Per docs/coding-standards.md (no Unix-abbreviation exception): syscalls
shared_memory_create/map/physical, kernel SharedMemoryObject + handlers,
runtime.shared_memory (library/runtime/shared-memory.zig), the
shared-memory-server/-client test services, the shared-memory QEMU case,
and docs incl. vdso.md's danos_shared_memory_*. 87/87 QEMU tests pass.
The virtio-gpu present fence completes when the device has consumed the
frame: real completion feedback, and tear-freedom by snapshot semantics.
It is not a vblank — base virtio-gpu 2D has no display-refresh event at
all (Linux fakes one with a timer), so nothing paces presents to the
monitor. The code and docs claimed vsync anyway; now they don't.
- backend.hasVsync -> hasFencedPresent, with an honest doc comment
- marker 'display: vsync present ok' -> 'display: fenced present ok'
(display-modeset test expectation updated, passes)
- display-v2.md gains a 'Fenced is not vsync' note; the vsync claims in
both v2 docs are corrected
- true vsync arrives with a native driver's vblank IRQ, or approximated
by a compositor frame clock
Expand the abbreviations flagged in docs/coding-standards.md (names spelled
out in full unless an acronym) across the kernel, runtime, ABI, tests, and
docs:
aspace -> address_space (AspaceRef -> AddressSpaceRef, retainAspace ->
retainAddressSpace, loaded_aspace -> loaded_address_space, the
liveAspaceCount/aspaceDestroyCount test hooks, etc.)
vaddr -> virtual_address
paddr -> physical_address
The kernel test case and its serial markers are renamed to match:
aspace-refcount -> address-space-refcount (kernel dispatch string and
test/qemu_test.py case name kept in sync). Prose in docs uses the natural
"address space"/"virtual address"; backticked field/identifier references
use the code spelling.
Also expand the bare "AS" abbreviation in three ABI comments and reframe the
set_thread_pointer ABI/handler docs to lead with the arch-neutral concept
(user-space TLS thread pointer; x86_64 IA32_FS_BASE, aarch64 TPIDR_EL0)
rather than x86 FS-first, matching scheduler.zig's existing framing.
Foreign ABI names preserved: the ELF p_vaddr field and mmap/mmio remain.
Verified: zig build, zig build test, and the full 25-case QEMU guardrail
suite all green.
The compositor now survives the virtio-gpu driver dying and re-attaches when device-manager
restarts it — the last piece of display v2.
Three parts:
- The driver hellos the device manager (role: bus). It never did, so the manager — which
spawns it supervised and expects a hello — was stopping it at the 3s hello deadline every
run (the gate markers just printed first). Now it is properly supervised: not stopped for
silence, and restarted on death.
- A kernel IPC fix so a call to a dead service errors instead of hanging. An endpoint records
its owner; when that task dies, its registered endpoints are marked dead (and any parked
senders woken with -EPEER), so ipc_call returns -EPEER rather than blocking on a reply that
will never come. Without this the compositor's first present after the driver died blocked
forever. General robustness — any client of any service benefits.
- The compositor re-attaches. Its .scanout calls now fail cleanly (caught), freezing the last
frame; when the restarted driver re-announces, attach_scanout detects the backend is already
virtio and logs "scanout re-attached", mapping the fresh shared surface and re-looking-up
.scanout. (The previous shm mapping leaks — no shm_unmap syscall yet — but its frames are the
dead driver's, reclaimed on exit.)
- device-manager gains a "test-scanout-restart" mode (like test-usb-restart) that kills the
virtio-gpu driver once after it hellos; the displayReattachTest kernel scenario drives it.
Gate: python3 test/qemu_test.py display-reattach — "scanout upgraded to virtio-gpu" then
"scanout re-attached", no CPU exception, passing 3/3. host tests, ipc/ipc-call/ipc-cap,
supervision, shm, display-service, display-demo, virtio-gpu, display-native, and
display-modeset all pass; default zig build clean. v2 (V1-V6) complete.
Keep the GOP framebuffer as the floor, make scanout a pluggable backend, and
upgrade to a native virtio-gpu driver when it announces itself (dynamic
hot-attach; GOP stays the fallback for "no driver ever"). v2 builds the shm
cross-process memory capability, shared with the future client-surface path.
Milestones V1 (backend seam) → V6 (resilience + tests), each with a gate.
Daniel Samson
Daniel Samson