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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 6a313c7bf2 FABRIC-3.8.md Stage FR: VM frame stacks, each frame with an ID
Captain Bob: "give frames IDs and call by ID" -- frames stack per VM, each
with an ID. New vm_frame.h/.c: VMFrameEntry { VMFrameID id; VMUuid vm_id;
kind (INTERPRET/DRAIN/IDLE) }, a growable VMFrameStack embedded as VM.frames
(reserved at birth, freed in vm_cleanup, grown by allocate-copy-free).
vm_interpret() -> vm_interpret_kind() pushes a frame onto the running stack's
owner, holds only its ID, fails closed if it cannot grow, and pops by ID
(mismatch reported as VM FRAME CORRUPTION).

The Stage A/B loose fields are gone and everything is derived from the stack:
- ownership gate: one frame, and it is vm's own
- drain guard: a DRAIN frame for vm already on the running stack
- parked-idle: an IDLE frame the trampoline pushes around its yield
- log attribution: the top frame's vm_id, resolved by ID through the registry
The single saved-and-restored attribution global is removed.

Evidence: the probe baseline on the pre-frame code read HSSAS (the global
named Hestia while Hera resumed). With frames it reads HSHAS on all three
ISAs, with Hestia's top frame IDLE and Hera's frames back to 0; the probe is
reverted. Formal acceptance on all three ISAs: dict_hash identical and
unchanged, zero UNKNOWN WORD, faults, frame corruption or refused interprets,
and the WIREBIND relay 1 2 + . -> 3 works.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 15:47:07 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 56da55aba9 FABRIC-3.8.md Stage B: kernel-side idle loop in the switch trampoline
sk_vm_switch_entry() stops being the Stage-2 placeholder bounce and becomes
every switch participant's own idle loop: it drains one of its own
kernel-Hermes messages per pass, on its own native stack (driven by the drain's
return value, so a non-consuming drain cannot spin), and when nothing is
drained it marks the VM parked_idle and yields back. It is entirely OS-driven,
with no VM-side yield word. sk_hermes_drain_checkpoint() gains a per-VM
hermes_draining guard so a payload's own in-word checkpoint cannot drain a
second message inside the first. Still inert in normal operation: nothing
marks work until Stage C.

Finding fixed here: amd64 sk_vm_switch_prime built the first-entry frame at
top-56, entering with rsp 16-aligned instead of the SysV-required 8 mod 16, so
the first aligned SSE spill in a callee took #GP (logs/20260923-142526, kept).
It had been latent since SXXVIII Stage 2 because the placeholder never called
anything. The frame is now at top-64 with a zeroed pad slot. aarch64 and
riscv64 were already correct.

Evidence: a temporary kernel_main probe (reverted, not in this commit) queued
two messages to Hestia, the first calling a colon word, and switched into her.
It passed on all three ISAs: 0 pending, parked_idle, depth 0, context saved on
her own stack, SB-SEQ=12 (drained one at a time, not nested), ledger and
stadium_conserved restored. Formal acceptance without the probe on all three
ISAs: dict_hash identical and unchanged, zero UNKNOWN WORD or faults, and the
live WIREBIND mint -> USE -> 1 2 + . -> 3 relay.

FABRIC-3.8.md also records Captain Bob's rulings that no VM-side word ever gives
up control and that multitasking is a compudynamic hybrid, and opens SS3.12
(VM frames for per-VM execution state).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 14:57:51 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 2aa338483a FABRIC-3.8.md Stage A: per-VM stack-ownership gate for drain and switch
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>
2026-09-23 14:18:55 -04:00
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 0532c1d8b8 FABRIC-3.8.md: design for real concurrency; stop the serialized DoE campaign
The per-ISA amd64 campaign (12345 3 S" amd64" DOE) was stopped ~49 min in,
zero trials complete: its harness drives workers by synchronous VM-EXEC on
Hera's stack, so the concurrency factor counted resident VMs while execution
stayed serialized. Tracing further showed the v2.1.0 reshuffle stops short of
real concurrency: kernel-Hermes never publishes eligibility (no mark_work in
sk_hermes_send_one), the switch trampoline is still the Stage-2 placeholder,
delivery to passive VMs still goes through the idle pump, only Tripod/WIREBIND
VMs are switch participants, and the stack-ownership gate is a single global.

FABRIC-3.8.md records the gap analysis and a staged A-I design, each stage its
own commit and 3-arch acceptance. FABRIC-3.md SXXXV.16 points to it. Logs and
extracted CSVs from today's boots and the stopped run are kept as audit
artifacts.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 13:58:36 -04:00