a6 is the read-only audit P6-SPAWN-PLAN puts first. Seven static items, each
produced by one auditor and re-resolved line by line by one adversarial
verifier; 198 rows, 65 of them contested, and only the surviving ones carry
into the report. Item 5 - can the server link without MG_Impl - is the one
experiment, and it is answered.
The headline is that P6's transport half is smaller than the plan assumed
(fc and fs really did land) and its process/role half is much larger. Four
statements in P6-SPAWN-PLAN / P6-CONTRACT-DRAFT are false at this head:
- `spawn` is not an observable state at all. ConfigLoader.cpp:339-346
recognises it and then writes Transport = Monolith, so "the child was
forced to monolith" and "the parent fell back" are the same value and
that named refusal cannot falsify itself. Meanwhile 226 live lines test
`Transport != Monolith` to select the SERVER arm, 148 of them in
MG_Backend - so ARCHITECTURE.md:488's rule, implemented literally, flips
the whole backend to frontend glue in the one process with no frontend.
- `cp` is not transport-only: the InitCapabilities REQUEST has no wire form,
and the codec refuses to encode the kind a live client still calls.
- the device-lost latch is not implemented; it was booked as carriage.
- the server cannot link without MG_Impl: 184 symbols, 177 of them real
function calls, owed 101 to P7 / 14 to P3b-P4b / 60 shared / 6 to P6.
There is also no module target to link, so the question could not have
been answered by editing a link line.
Four more blockers the earlier review missed: the apply thread aborts in
ConsumerDoorbell before popping its first record (contract 3.9's ruling, which
lk should retire rather than amend); neither side of the control plane is
wired to a socket; the control-reply wait has no deadline, so a frozen peer
wedges the GL thread inside eglMakeCurrent; and SurfaceReply cannot carry a
MobileGLResult, so a client cannot tell a dead server from a legitimate
refusal.
The abort census makes dl's funnel a redesign rather than a rename: 92 sites,
30 distinct family words against a 7-value wire enum, and three unbounded
peer-driven allocations with no try/catch anywhere under MG_Remote.
P6-ENDSTATE-REVIEW.md is the re-examination of P6 against the gfxstream-shaped
end state that produced a6's three added items. a6 overturned four of its own
claims - the MG_State eight's shape, the abort count, m_windowHandle's
injection points and a predicate name collision - and those are corrected in
place rather than left to be rediscovered.
Docs only. No code, no gate, no behaviour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every place that stated "P5 does not chunk" as current behaviour except the
Fatal texts (previous commit) now records the stage chunk budget and what it
does not cover.
- CONTRACT-P5.md section 5: the STAGE_MB row names MGPipeStageChunkBytes() =
clamp(segment/4, 4096, segment), the two buffer walks (1e7c372e) and one
texture level's whole-width slabs (9469d48e, assembled by
StagedTextureStore::AdoptRun), and the Fatal that stays the backstop for a row
with no cut; the RING_MB row says the record bound is about the record's own
bytes.
- BRIEF-P5.md's R-10 section is no longer headed "does not chunk": it keeps the
record bound and the maxrec proof obligation unchanged and records that
content is cut, with the encoder Fatal as the fallback.
- ROADMAP.md's staging debt row and open question 11, ARCHITECTURE.md's
record-bound bullet and SEG_STAGE table note, README.md's knob row,
MEASUREMENTS.md section 6.3 and CURRENT_STAGE_PROGRESS.md's open item: the
explicit MOBILEGL_IPC_STAGE_MB=256 profile is no longer needed for the two cut
paths, and the carrier design for the rest stays P8.
- Historical results (notes/**/p5-results/, p5b/) are left exactly as recorded.
The twelve Server* forwarders' one-slot mailbox carried a raw function
pointer plus a void* to a stack-local Args struct (P5c audit row G4);
neither means anything across a process boundary. The slot now carries
one SurfaceControlFrame by value: kind is the op, scalars are the
arguments, and ok/eglMajor/eglMinor come back in the same value. The
blocking handshake, the shadow, the doorbell order and the C2 exit
block are unchanged.
- protocol.fbs: append-only - SurfaceOpKind gains SetSwapInterval=8,
ReleaseResources=9, SetWindowHandle=10; WindowKind gains MetalLayer=6;
SurfaceOp gains readSurface and context (the MakeCurrent four-tuple).
protocol_generated.h regenerated with the pinned flatc.
- Server/SurfaceControlFrame.{h,cpp}: the frame (trivially copyable by
static_assert) and the op enum - ten wire kinds plus four inproc-only
kinds (InitCapabilities is answered by CapsSnapshot on the wire,
SwapBuffers/InitWindowSurface have no production caller - f0-egl F8,
kept for the inproc test lane).
- Protocol/SurfaceOpCodec.{h,cpp}: the frame <-> SurfaceOp/SurfaceReply
codec, the explicit WindowBackend <-> WindowKind table, and the wire
entry ServerApplyWireSurfaceOp whose refusals are named:
Fatal{UnmigratedSurface, "AndroidNativeWindow@P12"} and
Fatal{ProtocolCorruption, "SurfaceOp"}.
- ServerLoop: RunOnApplyThread(fn, void*) -> RunSurfaceControlFrame(frame)
plus the dispatch ApplySurfaceControlFrame; the old per-forwarder Args
bodies moved into the dispatch unchanged (C7/ID-54, N-3, R-12 included).
RunProbeOnApplyThreadForTesting is the test seam through the same
channel (the hook lives in a member, never in the slot).
- Tests: RemoteClientTest/ServerLoopTest migrated to the probe seam; new
SurfaceControlFrameTest suite (mapping tables, wire round-trips, the
two named refusals) plus ServerLoopTest's AVoidForwarderCrossesAsOne-
DispatchedFrame (the frame channel's red-once handle) and
ServerLoopEglTest's TheInitializeDisplayReplyArrivesThroughTheFrame.
Statics, reverse channel, Magma cross-role sites, EGL control plane,
registry rekey, build/gate mechanics, the 15 BARRIER_PULLED fields'
carrier rulings, and the dual-block mechanism's design recon.
Two things land together: the plan and contract draft P6 needs before it starts, and the
working notes that until now existed on exactly one machine.
1. P6's plan and contract draft (neither started; not one line of code)
docs/Disaggregated/P6-SPAWN-PLAN.md the package plan
docs/Disaggregated/P6-CONTRACT-DRAFT.md the contract draft (moves to
MG_Remote/CONTRACT-P6.md when c6 lands)
The three findings that mattered, all written into the documents:
a. P6 is SMALLER than its roadmap cell suggests. The transport primitives are already in
the tree and already tested: SocketDoorbell including hangup detection and the two
lost-wakeup fences (Doorbell.cpp:211-360, four cases in FdPassingTest), SCM_RIGHTS fd
passing, ShmSegment::Adopt, and the SurfaceOp / WindowKind schema already defined in
protocol.fbs. inproc uses a real second shm mapping rather than an alias, and
SessionRings.h:22-28 says that was done so today is not the first time it runs. P6 is
assembly plus a control plane plus a process, not "write a socket transport".
b. The evidence for "P6 is only a transport swap" has EXPIRED. It was bought by P5c, whose
audit found 59 direct memory accesses in a tree that already looked clean. P5e changed
the tree again. So the first package, a6, is a read-only audit that writes no code, and
every contract row that depends on it is marked PENDING a6 rather than decided in
advance.
c. P6 does not get a game running on the phone. ANativeWindow* is meaningless in the child,
and protocol.fbs:186-196's own comment says Android transfers the window out of band -
that band is P12. P6 lands pbuffer / surfaceless / offscreen, which is what HeadlessGL,
the split-equivalent lane and trace replay need, and which is exactly what P6's own exit
gate measures. A real window reaching the server is a named refusal. This gets its own
section because "P6 is done" would otherwise read as "the game runs now".
The contract adds rule G: a role may not name a process-local handle. It extends P5c's
rule E (a role may not name the other role's memory) from memory to identity - EGLDisplay /
EGLSurface / EGLContext / ANativeWindow* / fd number / pid / mapped address either cross as
a token this contract defines or they do not cross, and a descriptor crosses only through
SCM_RIGHTS, where the kernel renumbers it.
What P5e left for P6 gets its own section. The latch semantics are already designed
(ARCHITECTURE.md:504) and are copied unchanged. What is new is that after run-ahead the
client no longer waits while the peer process can DIE: the client holds records that were
published and will never be applied, and Android's freezer suspends the child without
closing anything. So slow and dead must be distinguishable WITHOUT a timeout threshold.
That is P6's only new design; everything else is carriage. It shares a predicate with E1's
outstanding re-specification (ID-122), and the two should be designed together.
Two gates carried over from P5e's lessons: G2 requires integration-spawn's test-name set to
match integration-split's name for name, because a differing set means the lane is quietly
running less; and the arm-proof gate requires every entry to record the child pid and
transport=spawn in its OWN private log - ID-124 established that this kind of false green
really happens, and a spawn lane that actually ran monolith would pass every other gate.
S2's shape must be settled before it is written, and the document says why: E1 is the
cautionary case.
2. The working notes move into the repository (docs/Disaggregated/notes/, 415 .md files)
ROADMAP / CURRENT_STAGE_PROGRESS / MEASUREMENTS cite ruling numbers, audit line numbers and
the provenance of gate figures from ~/w7/notes/, a directory that exists on one machine and
is under no version control. A record cited hundreds of times that lives only locally is not
a record, so it moves in whole, with its directory structure intact.
Only .md moves. Scripts, run logs, census and gate result JSON, patches, APKs and nm dumps
stay where they are: they are evidence DATA rather than documents - large, regenerated per
run, and mostly carrying absolute paths and device serials that mean something only on the
machine that produced them. The mapping and this split are written in
docs/Disaggregated/notes/README.md.
Two exceptions are recorded there too: P6's BRIEF has been promoted to a first-class
document and keeps no copy under notes/, so the two cannot drift apart; and recovered/ holds
material salvaged from failed workflow runs, which may duplicate the like-named phase
directories and is kept because a few of those were the only complete version at the time.
CI's citation lint takes docs/Disaggregated/*.md only (non-recursive), and notes/ is
deliberately outside it: those notes' file:line citations were written against their own
code heads, and resolving them against today's HEAD would fail wholesale - which is not an
error, it is their correct state as a historical record. To check one, use the revision it
declares (--rev).
3. Inconsistencies fixed in passing
- README.md's status line still said P5e was in progress while the stage table already said
closed.
- CURRENT_STAGE_PROGRESS's next-step item 1 still listed the exit gate as pending, though
(a) and (b) were run in the previous commit; rewritten to closed plus the one item that
actually remains (E1).
- ROADMAP's P6 row still had the pre-phase plan in three of its cells; it now carries the
package order, the scope boundary and the two new gates.
Checked with check_doc_citations.py: 125 citations across docs/Disaggregated/*.md, 0 problems.
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