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Summary

  • Add streaming Ring3 detection to scripts/breenix_runner.py to exit early on success/failure markers
  • Add scripts/ci/ring3_check.sh for hermetic Ring3 smoke test with log validation
  • Add GitHub Actions workflow to build, run tests, and enforce Ring3 gate on PRs

Implementation details

  • Runner watches QEMU stdout; success on canonical OK or core combo (hello+CS=0x33), fail on fault patterns
  • CI script runs runner with --ci-ring3, then validates latest log using scripts/find-in-logs
  • Uploads logs/*.log as artifacts for triage
  • Default CI timeout: 20s for fast feedback (configurable via RING3_TIMEOUT_SECONDS)

Testing

  • Verified locally with RING3_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=20 scripts/ci/ring3_check.sh uefi
  • Confirms early-exit on userspace activity and absence of faults; prints userspace context; PASS

Notes

  • Kernel can optionally emit a canonical success line for simpler detection:
    [ OK ] RING3_SMOKE: userspace executed + syscall path verified

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen ryan@breen.ie
Co-authored-by: Claude Code claude@breen.ie

ryanbreen and others added 30 commits July 24, 2025 08:46
- test-sanity-check.yml: Runs on pushes to this branch
- manual-test.yml: Can be manually triggered via workflow_dispatch
- ci-test.sh: Helper script that runs test exactly as locally
- All workflows run Breenix with 'display none' and check for userspace output
- Tests timeout after 30 seconds to prevent hangs
- Logs are uploaded as artifacts on failure

This establishes a baseline CI that runs the code EXACTLY as it works locally.
The latest nightly has breaking changes for x86-interrupt calling convention.
Using the same version that works locally.
The nightly-2025-06-23 date installs a different version than expected.
Using nightly-2025-06-24 to match local version 1.90.0-nightly.
The cargo command was downloading the latest nightly instead of using
our pinned version. Now explicitly setting default and using +nightly-2025-06-24.
The build was failing because the target wasn't installed.
The CI was failing because it was checking test_output.log (which contains
build output) instead of the actual kernel log files in logs/ directory.

Fixed to:
- Find the most recent log file in logs/
- Check that file for USERSPACE OUTPUT message
- Show proper debug info when userspace execution fails

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Enhance scripts/breenix_runner.py with CI ring3 streaming detection:
  - Detect success/failure markers in stdout; exit early
  - Configurable timeout and regex sets
- Add scripts/ci/ring3_check.sh using the runner to avoid fixed waits
  and validate logs for absence of faults and presence of userspace markers
- Add GitHub Actions workflow to run build, tests, and ring3 smoke gate

Why: Stabilize PRs by proving Ring 3 userspace execution on every run
and failing fast on regressions, with logs uploaded for triage.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryan@breen.ie>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@breen.ie>
- Delete ci_run_logs.txt and ci_run_logs2.txt captured from previous CI runs
- Logs are now uploaded as artifacts by workflow; local snapshots unnecessary

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryan@breen.ie>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@breen.ie>
- Correct repo root path
- Add stale QEMU cleanup to avoid image lock
- Shorten default timeout to 20s for faster feedback
- Refine success logic to trust streaming success with core markers

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryan@breen.ie>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@breen.ie>
- Add ovmf, mtools, dosfstools, xorriso to runner setup (required by bootloader build.rs)
- Make build verbose for better diagnostics

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryan@breen.ie>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@breen.ie>
…ols and increase script timeout; fix cargo fetch lockfile issue
…generate minimal ELF in testing; keep build flags unchanged
…ed cfg check and keep default path using generated ELFs
…ers, process manager) and use get_test_binary()
ryanbreen and others added 22 commits August 21, 2025 10:49
Ensure QEMU stdout is mirrored to logs even when serial is file-backed. Add a small diagnostic on ring3 step failure.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryanbreen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@anthropic.com>
Create a separate *_serial.log file for QEMU -serial file: and tail it into the primary log and marker detector.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryanbreen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@anthropic.com>
- qemu-uefi: set pflash units; support BREENIX_QEMU_LOG_PATH for -d guest_errors -D
- ring3_check: export BREENIX_QEMU_LOG_PATH and tail it for diagnostics

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryanbreen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@anthropic.com>
…n smoke step

- Use -drive if=none + -device virtio-blk-pci so OVMF sees the disk on GHA
- Show latest *_serial.log path for easier triage

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryanbreen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@anthropic.com>
- Print UEFI image size; add bootindex=0; support BREENIX_QEMU_STORAGE=ide to try AHCI if virtio fails in CI.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Breen <ryanbreen@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Code <claude@anthropic.com>
…stic CI exits

- Route guest serial to stdout in runner to ensure GA captures COM1 output
- Add QEMU isa-debug-exit (0xF4) so kernel can signal pass/fail without timeouts
- Keep headless flags; preserve debug logging via BREENIX_QEMU_LOG_PATH
…builds

- On success marker, write 0x10 to port 0xF4 (QEMU exits (0x10<<1)|1)
- On panic, write 0x11 to port 0xF4 for deterministic failure exit
- Runner decodes 0x21 as success and 0x23 as failure
…nflicts

- Export BREENIX_QEMU_STORAGE=ide in CI to aid OVMF disk discovery
- Allow enabling QEMU isa-debugcon (0x402) to stdio via env; enable in CI
- Runner routes serial to file when debugcon uses stdio; otherwise stdio
- Ensure latest log selection ignores qemu_debug.log
…routing

- Switch IDE attach to minimal form: -drive if=ide,format=raw,file=...,index=0
- Use a single stdio chardev for OVMF isa-debugcon (id=ovmf)
- Add fw_cfg StdoutToSerial hint to route OVMF console to serial when supported
- Allow overriding OVMF CODE/VARS via env for DEBUG builds (BREENIX_OVMF_*_PATH)
- Capture firmware debug console to file via -debugcon file:… and set iobase=0x402
- Avoid stdio contention by writing OVMF logs to logs/ovmf_debug.log, serial elsewhere
- Tighten log search to prefer breenix_*.log and ignore qemu_debug/serial
- Keep minimal IDE attach (if=ide,index=0) per known-good path
…anonical pflash, separate firmware log

- COM1 -> stdout again; firmware debug -> file to avoid contention
- Add -boot strict=on to fail fast when nothing bootable
- Use canonical -pflash CODE and -pflash VARS.tmp wiring
- Support DEBUG OVMF via env (BREENIX_OVMF_CODE_PATH/VARS_PATH)
- Prefer breenix_*.log when scanning; ignore debug/serial logs
…and reject secboot/ms

- Use -machine pc,accel=tcg so IDE is present
- Download DEBUGX64_OVMF_CODE/VARS from retrage nightly; export env
- Validate 4MiB sizes and refuse Secure Boot firmware via filename guard
- Download from retrage nightly under bin/DEBUGX64/; fallback to /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE_4M.fd
- Export env paths to launcher; assert sizes and print DEBUG/RELEASE marker
- Use readlink -f + cp for /usr/share/OVMF fallbacks (avoid tiny symlinks)
- Print sizes with stat -Lc when available
…ro fallback

- Wrap launcher with stdbuf via BREENIX_USE_STDBUF=1 for immediate marker streaming
- Log canonical OVMF paths, sizes, sha256; note 4M vs 2M-ish family
- Resolve and copy real /usr/share/OVMF firmware files for fallback
…ge path print

- Workflow: resolve UEFI image path, mount ESP, assert BOOTX64.EFI before QEMU
- Kernel: promote context-switch log to info and mirror to serial_println!
- Launcher: add optional UEFI_IMAGE path print for CI precheck
- Treat "Restored userspace context ... CS=0x33" as valid context-switch proof
- Include it in summary search output for PR logs
- Drop userspace_output requirement in fallback path to unblock ring3 gate
- Fetch DEBUG OVMF with distro fallback
- Export OVMF envs and enable line-buffered launcher
- Reuse ring3_check.sh for consistency
- Emit one-shot RING3_ENTER: CS=0x33 on first userspace entry; flush UART
- In testing builds, call isa-debug-exit immediately after marker to avoid races
- Runner: kill stale QEMU on start to prevent image lock; add line-buffered wrapping
… interrupt path and userspace_test gating.

- Use crate::time::timer_interrupt() in timer ISR (align with main's PIT bookkeeping)
- Reconcile userspace_test: gate TIMER_TEST_ELF and run_timer_test behind external_test_bins, keep generated-ELF path default
- No behavior change to CI ring3 markers
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Merged latest main into 'sanity-check-happy-ring-3' and resolved conflicts:

  • timer ISR now calls crate::time::timer_interrupt() (aligns with PIT bookkeeping)
  • userspace_test merges main’s timer test additions while keeping generated-ELF default; gates TIMER_TEST_ELF + run_timer_test behind external_test_bins

Checks are running; will monitor and iterate until green.

- Gate TIMER_TEST_ELF usage in test_exec behind external_test_bins; fall back to generated ELF otherwise
- Allow unused import for time::Time to satisfy -D warnings
…abling interrupts to surface Ring3 markers deterministically during CI
… log to make transition visible and ensure switch occurs quickly in CI
…rce user thread to run; add logs

- main: after spawning smoke process, issue int3 bursts and brief spin
- scheduler: force selection away from idle; set NEED_RESCHED on spawn; add try_schedule
- context_switch: non-blocking scheduling path with defer; add pre-return userspace log
- creation: extra logs when enqueuing user thread
@ryanbreen ryanbreen merged commit 1553316 into main Sep 2, 2025
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