An AMD Ryzen booted to a working compositor with no USB and no storage,
and the log said only "register refused". A tree-wide audit of every
compile-time ceiling followed: 235 of them, 139 on quantities the machine
or a file decides rather than us, 5 documented anywhere, 171 silent when
reached. docs/fixed-bounds-audit.md has the inventory.
Errno attribution. The errno space was split between the kernel and the
envelope, free to drift; it is now one list in system/abi.zig, restated on
both sides, with a comptime check in library/device/driver where the two
halves are visible. device_register's six refusals and device_claim's three
are distinct codes, so a bus driver can say which rule stopped it, and
BadParent splits into NoSuchParent and NotYourParent. pci-bus reconciles
found against registered instead of counting refused functions as found.
Idempotency ordering. The child cap was checked before the identity match,
so a restarted bus was refused its own devices — the supervision restart the
system leans on ratcheted toward a degraded machine. A re-registration
consumes no slot and is now admitted first.
IOMMU fail-closed. confineDevice returned success for a device id past the
confinement table, leaving the device outside every domain while the caller
believed it confined — unreachable only while ids stop at 64, which both the
inventory move and a hardware-reported domain count would change. It refuses
now, and the coupling to the broker's device cap is a comptime assert rather
than a sentence in a comment.
PCI apertures. The bridge's MMIO apertures are derived from the holes in the
firmware memory map, and the derivation copied sub-4 GiB entries into a
fixed [64] array and skipped the rest. A skipped region is not merely lost:
the gap finder concludes it is free, so a real machine's 60-200 entry map
yields an aperture over live RAM, and containment then admits a child BAR
covering kernel memory. Rewritten to walk the map in place, with the hole
finder extracted as a pure function and driven by a synthetic 100-entry map
in a new test case. Both new tests were verified to fail on the old code.
parameters.zig gains the rationale it was missing and loses a stale sentence
pointing at the wrong file; vdso.md documents the errno space, including
EPEER, which had no written meaning anywhere.
docs/os-development/bounds.md is how a ceiling is declared from here.
docs/bounds-track-plan.md is the plan to remove the ones we invented.
Suite 114 -> 115.
Replaces L1's shared blanket identity domain with a private translation
domain per claimed PCI function. A device now reaches only:
- the DMA pool: every dma_alloc'd region, mapped into every claimed
device's domain (poolAdd/poolRemove, driven from the dma_alloc and
dma_free syscalls). This keeps the cross-process buffer handoff
working (fat's bounce buffer reaches the xHC) while blocking the
kernel, page tables, process heaps, MMIO, and unallocated RAM.
- its own firmware reserved region (RMRR), seeded at confine time.
The pool is the honest interim: devices can still reach one another's
DMA buffers. The DMA-region capability layer (next) narrows it to
per-grant reachability.
dma_free unmaps from every domain and invalidates BEFORE the frames
return to the allocator, closing the stale-IOTLB use-after-free window.
Driver death tears down its domains (detach + free tables) before the
broker claims and DMA frames are released.
New iommu_fault_drain syscall (+ driver.iommuFaultDrain) forces pending
fault records to the log on demand. The new iommu-fault case proves it:
a claimed e1000e is programmed to DMA-fetch its TX ring from an unmapped
page; VT-d faults the access (bdf 00:03.0 addr 0x1000 reason 0x6) and the
system stays alive. 104/104.
Daniel Samson