SchOS/kernel/core/klog.c
Nexoniarz 617a4aec0a boot: one line when it works, all of it when it does not
A boot printed about thirty lines before reaching a prompt. Every one was
useful once, and printed on every boot for ever they train the person in front
of the machine to stop reading their own console -- which is expensive on the
day one of them changes.

    SchOS UEFI loader
    Press F8 for boot options... booting

    Welcome to SchOS!  (F8 at boot for the full log, or dmesg once you are in)

    root@schos / »

**Nothing was deleted, it was routed.** consputc() already wrote to the klog
ring before anywhere else, so a line can be kept in full while being held back
from the two places a person looks. kinfo() is cprintf() with that routing, and
`dmesg` still has the whole boot with timestamps afterwards. The rule for which
is which is not how interesting a line is -- everything was interesting to
somebody once -- but whether you would want to see it on a machine that is
*working*. `pci: 7 devices` is yes the first time and no every time after;
`e1000: no DMA memory for the rings` is yes for ever and stays a cprintf.

The verbose boot the F8 menu already offered now means something much bigger,
which is the other half of this: it is the only way to see any of it live.

Userspace follows through /proc/bootmode, one word. schinit, schinitd and vgpud
hold back their progress lines and never their failures -- a supervisor that
goes quiet when a job dies is worse than one that chatters.

Two things found by testing rather than by reading:

  - schinit read /proc/bootmode *before* bootstrap() mounted /proc, so it got
    "quiet" every time and the verbose boot was quiet in the one process that
    runs first. It reads after the mount now.
  - resolvconf announced "already exists; -f to replace it" on every boot after
    the first, which is a line about having done nothing. It is quiet when the
    file already says what it would have written, and speaks only when the two
    disagree -- which means the nameserver changed and the machine is using the
    old one.

Verified both ways: quiet boot is six lines, a forced-verbose build prints all
thirty plus the `verbose boot:` steps, and /proc/kmsg holds every line in both.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
2026-09-14 21:19:50 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
//
// The kernel log that outlives the kernel. See include/klog.h.
//
// Two properties are worth reading the code for, because both are easy to
// write and easy to get subtly wrong:
//
// **It takes no lock.** klog_putc() runs inside consputc(), which runs with
// cons.lock held on the ordinary path and with interrupts off and every other
// CPU spinning on the panic path. A lock here would add a way for the logger
// to deadlock the thing it exists to report on, which is the one failure it
// must not have. The cost is that two CPUs printing at once can interleave
// characters -- which is already true of the console itself, so the log is no
// worse than the screen it mirrors.
//
// **It buffers before it exists.** The region is carved after e820_init(), so
// everything printed before that -- the loader's handover, the memory map
// itself -- has nowhere to go yet. Dropping it would mean the log is blank for
// exactly the part of the boot that is hardest to debug any other way, so
// early output goes into a small static array and is flushed into the ring the
// moment there is one.
#include "types.h"
#include "defs.h"
#include "memlayout.h"
#include "klog.h"
#include "sbuf.h"
#include "dbg.h"
// consputc()'s cursor-movement escape, from kernel/core/console.c.
#define BACKSPACE 0x100
static struct klog_hdr *klog;
static int recovered; // the buffer held a previous boot when we found it
static uint64 prev_bytes; // how much of it that was
// Early output, before there is a ring to put it in. One page is enough for
// the handful of lines between the first cprintf and klog_init(); anything
// past it is dropped rather than overwritten, because the *first* lines of a
// boot that died early are the ones worth having.
static char early[4096];
static int nearly;
static int early_lost;
// Line state, kept here rather than derived, so a timestamp is emitted once
// per line and not once per write.
static int at_line_start = 1;
// Over the fields that do not move while a kernel is running -- deliberately
// not over head and mark.
//
// Those two change on every character written, and a sum that covered them
// would have to be recomputed on every character too: eight multiplies per
// byte of log, for a check whose entire job is to notice that some *other*
// program used this memory between two boots. head and mark are validated by
// range instead, which catches the same thing without the cost.
//
// Not a CRC either, for the same reason of proportion: this does not need to
// detect a clever corruption, and dragging kernel/fs/schfs's crc32c into core
// to do it would be a dependency in the wrong direction.
static uint32
checksum(const struct klog_hdr *h)
{
uint32 s = 0x9e3779b9u;
s = s * 31 + h->magic;
s = s * 31 + h->version;
s = s * 31 + h->size;
return s;
}
static int
looks_valid(const struct klog_hdr *h, uint64 bytes)
{
if (h->magic != KLOG_MAGIC || h->version != KLOG_VERSION)
return 0;
if (h->size != bytes - sizeof(struct klog_hdr))
return 0;
if (h->sum != checksum(h))
return 0;
// head and mark are outside the sum, so they are checked for sense instead:
// a boot cannot have ended before it started, and nothing this kernel does
// writes a quarter of a petabyte to a log.
if (h->mark > h->head)
return 0;
if (h->head > (1ULL << 48))
return 0;
return 1;
}
static void
raw_putc(char c)
{
klog->data[klog->head % klog->size] = c;
klog->head++;
}
static void
raw_puts(const char *s)
{
while (*s)
raw_putc(*s++);
}
// "[ 2.84] ", from the timer tick. Written by hand because the only
// formatter in the kernel is cprintf, and cprintf is what calls this.
static void
stamp(void)
{
uint t = ticks;
uint sec = t / 100;
uint cs = t % 100;
char b[16];
int i = 0, j;
raw_putc('[');
if (sec == 0) {
b[i++] = '0';
} else {
while (sec && i < 12) { b[i++] = '0' + (sec % 10); sec /= 10; }
}
for (j = i; j < 6; j++)
raw_putc(' ');
while (i-- > 0)
raw_putc(b[i]);
raw_putc('.');
raw_putc('0' + (cs / 10));
raw_putc('0' + (cs % 10));
raw_putc(']');
raw_putc(' ');
}
void
klog_putc(int c)
{
char ch = (char)c;
// Carriage returns and the console's backspace are cursor movement, not
// content. A log full of them reads as corruption.
if (ch == '\r' || c == BACKSPACE || ch == 0)
return;
if (!klog) {
if (nearly < (int)sizeof(early))
early[nearly++] = ch;
else
early_lost = 1;
return;
}
if (at_line_start && ch != '\n')
stamp();
raw_putc(ch);
at_line_start = (ch == '\n');
}
// The log's own region.
//
// It is not on any allocator's list and never will be -- kinit1 is started
// above it -- so the only way to discover that something has been handed a
// page of it is to ask here. A page of the log turning up on kalloc's free
// list is the failure mode this whole region is arranged to avoid, and this
// is what would say so.
static void
klog_whose(struct sbuf *out, struct whose *w)
{
addr_t base, kva;
if (!klog)
return;
base = (addr_t)klog;
kva = (addr_t)P2V(w->phys);
if (kva < base || kva >= base + KLOG_BYTES)
return;
w->owners++;
sb_puts(out, " klog the kernel log, ");
sb_putu(out, (kva - base) / 1024);
sb_puts(out, " KB into a ");
sb_putu(out, KLOG_BYTES / 1024);
sb_puts(out, " KB region\n");
}
void
klog_init(void *base, uint64 bytes)
{
struct klog_hdr *h = (struct klog_hdr *)base;
if (bytes <= sizeof(struct klog_hdr))
return;
if (looks_valid(h, bytes)) {
recovered = 1;
prev_bytes = h->head - h->mark; // what the *last* boot wrote
} else {
// Either the first boot on this machine or a region something else has
// been using. Either way the contents cannot be trusted, and printing
// somebody else's bytes as if they were a log would be worse than
// printing nothing.
h->magic = KLOG_MAGIC;
h->version = KLOG_VERSION;
h->size = (uint32)(bytes - sizeof(struct klog_hdr));
h->boot = 0;
h->head = 0;
recovered = 0;
prev_bytes = 0;
}
h->mark = h->head;
h->boot++;
h->sum = checksum(h);
klog = h;
// A divider in the log itself rather than a flag a reader has to know about:
// whoever ends up reading this will be reading text, possibly by eye, and a
// line that says where one boot ends is worth more than a field that has to
// be interpreted.
at_line_start = 1;
raw_puts("\n--- boot ");
{
char b[12];
int i = 0;
uint32 n = h->boot;
if (n == 0) b[i++] = '0';
while (n) { b[i++] = '0' + (n % 10); n /= 10; }
while (i-- > 0) raw_putc(b[i]);
}
raw_puts(" ---\n");
for (int i = 0; i < nearly; i++) {
char ch = early[i];
if (ch == '\r' || ch == 0)
continue;
if (at_line_start && ch != '\n')
stamp();
raw_putc(ch);
at_line_start = (ch == '\n');
}
if (early_lost)
raw_puts("klog: early output overflowed and some was dropped\n");
nearly = 0;
h->sum = checksum(h);
dbg_register_whose("klog", klog_whose);
// Said out loud on every boot, because "the log survived" and "the log was
// silently started over" look identical in a file that begins with a boot
// divider either way.
if (recovered)
kinfo("klog: %d KB at %p, %d bytes carried over from the previous boot\n",
(int)(bytes / 1024), (uint64)base, (int)prev_bytes);
else
kinfo("klog: %d KB at %p, nothing recoverable was there\n",
(int)(bytes / 1024), (uint64)base);
}
// How many bytes the ring currently holds, oldest first.
uint64
klog_len(void)
{
if (!klog)
return 0;
return klog->head < klog->size ? klog->head : klog->size;
}
uint64 klog_prev_bytes(void) { return prev_bytes; }
int klog_recovered(void) { return recovered; }
// Read at a byte offset into the log, where 0 is the oldest byte still held.
//
// Serving straight out of the ring rather than rendering into a scratch buffer
// the way every other /proc file does, because this file is 128 KB and that
// pattern regenerates the whole thing on every read into a stack array. See
// procread() in kernel/dev/procfs.c.
int
klog_read(uint64 off, char *dst, int n)
{
uint64 have, first;
int i;
if (!klog || n <= 0)
return 0;
have = klog_len();
if (off >= have)
return 0; // EOF
if ((uint64)n > have - off)
n = (int)(have - off);
first = klog->head - have; // logical position of the oldest byte
for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
dst[i] = klog->data[(first + off + i) % klog->size];
return n;
}