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
