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.
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Samson
2026-07-11 08:33:12 +01:00
parent 6b3ae0c997
commit a5fe63c1dd
14 changed files with 385 additions and 50 deletions
+24 -4
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@@ -44,11 +44,31 @@ pub fn exit(code: usize) noreturn {
}
/// Start the binary bundled in the initial-ramdisk under `name` as a new ring-3
/// process, returning true on success. This is how a supervisor (the device manager)
/// launches a driver it matched — danos-native, not POSIX (a spawn/exec family comes
/// with the process work later).
/// process, returning true on success. The child's argv[0] is `name`. This is how
/// a supervisor (the device manager) launches a driver it matched — danos-native,
/// not POSIX (a spawn/exec family comes with the process work later).
pub fn spawn(name: []const u8) bool {
return sc.systemCall2(.system_spawn, @intFromPtr(name.ptr), name.len) == 0;
return sc.systemCall4(.system_spawn, @intFromPtr(name.ptr), name.len, 0, 0) == 0;
}
/// Like `spawn`, but hands the child command-line arguments: they arrive as
/// argv[1..] on its System V entry stack (argv[0] is still `name`). Marshalled to
/// the kernel as one NUL-separated blob; the combined arguments must fit
/// `blob` (the kernel caps the blob at 256 bytes and argc at 8 anyway).
pub fn spawnWithArguments(name: []const u8, arguments: []const []const u8) bool {
var blob: [256]u8 = undefined;
var len: usize = 0;
for (arguments, 0..) |argument, i| {
if (i != 0) {
if (len >= blob.len) return false;
blob[len] = 0;
len += 1;
}
if (len + argument.len > blob.len) return false;
@memcpy(blob[len..][0..argument.len], argument);
len += argument.len;
}
return sc.systemCall4(.system_spawn, @intFromPtr(name.ptr), name.len, @intFromPtr(&blob), len) == 0;
}
/// Grant `len` bytes (rounded up to whole pages) of fresh, zeroed, writable