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LithosAnanake/include/starkernel
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 3e0966095c Stadium: real VM-patron admission + real COOL dispatch at KILL (FABRIC-3.md §B)
capsule_vm_kill() had zero Stadium involvement (vm_cleanup()/sf_free()
only), and child-VM birth only ever called stadium_grant_quota() -- a
resource pool for the VM's own future word/block patrons, never
stadium_admit() for the VM itself. stadium_birth_hera() looked like a
precedent but admits Hera into her own quota as a permanently pinned
cell 0, which can never reach stadium_evict() -- not a working example
of COOL firing for a VM.

Adds size_t stadium_patron_cell to VMRegistryEntry. At birth, right
after the existing stadium_grant_quota() call, admits a candidate into
the new VM's own quota mirroring stadium_birth_hera()'s shape
(identity=0, mass=1, behaviour=COOL) but deliberately unpinned --
pinning would need a new "unpin" primitive (none exists) to ever evict
it later, and unpinned costs nothing since nothing wires COOL's
dispatch body to kill anything; the worst case of an unrelated natural
eviction is stale bookkeeping, tolerated the same way
stadium_word_forget() already tolerates staleness elsewhere. At
capsule_vm_kill() and capsule_vm_kill_all_nonmama(): stadium_evict()
the tracked cell if still resident, silently tolerating refusal
(already gone). stadium_dispatch()'s COOL case needed no new payload
body -- same as it already is for words, where COOL has no defined
extra action beyond stadium_evict()'s own universal reservoir credit.

On investigation this turned out not to be entangled with the
still-iterating Tripod/Zuse/messaging vision after all -- birth and
kill already funnel through two single choke points, so the earlier
deferral (previous commit) was overcautious.

Verified live: a second, new "Stadium: dispatch cell=... behaviour=
COOL" now fires immediately before every PARITY:KILL line, for both
Hermes and Artemis, distinct from the pre-existing COMMON-CH
word-eviction self-test's own COOL print. Conservation
(resident_sum + reservoir == Q48_ONE) intact throughout. Clean
zero-warning compile and clean boot on all three architectures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CXjAPTEKrgY2Mrk25KoLDn
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include/starkernel/

Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared with hosted code.

  • uefi.h — UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.
  • elf64.h, elf_loader.h — ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.
  • boot_info_offsets.h — struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.
  • arch.h, apic.h, timer.h — architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).
  • console.h, framebuffer.h, vt100.h — UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.
  • pmm.h, vmm.h, kmalloc.h — physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.
  • pci.h, virtio_blk.h — PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).
  • capsule.h, capsule_birth.h, capsule_loader.h, capsule_run.h, capsule_vm_physics.h, capsule_generated.h — capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (see tools/mkcapsule.c).
  • kernel_args.h, cmdline.h — boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg / command line).
  • repl.h — kernel REPL.
  • log.h, doe_log.h — kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.
  • q48_16.h — kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.
  • xxhash64.h — content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.
  • hal_memory.h — hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.

Subdirectories:

  • hal/ — top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.
  • vm/ — kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).
  • freestanding/ — minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h, ctype.h, errno.h, inttypes.h, math.h, sched.h, signal.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h, time.h, sys/time.h, sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.