Persist the kernel boot log to the USB FAT volume
On a headless or real board nothing captures serial, so the boot log — the whole diagnostic stream — is lost at power-off. This retains it in the kernel and copies it to the boot USB volume as /mnt/usb/DANOS.LOG, the on-disk equivalent of QEMU's `-serial file:`. Pull the stick, read DANOS.LOG on another machine. How it fits together: - Kernel RAM sink (log.zig): a fixed 256 KiB in-image buffer registered as a log sink in kmain, right after serial. Because userspace debug_write funnels through log.write, it captures the entire stream — kernel lines and every service's output — from the first line. Fills linearly and stops when full (earliest boot output, the most valuable, is kept); no allocation, so it is panic-safe. - klog_read syscall (32): copies that buffer out to a user buffer, the mirror of debug_write — same overflow-safe user-half bounds check, kernel -> user copy, under the kernel lock so the snapshot can't grow mid-copy. Wrapped by runtime.system.klogRead. - log-flush (new one-shot, in the initial-ramdisk): waits for the fat server to mount /mnt/usb, then copies the whole log to /mnt/usb/DANOS.LOG. init spawns it once the boot services are up (fire-and-forget; it polls the mount itself). If no volume is mounted — no stick, or the no-VFS ramdisk sweep — it exits silently. - init shutdown flush: init repeats the copy inline at the top of shutDown(), BEFORE it tears down the storage services (the fat server is stopped first), so a clean poweroff captures the fullest log while /mnt/usb is still writable. - unistd.writeAll: loops write() past the 224-byte VFS payload cap; both flush paths use it. The filename is 8.3 (DANOS.LOG) at the mount root — the FAT short-name rule, and there is no mkdir on the FAT path yet. Extend-only writes mean the two same-session flushes never leave stale bytes (the shutdown log is a superset of the boot log); a shorter log on a later boot of the same stick can leave a stale tail — a noted, cosmetic limitation, not worth pulling O_TRUNC into the FAT write path for now. Verified end to end under QEMU: a new `log-flush` case (reusing the orderly-shutdown build) asserts both markers then S5, and DANOS.LOG is read back out of the image afterwards (11804 bytes, containing the kernel init line, the FAT mount line, and the boot flush marker). Regression stays green: zig build, zig build test, zig build check-fat-image, and a sequential QEMU sweep — smoke, init, initial-ramdisk (log-flush silent in the bare sweep), orderly-shutdown, fat-mount, usb-storage, usb-hid, vfs, input, device-manager, process, signals, dma, fault-pf.
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@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ pub const SystemCall = enum(u64) {
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signal_bind = 29, // signal_bind(endpoint) -> 0/-errno: nominate the endpoint this process's signals arrive on
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process_signal = 30, // process_signal(id, signal) -> 0/-errno: post a signal to a child (or to yourself)
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timer_bind = 31, // timer_bind(endpoint, ms) -> 0/-errno: one-shot timer — posts a notification when ms elapse
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klog_read = 32, // klog_read(offset, ptr, len) -> bytes copied: copy the kernel RAM log buffer out to a user buffer (for persisting the boot log to disk)
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