Pass argv to processes on a SysV entry stack; grow the user stack to 32 KiB

Processes now start with C-compatible arguments: the kernel builds the
System V AMD64 entry block (argc, argv, empty envp, auxiliary vector)
at the top of the stack, argv[0] is the path or initial-ramdisk name
the process was spawned as, and system_spawn carries an optional
NUL-separated blob that becomes argv[1..]. The runtime parses the block
(runtime.argumentCount/argument) and its spawn wrappers pass arguments
through. The name is also recorded on the task, so a fault report says
which binary died, not just its id.

The user stack grows from one page to eight (32 KiB,
parameters.user_stack_pages), with the page below left unmapped as a
guard so an overflow faults into a clean process kill rather than
corrupting the image. Task.name_buffer is zero-initialised, not
undefined: an undefined default is materialised as a 0xAA fill that
moved the static task pool out of .bss and made the whole kernel ~7x
slower under QEMU TCG (caught by the affinity test).

Proven end to end by the new args test: args-echo respawns itself with
arguments via the syscall blob, burns more stack than one page could
hold, and echoes its argv intact. Full suite: 44/44.
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Daniel Samson
2026-07-11 08:33:12 +01:00
parent 6b3ae0c997
commit a5fe63c1dd
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@@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ kernel ──spawns──► init (PID 1) ──spawns──► device-manag
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The kernel launches exactly one process — `init` — and hands it nothing but the raw
ability to start more (`system_spawn(name)`, which loads a binary bundled in the
initial-ramdisk as a fresh ring-3 process). Everything else is a user-space decision:
ability to start more (`system_spawn(name, arguments)`, which loads a binary bundled
in the initial-ramdisk as a fresh ring-3 process — `name` becoming its argv[0],
the optional arguments its argv[1..], on a SysV entry stack, see sysv.md). Everything else is a user-space decision:
- **init** ([system/services/init](system/services/init/init.zig)) is the **service
supervisor**. It spawns the system services danos brings up at boot — today `vfs` and
@@ -52,7 +53,8 @@ initial-ramdisk as a fresh ring-3 process). Everything else is a user-space deci
is a table (`driverFor`): today a static `timer → hpet` map; a fuller system reads
what each driver *binds* (a manifest under `/system/drivers`, or the driver
describing its own match).
3. **Spawn** — `system_spawn(driver_name)` starts the matched driver, which then claims
3. **Spawn** — `system_spawn(driver_name, arguments)` starts the matched driver (the
arguments can carry *which* device it matched), which then claims
its device and runs the event loop below.
So "how is a driver discovered and configured" has two halves: **discovery** is the