M13: IPC capability passing

ipc_call and ipc_reply_wait grow a `send_cap` argument (r9) and a `received_cap`
return (r8): an endpoint travels alongside a message, installed into the receiver's
handle table. The transfer is a share, not a move — the endpoint's refcount is bumped
and the sender keeps its handle. If the receiver's table is full the call fails
-ENOSPC and the message is NOT delivered (a half-delivered capability is worse than a
failed send); a bad handle fails -EBADF. Both directions carry a cap: a client's call
hands one to the server (seen in the server's replyWait), and the server's reply hands
one back (seen in the client's call return).

This is the "open" primitive the driver model was blocked on: a bus driver mints a
per-device endpoint and hands it to a class driver, giving it a private channel to one
device without the 8-slot global name registry.

Kernel: shareCapability in ipc-synchronous.zig at both copy points; new
setSystemCallResult3 (r8, saved/restored by the syscall stub); Task gains
ipc_send_cap / ipc_received_cap. Runtime: callCap + Reply, replyWait gains send_cap
and Received.cap; plain call/replyWait delegate with no_cap. New abi.no_cap.

New ipc-cap test (two kernel tasks exercise both directions, each verifying the
endpoint it received is the same object shared, refcount bumped to 2). No class driver
consumes callCap yet — it lands with the first one. Suite 37/37 plus host tests.
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Daniel Samson
2026-07-10 19:23:19 +01:00
parent 8eb4210251
commit a581712b09
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@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ CASES = [
{"name": "ipc-call",
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# IPC capability passing (M13): a client hands the server an endpoint in a call,
# the server hands one back in its reply; each is verified same-object + shared.
{"name": "ipc-cap",
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# Parallelism: needs more than one core, so this case boots with -smp 4.
{"name": "smp",
"smp": 4,