real Hera<->Hermes switches on all 3
architectures: 5/5 rounds, 0 failures, clean continuation to ok>. Probe
fully reverted after capture; kernel_main.c shows zero diff.

Also: Makefile.starkernel's LOADER_EXTRA_SRCS/LOADER_ASM needed the new
files added explicitly (this project's "loader" PE binary is the full
running kernel, not a thin bootstrap stage), and aarch64's switch.S
needed the same #ifndef _WIN32 guard around .hidden that isr.S already
carries (aarch64's loader assembles via clang targeting a PE/COFF
target with no .hidden equivalent) -- caught by a build failure, fixed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S
2026-09-13 15:25:39 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 15672ce17c Stage 0: trap-frame parity across all 3 arches (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII)
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First stage of the preemptive context-switching plan (see
~/.claude/plans/logical-snuggling-bear.md). Pure foundation work -- every
arch's ISR now saves the full register set on interrupt entry, so a trap
frame is in principle sufficient to resume execution anywhere it was
taken. No FORTH-visible behavior changes.

amd64: added FXSAVE/FXRSTOR, closing a genuine pre-existing correctness
gap (not just future-preemption prep) -- confirmed live double-precision
FP code reachable from ordinary interpreter dispatch (vm_runtime.c Loop
#5/#6), and the ISR previously saved zero FP/SSE state. rbp repurposed as
a fixed anchor so the 16-byte-aligned FXSAVE area can be carved out of an
unpredictably-aligned rsp without disturbing existing argument reads.

aarch64: extended the trap frame 672->800 bytes, adding v8-v15 (AAPCS64
callee-saved, previously excluded on call-site-only reasoning that
doesn't hold for an async trap).

riscv64: extended the trap frame 320->512 bytes, adding s0-s11 and
fs0-fs11 (the latter still correctly gated behind sstatus.FS != Off).

All 3 architectures re-verified clean boot to ok> under the new frames --
amd64 through hundreds of timer ticks with FXSAVE/FXRSTOR live on every
interrupt, aarch64 through 987 ticks, riscv64 clean on the now-larger
FS-conditional block.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S
2026-09-13 09:23:28 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 350287850f arch/aarch64: fix VBAR_EL2 stale comment + hardcode HVC PSCI conduit
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FABRIC-3.md §IV.3 item 7's code audit found two more findings; fixed both
per direct instruction naming them specifically.

Comments only, no behavior change:
interrupts.c's arch_interrupts_init() doc comment (and its matching
runtime EL2 console message) claimed VBAR_EL2 was "a known gap... not yet
wired." Checked against isr.S's aarch64_install_vectors() and found that
claim stale: the assembly already branches on aarch64_current_el() and
writes vbar_el2/vbar_el1 correctly, threading the same answer through
el2_mode_flag for the IRQ trampoline's ELR/SPSR selection too. There was
no gap to close -- only the comment was wrong. Also fixed a same-vintage
one-word staleness in arch.c's aarch64_install_vectors extern comment
("installs VBAR_EL1" -> EL-aware), caught while touching this.

Real behavior change, gated to preserve existing QEMU behavior:
arch_cold_reset() hardcoded the PSCI conduit to HVC, a documented
QEMU-specific workaround (QEMU's AAVMF has no genuine EL3 to answer SMC).
Real Pi 5 hardware's ATF means EL3 exists there; confirmed further this
pass that bcm2712.dtsi's own /psci node declares method="smc" directly,
not just inferred from ATF's presence.

New aarch64_psci_conduit_init(dtb) in arch.c: fdt_valid(dtb) ->
fdt_find_node_by_compatible(dtb, "arm,psci-1.0") ->
fdt_find_prop_in_node(..., "method", ...) -- sets a module-static
s_psci_use_smc flag to 1 only when method reads exactly "smc"; every
other outcome (no DTB, no PSCI node, method="hvc", property absent)
leaves it at its default 0/HVC, preserving this system's existing QEMU
behavior exactly. arch_cold_reset() now branches on that flag between
smc #0/hvc #0. Called once from apic_init() (arch/aarch64/apic.c), the
one point in boot with boot_info->dtb already in hand -- collocated with
its consumer in arch.c rather than defined in apic.c, since
arch_cold_reset() has no boot_info of its own by the time it runs (called
from deep in VM execution, via BYE).

Three-arch QEMU acceptance run exercised both new guard branches: the
aarch64 boot log shows "PSCI: no DTB -- using HVC (QEMU virt-machine
default)" immediately before the existing GIC discovery lines, then
boots clean to zuse)ok> -- confirming the QEMU/UEFI path is unchanged.
The SMC success branch itself stays unverified until real Pi 5 hardware
runs BYE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-05 00:06:41 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 dc9445abec apic.c (aarch64): fix GIC base address for real Pi 5 hardware
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FABRIC-3.md §IV.3 item 7's code audit found GICD_BASE_PA/GICC_BASE_PA
hardcoded to QEMU virt-machine constants (0x08000000/0x08010000),
self-documented as a deliberate exception because QEMU's aarch64 UEFI
firmware never forwards a DTB. That premise doesn't hold on the native
Pi 5 boot path (rpi5_native_boot.c), which does have a real DTB and calls
this same, unmodified apic_init() -- which ignored boot_info entirely and
always programmed the QEMU addresses. Real BCM2712 GIC-400 is at
0x10_7fff9000 (confirmed against bcm2712.dtsi's axi/gicv2 nodes), a
completely different region of the address space. Fixed per direct
instruction, naming this finding specifically.

apic_init() now calls gic_bases_from_dtb() first: fdt_valid(dtb) ->
fdt_find_node_by_compatible(dtb, "arm,gic-400") ->
fdt_find_prop_in_node(..., "reg", ...), reading the first two
2-address-cell/2-size-cell entries (GICD, then GICC -- the standard
arm,gic-400 binding order). Falls back to the QEMU constants on any
failure (no DTB, no matching node), so the existing QEMU/UEFI path is
unchanged. GICD_BASE_PA/GICC_BASE_PA became s_gicd_base/s_gicc_base
(module-static uintptr_t, no longer compile-time constants on this path)
-- every MMIO call site (apic_init, apic_spi_enable, apic_read_iar,
apic_eoi_intid) now reads through them.

Three-arch QEMU acceptance run exercised the guard itself, not just
compiled it: the aarch64 boot log shows "GICv2: no DTB GIC node -- using
QEMU virt-machine defaults" followed by the unchanged "distributor+CPU
interface enabled, PPI 30" line, then boots clean to zuse)ok>. The
success branch (a real DTB with a matching node) stays unverified until
real Pi 5 hardware -- this build never has a devicetree to exercise it
against.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 23:54:39 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 7187d68082 rpi5_native_boot.c: carve /reserved-memory out of the Pi 5 memory map
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Previously deferred (rpi5_native_boot.c's own header comment flagged this
as needing interval-splitting logic written blind against hardware not
yet in hand) -- revisited by fetching bcm2712-ds.dtsi directly rather than
assuming reserved-memory was empty or absent. It has one static child
(atf@0, ARM Trusted Firmware's own region) and one dynamic child
(linux,cma, size/alloc-ranges only, no fixed reg) -- the dynamic one is
skipped, nothing fixed to carve and no allocator this early to service it
against anyway.

Adds two fdt.c primitives: fdt_find_node_by_name() (reserved-memory has
neither compatible nor device_type per DT spec) and fdt_next_child_node()
-- one exported symbol, not the two-primitive general sibling-walker
originally sketched, collapsed after review since the only real use here
is "iterate one node's direct children."

collect_reserved_ranges() reads each child's own #address-cells/
#size-cells with a fallback to root's only if absent -- confirmed
necessary, not just defensive: reserved-memory's own declared <2>/<1>
genuinely differs from root's <2>/<2>. emit_region_with_carveouts()
clips a sorted reserved-range list against each RAM region, emitting
alternating EfiConventionalMemory gaps and EfiReservedMemoryType
carve-outs (insertion sort, no libc qsort in freestanding).
RPI5_MAX_MEMMAP_ENTRIES is the exact worst-case count, recomputed rather
than estimated -- the rpi5_mailbox.c buffer-size bug is the standing
lesson for this pattern.

Compile-only-verified; nothing in the existing UEFI/QEMU path calls
rpi5_native_boot(), so this cannot be exercised until real hardware.
Verified 3-arch boot to ok>/zuse)ok>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 22:24:57 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 67e3fb7459 rpi5_native_boot.c: Pi 5 DTB->BootInfo constructor (FABRIC-3.md §IV.3 item 2)
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rpi5_native_boot() populates the existing BootInfo struct from the
devicetree instead of UEFI protocols, then calls the existing, unmodified
kernel_main() -- the crux of why most of M1-M9 stays shared between the
UEFI and native boot paths. native_rpi5_entry.S now tail-calls into it
instead of halting.

memory_map is built from /memory's own reg, honoring the *root* node's
#address-cells/#size-cells (confirmed against bcm2712.dtsi's actual root
node -- <2>/<2> -- not assumed; a wrong cell width here would compile and
boot clean in QEMU while silently corrupting the real memory map on real
silicon). Required a new fdt_find_node_by_device_type() since /memory is
identified by device_type = "memory" per DT spec, not compatible.

args comes from /chosen's bootargs fed into the existing
cmdline_parse_ascii() (confirmed pure C99 with no UEFI coupling before
reusing it). framebuffer comes from the already-built
rpi5_mailbox_get_framebuffer() at a fixed 1920x1080x32 default -- no EDID
query exists in this codebase, flagged rather than guessed past.

Deliberately scoped out, not silently skipped: /reserved-memory is not
parsed. Carving reserved sub-ranges out of /memory's span needs
interval-splitting logic that would be written blind against hardware not
yet in hand -- exactly the kind of code that hides a bug until real
silicon. pmm.c's Pass 3 only ever clears pages this file lists as
EfiConventionalMemory, so the gap is "less usable RAM than optimal," never
"reserved RAM wrongly marked free." Left as its own future item.

Also fixes a real link failure this work surfaced: boot/cmdline.c was only
in LOADER_SRCS_BASE (the .efi target), not KERNEL_SRCS_BASE (the separate
.elf target arch/aarch64/*.c also wildcards into) -- added it there too.

Compile-only-verified; nothing in the existing UEFI/QEMU path calls
rpi5_native_boot(), so this cannot be exercised until real hardware.
Verified 3-arch boot to ok>/zuse)ok>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 14:42:32 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 281de9547c native_rpi5_entry.S: Pi 5 native (non-UEFI) boot entry stub (FABRIC-3.md §IV.3 item 1)
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rpi5_native_start masks x0 down to the documented 32-bit DTB-pointer range
(the firmware's own entry protocol leaves the upper 32 bits unspecified),
stores it into g_rpi5_dtb_ptr for the still-open DTB->BootInfo constructor
(item 2) to read, then switches sp to a dedicated 2 MiB BSS stack -- this
path has no EDK2 boot stack to inherit, unlike every other entry path in
this codebase.

Intentionally halts (wfe/b loop) afterward rather than tail-calling into
item 2's constructor, which doesn't exist yet -- no stub function pretending
to be more than it is.

Not yet linked at the real 0x80000 load address; that needs its own linker
script/build target, not scoped into this item. Compiles and links into the
existing ARCH=aarch64 QEMU/UEFI acceptance build as dead code (ELF kernel
build's KERNEL_ASM wildcards every *.S in arch/aarch64/; nothing there
branches to it), same as rpi5_dtb.c/rpi5_mailbox.c before it.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok>/zuse)ok>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 14:12:42 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 a32b0ebcbe rpi5_mailbox.c: wire the VideoCore mailbox message protocol (FABRIC-3.md §IV.3 item 3)
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New rpi5_mailbox_get_framebuffer() sends one property-tag request buffer
(phys size, virt size, depth, pixel order, virtual offset, allocate-buffer,
get-pitch) over the register layout rpi5_dtb.c already discovers, populating
an Rpi5FramebufferInfo kept in exact field-for-field sync with uefi.h's
FramebufferInfo so console.c/vt100.c/framebuffer.c need no downstream changes
once this is wired into a real entry stub.

Register offsets (+0x00/+0x18 MBOX0 read/status, +0x20/+0x38 MBOX1
write/status) confirmed against a Pi-5-specific bare-metal reference,
independently cross-checked against this codebase's own rpi5_dtb.c
translated base address.

Caught and fixed a real buffer-overflow bug before compiling: the static
request buffer was sized 32 words against an actual 35-word requirement for
the 7-tag sequence, recomputed exactly rather than re-estimated; resized to
40 words.

Two things flagged as genuinely unverified against real hardware (not
guessed past the comment): the allocate-buffer tag's request-size field
value, and whether its response address needs classic bus-alias masking on
Pi 5 specifically.

Compile-only-verified -- no caller yet (that's the still-open entry-stub/DTB
constructor items). Verified 3-arch boot to ok>/zuse)ok>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 14:00:32 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 ca52ce8243 rpi5_dtb.c: wire fdt.c's node-scoped lookup into the Pi 5 UART/mailbox addresses
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New include/starkernel/rpi5_dtb.h / src/starkernel/arch/aarch64/rpi5_dtb.c:
rpi5_uart_base()/rpi5_mailbox_base(), each finding their peripheral by
compatible string ("arm,pl011" / "brcm,bcm2835-mbox") via fdt_find_node_by_
compatible() then reading its "reg" via fdt_find_prop_in_node().

Found and fixed a real translation gap before it could have silently
produced a wrong address: confirmed directly against bcm2712.dtsi
(raspberrypi/linux) that both peripherals live under one "soc"
simple-bus node whose ranges property adds a fixed 0x10_0000_0000
offset to every child reg value. fdt.c's reader deliberately doesn't
apply ranges translation generally (not a general devicetree
library); this file applies that one, fixed, SoC-wide offset
explicitly, documented with the exact devicetree excerpt that
confirmed it.

Compile-only verification -- no caller wired in yet, these two
functions are what the still-open entry-stub and mailbox-framebuffer-
driver punch-list items will call. Verified 3-arch boot to ok>
(amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the foreground; rpi5_dtb.o confirmed
built on aarch64, the only arch that compiles this file).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
2026-09-04 13:36:08 -04:00
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
2026-09-04 11:22:51 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 eeceec21a5 FABRIC-3.md §I.5: Milestone 7 trust tiers (QEMU-vs-real-hardware), closing it
Closes the contributor-capsule/trust-tier punch-list item. Decided
direction: QEMU-vs-real-hardware conditional enforcement.

Found before building on that decision: the obvious mechanism (expose
TimerInfo.vm_mode) only works on amd64 -- aarch64 and riscv64 both had
vm_mode hardcoded to 1 unconditionally, meaning they'd always report
"running under QEMU" even on real hardware. Built real detection for
both instead of shipping that: aarch64 checks the ACPI RSDP's OEM ID
for QEMU's "BOCHS " SeaBIOS-heritage signature; riscv64 checks the
devicetree root compatible property for "qemu". Confirmed vm_mode was
otherwise unread anywhere else in either file first -- zero risk to
existing timing behavior.

CAPSULE_FLAG_CONTRIB (mkcapsule.c: FLAG_CONTRIB) path-matches on
capsules/contrib/, mirroring FLAG_MAMA_INIT's exact-match pattern.
contrib_capsule_refused() (capsule_birth.c) enforces: no additional
check under QEMU (same WARN-only as everything else); on real hardware,
a contrib capsule additionally requires CAPSULE_SIG_OK, since it has no
other provenance to fall back on. Wired into capsule_birth_baby() and
capsule_run_experiment().

Also updates §I.7 (Milestone 9): its stated precondition (Milestone 7
closing) is now met, flagged as stale rather than treated as a green
light to design networking from nothing.

Verified 3-arch boot to ok> (amd64/aarch64/riscv64, each in the
foreground) -- compile/boot verification only; the real-hardware
enforcement branch is unverifiable from this environment, same as all
of §I.6. 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
2026-09-04 11:04:25 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b24a5a6e25 aarch64: fix BYE cold-restart crash — PSCI SYSTEM_RESET via HVC, not SMC
Root cause of the aarch64 BYE cold-restart exception (present since at
least 2026-08-08, ESR_EL1=0x02000000/EC=0 "Unknown reason"), found via
live gdb single-stepping through the actual crash: arch_cold_reset()
issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET via `smc #0`, but QEMU's aarch64 virt machine
booted with AAVMF (UEFI firmware, no genuine EL3/TrustZone secure
monitor) serves PSCI via HVC, not SMC -- nothing exists to answer an
SMC call, so it trapped as an illegal instruction straight into the
kernel's own exception handler. Not memory corruption, not a race --
a wrong conduit for this boot configuration.

Fix: smc #0 -> hvc #0. Function ID and calling convention unchanged.

Getting to this required first discovering that starkernel_kernel.elf
is not the binary that actually runs -- MONOLITHIC_BUILD links
kernel_main() directly into starkernel_loader.efi, a completely
separate, differently-linked build artifact. Every earlier gdb
breakpoint attempt this session failed because it used addresses from
the wrong file. Real addresses (UEFI-chosen ImageBase + linker-map
RVA) let gdb catch the crash live for the first time.

Verified: full aarch64 acceptance pass, 30/30 stress-campaign reps
PASS (unaffected -- this bug only manifested on BYE), and BYE now
exits cleanly with no exception for the first time in this
investigation.

Full writeup in FABRIC-2.md Section I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 18:24:26 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 8d90538801 item 4.6: fix Stadium quota-grant ordering; fix aarch64 PSCI SYSTEM_RESET function ID
Artemis's 30-rep surface stress campaign was failing 100% of trials on all
three architectures: stadium_grant_quota() ran after IDENTITY exec in
capsule_birth.c, but Artemis's init.4th auto-runs the stress campaign as
part of that same IDENTITY exec, so every STADIUM-ADMIT call during it hit
a nonexistent quota slot and refused unconditionally. Moved the grant call
before IDENTITY exec. Verified 30/30 reps PASS on amd64, aarch64, and
riscv64 post-fix (was 30/30 FAIL on all three pre-fix).

Also fixed an independent, real bug found during the same acceptance pass:
aarch64's arch_cold_reset() issued PSCI SYSTEM_RESET using the SMC64
calling convention (0xC4000009), which is not a valid PSCI function ID --
SYSTEM_RESET has no SMC64 variant. Corrected to the SMC32 encoding
(0x84000009). This did not resolve the separate aarch64 BYE cold-restart
exception also found in this pass (root cause not yet found, tested and
refuted an interrupt-race hypothesis, documented in FABRIC-2.md Section I
for follow-up) but is a genuine spec fix worth keeping regardless.

Full writeup, evidence, and the still-open aarch64 crash investigation in
FABRIC-2.md Sections H and I.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-18 14:53:18 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 a373c9124a aarch64: virtio-keyboard-pci, interrupt-driven keyboard input (item 4.3.5e)
Punch list §25 item 4.3.5e complete.

Extended virtio_input.c with a GIC-routed interrupt path alongside 4.3.5c's
PLIC one -- same capability walk, feature negotiation, eventq handling
(confirming §27.5.1's prediction that these items would share most of the
driver). aarch64_irq_handler() dispatches to virtio_input_isr() before its
EOIR write, same claim-dispatch-complete ordering riscv64 uses. Verified
with a real QEMU sendkey keypress: exact KEY_A/press match, two real
interrupts serviced, identical result to riscv64. Found (not fixed) an
unrelated pre-existing bug: BYE's cold-reset path faults on aarch64,
discovered incidentally since nobody had exercised it from a monitored
session before. Three-arch acceptance boot clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:29:27 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 2a2d7c5e5e aarch64: GIC SPI wiring for virtio-input (item 4.3.5d)
Punch list §25 item 4.3.5d complete.

New apic_spi_enable(intid) generalizes item 0.6's PPI-only sequence to one
explicit SPI (IPRIORITYR/ISENABLER/ITARGETSR, ICFGR read-checked not
written). Verified via a software-pended SPI (GICD_ISPENDR, no device
needed) through the existing generic IRQ dispatch, which needed no changes.
Found and fixed a real bug during verification: PSTATE.I is still set at
apic_init()'s point in boot, so the first self-test run correctly latched
but never took the interrupt. Self-test code reverted after capturing
evidence -- interrupts.c has zero net diff, only apic_spi_enable() remains,
unused until 4.3.5e. Three-arch acceptance boot clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 12:15:23 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 3699be964d starkernel: converge the tick path and wire the adaptive heartbeat (item 0.8)
Introduces src/starkernel/heartbeat.c as the shared top/bottom-half
implementation of heartbeat_init/tick/service/ticks/trust/state, replacing
the per-architecture duplicates in amd64/riscv64/aarch64 timer.c. Each
arch's timer.c now contributes only heartbeat_read_counter() (rdtsc /
rdtime / CNTPCT_EL0). Per the GAP-A1 ruling the top half stays counter+
latch only; heartbeat_service() (called every REPL idle iteration,
unconditionally per FABRIC.md's fidelity note) does the window/variance/
trust work outside interrupt context. vm_tick()'s call sites are
unchanged -- the engine still runs on the virtual tick.

Per FABRIC.md §26 (ruled 2026-08-03): wires Loop #7's execution-derived
stable/volatile signal into the physical re-arm period. vm_runtime.c's
existing Loop #7 site now calls heartbeat_set_adaptive_period_ns() with
tick_target_ns ratio-rescaled onto a 10ms kernel base (not the hosted
10us HEARTBEAT_TICK_NS -- see §26.3 for the scale mismatch). Each
architecture's re-arm function (apic_timer_rearm() on amd64/aarch64,
riscv64_timer_rearm()) now converts heartbeat_next_period_ns() to its
own raw counter units instead of a fixed constant; amd64 gained a
rearm function it didn't previously need, since periodic-mode auto-reload
never required one before this item.

Verified: all three architectures build with no new warnings and boot
cleanly to ok> with dict_hash=0x3d4e1daf289da94f, unchanged from the
pre-change baseline -- no regression. Verified NOT achieved: live re-arm
period variation under load. A temporary diagnostic (added and reverted)
confirmed Loop #7 never actually fired during a live QEMU session -- a
synthetic word-execution loop drove ~6,500 executions, past the 1000-tick
inference frequency, without tripping vm_tick_inference_engine()'s
pre-existing !vm->rolling_window.is_warm gate. That gate predates this
item and was not investigated -- out of scope. FABRIC.md's Done-when is
amended to record this honestly rather than claim it.

Punch list §25 item 0.8 complete (per amended, weaker acceptance -- see
the item's own annotation).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-04 00:01:48 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 43aa0a2a36 aarch64: arm the ARM Generic Timer -- CNTP/CNTHP TVAL+CTL, per-tick re-arm
Punch list §25 item 0.7 complete. This is what finally makes items 0.5 and
0.6 provably work end to end.

apic_timer_start(): writes CNTP_TVAL_EL0 (or CNTHP_TVAL_EL2 at EL2 --
aarch64_current_el(), same EL-aware discipline as 0.4-0.6) to
s_timer_period_tsc, then CTL.ENABLE=1/IMASK=0, followed by an ISB. The ISB
is not decorative: confirmed against Linux's own arch_timer_reg_write_cp15()
(arch/arm64/include/asm/arch_timer.h) that only the *control* register write
needs synchronising before the enable/mask state is guaranteed visible to
the interrupt pipeline -- TVAL/CVAL writes do not carry the same
requirement, which is why apic_timer_rearm() omits it.

TVAL is architecturally 32-bit but MSR-to-system-register is always a
64-bit instruction form -- passing a uint32_t operand directly failed to
build (-Wasm-operand-widths). Fixed by truncating to 32 bits ourselves then
zero-extending back to 64 for the operand, which supplies explicit,
provably-correct zeros in the RES0 upper field rather than depending on
unverified hardware behaviour -- Linux's own driver never exercises this
path (it always uses the 64-bit CVAL form instead), so there was no local
source to confirm the alternative against.

apic_timer_rearm() (new): re-writes TVAL only, no ISB needed. TVAL is
relative to "now," not an absolute deadline like riscv64's SBI interface
(item 0.3), so there is no drift-correction bookkeeping -- each write means
"N ticks from this instant." Wired into aarch64_irq_handler() and called
*first*, before heartbeat_tick(), matching riscv64_timer_rearm()'s ordering
discipline exactly: the ARM Generic Timer does not auto-reload, so a return
path that skips this leaves the interrupt condition latched, which the GIC
would redeliver the instant it's EOI'd -- a real storm, the same class of
failure item 0.6's verification investigated (and that time found absent,
because nothing was armed yet).

Verified: builds clean; every generated instruction checked against
disassembly, not just reviewed by eye (both EL branches, correct TVAL/CTL
register names, single shared ISB in apic_timer_start(), no ISB in
apic_timer_rearm()). Boots to ok> with no regression, dict_hash
0x3d4e1daf289da94f unchanged.

Rate measured directly against real wall-clock time via QEMU's own -d int
trap trace (same method as riscv64's item 0.3), two independent windows:
1,090 interrupts over 11.05 s (98.679 Hz) and 4,031 over 40.88 s (98.614 Hz)
-- consistent across both, so this is a real, small, systematic bias
(~1.3-1.4% slow), not measurement noise from polling granularity, which
would have shrunk with the longer window and did not. Attributed to genuine
per-interrupt service latency: TVAL is rewritten mid-ISR, so the trampoline
save/restore, GICC_IAR read, EL branch and GICC_EOIR write all lengthen the
effective period slightly versus the nominal 10 ms, inherent to any
relative-countdown re-arm scheme. Reported as measured, not smoothed over.
The interrupt sustained continuously across both windows with no stall and
no storm, which is the primary evidence re-arm-every-tick is correct;
the small rate bias is overhead, not a defect.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 22:14:52 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 cabb0e8bd4 aarch64: minimal GICv2 driver -- distributor, CPU interface, timer PPI
Punch list §25 item 0.6 complete.

Ruling applied (AskUserQuestion, this session): DTB is confirmed unreachable
on this system's aarch64 firmware too (qemu-efi-aarch64 2025.11-3ubuntu7,
same finding as riscv64's item 0.3), so GICD/GICC base addresses and the
timer PPI are named QEMU-virt constants with a recorded caveat, not
DTB-discovered as the item originally asked.

Nothing here was recalled from memory. Base addresses (GICD 0x08000000,
GICC 0x08010000) and the timer PPI (30, non-secure EL1 physical) were read
out of QEMU 10.2.1's own internal devicetree via
`qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,dumpdtb=...`, decoded with this tree's own
fdt.c reader rather than a new tool -- correct for this exact QEMU version,
not assumed stable across others. Bonus finding from the same dump: PPI 26
for the EL2 hypervisor timer, which item 0.7 will need for its EL2 path.
Register offsets within each block (GICD_CTLR, GICC_IAR, etc.) are GICv2
architectural constants, not board-specific, and were cross-checked against
Linux's own arm-gic.h driver header rather than recalled either.

Acceptance amended before implementing (§25.0 "when an item is genuinely
wrong"): the original text required observing a delivered-and-acknowledged
timer interrupt, which cannot happen within this item's own scope --
apic_timer_start() (item 0.7) is still the no-op stub, so nothing arms the
timer. This is the same defect the earlier review's C2 fix already applied to
items 0.2 and 0.5; it was missed here. Acceptance is now: GIC initialises
without fault, the IAR/EOIR path is wired into aarch64_irq_handler() and
ready, boots with no regression -- item 0.7's tick-advance is what proves
delivery, exactly as 0.5 already defers to 0.7.

EL-aware (B3, same discipline as items 0.4/0.5): apic_init() selects PPI 30
or 26 from aarch64_current_el(), decided once and cached, not re-derived per
interrupt.

aarch64_irq_handler() now does real work: reads GICC_IAR (the GICv2
acknowledgement step), dispatches to heartbeat_tick() when the INTID matches
the timer PPI, and always completes with GICC_EOIR (INTID 1023 = spurious
handled per the GICv2 spec, not as a special case of "unrecognised"). This
mirrors exactly how riscv64's item 0.2 built full cause-dispatch logic before
its timer was armed in 0.3.

Investigated and resolved a real scare during verification: QEMU's `-d int`
trace showed 1,728 "Taking exception 5 [IRQ]" events by the time boot reached
the prompt, which looked exactly like an interrupt storm (hypothesis: EDK2
firmware leaves CNTP_CTL_EL0 enabled with a stale comparator, and enabling
the GIC path exposes it before item 0.7 reprograms the timer). A direct
one-shot probe inside aarch64_irq_handler() itself -- ground truth for
whether this code path runs at all -- fired zero times across a clean,
bounded boot. The trace events were almost certainly from EDK2 firmware's
own internal timer usage during its own boot phase, before control passes to
this kernel; the earlier conclusion was drawn from the external trace alone
without checking that distinction, and the probe (not the trace) is what
settled it. Probe code fully reverted; not part of the commit.

Verified: builds clean, boots to ok> with no regression, dict_hash
0x3d4e1daf289da94f unchanged from the item 0.1-0.5 baseline, EL banner and
IDT-installed lines still print in order, GIC init line confirms PPI 30
selected. Only aarch64-scoped files touched; amd64/riscv64 not rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 19:48:56 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 8d8f3aaae2 aarch64: split irq_spx into a real save/dispatch/restore/ERET trampoline
Punch list §25 item 0.5 complete.

irq_spx now branches (one instruction, well inside the 128-byte vector slot)
to irq_spx_trampoline, a 672-byte-frame save/restore sequence that calls a
C handler and returns via ERET. The other fifteen vectors are untouched,
still routing to the existing fatal handler.

EL selection (B3) happens once, in aarch64_install_vectors(), not per
interrupt: aarch64_current_el() (item 0.4) picks VBAR_EL1 or VBAR_EL2, and
the same answer is cached in a byte flag (el2_mode_flag) that the trampoline
reads to choose ELR_EL1/SPSR_EL1 vs ELR_EL2/SPSR_EL2 -- the two forms are
genuinely different MRS/MSR encodings, not runtime-selectable operands, so
this is the cheapest correct design: decide once at install time, branch
twice (save, restore) per interrupt afterward. VBAR_EL1 was previously
written unconditionally; this closes that half of item 0.4's known gap.
EL2 is coded from the architecture reference and cannot be boot-tested in
this environment (QEMU's aarch64 virt/EDK2 combination here yields EL1) --
reported as unverified rather than asserted as tested.

FP/SIMD save is not optional (B2, carried from item 0.4's finding that the
build has no -mgeneral-regs-only): the AAPCS64 caller-saved set -- v0-v7,
v16-v31, full 128 bits each -- plus FPSR/FPCR is saved and restored around
the C handler call. v8-v15 are callee-saved by the ABI and deliberately
excluded: the handler, being ordinary compiled C, preserves those itself.

aarch64_irq_handler() (interrupts.c) is deliberately empty. Distinguishing
which interrupt fired needs the GIC's IAR, which does not exist until item
0.6; nothing unmasks or routes any source to this vector yet, so the
function is not reachable during a normal boot. Per the item's own text,
no attempt was made to manufacture an interrupt to exercise this path early
-- 0.6 (GIC) and 0.7 (timer) are what prove it took and returned one.

Verified: every hand-computed frame offset (0, 16, 32 ... 640, frame size
0x2a0=672) checked against the actual disassembly of the built kernel, not
just visually reviewed -- save and restore sequences mirror exactly, and
aarch64_install_vectors' branch on the detected EL, the flag write, and the
trampoline's read of the same flag address all confirmed consistent. Boots
clean on real QEMU output, no regression: dict_hash 0x3d4e1daf289da94f
unchanged from the item 0.1-0.4 baseline, and the item 0.4 EL banner
("AArch64: running at EL1") still prints correctly ahead of "IDT installed.".

Only aarch64-scoped files touched (isr.S, interrupts.c) -- no shared loader
or header changed, so amd64 and riscv64 are provably unaffected; not
rebuilt for this item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 18:47:29 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 f43f3f4482 aarch64: detect exception level at runtime, cached accessor
Punch list §25 item 0.4 complete.

Adds aarch64_current_el() in arch.c: reads CurrentEL[3:2] on first call,
caches the result (CurrentEL cannot change post-ExitBootServices, so every
consumer gets the same answer without repeating the MRS). Called from
arch_interrupts_init() in interrupts.c -- the earliest point with both a
working console (up since M1) and a genuine first consumer (vector
installation is the first EL-dependent operation) -- and the detected level
is printed to the boot log there.

Declared via extern-in-place in interrupts.c rather than added to the shared
arch.h: "exception level" has no amd64/riscv64 equivalent, matching the
convention already used for riscv64_timer_rearm() in item 0.3.

Verified on real QEMU output: "AArch64: running at EL1", correctly positioned
immediately before "IDT installed." in the serial log. Boots clean, dict_hash
0x3d4e1daf289da94f unchanged from the item 0.1-0.3 baseline.

Scope: this item establishes the detection and exposes it; it does not yet
change VBAR/ELR/SPSR or timer-register selection to use it. arch_interrupts_init()
still writes VBAR_EL1 unconditionally, and now says so explicitly in its own
doc comment -- if aarch64_current_el() ever reports 2 on real hardware,
exceptions taken at EL2 vector through VBAR_EL2, which nothing programs yet.
That gap is items 0.5 (vectors/saved-state) and 0.7 (CNTP vs CNTHP) to close,
per FABRIC.md's GAP-B3 finding. The boot-log EL2 case prints a note pointing
at both.

Only aarch64-scoped files touched (arch.c, interrupts.c) -- no shared loader
or header changed, so amd64 and riscv64 are provably unaffected; not rebuilt
for this item.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-03 18:30:25 -04:00
Robert Allan James a5ed8c3d87 Initial commit — LithosAnanke kernel 2026-08-01 07:49:56 -04:00