Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5
06bcab504d
Who runs next is now sk_vm_switch_decide(): among participants with work (pending kernel-Hermes mail, parked mid-task, or Hera with console input), the coolest by VM-physics heat; ties with the incumbent keep the incumbent, ties among candidates go to the longest waiting (unique wait stamps). No scheduler state, no timer: heartbeat_tick() no longer touches switching, readiness/threshold/has_work/take_pending removed. Decided at owned word checkpoints (colon words and, new, between top-level words) after a beat or new mail, at the trampoline between messages, and at Hera's idle point in the console poll loops. The idle pump skips participants (G3 closed for them): the WIREBIND relay is delivered by a real switch to rajames~user. Probe (restored away): relay via switch Hera->rajames~user->Hera on all three ISAs, parked saved_sp inside own stack, walk-order disagreements 0 over tens of millions of decisions, 0 bytes idle log growth. Acceptance: dict_hash unchanged, relay 3, no faults. Rulings: C-3, C-5 as proposed; C-4 taken as (alpha), consequence recorded. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
include/starkernel/vm/
Headers for the kernel-side VM subsystem (src/starkernel/vm/).
arena.h— the capsule arena allocator: fixed-region allocation for capsule payload data, separate fromkmalloc's general kernel heap.parity.h— the birth/execution parity-record logger: declares the logging interface used to record VM ID, capsule content hash, and dictionary hash on every capsule birth, enabling offline determinism verification across independent kernel runs.
See include/starkernel/vm/bootstrap/README.md for the VM bootstrap
subsystem.