danos/system/abi.zig

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//! The **private kernel ↔ runtime** ABI: the raw system_call contract — the call
//! numbers, `mmap` protection flags, the page size those calls work in, and the IPC
//! name-registry ids and notification bit. Shared by the kernel dispatcher
//! (system/kernel/process.zig) and the user-space runtime library (library/runtime/),
//! so the two can never drift.
//!
//! **Application code does not speak this.** danos programs call the `runtime` library —
//! the stable, danos-native ABI — and the runtime is the one thing that issues the
//! actual system calls (POSIX code layers over the runtime, never on this directly). It
//! is the same split as libSystem on macOS or win32 over the NT syscalls: the numbers
//! here are an implementation detail the runtime hides and may renumber, not a public
//! interface. See docs/coding-standards.md and library/runtime/.
//!
//! This is the *core* contract; the device half — `DeviceDescriptor` and friends, which
//! also cross this boundary — lives with the device sub-project as [[device-abi]]
//! (system/devices/device-abi.zig). The loader↔kernel handoff is [[boot-handoff]].
/// Page size every `mmap`/`munmap` grant and the boot memory map are measured in.
/// 4 KiB on every architecture danos targets so far. Part of the ABI because the
/// runtime aligns to it (grants are page-granular) and the kernel guarantees it.
pub const page_size = 4096;
/// The kernel system_call numbers — the single source of truth shared by the kernel
/// dispatcher (system/kernel/process.zig) and the user runtime library, so the two
/// can never drift. The set is deliberately microkernel-minimal: file/device I/O
/// is not here — it lives in user-space servers reached through the IPC calls.
/// The table grows one milestone at a time; see docs/syscall.md.
pub const SystemCall = enum(u64) {
exit = 0, // exit(code): end the calling process
yield = 1, // yield(): give up the rest of this quantum
debug_write = 2, // debug_write(ptr, len): raw bytes to the kernel log (bring-up only)
sleep = 3, // sleep(ms): block the caller for ms milliseconds
mmap = 4, // mmap(len, prot) -> base: grant zeroed, page-aligned user pages
munmap = 5, // munmap(base, len): release pages from a prior mmap
create_ipc_endpoint = 6, // create_ipc_endpoint() -> handle: a new IPC endpoint
ipc_register = 7, // ipc_register(service_id, handle): publish an endpoint by well-known id
ipc_lookup = 8, // ipc_lookup(service_id) -> handle: find a published endpoint
ipc_call = 9, // ipc_call(h, message, len, reply, cap) -> reply_len: send + block for reply
ipc_reply_wait = 10, // ipc_reply_wait(h, reply, len, receive, cap) -> receive_len (+badge in rdx)
device_enumerate = 11, // device_enumerate(buffer, maximum) -> count: snapshot the device table
device_claim = 12, // device_claim(id) -> ok: take exclusive ownership of a device
mmio_map = 13, // mmio_map(id, resource_index) -> vaddr: map a claimed device's MMIO into this AS
irq_bind = 14, // irq_bind(id, resource_index, endpoint): deliver a device IRQ as an IPC notification
irq_ack = 15, // irq_ack(id, resource_index): re-arm a bound IRQ after servicing it
device_register = 16, // device_register(parent_id, descriptor) -> id: publish a child of a device you claimed
system_spawn = 17, // system_spawn(name_ptr, name_len, arguments_ptr, arguments_len, exit_endpoint) -> child process id: start a named initial-ramdisk binary as a new ring-3 process
dma_alloc = 18, // dma_alloc(len, flags) -> vaddr (rax), paddr (rdx): contiguous, pinned, uncacheable DMA memory
dma_free = 19, // dma_free(vaddr, len) -> 0: release a prior dma_alloc
msi_bind = 20, // msi_bind(device_id, endpoint) -> address (rax), data (rdx): a per-device MSI vector for a claimed device
io_read = 21, // io_read(device_id, resource_index, offset, width) -> value: read a port in a claimed device's io_port resource
io_write = 22, // io_write(device_id, resource_index, offset, width, value) -> 0: write a port in a claimed device's io_port resource
clock = 23, // clock() -> nanoseconds since boot: a monotonic time source (for timeouts/delays)
process_enumerate = 24, // process_enumerate(buffer, maximum) -> total: snapshot the task table
process_kill = 25, // process_kill(id) -> 0/-errno: end a process this process spawned
ipc_send = 26, // ipc_send(handle, message_ptr, message_len) -> 0/-errno: post a payload to an endpoint's async queue without blocking
process_exit_reason = 27, // process_exit_reason(id) -> ExitReason/-errno: how a dead child ended (its supervisor only)
process_subscribe = 28, // process_subscribe(endpoint) -> 0/-errno: subscribe to published exit events — every death posts a notification
signal_bind = 29, // signal_bind(endpoint) -> 0/-errno: nominate the endpoint this process's signals arrive on
process_signal = 30, // process_signal(id, signal) -> 0/-errno: post a signal to a child (or to yourself)
timer_bind = 31, // timer_bind(endpoint, ms) -> 0/-errno: one-shot timer — posts a notification when ms elapse
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)
wall_clock = 33, // wall_clock() -> Unix epoch seconds (UTC): the RTC wall-clock time, for filesystem timestamps (mtime). Monotonic time is `clock`.
_,
};
/// How a process ended — recorded by the kernel at death, queried by the
/// supervisor with `process_exit_reason`, and the input to its restart decision
/// (docs/process-lifecycle.md): a clean exit meant to stop, a fault wants a
/// restart with backoff, killed means the supervisor did it itself. The faults
/// mirror the CPU exceptions a ring-3 process can die of; they are exit reasons,
/// never delivered to the faulting process (recovery is restart, not a handler).
pub const ExitReason = enum(u8) {
exited = 0, // returned from main / called exit
aborted = 1, // deliberate self-termination (reserved: no abort path yet)
segmentation_fault = 2, // page fault
illegal_instruction = 3, // invalid opcode
arithmetic_fault = 4, // divide error, x87 or SIMD fault
protection_fault = 5, // general protection fault
fault = 6, // any other CPU exception
killed = 7, // process_kill
};
/// The x86 MSI message address base (`0xFEE0_0000`): a device raises an MSI by writing
/// `data` to this address, which the Local APIC turns into an interrupt at the vector
/// in `data`. The kernel returns the concrete (address, data) from `msi_bind`; this is
/// the fixed prefix, exposed so a driver's config-space programming reads clearly.
pub const msi_address_base: u64 = 0xFEE0_0000;
/// `dma_alloc` flags. `coherent` (uncacheable) is the portable default; the others are
/// opt-in for specific hardware. `write_combining` needs PAT programming (not yet — it
/// currently falls back to coherent); see docs/driver-model.md (M14).
pub const dma_coherent: u64 = 1; // strong-uncacheable — the default, the only portable one
pub const dma_write_combining: u64 = 2; // write-combining (framebuffers); needs PAT
pub const dma_below_4g: u64 = 4; // physical address must fit 32 bits (legacy DMA engines)
/// Set in the badge returned by `ipc_reply_wait` when what arrived is an
/// **asynchronous notification** (a device interrupt bound with `irq_bind`, or a
/// child-exit notice — see `notify_exit_bit`) rather than a message from a client.
/// There is no payload and no reply owed; the low bits carry the source. Shared so
/// the kernel's ISR and the driver's event loop can't disagree about which bit
/// means "the hardware spoke".
pub const notify_badge_bit: u64 = 1 << 63;
/// Set (alongside `notify_badge_bit`) in the badge of a **child-exit notification**:
/// posted to the endpoint a supervisor passed to `system_spawn` when that child ends
/// — by clean exit, by a fault, or by `process_kill`. The low bits carry the child's
/// process id, so one endpoint can supervise many children (and even share with IRQ
/// notifications, which never set this bit). The microkernel's SIGCHLD.
pub const notify_exit_bit: u64 = 1 << 62;
/// Set (alongside `notify_badge_bit`) in the badge of a **buffered message** — a payload
/// posted to an endpoint's async queue by `ipc_send`, delivered through `ipc_reply_wait`
/// like a notification (no reply owed) but carrying bytes in the receive buffer, not just
/// a badge. This is what distinguishes a payload-bearing async message from a bare IRQ /
/// child-exit notification (which sets neither this nor `notify_exit_bit`). The low bits
/// carry the sender's task id. The async counterpart of the synchronous `ipc_call`, for
/// broadcasts where a rendezvous is the wrong shape (the input service is the first user).
pub const notify_message_bit: u64 = 1 << 61;
/// Set (alongside `notify_badge_bit`) in the badge of a **signal notification** —
/// the process-lifecycle vocabulary of docs/process-lifecycle.md, delivered to the
/// endpoint the process nominated with `signal_bind`. The low bits carry the
/// coalesced pending mask (bit positions = `Signal` values): signals are
/// statements, not questions, and two pending terminates are one terminate.
pub const notify_signal_bit: u64 = 1 << 60;
/// Set (alongside `notify_badge_bit`) in the badge of a **timer notification** —
/// a one-shot `timer_bind` deadline landing. No payload bits: what to do when the
/// deadline fires is whatever the receiver armed it for (a stop-sequence
/// escalation, a restart backoff, an alarm).
pub const notify_timer_bit: u64 = 1 << 59;
/// The signal vocabulary (docs/process-lifecycle.md): POSIX's concepts, danos's
/// names, message delivery. The value is the bit position in the pending mask — a
/// private kernel/runtime detail, free to change while they ship together. Kill
/// is not here (it is `process_kill`, unhandleable by definition); faults are not
/// here (they are `ExitReason`s — recovery is restart, not a handler); liveness is
/// not here (a question, asked as the zero-length ping call, not a statement).
pub const Signal = enum(u5) {
terminate = 0, // finish up and exit (the polite half of the stop sequence)
reload = 1, // re-read configuration / re-scan
interrupt = 2, // interactive interrupt (no sender until a console exists)
quit = 3, // as interrupt, by convention more final
alarm = 4, // a timer the process armed for itself (unbuilt: no consumer yet)
user_1 = 5, // service-defined
user_2 = 6, // service-defined
};
/// Capacity of `ProcessDescriptor.name` — matches the longest name `system_spawn`
/// accepts, so a process's recorded name (its argv[0]) is never truncated.
pub const maximum_process_name = 64;
/// What a process is doing right now, as reported by `process_enumerate`. Crosses
/// the system_call boundary as `ProcessDescriptor.state`.
pub const ProcessState = enum(u32) {
ready = 0, // runnable, waiting for a core
running = 1, // executing on a core right now
blocked = 2, // waiting (sleeping, or blocked in IPC)
};
/// One `process_enumerate` entry — the kernel's view of a live task, kernel tasks
/// included (they carry an empty name and id 0 is the boot task). Fixed layout
/// (extern) because it crosses the kernel↔user boundary by memory copy, like
/// `DeviceDescriptor` in the device ABI.
pub const ProcessDescriptor = extern struct {
id: u32, // kernel-assigned process id; never reused (monotonic)
supervisor: u32, // id of the process that spawned it (0 = the kernel)
state: u32, // a ProcessState value
priority: u32,
name_length: u32,
name: [maximum_process_name]u8, // argv[0] at spawn; empty for kernel tasks
};
/// Well-known IPC service ids for the bootstrap name registry (create_ipc_endpoint +
/// ipc_register/ipc_lookup). Small integers, so no string interning is needed
/// during bring-up. The VFS server registers under `vfs`; clients look it up.
pub const ServiceId = enum(u32) {
vfs = 1,
input = 2,
ps2_bus = 3, // the 8042 owner; child device drivers attach here for raw bytes
device_manager = 4, // the tree, the matcher, the supervisor (docs/device-manager.md)
power = 5, // system power: events (button, lid, battery) + shutdown (docs/power.md; domain-named per docs/discovery.md — the acpi service registers it on x86, a PSCI service will on ARM)
usb_bus = 6, // the xHCI host-controller driver's transfer endpoint; USB class drivers look it up and `callCap`-open their device to get a private per-device transfer channel (docs/driver-model.md)
block = 7, // a block-device driver (USB mass storage today): read/write of fixed-size blocks, the storage a filesystem sits on
fat = 8, // the FAT filesystem server; the VFS mounts it and forwards paths under its mount point (/mnt/usb) to it
_,
};
/// Protection flags for `mmap` (matching the usual C bit values).
pub const prot_read: u64 = 1;
pub const prot_write: u64 = 2;
pub const prot_exec: u64 = 4;
/// `send_cap` / `received_cap` sentinel meaning "no capability" on the `ipc_call` /
/// `ipc_reply_wait` cap-passing path (M13). `~0`, like `no_parent` — a real handle is
/// a small index, so it can never collide.
pub const no_cap: u64 = ~@as(u64, 0);