SchOS/kernel/core/main.c
Nexoniarz 1c1b0c9570 tty: six virtual terminals, and the plumbing that makes them terminals
/dev/tty1..tty6, Alt+F1..F6 or `chvt N`. Each is an independent terminal --
its own screen, cursor, line discipline, foreground process group and
session. Two shells on two terminals are unrelated processes that share a
keyboard and a screen.

What made it possible is a backing store. The console drew straight into the
framebuffer and scrolled by moving pixels, which works exactly as long as
nothing else wants the screen: there was nowhere to put terminal 2 while
terminal 1 was visible, and nothing to repaint terminal 1 from. Each terminal
owns a grid of cells now and the framebuffer shows whichever grid is active,
so vt_switch() is set-index, repaint, return -- nothing is saved on the way
out because the outgoing grid has been current all along.

The rule the layer is built on: a terminal does not know whether it is
visible. Writes land in the grid, the cursor moves, the grid scrolls, all
unconditionally; drawing is one question asked at the bottom of vt.c. Every
alternative spreads "am I on screen" through the escape parser, and then a
terminal switched away from mid-sequence comes back wrong.

Everything that was a single global is per-terminal now: tty_fg_pgrp (deleted),
termios, the input ring, the escape parser, the UTF-8 decoder, and the cursor
-- which also stops being pixels in gfx.c and becomes cells in the terminal.
TIOCSCTTY was `return 0` and now records proc->ctty, which is what /dev/tty
resolves through; /dev/tty was an alias for /dev/console with the same minor,
and they are different questions.

kbd.c names Alt+F1..F6 as KEY_ALT_F1+n, above 0xFF on purpose -- every byte
value is already a character or a UTF-8 continuation, and a chord colliding
with one would be typed into the terminal instead of switching away from it.
What the chord means is decided in console.c, where the terminals are.

VT_ACTIVATE / VT_WAITACTIVE / VT_GETSTATE / VT_OPENQRY, Linux's numbers.
The argument to ACTIVATE is by value, not a pointer -- same shape as TCFLSH.

Two bugs found by screenshotting the result rather than reading the log:

  - zsh emits 0x0F to leave alt-charset mode, because that is what the `linux`
    terminfo says rmacs is, and the console drew CP437 glyph 0x0F: a sun, in
    the prompt, on every line. A terminal never draws a C0 control character.
  - SGR 7 was unimplemented, so zsh's partial-line marker rendered as a bare
    '#' instead of a reversed block. Reverse video swaps the colours at draw
    time, not at store time, so turning it off restores what was underneath.

Verified by screendump: tty1 and tty2 show different screens, and switching
back repaints tty1's earlier content from its grid. schfs-check passes.

docs/architecture/terminals.md, including what it does not do -- no
scrollback, no reflow, no VT_PROCESS mode for a display server to veto a
switch, which Schcom will need before it owns Alt+F7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01VQ7Qx8E1q1M1bbCq8QLHS2
2026-09-13 00:08:00 +02:00

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#include "types.h"
#include "defs.h"
#include "vt.h"
#include "param.h"
#include "memlayout.h"
#include "mmu.h"
#include "proc.h"
#include "x86.h"
#include "irq.h"
#include "dma.h"
static void startothers(void);
static void mpmain(void) __attribute__((noreturn));
extern char end[]; // first address after kernel loaded from ELF file
// Set by stage2main.c (boot/bios/stage2main.c, SCHBOOT_VERBOSE_FLAG) when the
// user picks "Boot SchOS (verbose)" from the F8 boot menu; read once here,
// before anything else, so subsystem init can log its own steps.
int boot_verbose;
// Must match SCHBOOT_VERBOSE_FLAG in boot/bios/stage2main.c exactly: just past
// the VBE info block, not 0x7000 (startothers() below uses that address for
// the AP boot trampoline).
#include "schboot.h"
// Bootstrap processor starts running C code here.
// Allocate a real stack and switch to it, first
// doing some setup required for memory allocator to work.
int
kmain(uint32 fb_addr)
{
boot_verbose = *(uchar*)P2V(SCHBOOT_VERBOSE_FLAG);
uartearlyinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: uartearlyinit done\n");
// The DMA arena is carved off the top of physical memory *before* kalloc is
// given the rest, because a device needs physically contiguous memory and
// kalloc's free list makes no such promise -- two pages from it are adjacent
// only by chance. Taking it first is the only way to be sure the region
// exists; asking for it later would mean asking kalloc for something it
// fundamentally cannot provide. See include/dma.h.
// Before anything touches PHYSTOP, which is now a variable read from the
// firmware's memory map rather than a constant asserting 224 MB exists.
e820_init();
kinit1(end, P2V(PHYSTOP - DMA_ARENA_BYTES));
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: kinit1 done\n");
dma_init(P2V(PHYSTOP - DMA_ARENA_BYTES), P2V(PHYSTOP));
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: dma_init done\n");
kvmalloc();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: kvmalloc done\n");
// ACPI first, the legacy MP table only if it finds nothing. Modern firmware
// publishes a complete MADT and an MP table with one processor in it, so
// asking the older interface first means never seeing more than one CPU.
// See kernel/arch/x86_64/acpi.c.
if (!acpi_init())
mpinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: cpu enumeration done\n");
lapicinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: lapicinit done\n");
tvinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: tvinit done\n");
seginit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: seginit done\n");
ioapicinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: ioapicinit done\n");
irq_init(); // must precede any driver init that registers a handler
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: irq_init done\n");
// Before the keyboard and mouse, which start producing events the moment
// their handlers are registered.
inputinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: inputinit done\n");
// Before consoleinit, because the console writes to a terminal and there
// has to be one. vt_init reads the framebuffer geometry, so it also has to
// come after whatever attached a scanout.
vt_init();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: vt_init done\n");
consoleinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: consoleinit done\n");
uartinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: uartinit done\n");
mouseinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: mouseinit done\n");
// The devices that are simply known to be on a PC rather than enumerated by
// any bus, and the framebuffer the loader left running. Registered before
// pci_init() so that /proc/devices lists them first, which puts the machine's
// fixed furniture above whatever happened to be plugged into it -- and
// because the display has to work long before any bus is walked.
//
// main() names no display driver. Whichever one owns the boot framebuffer
// publishes it there as this kernel's scanout, and the console and crash
// screen draw on that; see include/gfx.h.
//
// No splash drawing here on purpose. The loader owns the splash, logo and
// all, and bringing the framebuffer up deliberately does not clear it -- so
// it stays on the display right through to console_takeover(). Painting it
// again from here would land in the last few hundred milliseconds of boot
// and change nothing.
platform_register_devices(fb_addr);
pci_init();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: pci_init done\n");
pinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: pinit done\n");
binit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: binit done\n");
fileinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: fileinit done\n");
sockinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: sockinit done\n");
// After the timer is running, so boot_epoch can subtract the uptime so far,
// and before userspace, so the very first timestamp any program takes is
// already real. Reading the RTC is slow, which is exactly why it happens once
// here rather than on every gettimeofday().
time_init();
ideinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: ideinit done\n");
ramdiskinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: ramdiskinit done\n");
// Start the application processors.
//
// This was broken from the beginning of the project and is fixed as of
// 2026-08-08. Five distinct bugs, each hidden behind the one before it, and
// all of them invisible under QEMU because it publishes only one processor in
// the legacy MP table -- see kernel/arch/x86_64/acpi.c. VMware published the
// real count, which is why the triple fault only ever appeared there.
//
// 1. entry64high had no AP branch at all; the check was a comment saying it
// had never been written. Every AP fell into the boot processor's path,
// took the BSP's stack, and ran kmain() a second time.
// 2. seginit() called kalloc() for its per-CPU page. kalloc locks, locking
// reads `cpu`, and `cpu` is what seginit() was about to set up.
// 3. kernel_fs_base was one global for all CPUs, and trapasm.S read it on
// every entry from user mode, so both CPUs shared one per-CPU block.
// 4. `cpu` and `proc` were __thread. That means per *thread*, so the compiler
// cached the thread pointer across calls -- but %fs here is per *CPU*, and
// a kernel thread changes CPU at every sched(). See include/proc.h.
// 5. The new per-CPU slots collided with syscall_entry's scratch word at
// %fs:(8), which is the same memory as %gs:8.
//
int smp_start_aps = 1;
if (smp_start_aps) {
startothers();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: startothers done\n");
} else if (ncpu > 1) {
cprintf("smp: %d cpus found, running on 1 (AP startup is broken)\n", ncpu);
}
kinit2();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: kinit2 done\n");
sinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: sinit done\n");
// The TCP/IP stack, after sinit because it starts a kernel thread and
// kthread_create needs the process table to be usable. It returns
// immediately: everything it does happens in that thread, which cannot run
// until mpmain() below enters the scheduler.
netinit();
if (boot_verbose) cprintf("verbose boot: netinit done\n");
mpmain();
}
// Other CPUs jump here from entryother.S.
void
mpenter(void)
{
switchkvm();
seginit();
lapicinit();
mpmain();
}
// Enable SSE/FXSAVE so user binaries can use XMM registers.
static void
enable_sse(void)
{
uint64 cr0, cr4;
asm volatile("mov %%cr0, %0" : "=r"(cr0));
cr0 &= ~(1UL << 2); // clear CR0.EM (no FP emulation)
cr0 |= (1UL << 1); // set CR0.MP (monitor coprocessor)
asm volatile("mov %0, %%cr0" :: "r"(cr0));
asm volatile("mov %%cr4, %0" : "=r"(cr4));
cr4 |= (1UL << 9); // CR4.OSFXSR — OS handles FXSAVE/FXRSTOR
cr4 |= (1UL << 10); // CR4.OSXMMEXCPT — OS handles SSE exceptions
asm volatile("mov %0, %%cr4" :: "r"(cr4));
}
// Common CPU setup code.
static void
mpmain(void)
{
cprintf("cpu%d: starting\n", cpunum());
enable_sse(); // allow user XMM/SSE instructions
idtinit(); // load idt register
syscallinit(); // syscall set up
xchg(&mycpu()->started, 1); // tell startothers() we're up
scheduler(); // start running processes
}
void entry32mp(void);
// Start the non-boot (AP) processors.
static void
startothers(void)
{
extern uchar _binary_entryother_start[], _binary_entryother_size[];
uchar *code;
struct cpu *c;
char *stack;
// Write entry code to unused memory at 0x7000.
// The linker has placed the image of entryother.S in
// _binary_entryother_start.
code = P2V(0x7000);
memmove(code, _binary_entryother_start,
(addr_t)_binary_entryother_size);
for(c = cpus; c < cpus+ncpu; c++){
if(c == cpus+cpunum()) // We've started already.
continue;
// Tell entryother.S what stack to use, where to enter, and what
// pgdir to use. We cannot use kpgdir yet, because the AP processor
// is running in low memory, so we use entrypgdir for the APs too.
// The AP's per-CPU page, allocated here rather than by the AP itself.
// seginit() explains why: an AP cannot call kalloc() before %fs is set up,
// because kalloc locks and locking reads the per-CPU pointer.
if (c->local == 0) {
c->local = kalloc();
memset(c->local, 0, PGSIZE);
}
stack = kalloc();
*(uint32*)(code-4) = 0x8000; // enough stack to get us to entry64mp
*(uint32*)(code-8) = v2p(entry32mp);
*(uint64*)(code-16) = (uint64) (stack + KSTACKSIZE);
lapicstartap(c->apicid, V2P(code));
// wait for cpu to finish mpmain()
while(c->started == 0)
;
// Counted here, on the boot processor, after the AP has actually reported
// in -- not by the AP itself. This is serialised by the loop, so it needs
// no atomic, and it cannot overcount a processor that started and died.
ncpu_online++;
}
}