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Daniel Samson 0a8c81b17a M6: user runtime library rt + C-convention heap
Add lib/ — the shared user-space runtime every user binary links against
(init now, servers/drivers later): syscall wrappers, the heap, IPC stub,
and the process start shim.

- lib/heap.zig: the kernel first-fit free-list ported to user space, grown
  via the mmap syscall instead of pmm+mapPage. Dual API over one global free
  list: extern "C" malloc/free/calloc/realloc (C ABI for future C code) and a
  std.mem.Allocator adapter (with in-place resize) for Zig std containers.
- lib/syscall.zig + sys.zig: raw syscall0..5 (arg3 in r10) and typed
  yield/write/sleep/exit/mmap/munmap over danos.Syscall.
- lib/start.zig: naked _start -> rt_start -> root.main() (SysV realign via
  call), panic -> exit(127).
- lib/user.ld: the user link script, moved from sbin/linker.ld (shared by all
  user binaries).
- build.zig: register the `rt` module; add an addUserBinary() helper that is
  the one recipe for every user binary (freestanding, .large, use_lld,
  user.ld, image_base), replacing the bespoke init block.
- sbin/init.zig: migrated onto rt; drops its hand-rolled syscall2/shims. Now
  proves the heap (alloc -> write from a heap pointer -> free) before the
  heartbeat loop. Serial shows "init: heap ok". Suite 28/28.
2026-07-09 07:08:32 +01:00

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//! /sbin/init — the first user-space program, PID 1. Built as its own
//! freestanding binary (see build.zig), shipped on the boot volume at sbin/init,
//! loaded by the bootloader, and started in ring 3 as a scheduled process by the
//! kernel (src/kernel/process.zig). It links against the shared user runtime
//! library `rt` and talks to the kernel only through `rt`'s syscall wrappers.
//!
//! Today it proves the C-convention heap works, then settles into a heartbeat:
//! it prints a line and sleeps, forever — enough to show the system reaches user
//! space and stays alive with a real process scheduled alongside the kernel's
//! idle loop. It grows into the real init (service supervision) once there are
//! other user programs to supervise.
const rt = @import("rt");
pub fn main() void {
// Prove the heap end to end: allocate through the runtime allocator (which
// mmaps pages from the kernel and carves them with the free list), write into
// that heap buffer (exercising the widened debug_write bounds check), and
// free it. A fault here would kill init before it heartbeats — so the init
// test doubles as the heap regression test. (C code links the same heap via
// the extern malloc/free symbols; Zig code uses this allocator.)
const gpa = rt.allocator();
if (gpa.alloc(u8, 64)) |buf| {
const msg = "init: heap ok\n";
@memcpy(buf[0..msg.len], msg);
_ = rt.sys.write(buf[0..msg.len]);
gpa.free(buf);
} else |_| {}
while (true) {
_ = rt.sys.write("init: heartbeat\n");
rt.sys.sleep(1000);
}
}
pub const panic = rt.panic;
comptime {
_ = &rt.start._start; // pull the runtime entry shim into the image
}