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.
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Samson
2026-08-01 06:15:25 +01:00
parent b004b9c3eb
commit d2dfbcabf8
40 changed files with 1882 additions and 1008 deletions
+10
View File
@@ -148,6 +148,16 @@
/test/system/services/input-source, kernel, open, input
/test/system/services/input-test, kernel, open, input
# The conformance probe (test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test) asks
# every provider its boot bound for the envelope's reserved verbs. It reaches
# ONLY the two contracts its own scenario boots a provider for, named one at a
# time exactly like the two rows above — no subtree, no wildcard. Everything else
# under /protocol stays absent for it, which is the point: the fixture walks the
# namespace listing and reports what it could not open rather than being handed
# the tree to make the test look broad.
/test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test, kernel, open, input
/test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test, kernel, open, display
# The laundering-deputy probe (test/system/services/protocol-registry-test) runs
# a grandchild whose supervisor is a fixture nobody authorized — that is the
# point of it, and its bind must stay refused. It still has to report the verdict
Can't render this file because it contains an unexpected character in line 12 and column 15.