An HCD programs a bus-master engine: it needs a descriptor ring that is physically
contiguous, at a physical address it knows, uncacheable, and pinned. mmap gives none
of those. Add dma_alloc(len, flags) -> vaddr (rax), paddr (rdx) and dma_free(vaddr,
len): grant contiguous, zeroed, pinned, strong-uncacheable memory in a per-process DMA
arena (PML4[228]) and hand back both addresses.
Pieces: pmm.allocContiguous(count, max_phys) finds a run of contiguous free frames
below a cap (dma_below_4g for 32-bit engines); mapUserDmaInto maps them uncacheable
(PCD|PWT) but WITHOUT device_grant, so unlike an MMIO grant these frames are real RAM
and freeSubtree returns them on teardown — a driver that dies leaks nothing. dma_free
is bounded to the DMA arena so it can never unmap the caller's stack/heap/MMIO.
dma_write_combining is accepted but falls back to coherent (WC needs PAT programming).
Runtime: runtime.dma.alloc/free (a two-return-value stub, like replyWait). New `dma`
kernel test drives the mechanism directly — contiguity, the below-4G cap, coherent
mapping, and reclaim-on-teardown (no leak). The thin syscall wrappers follow the tested
mmap/mmio_map shape and land their first real use with the first DMA driver. Suite
38/38 plus host tests.
Follow-up to the monorepo re-org. Suite 35/35 plus host tests green.
POSIX compatibility is now its own library, library/posix/ (unistd, stdio),
layered strictly over the runtime — it calls the runtime's IPC/heap, never
system calls directly. The runtime is now POSIX-free (the danos-native
application ABI). The VFS wire protocol is danos-native throughout
(Stat -> FileStatus, .stat -> .status, O_CREAT -> create); the POSIX layer
maps the POSIX spellings at the boundary. The coding standard's ABI-name
exception is scoped to one place: a file is allowed POSIX spellings only if it
lives under library/posix/ — everywhere else, danos naming with no exception.
Naming fixes, all mechanical:
- initrd -> initial-ramdisk: the source file, the module, the tool
(make-initial-ramdisk.py), the artifact (initial-ramdisk.img, including the
bootloader's load path), and the identifiers.
- system/kernel/device-service.zig -> devices-broker.zig: it is ring-0 kernel
code (the trusted device table + claim capability), not a ring-3 service. The
future user-space device *manager* (policy) will live in system/services/.
- Dropped the daemon `d` suffix: hpetd -> hpet, busd -> bus. A driver lives in
system/drivers/, so the folder already says what it is; encoding the role in
the name too is redundant. The coding standard drops that exception.
- system/devices/aml/interp.zig -> interpreter.zig (the type was already
Interpreter).
The source layout now mirrors the runtime filesystem hierarchy
(docs/danos-file-system-hierarchy-FSH.md): what lives under system/ in the
source is what a running danos represents under /system. Each service and
driver is a sub-project directory that is its own Zig module — cross-project
references go by module name, never by a path into another project's files.
Moves (all git mv, history preserved):
- src/ -> system/ (danos internals; the self-representation)
root.zig -> danos.zig (the kernel<->user contract module)
kernel/arch/ -> kernel/architecture/ (arch -> architecture)
device/ -> devices/ (what /system/devices reflects)
boot/ -> /boot (the loaders, top level)
- sbin/ -> split by role:
init, vfs -> system/services/<name>/<name>.zig
hpetd, busd -> system/drivers/<name>/<name>.zig
vfs-test -> system/services/vfs/vfs-test.zig (inside the vfs project)
- lib/ -> library/runtime/ (room for other libraries beside runtime)
The VFS wire protocol becomes its own module, system/services/vfs/protocol.zig
("vfs-protocol"): the vfs sub-project exposes its interface, and the runtime's
file layer imports it by name. First instance of the "protocol module" pattern
(docs/driver-model.md); usb/block will expose theirs the same way.
Also: fix a naming-standard violation in the protocol — Op -> Operation (and
req -> request, _pad -> _padding). Docs updated: /system/services added to the
FHS doc, a repository-layout section added to the docs index, and stale source
paths swept across comments and docs.
Runtime boot paths are unchanged (the bootloader still loads /sbin/init);
aligning the runtime filesystem to the FHS is a separate follow-up. Suite 35/35
plus host tests green.
Daniel Samson