Module ipc 

Inter-Process Communication (IPC) subsystem.

See also: IPC Mechanisms Guide for architecture diagrams and usage patterns.

Strat9-OS uses two complementary IPC mechanisms:

1. IPC Ports (synchronous message-passing, service endpoints)

Each port has a bounded FIFO queue of 64-byte IpcMessages. Senders block when the queue is full; receivers block when empty. Ports are owned by a single task and accessed via syscalls:

• SYS_IPC_CREATE_PORT (200) : create a new port
• SYS_IPC_SEND (201) : send a message to a port
• SYS_IPC_RECV (202) : receive a message from a port
• SYS_IPC_CALL (203) : send and wait for reply
• SYS_IPC_REPLY (204) : reply to an IPC call
• SYS_IPC_BIND_PORT (205) : bind a port to the namespace
• SYS_IPC_UNBIND_PORT (206) : unbind a port

2. Typed MPMC sync-channels (IPC-02)

channel::channel<T>(capacity) creates a typed Multi-Producer/Multi-Consumer channel for kernel-internal use. channel::SyncChan provides a symmetric IpcMessage channel exposed to userspace silos via:

• SYS_CHAN_CREATE (220) : create a channel
• SYS_CHAN_SEND (221) : send (blocking)
• SYS_CHAN_RECV (222) : receive (blocking)
• SYS_CHAN_TRY_RECV (223) : receive (non-blocking)
• SYS_CHAN_CLOSE (224) : destroy the channel

3. Transport layer (N1/N2/N3)

The transport module provides a unified trait-based IPC transport layer with three levels of isolation (TypeSafe, LockFree, MMU). lockfree_ring implements the N2 SPSC ring buffer. mailbox implements the N1 intrusive mailbox.

Re-exports

pub use channel::channel;

pub use channel::create_channel;

pub use channel::destroy_channel;

pub use channel::get_channel;

pub use channel::ChanId;

pub use channel::ChannelError;

pub use channel::Receiver;

pub use channel::Sender;

pub use channel::SyncChan;

pub use lifecycle::MultiHandleDestroyError;

pub use lifecycle::MultiHandleResource;

pub use lockfree_ring::LockFreeRing;

pub use mailbox::IntrusiveMailbox;

pub use port::create_port;

pub use port::destroy_port;

pub use port::get_port;

pub use port::IpcError;

pub use port::Port;

pub use port::PortId;

pub use semaphore::create_semaphore;

pub use semaphore::destroy_semaphore;

pub use semaphore::get_semaphore;

pub use semaphore::PosixSemaphore;

pub use semaphore::SemId;

pub use semaphore::SemaphoreError;

pub use shared_ring::create_ring;

pub use shared_ring::destroy_ring;

pub use shared_ring::get_ring;

pub use shared_ring::RingError;

pub use shared_ring::RingId;

pub use shared_ring::SharedRing;

pub use transport::IpcConsumer;

pub use transport::IpcNotification;

pub use transport::IpcProducer;

pub use transport::IpcTransport;

pub use transport::TransportCapabilities;

pub use transport::TransportConfig;

pub use transport::TransportCreateResult;

pub use transport::TransportEndpoint;

pub use transport::TransportId;

pub use transport::TransportLevel;

pub use transport::TransportManager;

Modules

channel

Typed MPMC blocking channel for IPC between kernel tasks and silos.

lifecycle

lockfree_ring

Lock-free single-producer single-consumer ring buffer for zero-copy IPC.

mailbox

N1 IntrusiveMailbox : lock-free LIFO mailbox for kernel-internal IPC.

message

port

IPC Port : a kernel-managed message queue with blocking send/recv.

reply

IPC call/reply support : both synchronous (blocking) and async (ring-based).

semaphore

shared_ring

test

IPC ping-pong test (Port-based) + MPMC SyncChannel test (IPC-02).

transport

IPC transport layer: traits, dispatch enum, and manager.

Structs

IpcMessage

Fixed-size IPC message (256 bytes, 64-byte aligned).