Files
danos/system/parameters.zig
T
Daniel Samson a5fe63c1dd Pass argv to processes on a SysV entry stack; grow the user stack to 32 KiB
Processes now start with C-compatible arguments: the kernel builds the
System V AMD64 entry block (argc, argv, empty envp, auxiliary vector)
at the top of the stack, argv[0] is the path or initial-ramdisk name
the process was spawned as, and system_spawn carries an optional
NUL-separated blob that becomes argv[1..]. The runtime parses the block
(runtime.argumentCount/argument) and its spawn wrappers pass arguments
through. The name is also recorded on the task, so a fault report says
which binary died, not just its id.

The user stack grows from one page to eight (32 KiB,
parameters.user_stack_pages), with the page below left unmapped as a
guard so an overflow faults into a clean process kill rather than
corrupting the image. Task.name_buffer is zero-initialised, not
undefined: an undefined default is materialised as a 0xAA fill that
moved the static task pool out of .bss and made the whole kernel ~7x
slower under QEMU TCG (caught by the affinity test).

Proven end to end by the new args test: args-echo respawns itself with
arguments via the syscall blob, burns more stack than one page could
hold, and echoes its argv intact. Full suite: 44/44.
2026-07-11 08:33:12 +01:00

37 lines
2.0 KiB
Zig

//! Kernel tunables — the compile-time knobs, gathered in one place.
//!
//! These constants would otherwise be scattered across the files that use them,
//! hiding the trade-offs. Keeping them here makes them visible at a glance and gives
//! one spot to change them. They're plain `comptime` constants (zero runtime cost);
//! any one can later be promoted to a `-D` build option if a target needs to vary it
//! (see build.zig's `-Dtest-case` for the pattern). This keeps root.zig to what it
//! actually is — the bootloader↔kernel handoff *contract* — with tunables living here.
/// Ceiling on logical CPUs the kernel tracks — the size of the per-CPU bookkeeping
/// arrays (discovery pool, scheduler state, per-core GDT/TSS). Generous headroom:
/// those structs are small, and the *large* per-core resources (kernel and IST
/// stacks) are allocated at bring-up for cores that actually come online, so this
/// ceiling is cheap. A machine with more logical CPUs has its surplus reported and
/// left parked (see acpi `cpusDropped`).
pub const maximum_cpus = 128;
/// Maximum tasks (kernel threads) alive at once — the static task-table size. Each
/// online core consumes one slot for its idle task, plus task 0 on the BSP.
pub const maximum_tasks = 16;
/// Each task's kernel stack (also each AP's bring-up stack), in bytes.
pub const kernel_stack_size = 16 * 1024;
/// Each user process's stack, in pages (32 KiB). Mapped just below a fixed top;
/// the System V entry block (argc/argv) occupies the top of the highest page, and
/// the page below the mapping is left unmapped as a guard, so an overflow faults
/// (killing only that process) instead of silently corrupting the image.
pub const user_stack_pages = 8;
/// Each core's IST (double-fault) stack, in bytes. The BSP's is static; an AP's is
/// heap-allocated at bring-up.
pub const ist_stack_size = 16 * 1024;
/// Scheduler tick / preemption rate, in Hz (the timer's periodic frequency).
pub const timer_hz = 1000;