display: the compositor service — claim, double-buffer, present (D2)

Stand up /system/services/display: a ring-3 process that claims the framebuffer
D1 seeded, maps it write-combining as the front buffer, allocates a cacheable
back buffer, and presents composed frames. The GUI track's compositor, reached
by name over ServiceId.display (= 9).

- protocol.zig: the display wire protocol (info/create_layer/configure_layer/
  destroy_layer/fill_rect/blit_tile/damage/present). `info` and a whole-screen
  `present` are live; the layer ops fail-stub until D3.
- display.zig: enumerate -> claim -> mmio_map(WC) the LFB, mmap a cacheable back
  buffer, clear it and present it (proving the double-buffer path), then serve.
- runtime.display + barrel exports (display, display_protocol): a cached
  `.display` client with info()/present(), the runtime.block shape.
- init spawns "display" in boot_services; build.zig wires the protocol onto the
  runtime, builds the exe, packs it into the initial-ramdisk, installs it.

mmap fix the back buffer forced: systemMmap was capped at 256 pages (1 MiB) by a
fixed kernel-stack scratch array. Rewrote it to map page-by-page with rollback
(no array) and raised the cap to 8192 pages (32 MiB) — enough for a 4K back
buffer. A real limitation met.

Gate: `python3 test/qemu_test.py display-service` matches the service's own
serial heartbeats (display: online WxH / presented frame 0), printed only after
the full claim -> WC-map -> back-buffer -> present chain. Regression-checked
usermem, heap, init, and D1's display.
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//! User-space display client: talk to the display service (query the mode, and — from D3
//! — create layers, draw, and present) without hand-rolling the IPC. The `runtime.block`
//! shape: a cached `.display` lookup with a boot-race retry, then extern-struct request/
//! reply marshalling. See system/services/display/ and docs/display.md.
const std = @import("std");
const ipc = @import("ipc.zig");
const system = @import("system.zig");
const protocol = @import("display-protocol");
/// The display's current mode, as `info()` reports it.
pub const Info = struct {
width: u32,
height: u32,
pitch: u32, // bytes per row (may exceed width*4; see docs/framebuffer.md)
format: u32, // a device-abi DisplayFormat value (0 = rgbx, 1 = bgrx)
};
/// The service endpoint, looked up once and cached.
var handle: ?ipc.Handle = null;
/// Look up the display service, retrying while it comes up (a client races its
/// registration at boot). Returns the endpoint, or null if it never appears.
fn service() ?ipc.Handle {
if (handle) |h| return h;
var attempts: usize = 0;
while (attempts < 100) : (attempts += 1) {
if (ipc.lookup(.display)) |h| {
handle = h;
return h;
}
system.sleep(50);
}
return null;
}
/// Send one request, receive its reply; true on a zero status. `out` receives the reply
/// so callers can read `info`/`layer` fields on success.
fn transact(request: protocol.Request, out: *protocol.Reply) bool {
const h = service() orelse return false;
var req = request;
var reply: [protocol.reply_size]u8 = undefined;
const len = ipc.call(h, std.mem.asBytes(&req), &reply) catch return false;
if (len < protocol.reply_size) return false;
out.* = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Reply, reply[0..protocol.reply_size]);
return out.status == 0;
}
/// The display's current mode, or null if the service never came up.
pub fn info() ?Info {
var reply: protocol.Reply = undefined;
if (!transact(.{ .operation = @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.info) }, &reply)) return null;
return .{ .width = reply.width, .height = reply.height, .pitch = reply.pitch, .format = reply.format };
}
/// Composite the dirty layers and flush the frame to the screen.
pub fn present() bool {
var reply: protocol.Reply = undefined;
return transact(.{ .operation = @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.present) }, &reply);
}