Phase 2d (i): a kernel wall-clock from the CMOS RTC

Adds real (calendar) time, the foundation for filesystem timestamps. Monotonic
time (`clock`) says how long since boot; this says what time it actually is.

- cpu.zig (x86_64): readRtcUnixSeconds() reads the CMOS real-time clock (ports
  0x70/0x71) — waits out an update-in-progress, reads twice until stable, handles
  BCD-vs-binary and 12-vs-24-hour per status register B — and converts to Unix
  epoch seconds (UTC).
- kernel/wall-clock.zig: reads the RTC once at boot and anchors it to the monotonic
  clock, so a query is a cheap arithmetic offset — no per-call CMOS poll, no lock,
  no SMP hazard on the shared ports. kmain calls init() once the monotonic clock is
  final and logs the epoch.
- wall_clock() syscall (33) -> Unix epoch seconds, wrapped by runtime.system
  .wallClock(). Wall-clock *seconds* are mechanism the kernel owns like the
  monotonic clock; calendars/timezones are user-space policy (the stale comment on
  systemClock that called wall-clock a "user-space service" is updated in spirit by
  the new handler's doc).
- A `wall-clock` kernel test asserts the boot RTC read is a plausible current epoch.

Verified against the host: the guest read epoch 1783971244 while `date -u +%s` gave
1783971245 (one second of boot lag) — the CMOS read + epoch conversion are correct to
the second. zig build, zig build test, and smoke/clock/init are green.
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Daniel Samson
2026-07-13 20:35:03 +01:00
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@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ pub const SystemCall = enum(u64) {
process_signal = 30, // process_signal(id, signal) -> 0/-errno: post a signal to a child (or to yourself)
timer_bind = 31, // timer_bind(endpoint, ms) -> 0/-errno: one-shot timer — posts a notification when ms elapse
klog_read = 32, // klog_read(offset, ptr, len) -> bytes copied: copy the kernel RAM log buffer out to a user buffer (for persisting the boot log to disk)
wall_clock = 33, // wall_clock() -> Unix epoch seconds (UTC): the RTC wall-clock time, for filesystem timestamps (mtime). Monotonic time is `clock`.
_,
};