A protocol is reached by name now, not by a compile-time integer. Init is
PID 1 and already knows which binary it started, so init serves /protocol
as a vfs backend: bind claims a contract with the provider's endpoint
attached, open answers with that endpoint as the reply's capability, and
readdir lists what is bound with the task and binary behind it. The kernel
reserves the prefix — nothing may mount over it, under it, or unmount it —
and ServiceId, ipc_register and ipc_lookup are gone, their syscall numbers
left vacant.
A bind is authorized by who the caller *is*: the kernel-stamped binary
together with the supervising task's identity, matched against
/system/configuration/protocol.csv. Identity, not spelling — spawn is
ungated, so an attacker can run any bundled binary, and a name-only rule
would have let it launder grants through an init of its own making. A name
a live process holds is refused to everyone else; a dead one's is released.
Three review rounds against a hostile ring-3 process found what 108 green
tests could not, because the suite contains no attacker. Publishing init's
supervision endpoint as the registry put PID 1's mailbox in every process's
hands, where two forged bytes reached the shutdown path: privileged traffic
is now believed only from the task that holds the contract it speaks for.
A capability arriving on a request outlived every path that ignored it,
one handle per call until the table was full — in init, and in the harness
ten services share — so the arriving capability is owned by the turn and
released unless a handler says otherwise. And the kernel let anyone holding
an endpoint handle aim signals, timers, exit notices and interrupts at it:
binding now requires having created it.
Suite 108/108. The new protocol-registry case asserts eleven properties,
each one an attack that must fail.
display-client and input-client (files and module names), so a service,
its wire contract, and its client never share a name: `display` the
service, `display-protocol` the contract, `display-client` a program's
view of it. The nine consumers' imports and their packages' declared
lists follow (regenerated from the source scan); build-support's
module_homes table carries the new names.
Every user binary and the two device-logic library modules (pci, usb) now
`@import` the concern modules directly instead of aliasing through `runtime`:
runtime.ipc/process/time/service/input/block/display -> @import("<module>")
runtime.device / runtime.device_manager -> @import("driver")
runtime.fs -> @import("file-system")
runtime.Thread -> @import("thread").Thread
runtime.system.{write,writeRecord,klog*} -> logging.*
runtime.system.{sleep,timerOnce,wallClock,clock} -> time.*
runtime.system.{spawn*,kill,exit,yield,processes,...}-> process.*
runtime.system.{mmap,munmap,PROT_*} -> memory.*
runtime.dma.* / runtime.shared_memory.* / runtime.allocator -> memory.*
Each consumer keeps its own alias name (e.g. `const device = @import("driver")`),
so call sites are unchanged and there are no collisions with local `driver`
variables. build.zig now injects the concern modules into every user binary via
`default_imports`; pci/usb module import lists were updated to match.
The `runtime` and `system` shims remain for one more step (root.zig still uses
runtime); they are deleted in C5. Nothing but root.zig imports `runtime` now.
Verified: zig build, zig build test, and 17 QEMU cases (smoke, device-manager,
logger, fat-mount, fat-mutations, usb-storage, usb-hid, display-native,
virtio-gpu, input, thread-spawn, thread-mutex, process-kill, shared-memory,
driver-restart, acpi-ps2, pci-scan).
input-protocol -> library/protocol/input/input-protocol.zig. Its five
consumers (usb-hid keyboard/mouse, ps2 keyboard/mouse, the input service) now
import the module directly and alias it input_protocol, replacing the
runtime.input_protocol re-export (deleted) and the inconsistent local `protocol`
aliases. runtime.input (the client) still imports the module by name.
zig build + test green; input, acpi-ps2, usb-hid pass.
library/runtime/log.zig wires std.log to the tagged ring: the root shim
installs std_options for every binary (programs may override), logFn
formats one line per record and emits it with its level via
debug_write — the payload no longer carries the process's name; the
kernel stamps identity structurally and the serial renderer prints the
'<binary path>: ' prefix, so the transcript keeps its shape.
Migrate every writeLine/logLine/log helper family (init, vfs, fat,
device-manager, acpi, pci-bus, ps2-bus x3, usb-hid x2, usb-storage,
usb-xhci-bus, virtio-gpu — 104 call sites) to std.log.info, dropping
the hand-written prefixes. A leveled record is a complete line by
contract (raw emissions may still build lines from pieces). Test
fixtures and the display/input services keep raw writes for now — their
ring records are attributed by the kernel regardless.
Harness regexes follow the renamed prefixes (usb-hid-keyboard,
discovery) and path-named restart lines.
Add an AttachStatus enum to ps2-library.zig for AttachReply.status,
distinguishing the three failure causes handleAttach previously
collapsed into a bare -1: invalid_request (message too short),
missing_endpoint (no capability passed), and no_such_device (no port
identified the requested device type). The keyboard and mouse drivers
check against AttachStatus.ok rather than a literal 0.
Replace the mouse driver's synthetic stream with the real path, the
way the keyboard was wired:
- The auxiliary port's IRQ12 is enumerated on the mouse's own ACPI
node (PNP0F13), and the kernel only lets a device's claimer bind or
ack its IRQs — so ps2-bus now claims that node alongside the
controller whenever port 2 carries a device, binds IRQ12 to its one
endpoint, and re-arms whichever line the notification's badge names.
The forwarding loop already routed auxiliary bytes by status bit 5.
- mouse-packet.zig (new, pure, host-tested): three-byte stream-mode
packet assembly — bit-3 sync with resynchronization, ACK/BAT bytes
dropped at packet start, nine-bit two's-complement movement,
overflow packets discarded, and PS/2 positive-Y-up converted to the
screen convention (positive down).
- mouse.zig mirrors the keyboard driver: no hardware claim, attaches
to the bus as its mouse, and publishes button_down/button_up per
changed button plus motion events with the pressed-button mask.
Verified end to end in QEMU via monitor mouse_move/mouse_button:
motion round-trips in screen coordinates, buttons transition with the
right mask, and keyboard events keep flowing alongside. The follow-up
is the IntelliMouse magic-knock for a scroll wheel (four-byte packets)
and scroll events.
Extend the input service beyond the keyboard so mouse and joystick/gamepad
drivers can broadcast too, with per-device publish and subscribe methods.
- protocol: KeyEvent joins MouseEvent (motion/buttons/scroll) and
JoystickEvent (axes/buttons), all carried in a common InputEvent envelope
tagged with a DeviceKind. A subscribe request carries a device_mask, so a
subscriber names the classes it wants and the service routes each event only
to interested subscribers (a mouse-only listener never wakes for keystrokes).
- runtime: per-device publish methods (publishKeyboardEvent/publishMouseEvent/
publishJoystickEvent) and subscribe helpers (subscribeKeyboard/Mouse/Joystick,
each typed, plus subscribe(mask)/subscribeAll returning the tagged envelope).
- service: subscriber table gains a device_mask; broadcast routes by the
event's device class.
- mouse driver now publishes (synthetic) mouse events like the keyboard driver;
input-source cycles all three classes; input-test subscribes to all and only
emits its "ok" marker once it has received one of each class — so the passing
test proves per-device routing, not just delivery. Real HID decoding stays a
follow-up.
No kernel changes: ipc_send is generic and the 36-byte InputEvent fits its
64-byte payload. Full QEMU suite 48/48; serial log confirms keyboard, mouse,
and joystick all reach one subscription.
Daniel Samson
Daniel Samson