library: five protocols speak the envelope
The folded header stops being a rule in a document and becomes the layout on the wire. Verbs number from sixteen, leaving describe, enumerate, subscribe and unsubscribe reserved and answered the same way by every provider — none of them writes a line to do it. What each protocol used to carry in a field of its own now travels in the header: a vfs node and a display layer are the packet's target, and a reply opens with a status the envelope stamps rather than one each protocol spelled for itself. Display gains the most. One forty-byte request had served eleven verbs, so attach_scanout smuggled stride through x, refresh through y and format through colour, and every coordinate crossed as a bitcast. Per-operation structs end all three: the fields have their own names and their own signs, and the tile payload grows to 224 bytes because the prefix shrank. Scanout loses a message maximum of 64 it had no business declaring — it answers calls, and the floor for a call is 256 — and virtio-gpu stops hard-coding that number at its harness. Two changes are semantic rather than notational. A directory now ends at an entry with no name, because the fixed part of a reply always travels and a zero-length reply no longer exists to mean anything. And input joins the service harness, the last loop in the tree that answered no ping and heard no terminate; its subscriber table, its pruning and its fan-out are the same code, and a shutdown now asks it to stop instead of killing it. A new conformance case reads the registry's own listing and asks every protocol it finds for its name, its version and its verb count, then offers a verb nobody defines and requires -ENOSYS — the envelope's promise, checked against providers rather than against itself. What it cannot reach in that boot it names on the serial line instead of passing quietly. Suite 110/110.
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//! The block-device wire protocol — what a filesystem (the FAT server) says to a
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//! block driver (usb-storage) over its well-known `.block` endpoint. A protocol
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//! module like vfs-protocol / usb-transfer-protocol: extern-struct messages, an
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//! `Operation` tag, everything in one IPC message.
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//! block driver (usb-storage) over `/protocol/block`. Defined through the
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//! envelope, so every packet begins with the folded `Header`.
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//!
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//! **`Header.target` is always 0 here**: a block driver instance serves exactly
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//! one device over its own endpoint, so there is no object within the peer to
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//! address. A driver that later fronts several volumes gives them target ids and
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//! `enumerate` lists them; nothing else about the protocol changes.
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//!
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//! Data path: read and write move whole blocks to or from a **caller-owned DMA
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//! buffer**, named by its physical address — the same physical-address handoff
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//! usb-storage already uses toward the controller, one layer up. So a 512-byte
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//! sector never has to cross the 256-byte IPC boundary; only the small request /
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//! reply headers do. Under an enforcing IOMMU the buffer's physical addresses are
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//! only reachable by the device once the filesystem has `attach`ed the buffer's
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//! capability (the block server forwards it to the controller); see docs/driver-model.md.
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//! sector never has to cross the packet floor; only the small request / reply
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//! parts do. Under an enforcing IOMMU the buffer's physical addresses are only
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//! reachable by the device once the filesystem has `attach`ed the buffer's
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//! capability (the block server forwards it to the controller); see
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//! docs/driver-model.md.
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pub const Operation = enum(u32) {
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/// geometry() -> { block_size, block_count }
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geometry = 0,
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/// read(lba, count, physical): read `count` blocks from `lba` into the buffer
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read = 1,
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/// write(lba, count, physical): write `count` blocks at `lba` from the buffer
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write = 2,
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/// flush(): commit any device write cache to stable media (no data transfer).
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/// A filesystem calls this to make prior writes durable — e.g. before power-off,
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/// so a shutdown-time write isn't lost in the USB flash controller's cache.
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flush = 3,
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/// attach(): the caller's DMA-region capability rides the call's cap slot; the
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/// block server forwards it to the controller so the buffer's physical addresses
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/// (named in later read/write) are reachable by the device under an enforcing
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/// IOMMU. Call once per buffer before using it in a transfer.
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attach = 4,
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const envelope = @import("envelope");
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/// The answer to `geometry()`.
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pub const Geometry = extern struct {
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block_size: u32, // bytes per block (512)
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_padding: u32 = 0,
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block_count: u64, // total blocks
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};
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pub const Request = extern struct {
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operation: u32,
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reserved: u32 = 0,
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/// `read(lba, count, physical)` / `write(...)`: move `count` blocks between the
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/// device and the caller's DMA buffer at `physical`.
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pub const Transfer = extern struct {
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lba: u64,
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count: u32, // number of blocks (read/write)
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reserved2: u32 = 0,
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physical: u64, // caller's DMA buffer physical address (read/write)
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count: u32,
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_padding: u32 = 0,
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physical: u64, // caller's DMA buffer physical address
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};
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pub const Reply = extern struct {
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status: i32, // 0 on success, negative on failure
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reserved: u32 = 0,
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block_size: u32, // geometry: bytes per block (512)
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reserved2: u32 = 0,
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block_count: u64, // geometry: total blocks; read/write: blocks moved
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};
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/// How many blocks a transfer actually moved.
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pub const Transferred = extern struct { count: u32 };
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pub const message_maximum: usize = 256;
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pub const request_size: usize = @sizeOf(Request);
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pub const reply_size: usize = @sizeOf(Reply);
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pub const Protocol = envelope.Define(.{
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.name = "block",
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.version = 1,
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.operations = &.{
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.{ .name = "geometry", .reply = Geometry },
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.{ .name = "read", .request = Transfer, .reply = Transferred },
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.{ .name = "write", .request = Transfer, .reply = Transferred },
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// flush(): commit any device write cache to stable media (no data
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// transfer). A filesystem calls this to make prior writes durable —
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// before power-off, so a shutdown-time write isn't lost in the USB flash
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// controller's cache.
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.{ .name = "flush" },
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// attach(): the caller's DMA-region capability rides the call's cap
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// slot; the block server forwards it to the controller so the buffer's
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// physical addresses (named in later read/write) are reachable by the
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// device under an enforcing IOMMU. Call once per buffer before using it.
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.{ .name = "attach" },
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},
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});
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pub const Operation = Protocol.Operation;
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pub const message_maximum: usize = Protocol.message_maximum;
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