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
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@@ -205,6 +205,11 @@ CASES = [
"timeout": 60,
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# Process arguments: argv arrives on the SysV entry stack (argv[0] = the spawned
# name, argv[1..] = the system_spawn argument blob) and echoes back intact.
{"name": "args",
"expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
"fail": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
# The real user binary: the bootloader ships /system/services/init off the ESP, the
# kernel loads the ELF and runs it in ring 3, and it writes + exits cleanly.
{"name": "init",