/* StarForth — Steady-State Virtual Machine Runtime Copyright (c) 2023–2025 Robert A. James All rights reserved. This file is part of the StarForth project. Licensed under the StarForth License, Version 1.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at: https://github.com/star.4th@proton.me/StarForth/LICENSE.txt This software is provided "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and noninfringement. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ /** * switch.h - Cooperative VM context switch (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII, Stage 2, * 2026-09-13). * * sk_vm_context_switch() suspends `from`'s execution exactly where it is * (mid-C-call-stack, on from's own native stack -- Stage 1) and resumes * `to` -- either for the first time ever (a synthesized initial frame, * entering sk_vm_switch_entry()) or exactly where `to` was itself last * switched out. Returns to the caller only once something later switches * back to `from` -- from from's own point of view, this call simply * takes a while to return, like any blocking call. * * Cooperative only: nothing here is interrupt-driven yet (that's Stage * 3), so this is safe to call only from ordinary FORTH word dispatch, * never from ISR context. */ #ifndef STARKERNEL_VM_SWITCH_H #define STARKERNEL_VM_SWITCH_H #ifdef __STARKERNEL__ #include struct VM; int sk_vm_context_switch(struct VM *from, struct VM *to); /* FABRIC-3.10.8 MC-2: how many switches were refused because they would * have entered an observer on a core other than core 0 (a guard; 0). */ uint64_t sk_vm_switch_observer_refusals(void); /* FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII Stage 3 follow-on (2026-09-14): which VM is * currently physically running, tracked by the switch mechanism itself -- * see switch.c's own doc comment on g_switch_current_vm for why this * exists instead of reusing vm_log_attributed_vm(). sk_vm_switch_set_ * current() seeds the initial value (whoever is running before any * switch has ever happened) -- call once, at Stage 3 registration time. */ struct VM *sk_vm_switch_current_vm(void); void sk_vm_switch_set_current(struct VM *vm); /* FABRIC-3.8.md §3.13.3 (Stage C-b): the word checkpoint's switch point. * Call only where `vm` owns its outermost frame (vm_core.c gates this with * sk_vm_owns_outermost_frame()). Re-decides only if something physical * changed since the last decision (a beat of the running VM, or mail); * switches to a strictly cooler VM with work, if there is one. */ void sk_vm_switch_checkpoint(struct VM *vm); /* FABRIC-3.8.md §3.13.5 (Stage C-b, ruling C-5): the idle point. Called * from the console's input poll loops (repl.c) each pass with no input. * Acts only when Hera is running with no frame live (between lines); then * switches to the coolest VM with work, if any. * * FABRIC-3.9.8 Stage O-B (FABRIC-3.9.0.md §2.5): Hera's own mail is drained * here first, one message per call, instead of on the timer-paced idle beat * -- she is an observer that acts on events, promptly. may_drain_self is * the caller's gate: readline passes (n == 0), so a drained payload never * prints into a line being typed. */ void sk_vm_idle_point(int may_drain_self); /* FABRIC-3.8.md §3.5 (Stage D): 1 if `vm` is parked at its own trampoline * with nothing in progress -- its frame stack holds exactly one frame, its * own VM_FRAME_IDLE. Its saved context is the bare trampoline loop; no * payload, no borrowed frame, nothing that would ever need resuming. This * is what makes a SWITCHED_OUT VM killable. (Hera parked at her idle point * also has one IDLE frame, but she can never be killed anyway.) */ int sk_vm_parked_idle(const struct VM *vm); #endif /* __STARKERNEL__ */ #endif /* STARKERNEL_VM_SWITCH_H */