Add runtime.time, drop demo drivers, harden TSC timekeeping

Time is a kernel concern in danos: the kernel owns the scheduling timer and
already exposes monotonic time via the clock/sleep/timer_bind syscalls, so a
userspace time service would be a redundant, slower path. This adds the generic
runtime.time module over those syscalls, retires the two demonstration drivers,
reorganizes the milestone docs, and makes the monotonic clock correct on Intel,
AMD, and inside any VM.

runtime.time (library/runtime/time.zig)
- Instant/Duration interface: now, sleep, spin, after, monotonicNanos, available
- a thin layer over system.clock/sleep/timerOnce; unit-tested arithmetic

Remove the demo drivers hpet and bus (a teaching example belongs in the docs,
not shipped in the tree)
- system/drivers/ now holds only real drivers: pci-bus, ps2-bus, usb-xhci-bus
- device-manager end-to-end test repointed to pci-bus (asserts on kernel state:
  the process table and the device tree, not a racy serial marker)
- device_register containment moved to a new in-kernel `containment` test
- the driver-model worked example moved inline into docs/drivers.md

Reorganize milestone docs into topic docs
- m17-m18 / m19-m20 / m21 plans dissolved into process-lifecycle, device-manager,
  discovery, and acpi docs; new docs/power.md and docs/timers.md; ~20 citations
  repointed; plan docs deleted

TSC reliability (apic.zig, smp.zig, cpu.zig, kernel.zig)
- check the invariant-TSC bit (CPUID 0x80000007 EDX[8]) on Intel and AMD
- cross-core "warp" check at SMP bring-up, pairwise BSP<->AP as each core comes up
- fall back to the HPET clocksource when the TSC is not invariant (a bare VM) or
  not synchronized (a warp), switched continuously so time never jumps
- boot log reports the outcome; new tsc-sync test exercises the TSC + warp path

Verified: zig build; zig build test; 60/60 QEMU cases (incl. new containment and
tsc-sync).
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Samson
2026-07-13 11:56:43 +01:00
parent 5b63a841ba
commit 452080e997
36 changed files with 1150 additions and 1267 deletions
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@@ -148,7 +148,14 @@ pub fn startAp(apic_id: u32, stack_top: usize, percpu: usize, index: usize, cr3:
// Wait up to 100 ms for the AP to reach apEntry and set the flag.
const deadline = apic.millis() + 100;
while (apic.millis() < deadline) {
if (@atomicLoad(u32, &ap_alive, .acquire) != 0) return true;
if (@atomicLoad(u32, &ap_alive, .acquire) != 0) {
// Cross-check this core's TSC against the BSP's before it joins the run
// loop: an unsynchronized TSC must be caught before any task can migrate
// onto this core and observe time going backward. No-op unless the TSC is
// the clocksource (apic.checkWarpSource).
apic.checkWarpSource();
return true;
}
asm volatile ("pause");
}
return false;
@@ -177,6 +184,11 @@ fn apEntry(percpu: usize) callconv(.c) noreturn {
@atomicStore(u32, &ap_alive, 1, .release); // "architecture state up" — BSP is polling this
// Rendezvous with the BSP for the TSC warp check (no-op unless the TSC is the
// clocksource) before joining the run loop, so this core's clock is vetted before
// it can run any task.
apic.checkWarpTarget();
if (secondary_entry) |enterScheduler| enterScheduler(); // joins the run loop
while (true) asm volatile ("hlt"); // (only if no entry was registered)
}