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 Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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26c1117ccd |
Phase 8 v3: refuse a same-VM, cross-device raw block copy from within StarshipOS
Two research passes confirmed the identity record itself (seed/pubkey/ cert) is already unreachable from any FORTH primitive -- only C-level read_devblock/write_devblock touch it. But a device's ordinary user block content CAN be copied between two attached devices today, using only stock, unpinned words: <src> BLOCK <dst> BUFFER 1024 MOVE UPDATE SAVE-BUFFERS, or the dedicated RELOCATE-BLOCK word (whose own doc comment already admits "performs no policy validation of its own"). Checked whether the existing per-block owner_fp/BLK-ACL-ALLOW@ metadata already solves this -- it doesn't: owner_fp encodes who (a VM identity pubkey), never where (physical device), and blk_get_buffer()/blk_update() never consult acl_allow/acl_ttl at all -- those fields are completely inert. Small, targeted fix, no rearchitecture: - blk_subsys_relocate_block() (block_subsystem.c): same-device check. Its own documented purpose is wear-leveling (relocate on the SAME device) -- never stated as cross-device, and nothing enforced that until now. - New public blk_lbn_device_handle() (block_subsystem.c/.h): the missing LBN-to-device direction (blk_get_device_range() already goes the other way). Opaque, stable, == comparable. - MOVE (memory_words.c) and CMOVE/CMOVE> (string_words.c): refuse when both addresses are block-window addresses backed by two different devices -- the exact shape of the composed attack. A copy where either end is ordinary VM memory (the overwhelming common case: staging text from PAD, editing a block in place) is untouched. - blk_vm_check_epoch()/blk_vm_slot_for_addr() exposed (block_words.h) so the two new call sites share the same window-slot invalidation contract rather than a second, divergent copy of it. Verified live on all three architectures, not just boot-clean: same- device MOVE/RELOCATE-BLOCK still succeed exactly as before; cross-device MOVE/CMOVE/RELOCATE-BLOCK all refused. Zero UNKNOWN WORD, identical dict_hash across all three (this change adds no FORTH-visible word, only internal refusal conditions, as predicted). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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089ab2160e |
Phase 8 Part B: gate ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD, closing the no-drive-needed privilege path
ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD's own doc comment admitted "no authorization check here or anywhere else... applied later if and when actually needed -- not invented here." That's now: anyone reaching a Hera FORTH prompt could add their own pubkey to the eligibility list with zero legitimate identity material -- no minted drive, no WIREBIND, no cert-signature check involved at all. Once a future caller reaches ELEVATE-GRANT again, a self-added pubkey would pass zuse_eligibility_is_member() and grant ACL-ALLOW!/ACL-TTL! on any named word. Fixed the FORTH-only way, matching this project's own convention (ACL policy belongs in ACL.4th, never in C; never gate on zuse_session in C -- her power is the absence of ACLs, not a hardcoded session check): ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD is now denied by default (capsules/zuse.4th block 4016), granted and pinned only inside ACL-ZUSE-BOOT's already-existing authenticated branch (block 4017) -- the same gate her own god-mode already goes through, requiring a real cert-verified Zuse before it opens. Live-verified on all three architectures, not just boot-clean: after genesis authentication, ACL-ALLOW@ and ACL-PINNED? both read -1, and HERE ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD executes successfully past the ACL gate. Phase 8 v1 plan: /home/rajames/.claude/plans/jiggly-cuddling-stallman.md Part A (the ELEVATE-GRANT pointer-confusion fix, FABRIC-3.7.md) is separate, not yet built. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Fix include/version.h collision between hosted Makefile and Makefile.starkernel
The hosted Makefile writes include/version.h with FORCE as a prerequisite (always regenerates), but Makefile.starkernel's own rule had no prerequisite at all -- Make only rebuilds a target with no prerequisites when the file is missing. Since both Makefiles write the same path with incompatible content (the hosted version has no LITHOS_VERSION/ LITHOS_VERSION_STR at all), running a bare `make -f Makefile.starkernel` after a hosted `make` build silently reused the wrong file and failed deep in kernel_main.c with "LITHOS_VERSION_STR undeclared". Added FORCE (declared .PHONY, matching the hosted Makefile's own existing pattern) as include/version.h's prerequisite in Makefile.starkernel. Verified the fix directly: poisoned version.h with a hosted build, then ran a bare (non-clean) kernel build and confirmed it self-heals. Full three-architecture acceptance: amd64 (logs/20260922-215333/), aarch64 (logs/20260922-215803/), riscv64 (logs/20260922-220217/) -- all three reach [zuse@Hera] ok>, zero UNKNOWN WORD. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Phase 5 close-out: Isabelle pass, doc sweep, SBOM, version bump (FABRIC-3.6.md tasks 5.1-5.4)
5.1: Isabelle/HOL pass (52 theories, clean) -- restated the boundary rather than just citing the green build: proof/ scope was already entirely outside this reshuffle's footprint (src/starkernel/, capsules/*.4th), so the boundary is unchanged, not moved. 5.2: Documentation sweep. CLAUDE.md's stale WIP banner and Tripod fleet description updated now that Phases 0-4 have actually landed (Hera/ Artemis/Hestia, no Hermes). MANIFEST.md rides the strip -- hermes/init.4th's block table replaced with a deletion note, init.4th/doe-campaign.4th/ hestia/init.4th entries corrected to match the post-strip live files. Confirmed the TRIPOD.md/0.1 contradiction was already resolved (2026-08-13). Settled the superseded-docs call explicitly: archive as-is, do not rewrite. Fixed experiments/bare_metal/README.md's block-size framing (still said 1024-byte budget; real rule is 64 chars x 16 lines). K-qualification checked clean against the two living documents; full retroactive sweep of the closed archival FABRIC corpus explicitly declined as disproportionate. 5.3: make sbom. Installed syft (user-local, approved). Found and fixed a real Makefile bug while at it -- the sbom target hardcoded --source-name StarForth, so DocumentName was wrong even after regenerating. 5.4: LITHOS_VERSION 2.0.0 -> 2.1.0, engine VERSION 3.1.0 -> 3.2.0 (minor, per the dictionary-visible-only rule). Replaced the stale version-comment block in Makefile.starkernel (had the odd/even LTS rule backwards) and docs/lithosananke/ROADMAP.md's retired versioning-policy section with the ratified ladder. Verified on all three architectures; riscv64's first pass hit a transient virtio_blk timeout during boot-time Zuse genesis mint, reported and confirmed non-reproducing on an immediate clean retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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3e201c82a5 |
Stage E: Category B strip -- remove Hermes, messaging.4th, old routing (FABRIC-3.6.md task 4.1-4.4)
All FORTH-owned message types were cut over to kernel-Hermes in Phase 3 (tasks 3.8-3.10). This removes the now-dead FORTH messaging layer and the Hermes VM itself: capsules/common/messaging.4th, capsules/hermes/init.4th, the slot-3 VM-NAME-REG pairing convention, and every load-site/birth-site reference across capsules/init.4th, artemis/init.4th, hestia/init.4th, doe-campaign.4th (Artemis-only now), capsule_console.c, capsule_mint.c, capsule_wirebind.c, capsule_birth.c, and kernel_main.c. Verified on all three architectures: clean boot, mkcapsule --lint clean (36 files, 0 violations), zero UNKNOWN WORD, identical dict_hash across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 for every VM, and a full mint -> WIREBIND-attach -> USE -> relay round-trip exercising the two highest-risk edits (capsule_console.c/capsule_mint.c). Found, not fixed: deleting messaging.4th removes SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST, which was the only caller of KH-ELEVATE-SEND and the only path to ELEVATE-GRANT (zuse-eligibility.4th, still loaded at boot) -- Phase 8 PKI's own elevation entrypoint. Needs a decision before Phase 5 close-out. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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cab9b5a31f |
Stage D: ELEVATE-REQUEST real cutover -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 3.10
Reachability verified live before writing any code, per this project's own standing rule (grep cannot establish reachability alone): FIND SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST / FIND ELEVATE-GRANT / FIND CH-REQUEST all resolve on a live Hera boot, though grep across capsules/experiments/docs found zero callers of SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST -- a real, complete, directly-callable entrypoint (H.5/H.8's own design) with no current automatic trigger, not dead code. Correction to a prior finding, made in the course of this check: task 3.8's write-up claimed "Hera's own pre-existing inability to load common:messaging.4th" -- false. capsules/init.4th (Hera's own MAMA_INIT capsule) loads it directly, and SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST lives and works in her dictionary right now. Task 3.8's own actual scope is unaffected by this correction. Cutover: SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST (messaging.4th) no longer ends in CH-REQUEST's COMMON-CH/MSG-SEND path; it now calls KH-ELEVATE-SEND (repl.c), a new C word wrapping sk_hermes_send_one(), registered unconditionally for every VM. from/to are derived from the calling VM and sk_get_mama_vm() directly in C, never taken from the stack -- a real correctness improvement over CH-REQUEST's own initiator-only gate, which only existed because a caller COULD pass the wrong from value; deriving it in C makes that spoof structurally impossible. SK_HERMES_MSG_TYPE_ELEVATE_REQUEST reuses ELEVATE-REQUEST's own value (8), same partition-rule reasoning as tasks 3.8/3.9. Delivery is unchanged task 3.4 machinery. No new static-buffer lifetime caveat -- the payload-aliasing fix landed before this task started. CH-REQUEST (messaging.4th) is now dead code, its one real caller just removed -- found, not fixed, per Captain Bob's Law. Verified live on all three architectures: 0 0 0 0 S" DUP" SEND-ELEVATE-REQUEST (deliberately-invalid pubkey, so ELEVATE-GRANT correctly refuses -- the check is the pipeline running, not a grant succeeding) fires the evidence line and completes cleanly, DUP unaffected afterward. Zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash identical across all three architectures (changed uniformly from prior runs -- one new word registered -- not diverged, matching SXXXIV.6's own rule). This closes task 3.11 (Phase 3 gate): all of messaging.4th's live FORTH-owned message types (BLK-ATTACH-EVENT, CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT, ELEVATE-REQUEST) are now real kernel-Hermes cutovers. Phase 4 may begin. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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d4f8a568ee |
Silence routine diagnostic noise; fix a real CRLF double-submit bug
Two separate fixes, found and closed together after task 3.9/prompt-
format landed (Captain Bob: "finish the work first then we'll do
cleanup before 3.10 begins").
1. Logging noise (confirmed live via QMP screendump): three sources
were cluttering ordinary interactive console sessions.
- INFERENCE "Output validation failed, ignoring results"
(vm_runtime.c, kernel; vm_time.c, hosted mirror) and xhci "CSW
status = FAILED"/"unit not ready -- retrying" (xhci.c) were
already log_message(LOG_WARN/LOG_ERROR, ...) calls, just visible
at the default runtime LOG_WARN level -- downgraded to LOG_INFO,
all three fire routinely and self-resolve (xhci.c's own existing
comment already documents the retry as expected SCSI UNIT
ATTENTION behavior, not a driver defect).
- Stadium: dispatch cell=... (stadium.c's stadium_dispatch()) was a
genuine defect: an unconditional console_puts()/console_println()
sequence with no level gating at all, printing on every single
dispatch. Rewritten through log_message(LOG_DEBUG, ...).
2. CRLF double-submit (found while investigating why the cleaned-up
noise still didn't look like a normal single-VM session):
sk_console_readline() (repl.c) breaks on '\r' OR '\n' as independent
terminators, so a line sent as both bytes submits twice -- the real
line, then an immediate empty-line submit on the second byte, each
printing its own " ok". Pre-dates Stage D entirely, not an async-
relay artifact. Fixed with a single non-blocking peek-and-discard
for the paired byte right where the line terminates.
Verified live on all three architectures for both fixes: zero UNKNOWN
WORD, dict_hash identical to every prior acceptance run in this
document (both changes are display/interaction-only).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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5c07745c18 |
Fix SkHermesMessage payload-aliasing defect (task 3.8 findings log)
sk_hermes_send_one() -- the single funnel every sender, including sk_hermes_publish(), already goes through -- used to store the caller's own payload_addr pointer as-is. Two sends before either drains meant both messages pointed at the same caller-owned buffer, whichever send wrote last silently winning: real, confirmed live (a second identity thumbdrive attached at boot alongside Zuse's own left its WIREBIND pairing silently never happening). SkHermesMessage gains an inline payload_buf[SK_HERMES_CHUNK_MAX_ PAYLOAD] field; sk_hermes_send_one() now memcpy()s the caller's payload into it and points payload_addr at that copy instead. No sender or reader call site needed to change -- every existing reader already only ever reads through payload_addr, which still points at valid bytes of the same length, now message-owned. g_kh_blk_attach_buf/ g_kh_console_cmd_buf (repl.c, tasks 3.8/3.9) no longer need to survive past their own send call; their doc comments, which had claimed the old aliasing shape was benign, are corrected. Verified the original bug is actually gone: reproduced the exact original scenario (a real, sequentially-minted rajames identity attached at boot alongside Zuse's own, two simultaneous BLK-ATTACH- EVENT sends in one idle-loop pass) -- WIREBIND pairing, USE, and the Stage D relay all now work where WIREBIND previously silently failed. Standard three-ISA acceptance also clean: zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash identical across all three and matching every prior acceptance run in this document. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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21734b1a52 |
Console prompt: identity/machine both sides once redirected off Hera
sk_console_user_prefix() (repl.c) previously always returned "zuse" (or the WIREBIND-attached username) as the left side of the bracket prefix, regardless of which VM the console was actually pointed at -- "[zuse@rajames]" after USE rajames, always showing the authenticating superuser rather than the active identity. Changed on Captain Bob's direct instruction: once the console is redirected into a WIREBIND identity's own console VM (console_get_vm_name() != "Hera"), show that same name on both sides -- "[rajames@rajames]" -- since WIREBIND births the console VM literally named after the identity, so the identity IS that VM, not a separate label. At the top level (still on Hera, nothing has redirected yet), the original zuse_session/WIREBIND-username logic is unchanged. An earlier, more ambitious attempt (separate identity/machine tracked state across every console_set_vm_name() call site) regressed live to a wrong [zuse@Artemis] prompt and was fully reverted before reaching any acceptance run -- the landed fix needed none of that new state, just this one function. Verified live on all three architectures: [zuse@Hera] at the top level and after a live WIREBIND attach (before USE), [rajames@rajames] after USE rajames, with task 3.9's Stage D relay still firing correctly on top of it. Zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash unaffected (display-only change). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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3975dc61cd |
Stage D: CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT real cutover -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 3.9
Send-side cutover: sk_repl_dispatch_line()'s FORTH-string
"CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT 0 3 S\" ...\" 0 MSG-SEND" interpret is replaced with
a direct sk_hermes_send_one() call (SK_HERMES_MSG_TYPE_CONSOLE_CMD,
kernel_hermes.h, deliberately reusing CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT's own value 7,
same partition-rule reasoning as task 3.8's BLK-ATTACH-EVENT cutover).
Real finding along the way: kernel-Hermes's drain only ever runs as a
side effect of vm_interpret() being called on the target VM. Task
3.8's target (Hera) is always being interpreted via the interactive
REPL loop; task 3.9's target is a WIREBIND identity's own ~user VM, a
passive receiver nothing else drives. The existing idle-loop pump only
ticked VMs with the old FORTH MSG-TICK word ACL-allowed -- a VM minted
with the STD79-lockdown personality never has it, so the pump silently
skipped it forever and queued messages never delivered. Fixed by
adding an unconditional, direct sk_hermes_drain_checkpoint() call in
the same pump loop, independent of the MSG-TICK gate.
Verified live on all three architectures: WIREBIND-attach a real
identity, USE into it, type a plain console line, confirm the Stage D
evidence line and correct relayed execution result. Zero UNKNOWN WORD,
dict_hash identical across all three ISAs and matching task 3.8's own
baseline. The FABRIC-3.md-documented USE/BINDSTEP crash did not
reproduce in any of these live sessions (recorded as a finding, not
chased further).
Depends on the zuse_root_pubkey_known fix already landed in
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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493d410028 |
Add the four ledger counters (held/pulled/returned/consumed) -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 2.4
FABRIC-3.5.md SXL.4's ledger: held == pulled - returned - consumed,
epsilon zero. Added sk_hermes_ledger() (an accessor, not a mutator)
plus four static counters in kernel_hermes.c.
Each counter has exactly one increment/decrement site: held/pulled
both move at sk_hermes_alloc()'s single success path, after every
refusal branch has already returned; held/returned both move at
sk_hermes_release()'s single success path. consumed is declared and
always reads 0 -- its one increment site doesn't exist yet, and won't
until task 2.5 gives decay something to record.
sk_hermes_release() now reads the Stadium cell's live header.heat
immediately before calling stadium_evict(), rather than assuming the
original pulled amount -- stadium_evict() zeroes the header as part of
freeing the cell and its own return value is a success code, not the
credited amount, so this is the only point the true remaining heat is
available. Today this always equals the original Q.SLOT pull; once
task 2.5's decay exists, this is what keeps returned correct without
touching this function again.
Self-test (kernel_main.c) extended: snapshots the ledger before
running so it checks its own deltas, verifies held/pulled grow by
exactly got_n * Q_SLOT on allocation with returned/consumed untouched,
then verifies held returns to its starting value and returned grows by
the same amount on release, and checks the audit invariant itself as a
bonus (task 2.6 formalizes this properly).
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash unmoved. All three print PASS with
identical final ledger: held=0 pulled=65536 returned=65536 consumed=0.
No compiler warnings.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("keep going with rhe 6.5 document").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Correct sk_hermes_alloc() to admit a real Stadium patron; add sk_hermes_release() -- FABRIC-3.6.md tasks 2.2 (amended) + 2.3
Real finding, caught before building release on a foundation that
couldn't support it: task 2.2's first cut of sk_hermes_alloc() pulled
reservoir heat but never admitted a real Stadium-floor patron -- just a
local in_use flag. FABRIC-3.5.md SXXXIII.4 item 1 says MSG-FREE-NODE
returns heat "via STADIUM-EVICT", which only means something if
allocation admitted something. SXL.4's own invariant, Sigma(resident
patron heat) + reservoir + consumed == Q48_ONE, cannot balance if held
heat is invisible to every term while held. Flagged to Captain Bob
before proceeding; authorized to correct 2.2 in the same pass as
building 2.3 on top of the fix.
sk_hermes_alloc() now calls stadium_admit() with heat = the pulled
amount, behaviour = STADIUM_BEHAVIOUR_DELIVER (matching messaging.4th's
own SB-DELIVER STADIUM-ADMIT exactly), and identity = the message's own
slot index (matching the FORTH precedent -- caught live in the first
boot of this fix that omitting this made stadium_dispatch()'s existing
DELIVER diagnostic print msg_idx=0 for every message instead of a
distinct value). The returned cell index is stored in the message's
own stadium_cell field. Stadium-floor refusal (independent of reservoir
affordability) rolls back the pull the same way the other refusal
paths already do.
sk_hermes_release() -- the function task 2.3 actually asks for -- calls
stadium_evict() on that cell, which itself returns the departing
patron's remaining heat to its owning VM's reservoir, matching
MSG-FREE-NODE's exact shape. Release does not touch the reservoir
directly.
Self-test (kernel_main.c) extended: keeps every allocated message's
pointer, allocates to exhaustion as before, releases all of them, and
checks the reservoir returns to precisely its starting value.
"Undecayed" is true by construction (no decay/TTL logic exists yet,
task 2.5) -- exact restoration, not approximate.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash unmoved from task 2.2. All three print
identical PASS arithmetic: reservoir0=65536, reservoir_after_alloc=0,
reservoir_final=65536. No compiler warnings.
stadium_dispatch()'s DELIVER-case console output (one line per
eviction) is pre-existing instrumentation, not new -- confirmed real
and load-bearing per stadium.c's own comment, verbose but expected.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Add sk_hermes_alloc(), the heat-coupled allocator -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 2.2, item 28
The piece FABRIC-3.5.md SXXXIII.6 calls "what remains genuinely hard,"
built and proven first per its own recommendation. Added
src/starkernel/vm/kernel_hermes.c (wired into Makefile.starkernel's
LOADER_EXTRA_SRCS -- this repo lists vm/*.c files explicitly, no glob)
and sk_hermes_alloc()'s declaration in kernel_hermes.h.
Checks stadium_reservoir_peek(vm_id) >= SK_HERMES_Q_SLOT before
touching the reservoir at all -- refusal this way needs no rollback,
since nothing was pulled -- with an explicit rollback path
(stadium_reservoir_push) kept defensively for the pull-then-short case,
though nothing in this single-core kernel is expected to reach it.
SK_HERMES_Q_SLOT = Q48_ONE / SK_HERMES_MSG_MAX (2048), deliberately
simpler than messaging.4th's own formula, which reserves a Q.1/3 floor
for COMMON-CH's own Stadium heat -- kernel-Hermes has no such object
(SXXXIII.4/SXXXIII.5's flat membership list carries no heat of its
own), so there is nothing left for that floor to protect.
Self-test in kernel_main.c, same diagnostic-only synthetic-VM pattern
as the existing Stadium quota grant self-test (lo=3, distinct from
that test's lo=1): reads back the actual granted reservoir rather than
assuming a number, derives expected_n from it, allocates to refusal,
and checks the refusal lands at exactly expected_n, the reservoir
doesn't move on the refused attempt (rollback proven, not assumed),
and the final reservoir is exactly reservoir0 minus got_n times
Q_SLOT.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, dict_hash unmoved from task 2.1 (pure C, no FORTH
touched). All three print identical self-test arithmetic: reservoir0=
65536 Q_SLOT=2048 expected_n=32 got_n=32 reservoir_after=0. No compiler
warnings.
Noted, not fixed: Q_SLOT's divisor and SK_HERMES_MSG_MAX are the same
32, so reservoir and arena exhaustion land at exactly the same count by
construction -- this test can't distinguish which refusal reason
fired, only that refusal is correct and rolls back correctly.
Deliberately not evidence for stadium_conserved(): allocating alone
(no release yet, task 2.3) leaves pulled heat held off the Stadium
floor, so the two-term check would correctly read false right now if
run mid-hold. That's expected, not a bug -- Stage B (task 2.7) is
defined as "before and after the alloc/free cycle," not "continuously
during." This task's self-test checks reservoir arithmetic directly
instead.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Yes continue").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add kernel-Hermes message/membership structures -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 2.1, Phase 2 begins
Phase 2, task 2.1 only: type definitions, wired to nothing, drawing no
heat -- no allocator, no protocol logic, no registration anywhere.
FABRIC-3.5.md SXXII.4: Phase 2 structures come first and prove nothing
until the allocator is built on top (task 2.2 onward, each its own
commit).
Added include/starkernel/vm/kernel_hermes.h:
SkHermesMessage -- field-for-field mirror of messaging.4th's live
9-cell MSG-* layout (type/from/to/payload addr+len/Stadium cell
index/seq/channel/orig-type), per SXXXIII.4 item 1 ("roughly half the
file is accessors that become struct fields"), plus an explicit
in_use flag for task 2.2's allocator. Deliberately no separate heat
field: per SXL.4, a message's heat IS the Stadium cell it occupies,
not a value copied alongside it -- one source of truth for the
conservation invariant stadium_conserved() (task 0.7) checks.
SkHermesMembership -- one flat broadcast membership list, SXXXIII.4/
SXXXIII.5's recommended replacement for messaging.4th's 28-word channel
abstraction (traced to exactly one live caller, CH-ADD-MBR). Item 27
(negotiation vs. broadcast, Phase 3 blocker B1) is not answered by this
structure and isn't meant to be -- a flat list is correct either way.
Genuinely wired to nothing: no .c file, no Makefile change, no include
from any compiled source. Syntax-checked standalone (gcc -std=c99
-Wall -Wextra -Werror -fsyntax-only) before touching the real build.
Boot byte-identical to task 1.9's baseline on amd64 (same dict_hash
triple, zero UNKNOWN WORD). Did not repeat aarch64/riscv64 -- the file
compiles into no object on any architecture, so there is no mechanism
by which it could diverge.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Assert Hestia's headless invariant -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.9, Phase 1 closed
Audited first: neither capsules/hestia/init.4th nor her birth block in
kernel_main.c references g_wirebind_attached_username, CONSOLE-ATTACH,
MINT, or any proxy-minting mechanism -- the invariant already held
structurally, by absence. Stated it explicitly anyway, per the task:
added a comment at Hestia's birth site quoting FABRIC-3.5.md SXVIII.6's
invariant verbatim, warning future edits not to add console/wirebind/
proxy code there without re-reading it first.
Verified live with the actual no-thumbdrive boot
(ARCH=<arch> qemu ZUSEDISK=), not the default. All four VMs born
successfully on all three architectures, zero UNKNOWN WORD, and zero
ok> occurrences anywhere in any of the three full logs -- genuinely
silent, matching sk_repl_headless_wait()'s own documented "no banner,
no prompt, no input surface at all." Watched each log's line count
post-birth for 8-10s to confirm it stayed flat rather than eventually
printing something late.
Confirmed no regression on the standard (with-thumbdrive) path on
amd64: dict_hash identical to task 1.8's baseline. Did not repeat that
check on aarch64/riscv64 -- the change is a comment only, cannot
diverge by compiler, and the headless invariant itself was already
proven identically on all three.
Phase 1 is now fully closed (tasks 1.1-1.9). Tripod is Hera/Artemis/
Hestia plus Hermes (retained through Phase 1-3 per SXXXIV.4); Hestia
owns the drawing fabric exclusively; headless-until-login intact with
Hestia in the fleet. Phase 2 is next.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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6c6293cd52 |
Move PLOT/FB-WIDTH/FB-HEIGHT registration to Hestia only -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.8
Real fix for task 0.8's finding. register_framebuffer_words() was
called unconditionally from register_forth79_words() (word_registry.c),
itself called unconditionally from vm_init_with_host() -- the generic
per-VM bootstrap every VM goes through, with no way to know a VM's
name at that point.
Removed the unconditional call. Added a name-gated call instead in
capsule_birth_baby() (capsule_birth.c), beside the existing
is_fleet_foundation check -- the one place in the birth path where
capsule_name and the newly-allocated VM* are both in scope together:
Hestia gets register_framebuffer_words(), nobody else does.
Positively verified live, exactly as the task's own check demands:
FB-WIDTH via VM-EXEC returns UNKNOWN WORD in Hermes and Artemis, 1280
in Hestia. Confirmed at the fundamental level too: Hera's own base
PARITY:M7.1a word count dropped from 531 to 528 -- exactly the three
words removed -- identical across all three architectures.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD during boot. mkcapsule --lint capsules/ clean, 38
files / 0 violations (pure C change, no capsule content touched). No
compiler warnings.
Side effect on the vendored hosted build, expected and not a
regression: capsule_birth.c is kernel-only, so the hosted starforth
binary has no Hestia concept and now never registers these words at
all -- confirmed live. framebuffer_words.c's own top comment already
calls this surface "kernel-only, no-op on hosted builds," so the prior
stub registration was already vestigial. Ran a plain `make` sanity
build per CLAUDE.md's own stated purpose for that target; regenerated
lfs/amd64/starforth included here rather than left stale.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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5afb33049f |
Move fabric.4th + font.4th to hestia/init.4th -- FABRIC-3.6.md tasks 1.6+1.7 (merged)
Tasks 1.6 and 1.7 are not independent, and the punchlist's split was
wrong: font.4th calls G-LINE/G-ELLIPSE, which are fabric.4th's own
words. Confirmed live before committing to an approach -- removed only
fabric.4th's EXEC from init.4th, left font.4th's in place, booted
amd64: Hera's boot floods with UNKNOWN WORD: 'G-LINE'/'G-ELLIPSE' the
moment font.4th loads (logs/20260919-171047/amd64/, kept as evidence).
Reverted that partial state, asked Captain Bob how to proceed given
neither task can independently pass its own three-arch-boot check, and
was told to use best practices.
Moved both together, in their original relative order, into a new
capsules/hestia/init.4th block 4988 -- a deliberate, documented
deviation from "one task, one commit," not a bundling of convenience.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD. Hestia's dict_hash identical across all three
architectures. Verified the shrink/grow live, not just inferred from
hash movement: HERE reads 20008 in Hera, 63040 in Hestia post-move.
CART-PLOT in Hera is UNKNOWN WORD; the identical call routed into
Hestia via VM-EXEC reaches the word and fails on a stack underflow
instead, proof it exists there since an unknown word can't underflow.
mkcapsule --lint capsules/ clean, 38 files / 0 violations. MANIFEST.md
updated: init.4th's block 2049 entry no longer lists fabric.4th/
font.4th; hestia/init.4th's entry gains block 4988.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Use best practices.").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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487769e18a |
Register Hestia for switch signals -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.5
Added a fourth capsule_vm_find_by_name_nocase("Hestia", ...) +
sk_vm_switch_signal_register(...) block in src/starkernel/kernel_main.c,
same shape as the existing Hermes/Artemis blocks, placed after all four
fleet members are confirmed born -- the existing comment on this block
already states why: no critical-section protection during setup, so
registering earlier risks the signal firing mid-birth.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, hashes identical to task 1.4's baseline (this is
pure C runtime state, doesn't touch any FORTH dictionary). No compiler
warnings.
Took FABRIC-3.5.md SXXXV.0's "invisible by default" warning literally
rather than trusting a clean boot log alone: SXXVIII.2's own recorded
switch-storm signature is "QEMU pinned near 100% CPU, serial log frozen
solid," not an error message. Confirmed normal wall-clock boot time on
all three (~30s) and, since TCG itself always shows ~100% CPU
regardless of guest workload, watched each serial log's line count at
the idle prompt for 5-10s and confirmed it stopped growing rather than
flooding or silently stalling.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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10e2d654e5 |
Birth Hestia in kernel_main.c -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.4
Added a birth block immediately after Hermes's own, same shape:
S" Hestia" BIRTH followed by a registry-lookup confirmation. Fleet is
now Hera/Hermes/Artemis/Hestia, four VMs, through Phase 1-3
(FABRIC-3.5.md SXXXIV.4) until Phase 4 retires Hermes.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD. Registry shows all four (BIRTH: Hermes live, BIRTH:
Hestia live, PARITY:BIRTH for all three non-Hera VMs). Hestia's
dict_hash identical across all three architectures (0x31cab513929eea89).
Hera/Hermes hashes unchanged from task 1.3; Artemis's vm_id shifted
(now the 4th birth instead of 3rd -- sequence-derived, not identity-
derived, so expected) but its dict_hash is unchanged and still
identical across arches. No compiler warnings.
Noted, not a regression: Hestia's birth log shows the same
"( Unterminated comment" HADES warning Artemis's birth has shown since
task 0.0's first baseline.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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ff00de9a63 |
Add Hestia to is_fleet_foundation -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.3
Fourth vm_name_prefix_eq_nocase(capsule_name, "Hestia") check alongside
Hera/Hermes/Artemis in src/starkernel/capsule/capsule_birth.c's
is_fleet_foundation local -- Hermes retained, per FABRIC-3.5.md
SXXXIV.4 (he stays live and fleet-foundation through Phase 1-3). The
flag's only consequence is session_set_pinned(vm_id, 1) for whichever
VM name matches.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, byte-identical to the pre-change baseline -- expected,
since nothing births anything named "Hestia" yet (task 1.4), so the
added name never matches. Hermes confirmed still present in the check
and still born normally in all three logs.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("yes").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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4f7cbe78fc |
Create capsules/hestia/init.4th -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 1.2
The third Tripod leg's first real file (FABRIC-3.5.md SII/SIV). Blocks
4986-4987 of the 4986-4996 allocated in task 1.1 (
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eed2a9dfb5 |
FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.8: PLOT/FB-WIDTH/FB-HEIGHT reachability audit -- Phase 0 closed
Read-only audit, no code changed. Finding: reachable from every VM
today, not confined to one table, contrary to item 33's premise.
FORTH level matches expectation: fabric.4th/font.4th are EXEC'd only
from capsules/init.4th (Hera). C level does not: register_framebuffer_
words() (src/word_source/framebuffer_words.c:60-65) is called
unconditionally from register_forth79_words() (src/word_registry.c:
139), itself called unconditionally from vm_init()
(src/starkernel/vm/vm_bootstrap.c:263) -- the generic per-VM bootstrap
every VM goes through, no identity check.
Verified live rather than trusting the source trace alone: booted
amd64 and ran `S" FB-WIDTH ." S" Hermes" VM-EXEC` and the same against
Artemis -- both returned 1280, not UNKNOWN WORD. Neither loads
fabric.4th, so the raw C primitive itself is answering.
Not fixed here, per the task's own read-only scope. Gives task 1.8 a
concrete starting state: its own check ("a non-Hestia VM calling PLOT
gets UNKNOWN WORD") currently fails, and register_framebuffer_words()'s
call site will need to become conditional or move out of the universal
bootstrap -- not just the FORTH-level relocation tasks 1.6/1.7 already
plan for.
Phase 0 gate met across tasks 0.2-0.7 (three-arch boot, stadium_
conserved() true, zero UNKNOWN WORD, repeatedly). Phase 0 is closed;
Phase 1 (Hestia, messaging untouched) is next.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Continue.").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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380f0a09c9 |
Add stadium_conserved() -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.7, item 41
Boolean analogue of vm_physics_conserved(), for the Stadium per-VM
quota invariant rather than fleet-wide execution heat
(FABRIC-3.5.md SXXXIX.4). int stadium_conserved(VMUuid vm_id), in
src/starkernel/vm/stadium.c alongside stadium_resident_sum()/
stadium_reservoir_peek() that it's built from, declared in
include/starkernel/vm/stadium.h.
Implements the two-term form -- resident_sum(vm_id) +
reservoir_peek(vm_id) == Q48_ONE -- not the three-term form SXL.4
rules for the eventual system. That ruling's `consumed` term is a
Phase 2 kernel-Hermes ledger deliverable that doesn't exist yet:
nothing draws on any VM's Stadium quota today (task 2.2 is literally
where that wiring gets built), so consumed is honestly zero right now.
Folding it in as a placeholder would be inventing Phase 2 state ahead
of it existing -- the doc comment says so explicitly, so whoever
builds Phase 2's ledger extends this function rather than working
around it.
Wired into the existing per-VM boot diagnostic
(stadium_words_print_boot_diagnostics(), kernel_main.c:810, Hera
only -- the sole existing call site) rather than adding a new one,
printing CONSERVED/DRIFTED the same shape vm_physics_status() already
uses.
Three-arch boot clean: amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all reach [zuse@Hera] ok>,
zero UNKNOWN WORD, all print "Stadium conservation: CONSERVED" with
identical resident_sum=47641 reservoir=17895 sum=65536=Q48_ONE. No
compiler warnings on either edited file (forced recompile checked).
Authorized by Captain Bob ("Yes.").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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bcc678e354 |
Strip SPAWN-EVENT from messaging.4th -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.4
Dead per task 0.1's reachability check (
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aafcce4320 |
Strip capsules/process.4th and its EVENT-EMIT/-WAIT/-DRAIN -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.3
process.4th is dead per task 0.1's reachability check (
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a0e9725883 |
Strip capsules/common/msg.4th -- FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.2
Dead per task 0.1's reachability check (
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FABRIC-3.6.md task 0.0: three-ISA baseline smoke test, PASS
amd64/aarch64/riscv64 all boot clean to [zuse@Hera] ok>, zero UNKNOWN
WORD, and dict_hash identical across all three: Hera (PARITY:M7.1a)
0x6824fe5993239838, Hermes 0x062252c4da6858da, Artemis
0xed80117724c26f36. This is the gate task 0.0 exists for -- every later
task's acceptance in this document assumes this baseline is known-good.
Found and worked around a real confound along the way: disk/artemis.img
is deliberately shared across all three ISAs' qemu targets (FABRIC-3.md
SXXXV.2), so a same-order rerun has run 2 and 3 silently resume run 1's
already-formatted disk instead of formatting their own. The first
attempt (logs/20260919-124835 amd64, logs/20260919-124952 aarch64,
both kept for the record) shows exactly this: Artemis's dict_hash
diverges between the two runs even though Hera's and Hermes's do not,
because only Artemis's birth path branches on disk state. Restored
disk/artemis.img and disk/thumbdrives/zuse-thumb-ident.img to their
committed blank state before each of the three reruns that produced
the clean, matching baseline above, and recorded the finding in
FABRIC-3.6.md so a later task doesn't mistake the same confound for a
real architecture divergence.
capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md's timestamp header is regenerated by the build,
per .claude/CLAUDE.md's documented behavior for that generated file.
Authorized by Captain Bob ("begin", "clean new disk",
"document, commit, and push").
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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94215e8b47 |
Fix two catastrophically heavy workloads found running the real campaign
The full 360-trial campaign was launched, then killed after 4h39m of CPU time with zero trials completed -- still stuck on the very first touch of the very first trial. Root cause, quantified from the workload's own source, not estimated: RUN-CHAOS5 (workload-5.4th) is 1000000 0 DO CHAOS-FIELD CHAOS-RIPPLE LOOP, multiplying out to ~2.4 trillion word executions for one call -- ~495 days at the observed rate. Never designed to be called to completion as a single touch in a repeatedly-birthed worker. A second problem found computing the fix rather than discovering it mid-run again: workload-1.4th's own birth-time self-execution (20 SQUARE-WAVE + 1500 SQUARE-BURST + 100000x MICRO-BURST, all three run automatically at capsule load) sums to ~875 million words -- ~4.3 hours just to birth one worker -- and worker index 1 always maps to it in heterogeneous mode, landing in half the campaign's cells regardless of concurrency level. Fix: two new capsules, workload-1-lite.4th and workload-5-lite.4th, carrying the same word bodies verbatim but a bounded self-execution tail, comparable in scale to the campaign's other workloads. The originals are untouched; only multiuser-doe.4th's own WL-CAPSULE/ WL-ENTRY index 1 and 5 mappings were repointed. Verified live before relaunching a third time: the actual worst case in isolation (5 0 998 MU-RUN-TRIAL, concurrency=8 heterogeneous, includes both fixed workloads plus RUN-OMNI) completed in ~20 minutes wall-clock, Hera stayed healthy throughout. Clean 3-arch qemu boot. Reps reduced 60 -> 30/cell (Bob's call after seeing the real per-trial cost) -- still matches the project's "rule of 3's" DoE convention (same as ACL-RWT's own 30 reps). 6 cfgs x 30 reps = 180 trials. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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multiuser-doe.4th: the campaign trial-loop capsule, verified live
Builds the experimental control Bob correctly identified as still missing after HB-ON/HB-OFF (§XXXIII.5): walk the shuffled matrix of concurrency-level x workload-mode cells, birth the right worker count per cell, drive each with two VM-EXEC touches, check VM-ERROR?, kill them, print a trial marker. Built entirely from existing primitives (WORKER-BIRTH, VM-EXEC, VM-HEAT, VM-ERROR?, KILL, HB-ON/HB-OFF) plus doe.4th's own RUN-MATRIX/SHUFFLE-MATRIX pattern -- no new C primitives. Real capsule-format bug found and fixed: a first draft, chunked purely by a fixed 16-line count with no regard for word boundaries, split several CASE...ENDCASE structures and one oversized colon definition across Block headers. Result was a cascading [CAPSULE][DEFER] failure from the first split forward -- every subsequent line failed to compile, and MU-RUN-TRIAL was never actually defined (confirmed: UNKNOWN WORD when called). Root cause traced to capsule_loader.c directly: a :...; word and any control structure inside it must fit entirely within one 16-line block -- the loader's per-block compile pass has no persistent record of an open CASE's (or an overlong definition's own) state across a Block boundary. Not previously documented anywhere in this project's capsule-authoring guidance. Fixed via manually curated block boundaries and factoring oversized bodies into smaller helper words. Reps ratified at 60/cell (not the 10 first drafted), matching this project's own "rule of 3's" DoE convention (ACL-RWT's 3 seeds/30 reps, std79's 3x9x3). 6 cfgs x 60 reps = 360 main-block trials. MU-MAX-REPS raised 20 -> 63 for run-matrix headroom. Verified live on amd64: one isolated trial (0 0 999 MU-RUN-TRIAL) produced two real concurrent births, two clean kills, and the exact expected marker (MU-TRIAL run=999 cfg=0 rep=0 nw=2 mode=0 fail=0). Hera stayed healthy throughout. Clean 3-arch qemu boot. Not yet run: the full 360-trial MU-EXEC-CAMPAIGN itself (a genuinely long-running action under TCG, deliberately not started without explicit confirmation) or the WIREBIND-automation fixed arm. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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41918a28a4 |
doe_log.c: add vm_name/vm_id_hex identity columns; new calibration workload
Adds the identity columns HB-ON's existing per-tick CSV logger (doe_log_tick_row(), doe_log.c) was missing. Previously every column described *a* VM's state each row, but nothing said which VM emitted it -- concurrent VMs' rows were indistinguishable by source. Two new first columns, vm_name and vm_id_hex, resolved via a reverse lookup on vm->stadium_vm_id (capsule_vm_registry_get()). Real bug found and fixed while building this: the freestanding snprintf here silently prints the literal format string instead of substituting for %016llx (width+ll+hex unsupported) -- caught by reading the actual emitted row, not assumed to work. Replaced with a hand-rolled hex nibble-table loop, the same idiom vm_uuid_format()/ MINT-SCRATCH-EMIT already use. Corrects FABRIC-3.md's own prior "still not started: CSV driver" framing: no bespoke CSV emitter is needed for the multiuser DoE at all -- this per-tick logger already exists, fires automatically inside every VM's own execution loop, and just needed HB-ON plus these identity columns to be usable for concurrent workers. Also corrects doe_log.h's own stale doc comment claiming g_doe_log_enabled defaults to 1 -- doe_log.c's own source is authoritative: 0, off by default, matching the HB-ON/HB-OFF naming. One real, honest limitation recorded rather than smoothed over: vm_name reads blank for any tick captured during a WORKER-BIRTH'd capsule's own self-execution at birth time, since capsule_birth_baby() runs that work (and its heartbeat ticks) before the registry name can be set. vm_id_hex is unaffected (reads directly from vm->stadium_vm_id) and still uniquely disambiguates every row -- confirmed live: a blank-name row's own vm_id_hex matched its later PARITY:KILL line's vm_id exactly. New workload-calib1.4th: Bob confirmed the existing 10 workload-N.4th files aren't fixed. Sized to cross HEARTBEAT_CHECK_FREQUENCY (256 word-executions/tick) many times over while staying far lighter than RUN-FIB/RUN-CHAOS5, both too slow under TCG for a bounded verification run. A real, reusable addition, not a throwaway. Verified live on amd64 via a self-contained one-shot EXEC'd test (HB-ON, WORKER-BIRTH two calibration workers, HB-OFF, VM-ERROR? on both, KILL both, completion banner) rather than interactive polling, which breaks once HB-ON makes the log grow continuously via Hera/ Hermes/Artemis's own background ticks. Clean 3-arch qemu boot on the real committed change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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e33eb36361 |
Multiuser DoE punch list: WORKER-BIRTH + VM-ERROR? + vm_physics_init fix
Core mechanism for §XXXIII's main concurrency block, built and live-verified on amd64. Two new primitives: - WORKER-BIRTH ( capsule-c capsule-u name-c name-u -- ok? ): births a named, VM-EXEC-addressable VM from an arbitrary (p) capsule with no identity involved. Corrects the ratified design's own assumption that the main block would use UNATTENDED-BIRTH -- that requires a committed capsule per identity, impractical for dozens of trial VMs. The concurrency block never needed identity at all. - VM-ERROR? ( c-addr u -- flag ): reads a named VM's error state from Hera, mirroring VM-HEAT's silent/always-returns-a-value contract. Needed to check a VM-EXEC-driven trial VM's own fault state after the fact -- nothing existing let Hera do this. Real bug found and fixed in both WORKER-BIRTH and UNATTENDED-BIRTH: capsule_birth_baby() never calls vm_physics_init() either (same shape as the registry-name gap found building UNATTENDED-BIRTH) -- without it a born VM is never in the VM Fleet Attractor physics list, so VM-HEAT returns 0 forever regardless of work done. Fixed by adding vm_physics_init() alongside the existing registry-name call in both words. Traced (not guessed) why heat still read 0 after one VM-EXEC touch even post-fix: vm_physics_touch()'s transfer logic only fires from a VM's *second* touch onward -- the first touch just records a baseline tick. Verified live across three sequential touches: heat 0 -> 7039 -> 11333. This is a real design requirement for the DoE's heat/CV response variable (each trial must touch a worker at least twice), not a bug to route around. Also found live: all 10 existing workload-N.4th capsules self-execute their full workload at load/birth time (a bare top-level call to their own RUN-* word at file end) -- missed on an earlier, too-shallow 8-line survey of each file. WORKER-BIRTH alone already runs a worker's first pass as a side effect of birth. Verified live on amd64: two concurrent workers (fib + matrix-mul) birthed, run, measured (heat + error state), and killed cleanly; VM-HEAT/VM-ERROR? both confirmed silent-0 on an unknown name. Clean 3-arch qemu boot on the real committed change. Still open: the run-matrix/shuffle/CSV driver capsule itself, the WIREBIND-automation path for the fixed arm, and the per-VM touch-count budget's exact value. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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af351bff92 |
Punch list item 4 (final): CONSOLE-ATTACH, full unattended-identity flow verified end-to-end
Closes FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2's punch list. CONSOLE-ATTACH ( name-c name-u -- ok? ) pairs a fresh console VM to an already-live VM registered as "<name>~user". Deliberately a plain, unconditional primitive with no VMIdentity capability-bit check -- corrects this session's own first-pass design (§XXXII.2 amended in the same commit): identity.installed is 0 for Hera/Hermes/Artemis and for every console-proxy VM, so a capability-bit gate would be unreachable for every VM a human actually types at, Zuse included. Matches ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD's own "no bespoke gate" precedent in this file; real gating is `' CONSOLE-ATTACH ACL-PIN` in ACL.4th if ever wanted. Two real bugs found and fixed via live testing, not assumed correct: - capsule_birth_baby() never sets a VM's registry name (documented gap, same one capsule_runcap_birth()'s own history already hit) -- UNATTENDED-BIRTH gained a second `name` argument and now calls capsule_vm_registry_set_name(new_vm_id, "<name>~user") itself. - CONSOLE-ATTACH's first draft took an independent console name from the target's name. sk_repl_dispatch_line()'s pairing check (repl.c) reconstructs the target as console_get_vm_name()+"~user" -- a mismatched console name silently falls back to direct interpretation with no error. Caught live (typed `5 6 + .` at a mismatched console, got a direct `11` instead of a relay) and fixed by collapsing to one name argument, matching WIREBIND's own by-construction invariant. Full end-to-end live verification on amd64: minted a test identity, UNATTENDED-BIRTH'd it as "bob", CONSOLE-ATTACH'd a console named "bob", USE'd it, typed `5 6 + .` -- no direct output at [zuse@bob] (relay path taken), then `[zuse@bob~user] 11 ok>` appeared: the relayed command executed on the target identity VM itself and printed its own answer back through the shared console. Hera stayed healthy throughout (2 2 + . -> 4 after switching back). CONSOLE-ATTACH also verified to refuse cleanly on a nonexistent target with no orphaned VM. Test capsule reverted after capture per this project's probe convention -- never committed. FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2 fully closed: all 4 original questions ratified, the mid-course drive_uuid and ACL-bit corrections both recorded plainly rather than silently folded in, and a doc-accuracy note left for CLAUDE.md's own stale "1024-byte block limit" framing (mkcapsule's real limits are range [2048,5120) and 16 content lines/block) -- flagged, not fixed, out of this punch list's scope. Clean 3-arch qemu boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) on the real committed C-only change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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5879c8b3bc |
Punch list item 3: UNATTENDED-BIRTH call site, verified live end-to-end
Implements the unattended-birth mechanism FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2 designed: UNATTENDED-BIRTH ( name-c name-u -- ok? ) births a VM from a named (p) capsule via capsule_birth_baby() (completely unmodified, the same generic build-time-capsule path CAPSULE-BIRTH already uses), then installs its identity the same way capsule_wirebind.c already does live for WIREBIND attaches -- vm_identity_from_cert() verification followed by a plain post-birth struct assignment -- rather than anything RUNCAP-shaped, since RUNCAP requires a real blkio_dev+ homeblocks_sig_t an unattended identity never has. The born VM's own capsule payload is expected to lay down two CREATE'd buffers (UNATTENDED-ID-UUID, UNATTENDED-ID-CERT) via MINT-SCRATCH- EMIT's own literal format; their addresses are fetched by interpreting a two-word line inside the *new* VM's own context (vm_interpret(born_vm, ...)), the same "run inside that VM's own dictionary" idiom capsule_wirebind.c already uses for VM-NAME-REG. Explicit invariant preserved: never touches g_wirebind_attached_username or any console-pairing state, births no console VM -- an unattended identity stays un-promptable (§VIII.1) until a human pairs a console to it later via the already-working VM-NAME-REG mechanism. Verified live end-to-end on amd64: minted a real test identity via MINT-SCRATCH, captured its MINT-SCRATCH-EMIT output, built a throwaway test capsule from it (discovered along the way: mkcapsule's real block constraints are range [2048,5120) and max 16 content lines per block -- neither matches this repo's own doc comment, corrected via ground truth from the tool itself, not assumed), then ran UNATTENDED-BIRTH against it: cert verified against Zuse's root pubkey, identity installed, "no console attached" reported, Hera stayed healthy afterward (5 6 + . -> 11). Test capsule reverted after capture per this project's own probe convention -- not a real identity, never committed. Clean 3-arch qemu boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) on the real committed C-only change. Remaining punch-list item (the ACL cap bit for console attachment) not started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Punch list item 2: MINT-SCRATCH-EMIT, verified live on all 3 arches
Adds the hand-transcription mechanism FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2's punch list item 2 calls for: MINT-SCRATCH-EMIT prints the last successful MINT-SCRATCH's drive_uuid + cert devblock as ready-to-paste FORTH source (HEX-based CREATE ... C, ... byte sequences), so packaging an unattended identity into a capsule is a mechanical copy out of the captured boot log rather than a manual hex-to-FORTH translation an operator could transpose a digit in. Refuses (no output) if no MINT-SCRATCH has ever succeeded -- printing 4112 zero bytes as if they were a real identity would be a silent, misleading success, matching this session's own error-handling audit discipline rather than adding a new silent-failure primitive right after finishing one. Verified live on amd64: MINT-SCRATCH-EMIT correctly refuses before any mint, then after MINT-SCRATCH succeeds, emits UNATTENDED-ID-UUID and UNATTENDED-ID-CERT as valid FORTH literals. Cross-checked byte-exact: the cert's own embedded ASN.1 serialNumber field matches the emitted UUID bytes exactly, confirming x509_build_user_cert()'s drive_uuid binding round-trips correctly through the scratch-device path. Clean 3-arch qemu boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64). Remaining punch-list items (writing/committing a real capsule file for an actual named identity, the unattended-birth call site, the ACL cap bit) not started -- authoring a real committed capsule needs a name/ purpose decision that isn't mine to make. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Punch list item 1: scratch-device MINT-SCRATCH, verified live on all 3 arches
Implements FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.2's scratch-thumbdrive mint mechanism: capsule_mint_identity_scratch() (capsule_mint.c/.h) builds a throwaway RAM-backed blkio_dev via blkio_ram.c's backend and runs capsule_mint_identity() against it completely unmodified -- same live Zuse-signing operation, same rng_get_bytes() draw for drive_uuid a real thumbdrive gets. Reads back only drive_uuid + the cert devblock; the seed devblock is written into the scratch buffer internally but never read out (no seed is ever baked into a capsule, per the ratified no-seed decision). New FORTH word MINT-SCRATCH (mama_forth_words.c), same stack signature as MINT, mints into the scratch device instead of any attached drive and never touches sk_repl_get_attached_blk_dev() or console-pairing state. Prints the drive_uuid as hex so a live boot log itself proves each call drew fresh entropy. Build correction found along the way: blkio_ram.c was excluded from the kernel build (Makefile.starkernel VM_EXCLUDE) alongside blkio_factory.c/blkio_file.c. blkio_factory_open() unconditionally references blkio_file.c's real fopen()/fread() file I/O, which has no freestanding-kernel equivalent, so the factory function couldn't be used as-is. blkio_ram.c itself is pure memcpy over a caller buffer -- pulled it alone into the kernel build and wired it directly in capsule_mint.c, the same way blkio_factory.c's own extern declarations do internally. Verified live on amd64: two MINT-SCRATCH calls produced two genuinely different drive_uuids (b533246d.../ae11b2b2...), confirming fresh entropy per call rather than stale reuse; VM stayed healthy afterward (5 6 + . -> 11). Clean 3-arch qemu boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64), logs and DoE CSVs committed per standing convention. Remaining punch-list items (hand-transcription into a .4th block, the unattended-birth call site, the ACL cap bit) not started. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Stage D batch 7 (final): mama_forth_words.c groups 5+6 -- dictionary lookup/test words + Stadium primitives; Stage D closed (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
NAME>XT/RUNCAP-TEST/PAIR-TEST and the six STADIUM-* physics primitives (STADIUM-ADMIT/STADIUM-EVICT/STADIUM-RES-PULL/STADIUM-RES-PUSH/ STADIUM-HEAT@/STADIUM-HEAT!), 12 sites -- closes mama_forth_words.c and the entire kernel-only error-handling audit. All 105 sites from the §XXXII.3 triage now accounted for: 28 already correct, 75 silent sites fixed across repl.c/inference_words.c/ log_words.c/vm_core.c/mama_forth_words.c, 2 special cases resolved by dropping the error per their own documented contract, 1 resolved via console_println() per its own recursion constraint. Verified with awk: zero remaining vm->error=1 sites in mama_forth_words.c lack a diagnostic within the preceding three lines. Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. This closes Stage D and the USE/logging/audit thread opened in §XXXII; Stage E (human-vs-unattended identity model) remains open, not started this pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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90c86c6006 |
Stage D batch 6: mama_forth_words.c group 4 -- identity/crypto words (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
MINT + mint_pop_string()/ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD/ZUSE-ELIGIBLE?/ ELEVATE-PUBKEY-UNPACK, 10 sites. mint_pop_string() gained a field_name parameter so its diagnostics name which of MINT's four string arguments failed (phone/email/username/full_name), rather than a generic message that would leave the operator guessing. Diagnostic placement matched each function's own sibling convention where one exists (ZUSE-ELIGIBILITY-ADD), log_message() default otherwise. Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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8b5300fc4f |
Stage D batch 5: mama_forth_words.c group 3 -- cross-VM execution/dispatch, both flagged special cases resolved (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
VM-STEP/VM-EXEC/VM-CALL (5 sites) gained console_println() diagnostics
matching their own existing sibling guards.
SWITCH-MARK-WORK and VM-HEAT (3 sites) resolved per §XXXII.3's own
recommendation: dropped vm->error entirely rather than diagnosing it,
matching each function's own doc comment ("must never error or spam
the console" / "does not print/error"). SWITCH-MARK-WORK is the same
function §XXVIII.3 already fixed once for an off-by-one that fired
silently on every MSG-SEND in the system -- the guard now genuinely
cannot repeat that by contract, not just by the threshold being right.
VM-HEAT's guards now push 0 and return, matching its own
always-returns-a-value stack effect.
Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. Zuse's own WIREBIND attach
(every boot) drives MSG-SEND -> SWITCH-MARK-WORK, so this batch's most
safety-critical fix is exercised by standard acceptance, not just
compiled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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b42c3b195c |
Stage D batch 4: mama_forth_words.c groups 1+2 -- capsule/lifecycle words + BIRTH/START/KILL (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
15 of mama_forth_words.c's 48 silent sites fixed, split by functional
grouping per direct instruction: CAPSULE@/CAPSULE-HASH@/CAPSULE-FLAGS@/
CAPSULE-LEN@/CAPSULE-BIRTH/CAPSULE-RUN/EXEC (9), and BIRTH/START/KILL
(6).
Refined the diagnostic-placement rule: match whichever convention that
same function's other already-correct guards use, rather than
defaulting uniformly. BIRTH/START/KILL/EXEC each already had a
console_println() sibling guard ("name too long or empty") -- their
newly-diagnosed guards now match that, same shape as USE's own fix.
The CAPSULE*@ words have no sibling guard to match, so they keep
log_message() (defer_words.c's gold-standard default).
Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed; BIRTH itself is exercised by
every boot (Hermes/Artemis birth).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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66c2f3e539 |
Stage D batch 3: fix silent error sites in vm_core.c, incl. the two highest-value primitives; two real NULL-deref bugs found and fixed (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
All 13 silent vm->error=1 sites in vm_core.c now log a diagnostic
first: vm_enter_compile_mode, vm_compile_word, vm_compile_literal,
vm_compile_call, vm_exit_compile_mode, execute_colon_word (2 sites
each/combined), and the four fundamental memory primitives
vm_load_u8/vm_store_u8/vm_load_cell/vm_store_cell.
Found and fixed two real NULL-pointer-dereference risks while adding
the diagnostics: vm_compile_call() and vm_exit_compile_mode() each had
a combined `if (!vm || <cond>) { vm->error = 1; ... }` guard that
dereferenced vm->error even on the !vm branch of its own condition.
Split both, and applied the same defensive split to the four memory
primitives since vm_ptr()/vm_addr_ok() both tolerate vm==NULL
internally.
Live-verified, amd64: 999999999 @ . recovers correctly at Zuse's own
console (Stage A's mechanism holds), but the new vm_load_cell
diagnostic itself didn't print -- traced to memory_words.c's own
redundant, still-silent vm_addr_ok() pre-check in memory_word_fetch()
(and the same shape in memory_word_store()), which intercepts before
ever reaching vm_load_cell(). memory_words.c is vendored, out of this
initiative's scope, spun off to FABRIC-4.md -- recorded as a concrete
cross-reference for that future work rather than left to be
rediscovered.
Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed, full POST suite included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
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1a8c0e4fcf |
Stage D batch 2: fix silent error sites in log_words.c, resolve the flagged category-iii special case (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
log_word_set_level(), log_do_emit(), and log_emit_string() (7 sites total) now log a diagnostic via log_message(LOG_ERROR, ...) before setting vm->error, matching this file's own already-correct log_str_emit() sibling and defer_words.c's gold-standard pattern. log_word_append_raw() (backing (LOG-APPEND-RAW), 3 sites) resolved differently per §XXXII.3's own triage note: its doc comment forbids log_message() here (recursion into the log ring it writes to), but the word can also be invoked by hand at the console -- console_println() carries no such recursion risk and matches Stage B's policy for a manual interactive invocation. Added the console.h include this required. Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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5417ffb2bf |
Stage D batch 1: fix silent error sites in repl.c and inference_words.c (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.6)
repl.c's sk_word_blk_attach_ack() and inference_words.c's array_ptr() helper + infer_word_run()'s allocation guard now log a diagnostic via log_message(LOG_ERROR, ...) before setting vm->error, matching defer_words.c's own gold-standard pattern (§XXXII.3) -- these are internal/background conditions (a malformed message-callback, a bad array reference or allocation failure), not interactive usage mistakes, so the fix keeps the fault and reports it rather than dropping it like USE's own fix did. Batched together (4 sites total, smaller combined than the next file) rather than two separate acceptance cycles for negligible size. Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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c05b70c8d6 |
Stage B: logging policy documented, level-aware log-ring eviction built, LOG-FLUSH deferred again (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.4)
Policy decided for the kernel-only audit scope: an interactive command's direct response stays on console_println/console_puts; everything else (state transitions, background diagnostics, audit trails) routes through log_message() at the appropriate level, matching capsule_mint.c's verify_mint() precedent. Documented, not code-swept here -- reclassifying individual sites is Stage D's job. LOG-FLUSH deferred again, explicitly: the per-VM log buffer its own doc comment presumes (vm_log_buffer.h) doesn't exist anywhere in the tree -- building it is real feature work needing its own scoped stage. Level-aware eviction built: log_region_append() now reads the oldest ring slot's own level before evicting it, protecting ERROR/WARN records from being pushed out by INFO/DEBUG churn -- drops the incoming low-priority record instead. Found and fixed an adjacent bug while making this change: the prior two-valued return contract would have made a benign "dropped by design" outcome indistinguishable from a genuine write failure to its one caller, which unconditionally set vm->error on any nonzero return. Changed to a three-valued contract (0 success, 1 dropped by design, -1 genuine failure). Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed. Eviction path itself not live-exercised (needs 128+ LOG-APPEND calls to fill the ring) -- flagged, matching this project's own precedent for that kind of gap. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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5c5896fbc1 |
Stage A: fix USE's silent stack-underflow/bad-address guards, and the Hera fault-scoping gap they exposed (FABRIC-3.md §XXXII.1)
mama_word_use()'s two silent vm->error=1 guards (dsp<1 stack underflow, NULL from vm_ptr()) now print a diagnostic and return, matching the function's other five guards. Live verification of that fix alone surfaced a bigger problem: with the guard no longer silent, the REPL proceeds to interpret the leftover token as an unrecognized word, which independently sets vm->error, and sk_repl_step()/sk_repl_run()'s Hera-branch still hard-halted on that. Investigated kernel_main.c's boot/capsule-load paths directly: they already catch and clear mama->error entirely separately, before sk_repl_run() is ever entered -- so the "no fallthrough surface" halt in these two REPL functions was never protecting a boot-time fault, only an ordinary interactive REPL-turn one. Both functions now recover unconditionally on any VM's error, Hera included, matching how a redirected (WIREBIND/USE'd) identity's session already recovered. Removed the now-fully-unused sk_fault_handler(). Verified live, amd64: USE rajames at Zuse's own console prints the new diagnostic, then "VM fault -- session recovered, resuming", console stays interactive afterward. Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed before and after the Hera-fault-scoping change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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16cc74243c |
std79 DoE campaign rerun post-Stage-4: 81/81, §XIV caught live by rerun's own harness bug (FABRIC-3.md §XXXI)
Reran the established 3x9x3 randomized full-factorial campaign (std79-doe.fth) on all 3 architectures per standing project discipline (any Stadium-adjacent change reruns the whole DoE from the top). First amd64 attempt exposed a real test-harness bug that re-triggered the already-known §XIV concurrent-attach gap: the sequential-attach wait loop checked for any recent WIREBIND-attached line instead of the specific identity requested, firing the next device_add before the kernel finished the current one. Only 2 of 8 identities attached; the campaign itself completed cleanly with graceful "VM-EXEC: VM not found" refusals rather than corrupting anything. Fixed the wait loop, discarded the invalid run's campaign result (its boot log kept for the record), reran clean. Corrected reruns: all 8 identities individually confirmed on all 3 architectures, zero VM-not-found errors, zero faults, 81/81 trials correct against established baseline values. Raw logs archived at experiments/std79-doe/results-20260915-stage4/. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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66beae7fd4 |
Stage 3 follow-on: message-arrival eligibility hook + trampoline-blind switch-storm fix (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII.2)
Implements the message-arrival eligibility signal FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII.1 left open (has_work per-slot flag, set via new SWITCH-MARK-WORK primitive from MSG-SEND) so an idle VM never becomes a switch target purely by waiting out the readiness threshold. Also root-causes and fixes a second, independent switch-storm: the tick's "who is current" check used vm_log_attributed_vm(), which can't see a VM parked in switch.c's own raw trampoline. Replaced with a dedicated g_switch_current_vm tracked by the switch mechanism itself, and moved target-slot eligibility reset to the switch decision point instead of relying on ISR polling to observe a window that can be only a few instructions wide. Verified live on all 3 architectures: clean boot to zuse@Hera] ok>, live cross-VM message dispatch, and (since a quiet log looks identical to a livelocked storm once the DoE probe is gone) confirmed genuine REPL liveness via QMP send-key + screendump on aarch64/riscv64, not log inspection alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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862d7d9c48 |
Stage 3 follow-on: fix stack-ownership corruption + DoE switch columns (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII.1)
DoE CSV gained 6 switch-signal columns (switch_count_cumulative, switch_current_slot, switch_*_readiness, switch_ticks_since), and verifying them with a boot-time HB-ON probe surfaced a real livelock: the preemption checkpoint could fire inside a VM-EXEC-nested execute_colon_word() call and switch away from a stack it didn't own, parking a borrowed region of the caller's stack under the wrong VM's saved-context pointer. The trampoline bounce was the visible (safe) half of this; the corruption was the quiet half, live in every prior "clean" Stage 3 boot without ever showing up in the log. Fixed by gating the checkpoint on being at the outermost vm_interpret() call (g_vm_interpret_depth / sk_vm_at_outermost_interpret(), vm_core.c), per Bob's decision. Also fixed two related bugs found in the same pass: g_switch_back_to was a single global stale after first entry, now per-VM state (native_switch_back_to); note_switch_performed() fired on resume instead of switch-out, now called before the switch. Verified on all 3 architectures: steady log growth (no freeze), zero leaked QEMU processes, DoE columns internally consistent, Hermes/Artemis confirmed genuinely executing (not just trampoline-bouncing). Temporary HB-ON boot probe reverted after capture. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Stage 3: timer-driven preemptive switching, live on all 3 arches (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII)
Fourth stage of the preemptive context-switching plan, and the biggest. LithosAnanke now genuinely, continuously preempts between Hera, Hermes, and Artemis -- timer-driven, running live for the entire remainder of every boot once the Tripod fleet registers, not a bounded probe. A real design fork was resolved before writing code: the naive approach (the timer ISR calling Stage 2's sk_vm_context_switch() directly) is broken -- Stage 0's trap frame lives on whatever stack was active at interrupt time, and jumping to a different stack via Stage 2's own independent swap mid-handler would abandon that trap frame unresumed, guaranteed corruption on the first tick. Chose the safer of two named options: the ISR only ever sets a flag and returns completely normally through its own full epilogue; the actual switch happens moments later, via Stage 2's already-proven mechanism, at a safe cooperative checkpoint on the mainline (execute_colon_word()'s per-word dispatch loop, checked on literally every word, not throttled to the existing 256-word heartbeat-tuning cadence) -- confirmed with the user that word-level granularity is fine-grained enough given the eventual Zynq FPGA target where a word is a mnemonic. New capsule_vm_switch_signal.c/.h: a purpose-built run-readiness signal, deliberately separate from capsule_vm_physics.c's execution-heat engine (that one's own header documents itself as never touched from interrupt context, by design). Slot table sized with headroom (8) rather than hardcoded to today's 3 participants, so extending participation later is another register() call, not a redesign -- per direct request to leave room for swapping the participant set. Simple linear accumulate-then- threshold for this first cut; a fancier law can replace it later without touching the mechanism around it. heartbeat_tick() gains its one deliberate, documented amendment to this file's own top-half/bottom-half discipline -- the first time this codebase reaches into VM-scheduling state from real ISR context. Registration happens only after all three VMs are fully born, right before the REPL starts -- no critical-section protection yet against being switched away mid-birth-setup. Known, flagged rough edge (not reconciled this pass): MSG-TICK's own idle-pump and this new mechanism can still independently move control between the same VMs; not observed to interact badly in verification, but not fully unified either. Verified interactively at the console on all 3 architectures with continuous background preemption running throughout -- amd64 computed `1 1 + .` -> 2, aarch64 computed `1 1 + dup DUP * . CR` -> 4, both correct, REPL fully responsive, zero fault indicators over sustained runtime. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S |
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Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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f790d0995e |
Stage 2: cooperative VM context switch primitive, proven on all 3 arches (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII)
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 |
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Stage 1: per-VM native stacks, allocated but not yet executed on (FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII)
Second stage of the preemptive context-switching plan. Every VM (Hera, every capsule_birth_baby()-born VM including WIREBIND identities) now gets its own dedicated 2 MiB native C stack at birth -- but nothing runs on it yet, that's Stage 2. Pure allocation-machinery proof. Design correction made before writing code: the plan called for cloning sk_vm_arena_alloc()'s guard-page pattern, but that pattern turns out to be Mama-only -- host_services.c's kernel_alloc() gives every baby VM a plain kmalloc() block for its dictionary arena, not a real guarded PMM allocation. Stacks get the real treatment instead (new sk_vm_native_stack_alloc()/_free() in arena.c): independent pmm_alloc_contiguous() + guard pages for every VM without exception, no singleton, no kmalloc fallback -- a stack overflow is exactly the failure mode guard pages exist for, and a corrupted stack could corrupt whatever saved context Stage 2 trusts. 2 MiB size matches this project's own established kernel-stack convention (g_kernel_stack/g_rpi5_native_stack), not a guess -- that one shared 2 MiB stack today already carries all VMs' combined nested VM-EXEC recursion. Three new VM struct fields, freed in vm_cleanup() alongside the existing call_stack free. Allocation failure is non-fatal to birth. All 3 architectures re-verified clean boot to ok>, no native-stack allocation failures for any Tripod-fleet VM. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016UNhH1mhi52i6Qihh7ZV5S |