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agra 22f4719e83 fix: aarch64-linux port of the M:1 fiber runtime (sched.sx)
Port library/modules/std/sched.sx to run on aarch64-linux alongside
aarch64-macOS, validated byte-identical on both via Apple `container`.

Per-OS bits are comptime-branched:
- MAP_AP (mmap MAP_ANON flag): linux 0x22 / macOS 0x1002.
- fd-readiness backend: epoll on linux, kqueue on darwin (epoll import
  scoped to the linux branch). block_on_fd, the run-loop Mode-2 drain,
  and cancel_io_waiter_for each branch; the epoll paths EPOLL_CTL_DEL on
  fire and on early-wake (EPOLLONESHOT only disables a registration;
  kqueue EV_ONESHOT auto-removes it).
- first-entry trampoline: a per-OS hand-written global-asm symbol becomes
  a naked sx fn fib_tramp (mov x0,x19; br x20) + register-indirect
  dispatch (spawn presets regs[1] == x20 == &fib_dispatch), dropping the
  per-OS .global symbol entirely.

Fixes issue 0193 Bug A: the trampoline redesign bus-errored on the
go/wait/sleep capstone (1817) until `export "fib_dispatch"` was restored.
Without the export, fib_dispatch reverts to sx's internal ABI (x0 =
implicit context, first arg self shifted to x1) while the trampoline
hands self over in x0 (C-ABI); on first entry the body runs (x1 happens
to alias self) but the closure then loads regs[1] == &fib_dispatch as its
first capture and re-invokes fib_dispatch forever -> stack overflow ->
bus error. The export pins fib_dispatch to the C-ABI (self in x0),
matching the trampoline. Root cause found via lldb on an AOT build;
confirmed against the compiler source.

Bug B (a top-level asm block wrapped in inline-if is dropped during the
comptime-conditional flatten) is carved out to issue 0194 (OPEN) -- no
live trigger remains, since the naked-fn trampoline sidesteps it.

1811/1814/1816/1817 run byte-identical on the aarch64-macOS host and in
an aarch64-linux container; full suite green (817/0). Documents the fiber
runtime in readme.md.
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// Stream B1 (fibers) B1.5a — the M:1 cooperative fiber scheduler core.
//
// A `Scheduler` drives any number of `Fiber`s, each running a stackful
// `body: Closure() -> void` on its own guarded `mmap` stack (the §8.1.1 guard
// page turns a stack overflow into an immediate fault instead of silent
// neighbor corruption). Fibers cooperate: a running fiber hands control back to
// the scheduler loop via `yield_now` (re-enqueued, round-robin) or
// `suspend_self` (parked off-queue until an external `wake`). When a body
// returns, the fiber reaches `.done`, its stack is `munmap`'d and its heap
// `Fiber` freed.
//
// Built on the proven primitives from examples/concurrency/1807-1809:
// - `swap_context` (aarch64 `abi(.naked)`, 13-slot save area: x19..x28, fp,
// lr, sp) saves the callee-saved registers + SP into `*from` and loads them
// from `*to`, then `ret`s onto `to`'s stack.
// - the `fib_tramp` first-entry trampoline (a naked sx fn): x19 holds the
// bootstrapped `*Fiber` and x20 = `&fib_dispatch`; it moves the fiber to x0
// and `br`s through x20 to the C-ABI `fib_dispatch`, which calls the body
// then switches back to the scheduler.
// - guarded `mmap` stacks: `[GUARD | usable]`, low GUARD page `mprotect`'d
// PROT_NONE, 16-aligned top returned as the bootstrapped SP.
//
// aarch64-pinned (macOS + linux): the `swap_context` asm + the 13-slot save
// area are per-arch. The per-OS bits are branched at comptime — `mmap`'s
// MAP_ANON flag (`MAP_AP`) and the fd-readiness backend (kqueue on darwin,
// epoll on linux). Runs end-to-end on a matching aarch64 host, ir-only on an
// arch mismatch.
#import "modules/std.sx";
kqb :: #import "modules/std/net/kqueue.sx";
// The fd-readiness backend is per-OS: kqueue (kqb, above) on darwin, epoll on
// linux. The epoll import is scoped to the linux branch so darwin never pulls
// epoll's types into the concurrency examples' type tables (the same
// std-barrel-drift rule std.event.Loop follows); `block_on_fd` / the run loop
// reference `ep` only inside their own `inline if OS == .linux` arms.
inline if OS == .linux {
ep :: #import "modules/std/net/epoll.sx";
}
// --- libc mmap stack primitives -------------------------------------------
mmap :: (addr: *void, len: i64, prot: i32, flags: i32, fd: i32, off: i64) -> *void extern libc "mmap";
mprotect :: (addr: *void, len: i64, prot: i32) -> i32 extern libc "mprotect";
munmap :: (addr: *void, len: i64) -> i32 extern libc "munmap";
// Canonical libc `close` signature `(i32) -> i32` — must match any other
// binding in the program (the extern dedupe rejects a divergent one). Used by
// `Scheduler.deinit` to close the lazily-opened kqueue fd.
close :: (fd: i32) -> i32 extern libc "close";
abort :: () -> noreturn extern libc "abort";
PROT_NONE :: 0;
PROT_RW :: 3; // PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE
// Exhaustive on the SUPPORTED OSes (linux/macOS), no default case: an
// unsupported target matches no case → MAP_AP undefined → a loud compile error
// on use rather than a silent wrong flag. (The fiber runtime is aarch64-only
// anyway — the swap_context asm — so only these two platforms are wired.)
inline if OS == {
case .linux: MAP_AP :: 0x22; // linux MAP_PRIVATE (0x2) | MAP_ANON (0x20)
case .macos: MAP_AP :: 0x1002; // macOS MAP_PRIVATE (0x2) | MAP_ANON (0x1000)
}
GUARD :: 16384; // one 16 KB page (aarch64-macOS)
STACK :: 131072; // 128 KB usable per fiber
// Max fd events drained per kqueue wait (B1.4c). Sized for the M:1 model's
// small fiber counts; a wait that fills it just drains the rest on the next
// loop iteration (the woken fibers run, the queue re-drains, the still-pending
// waiters block again).
MAXEV :: 16;
// --- core types ------------------------------------------------------------
// Saved context: x19..x28 (10), x29/fp, x30/lr, sp — 13 u64 slots.
FiberCtx :: struct { regs: [13]u64; }
FiberState :: enum { ready; running; suspended; done; }
Fiber :: struct {
ctx: FiberCtx;
body: Closure() -> void;
state: FiberState;
sched: *Scheduler;
stack_region: *void; // mmap base — for munmap on reap
stack_len: i64; // GUARD + STACK, for munmap
id: i64;
next: *Fiber; // intrusive FIFO ready-queue link
}
// A pending virtual-time timer: wake `fiber` once the virtual clock reaches
// `deadline_ms`. Stored in `Scheduler.timers` (a `List`) in insertion order, so
// a linear min-scan that takes the FIRST entry at the minimum deadline gives a
// stable FIFO tiebreak for equal deadlines.
Timer :: struct {
deadline_ms: i64;
fiber: *Fiber;
}
// B1.4c: a fiber parked on REAL fd readiness. Unlike a `Timer` (virtual
// time), an `IoWaiter` blocks the whole scheduler on `kevent` until the
// kernel reports `fd` readable, then wakes `fiber`. Stored in
// `Scheduler.io_waiters`; the registration is one-shot (EV_ONESHOT), so the
// kernel auto-removes it after firing — we only have to drop the waiter
// record. `cancel_io_waiter_for` evicts a stale record (mirror of
// `cancel_timer_for`) so a reaped fiber's waiter can never be woken.
IoWaiter :: struct {
fd: i32;
fiber: *Fiber;
}
Scheduler :: struct {
sched_ctx: FiberCtx; // the scheduler loop's own saved context
current: *Fiber; // running fiber; null while in the scheduler loop
ready_head: *Fiber;
ready_tail: *Fiber;
own_allocator: Allocator; // captured at init — fibers outlive their spawn scope
next_id: i64;
n_spawned: i64;
n_suspended: i64; // fibers parked off-queue (suspend_self minus wake)
// --- B1.4b: deterministic virtual-time timer scheduling ----------------
clock_ms: i64; // the VIRTUAL clock (ms). Starts 0; advances ONLY
// when the ready queue drains and the earliest
// pending timer fires. No real wall clock is ever
// read — wake ORDER + timestamps are reproducible.
timers: List(Timer); // pending sleep timers, in insertion order. Grown
// through `own_allocator` (long-lived-container
// rule: a timer outlives the `sleep` call's scope).
// --- B1.4c: real fd-readiness blocking via kqueue ----------------------
kq: i32; // the kqueue fd. LAZY: -1 until the first
// `block_on_fd` opens it, so a pure-compute /
// virtual-timer scheduler never opens a kqueue
// fd (no leak for the common case). Once opened it
// lives for the scheduler's lifetime; `deinit`
// closes it (and resets this back to -1).
io_waiters: List(IoWaiter); // fibers parked on fd readiness, grown through
// `own_allocator` (long-lived-container rule: a
// waiter outlives the `block_on_fd` call's scope).
// --- deinit bookkeeping: heap Tasks allocated by `go` --------------------
task_allocs: List(*void); // every heap `*Task` from `go`, recorded so
// `deinit` can free them. The scheduler does not
// otherwise know its Tasks (they are generic
// `Task($R)` handed back to the caller); without
// this list they would leak. Grown through
// `own_allocator` (a Task outlives the `go` call).
// Construct a scheduler BY VALUE (allocator value-return convention).
// Captures the current `context.allocator` into `own_allocator` — fibers and
// their heap `Fiber` structs outlive their spawn scope, so all internal
// allocation must go through this captured (long-lived) allocator, not
// whatever transient one happens to be current at a later call.
init :: () -> Scheduler {
// Literal init (by value). `sched_ctx` is intentionally unnamed — the
// partial literal zero-fills it, and it is written by the first
// `swap_context` before ever being read. `kq = -1` is the lazy sentinel
// (opened by the first `block_on_fd`).
return Scheduler.{
current = null, ready_head = null, ready_tail = null,
own_allocator = context.allocator,
next_id = 0, n_spawned = 0, n_suspended = 0,
clock_ms = 0, timers = .{}, kq = -1, io_waiters = .{}, task_allocs = .{}
};
}
// Spawn a fiber running `body`. Heap-allocates the `Fiber` and a guarded
// stack, bootstraps the saved context (x19 = *Fiber, fp = 0, lr =
// trampoline, sp = stack top), enqueues it ready (FIFO), returns the
// `*Fiber`.
// KNOWN LIMITATION (env leak): `body` is a fat `{fn_ptr, env}` whose env is
// heap-allocated at the closure-literal site. The reap path frees the Fiber
// struct + unmaps the stack, but sx exposes no way to free a closure's env
// (the scheduler can't name the env pointer), so ONE env per spawned fiber
// leaks until program exit. Bounded by the spawn count; under the default
// GPA (which frees at exit) it is invisible, but a long-running scheduler
// under an arena/tracking allocator accumulates one env per fiber. Freeing
// it needs a language affordance for closure-env ownership — deferred.
spawn :: (self: *Scheduler, body: Closure() -> void) -> *Fiber {
raw := self.own_allocator.alloc_bytes(size_of(Fiber));
if raw == null {
print("sched: out of memory allocating a Fiber\n");
abort();
}
f : *Fiber = xx raw;
f.body = body;
f.sched = self;
f.id = self.next_id;
f.next = null;
self.next_id = self.next_id + 1;
self.n_spawned = self.n_spawned + 1;
top := boot_stack(f, STACK);
f.ctx.regs[0] = xx f; // x19 = self (→ x0 in the tramp)
f.ctx.regs[1] = xx fib_dispatch; // x20 = dispatch entry (tramp `br`s to it)
f.ctx.regs[10] = 0; // fp
f.ctx.regs[11] = xx fib_tramp; // lr → trampoline
f.ctx.regs[12] = top; // sp
f.state = .ready;
enqueue(self, f);
return f;
}
// The running fiber yields cooperatively: mark ready, switch back to the
// scheduler. The run loop re-enqueues it (round-robin). MUST be called from
// inside a fiber (there must be a running fiber to yield).
yield_now :: (self: *Scheduler) {
cur := self.current;
if cur == null {
print("sched: yield_now() called outside a fiber (no running fiber)\n");
abort();
}
cur.state = .ready;
swap_context(@cur.ctx, @self.sched_ctx);
}
// The running fiber parks itself: mark suspended, switch back to the
// scheduler. The run loop does NOT re-enqueue a suspended fiber — an
// external `wake` must re-add it. (Used by FiberIo to park on a blocking
// op until completion.) MUST be called from inside a fiber — a null
// `current` (called from the bare scheduler/main context) would deref null;
// bail loudly instead of segfaulting.
suspend_self :: (self: *Scheduler) {
cur := self.current;
if cur == null {
print("sched: suspend_self() called outside a fiber (no running fiber)\n");
abort();
}
cur.state = .suspended;
self.n_suspended = self.n_suspended + 1;
swap_context(@cur.ctx, @self.sched_ctx);
}
// Re-ready a parked (suspended) fiber and enqueue it. Called from outside
// the fiber (e.g. an I/O completion or another fiber) to wake it.
//
// GUARDED on `.suspended`: enqueue links `f` into the FIFO, so waking a
// fiber that is ALREADY queued (`.ready`) or running (`.running`) would
// re-link a node already in the list — nulling its `next` mid-list and
// cycling `ready_tail` back onto it, corrupting the queue (a spurious /
// double wake, or waking a yielded-not-parked fiber, would segfault). Only
// a genuinely parked fiber may be re-enqueued; any other wake is a no-op.
wake :: (self: *Scheduler, f: *Fiber) {
if f.state != .suspended { return; }
// Evict any pending sleep timer for `f`. EVERY path that re-readies a
// suspended fiber funnels through `wake` (a manual/Task wake, or the
// timer-fire in `run` — which already removed the fired timer, so this
// is a harmless re-scan there). Without this, a fiber that armed a
// `sleep` timer but was woken EARLY by another path would run to
// completion and be reaped (stack munmap'd + Fiber freed) while its
// Timer still held a dangling `*Fiber` — a later fire would dereference
// freed memory (use-after-free). One timer per fiber max in the M:1
// model, so a single eviction suffices; it also prevents a stale timer
// from spuriously re-waking a since-re-slept fiber.
cancel_timer_for(self, f);
// Same UAF reasoning for fd waiters: every path that re-readies a
// suspended fiber funnels through `wake`. If a fiber armed `block_on_fd`
// but was woken by another path (a manual wake, a Task completion), its
// `IoWaiter` would otherwise survive pointing at a fiber that runs to
// completion and is reaped (stack munmap'd + Fiber freed). A later
// readiness drain matching that stale record would `wake` freed memory.
// Evict it here. The kernel-side registration is handled per-OS inside
// `cancel_io_waiter_for`: on darwin the EV_ONESHOT kqueue registration is
// left to linger (a never-fired one-shot the drain ignores; the fd's
// owner closes it, auto-removing it), but on linux the EPOLLONESHOT
// registration stays enabled and must be `EPOLL_CTL_DEL`'d (else it could
// fire later with no waiter and would block a re-arm of the same fd).
cancel_io_waiter_for(self, f);
self.n_suspended = self.n_suspended - 1;
f.state = .ready;
enqueue(self, f);
}
// Read the VIRTUAL clock — the simulated millisecond time. Advances only as
// timers fire (in `run`), never from a real wall clock, so two runs of the
// same fiber program observe identical timestamps. A fiber that just woke
// from `sleep(ms)` sees `now_ms()` equal to its deadline.
now_ms :: (self: *Scheduler) -> i64 {
return self.clock_ms;
}
// Sleep the running fiber for `ms` simulated milliseconds: arm a timer at
// `clock_ms + ms`, then park off-queue. The scheduler advances the virtual
// clock to this deadline and wakes the fiber once the ready queue has fully
// drained AND no earlier timer is pending (deadline order, FIFO tiebreak).
// MUST be called from inside a fiber (there must be a `current` to park);
// a null `current` bails loudly, mirroring `suspend_self`.
//
// Virtual time only moves forward: `ms >= 0` makes the deadline
// `>= clock_ms`, so a fired timer never rewinds the clock.
sleep :: (self: *Scheduler, ms: i64) {
cur := self.current;
if cur == null {
print("sched: sleep() called outside a fiber (no running fiber)\n");
abort();
}
// The virtual clock is MONOTONIC — it only advances as timers fire. A
// negative duration would arm a deadline in the past, rewinding the
// clock when it fired and breaking every ordering contract. Reject it
// loudly rather than silently corrupting time. (`sleep(0)` is allowed: a
// same-tick yield to the timer wheel.)
if ms < 0 {
print("sched: sleep({}) — negative duration would rewind the virtual clock\n", ms);
abort();
}
t : Timer = .{ deadline_ms = self.clock_ms + ms, fiber = cur };
// Long-lived-container rule: a timer outlives this `sleep` call's scope
// (it survives in `self.timers` until the scheduler fires it), so grow
// through the captured `own_allocator`, never the transient current one.
self.timers.append(t, self.own_allocator);
self.suspend_self(); // parks `cur` off-queue; the timer fire re-wakes it
}
// --- B1.4c: block the running fiber until `fd` is readable --------------
//
// Register `fd` for EVFILT_READ with the scheduler's kqueue (lazily
// opening it on first use), record an `IoWaiter`, then park the fiber
// off-queue. The run loop blocks on `kevent` once nothing else is runnable
// and wakes this fiber when the kernel reports `fd` ready (EV_ONESHOT — the
// kernel auto-removes the registration after it fires, so the run loop only
// has to drop the waiter record + `wake` the fiber).
//
// `want_read` is the readiness direction; only read-readiness is wired for
// now (a write-readiness EVFILT_WRITE path would mirror this exactly). A
// false `want_read` would be a write-wait — not yet implemented, so bail
// loudly rather than silently arming a read filter (silent-wrong-arm rule).
//
// MUST be called from inside a fiber (there must be a `current` to park); a
// null `current` bails loudly, mirroring `suspend_self` / `sleep`.
block_on_fd :: (self: *Scheduler, fd: i32, want_read: bool) {
cur := self.current;
if cur == null {
print("sched: block_on_fd() called outside a fiber (no running fiber)\n");
abort();
}
if !want_read {
print("sched: block_on_fd(want_read=false) — write-readiness not implemented\n");
abort();
}
// ONE waiter per fd (enforced). macOS `EV_ADD` for an existing
// (ident, filter) REPLACES the registration rather than stacking, so a
// second fiber blocking on the same fd would leave only one live
// registration: when the fd fires, the kernel delivers a single event,
// one waiter wakes, and the other is stranded in `io_waiters` with no
// registration — the next `kq_wait` then blocks forever. The M:1 model
// (and `wake_io_waiter_for_fd`, which wakes the first match) assumes a
// single waiter per fd; enforce it loudly instead of silently hanging.
j := 0;
while j < self.io_waiters.len {
if self.io_waiters.items[j].fd == fd {
print("sched: block_on_fd: fd {} already has a waiter (one waiter per fd in the M:1 model)\n", fd);
abort();
}
j = j + 1;
}
// Lazily open the event-queue fd the first time fd-blocking is used:
// kqueue on darwin, epoll on linux. `self.kq` holds whichever — it is
// just "the readiness queue fd".
if self.kq < 0 {
inline if OS == {
case .linux: self.kq = ep.ep_create();
case .macos: self.kq = kqb.kqueue();
}
if self.kq < 0 {
print("sched: failed to open the event queue\n");
abort();
}
}
// Arm a one-shot read-readiness registration for `fd`, matched back by
// the run-loop drain (kqueue by ident; epoll stashes the fd in `data`).
// darwin EV_ONESHOT auto-removes the registration on fire; epoll's
// EPOLLONESHOT only DISABLES it, so the linux paths additionally
// EPOLL_CTL_DEL on fire (run) and on early-wake (cancel_io_waiter_for).
inline if OS == {
case .linux: {
if !ep.ep_ctl(self.kq, ep.EPOLL_CTL_ADD, fd, ep.EPOLLIN | ep.EPOLLONESHOT) {
print("sched: epoll_ctl() failed to register fd {} for read readiness\n", fd);
abort();
}
}
case .macos: {
chg := kqb.kev_change(fd, kqb.EVFILT_READ, kqb.EV_ADD | kqb.EV_ENABLE | kqb.EV_ONESHOT, 0);
if !kqb.kq_apply(self.kq, chg) {
print("sched: kevent() failed to register fd {} for read readiness\n", fd);
abort();
}
}
}
// Record the waiter BEFORE parking — the run loop matches the fired
// event's ident back to this record. Long-lived-container rule: the
// waiter outlives this call's scope (it survives in `self.io_waiters`
// until the kqueue drain wakes it), so grow through `own_allocator`.
w : IoWaiter = .{ fd = fd, fiber = cur };
self.io_waiters.append(w, self.own_allocator);
self.suspend_self(); // parks `cur` off-queue; the kqueue drain re-wakes it
}
// The scheduler loop. Drives ready fibers to quiescence, then advances the
// virtual clock by firing the earliest pending timer (which re-readies its
// sleeper), and repeats — until both the ready queue and the timer set are
// empty. Within the inner drain each iteration: dequeue the next fiber,
// switch into it, and — on its switch back — reap it if done (munmap stack,
// free the Fiber), re-enqueue it if it yielded, or leave it parked if it
// suspended.
run :: (self: *Scheduler) {
while true {
while self.ready_head != null {
f := dequeue(self);
self.current = f;
f.state = .running;
swap_context(@self.sched_ctx, @f.ctx); // returns here when f yields / suspends / finishes
self.current = null;
if f.state == .done {
// We've switched OFF f's stack already (the final swap landed
// here), so the stack is free to unmap. Free the Fiber struct
// AFTER munmap.
munmap(f.stack_region, f.stack_len);
self.own_allocator.dealloc_bytes(xx f);
} else if f.state == .ready {
enqueue(self, f);
}
// .suspended: leave it parked (not in any queue; `wake` re-adds it).
}
// Ready queue drained. Decide what advances the world next.
//
// Mode 1 — VIRTUAL TIME: fire the earliest pending timer (advancing
// the virtual clock to it), re-readying its sleeper. Timers take
// precedence over fd-blocking: a program uses `sleep` OR fds, not
// both at once. (Documented limitation: virtual-time timers and real
// kqueue timeouts are NOT unified — if both a timer and an io-waiter
// are pending we always fire the timer first and never block on
// kqueue while a timer is outstanding. A program that genuinely
// needs "fd-or-real-timeout" wants a kqueue EVFILT_TIMER, future
// work.)
idx := earliest_timer(self);
if idx >= 0 {
t := self.timers.items[idx];
remove_timer(self, idx);
self.clock_ms = t.deadline_ms; // advance VIRTUAL time forward
self.wake(t.fiber); // re-enqueue the sleeper → drain again
continue;
}
// Mode 2 — REAL fd readiness: nothing is runnable and no timer is
// pending, but fibers are parked on fds. BLOCK on kqueue until the
// kernel reports at least one fd ready, then wake every waiter whose
// fd fired. (null timeout via -1 → wait forever.)
if self.io_waiters.len > 0 {
// BLOCK on the readiness queue until ≥1 fd fires (timeout -1 =
// forever), then for each fired event match the fd back to its
// io-waiter, evict the record, and wake the fiber.
inline if OS == {
case .linux: {
evbuf : [MAXEV]ep.EpollEvent = ---;
n := ep.ep_wait(self.kq, .{ ptr = @evbuf[0], len = MAXEV }, MAXEV, -1);
if n < 0 {
print("sched: epoll_wait() failed while blocking on fd readiness\n");
abort();
}
i := 0;
while i < n {
ready_fd := ep.ev_fd(evbuf[i]);
wake_io_waiter_for_fd(self, ready_fd);
// EPOLLONESHOT only DISABLED the registration; remove it
// fully so the fd can be re-armed by a future block_on_fd
// (kqueue's EV_ONESHOT removes it for free).
ep.ep_ctl(self.kq, ep.EPOLL_CTL_DEL, ready_fd, 0);
i = i + 1;
}
}
case .macos: {
evbuf : [MAXEV]kqb.Kevent = ---;
n := kqb.kq_wait(self.kq, @evbuf[0], MAXEV, -1);
if n < 0 {
print("sched: kevent() wait failed while blocking on fd readiness\n");
abort();
}
i := 0;
while i < n {
ready_fd : i32 = xx evbuf[i].ident;
wake_io_waiter_for_fd(self, ready_fd);
i = i + 1;
}
}
}
continue;
}
// Nothing runnable, no timer, no fd waiter → done.
break;
}
// The ready queue, the timer set, AND the io-waiter set are all empty. If
// a fiber is STILL parked, nothing will ever wake it (a `suspend_self`
// without an armed timer or fd registration, never externally woken) —
// its stack + struct are leaked and the program believes it finished.
// That is a genuine deadlock; surface it loudly. (Timer sleepers and fd
// waiters are balanced: each arming path increments `n_suspended` via
// `suspend_self`, and its wake decrements it — so once every timer has
// fired and every io-waiter has been woken, `n_suspended` counts only
// these true orphans.)
//
// SCOPE — fd waiters are NOT covered by this check, BY DESIGN, not as an
// oversight. While `io_waiters.len > 0` the loop above blocks in
// `kq_wait(-1)` and never reaches here. A fiber blocked on an fd that the
// OS never reports ready blocks FOREVER — which is the correct semantics
// of an event loop (a server idling on a socket is indistinguishable from
// one whose peer never sends; the scheduler cannot know an fd will never
// become ready, so it must keep waiting). That is a caller-side logic
// issue (blocking on input that never arrives), not a scheduler deadlock
// to abort on. This check covers only pure `suspend_self` parks with no
// pending wake source at all.
if self.n_suspended != 0 {
print("sched: deadlock — {} fiber(s) suspended with an empty run queue\n", self.n_suspended);
abort();
}
}
// Release the scheduler's owned resources. TERMINAL: the scheduler is dead
// after this — no scheduler-owned handle (the `*Task`s returned by `go`, a
// `*Fiber` from `spawn`, the scheduler itself) may be used afterward; doing
// so is a use-after-free, the universal deinit contract. Idempotent: a
// second `deinit` is a no-op (it rests on `List.deinit` nulling `items` +
// zeroing `len`, and on `kq`/`ready_head` being reset below).
//
// Call AFTER `run()` has returned: a clean `run()` leaves the ready queue
// empty and aborts loudly on any orphaned suspend, so nothing is mid-flight
// and every `task_allocs` entry is a COMPLETED task (safe to free). Frees,
// in order:
// 1. any fibers still enqueued ready — a leak-SAFETY NET for the misuse
// path (`spawn`/`go` without a following `run()`, or after it returned),
// NOT a blessed reuse pattern: reaping a `go`'s fiber here while step (2)
// frees its paired `*Task` is self-consistent ONLY because the contract
// already forbade touching those handles post-`deinit`. A suspended
// (off-queue) fiber is unreachable from here, but a clean `run()` never
// leaves one (it aborts on an orphaned suspend);
// 2. every heap `*Task` from `go` (recorded in `task_allocs`);
// 3. the three `List` backings (`task_allocs`, `timers`, `io_waiters`),
// each grown through `own_allocator`;
// 4. the kqueue fd, if `block_on_fd` ever opened it (lazy `-1` otherwise).
//
// NOT freed (documented language limitation, unchanged): one closure env per
// `spawn`/`go`. The env is heap-allocated at the closure-literal site and sx
// exposes no way to free it (the scheduler cannot name the env pointer), so
// it leaks until program exit — bounded by the spawn/go count, invisible
// under the default GPA. Freeing it needs a closure-env-ownership affordance.
deinit :: (self: *Scheduler) {
// (1) Reap leftover ready fibers: unmap the stack, free the Fiber.
f := self.ready_head;
while f != null {
nxt := f.next;
munmap(f.stack_region, f.stack_len);
self.own_allocator.dealloc_bytes(xx f);
f = nxt;
}
self.ready_head = null;
self.ready_tail = null;
// (2) Free every heap Task allocated by `go`.
for self.task_allocs.items[0..self.task_allocs.len] (t) {
self.own_allocator.dealloc_bytes(t);
}
// (3) Free the List backings (all grown through `own_allocator`).
self.task_allocs.deinit(self.own_allocator);
self.timers.deinit(self.own_allocator);
self.io_waiters.deinit(self.own_allocator);
// (4) Close the kqueue fd if it was ever opened (lazy: -1 if never used).
if self.kq >= 0 {
close(self.kq);
self.kq = -1;
}
}
}
// --- the context switch (naked) + first-entry trampoline -------------------
// x0 = from, x1 = to (read straight from the ABI registers — a naked fn has no
// frame, so its params are never spilled). SP-in ≠ SP-out by design.
swap_context :: (from: *FiberCtx, to: *FiberCtx) abi(.naked) {
asm volatile {
#string ASM
stp x19, x20, [x0, #0]
stp x21, x22, [x0, #16]
stp x23, x24, [x0, #32]
stp x25, x26, [x0, #48]
stp x27, x28, [x0, #64]
stp x29, x30, [x0, #80]
mov x9, sp
str x9, [x0, #96]
ldp x19, x20, [x1, #0]
ldp x21, x22, [x1, #16]
ldp x23, x24, [x1, #32]
ldp x25, x26, [x1, #48]
ldp x27, x28, [x1, #64]
ldp x29, x30, [x1, #80]
ldr x9, [x1, #96]
mov sp, x9
ret
ASM
};
}
// First-entry trampoline: a fiber's bootstrapped LR points here, with x19 =
// `*Fiber` and x20 = `&fib_dispatch` (both preset in the saved context by
// `spawn`, both callee-saved so `swap_context` restores them on first entry).
// Move the fiber to x0 and tail-branch to dispatch via the REGISTER (x20) — so
// there is no hand-written global-asm symbol and nothing here needs per-OS
// symbol naming (`_fib_tramp` on darwin vs `fib_tramp` on linux) or a `bl` to a
// named export. As a naked sx fn `fib_tramp`'s own symbol is emitted with the
// platform-correct name automatically, so `spawn`'s `xx fib_tramp` resolves on
// every target. This register-indirect bootstrap replaced an OS-conditional
// global `asm` block (a top-level `asm` wrapped in an `inline if` is dropped in
// this module's context — see issues/0193) and sidesteps the hand-written
// symbol entirely, which is cleaner regardless.
fib_tramp :: () abi(.naked) {
asm volatile {
#string T
mov x0, x19
br x20
T
};
}
// The ONE place that runs a fiber body. Reached only from `fib_tramp` on first
// entry, on the fiber's own fresh stack. Runs the body, marks the fiber done,
// and switches back to the scheduler — never returns past the final switch.
//
// `export "fib_dispatch"` is MANDATORY, not decorative: it pins this fn to the
// **C ABI** (first real arg `self` in x0). The trampoline hands the fiber over
// in x0 (`mov x0, x19; br x20`), which is exactly C-ABI. Drop the export and the
// fn reverts to sx's INTERNAL calling convention, which reserves x0 for the
// implicit `context` pointer and shifts `self` to x1 — so the trampoline's x0
// would land in the context slot and `self` would be read from a garbage x1. On
// first entry that garbage happens to alias `&fiber.ctx == self` (left in x1 by
// the scheduler's prior `swap_context`), so the body runs once; but inside it
// the closure loads `[Fiber+8] == regs[1] == &fib_dispatch` as its "first
// capture" and re-invokes `fib_dispatch` forever → stack overflow → bus error
// (issue 0193 Bug A, observed only on the go/wait/sleep capstone 1817).
//
// One consequence of the C-ABI boundary: an exported fn has no implicit
// `context` param, so `self.body()` runs under the static `__sx_default_context`
// — NOT whatever `push Context { allocator = ... }` was in force at the
// `run()` call site. Fiber bodies do not inherit a caller-scoped allocator; a
// body that needs one must capture it explicitly (the long-lived-container rule).
fib_dispatch :: (self: *Fiber) export "fib_dispatch" {
self.body();
self.state = .done;
swap_context(@self.ctx, @self.sched.sched_ctx);
}
// --- guarded stack bootstrap ----------------------------------------------
// mmap a [guard | usable-stack] region, mprotect the low guard page PROT_NONE.
// Stores the region base + len on the fiber (for munmap on reap) and returns
// the 16-aligned stack top (the bootstrapped SP).
boot_stack :: (f: *Fiber, size: i64) -> u64 {
total := GUARD + size;
region : *void = mmap(null, total, PROT_RW, MAP_AP, -1, 0);
// mmap signals failure with MAP_FAILED = (void*)-1 (NOT null). Handing a
// wild SP to the switch would `ret` onto garbage — bail loudly instead.
if (xx region) == (xx (0 - 1)) {
print("sched: mmap failed for a {}-byte fiber stack\n", total);
abort();
}
f.stack_region = region;
f.stack_len = total;
// Guard-arm: turn the low page unwritable so overflow faults at the
// boundary. The guard is mandatory (§8.1.1); a stack handed out without it
// would silently corrupt a neighbor on overflow, so a failed mprotect is
// fatal, not ignorable.
if mprotect(region, GUARD, PROT_NONE) != 0 {
print("sched: mprotect(PROT_NONE) failed to arm the stack guard page\n");
abort();
}
usable : u64 = (xx region) + GUARD;
top : u64 = usable + size;
return top - (top % 16); // 16-byte aligned stack top (AAPCS)
}
// --- intrusive FIFO ready-queue -------------------------------------------
enqueue :: (self: *Scheduler, f: *Fiber) {
f.next = null;
if self.ready_tail == null {
self.ready_head = f;
self.ready_tail = f;
} else {
self.ready_tail.next = f;
self.ready_tail = f;
}
}
dequeue :: (self: *Scheduler) -> *Fiber {
f := self.ready_head;
if f == null { return null; }
self.ready_head = f.next;
if self.ready_head == null { self.ready_tail = null; }
f.next = null;
return f;
}
// --- virtual-time timer set (linear min-scan, FIFO tiebreak) ---------------
//
// The timer set is a plain `List(Timer)` kept in INSERTION order. Fiber counts
// are tiny, so a linear scan for the minimum deadline is ideal — no heap to
// maintain — and "first entry at the minimum" naturally gives FIFO ordering for
// equal deadlines (the earlier-inserted timer is visited first, so it wins the
// tie). Removal shifts the tail down by one to preserve that insertion order for
// the remaining entries.
// Index of the earliest-deadline pending timer, or -1 if none. On a deadline
// tie the lowest index (earliest inserted) wins → deterministic FIFO wake order.
earliest_timer :: (self: *Scheduler) -> i64 {
if self.timers.len == 0 { return -1; }
best := 0;
i := 1;
while i < self.timers.len {
// Strict `<` so equal deadlines do NOT displace the earlier (lower)
// index — that is the FIFO tiebreak.
if self.timers.items[i].deadline_ms < self.timers.items[best].deadline_ms {
best = i;
}
i = i + 1;
}
return best;
}
// Remove the timer at `idx`, shifting every later entry down one slot so the
// remaining timers keep their insertion order (preserving the FIFO tiebreak).
remove_timer :: (self: *Scheduler, idx: i64) {
i := idx;
while i < self.timers.len - 1 {
self.timers.items[i] = self.timers.items[i + 1];
i = i + 1;
}
self.timers.len = self.timers.len - 1;
}
// Remove a pending sleep timer referencing fiber `f`, if any. A fiber has at
// most one pending timer in the M:1 model (it can only `sleep` once before
// suspending), so the first match is the only one. No-op if `f` has none.
cancel_timer_for :: (self: *Scheduler, f: *Fiber) {
i := 0;
while i < self.timers.len {
if self.timers.items[i].fiber == f {
remove_timer(self, i);
return;
}
i = i + 1;
}
}
// --- B1.4c: fd-waiter set (linear scan, fd-keyed) --------------------------
//
// Like the timer set, a plain `List(IoWaiter)` scanned linearly — fiber counts
// are tiny. Removal shifts the tail down one slot.
// Remove the io-waiter at `idx`, shifting later entries down one slot.
remove_io_waiter :: (self: *Scheduler, idx: i64) {
i := idx;
while i < self.io_waiters.len - 1 {
self.io_waiters.items[i] = self.io_waiters.items[i + 1];
i = i + 1;
}
self.io_waiters.len = self.io_waiters.len - 1;
}
// Remove a pending fd-waiter referencing fiber `f`, if any. A fiber has at most
// one pending io-waiter in the M:1 model (it can only `block_on_fd` once before
// suspending), so the first match is the only one. No-op if `f` has none. Used
// by `wake` to evict a waiter when the fiber is re-readied by another path.
cancel_io_waiter_for :: (self: *Scheduler, f: *Fiber) {
i := 0;
while i < self.io_waiters.len {
if self.io_waiters.items[i].fiber == f {
// Early-wake: the fiber is re-readied by another path while its fd
// registration is still armed. kqueue's EV_ONESHOT lingers
// harmlessly (a never-fired one-shot the drain ignores); epoll's
// EPOLLONESHOT registration stays enabled — it could fire later with
// no waiter, and blocks a re-arm of the same fd — so remove it.
inline if OS == {
case .linux: {
fd := self.io_waiters.items[i].fd;
remove_io_waiter(self, i);
if self.kq >= 0 { ep.ep_ctl(self.kq, ep.EPOLL_CTL_DEL, fd, 0); }
}
case .macos: remove_io_waiter(self, i);
}
return;
}
i = i + 1;
}
}
// A fired kqueue event for `fd`: find the waiter registered on it, evict the
// record, and wake its fiber. No-op if no waiter matches (a stale one-shot
// registration whose fiber was already woken another way — see `wake`). Only
// the FIRST match is woken: one waiter per fd in this model (a single fiber
// blocks on a given read fd at a time).
wake_io_waiter_for_fd :: (self: *Scheduler, fd: i32) {
i := 0;
while i < self.io_waiters.len {
if self.io_waiters.items[i].fd == fd {
wf := self.io_waiters.items[i].fiber;
remove_io_waiter(self, i);
self.wake(wf); // re-enqueues the parked fiber (also calls
// cancel_io_waiter_for, now a harmless no-op —
// the record is already removed)
return;
}
i = i + 1;
}
}
// The public API lives as methods on `Scheduler` (above): `init`, `spawn`,
// `yield_now`, `suspend_self`, `wake`, `run`, `now_ms`, `sleep`.
// --- B1.4a: truly-suspending fiber-task async (`go` / `wait` / `cancel`) ----
//
// An async-task layer on top of the M:1 scheduler: `s.go(work)` runs `work` as
// a REAL fiber, and `t.wait()` SUSPENDS the caller fiber until the task's fiber
// completes — genuine interleaving, in contrast with io.sx's `context.io.async`
// (which runs the worker inline to completion before returning). Distinct from
// io.sx's `Future` by design: `Task` is defined here so the two modules stay
// decoupled (no cross-import; sched.sx must keep importing only `std.sx`, since
// a different import path re-emits the module's global `_fib_tramp` asm and
// duplicates the symbol).
//
// THE NULLARY-THUNK RATIONALE. `work` is a NULLARY thunk `Closure() -> $R`, not
// a worker-plus-`..args` pair like io.sx's `async`. A variadic pack is
// comptime-only and segfaults if captured into a deferred closure that crosses
// the fiber boundary (issue 0156 Part 2). So instead of forwarding inputs as a
// pack, the user captures any inputs in the lambda AT THE CALL SITE (where
// they're live): `s.go(() -> i64 => compute(a, b))`. Nothing variadic ever
// crosses into the fiber — the thunk is a plain `{fn_ptr, env}` fat closure.
//
// KNOWN LIMITATION (heap-Task leak): `go` heap-allocates the `Task` (it outlives
// the call — the fiber fills `value`/`state` later, after `go` has returned), but
// B1.4a never frees it. Like the closure-env leak documented on `spawn` above,
// this is bounded by the `go` count and invisible under the default GPA (frees
// at exit); a long-running scheduler under an arena/tracking allocator
// accumulates one `Task` per `go`. Freeing it safely needs join-point ownership
// tracking — deferred.
//
// WAKE-AFTER-COMPLETE ORDERING (both orderings are correct):
// - worker finishes BEFORE `wait`: the worker set `t.state = .ready` and saw
// `t.waiter == null`, so it issued no wake. `wait` sees `.ready` (not
// `.pending`), does NOT park, and returns `t.value` — no lost wakeup.
// - `wait` runs BEFORE the worker finishes: `wait` registers itself as
// `t.waiter` and parks via `suspend_self`. When the worker finishes it sees
// a non-null `t.waiter` and `wake`s it; `wait` resumes and returns the value.
TaskState :: enum { pending; ready; canceled; }
// The `!` channel for `wait`. Defined LOCALLY (not reusing io.sx's `IoErr`):
// `IoErr` is reachable here only as a re-export alias through std.sx, and the
// failable-type detection behind `raise` does not see through that alias to the
// underlying `error` set — so `raise error.Canceled` against `(.., !IoErr)`
// here is rejected as "not a failable function". A local `error` decl is
// recognized directly. (Same `.Canceled` contract as io.sx model (a).)
TaskErr :: error { Canceled }
Task :: struct ($R: Type) {
value: R;
state: TaskState = .pending;
waiter: *void = null; // the single parked awaiter (opaque *Fiber); M:1 → at most one
sched: *Scheduler; // owning scheduler (for park/wake in `wait`)
canceled: i64; // cooperative cancel flag (M:1: no preemption → no atomics)
}
// Spawn `work` as a fiber; return a heap `*Task` that completes when the fiber
// finishes. Mirrors `spawn`'s alloc + null-check + abort.
go :: ufcs (self: *Scheduler, work: Closure() -> $R) -> *Task($R) {
raw := self.own_allocator.alloc_bytes(size_of(Task($R)));
if raw == null {
print("sched: out of memory allocating a Task\n");
abort();
}
t : *Task($R) = xx raw;
t.state = .pending;
t.waiter = null;
t.sched = self;
t.canceled = 0;
// Record the heap Task so `deinit` can free it (the scheduler otherwise has
// no handle on its generic Tasks). Long-lived: a Task outlives this call.
self.task_allocs.append(xx t, self.own_allocator);
self.spawn(() => {
// Cooperative cancel: skip the work entirely if cancel already landed
// before this fiber was scheduled (saves the compute + side effects). A
// cancel that lands DURING `work()` still lets it finish (no preemption
// in the M:1 model) — cancel suppresses DELIVERY, never an in-flight run.
if t.canceled == 0 {
t.value = work();
t.state = .ready;
}
// Wake the awaiter only if one already parked (else `wait` will not park).
if t.waiter != null { self.wake(xx t.waiter); }
});
return t;
}
// Suspend the caller until the task completes; return its value (or raise on
// cancel). MUST be called from inside a fiber (so there is a `self.current` to
// park) — typically from a fiber spawned via `s.spawn(...)`.
wait :: ufcs (t: *Task($R)) -> $R !TaskErr {
if t.canceled != 0 { raise error.Canceled; }
if t.state == .pending {
// ONE waiter per task (enforced). A `Task` holds a single `waiter` slot;
// a second concurrent `wait` on the same pending task would OVERWRITE the
// first, and completion would wake only the second — the first fiber
// would stay suspended forever (silent deadlock). The M:1 model is
// single-await per task; enforce it loudly (mirrors `block_on_fd`'s
// one-waiter-per-fd guard). A multi-waiter task would need a waiter list.
if t.waiter != null {
print("sched: wait() — task already has a waiter (one awaiter per task in the M:1 model)\n");
abort();
}
t.waiter = xx t.sched.current; // register self as the waiter
t.sched.suspend_self(); // park until the task's fiber wakes us
}
if t.canceled != 0 or t.state == .canceled { raise error.Canceled; }
return t.value;
}
// Request cancellation — rides the `!` channel (model (a), like io.sx 1806). M:1
// cooperative: the worker fiber may already have run; cancel still makes a
// subsequent (or in-flight) `wait` raise `.Canceled`.
cancel :: ufcs (t: *Task($R)) {
t.canceled = 1;
t.state = .canceled;
}