Implements Event Ring TRB parsing and ERDP dequeue-pointer update
(xhci_poll_events(), src/starkernel/usb/xhci.c), called from
sk_repl_idle()'s existing ~1s idle cadence rather than a per-arch
interrupt handler.
A first attempt wired real interrupt delivery (PCI->IOAPIC GSI routing,
a dedicated isr_stub34/vector 0x22, GIC/PLIC routing mirroring
virtio_input.c). Checked live via QMP query-pci before trusting it: the
amd64 PIRQ swizzle formula predicted GSI 16 for the xHCI controller at
PCI slot 4; the real QEMU-assigned IRQ was 10, and embedded ICH9
functions contradicted the same formula too. Reverted all of it back to
the exact committed baseline rather than chasing chipset PIRQ routing
further, and reframed around Section U item 6's own design intent
("interrupt-driven, coarse cadence, cheap early-exit... quick check
blocks... done") via sk_repl_idle() instead -- USB insertion is a
human-timescale event, not a hot path.
Added -device qemu-xhci to all three QEMU launch targets (required for
any of this to be testable). Verified end to end via genuine post-boot
hotplug (QMP device_add/device_del usb-storage): all three architectures
detect a live attach within seconds. A false-alarm heartbeat "freeze"
found mid-verification traced to querying the wrong counter
(vm->heartbeat.tick_count, which only advances during word execution,
not the kernel's real ISR-driven heartbeat_ticks()) -- confirmed via a
temporary diagnostic word, captured and reverted.
Full writeup, including the discarded interrupt-routing attempt and the
false-alarm investigation, in FABRIC-2.md's Milestone 2c/2d entries.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HZ8kNoTuP63pbQtro4qvrm
src/
Hosted StarForth VM implementation (compiled by the root Makefile).
Bare-metal kernel sources live in src/starkernel/; FORTH word
implementations in src/word_source/; the test harness in
src/test_runner/; platform shims in src/platform/.
Entry point / interpreter core
main.c— CLI entry point, VM init, DoE mode dispatch.vm.c— interpreter loop, stacks, dictionary state (the central runtime file).vm_api.c— external VM API implementation.vm_bootstrap.c— VM bootstrap initialization.vm_debug.c— debugging utilities.vm_time.c— time-related VM operations.vm_internal.h— internal-only declarations shared across thevm_*.cfiles, not part of the publicinclude/vm_api.hsurface.repl.c— REPL read-eval-print loop.cli.c— CLI argument parsing.io.c— I/O operations.log.c— logging infrastructure.
Memory / dictionary / blocks
memory_management.c— dictionary allocator.dictionary_management.c— dictionary allocation and search.dictionary_heat_optimization.c— Loop #1 execution-heat tracking.word_registry.c— word registration system.block_subsystem.c— logical→physical block mapper.blkio_file.c,blkio_ram.c,blkio_factory.c— block I/O backends (file-backed, RAM-backed) and the factory that selects between them.stack_management.c— stack operations.
Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)
physics_runtime.c— main physics coordinator.physics_hotwords_cache.c— Loop #1 hot-words caching.physics_metadata.c— per-word metadata tracking.physics_pipelining_metrics.c— Loop #4 word-transition prediction.physics_execution_hooks.c— execution instrumentation.rolling_window_of_truth.c— Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer.inference_engine.c— Loops #5/#6, statistical inference (window-width, decay-slope).ssm_jacquard.c— L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector; consumescompudynamics.cfor tuning-word/config lookups.compudynamics.c— generic compudynamics module (cd_tuning_word(),cd_tuning_vm()); the score/UCB/reward/weight constants for the L8 adaptive table live here, not inssm_jacquard.c.heartbeat_export.c— heartbeat metrics export (CSV export function itself not yet implemented — seedocs/working/architecture/heartbeat_csv_export.md).
Math / measurement
math_portable.c— portable math functions.profiler.c— performance profiling.doe_metrics.c— Design of Experiments metrics (2^7 factorial).
Any .bak file alongside a .c file here (doe_metrics.c.bak,
inference_engine.c.bak, vm.c.bak) is a pre-edit backup left by a past
maintenance script (see scripts/remove_loop_conditionals.sh), not a
build input.