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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whole reason `kernel_abi` lives in the shared contract — see [efi.md](efi.md) for
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the handoff it governs.
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## The process-entry stack (argc/argv)
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The SysV ABI also fixes what a *fresh process* finds on its stack — and danos
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follows it, so its own runtime and any future C libc read arguments the same way.
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At the first user instruction, `rsp` is 16-byte aligned and points at (addresses
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growing upward):
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```
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rsp → argc u64
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argv[0] … argv[argc-1] pointers into the strings area below
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NULL argv terminator
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NULL envp terminator (no environment yet)
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{AT_PAGESZ, page size} auxiliary vector
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{AT_NULL, 0} auxiliary-vector terminator
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argv string bytes NUL-terminated
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───────────────────────── stack top (stack_top_virtual)
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```
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The kernel builds this block at the top of the process's stack — 8 pages (32 KiB,
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`parameters.user_stack_pages`) mapped RW+NX below a fixed top, with the page below
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them left unmapped as a **guard**, so a stack overflow faults (killing only that
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process) instead of silently corrupting the image
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(`buildEntryStack` in `system/kernel/process.zig`); `argv[0]` is always the path
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or initial-ramdisk name the process was spawned as, and `system_spawn`'s optional
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argument blob becomes `argv[1..]`. The runtime's `_start`
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(`library/runtime/start.zig`) hands the block to `rt_start`, which exposes it as
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`runtime.argumentCount()` / `runtime.argument(i)`. A C runtime's `crt0` would walk
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the identical layout unmodified — that's the compatibility being bought. The
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`args` test proves the round trip.
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## Where else it surfaces
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- **The red zone → `red_zone = false`.** `build.zig` disables the red zone for the
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