SchOS/include/param.h
Nexoniarz 51983144e3 exec: Linux's 2 MB of arguments; mmap: merge neighbouring mappings
exec took 32 arguments and 64 environment variables, in fixed arrays,
so a glob over more than 31 files failed with E2BIG. It now reads the
caller's argv and envp where they are, through the uaccess helpers and
a bounce page -- a second thread rewriting the array after a check
cannot slip a kernel address in -- and sizes the new stack to fit
them. The limits are Linux's: ARG_MAX, 2 MB of strings and pointers,
and 128 KB for any one string (USER_STR_MAX follows it).

Every mmap took one of a process's 256 VMA slots, and zsh takes one per
16 KB heap block, so `x=($(<file))` over 30000 words ran out after 4 MB
of heap and exited 1 without a word. Neighbouring anonymous mappings
now share a record, as Linux merges them -- the bump allocator puts
each new one where the last ended -- and munmap trims or splits it.
Partial unmaps of device or segment mappings are refused with EINVAL
instead of kfree()ing pages that are not the process's, and a failed
allocation half way through a mapping no longer leaks what it had.

Checked under QEMU: touch over 3000 names, /bin/echo with 50000
arguments, E2BIG past 2 MB, zsh splitting 100000 words, fork loops.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4
2026-10-23 13:20:29 +02:00

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#pragma once
// The timer interrupt rate the kernel is built around. Everything that turns
// ticks into a duration divides by this. It used to be the literal 100 written
// out at each site, which made it look like a fact about the hardware; it is
// not. It is a target, and kernel/arch/x86_64/lapic.c calibrates the LAPIC
// timer against the PIT to actually hit it.
#define HZ 100 // timer interrupts per second
// The tick rate the *user-space ABI* is defined in, which is a different thing
// from HZ and must not follow it. glibc and musl both answer sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)
// with a hardcoded 100, so times() and /proc/stat are read as hundredths of a
// second no matter what the kernel's internal rate is. Linux calls this USER_HZ
// and scales at the syscall boundary; so does SchOS, in the two places below.
#define USER_HZ 100
// Converting a POSIX timespec/timeval into ticks. These used to appear as the
// bare literals 10000000 and 10000 at each call site, where they looked like
// magic numbers rather than what they are: the length of one tick, expressed
// in the units the caller happens to be using.
#define NSEC_PER_TICK (1000000000 / HZ)
#define USEC_PER_TICK (1000000 / HZ)
#define MSEC_PER_TICK (1000 / HZ)
#define NPROC 128 // maximum number of processes
#define KSTACKSIZE 8192 // per-process kernel stack; see kstacks[] in proc.c
#define KSTACK_CANARY 0xDEADC0DEDEADC0DEULL // sentinel at kstack[0], see kstack_check_canary()
#define NCPU 16 // maximum number of CPUs
#define NOFILE 128 // open files per process
#define NFILE 512 // open files per system
#define NINODE 200 // maximum number of active i-nodes
#define NDEV 13 // maximum major device number
#define RAMDISK_DEV 2 // memory-backed block device (kernel/dev/ramdisk.c)
#define USBDISK_DEV 3 // USB mass storage (kernel/drivers/usb_storage.c)
// Device the root filesystem is mounted from. Building with RAMROOT=1 defines
// RAMDISK_ROOT and boots from the SCHFS image linked into the kernel instead
// of the IDE disk, leaving the physical disk free to be reformatted from a
// running system. See kernel/dev/ramdisk.c.
#ifdef RAMDISK_ROOT
#define ROOTDEV RAMDISK_DEV
#else
#define ROOTDEV 1 // device number of file system root disk
#endif
// exec's limits, Linux's: ARG_MAX bytes of argument and environment strings
// and their pointers together, and no one string over ARG_STRLEN_MAX (Linux's
// MAX_ARG_STRLEN). There is no limit on the count beyond that.
#define ARG_MAX (2 * 1024 * 1024)
#define ARG_STRLEN_MAX (128 * 1024)
#define MAXPATH 128 // max path
#define MAXOPBLOCKS 30 // max # of blocks any FS op writes
#define LOGSIZE (MAXOPBLOCKS*3) // max data blocks in on-disk log
// Disk block cache, in blocks. 256 * BSIZE = 1 MB.
//
// Was MAXOPBLOCKS*3 = 90 blocks, and at the old 1 KB BSIZE that is a 90 KB
// cache -- smaller than the toybox binary that every single command execs. So
// nothing was ever still resident on the next command and each one paid the
// full read again. 1 MB holds toybox with room to spare, which is what makes
// the *second* command fast rather than just the first.
//
// Sized rather than maximised: these are statically allocated in bio.c, so
// this is memory the system always spends. 1 MB is affordable on a machine
// with tens of megabytes; 8 MB would not be.
#define NBUF 256
#define FSSIZE 150000 // size of file system in blocks
// Network interfaces the stack will attach. Two is already an ordinary machine
// -- a laptop with Ethernet plus a virtual adapter -- and each one costs a
// struct netif, so the limit is about keeping a fixed array honest rather than
// about memory.
#define NETIF_MAX 4