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LithosAnanake/include/starkernel
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5.5 d8358a3011 Stage M-0: kernel-Hermes arena, pending queues and member lists grow on demand; Q_SLOT its own constant (FABRIC-3.9.0 §7.0, M-0/M-0b)
- The static sk_hermes_msgs[32] is replaced by a directory of fixed-size
  segments (SK_HERMES_ARENA_SEGMENT, growth granularity only). Messages
  never move -- callers, including the drain across vm_interpret_kind(),
  hold message pointers across later allocations, so copy-on-grow (as
  §7.0 first proposed) would dangle them. Each message carries its index;
  numbering unchanged.
- Pending-queue rings and channel member lists heap-grown (doubling);
  member lists freed on destroy; reassembly scratch sized per call.
  SK_HERMES_MSG_MAX / _PENDING_MAX / _MEMBER_MAX are gone.
- Q_SLOT = Q48_ONE / 32 as its own constant (M-0b), value unchanged.
- Every grow failure is printed, logged at LOG_ERROR, counted
  (sk_hermes_grow_failures()) and refused whole; a send whose queue can't
  grow releases its message.

Probe (reverted), identical on amd64/aarch64/riscv64: 70 messages in one
queue (arena 32 -> 96), sender refused by its reservoir, 72 popped intact
in order, 100 members; a live Hera drain on a full arena grew it mid-drain
and released/popped the right message; each grow path's injected failure
refused whole and counted. 3-ISA acceptance passes; boot parity, dict_hash
set and the live ledger line byte-identical to before.

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

Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared with hosted code.

  • uefi.h — UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.
  • elf64.h, elf_loader.h — ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.
  • boot_info_offsets.h — struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.
  • arch.h, apic.h, timer.h — architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).
  • console.h, framebuffer.h, vt100.h — UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.
  • pmm.h, vmm.h, kmalloc.h — physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.
  • pci.h, virtio_blk.h — PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).
  • capsule.h, capsule_birth.h, capsule_loader.h, capsule_run.h, capsule_vm_physics.h, capsule_generated.h — capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (see tools/mkcapsule.c).
  • kernel_args.h, cmdline.h — boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg / command line).
  • repl.h — kernel REPL.
  • log.h, doe_log.h — kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.
  • q48_16.h — kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.
  • xxhash64.h — content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.
  • hal_memory.h — hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.

Subdirectories:

  • hal/ — top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.
  • vm/ — kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).
  • freestanding/ — minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h, ctype.h, errno.h, inttypes.h, math.h, sched.h, signal.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h, time.h, sys/time.h, sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.