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-# Temporary Holding Version
+# wmd-web
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+The browser host for wmd's guest `vm.wasm`. It is the same `vm.wasm` that `wmd-run`
+runs (sha1 `5ac0e005134bfd198f01a92721324fe37bb93758`), running in Web Workers on one
+shared `WebAssembly.Memory`, with a JavaScript WASI preview1 subset, `wasi.thread-spawn`
+over a Worker pool, and the `wmd.*` imports stubbed for interpreter mode.
+
+Status: **P-B1 passes** in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit (Playwright 1.63). The arm64
+kernel and the proof initramfs boot in interpreter mode, and every boot-gate regex of
+`guest/vm/test/expected/boot-arm64.txt` matches the page console, with exit 0. The
+amd64 kernel also passes in Chromium.
+
+**P-B2 passes** in all three: the guest's own JIT (`--mode jit`) runs in the browser
+through the JIT door (`src/host/jit.js`). The same proof boot reaches `PROOF-DONE` 6.7x
+(Chromium), 8.1x (Firefox) and 7.3x (WebKit) sooner than P-B1, and the total run is within 3–11% of
+native `wmd-run --mode jit` wall time. See [P-B2: the JIT door](#p-b2-the-jit-door).
+
+**P-B3 passes** in all three: `wmd.chan_*` run on shared-memory rings with a service
+Worker. A 9P round trip as a guest process sees it (`fstat` on a 9P mount) takes 89–187 µs
+(native `wmd-run` with wmd's Go 9P server over TCP: 104–207 µs), and the guest never waited
+for the host while writing 50 MiB into the control channel. See [P-B3](#p-b3-channels-on-shared-memory-rings).
+
+**P-B4, first integration:** alpine:3.20 runs from its pack over the JS 9P server in all
+three browsers, both from the proof initramfs (chroot) and **as a container through wmd's
+Go init and crun**, as the engine boots it: `ls -R /` finishes, `apk info` lists its 14
+packages, and the init writes `bundle/exitcode` back over 9P. See [P-B4](#p-b4-alpine-from-packs).
+
+**P-B11, the wmn agent in the browser's guest (core):** the container kernel and Go init boot
+with the engine's own command line (`wmd.control=vport`); the page drives the init over the
+control channel with a JS yamux client (ROADMAP 2.2b); python:3.12-slim and node:22-slim run
+from one pack per layer, with the agent as PID 1 (`/.wmn/agent init`) and `/.wmn/agent serve`
+exec'd beside it; `hello_reply` and the 13 P-K2 checks pass in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit,
+with failures on a loaded host (Firefox, two runs). See [P-B11](#p-b11-the-wmn-agent-in-the-browsers-guest).
+
+**P-B10 passes** in all three: the guest has a network. Its virtio-net frames go to a TCP/IP
+stack in a network Worker, which carries its TCP connections and DNS over one WebSocket to a
+small relay (`relay/relay.ts`). `apk add curl` in alpine:3.20 and `pip install requests` in
+python:3.12-slim complete, and curl and requests then fetch over HTTPS. The relay refuses
+private, loopback, link-local, metadata, reserved and its own host's addresses after its own
+DNS resolution, needs a per-session token, and caps connections and bandwidth. See
+[P-B10](#p-b10-the-guests-network-through-a-relay).
+
+**P-B7, packs from a static host and the registry proxy:** packs are content addressed
+(`/blobs/sha256/<hex>`, immutable) with one small index per image@platform; a service worker
+caches them after a hash check, so a second visit boots with the server gone; a Bun proxy
+(`registry/`) pulls any public Docker Hub image (anonymous token, index -> linux/arm64,
+sha256 checked while streaming) and converts its layers with wmd's own `union.PackLayer`.
+See [P-B7](#p-b7-packs-from-a-static-host-and-the-registry-proxy).
+
+The interface this host implements is in [docs/host-interface.md](docs/host-interface.md).
+
+## Layout
+
+| File | What it does |
+|---|---|
+| `src/boot.js` | Page API `bootWmd({vmUrl, files, args, env, ...})`. Downloads the files, compiles vm.wasm, creates the shared memory, the control block and the Worker pool, then runs `_start` in a Worker. Reports stdout/stderr and timings. |
+| `src/worker.js` | One Worker = one wasm thread. Role `main` runs `_start` (tid 1). Role `pool` parks on a slot and, for each spawn, instantiates vm.wasm again (same memory, a new 155-entry table) and calls `wasi_thread_start(tid, arg)`. |
+| `src/host/wasi.js` | The 18 `wasi_snapshot_preview1` imports, modelled on `runner/src/wasi.rs`. |
+| `src/host/fs.js` | A read-only, in-memory preopen (`/g`) over SharedArrayBuffers. Its fd table is process-wide: it lives in the control block, so any thread can read a file another thread opened. |
+| `src/host/threads.js` | `thread-spawn`: claims an idle pool slot with a compare-exchange, writes tid and arg, notifies, and returns the tid synchronously. |
+| `src/host/clock.js` | One clock for all Workers: `timeOrigin + now()` minus a shared start time, with a shared high-water mark so CLOCK_MONOTONIC never goes back across Workers. CLOCK_REALTIME is the shared start time plus CLOCK_MONOTONIC, so it never goes back either. |
+| `src/host/wmd-imports.js` | The `wmd.*` imports. `ram_map`→1, `blk_rw`→-38 (no swap disk), `win_init`→1, other `win_*`→0, `snapshot`→-1, `chan_open`→-111 without channel services; without a JIT door `jit_*`→-1 or no-op. `createWmdImports({jit, chan, counters})`: the worker passes the JIT door as `jit` and, when the boot has channel services, the P-B3 channel imports as `chan`. Calls to the stubs are counted in the control block (`counters`), not posted. |
+| `src/host/chan.js` | P-B3: the chan block (one SharedArrayBuffer: doorbell, port registry, a duplex ring pair per channel, the console pipe to the page, counters and the 9P round-trip histogram), the ring primitives, `markServiceDead` / `markGuestGone`, and the five guest imports (`createChanImports`). |
+| `src/host/chan-services.js` | P-B3: `ChanHost`, the host side of every channel, synchronous (`step()`): the 9P server per connection over one Overlay per port, the console (to the page's pipe, and page input), and the control and net stubs (P-B10: the net channel goes to the network Worker when a relay is configured). |
+| `src/host/chan-service.js` | P-B3: the service Worker around `ChanHost`. Waits on the doorbell with `Atomics.waitAsync` (spinning 200 µs after work first), holds a Web Lock for its life so the page learns when it ends, answers `stats`/`collect`, and has test hooks (`die`, `crash`, `stall`). |
+| `src/host/jit-hub.js` | The JIT module hub: one Worker that forwards each compiled `WebAssembly.Module` to every vCPU Worker, so a module is compiled once per process (finding F1). |
+| `src/host/jit.js` | P-B2, the JIT door: `jit_load`, `jit_compile`, `jit_sync`, `jit_flush`, `jit_known`, `jit_note`. One global slot list in SharedArrayBuffers, per-thread tables, counters and per-module timings. Without a module cache `jit_known` is -1 and `jit_note` a no-op; with one (W77) they read and feed `jit-cache.js`. |
+| `src/host/jit-cache.js` | W77, the JIT module cache across visits: `bootWmd({jit: {cache}})` with a `{get, put}` byte store keyed by the vm.wasm's sha256. The page loads one index (block key → module, function, span) into a SharedArrayBuffer table at boot; `jit_known` finds a key there, gets the module's bytes from the page once (hash and length checked), and returns the function's slot; `jit_note` names the modules to put. See D-486. |
+| `src/host/stdio.js` | stdout/stderr rings in a SharedArrayBuffer. Workers write into them under a spin lock, and the page drains them every 16 ms. |
+| `src/host/layout.js` | Cell layout of the shared control block: tid counter, exit flag and code, pool slots, fd table, clock base, stub host-call counters. |
+| `src/host/monitor.js` | Page-side monitors: the kernel-panic scanner, the progress watchdog and the throttle meter. |
+| `src/calib-worker.js` | The throttle detector's Worker: times a fixed integer loop and a 10 ms `Atomics.wait` every 2 s. |
+| `page/` | A small test page. `?case=arm64\|amd64\|hello\|wfi\|prog\|loop\|flush\|smpflush\|smc&mode=interp\|jit&auto=1` boots on load (other options: `arg=`, `env=`, `prog=`, `jitc=`, `brk=`, `share=`, `door=0`, `watchdog=`; see the head of `page/main.js`). State is on `window.wmd`, and the JIT counters are in a table on the page. `page/smc-initrd.js` builds the self-modifying-code initramfs. `page/jit-stress.html` is the multi-Worker JIT door stress test, and `page/wasm-mini.js` encodes its block-shaped test modules. `page/idb-bytes.js` is the IndexedDB byte store behind `?jitcache=1` (`=fresh` empties it first), on this page and the wmn test page. |
+| `src/fs/` | P-B4, the 9P2000.L file server (no browser wiring yet): the pack reader (`pack.js`), the overlay of pack lowers under an in-memory upper (`overlay.js`), the codec and server (`9p/codec.js`, `9p/server.js`) and Linux errno values (`errno.js`). See [docs/9p.md](docs/9p.md). |
+| `page/chan.html`, `page/chan.js`, `page/b3-initrd.js` | P-B3/P-B4 test page: `?case=p9lat\|console\|alpine\|container\|p9load&auto=1` (options at the head of `chan.js`). `b3-initrd.js` appends a newc archive to the proof initramfs with `/p9stat` (a hand-assembled arm64 ELF that times N `fstat` calls) and the case's `/proof.sh`. |
+| `test/serve.ts` | A Bun static server: COOP `same-origin`, COEP `require-corp`, CORP, and a CSP with `'wasm-unsafe-eval'`. It serves read-only from fixed roots. |
+| `test/unit/` | `bun test` for the WASI layer, the spawn pool, the JIT door (`jit.test.js`, `jit-share.test.js`, `b2-*.test.js`, which include real Workers flushing under load), the stdio rings, the P-B1 monitors, counters, clocks and gate (`monitor.test.js`, `gate.test.js`) and the 9P server (`9p-*.test.js`; fixtures made on first run by `test/fixtures-gen`, see docs/9p.md). |
+| `test/e2e/chan.spec.js`, `test/unit/chan*.js`, `test/unit/clock-strict.test.js` | P-B3/P-B4: browser boots per browser (9P round trip, console and control throughput, alpine, the container init, the adversarial cases) and the ring/import/service unit tests with real Workers as guest threads. |
+| `src/host/yamux.js`, `src/host/ctl.js` | P-B11 (ROADMAP 2.2b): the hashicorp/yamux client (run by the channel service, `ChanHost` `ControlSession`, so pings are answered off the page) and wmd's control protocol on the page (`ControlClient`: run, startExec, attach, kill, procs; frames; the engine's OCI bundle, `containerBundle`). `vm.control` when a service is `{kind: 'control', yamux: true}`. |
+| `page/wmn.html`, `page/wmn.js`, `page/k2.js` | P-B11: an image's packs + the agent, the engine's command line, run + exec over the control session, the P-K2 checks (ported from the wmn repo's `spikes/P-K2/k2.ts`). `?image=python\|node&auto=1` (options at the head of `wmn.js`). |
+| `src/net/` | P-B10: the guest's network. `stack.js` (ARP, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, TCP for the guest's frames), `packet.js` (framing and checksums), `dhcp-dns.js`, `relay-client.js` (the relay WebSocket), `proto.js` (the relay protocol, shared with the relay), `net-worker.js` (the network Worker). |
+| `relay/` | P-B10: the relay server (`relay.ts`, Bun), its address policy (`policy.ts`) and session tokens (`token.ts`). |
+| `page/net.html`, `page/net.js` | P-B10: an image with a network (`?image=alpine\|python&auto=1`); `window.net.sh(cmd)` runs a command in the container. |
+| `test/e2e/` | Playwright: the boots (`boot.spec.js`), the P-B1 adversarial checks (`adversarial.spec.js`), the tests of the P-B1 adversarial fixes (`fixes.spec.js`, `throttle.spec.js`) and the P-B1 review suites (`review-*.spec.js`), the wasm feature probes (`features.spec.js`), the P-B2 JIT boots (`jit.spec.js`), the JIT door stress in each browser (`jit-stress.spec.js`) an opt-in benchmark of host variants (`jit-bench.spec.js`, `WMD_WEB_BENCH=1`) and the JIT module cache across two visits (`w77-jit-cache.spec.js`; its python test needs `WMD_WEB_IMAGE_FIXTURES`). |
+
+## Design notes
+
+- **Workers only.** `memory.atomic.wait32` traps on the main thread, so the page thread
+  never runs wasm.
+- **Thread spawn is synchronous.** A Worker blocked inside wasm cannot wait for a new
+  Worker to load. The page therefore starts 4 pool Workers up front, each holding the
+  compiled `Module`, and keeps 2 spare: after each spawn the spawner posts `need` and the
+  page tops up the pool asynchronously.
+  - If no Worker is idle, the spawner asks for more and waits up to 10 s on the pool
+    generation cell.
+  - If none appears in that time, it returns -11 (EAGAIN) and the page prints `thread
+    pool exhausted` or `thread-spawn found no idle Worker`.
+  - Up to 128 slots are allowed.
+  - A P-B1 boot spawns 2 threads (tids 2 and 3), one of which is the timer thread.
+    Which code spawns the other was not traced.
+- **Exit.** `proc_exit` sets the shared exit flag (the first code wins), tells the page,
+  and throws to unwind its own Worker. The page then terminates every Worker. A trap on
+  any thread ends the machine with code 4, as in the runner.
+- **Memory.** One `WebAssembly.Memory({initial: 6144, maximum, shared: true})`.
+  `maximum` is 6144 + RAM pages + 1 GiB of slack (10,240 + 16,384 pages for
+  `--ram 256`). Views over it are rebuilt whenever `memory.buffer` changes after a grow.
+- **Output.** stdout and stderr go into a ring per fd in a SharedArrayBuffer
+  (`src/host/stdio.js`), 32 MiB each for a boot (`bootWmd({stdioRingBytes})`, a power of
+  two). The page drains the rings every 16 ms and decodes them with a streaming
+  `TextDecoder`. P-B1 posted one message per `fd_write`; P-B2 replaced that, because a
+  guest that writes megabytes a second flooded the page's event loop (see P-B2 problem
+  3). If the page falls a whole ring behind, it skips ahead, counts the skipped bytes
+  (`timings.outputDropped`, `timings.outputDropMarkers`) and puts a line
+  `[wmd-web: N bytes of stdout were dropped]` into the delivered text where the bytes
+  are missing. The boot gate fails on that line (finding F4 below).
+- **Endings.** `vm.exited` resolves `{code, reason, timings}`. Guest exit codes are
+  >= 0. The host's own endings are negative: -1 `stopped` (`vm.stop()`) or `aborted`
+  (the AbortSignal), -2 `no progress: ...` (the watchdog), -3 `kernel panic: <line>`
+  (the guest's own exit code is then in `timings.guestExitCode`). An AbortSignal that
+  fires before the Workers start makes `bootWmd` reject with an `AbortError` instead;
+  the signal is checked after every await, so this is immediate even while vm.wasm
+  compiles.
+- **Kernel panic.** The host scans the console for `Kernel panic - not syncing`. The
+  arm64 kernel has `CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT=-1`, so it reboots at once and the guest
+  reports exit 0 (PSCI SYSTEM_RESET); the host reports -3. A kernel that hangs after a
+  panic instead is stopped 5 s after the panic line.
+- **Progress watchdog.** After the main Worker starts `_start`, the boot ends with -2
+  and the line `guest made no progress` when nothing is written to stdout or stderr
+  and no thread is spawned for `watchdogMs`. Default 60 s for an arm64 `--machine`,
+  300 s for x86 (the amd64 decompressor is silent for about 75 s in Chromium), off for
+  user-mode programs. The limit is multiplied by the throttle ratio while the host
+  reports throttling, and a page whose own thread was stalled restarts the count.
+- **Throttle detector.** A small Worker (`calib-worker.js`) times a fixed integer loop
+  every 2 s (about 1% of one core). The page compares the median of the last three
+  runs with the fastest run seen (this boot, or the `throttle.baselineMs` the caller
+  passes; the test page calibrates once at load and keeps the best in `localStorage`).
+  At 2x or more it emits `{t:'throttle', throttled:true, ratio, ...}`, writes
+  `[wmd-web] the guest is running about Nx slower ...` to stderr, and
+  `vm.stats().throttle` / `timings.throttle` carry `{ratio, maxRatio, throttledSamples}`.
+  See "Background throttling" below for what it catches and why.
+- **Stub host calls.** Calls to the stubbed `snapshot` and `chan_open`, and to the
+  stubbed `jit_*` when a boot runs without the JIT door (`bootWmd({jit: false})`, test
+  page `?door=0`), are counted in shared cells of the control block. `vm.stats().hostCalls` reads them on
+  demand; the page gets one `{t:'host-calls', counts}` event at most every 250 ms, and
+  only when a count changed. The test page keeps the latest counts, not a list, and caps
+  its diagnostic event list at 1000 entries.
+- **Releasing a finished boot.** When a boot ends (exit, stop, abort, trap, watchdog,
+  panic) the host terminates every Worker (the calibration Worker too), clears their
+  handlers, its timers and the abort listener, terminates the JIT hub Worker, and drops
+  the compiled module and the file buffers. Only `vm.memory` stays, for post-mortem reads, until `vm.dispose()`;
+  the test page calls `dispose()` and keeps no handle.
+  stdout is line-buffered by the guest's libc. The test page keeps about 8 MB of each
+  stream in `window.wmd` (the start and the most recent output, with a
+  `[wmd-web: N bytes of stdout were dropped]` line between, so a gate run on it fails
+  too) and shows the last 128 KB. P-B1's merged branch had the same rings at 4 MiB
+  (cherry-picked as `17e9ce50`); the merge keeps P-B2's 32 MiB rings and drop markers.
+
+## Running the tests
+
+```sh
+cd web
+bun install                       # @playwright/test 1.63.0 (browsers already in ~/Library/Caches/ms-playwright)
+bun test test/unit                # WASI layer, spawn pool, JIT door, stdio rings, monitors, counters, clocks, gate, 9P; no browser
+
+bunx playwright test --project=chromium                   # boots + adversarial + features
+WMD_WEB_AMD64=1 bunx playwright test boot --project=chromium -g amd64   # ~6.6 min
+bunx playwright test boot --project=firefox
+bunx playwright test boot --project=webkit
+bunx playwright test features                             # all three browsers, no guest boot
+bunx playwright test jit-stress                           # JIT door stress, all three browsers, no guest boot
+
+# P-B2 (each under the lock, one browser per run, about 3 min each):
+bunx playwright test jit.spec boot.spec jit-stress --project=chromium
+bunx playwright test jit.spec boot.spec jit-stress --project=firefox
+bunx playwright test jit.spec boot.spec jit-stress --project=webkit
+WMD_WEB_BENCH=1 bunx playwright test jit-bench --project=chromium   # host variants, one boot each
+
+# P-B2 adversarial fixes (each under the lock, per browser): F1 multi-vCPU --jit-batch 1
+# boots and F4 drop-marker boots; B2F_SHARE=0 reproduces F1 in Firefox
+bunx playwright test b2-fixes --project=firefox
+WMD_WEB_B2ADV=1 bunx playwright test b2-adversarial --project=firefox   # the review's own suite
+
+# P-B3/P-B4 adversarial fixes (each under the lock, per browser; WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1 opts in):
+WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1 bunx playwright test b3-fixes --project=webkit -g "default|record|F2/F3"   # ~3 min
+WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1 bunx playwright test b3-fixes --project=webkit -g "measure cache"          # F1 numbers, ~8-12 min
+WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1 bunx playwright test b3-adversarial --project=webkit -g "rings"            # the review's own suite, in parts
+
+# P-B1 adversarial fixes and the P-B1 review's suites (each under the lock, per browser):
+bunx playwright test fixes --project=firefox              # (under the lock) the adversarial-fix tests, any browser
+REVIEW_SEQ_BOOTS=5 bunx playwright test review-lifecycle -g sequential --project=webkit   # (under the lock) memory over 5 boots
+
+# Real background throttling: opens a headed Chromium window (under the lock).
+REVIEW_HEADED=minimized bunx playwright test throttle --project=chromium   # must report throttling
+REVIEW_HEADED=visible   bunx playwright test throttle --project=chromium   # must not; full strict gate
+REVIEW_HEADED=minimized bunx playwright test review-lifecycle -g headed --project=chromium   # the adversary's version
+```
+
+Environment variables:
+
+- `WMD_REPO`: the wmd checkout the boot files are served from. Default
+  `~/keg-hub/external/apps/wmd`. The files used are `guest/linux/dist/{arm64,amd64}/*`
+  and `guest/vm/build/progs/arm64/hello`.
+- `WMD_VM_WASM`: the vm.wasm to serve. Default `~/.wmd/bin/guest/arm64/vm.wasm`.
+- `PORT`: the server port. Default 8791 for Playwright, 8787 for `bun test/serve.ts`.
+  The P-B2 runs used `PORT=8793`, so they would not collide with another worktree's
+  server.
+- `WMD_WEB_BOOT_TIMEOUT_MS`: the per-boot bound. Default 420000 (300000 in `chan.spec.js`).
+- `WMD_GUEST_DIR`: where `/files/guest/arm64/` (the container kernel and the Go init's
+  initramfs, P-B4) is served from. Default `~/.wmd/bin/guest/arm64`, read only.
+- `WMD_WEB_9P_FIXTURES`: the packs served at `/fixtures/9p/` (default `test/fixtures/9p`,
+  made by the unit tests' `ensureFixtures()`).
+- `chan.spec.js`: `WMD_WEB_CONSOLE_BYTES` (default 50 MiB), `WMD_WEB_UART=BYTES` (runs the
+  UART comparison), `WMD_WEB_HVC0_TIMEOUT_MS` (120000), `WMD_WEB_RUNCLOG=1` (crun's debug log
+  into `bundle/runc.log`), `WMD_WEB_P9LAT_QUERY` (extra page options, e.g. `&spin=0`).
+  The P-B3/P-B4 runs used `PORT=8796`.
+
+The logs and timings of each boot are written to
+`test-results/<browser>-<case>.{stdout.log,stderr.log,timings.json}`.
+
+## Numbers (2026-10-04, Apple Silicon, one run each, interpreter, 1 vCPU, --ram 256)
+
+All times are in ms. Browser times start when `bootWmd` is called on the page, so they
+include the download. Native times start at process start. The canary read
+617–649 ms around these runs, so the numbers are reliable.
+
+| arm64 proof boot | native `wmd-run` | Chromium 153 (headless shell) | Firefox 155 | WebKit 26.6 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| download (vm.wasm + Image + initramfs, 43.2 MB, localhost) | n/a | 62 | 165 | 61 |
+| `WebAssembly.compile(vm.wasm)` | n/a (Cranelift, cached) | 9 | 25 | 11 |
+| main Worker instantiated | n/a | 107 | 230 | 89 |
+| first console byte | 222 (`Linux version`) | 345 | 654 | 334 |
+| `wmd-init: up` | 19,977 | 17,342 | 21,653 | 19,169 |
+| `PROOF-DONE` | 51,554 | 44,042 | 57,534 | 49,166 |
+| `reboot: Power down` | 51,771 | 44,218 | 57,752 | 49,374 |
+| total (exit) | 52,024 (wall 51.7 s) | 44,240 | 57,772 | 49,431 |
+
+- **Native reference.** It was run once:
+  `wmd-run --wmd-stats --dir guest/linux/dist guest/vm/build/vm.wasm -- --machine --arch a64 --board arm64 --mode interp --cpus 1 --ram 256 --kernel .../arm64/Image --initrd .../arm64/initramfs.cpio.gz --append "console=ttyAMA0 earlycon=pl011,0x9000000 rdinit=/init loglevel=8 wmd.proof wmd.exit" --stats`.
+- **Compile time.** The compile times are what `WebAssembly.compile` returns. That is
+  the engines' baseline tier (Liftoff, or equivalent); optimizing tier-up happens later,
+  in the background.
+- **Browsers vs native.** In Chromium and WebKit the interpreter boot is *faster* than
+  native wasmtime, by 15% and 5%. Firefox is 11% slower. This is one run each, and the
+  cause was not investigated.
+
+| amd64 proof boot (Chromium) | ms |
+|---|---|
+| download (vm.wasm + bzImage + initramfs, 11.8 MB) | 37 |
+| compile | 7 |
+| first console byte (decompressor) | 403 |
+| `Linux version` | 74,841 |
+| `wmd-init: up` | 238,001 |
+| total (exit 0, all boot-gate patterns met) | 392,857 |
+
+- **amd64 marks.** The `PROOF-DONE` and power-down marks were not captured on this run:
+  the x86 console sends CRLF and the mark regexes were anchored. The boot gate itself
+  strips CR and passed. Mark matching now strips CR (commit `6e4735e5`).
+- **No native amd64 reference.** The brief allowed one native run, and it was spent on
+  arm64.
+
+After the adversarial fixes (same day, every boot under the lock, canary 600-650 ms):
+`PROOF-DONE` at 40.4-42.5 s in Chromium, 52.5-56.4 s in Firefox and 45.9-47.3 s in
+WebKit, TIMER-DELTA 1.1 everywhere. The review measured 40.3-45.8 s (Chromium), 55.6-58.6 s
+(Firefox) and 48.0-50.5 s (WebKit) before the fixes, so the throttle detector's Worker
+and the 250 ms tick cost no measurable time.
+
+## Browser wasm feature support (Playwright 1.63 browsers, `test/e2e/features.spec.js`)
+
+Each feature was checked by compiling, instantiating and running a tiny module in a
+cross-origin isolated page.
+
+| Feature | Chromium 153 | Firefox 155 | WebKit 26.6 |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| cross-origin isolated, SharedArrayBuffer | yes | yes | yes |
+| shared memory 384 MiB initial / 1 GiB max | yes | yes | yes |
+| threads (shared memory + atomics) | yes | yes | yes |
+| SIMD128 | yes | yes | yes |
+| bulk memory | yes | yes | yes |
+| multi-memory | yes | yes | yes |
+| two *shared* imported memories + atomic load from memory 1 (the JIT block-module shape) | yes | yes | yes |
+| tail calls (`return_call`) | yes | yes | yes |
+| memory64 | yes | yes | yes |
+
+These are Playwright's engine builds. Shipping Safari and Firefox releases may differ.
+P-B5 has to re-check them on real browsers.
+
+## Firefox and WebKit
+
+Both pass steps 1–3, the same tests as Chromium. Each prints `hello from aarch64` and
+`board init ok`, and the arm64 proof boot passes the full gate with exit 0. The timings
+are in the table above. Nothing needed per-browser code.
+
+## P-B3: channels on shared-memory rings
+
+`wmd.chan_*` as `runner/src/chan.rs` has them, for Workers (`src/host/chan.js`):
+
+- **One chan block per machine.** A SharedArrayBuffer holds a header (doorbell, service
+  state, guest-gone flag, the ports the services listen on), 8 channel slots, and per
+  slot two byte rings: guest→host and host→guest, 1 MiB each by default
+  (`bootWmd({channels: {ringBytes}})`, any power of two from 64 bytes), plus an 8 MiB pipe
+  for the console's bytes to the page: about 25 MiB of SharedArrayBuffer per boot, touched
+  only as it is used. Positions are 32-bit counters that wrap. Boots without `channels`
+  get the old stubs and no service Worker.
+- **Guest side: blocking imports.** `chan_send` copies straight from guest memory into
+  the ring, waiting (`Atomics.wait` on the ring's "space" sequence cell) while it is full;
+  it holds the ring's producer lock for the whole message, so two vCPUs' 9P requests never
+  interleave, whatever their size. `chan_recv` returns what is there (a partial read is
+  normal), waits up to the timeout (rounded up to ms, as chan.rs) on the ring's "data"
+  sequence cell, returns 0 on timeout and -1 at EOF. Every wait is at most 1 s at a time,
+  and re-checks the machine's exit flag, the service state and the channel's own state, so
+  nothing in the guest can hang on a peer that is gone.
+- **Return values as chan.rs.** `chan_open`: -22 for a port outside 1..65535, -111 when no
+  service listens on the port (or the service is dead), else the lowest free handle. The
+  port decides the service; `kind` is only recorded. -14 bad range, -9 bad handle, -32 when
+  the peer is gone or after our own `chan_shutdown`. `chan_shutdown` is a half-close: the
+  host reads to the end, sees EOF, and closes its side once its replies are out.
+  `chan_close` wakes any thread blocked on the handle (-1 / -32) and frees the slot only
+  after the service has dropped the session, so a reply in flight can never land in a new
+  channel that reused the handle.
+- **Host side: a service Worker** (`src/host/chan-service.js`), never the page. It never
+  blocks: it waits on the doorbell cell with `Atomics.waitAsync` and spins on it for 200 µs
+  after any work (`channels.spinUs`), so its event loop stays free for the page's messages.
+  Services by the kind registered for the port: **9p** (`src/fs/9p/server.js`, a
+  `NinePServer` per connection over one Overlay per port: packs as lowers, an in-memory
+  upper), **console** (to the page through a pipe ring the page drains every 16 ms; no loss:
+  when the page falls behind, the service stops reading and the guest blocks; page input
+  through `vm.consoleWrite`, which takes at most 4 MiB the guest has not read and says how
+  much it took), **control** (a stub: reads, counts and CRC-32s), **net** (a stub: counts
+  the 4-byte-length frames and drops them; P-B10 adds the relay).
+- **Backpressure.** The 9P service answers at most `OUT_LIMIT` (4 MiB) of replies the guest
+  has not read; after that it stops reading requests, so tiny requests cannot make it queue
+  unbounded replies, and the guest's sends block on a full ring.
+- **A dead service.** The service holds a Web Lock for its whole life; the page asks for the
+  same lock and is granted it when the Worker ends, however it ends (terminated, closed,
+  crashed, killed by the browser). The page then calls `markServiceDead`: every guest
+  waiter wakes, sends fail (-32), receives drain what is left and then get -1, `chan_open`
+  refuses. An exception in the service's loop marks it dead from inside too. The guest's 9P
+  pump powers the machine off on -1 (`chan_pump.c` `host_gone`) with exit 0; `bootWmd`
+  reports that as **-4** `channel service died: ...` (the guest's code in
+  `timings.guestExitCode`), as a panic is -3.
+- **The guest ends.** `finish()` sets the guest-gone flag, which also wakes every guest
+  thread still blocked on a channel (-32 / -1 at once); the service drops every session
+  (counting any message it held half-read in `sessionsDropped`, never handing it to the
+  server) and stops; then the page terminates it with the other Workers.
+- **Counters.** `vm.chanStats()` / `timings.chan`: per channel bytes each way and how often
+  and how long a guest send waited for room (`sendWaits`, `sendWaitMs`: the "host fell
+  behind" signal); the 9P round trip measured by the guest's threads (send of a T-message
+  to its R-message delivered by the pump: a histogram, p50/p90/p99) and the service's
+  per-request time; per-kind bytes, frames, EOFs, protocol errors.
+- **Files out.** `channels.collect: [{port, path}]` reads files out of the 9P trees when the
+  machine ends (`timings.chanFiles`), e.g. `bundle/exitcode`.
+
+### Which console the guest uses
+
+The proof boot's console is the PL011 UART, which vm.wasm writes to its stdout (the stdout
+ring), and so is the container kernel's (`console=ttyAMA0`, `internal/engine/run.go`).
+Containers' stdio does not go through either: the Go init runs its yamux session, which
+carries the container's stdin/stdout/stderr, on virtio-console **port 1** (`wmd.control`,
+`/dev/vportNp1`), i.e. the **control channel** (kind 3). Nothing in wmd uses port 0 (`hvc0`,
+kind 4). The throughput test therefore writes 50 MiB into each of: the control channel (the
+path container output will take), `hvc0` (the console channel), the UART (the stdout ring)
+and `/dev/null` (what the guest's `yes | head` costs by itself).
+
+### Numbers (2026-10-05, Apple Silicon, Playwright 1.63, `--mode jit`, 1 vCPU, --ram 256)
+
+One run each per browser (`test/e2e/chan.spec.js`, the final runs; canary 605–634 ms around
+the Chromium and Firefox runs; the WebKit run started contended, canary 1,378 ms before and
+604 after, which shows in its first p9lat run). Native: `~/.wmd/bin/wmd-run` with wmd's Go 9P
+server (`guest/linux/testhelper`) over loopback TCP, the same initramfs, canary 657–680 ms.
+
+**9P round trip.** `/p9stat FILE 2000` on the 9P mount (no cache: every `fstat` is one
+Tgetattr, which the service's counts confirm: 6,050+ Tgetattr), three runs after a warm-up of
+50, µs per call; on tmpfs for the syscall's own cost:
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit | native, Go server over TCP |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `fstat` on the 9P mount (3 runs) | 137.4, 109.5, 101.4 | 153.1, 141.0, 138.4 | 187.2, 138.9, 88.9 | 113.2, 104.1, 108.0 (2nd boot; 1st: 207, 127, 133) |
+| `fstat` on tmpfs | 14.9, 13.8, 14.1 | 19.3, 19.0, 18.6 | 21.0, 19.7, 17.5 | 7.5, 6.9, 7.3 |
+| channel round trip, guest threads (send of the T-message → R-message in the pump), p50 / p90 / p99 | 30.5 / 40.5 / 100.5 | 20.5 / 40.5 / 139.5 | 20.5 / 100.5 / 559.5 | – |
+| service time per request, p50 / p99 | 0.5 / 25.5 | 0.5 / 59.5 | 0.5 / 99.5 | – |
+
+- **P-B3's bar (under 500 µs) is met** by a wide margin in all three, and the browser is
+  as fast as native wmd over TCP: almost all of the ~100 µs is the guest (syscall, v9fs,
+  virtio, the MMIO kick, the interrupt and the wake-up of the waiting process in the
+  emulated kernel), not the channel (20–40 µs) or the server (under 1 µs typical).
+- The histograms are quantised by each browser's coarsened clock (`performance.now()`:
+  5 µs in Chromium, 20 µs in Firefox and WebKit), hence the x0.5 values.
+- **The spin is worth about 20 µs.** Chromium, two boots each: with `spin=0` the channel's
+  p50 was 40.5 µs and `fstat` 135–205 µs; with the default 200 µs spin, 19.5–20.5 µs and
+  104–157 µs.
+
+**Console throughput.** `yes | head -c 52428800` (50 MiB; since W53 piped through `cat`, see "hvc0 after W17"), timed by the guest
+(`/proc/uptime`) and by the service (first to last byte read):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| into the **control channel** (vport, container stdio path) | 14.05 s, **3.7 MB/s** (service 13.95 s) | 15.86 s, **3.3 MB/s** | 10.69 s, **4.9 MB/s** |
+| times the guest waited for the host | **0** | **0** | **0** |
+| into `/dev/null` (the guest alone) | 11.83 s, 4.4 MB/s | 13.81 s, 3.8 MB/s | 12.33 s, 4.3 MB/s |
+| through the UART (stdout ring) | 368.4 s, 0.14 MB/s, 0 bytes dropped (`WMD_WEB_UART`, Chromium only) | – | – |
+| into `hvc0` (console channel) | **fails**: the guest's IRQ storm, see problem 1 | fails | fails |
+
+The control channel keeps up: every byte arrived, in order, and no `chan_send` ever found
+the ring full. In Chromium and Firefox the run took 15–19% longer than into `/dev/null`,
+which is the guest's own virtio-console write path (copying into 32 KiB buffers, the MMIO
+kick, the interrupt); in WebKit the control run was faster than its `/dev/null` run, so
+one run each is noisy at that level. The UART is 26x slower: one
+MMIO trap per byte, and the tty turns each `\n` into `\r\n`.
+
+### Tests
+
+```sh
+bun test test/unit                       # 241 tests; chan.test.js: rings, imports, ChanHost, the service Worker;
+                                         # b3-fixes.test.js: the fixes of the P-B3/P-B4 review
+# each under the boot lock, one browser at a time (about 4 min each):
+PORT=8796 bunx playwright test chan.spec --project=chromium
+WMD_WEB_UART=52428800 PORT=8796 bunx playwright test chan.spec -g UART --project=chromium   # 6 min
+```
+
+Unit (`test/unit/chan.test.js`, Workers play the guest's threads and the real service
+Worker serves): a 64-byte ring carrying 1 MB of odd-sized chunks; full and empty; 32-bit
+counter wrap; open/handle/range errors; timeouts (0 polls, 20 ms waits ≥ 19 ms, 1 ns rounds
+up to 1 ms); partial reads; shutdown both ways; close freeing the slot only after the host
+drops it; a dead service; 9P frames through a 64-byte ring giving the same replies as the
+server itself; a bad frame size closing the channel; **4 producers x 200 messages up to 3.5x
+the ring never interleaving**; **512 KiB Twrite/Tread over 4 KiB rings**; **rings full on
+both sides** (the sender blocks after the host's 4 MiB of unread replies, nothing is lost,
+everything arrives in order once the guest reads); **small requests for big replies** (the
+host answers no more than OUT_LIMIT + a ring ahead); **the service terminated while a
+sender is blocked mid-message** (-32) and a receiver blocked forever (-1), within 500 ms;
+**an exception in the service** (-1, service dead); **the guest gone with half a frame sent**
+(dropped, never given to the server); a sender blocked on a full ring returning when the
+machine exits; console input in order through a 64-byte ring; net and control stubs.
+
+Browser (`test/e2e/chan.spec.js`), each in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit:
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 9P round trip (P-B3 bar) | pass | pass | pass |
+| control channel 50 MiB, every byte, no waits | pass | pass | pass |
+| `hvc0` 50 MiB | **fail** (guest, problem 1) | **fail** | **fail** |
+| `/dev/null` baseline | pass | pass | pass |
+| alpine from packs (proof initramfs) | pass | pass | pass |
+| alpine as a container (Go init, crun) | pass | pass | pass |
+| service terminated by the page mid-traffic → -4, ended 262 / 267 / 258 ms after | pass | pass | pass |
+| service `self.close()` mid-traffic (only the lock tells) → -4, 261 / 259 / 257 ms | pass | pass | pass |
+| service throws mid-traffic → -4, 257 / 259 / 257 ms | pass | pass | pass |
+| guest powers off with 9P reads in flight → exit 0, no service errors | pass | pass | pass |
+| 4 KiB rings: alpine with 256 KiB messages | pass | pass | pass |
+
+The P-B1 and P-B2 suites still pass after the clock change (problem 2): `boot.spec` and
+`jit.spec` in Chromium (14 passed, 1 skipped), and the P-B1 and P-B2 proof boots in Firefox
+and WebKit.
+
+### Problems found, and their causes
+
+1. **`hvc0` (the console channel) crawls and the kernel disables its interrupt.** With
+   `yes | head -c N > /dev/hvc0` the guest prints `irq 14: nobody cared` after a few seconds
+   and `Disabling IRQ #14`, and goes on at about 60 KB/s. The cause is in the guest, not the
+   host: native `wmd-run --console PORT` (a `nc -l` behind the port) does exactly the same
+   (4 MiB in 70 s, the same two lines). Linux's hvc path (`put_chars` → `__send_to_port`)
+   kicks the queue and then **polls** for the used buffer with interrupts off, while
+   vm.wasm's virtio-console (`guest/vm/src/dev/console.c` `console_notify`) raises an
+   interrupt for every transmit buffer. By the time interrupts are back on the buffer has
+   been taken, `vring_interrupt` finds nothing and returns IRQ_NONE, and after 100,000 of
+   those Linux disables the line. A raw tty (`stty raw -echo -opost`) does not help. A guest
+   fix would be to honour `VRING_AVAIL_F_NO_INTERRUPT` on the console's transmit queues
+   (`virtio_used_irq_wanted`, as `p9proxy.c` does since D-324) or not to interrupt for
+   transmit completions the driver polls; not built here. Nothing in wmd uses port 0, and
+   the container stdio path (port 1) is not affected: its driver path takes the interrupts.
+   **Update (wmd main, W17 2ec1cf9d):** vm.wasm now raises no interrupt for port 0's transmits;
+   the storm and the disabled IRQ are gone. hvc0 is still about 33-72 KB/s in the browsers and
+   69 KB/s natively, so the 50 MiB test still times out: a vm.wasm/guest cost, not the host
+   (P-B11 section "hvc0 after W17").
+2. **The container's `crun` hung: no entropy in the browser.** The first container boot
+   stopped after `wmd-init: writing runc bundle`, the vCPU idle in WFI, and no `random: crng
+   init done` in the log. Linux's jitter entropy (`try_to_generate_entropy`, run when
+   `getrandom()` blocks) reads the cycle counter 8,192 times and gives up when too few reads
+   differ. The guest's counter is CLOCK_MONOTONIC / 16 ns, and browsers coarsen
+   `performance.now()` (5–20 µs), so consecutive reads were equal; natively the clock has
+   ns resolution. Without a seed (the direct-run path gets none; the control path's run
+   request carries one) `crun` blocked in `getrandom()` forever. Fix (`src/host/clock.js`):
+   CLOCK_MONOTONIC is strictly increasing, every read at least 16 ns (one counter tick) after
+   the previous one on any Worker; it can run ahead of real time by no more than 16 ns per
+   read made within one coarsened step. After it, `crng init done` came at 22 s and the
+   container ran (`test/unit/clock-strict.test.js` fails on the old clock). The entropy this
+   gives is weak; real entropy should come from the host (`crypto.getRandomValues`): the
+   control channel's `seed`, or a `/chosen/rng-seed` in vm.wasm's device tree (a guest change).
+   **Update (wmd main, W18 70d03426):** vm.wasm now puts 64 host bytes in `/chosen/rng-seed`
+   (WASI `random_get`, which `src/host/wasi.js` serves from `crypto.getRandomValues`); browser
+   boots log `crng init done` at 0.000000 (P-B11 section "Review of 70d03426").
+3. **9P reply amplification.** The first version read a whole chunk of requests and answered
+   all of them before checking its output limit: 400 23-byte Treads made 26 MB of queued
+   replies, and the "rings full on both sides" test passed or failed by timing (1 in 6
+   runs). The service now answers only while less than OUT_LIMIT of replies wait unread and
+   holds the rest of the requests back.
+4. **The guest's `udhcpc` waits 15 s** in the container boot: eth0 exists and nothing answers
+   (the net stub drops frames). That is 15.5 of the container boot's 25.7 s (Chromium).
+   P-B10's relay, or a DHCP answer from the stub, removes it. **Update (P-B10):** with a net
+   service the network Worker answers DHCP; udhcpc takes 0.4-0.5 s.
+5. **busybox `stty -F`** said "Not a tty" on `/dev/hvc0`; the test sets the tty up through a
+   descriptor instead (`exec 3<>/dev/hvc0; stty ... <&3`).
+
+## P-B4: alpine from packs
+
+Two paths, both from `alpine.pack` (alpine:3.20 linux/arm64, made by `test/fixtures-gen`
+from the layer in `~/.wmd/data`, read only) served by the JS 9P server under `at: 'rootfs'`
+with `bundle/config/config.json` beside it, i.e. the tree the engine exports
+(`internal/engine/ninep`):
+
+1. **Proof kernel and initramfs** (`?case=alpine`). `/proof.sh` mounts the share at `/mnt`
+   (`p9MountOptions()`: `trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,msize=262144,cache=mmap`, see the
+   review's F1 below; it was `cache=loose` for the numbers in this table), runs `ls -R /mnt/rootfs`,
+   mounts proc, sys and devtmpfs in it and runs `chroot /mnt/rootfs /sbin/apk info`, a
+   shell, `ls -R /` inside the chroot, and writes a file into the upper.
+2. **The container path, as the engine boots it** (`?case=container`): the container
+   kernel and the Go init's initramfs from `~/.wmd/bin/guest/arm64`, the engine's kernel
+   command line without `wmd.control` (`wmd.init wmd.p9tag=wmdroot wmd.exit`, plus
+   `p9InitCmdline()`, `wmd.p9msize=262144 wmd.p9cache=mmap`, since the review; the init
+   then runs the bundle's process directly, as `guest/linux/test-init-boot.sh` does
+   without `control`). The init mounts the 9P share at `/run/wmd9p`, binds `rootfs/`,
+   writes runc's config from `bundle/config/config.json` and runs `crun`; the process is
+   `/bin/sh -c '...; ls -R /; apk info; ...'` in alpine. The init then writes
+   `bundle/exitcode` over 9P, which the page reads back (`channels.collect`).
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| proof initramfs: boot to `PROOF-DONE` (ms) | 9,943 | 12,162 | 9,627 |
+| `ls -R /mnt/rootfs` (710 lines, 0 errors) | 0.88 s | 0.69 s | 0.84 s |
+| `chroot ... apk info` (14 packages) | 0.43 s | 0.38 s | 0.40 s |
+| `ls -R /` in the chroot (proc and sys mounted) | 3.56 s | 5.84 s | 3.42 s |
+| 9P requests / channel round trip p50 | 2,774 / 35.5 µs | 2,774 / 40.5 µs | 2,774 / 80.5 µs |
+| container: bundle mounted (ms) | 19,654 | 19,631 | 19,667 |
+| container: `ls -R /` (24,334 lines, 0 errors), `apk info` (14), `B4-DONE` (ms) | 25,400 | 27,649 | 25,406 |
+| container: exit code; `bundle/exitcode` read back | 0; `0` | 0; `0` | 0; `0` |
+
+Of the 19.7 s before the bundle mount, 4 s are the kernel and the init's start and 15.5 s
+are `udhcpc` waiting with no network (problem 4).
+
+### What the Go init needs over the control channel (not built here)
+
+With `wmd.control=vport` (the engine's command line) the init (`guest/container2wasm/cmd/init`)
+opens the virtio-console port named `wmd.control` (`/dev/vportNp1`; kind 3 here) and runs a
+hashicorp/yamux **server** on it; the host is the yamux **client** (keepalive every 5 s) and
+opens one stream per operation (`internal/engine/control.go`, `ctlproto.go`):
+
+- **run**: one JSON line `{"op":"run","now":<unix s>,"seed":<base64, 32 bytes>,"p9tag":"wmdroot","p9opts":"trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,msize=65536,cache=loose"}`.
+  The init refuses a first `run` without `p9opts`. `now` sets the guest clock and `seed` is
+  credited to the kernel's pool (`RNDADDENTROPY`), which is the proper fix for problem 2
+  (`crypto.getRandomValues` on the host). Then frames both ways, `id[1] | len[4] BE |
+  payload`: 0 control (`{"resize":[r,c]}`, `{"close_stdin":true}`), 1 stdin, 2 stdout, 3
+  stderr, 4 exit (4-byte BE code, optional flags, bit 0 "synced"). The host sends
+  `close_stdin` at once when there is no stdin.
+- **exec / kill / pause / resume / ps / stats**: the same line with their fields;
+  non-streaming ops answer one JSON line.
+- After the main process exits the init syncs, closes the session, writes `bundle/exitcode`
+  and powers off.
+
+So P-B4 with the engine's own command line needs a yamux client in the service Worker
+(kind 3), the run request above, and the frame demux to the page; the transport underneath
+(the control channel) is the one measured above.
+
+### What remains for P-B4
+
+- The control channel's yamux client and run request (above), instead of the direct-run
+  command line.
+- Packs from OPFS (`syncHandleSource` is written, untested in a browser; the tests fetch the
+  pack into memory), several layers per image, and writing the upper back out.
+- Network (P-B10): the 15 s `udhcpc` wait, and `apk add`.
+- Entropy from the host (problem 2) once the control channel carries the seed.
+- The browser engine's run request must send `p9opts` from `p9MountOptions()` (cache=mmap),
+  not the native engine's cache=loose (review F1 below).
+
+## P-B3/P-B4 adversarial review: findings and fixes
+
+The independent review (`test/b3-adversarial-results.txt`, commit `d6d41e41`) found F1-F5.
+Fixes on `wmd-web-b3`; each has a test that failed before and passes after (unit: the first
+13 tests of the new `test/unit/b3-fixes.test.js` run against the pre-fix `src/` give 2 pass,
+11 fail; the two that pass are F4a's gap tests, which fail under the review's mutation M8
+instead; the O_APPEND and step-budget tests, added later, each failed before their fix).
+Browser tests: `test/e2e/b3-fixes.spec.js` (opt-in, `WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1`, under the boot lock).
+
+| | Status | Fix | Test |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| F1 full upper + cache=loose hangs the writer | **fixed for the browser's mount options**: the guest mounts with `cache=mmap`; cache=loose cannot be fixed host-side (below) | `src/host/p9mount.js` (`p9MountOptions()`, `p9InitCmdline()`), used by `page/chan.js`, `page/b3-initrd.js`, `test/features/b3r-page.js` | b3-fixes "the upper memory cap with the default mount options" (C/F/W pass); the review's cache=loose test still fails, as it must |
+| F1 follow-up: concurrent O_APPEND under cache=mmap lost records | fixed | `src/fs/9p/server.js` `Twrite` appends for O_APPEND fids (as QEMU) | unit "two fids opened with O_APPEND ..."; the review's container torture (`conc.append`) and b3-fixes "torture on the default mount options" |
+| F2 no default upper cap | fixed | `src/boot.js` `upperCapDefault()`, `channels.maxUpperBytes`, `timings.chanUppers`; `src/fs/overlay.js` `full()`/`fullHits`/`onFull`; `chan-service.js` `upper-full` message; `chan-services.js` `snapshot().uppers` | unit F2 (3); b3-fixes "channels.maxUpperBytes ..." and "the default cap ..." |
+| F3 console input unbounded | fixed | `src/host/chan.js` `consoleInputGate`, `H_CIN_TAKEN`; `chan-services.js` `consoleInput()` bound; `boot.js` `vm.consoleWrite()` returns the bytes taken, `vm.consoleSpace()` | unit F3 (3); the review's unit finding test now passes; b3-fixes 512 MiB `vm.consoleWrite` to a guest that reads nothing |
+| F4a recv vs the exit flag untested | test added | - | unit F4a (2): fail under M8 (drop `\|\| exiting()`), pass otherwise |
+| F4b chan.spec leak check vacuous | made real | - | chan.spec "powers off ... nothing leaks": every Worker the page made was terminated (Worker wrapper), Chromium: no worker target left (CDP) |
+| F4c control order/content unchecked | fixed | `chan-services.js` sink CRC-32 (`kinds.control.crc32`) | unit F4c; chan.spec control 50 MiB: CRC equals that of `yes \| head -c 50M` |
+| F4d "the guest never waited" not asserted | asserted | - | chan.spec control: `sendWaits` 0 |
+| F5 blocked guest threads wake only at the next 1 s slice | fixed | `chan.js` `markGuestGone` kicks every ring; recv/send also stop on the guest-gone flag | unit F5 (3): 0.1-0.3 ms after (700 ms before); the review's ring exit test bound 2,000 -> 600 ms |
+
+### F1: why cache=mmap, with numbers
+
+**Why loose cannot be fixed on the host side.** Linux 6.1's v9fs with cache=loose writes
+into the page cache; `write(2)` never talks to the server. Writeback sends one 4 KiB page per
+Twrite (`fs/9p/vfs_addr.c` `v9fs_vfs_writepage`, v6.1.187). On any error but EAGAIN the page
+is dropped and the error only recorded (`mapping_set_error`) for a later fsync/close; EAGAIN
+redirties the page (an endless retry). So no errno (ENOSPC, EIO, ...) the server can return
+makes `write(2)` fail, and no headroom the server could reserve helps either: whatever it
+accepts past the cap is still accepted. Measured (b3-fixes "cache=loose, for the record", a
+48 MiB cap): `dd bs=1M count=64 conv=fsync` writes all 64 MiB and fails only at its fsync
+(ENOSPC); a further 16 MiB `dd` without fsync returns 0, `sync` returns 0, and after
+`drop_caches` the server holds at most the 48 MiB: the rest was lost without the writer
+knowing. A writer past the dirty limit sits in `balance_dirty_pages` while writeback drains
+failing pages one round at a time (the review's hang). With cache=mmap and cache=none,
+`write(2)` is a Twrite of up to msize (`v9fs_file_write_iter`) and ENOSPC reaches it at once.
+
+**cache=mmap over cache=none**: the same write path, and shared writable mmap works (none
+refuses it with EINVAL, wmd D-062; the review's torture has an `mmap MAP_SHARED` check).
+
+**What cache=mmap broke, and its fix: O_APPEND.** Without the page cache, v9fs takes an
+O_APPEND write's offset from its i_size without a lock (`v9fs_file_write_iter` takes no
+inode lock), so processes appending to one file through their own opens overwrite each
+other's records: the review's torture inside a container (crun, cache=mmap from the new
+default) failed `conc.append`: 565 records, 191 out of order. QEMU's server does not have
+this problem (its pwrite on an O_APPEND host file appends) and neither does Linux's pwrite(2);
+wmd's Go server ignores O_APPEND, as this one did. The JS server now writes every Twrite of
+a fid opened or created with O_APPEND at the end of the file (`src/fs/9p/server.js`
+`Twrite`; unit test in `b3-fixes.test.js`, fails without it). Under cache=loose writes go
+through the writeback fid, opened without O_APPEND, so nothing changes there.
+
+**Cost.** `b3-fixes.spec.js` "measure cache=X", one boot each (proof initramfs, 2 vCPUs, 512
+MiB, msize 262144), then a container boot (Go init + crun) with the same mode; seconds from
+the guest's `/proc/uptime`, one run each (they vary by about ±30% run to run, e.g. WebKit
+mmap `ls -R` 1.22 and 2.63 s); canary 0.62-0.68 s around every run except where noted.
+
+| | Chromium none / mmap / loose | Firefox none / mmap / loose | WebKit none / mmap / loose |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `ls -R /mnt/rootfs` (710 lines) | 1.08 / 1.15 / **0.70** | 1.49 / 1.24 / **0.99** | 2.47 / 2.63 / 1.75 |
+| the same again (warm) | 0.70 / 0.68 / **0.30** | 1.68 / 1.01 / **0.33** | 1.06 / 1.39 / 0.63 |
+| `chroot apk info` | 0.57 / 0.52 / 0.40 | 0.85 / 0.48 / 0.42 | 0.68 / 0.54 / 0.53 |
+| 100 x exec `/bin/true` in the chroot | 3.18 / 3.39 / 2.99 | 5.79 / 2.92 / 2.73 | 3.67 / 3.38 / 3.41 |
+| `ls -R /` in the chroot | 4.35 / 4.27 / 3.84 | 12.27 / 6.47 / 6.13 | 6.05 / 4.78 / 5.01 |
+| 100 MiB write / copy / read, MB/s (sha256 equal) | 37.0/57.0/95.4 / 37.9/54.8/82.9 / 33.5/40.3/93.5 | 34.5/19.5/45.8 / 40.1/26.4/40.9 / 29.2/21.8/55.2 | 43.3/34.8/67.1 / 43.3/28.7/84.9 / 38.0/27.0/88.5 |
+| 100,000-file create, s (µs/file) | 78.9 (789) / 81.6 (816) / 134.5 (1345) | 158.5 (1585) / 159.2 (1592) / 191.7 (1917) | 146.3 (1463) / 102.4 (1024) / see below |
+| container boot: `ls -R /` + `apk info` done (ms after start) | 25,676 / 25,659 / 25,557 | 26,736 / 26,551 / 25,965 | 28,443 / 26,885 / 26,829 |
+
+So cache=mmap costs metadata-heavy reads (no dentry/attribute cache): a cold `ls -R` of the
+rootfs +0.25-0.9 s, a warm one +0.4-0.8 s, `apk info` +0.0-0.1 s, and sequential reads of a
+big file 4-26% (no readahead); it is faster for writes (100k creates 1.2-1.65x faster than
+loose, writes 13-37% and copies 6-36% faster), and the container boot is the same (within
+1.6 s of 25.6-28.4 s, most of it `udhcpc`'s 15 s). cache=none and cache=mmap are within
+run-to-run noise of each other.
+
+WebKit, cache=loose, 100,000 files: WebKit ended the page (Playwright saw a navigation, the
+page came back empty) 25-40k files into the create, 3 times of 3 at 2 vCPUs (with and without
+the 100 MiB copy before; the review's run at 1 vCPU and msize 65536 passed in 122.5 s), and
+once of two under cache=none in a run where the canary read 1.28 s afterwards (the retry
+passed). Not investigated further: the browser gives no reason (no `crash` event, no report
+in `~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports`). The WebKit loose row comes from a boot without the
+100k-file step (`B3FIX_SKIP=bigdir`).
+
+### F2: the default cap
+
+`bootWmd({channels})` caps each 9P service's upper at `channels.maxUpperBytes` or, by
+default, `upperCapDefault()`: an eighth of `navigator.deviceMemory` from 256 MiB to 1 GiB
+(Playwright's Chromium reports 16 GiB here: 1 GiB), 512 MiB where the browser does not say
+(Firefox, WebKit). A service's own `maxUpperBytes` wins; `Infinity` turns it off.
+`timings.chanUppers` says what each port got and why, `vm.chanStats().service.uppers` the
+bytes used, the cap and the refusals. The first refused write (then at most one every 10 s)
+puts on `onStderr`: `[wmd-web] the guest's files on 9P port 564 are full: the upper holds
+32 MiB of its 32 MiB cap (channels.maxUpperBytes); the guest's writes get ENOSPC (No space
+left on device)`, and an `{t:'chan', ev:'upper-full'}` event. Only file contents count (as
+before); names, inodes and xattrs do not.
+
+### F3: console input
+
+`vm.consoleWrite(data)` returns the bytes it took (it returned `true`), at most
+`vm.consoleSpace()`: the page counts what it posted, the service counts in the chan block
+what it has put into the guest's ring (or had to drop), and the difference never exceeds
+`channels.consoleInputBytes` (4 MiB). When it takes less than it was given, `onStderr` says
+once `[wmd-web] console input is full: the guest has not read the 4 MiB already queued ...`
+(again after a write that fits), plus a `console-full` event. The service also bounds its
+own queue (anything posted past the bound by other means is dropped and counted:
+`service.console.inputDropped`). For a string the count is of its UTF-8 bytes. Measured
+(b3-fixes, a guest that reads nothing, 512 x 1 MiB writes): the page took 6,295,552 bytes
+(4 MiB + the 1 MiB ring + 1 MiB the guest's virtio-console driver had buffered), refused
+the rest in 0.2 s, nothing dropped; the service Worker's heap in Chromium stayed at 18 MiB
+(540 MiB before the fix).
+
+### Test runs after the fixes
+
+Each under the boot lock, one browser per run, `PORT=8796`, canary 0.61-0.73 s around every run.
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `bun test test/unit` | 241 pass, 2 skip (the review's opt-in file), 0 fail; with `WMD_WEB_B3ADV=1` 243 pass, 0 fail | | |
+| `b3-fixes` (torture on the default options, ENOSPC on the default options, the loose record, F2 cap, F3 flood, default) | 6 passed | 6 passed | 6 passed (F3 at the second run: the first failed my own bound of > 500 refused writes with 498; now > 480) |
+| `chan.spec` | 10 passed, 1 failed (`hvc0`: problem 1, the guest's IRQ storm), 1 skipped (UART) | same | same |
+| the review's rings (`b3-adversarial -g rings`, 7 tests) | 7 passed | 7 passed | 7 passed |
+| the review's guests (10 tests) | 9 passed, 1 failed: ENOSPC with cache=loose (F1: cannot pass, above) | same | same |
+| `boot.spec` + `jit.spec` | 14 passed, 1 skipped (amd64) | same | same |
+
+- The control channel's 50 MiB: CRC-32 equal, `sendWaits` 0 in all three (F4c, F4d). The
+  leak check: 10 Workers made, all terminated, and no worker target left in Chromium; with
+  `chanSvc?.terminate()` removed from `finish()` it fails (`not terminated:
+  [{"name":"wmd-chan"}]`) (F4b).
+- The review's ring tests after the fixes: the guest exits at random moments, last thread
+  back 207 / 207 / 209 ms after (was up to 1,010 ms); the service killed, 206 / 218 / 211 ms
+  (was 208 / 238 / 216); the 512 MiB console flood, service Worker heap 23 MiB in Chromium
+  (was 540 MiB).
+- `alpine` and `container` in `chan.spec` now mount with cache=mmap (the default): proof
+  `ls -R` 1.2 s and `ls -R /` in the chroot 4.4 s in Chromium (3.56 s with cache=loose in
+  the P-B4 table), container `B4-DONE` at 26.8 s (25.4 s).
+
+Problems the re-runs found, all fixed and re-run:
+
+1. **The service could be held in one step** (`chan-services.js` `#pump`): it read a channel
+   for as long as the guest kept its ring full. With the control stub now computing a
+   CRC-32, a guest writing 1 GiB to the control channel through a 1 MiB ring kept one
+   `step()` reading 180 MB (572 ms in the unit test), so the service took its messages late:
+   the review's kill test saw the page learn of a `die`/`crash` 1.7-3.8 s late (3 of 12, all
+   on 1 MiB rings). Now one channel reads at most `STEP_READ_BUDGET` (1 MiB) per step (unit:
+   1 MiB, 6 ms).
+2. **The review's ring harness posted console input past the new bound** (it plays the page
+   and posted straight to the service, 4 MiB ahead of the guest plus one chunk): the
+   service dropped the excess and the 8-channel test's console reader got 5.5 of 16 MiB. The
+   harness now takes input through `consoleInputGate`, as `vm.consoleWrite` does (the flood
+   test still posts past it, which is what tests the service's own bound).
+3. **cache=mmap and O_APPEND** (F1 above): the container torture failed `conc.append` until
+   the server honoured O_APPEND.
+4. **WebKit ended the page** in the F1 measurement's cache=loose 100,000-file step at 2 vCPUs
+   (F1 above); the review's own 100,000-file test (1 vCPU) passed in all three.
+
+What is left:
+
+- The review's `cache=loose` ENOSPC test still fails, by design: under cache=loose the cap
+  cannot reach `write(2)`. A host that mounts with cache=loose (the native engine's run
+  containers) must not set a cap it relies on, or must accept that writes past it are lost
+  with only fsync/close reporting it.
+- cache=mmap gives up the dentry/attribute cache: metadata-heavy work is slower (the F1
+  table); an attribute cache with revalidation (cache=loose for metadata only) is not
+  something Linux 6.1's v9fs offers.
+- The cap counts file contents only (names, inodes, xattrs are not charged).
+- `hvc0` (problem 1) and the clock / entropy notes (problem 2) are unchanged.
+
+## P-B4: the 9P server (core)
+
+`src/fs/` is a transport-agnostic 9P2000.L server over an overlay of wmd packs (the
+read-only lowers) under an in-memory upper: `new NinePServer(new Overlay({layers,
+at: 'rootfs'})).handle(frame) → reply`, synchronous, so it can sit behind P-B3's
+shared-memory channel. The pack reader is checked entry by entry against wmd's Go
+`pack.Reader`, and the server frame by frame against wmd's Go 9P server
+(`internal/engine/ninep` over memfs) on the same packs, alpine:3.20 included. It has
+not run in a browser or under a guest yet. Format coverage, layering rules, messages,
+the known differences from the Go server, the independent review (F1–F6) and the
+numbers are in [docs/9p.md](docs/9p.md).
+
+## Integration of P-B1, P-B2 and P-B4 (branch `wmd-web-int`, 2026-10-05)
+
+`wmd-web` (P-B1 adversarial fixes) and `wmd-web-9p` (P-B4 9P core) merged into the
+P-B2 branch. Everything from both sides is kept: B1's abort, release, watchdog,
+throttle detector, panic exit, host-call counters, realtime clock and `--ram` check;
+B2's JIT door, hub sharing under JSPI, 32 MiB stdio rings with drop markers.
+
+Two things broke in the merge and were fixed:
+
+- **Synthetic guests trapped.** The worker attached the JIT door to every module, and
+  the P-B1 review's synthetic guests (`test/e2e/review-synth/*.wat`) have no
+  `vm_helper_*` exports (`vm.wasm has no export vm_helper_0`). A module now gets a
+  door only if it imports `wmd.jit_load`.
+- **Firefox kept a reloaded page's boot memory.** B2's test page held the running
+  handle on `window.wmd.vm`; after three mid-boot reloads RSS stayed 1.3 GiB higher
+  even after GC (B1's page: back to base). The page now holds the handle in a WeakRef
+  (`window.wmd.vm` still works while a boot runs).
+
+The stubbed `jit_*` imports that B1's counters were built for only exist without a
+door now: `bootWmd({jit: false})` / `?door=0`. B1's three stubbed-door tests ask for
+it explicitly.
+
+Suites on the merged branch (one run each, under the lock, canary 597–655 ms except one
+contended stretch that was only used for A/B memory runs):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `bun test test/unit` | 197 pass (bun) | | |
+| `boot.spec adversarial.spec` (the filter also picks the 3 no-guest storm tests of `b2-adversarial`) | 11/11; rerun 10/11\* | 11/11 | 10/11 (reload x3 memory: WebKit, same on B1) |
+| `fixes.spec b2-fixes.spec throttle.spec` (skips: headed throttle, opt-in 3b, Chromium-only GC test) | 16/16 | 15/15 | 15/15 |
+| `review-errors` | 27/28 (`--cpus 64` interp) | 27/28 (same) | 27/28 (same) |
+| `review-lifecycle review-smp` | 11/11 | 8/9 ("close a tab": no Worker close events) | 7/9 ("close a tab"; sequential boots: WebKit's lazy return, also fails on B1) |
+| `jit.spec jit-stress` | 20/20 | 18/20 (per-Worker stress: ~16,300-copy limit, share=0) | 20/20 |
+| `b2-adversarial` (`WMD_WEB_B2ADV=1`) | 12/12 | 12/12 | 12/12 |
+
+\* "reload during kernel load" failed 2 of 12 runs on Chromium: the test's
+`page.evaluate` after the page's own `location.reload()` lands in the destroyed context.
+It passed 4 of 4 on B1 alone and 6 of 6 in the next merged run.
+
+Proof boots on the merged branch (ms, `PROOF-DONE` from the `bootWmd` call):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| interp (P-B1 boot) | 42,207 / 39,999 | 53,798 / 52,039 | 44,761 |
+| jit, 1 vCPU | 5,842 | 6,092 | 5,743 |
+| jit, 8 vCPUs: copies / RSS peak | 232 / 1,224 MiB (5,523) | 234 / 1,853 MiB (5,867) | 232 / 1,400 MiB (5,580) |
+
+## Adversarial checks (PROOFS.md P-B1)
+
+### Independent review (test/adversarial-results.txt, commit `b819865e`) and fixes
+
+The review's specs are `test/e2e/review-*.spec.js`; the tests for the fixes are
+`test/e2e/fixes.spec.js`, the reload tests in `adversarial.spec.js`,
+`test/e2e/throttle.spec.js` and `test/unit/monitor.test.js`, `gate.test.js`. Each fix's
+test was run against the pre-fix host (Chromium, commit `b819865e` with the new specs)
+and failed there, except where noted.
+
+| Finding | Fix | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| AbortSignal fired while vm.wasm compiles is never seen; boot keeps running | `src/boot.js` `bootWmd`: listener registered at the start; every await is raced against the abort; `signal.aborted` checked after the last await. Before the Workers exist the boot rejects with `AbortError` (no Worker is created); after, `exited` gives `{code:-1, reason:'aborted'}` and every Worker is terminated. | fixed. Ends 2.5 ms after the abort (Chromium); passes in C/F/W, and the review's own abort test passes in C/F/W. (The two guard tests, abort before the call and abort after the Workers started, also passed before the fix.) |
+| `--mode jit`: one postMessage per stubbed `jit_*` call (477k in 30 s), unbounded `events` | `src/host/layout.js` `noteHostCall`/`hostCallCounts`, `src/host/wmd-imports.js` `counters`: Int32 counters in the control block. The page gets one `host-calls` event at most every 250 ms (`onTick`), `vm.stats().hostCalls` on demand. The test page keeps the latest counts and caps `events` at 1000. stdout/stderr through shared rings (see Output). | fixed. 395k `jit_compile` calls in 10 s → 39 events; page lag ≤ 10 ms and `evaluate` 1-4 ms over 30 s (the review's jit test) in C/F/W |
+| Memory kept across sequential boots (WebKit to ~2.5 GiB over 5 boots) | `src/boot.js` `release()`: Workers terminated and their handlers cleared, timers, abort listener, module and file buffers dropped; `vm.memory` is a getter nulled by `vm.dispose()`; the test page disposes and keeps no handle. | host fixed: no boot's memory survives (Chromium forced GC: WeakRef cleared; WebKit: 0 of 8 memories alive after each boot). WebKit RSS still varies, see "Memory" below |
+| Minimised Chromium window: boot 6.2x slower, page still "visible", nobody told | throttle detector (`src/calib-worker.js`, `src/host/monitor.js` `createThrottleMeter`, wired in `bootWmd`) | detected within 2.5 s in a minimised window (ratio 2.4-3.2), never in visible/headless boots. See "Background throttling" |
+| Truncated kernel: silent hang | progress watchdog (`createWatchdog`, `watchdogMs`, default 60 s arm64): code -2, `guest made no progress` | fixed. The review's 120 s-bounded test now ends at the watchdog (about 60 s) in C/F/W; with `watchdogMs: 5000` it ends in 6-8 s. Guest fix needed (below) |
+| Kernel panic reported as exit 0 | `createPanicScanner` on stdout; the exit becomes -3 `kernel panic: Kernel panic - not syncing: ...`, `timings.guestExitCode` keeps the guest's 0 | fixed in C/F/W. Guest fix needed (below) |
+| `--ram abc` gives an engine message | `ramMiB()`: `--ram "abc": expected a whole number of MiB, e.g. --ram 256`, before any download | fixed in C/F/W |
+| Firefox/WebKit `reason` is a stack without the message | page: `reason = "<name>: <message>"`, the stack separately in `stack` | fixed (the test passed before in Chromium, whose stacks include the message) |
+| CLOCK_REALTIME steps back across Workers (620k of 1e6 reads, up to 20 us) | `src/host/clock.js` `realNs` = shared start time + CLOCK_MONOTONIC | fixed: 0 of 1e6 backwards in C/F/W (before: 623,846, max 5.1 us, Chromium) |
+| "reload during kernel load" reloaded before the download | the page reloads itself from inside the window (phase `running`, no console byte yet) and records the state in sessionStorage | fixed: at reload `{"phase":"running","stdoutBytes":0,"stderr":""}` |
+| No reload test checks that the old page's Workers and memory go | `adversarial.spec.js` "reload mid-boot x3 releases ..." | added. Passes in Chromium also before the fix (Chromium frees a reloaded page's memory). Firefox and WebKit: see "Memory" |
+| TIMER-DELTA gate accepts 1.0-1.9 | `test/e2e/helpers.js` `bootGate`: 1.0-1.3 unless `{throttled: true}` | tightened. Every unthrottled boot in this round printed 1.1 |
+| `--cpus 64` still booting at 60 s (INFO) | none | not a host fault: 64 interpreted vCPUs on 10 cores. The review's 60 s bound still fails it in C/F (left as is) |
+
+### Background throttling
+
+The review found that a really minimised headed Chromium window boots 6.2x slower
+(`PROOF-DONE` at 267.6 s) while `document.visibilityState` stays `"visible"`, so the
+page cannot tell from the Page Visibility API. The host now measures it directly: the
+calibration Worker's fixed loop takes about 9.5 ms on this machine in the foreground.
+
+`test/e2e/throttle.spec.js`, headed Chromium, 2026-10-04 (`REVIEW_HEADED=...`;
+progress at 90 s of wall time unless the boot finished):
+
+| Window | Chromium flags / page | throttle report | guest progress |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| visible | none | none (21 samples, max ratio 1.05) | `PROOF-DONE` at 40.5 s, TIMER-DELTA 1.1, strict gate passes |
+| minimised | none | **throttled after 2.5 s, ratio 2.4** | at 90 s: no `wmd-init: up` yet (visible: 15.4 s), 14.4 KB of console |
+| minimised | `--disable-renderer-backgrounding --disable-background-timer-throttling --disable-backgrounding-occluded-windows` | throttled after 2.5 s, ratio 3.15 | the same: no init at 90 s, 14.4 KB |
+| minimised | the page holds a Web Lock (`navigator.locks.request`) for the boot | throttled after 2.5 s, ratio 2.76 | the same: no init at 90 s, 14.4 KB |
+
+What this shows:
+
+- **Detection works.** In each minimised run the host reported throttling on its
+  second sample (2.5 s) and wrote `[wmd-web] the guest is running about 2.4x slower ...`
+  to the emulator log; the test page shows it in its status line. No visible or headless
+  boot in this round reported it (boot.spec requires 0 throttled samples), and the
+  watchdog stretches its limit by the ratio.
+- **The ratio understates the slowdown.** The calibration loop runs 2.4-3.2x slower,
+  the guest about 6x (init not reached at 90 s against 15.4 s). A short burst every
+  2 s is scheduled better than a vCPU thread that never sleeps. Treat the ratio as "at
+  least this much".
+- **Nothing a page can do helped.** Chromium's own background flags made no difference,
+  so this is not Chromium's renderer backgrounding or timer throttling; the slowdown is
+  below the browser (macOS lowering the priority of a minimised app's threads, App Nap
+  or QoS; not investigated further). A held Web Lock made no difference either.
+  `Atomics.wait(10 ms)` overslept by only 0.5-3 ms, so Worker timers are not the
+  problem; CPU time is. Audio playback or similar tricks were not tried: they are hacks
+  the browser may break, and they would not touch OS-level scheduling anyway. Only
+  minimising was measured; an occluded window or a background tab was not.
+- **False positives.** A synthetic guest that parks 128 threads (the review's spawn
+  storm) made the calibration loop 2.1-2.6x slower while 128 Workers started, and the
+  host reported throttling for a few seconds (Chromium, Firefox). That is CPU
+  contention, which also slows the guest, so the report is not wrong, only its wording.
+- Firefox and WebKit were not checked headed.
+
+### Memory
+
+5 sequential arm64 boots in one page (`review-lifecycle.spec.js`, `REVIEW_SEQ_BOOTS=5`),
+RSS of the browser's processes after each boot, MiB:
+
+| Browser | before the fixes (review) | after |
+|---|---|---|
+| Chromium (forced GC) | 880, 898, 342, 503, 254 | 404, 358, 407, 422, 432 |
+| Firefox (no GC command) | 1578, 1545 (2 boots) | 1578, 1136, 1104, 1630, 1064 |
+| WebKit (no GC command) | 1074, 1655, 2195, 2591, 2501 | 578, 955, 1248, 1782, 2114 (fails the review's 300 MiB bound) |
+
+WebKit, 8 boots with a GC forced by allocation pressure after each boot (allocate and
+drop 2 GiB of never-touched ArrayBuffers; `fixes.spec.js` 3b, `WMD_WEB_SEQ=8`):
+RSS 1073, 1137, 1200, 1655, 750, 1155, 1164, 913 MiB, then flat at 912 for 60 s idle.
+After every boot **0** of the boots' `WebAssembly.Memory` objects were still alive
+(WeakRefs held by the page were all cleared) and the WebContent process was back to
+17-18 threads (15 before the first boot), so neither the host nor a lingering Worker
+holds any boot's memory. What stays is WebKit returning freed wasm memory to the
+system lazily: bounded (750-1655 MiB over 8 boots, no upward trend), not freed while
+idle. Without allocation pressure WebKit's GC does not run between boots at all (the
+page is idle), which is why the review's test, which forces GC only in Chromium, still
+sees growth. The host does not allocate garbage on purpose to provoke a GC.
+
+Reload mid-boot three times (`adversarial.spec.js`), RSS MiB:
+
+| Browser | base | after the 3rd reload, no GC | after GC |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Chromium | 293 | | 434 (forced) |
+| Firefox | 1004 | 1934 | 1099 (allocation pressure) |
+| WebKit | 357 | 2481 | 2481 (allocation pressure did not help) |
+
+Every old page's Workers closed within 3 s of each reload in all three browsers.
+
+The review's "close a tab mid-boot x3" fails in Firefox both before the fixes (RSS
+993 → 1390, 1582, 1607 after each close; this round, on the pre-fix commit) and after
+(1000 → 1568, 1581, 1547): Firefox keeps about one boot's memory after a tab closes and
+Playwright reports no Worker `close` events for it, so the test's Worker count cannot
+pass there. It does not grow from round to round. Chromium passes it (280 → 273). WebKit releases
+the memory (351 → 352 after each close) but fails the same Worker-count check. In
+WebKit the reloaded documents' memory was not returned within 10 s even after
+allocation pressure; a reload replaces the whole JS realm, so no host reference can
+survive it. That is left as a WebKit behaviour (the review's reload x5 measured 2567 MiB
+too; it plateaus).
+
+### Needed in the guest
+
+Not built here (the guest is out of scope for wmd-web):
+
+- **Truncated kernel.** `guest/vm/src/board_arm64.c:527-540` loads `ksz` bytes of the
+  Image without comparing them with the header's `image_size` (offset 16). A 1 MiB
+  prefix of the 38.8 MB Image boots into garbage and spins silently. `image_size` is
+  the in-memory size including BSS (39,321,600 for the current Image, file 38,760,456),
+  so the check is `image_size != 0 && (ksz > image_size || ksz < image_size - BSS
+  allowance)`, with an allowance of a few MiB, failing with "kernel file truncated".
+  The host watchdog only bounds the hang.
+- **Kernel panic exits 0.** `CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT=-1`
+  (`guest/linux/fragment-common.config:38`) reboots at once, and PSCI `SYSTEM_RESET`
+  sets `exit_code = 0` (`board_arm64.c:702-705`). Reset should not be a clean exit
+  under `wmd.exit`: map SYSTEM_RESET to a non-zero code (or set panic_timeout=0 and let
+  the watchdog catch it). The host now reports -3 from the console line, but a panic
+  whose message is lost would still look like success.
+
+`test/e2e/adversarial.spec.js`, Chromium. Every check boots the arm64 proof guest and
+requires the full boot gate to pass.
+
+| Check | What the test does | Result |
+|---|---|---|
+| reload mid-boot | Waits for the kernel banner and 3 more seconds, then navigates the same tab to a fresh boot. | pass (the new boot reaches `PROOF-DONE` at about 44 s) |
+| reload during download | Re-navigates as soon as the page reports `booting`. | pass |
+| two tabs at once | Two pages in one context boot concurrently. | both pass. `PROOF-DONE` came at about 43.6 s on one run and 47 s on another, for both tabs |
+| tab backgrounded | After the banner, marks the page hidden and **blocks the page's main thread for 10 s**. | pass. The guest kept running: about 11 KB of console output queued up during the stall, and `PROOF-DONE` time was unchanged at about 44.5 s. |
+
+The backgrounded-tab check simulates a background tab; it does not really background one.
+Under Playwright 1.63 the following were measured:
+
+- A page behind another tab, or in a minimized window, stays `visibilityState ===
+  "visible"`. This holds for headless shell, new headless and headed Chromium, and with
+  focus emulation off.
+- CDP `Page.setWebLifecycleState({state: "frozen"})` is a no-op: page timers keep
+  firing and no `freeze` event fires.
+
+The check therefore reproduces what a background tab does to this host: the main thread
+stops serving events. A 10 s stall is harsher than background-tab throttling. The page
+also falls back from `requestAnimationFrame` to timers when it is hidden. Real
+background-tab behaviour in shipping browsers is still to be checked by hand.
+
+## P-B2: the JIT door
+
+`src/host/jit.js` implements `wmd.jit_*` as `runner/src/jit.rs` does, for Workers.
+
+- **One slot list for all threads, readable synchronously.** A Worker inside `jit_sync`
+  cannot receive `postMessage`, so the list lives in three SharedArrayBuffers:
+  - a header: lock, flush generation, record count, first record of this generation,
+    live slots, log bytes, largest table;
+  - a record per loaded module (growable): log offset, length, first slot, function
+    count, content hash and timings;
+  - an append-only log of the module bytes (growable, up to 1 GiB). A flush never
+    rewrites the log, so a thread reading bytes during a flush still reads valid bytes.
+- **Table indices.** Slot k is at table index 155+k in every thread's table.
+  `jit_load` returns 155 + the slot count before the load. Slot i of a module is its
+  i-th function export (`b0..bN-1` for batch modules, `dispatch` for the chaining
+  dispatcher).
+- **Sync.** A thread compiles each module it has not seen with the synchronous
+  `new WebAssembly.Module(bytes)` and keeps the Module by log offset. It instantiates the
+  module once per generation with `env.mem0` (and `env.mem1`, which browser blocks no
+  longer import: W50, Safari 26.5 refuses two memories) set to the one shared
+  memory, `env.tbl` set to its own table, and `hst.h0..h16` set to its own
+  `vm_helper_N`. Then it grows its table **exactly** to 155 + installed slots and sets
+  the entries. A new thread (pool Worker) syncs before `wasi_thread_start`, as
+  `spawn.rs` does.
+- **The five imports.**
+  - `jit_load`: copy the bytes, compile, register, sync the caller. It returns -1 if the
+    module does not compile.
+  - `jit_compile` (the compile-worker thread): register without syncing. Without module
+    sharing it runs `WebAssembly.validate` first, so a bad module still returns -1. With
+    sharing (the default where JSPI exists, finding F1) it compiles, once for the
+    whole process, and posts the Module to the hub.
+  - `jit_sync`: as above. With sharing, a vCPU waits (JSPI) for Modules it has not
+    received yet instead of compiling them. A failure that is left after one retry
+    throws, which traps the thread and ends the machine with exit 4, as in the runner.
+  - `jit_flush`: bump the generation. Every thread clears `[155, size)` at its next sync,
+    and indices restart at 155.
+  - `jit_known` and `jit_note`: this session's block keys (D-513). A block whose code was
+    compiled before, wherever in memory it is now, gets that function back. With a module
+    cache across visits (W77) they also read and feed it.
+  - `jit_evict` (D-514): over the module budget, the door names the modules no block
+    entered lately, and the guest drops only those.
+- **Unchanged from P-B1.** Address windows stay off (`win_init` → 1). The compile-worker
+  thread (`WMD_JIT_WORKERS`, default 1) runs through `thread-spawn` like any other
+  thread. Tail calls are used (the guest's default).
+- **What is recorded.** Per module: compile time in the loading thread and in each
+  syncing thread, and instantiate time. Counters cover loads, compiles, syncs, sync time,
+  table sets and grows, bytes, dedup hits, flushes and failures. They are in
+  `timings.jit`, in a table on the test page (refreshed every second), and in the test
+  logs (`[<browser> <case>] jit=...`).
+
+### Code budgets and big builds (wmn#57, D-511 to D-518)
+
+A Go build compiles a lot of guest code. Each browser has a limit on wasm machine code:
+
+- **Firefox**: one 2 GiB pool per process. `jit.maxLiveBytes` defaults to 320 MiB of live
+  modules (D-511). Doors pull Modules from the hub instead of being sent them, so a Worker
+  that never reads its messages holds no released code (D-512).
+- **WebKit**: the pool fills with no error, and code made then runs interpreted for good.
+  The door times a tiny module (`jit.codePool`, default on in WebKit) and, while the pool
+  is full, answers `JIT_LATER`: the guest interprets and asks again a second later (D-515).
+- **All**: over the budget, only cold modules go (D-514). Blocks compiled before a release
+  compile again after 2 runs (D-517). A region's function starts at any of its blocks, and
+  no block is compiled into a second function (D-518).
+
+golang:1.23-alpine with wmn's agent (`test/e2e/go-warm.spec.js`, `WMD_WEB_GO=1`; a fmt program,
+`encoding/xml`, the cold set), code written by the guest's JIT:
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| before D-517, D-518 | 1.07 GB | 1.29-1.53 GB | 7.6 GB, fmt program not built in 600 s |
+| now | 0.52 GB, 7 s / 12 s / 93 s | 0.46-0.56 GB, 16-18 s / 16 s / 124-126 s | 0.60-0.62 GB, 16-33 s / 22-31 s / 564-574 s |
+
+### Numbers (2026-10-04, Apple Silicon, one run each, 1 vCPU, --ram 256; canary 620–654 ms around every run)
+
+The arm64 proof boot is the P-B1 boot with `--mode jit`. Browser times start at the
+`bootWmd` call, so they include the download. Native times are wall-clock from process
+start (`wmd-run --wmd-jit-cache off`, so it has no on-disk cache either, as in the
+browser).
+
+| arm64 proof boot | native interp | native JIT | Chromium interp (P-B1) | Chromium JIT | Firefox interp (P-B1) | Firefox JIT | WebKit interp (P-B1) | WebKit JIT |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `wmd-init: up` (ms) | 19,977 | kernel 3.93 s* | 17,342 | 4,711 | 21,653 | 4,711 | 19,169 | 4,773 |
+| `PROOF-DONE` (ms) | 51,554 | n/a* | 44,042 | **6,584** | 57,534 | **7,135** | 49,166 | **6,752** |
+| total (exit) (ms) | 52,024 | 6,526 (wall) | 44,240 | 6,687 | 57,772 | 7,222 | 49,431 | 6,847 |
+| speed-up of `PROOF-DONE` over P-B1 | – | – | – | **6.7x** | – | **8.1x** | – | **7.3x** |
+| speed-up of `wmd-init: up` | – | – | – | 3.7x | – | 4.6x | – | 4.0x |
+
+\* The native console has no wall-clock marks. `Run /init` is at kernel time 3.93 s
+native, 4.17 s in Chromium and 4.02 s in WebKit. The native run powered off at kernel
+time 6.25 s, with 6.53 s wall in total.
+
+Interp boots in the same sessions as the JIT boots gave `PROOF-DONE` at 43,307 ms
+(Chromium), 56,542 ms (Firefox) and 48,543 ms (WebKit), all within 2% of the P-B1 table.
+
+| JIT door, proof boot | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| modules / functions | 196 / 8,927 | 198 / 8,935 | 198 / 8,933 |
+| module bytes (all loads) | 26.5 MB | 26.5 MB | 26.5 MB |
+| compile per module in the vCPU's sync: total / p50 / p99 (ms) | 49.9 / 0.27 / 0.54 | 304.9 / 1.48 / 7.26 | 85.8 / 0.42 / 1.34 |
+| `WebAssembly.validate` in `jit_compile`, total (ms) | 48.1 | 118.7 | 100.3 |
+| instantiate: total / p50 / p99 (ms) | 10.5 / 0.055 / 0.13 | 6.7 / 0.04 / 0.08 | 16.7 / 0.08 / 0.14 |
+| time inside `jit_sync` on all threads (ms) | 96.9 | 330.2 | 124.9 |
+| modules per second of boot | 30 | 28 | 29 |
+| table size at the end | 9,082 (= 155 + live slots) | 9,090 | 9,088 |
+| shared wasm memory / module log | 640 MiB / 26.5 MB | 640 MiB / 26.5 MB | 640 MiB / 26.5 MB |
+
+The per-module compile is cheap because these engines compile lazily or in tiers: V8
+validates and compiles each function with Liftoff on first call. The host side of the
+door costs 0.1–0.3 s of a 6.6–7.1 s boot. Nearly all of the rest is guest execution,
+the same as native, so the remaining gap to native JIT is engine code quality, not the
+door. Native wasmtime/Cranelift reports `compile_ms=2999` for the same 194 modules:
+it compiles everything eagerly, with an optimizing compiler, on its compile thread.
+
+The shared memory size is the same as in interp mode (640 MiB). JS heap and engine
+code memory were not measured (there is no cross-browser API for them from a page).
+
+### What each step bought
+
+| Step | Effect |
+|---|---|
+| 1. The door as specified (compile in `jit_compile` and again in each syncing thread, chunked table growth) | Proof boot passed in Chromium at 6.84 s (6.4x). Spawned threads trapped `null function` in `threads` (see problem 1). |
+| 2. Grow each table exactly to its installed slots | Fixed the trap. No speed change. |
+| 3. `jit_compile` validates instead of compiling | Chromium, one boot each: compile 6,551 ms, validate 6,550 ms, parse-only 6,599 ms. No speed change. It halves the compiled copies per module, which matters for Firefox's code limit (problem 4). Kept as the default. |
+| `WMD_NO_KNOWN=1` (44,800 `jit_known` calls avoided) | 6,518 ms vs 6,551: noise. Not set. |
+| `WMD_JIT_WORKERS=0` (the vCPU compiles) | 6,407 ms: noise at one run. Kept the guest default. |
+| `--no-tail` | 6,326 ms: noise at one run. Kept the guest default (tail calls). |
+
+The 5x target was met at step 1, so no batching, async compile or cross-run caching was
+needed. A content-hash cache is in place anyway: identical bytes are logged once and
+compiled once per Worker (765 hits in the `--jit-batch 1` boot).
+
+### Tests (all run; output in the P-B2 report)
+
+| Test | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| unit: slot list, sync, flush, dedup, exact table size, 3,000 modules, mutation switch, 8 real Workers with and without `jit_flush` under load (`bun test test/unit`, 46 tests) | pass (bun/JSC) | | |
+| P-B1 boots (`boot.spec.js`) with the new output path | pass | pass | pass |
+| P-B1 adversarial (reload mid-boot, during download, two tabs, stalled tab) | pass | – | – |
+| synthetic images from `runner/tests/vm.rs`: hot loop JITs; dispatch survives IC IALLU; 2 vCPUs, 32 flushes while one chains | pass | pass | pass |
+| user-mode sha256 (output, `interp_fallbacks=0`, jit > 1M, chain > 1.5); threads x5 | pass | pass | pass |
+| self-modifying code: `smc.c` and `smcloop` x2 inside the Linux guest, jit and interp | pass | pass | pass |
+| **P-B2 proof boot: boot gate + JIT gate + `PROOF-DONE` ≤ P-B1/5** | pass | pass | pass |
+| thousands of modules: proof boot with `--jit-batch 1` (8,677 / 8,662 / 8,716 modules) | pass, 7.9 s | pass, 12.2 s | pass, 12.8 s |
+| mutation `brk=load` (`jit_load` → -1) fails the JIT gate | fails it: dispatch_calls=0, chain_len=0 | same | same |
+| mutation `brk=all` (both → -1) fails the JIT gate | fails it: no exit within P-B1's time | same | same |
+| stress: 8 Workers x 300 modules, no flush | pass | **fail: out of memory** | pass |
+| stress: `jit_flush` every 25 loads under load, then flush + load; tables identical, nothing stale | pass | pass | pass |
+| stress: 4 Workers x 1,500 modules | pass | **fail: out of memory** | pass |
+
+The JIT gate (`jitGate` in `test/e2e/jit.spec.js`) requires all of these:
+
+- at least one `jit_load`, no door failures, at least 2 modules, instantiations and
+  table sets;
+- the guest's own `--stats`: `jit_loads > 0`, `compiled > 0`, more blocks run compiled
+  than interpreted, `dispatch_calls > 0` and `chain_len > 1.5`;
+- for the proof boot, `PROOF-DONE` ≤ P-B1/5 for that browser.
+
+### Problems found, and their causes
+
+1. **`null function` trap in a spawned guest thread** (user-mode `threads` in JIT mode).
+   The guest's chaining dispatcher reads `idx >= table.size` as "not synced yet" and
+   returns `IR_EXIT_SYNC_MISS` so the vCPU calls `jit_sync` (`guest/vm/src/wasm_emit.c`
+   around line 5716). The first version grew tables in chunks, which left null entries
+   below `table.size`. The fix grows exactly, as `jit.rs` does, and
+   `test/unit/jit.test.js` now checks it.
+2. **`smc.c` is not a user-mode test.** It printed `SMC STALE` in the browser in user
+   mode, and native `wmd-run` prints the same for it in user mode, in interp *and* JIT.
+   The store check (D-159) is in the machine-mode MMU. The test now runs `smc.c` as a
+   process inside the arm64 Linux guest: a newc archive is appended to the proof
+   initramfs at boot (`page/smc-initrd.js`). Next to it runs `smcloop`, a hand-assembled
+   static ELF that calls its function 50,000 times, so that function is a compiled
+   wasm function when it is overwritten, then 50,000 more times. Native
+   `wmd-run --mode jit` passes the same initramfs.
+3. **The page froze when the guest flooded stderr.** With both JIT imports broken,
+   vm.wasm retries compiles in a tight loop and dumps each failed block's IR, about
+   127,000 dumps (25 MB) in 3 s. One `postMessage` per `fd_write` drowned the page's
+   event loop, and `page.evaluate` stopped answering. Output now goes through
+   SharedArrayBuffer rings (`src/host/stdio.js`), and the page keeps only the tail of
+   each stream.
+4. **Firefox runs out of wasm code memory at roughly 16,000–24,000 compiled modules
+   per process.** `new WebAssembly.Module` throws `InternalError: out of memory`.
+   Single-Worker probes in Firefox:
+   - 8,000 modules: pass;
+   - 2 Workers x 8,000 compiled copies: pass;
+   - 4 Workers x 6,000: fail.
+   Each Worker compiles its own copy, because a compiled Module can only be handed
+   between Workers through `postMessage`, which a busy vCPU never reads. Each copy
+   costs at least one code allocation. The real guest stays far below the limit: the
+   proof boot has about 200 modules, and `--jit-batch 1` about 8,700 copies on the one
+   vCPU, which passes. A many-vCPU guest with thousands of modules per vCPU would hit
+   it in Firefox. Chromium and WebKit pass the same stress tests. Step 3 halves the
+   copies. **Superseded:** the adversarial review measured the threshold at 2 vCPUs with
+   `--jit-batch 1`, and the fix shares one compiled Module per process. See F1 below.
+5. **Firefox and WebKit spend more in sync with very many tiny modules.**
+   `--jit-batch 1` costs 4.3 s (Firefox) and 5.7 s (WebKit) inside `jit_sync`, against
+   1.7 s and 1.1 s of compile time. A microbenchmark (3,000 modules, no guest) puts the
+   door's own bookkeeping at 0.03–0.09 ms per module, and `table.grow` is not the cost.
+   The rest is unprofiled; GC of about 8,000 Modules and Instances is the likely cause.
+   It does not affect the default batching (about 200 modules).
+
+### P-B2 adversarial review: findings and fixes
+
+The independent review is `test/b2-adversarial-results.txt` (commit `e4a3dfe5`), with its
+tests in `test/e2e/b2-adversarial.spec.js` and `test/unit/b2-adversarial.test.js`. None
+of its tests was changed. Every fix has a test that fails without it.
+
+| Finding | Status | Where |
+|---|---|---|
+| F1 Firefox runs out of code memory (2–4 vCPUs, `--jit-batch 1`, exit 4) | **fixed**: one compiled Module per process, shared through a hub Worker; resource failures no longer trap in the shared path | `src/host/jit.js`, `src/host/jit-hub.js`, `src/worker.js`, `src/boot.js` |
+| F2 "jit_flush under load" flaky (3/51) | **fixed**: a flush now bumps the generation before it rewinds the slot count; 100/100 runs pass | `src/host/jit.js` `flush()` |
+| F3 no guest run calls `jit_flush` | **documented** (below); the no-clear mutation is now a door switch, `brk=noclear`, and the unit and browser door tests fail on it | `src/host/jit.js` `clearTable()`, `test/unit/b2-fixes.test.js`, `test/e2e/jit-stress.spec.js` |
+| F4 console output silently dropped after a long stall | **fixed**: a marker line in the delivered text, counted; rings configurable, 32 MiB per fd for boots; the boot gate fails on a marker | `src/host/stdio.js`, `src/boot.js`, `page/main.js`, `test/e2e/helpers.js` |
+| F5 memory (Firefox 2x Chromium, WebKit RSS growth) | improved by F1 for Firefox (8 vCPUs: 2,866 → 1,917 MiB peak). The WebKit growth was not attributed | – |
+| F6 native comparison range | not re-measured | – |
+| F7 failure semantics | `jit_load` after a resource failure now refuses new modules (-1) instead of failing later syncs; the rest is unchanged | `src/host/jit.js` |
+
+#### F1: one compiled copy per process, not per Worker
+
+**Mechanism.** Before, every vCPU Worker compiled its own copy of every module and kept
+it forever. Firefox counts every copy against one per-process wasm code limit, so the
+total ran out at about 16,200 copies. When the compile threw inside `jit_sync`, the
+thread trapped and the machine exited 4.
+
+**What the guest can and cannot take.** A host cannot flush the door on its own to make
+room. The guest keeps the table index of every compiled block
+(`guest/vm/src/cache.c` `cp_publish`: `ir->jit_fn = base + i + 1`). Only
+`vm_cache_reset` gives them up, and it calls `jit_flush` itself (`cache.c:3545-3548`;
+`include/vm/cache.h:223-230`: "the full flush retires its compiled blocks and their
+table indices stay live, so nothing may drop the modules there"). What the guest does
+support is `jit_load` / `jit_compile` returning -1. `cp_publish` then retries each block
+of the batch in its own module. If that also fails, it marks the block `VM_BLK_INTERP`
+(the interpreter runs it from then on), counts `interp_fallbacks` and prints the block's
+IR once (`JITFAIL`). A failure inside `jit_sync` has no such path: the index is already
+published, and a table entry below `table.size` that is null traps the dispatcher.
+
+**Sharing is feasible, and it is the fix.** A `WebAssembly.Module` posted to another
+Worker shares its compiled code, in Firefox too. The probe (`test/features/share-probe*`,
+`WMD_WEB_SHAREPROBE=1 bunx playwright test b2-share-probe`) gave these results in
+Firefox 155:
+
+| probe (block-shaped modules, an instance of each kept in each Worker's table) | result | browser RSS peak |
+|---|---|---|
+| 4 Workers each compile their own 6,000 | out of memory at 4,060 + 4,131 + 4,115 + 4,036 = **16,342** copies | 1,853 MiB |
+| 2 Workers each compile their own 9,000 | out of memory at 8,176 + 8,169 = 16,345 | 1,943 MiB |
+| 1 Worker compiles 6,000, posts them, 3 others instantiate them | all 24,000 instances | 1,393 MiB |
+| the same with 8 Workers | all 48,000 instances | 1,462 MiB |
+| 1 Worker compiles 20,000, 1 (or 3) others instantiate | the compile fails at 16,345 / 16,343 distinct modules. Every received Module instantiates | 1,862 / 1,947 MiB |
+
+So the limit counts compiled modules in the process, about 16,340, and instances of a
+shared Module cost no code space. The obstacle was delivery. A vCPU Worker never
+returns to its event loop, so it cannot receive a message. JSPI solves that: Chromium
+153, Firefox 155 and WebKit 26.6 (Playwright) all have `WebAssembly.Suspending` and
+`WebAssembly.promising`, in Workers too. The design:
+
+- **Compile once.** The thread that calls `jit_load` or `jit_compile` compiles the
+  module. With sharing on, `jit_compile` compiles instead of only validating. If that
+  compile fails, the import returns -1, which the guest supports. The Worker then posts
+  the Module to the **hub** (`src/host/jit-hub.js`), a Worker that runs no guest code.
+  The hub forwards it to every other Worker's `MessagePort` and keeps the current
+  generation's Modules for Workers that start later. It forwards flushes, and on a flush
+  it drops the older Modules.
+- **Wait instead of compiling.** In `jit_sync` (and in the sync inside `jit_load` and
+  `jit_flush`), a module this Worker has not received makes the import return a Promise.
+  The worker wraps those three imports in `WebAssembly.Suspending` and calls `_start` /
+  `wasi_thread_start` through `WebAssembly.promising`. The vCPU's wasm stack suspends,
+  the Worker's event loop delivers the queued Modules, and the sync resumes where it
+  stopped. A sync that finds everything returns at once, without suspending. A new
+  thread syncs with `await door.syncAsync()`.
+- **Fallbacks.** A Module that has not arrived after 60 s (`jit.shareWaitMs`) is
+  compiled locally. That happens only if the hub stops answering, and it never happened
+  in any guest run here (`shareTimeouts=0`). If that local copy fails, the sync waits
+  for the shared Module again instead of trapping. A Module is posted to the hub
+  *before* its record is published, so a post that fails (Firefox past its limit failed
+  to serialize one) returns -1 with nothing published. If the hub cannot forward a
+  Module to some Worker, it sends `{t:'lost'}`, and that Worker compiles a copy at once. A resource failure (anything but
+  `CompileError` / `LinkError`) is retried once. If the retry fails too, the door sets
+  `H_FULL`, and from then on `jit_load` and `jit_compile` refuse new modules with -1, so
+  the guest interprets new blocks and keeps running. The browser test
+  "20,000 distinct shared modules" (4 Workers) drives Firefox past its limit to check
+  this. Firefox: 16,339 modules, then 3,661 loads refused, every table consistent, no
+  trap, 134 s. Chromium (1.6 s) and WebKit (25 s) compiled all 20,000.
+- **Release on flush (F1a).** The per-Worker `modules` map now holds only the current
+  generation. The first sync (or received Module) of a newer generation drops it, so
+  after a flush nothing in a Worker references an old Module. The old unit test "is not
+  recompiled by a thread that has it" asserted the opposite. It is now "a flush releases
+  the Worker's compiled Modules", with a second test covering every Worker.
+- **Default.** `bootWmd({jit: {share: 'auto'}})` turns sharing on wherever JSPI exists
+  (`jitShareDefault`). Pass `share: false` (page `?share=0`) for the old per-Worker
+  copies. Without JSPI (for example a shipping Safari that lacks it), the door compiles
+  per Worker as before. There the limit and the trap on a failed sync remain. Chromium
+  and WebKit never hit a limit in these tests.
+
+**Firefox, before and after** (`test/e2e/b2-fixes.spec.js`, proof boot, one run each,
+canary 601–627 ms around every run; "copies" = modules compiled anywhere in the
+process):
+
+| proof boot | before: `share=0` | after: sharing (default) |
+|---|---|---|
+| `--cpus 2 --jit-batch 1` | **exit 4**, out of memory at 16,150 copies (8,495 modules), RSS 2,415 MiB | pass, PROOF-DONE 8,968 ms, 9,340 modules / **8,924 copies**, RSS 2,395 MiB |
+| `--cpus 3 --jit-batch 1` | **exit 4** at 16,149 copies (5,981 modules), RSS 2,536 MiB | pass, 9,158 ms, 9,509 / 9,072 copies, RSS 2,451 MiB |
+| `--cpus 4 --jit-batch 1` | **exit 4** at 16,214 copies (4,625 modules), RSS 2,367 MiB | pass, 9,404 ms, 9,595 / 9,097 copies, RSS 2,518 MiB |
+| `--cpus 1`, default batching | PROOF-DONE 7,943 ms, 206 copies, `jit_sync` 562 ms, RSS 1,768 MiB | 6,234 ms, 199 copies, 17 ms, 1,743 MiB |
+| `--cpus 4` | 6,770 ms, 859 copies, 1,938 ms, 1,859 MiB | 5,769 ms, 216 copies, 58 ms, 1,905 MiB |
+| `--cpus 8` | 7,834 ms, 1,883 copies, 5,809 ms, **2,866 MiB** | 5,908 ms, **236 copies**, 124 ms, **1,917 MiB** |
+
+With `share=0`, the retry did not help (`compileRetries` 1–3, still exit 4). That is the
+residual of the per-Worker mode.
+
+**Chromium and WebKit, the same boots** (default batching; `share=0` → sharing):
+
+| | Chromium copies | Chromium PROOF-DONE ms | Chromium `jit_sync` ms | Chromium RSS MiB | WebKit copies | WebKit PROOF-DONE ms | WebKit `jit_sync` ms | WebKit RSS MiB |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| `--cpus 1` | 200 → 197 | 5,955 → 5,840 | 83 → 14 | 1,100 → 1,071 | 201 → 197 | 5,803 → 5,959 | 96 → 24 | 1,265 → 1,221 |
+| `--cpus 4` | 875 → 215 | 5,455 → 5,316 | 349 → 48 | 1,146 → 1,162 | 855 → 212 | 6,039 → 5,540 | 526 → 92 | 1,658 → 1,127 |
+| `--cpus 8` | 1,867 → 233 | 5,728 → 5,495 | 836 → 97 | 1,248 → 1,216 | 1,859 → 232 | 6,711 → 5,846 | 1,370 → 194 | 1,411 → 1,297 |
+
+The time a vCPU spends waiting for a Module is counted separately (`shareWaitMs`): 31 ms
+(Firefox), 16 ms (Chromium) and 106 ms (WebKit) at 1 vCPU, and 0.8–1.4 s across all
+threads in the Firefox `--jit-batch 1` boots. Each number is from one run.
+
+**Hub throughput (a limit of the fix).** In Firefox, a flood of tiny modules from 8
+loaders at once overruns the hub. 8 Workers x 1,500 modules took 17–67 s, and once over
+170 s, with syncs waiting more than 10 s; Chromium did the same in 1.5 s. At 8 x 1,000
+it is 3.7 s. The guest boots are far from this: the `--jit-batch 1` boots at 4 vCPUs
+waited 1.4 s in total, over 36,000 waits. The browser stress test now uses 8 x 1,000.
+Batching the forwards in the hub was not tried.
+
+**Suites after the fixes** (one run each per browser, under the lock, canary 595–633 ms):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `bun test test/unit` (79 tests) | 79 pass (bun) | | |
+| `jit.spec boot.spec jit-stress` | 23/23 | 20/23 (below) | 23/23 |
+| `b2-fixes` | 5/5 | 5/5 | 5/5 (F4 marker test after the 4 KiB change) |
+| `b2-adversarial` (`WMD_WEB_B2ADV=1`), 12 tests | 12/12 | 12/12 | 12/12 |
+
+The three Firefox failures:
+
+- "no flush: 8 threads x 300" and "4 threads x 1500" are the original **per-Worker**
+  stress tests. Their pages do not share Modules, so Firefox still runs out of code
+  memory at about 16,300 copies, exactly as before the fixes. They are kept unchanged
+  as the evidence for the limit. Their shared twins pass.
+- "shared Modules: 8 threads x 1500" timed out on that run (hub throughput, above). It
+  is now 8 x 1000, which passed in all three browsers (Firefox 3.7 s).
+
+The 20,000-module refusal test timed out in Firefox once at 8 x 3,000 (over 290 s). At
+4 x 5,000 it passed in 134 s.
+
+#### F2: the flaky flush test
+
+`flush()` used to store `H_NSLOTS = 0` before bumping `H_GEN`. A reader that does not
+take the lock, such as the stress check in `page/jit-stress-worker.js`, could then see 0
+live slots in the old generation. The door's own readers were not affected (`sync`
+does not read `H_NSLOTS`). The order is now `H_MOD_START`, `H_GEN`, `H_NSLOTS`: a sync
+still sees where a new generation starts, and a rewound slot count always comes with
+the new generation. `test/unit/b2-fixes.test.js` records the header writes of a flush,
+which fails deterministically with the old order. It also races the stress check
+against a Worker doing 20,000 flushes; that check caught the old order in 1 of 3 runs.
+"jit_flush under load", 100 runs in a row: `jit_flush under load: 100 pass, 0 fail of
+100`.
+
+#### F3: no guest run calls `jit_flush`
+
+The guest calls `jit_flush` only from `vm_cache_reset`
+(`guest/vm/src/cache.c:3545-3548`), and `guest/vm/src` and `guest/vm/include` contain no
+call to `vm_cache_reset` (only its definition, the declaration at
+`include/vm/cache.h:510` and comments). The guest's full flush, `vm_cache_flush`, keeps
+the table indices on purpose (D-166, `include/vm/cache.h:223-230`). `jit_wasm.c:64-70`
+says the same: "only vm_cache_reset does, and nothing in a machine run calls that, so
+this is not reached in production." The tests "dispatch survives an IC IALLU full
+flush" and "2 vCPUs, 32 flushes" exercise the guest's own block-cache flush, not the
+door's. The door's flush is therefore tested only at the door level:
+
+- unit: `jit.test.js` (`jit_flush` describe, and 8 Workers flushing under load),
+  `b2-adversarial.test.js` (the storm), `b2-fixes.test.js`, `jit-share.test.js` (flush
+  with sharing);
+- browser: `jit-stress.spec.js` (flush under load, with and without sharing) and the
+  storm in `b2-adversarial.spec.js`;
+- the adversary's mutation, a flush that does not clear the tables, is the door switch
+  `brk: 'noclear'`. Its tests assert that the checks *fail* under it: the unit test
+  reports "still set after the flush", and the 8-Worker stress reports "table[158] set
+  above the 3 live slots" under bun and "table[161] set above the 6 live slots" in Firefox.
+
+#### F4: dropped output is visible
+
+- The writer still never blocks; a guest must not stall on a page that does not drain.
+- `stdioText()` (used by `bootWmd`) inserts `\n[wmd-web: N bytes of stdout were
+  dropped]\n` into the text where the reader skipped bytes. It ends any UTF-8 sequence
+  the skip cut, and counts the markers (`timings.outputDropMarkers`).
+- Ring size: `createStdio(ringBytes)` (a power of two, 4 KiB–1 GiB, stored in the
+  header). `bootWmd` uses **32 MiB per fd** (`BOOT_RING`, override with
+  `stdioRingBytes`). The guest console runs at about 0.33 MB/s in JIT mode, so 32 MiB
+  covers about 100 s of a page that serves no events. That is more than the 25 s stall
+  that lost 5.4 MB in the review, and more than Chromium's intensive throttling of
+  hidden tabs (timers once a minute). It costs 64 MiB of SharedArrayBuffer, which is
+  touched only as it fills, next to the guest's 640 MiB memory. `RING` (4 MiB) stays
+  the library default, so the review's 30 MB ring flood test still overruns the ring.
+- `page/main.js` keeps about 8 MB of each stream (P-B1's head-and-tail cut). When it
+  cuts, it writes the same kind of marker between the head and the tail it keeps.
+- `bootGate` (`test/e2e/helpers.js`) fails with `OUTPUT DROPPED (a gate line may be
+  missing): ...` when a marker is in the log.
+- Tests: `stdio.test.js` (marker, count, position, UTF-8, ring size),
+  `b2-fixes.test.js` (gate), and `b2-fixes.spec.js` in the browser. A 4 KiB ring with a
+  6 s stall must produce markers whose byte counts add up to `outputDropped`, and the
+  gate must fail. (A 256 KiB ring with a 6 s stall overran it in Chromium and Firefox but
+  not in WebKit. There the guest stalled together with the page's main thread, and the
+  kernel printed RCU stall warnings.) The review's own 1.5M-line / 25 s stall case must
+  lose nothing with the default ring. Results: Chromium 1 marker / 1,984,818 bytes,
+  Firefox 124 markers / 1,243,495 bytes, WebKit 237 markers / 997,626 bytes, the counts
+  equal in each. The 25 s stall lost 0 of 1,500,000 lines in all three.
+
+### Reproducing the native references
+
+```sh
+cd ~/keg-hub/external/apps/wmd    # read-only use of the main checkout's guest files
+# (under the boot lock)
+~/.wmd/bin/wmd-run --wmd-stats --wmd-jit-cache off --dir guest/linux/dist ~/.wmd/bin/guest/arm64/vm.wasm -- \
+  --machine --arch a64 --board arm64 --mode jit --cpus 1 --ram 256 \
+  --kernel guest/linux/dist/arm64/Image --initrd guest/linux/dist/arm64/initramfs.cpio.gz \
+  --append "console=ttyAMA0 earlycon=pl011,0x9000000 rdinit=/init loglevel=8 wmd.proof wmd.exit" --stats
+```
+
+The guest's `--stats` line for that run: `compiled=8782 jit_loads=194 chain_len=99.2 compile_ms=2999`, `wall: 6.526s`.
+
+## P-B11: the wmn agent in the browser's guest
+
+The proof: `hello_reply` and the P-K2 Python block checks pass with the wmn agent running inside
+wmd's guest in the browser (`test/e2e/wmn.spec.js`, `page/wmn.js`).
+
+### What runs
+
+1. **Image.** `fixtures-gen image -ref docker.io/library/python:3.12-slim -out test/fixtures/images/python`
+   reads wmd's image store (`~/.wmd/data/images`, read only), picks the linux/arm64 manifest and turns
+   each layer into a pack with wmd's `union.PackLayer` over the packs below it, as the engine's rootfs
+   cache does (`internal/container/chaincache.go`). python:3.12-slim is 4 packs (101 MB, 3.9 MB,
+   40 MB, 531 B), node:22-slim is 5 (98 MB, 9.9 KB, 143 MB, 7.2 MB, 657 B). The JS overlay stacks them
+   top first under `rootfs/`. `test/unit/image-layers.test.js` compares the merged tree with what
+   `internal/union` shows for the same packs (`fixtures-gen tree`). All 5,574 paths are equal, with
+   type and size.
+2. **Bundle.** `containerBundle()` (`src/host/ctl.js`) writes the engine's spec (`internal/engine/ocispec.go`
+   `buildSpec`: docker's capabilities, masked and read-only paths, `RLIMIT_NOFILE`, `oomScoreAdj` 0, the
+   six default mounts, `/etc/{hosts,resolv.conf,hostname}` bound from `bundle/etc`), plus
+   `imageconfig.json`. Each mount is a share `vol<i>` beside `bundle/` and `rootfs/`, as the engine's
+   `layout()` does. The agent (`wmn-agent-linux-arm64` from the wmn repo's `agent/build.sh`, served at
+   `/files/wmn-agent/`) is the file `vol0/wmn-agent` (mode 0755), bound read-only at `/.wmn/agent`.
+3. **Boot.** This uses the engine's arm64 command line (`run.go` `guestCmdline`, without `wmd.warmup`)
+   with `wmd.control=vport`: `--p9 564 --p9-tag wmdroot --control 8`, 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB, `--mode jit`.
+   Services are the 9P server over the packs plus the bundle files, and `{port: 8, kind: 'control', yamux: true}`.
+4. **Control session (ROADMAP 2.2b).** When the init opens `/dev/vport2p1`, the channel service starts
+   a yamux client on it (`ControlSession`). The page's `vm.control` (`ControlClient`) opens streams
+   through it:
+   - `run` comes first, as `driveMainProcess` sends it: `{"op":"run","id":"main","args":["/.wmn/agent","init"],"env":...,"now":...,"seed":<32 bytes of crypto.getRandomValues, base64>,"p9tag":"wmdroot","p9opts":"trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,msize=262144,cache=mmap"}`.
+   - Then `exec` of `/.wmn/agent serve` (id `wmn-serve`, stdin open). The init holds it until the
+     container runs.
+   - The wmn protocol runs as JSON lines in stdin/stdout frames: `hello`, `languages_request`, then
+     `page/k2.js` `runChecks`.
+   - At the end the agent's stdin is closed, then `kill {id: main, sig: SIGTERM}`. The agent's init
+     exits, the Go init writes `bundle/exitcode` (read back) and powers off.
+5. **Checks.** `page/k2.js` is k2.ts's python/node/ruby cases and its 13 checks with their bounds
+   unchanged (copied: k2.ts imports Bun-only modules, so a page cannot load it), and agent-conn.ts.
+   One harness-only change: a block whose agent stream ended fails at once instead of at its
+   120 s timeout.
+
+### The control client
+
+- **Wire format.** It speaks hashicorp/yamux v0.1.2's wire format: 12-byte headers; odd stream ids
+  for the client; the SYN window update on open; 256 KiB windows each way; a window update once half
+  the window is consumed; FIN after the queued data; RST; Go Away on a protocol error; pings answered
+  with the same value. A keepalive ping goes out every 5 s, as the engine does; a missing answer is
+  only counted. Streams the guest opens (op `edge`) are refused with RST.
+- **Where it runs.** The yamux client runs in the channel service Worker, not on the page. The
+  guest's yamux server pings every 30 s and drops the session when an answer takes more than 10 s;
+  the page's main thread can stall that long (P-B1's stalled-tab check), the service does not.
+  `ctl.test.js` shows the session dropping when the host stops answering.
+- **Backpressure.** The page acknowledges stream bytes after it has delivered them, and only then does
+  the service give the window back. A page that stops reading stops the guest at 256 KiB.
+- **Protocol.** It matches `ctlproto.go` and the init: Go's `omitempty` for the request line, frames
+  `id|len BE|payload` (at most 10 MiB), the exit frame with the synced flag, `close_stdin` at once when
+  there is no stdin, the attach reply line before the replayed frames, and one JSON line for the other
+  ops. A stream that ends without an exit frame gives 125 with the reason, as `runProcessExit` does.
+- **Unit tests.** `test/unit/ctl.test.js` has 22 tests. 10 drive the browser's path
+  (`ControlClient` -> `ChanHost.controlInput` -> yamux -> the control channel's rings) against
+  **hashicorp/yamux itself**: `test/ctl-guest` is a Go server with the init's stream protocol, running
+  local processes. They cover:
+  - the request as Go parses it;
+  - stdin, stdout and stderr apart, exit codes, the synced flag;
+  - 5 MiB of output in order and 3 MiB of stdin (cksum equal);
+  - 16 processes at once;
+  - kill, procs and attach;
+  - a page that does not ack stopping the guest at one window;
+  - 50 ms guest pings answered, and the session lost when the host stops answering;
+  - the guest going away: every stream gets 125 and later opens are refused.
+
+  The yamux unit tests cover window accounting, split frames and the protocol errors.
+
+### udhcpc
+
+The run request cannot skip it. The init runs `udhcpc` (up to 15 s with no network, `-t 5 -T 3`)
+before it opens the control channel, whenever `/sys/class/net/eth0` exists, and the board always has a
+virtio-net device. The engine does not skip it for `--network none` either: it always passes `--net`,
+and its netstack answers. In the browser the page passes `initcall_blacklist=virtio_net_driver_init`
+on the kernel command line (`?nonet=1`, the spec's default). With no eth0 the init skips udhcpc:
+Chromium python got `hello_reply` at 5.8–6.1 s with it against 21.8 s without it (control session
+up at 4.4–4.7 s against 20.4 s). P-B10's relay, or a DHCP answer from the net stub, makes it moot. **Update (P-B10):** `page/net.html` boots
+with eth0 and a net service; udhcpc gets its lease from the network Worker in 0.4-0.5 s.
+
+### Numbers (2026-10-05, Apple Silicon, Playwright 1.63, `--mode jit`, 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB, `nonet=1`)
+
+ms from the `bootWmd` call (download included), one run each. `run2` and `run6` are the runs below;
+the canary was 640–656 ms before each Chromium and Firefox run and 1,358 ms before the WebKit
+part of run6. The host was shared with other sessions throughout: load average 24–32 on 10 cores.
+
+| python:3.12-slim | Chromium (run2 / run6) | Firefox (run3) | WebKit (run6) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| control session up | 4,382 / 4,653 | 9,167 | 6,840 |
+| `hello_reply` | **5,799 / 6,095** | 11,570 | 10,021 |
+| `languages_reply` | 7,234 / 7,881 | 17,437 | 13,330 |
+| `session_start` python (cold) | 8,068 / 8,197 | 18,110 | 12,168 |
+| define / use block | 52 / 49, 56 / 63 | 75 / 67 | 86 / 57 |
+| interrupt a loop | 41 | 229 | 69 |
+| infinite output, stopped in | 42 (771 KB), 20 (243 KB) | 33 (175 KB) | 44 (154 KB) |
+| all 13 checks done | 20,782 / 21,577 | 43,867 | 32,133 |
+| 9P requests | 8,372 | | 8,372 |
+
+| node:22-slim | Chromium (run5 / run6) | Firefox (run6, throttled 7.8x) | WebKit (run6) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `hello_reply` | 6,978 / 6,571 | 50,007 | 9,867 |
+| `session_start` node | 4,262 / 4,568 | 4,448 | 5,229 |
+| define / use | 321 / 100, 297 / 117 | 243 / 81 | 266 / 144 |
+| interrupt a loop | 102 / 86 | 114 | 80 |
+| checks | 13/13, 13/13 | 12/13 | 13/13 |
+
+Native wmd for comparison, from P-K2 (native wmd under the daemon, with its edge fast path):
+python session start 7.0 s, node 4.0 s, interrupt 8 ms (python) and 24 ms (node). So the browser's
+session start is about the same. The browser's checks show no network wait, because nothing in them
+needs the network.
+
+### Results, every run (all under the boot lock, `PORT=8798`)
+
+| run | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| run2 python | 13/13 | | |
+| run3 python / node (256 MiB slack) | 13/13 / 5/7 (trap) | 13/13 / 5/7 (trap) | 0 (`not a pack`) / 5/7 (trap) |
+| run3 python with udhcpc | 13/13 | | |
+| run4 (canary 2.5 s: contended) | node 5/7 (trap) | | python 11/13, 13/13, 13/13 |
+| run5 node, 1 GiB slack | 13/13 | | |
+| run6 python / node | 13/13 / 13/13 | 0/1 / 12/13 (throttled 7.4-7.8x) | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| run7 python / node, on wmd main (ee1886e8) | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / **13/13** | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| run8 python / node, the finished branch (2026-10-06) | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / 13/13 (and 13/13 / 13/13 in a first run at canary 6.2 s) |
+
+### Problems found, and their causes
+
+1. **node trapped the machine: vm.wasm's heap hit the memory maximum** (fixed for the page).
+   - What happened: in all three browsers, node's interrupt check never got a reply, and the machine
+     ended with exit 4: `RuntimeError: unreachable` at `abort` <- `interp_run_block`.
+   - Why: when it trapped, the shared memory was 1,664 MiB, exactly `memoryMaxPages()`'s maximum
+     (384 MiB vm.wasm + 1 GiB RAM + 256 MiB slack). node's V8 is a JIT inside the emulated guest
+     (460 block modules, 21,263 functions); it pushed the translator's heap, which shares the memory,
+     to the maximum. `interp_run_block`'s `calloc` then returned NULL, and the guest calls `abort()`
+     (`guest/vm/src/interp.c:848`).
+   - Fix: the wmn page passes `maxPages` with 1 GiB of slack (`?slack=`). node then peaks at
+     1,784–1,799 MiB and passes 13/13 in all three browsers.
+   - Still open: `bootWmd`'s library default (256 MiB) is unchanged for the older suites. The guest
+     aborting on an allocation failure, instead of reporting it, is a guest finding: native `wmd-run`
+     reserves 4 GiB, so it does not see it.
+2. **WebKit: `layer 1: not a pack`, once in run3** (cause not found).
+   - What happened: the channel service could not open python's `layer-2.pack`, and the boot ended
+     with -4 before the control session.
+   - What was ruled out:
+     - `wmn-fetch.spec.js` fetched every pack 3 times as files, and 15 more rounds along the boot's
+       own path (fetchShared next to the kernel's download, then one postMessage of the
+       SharedArrayBuffers to a Worker). Every size and both magics were right.
+     - It did not recur in 7 later WebKit boots of python.
+   - Next time: the service now says what arrived (bytes, head, tail, non-zero pages), so a repeat
+     tells a bad transfer from a bad file.
+3. **WebKit python: interrupt took 1,319 ms, so the agent ended the session (once in 4; run4).**
+   - Why: the agent's `InterruptGrace` (1 s, `agent/session.go`) SIGKILLs a block that has not
+     stopped by then. The other WebKit runs stopped in 69–182 ms (Chromium 41 ms, native 8 ms).
+     The run's canary was 2.5 s, against 0.64 s on a quiet host.
+   - Effect: under emulation on a loaded host, the 1 s grace is close to the latency of signal
+     delivery plus KeyboardInterrupt.
+   - This is wmn's setting, so it is left for the agent's step (ROADMAP 4.16); the check's bound
+     was not changed.
+4. **Firefox (run6), both boots on a host that the throttle detector measured 7.4–7.8x slow.**
+   - **python: the guest dropped the control session.**
+     - Sequence: the init logged `control: accept error: keepalive timeout`, then `session closed
+       before main process ran`, then exit 125 and a power-off. Its yamux server's 10 s ping timeout
+       expired in guest time.
+     - In the same boot a vCPU waited 60 s for a JIT module from the hub. The door logged
+       `module ... did not arrive from the hub in 60000 ms; compiling a copy`; `shareTimeouts` was 1
+       and `shareWaitMs` 61,772.
+     - The service answers pings at once, so the late answer was the guest's side not reading:
+       its vCPU was stalled.
+     - The hub's forwarding is plain postMessage. Why one module took over 60 s to arrive was not
+       found: P-B2 measured up to 1.4 s of waits per boot; this boot ran at up to 7.8x slowdown.
+     - It is a finding for P-B2's sharing (a lost or starved forward), with this log as the evidence.
+   - **node: `infinite output` printed 7,676 bytes in 1.5 s.** The check wants more than 10,000. The
+     guest ran slowly: control session up at 36 s instead of about 6 s.
+5. **Harness problems found on the way.**
+   - The first run never booted: the disk was under 75 GiB when the lock was taken, and
+     `node_modules` was missing. The runner now re-checks the disk under the lock.
+   - Playwright empties `test-results/` at the start of every run, so the logs now go to
+     `wmn-results/`.
+   - `FrameReader` was O(n^2) on byte-sized input: a 70 KB frame fed one byte at a time timed out.
+     It now keeps chunks.
+
+### What remains
+
+- **Ruby.** ruby:3.3-slim is not in wmd's store; only ruby:3.3-alpine is. A pull through wmd's image
+  code into a scratch store was not done. The node case passes; ruby is not checked.
+- **The adversarial set from P-K2 (robustness.ts) in the browser.** Not ported here; that is the
+  reviewer's step.
+- **Open causes.** The cause of problem 2 and the stalled hub forward in problem 4.
+- **Defaults and options.** `bootWmd`'s default slack. Packs from OPFS (here they are fetched into
+  memory: 145 MB for python, 250 MB for node). Network (P-B10). Snapshots and `wmd.warmup`.
+- **Reruns.** No timed comparison runs on a quiet host: the host was loaded throughout (load average
+  24–32).
+- **W21 (branch w21-trap, under review).** Not merged here. Its two commits cherry-pick onto this
+  branch with one README conflict (section "Out-of-memory detection with W21's heap reserve"); after
+  it, a real out-of-memory trap is reported only with a W21-built vm.wasm.
+- **hvc0 at 33-72 KB/s** (section "hvc0 after W17"): resolved by W53 (D-433). It was the test's
+  2-byte tty writes, not hvc0; the 50 MiB `chan.spec` hvc0 test now passes at 2.1-3.1 MB/s.
+
+### Running
+
+```sh
+(cd ~/keg-hub/external/apps/wmn && agent/build.sh)            # the agent, into the wmn repo's agent/dist
+go run ./web/test/fixtures-gen image -ref docker.io/library/python:3.12-slim -out web/test/fixtures/images/python
+go run ./web/test/fixtures-gen image -ref docker.io/library/node:22-slim -out web/test/fixtures/images/node
+cd web && bun test test/unit/ctl.test.js test/unit/image-layers.test.js
+# under the boot lock, one browser per run (about 45 s per image):
+WMD_WEB_WMN_IMAGES=python,node PORT=8798 bunx playwright test wmn.spec --project=chromium
+WMD_WEB_WMN_IMAGES=python WMD_WEB_WMN_QUERY= PORT=8798 bunx playwright test wmn.spec --project=chromium   # with udhcpc
+PORT=8798 bunx playwright test wmn-fetch --project=webkit     # no boot: the pack transfer probe
+```
+
+### P-B11 adversarial review: findings and fixes
+
+The review is `test/adversarial-b11/RESULTS.md` (branch `wmd-web-b11-adv`, 2b7f2e6d, merged). None of its
+tests were changed. Each fix has a test that fails on the pre-fix code (347f80ed) and passes after.
+
+| Finding | Status | Fix | Test (before -> after) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 30 concurrent execs trap the machine in Chromium (`calloc` <- `interp_run_block`) | **not here**: W21, debugged separately | - | - |
+| 2 python driver interrupt race (c09c) | fixed in wmn's phase1 branch | - | - |
+| 3 `wmn.vm` collected in a hold (WeakRef) | fixed | `page/wmn.js` holds the vm strongly while it runs, drops it when it ends | b11-fixes "the vm handle survives forced garbage collection" (Chromium, 5 CDP `collectGarbage`): before `{vm: false}`, after `{vm: true, up: true}` |
+| 4 OOM reported as `trap: unreachable`, `wmn.error` null, a second vCPU on garbage IR | fixed | `boot.js` `finish()`: a trap with the memory within 64 MiB of its maximum becomes `out of memory: the emulator used N of its M memory maximum ...` (`timings.memoryMaxBytes`, `timings.trap` keep the raw facts) and every Worker is terminated at once; `worker.js`: every wasi/wmd/thread-spawn import (not `jit_*`, not `proc_exit`) throws once the machine's exit flag is set, so other threads stop at their next host call; `wmn.js` sets `wmn.error` on any end it did not ask for | b11-fixes synthetic `oom_trap.wat` (grows to the maximum, traps; a second thread writes once a millisecond): before, reason `trap: unreachable` and 810-6,601 lines after the trap (C/F/W); after, the out-of-memory reason and 0-2 lines, 3 rounds x 3 browsers. Real guest, node at `slack=256`: before, `trap: unreachable` and `wmn.error` null; after, `wmn.error` "the machine ended: 4 (out of memory: the emulator used 1664 MiB of its 1664 MiB memory maximum ...)", no "vreg out of range" in stderr |
+| 5 AgentConn quadratic (20 MB line: 16.5 s Firefox) | fixed | `page/k2.js`: each chunk searched once, line pieces joined once | `test/unit/agent-conn.test.js` (old: 5 MB 62 ms, 20 MB 957 ms, fails); b11-fixes in each browser: before 5/20 MB = C 82/1,142, F 767/16,213, W 70/477 ms; after C 3/11, F 15-16/121-152, W 13-16/19-23 ms |
+| 6 yamux.js buffers a frame before checking the window; unknown-stream data held | fixed | `feed()` parses incrementally: the header in 12 bytes, the window checked when the header arrives (Go Away before any body), data for a gone stream discarded as it comes; a body is kept as its pieces (at most one window) and delivered once whole | the review's A1, A2 (failed before, pass) |
+| 8 `feed()` quadratic on small pieces | fixed (same change) | - | the review's A3 (10.7 s before -> 76 ms), A3b (79 ms) |
+| 9 lenient: window credit past 2^32, `consume(NaN)` | fixed | `sendWindow` capped at 0xffffffff (Go's uint32); `consume` ignores non-finite | the review's A11, A13 (failed before, pass) |
+| 7 no stdin backpressure | fixed | the service reports bytes it sent on (`{ev:'sent'}`, from the stream's queue as the guest's window allows); each page stream has a credit (`STREAM_CREDIT`, 4 MiB + 64 KiB) of bytes posted and not yet sent; `CtlProcess.write()` returns false and sends nothing past it; `writeAsync()` queues in order and resolves when posted; `closeStdin()` waits for queued data; AgentConn sends through `writeAsync` | the review's G6 (service held 62.8 MiB before -> 2.8 MiB); ctl.test "stdin backpressure": 64 MiB through `cksum` equal, the service never held more than 4.00 MiB |
+| 9 over 256 streams: "reset by the guest" | fixed | the page keeps at most 128 streams open (`MAX_OPEN_STREAMS`, under the guest's AcceptBacklog 256); more wait their turn; a guest RST before any reply names the backlog | ctl.test: 300 at once all answer, never more than 128 open, 172 queued; the review's G1 passes (it failed 1 in ~5 runs before) |
+| 9 exec errors | fixed | `checkProcessRequest`: a NUL in an argument, env entry or cwd is refused on the page with the reason (the init gave a bare 125); an id in use by a live run/exec of this page is refused; exec exit 1 with crun's "executable file ... not found" -> 127, "... not executable" -> 126 (the init's `crunExecStatus`, which it applies to `run` only); crun's messages lose the internal container name `foo` | ctl.test (4 tests, all fail on the old code) |
+| 9 "has not opened the control port" after the session ended | fixed | the service remembers the session and why it ended: "the guest's control session N has ended (...) and none is open" | ctl.test "an open after the session ended" |
+
+Not changed: c03 late output (wmn's known limit, ROADMAP 4.3b); `non-UTF-8 in args` (JSON); a duplicate FIN is
+still ignored (the review's A6 is INFO, it passes).
+
+**Unit:** `bun test test/unit test/adversarial-b11/yamux-adv.test.js`: 302 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail (the review's
+file: 28/28; before: 22/28).
+
+**Browser runs after the fixes** (one lock, canary 2.5 s before, 0.81 s after: a loaded host):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| b11-fixes, no guest, 3 rounds | 3/3 x 3 | 3/3 x 3 (two rounds failed on bounds that were too tight for a few-ms measurement, fixed: see below) | 3/3 x 3 |
+| the vm through 5 forced GCs in a hold | `{vm: true, up: true}`, then SIGTERM through it: exit 0 | - | - |
+| node, `slack=256` | exit 4, `wmn.error` out of memory, no garbage-IR line | - | - |
+| wmn python / node | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / **12/13** | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+
+Two of my own bounds were tightened against flakiness, not loosened against a regression: the OOM test's
+second thread now writes once a millisecond (it spun before, so "lines after the trap" measured CPU speed:
+11 in one Chromium run), and the AgentConn ratio uses a 50 ms floor (Firefox 5 MB at 15 ms made 20 MB at
+121 ms a ratio of 8 while the old code took 16 s).
+
+**Firefox node `infinite output`, 12/13 (run6 and this run):** 4,545 and 7,676 bytes in 1.5 s against the
+check's 10,000. This is the guest's JIT in Firefox, not the transport: node's flood block is new V8 code, so the
+guest translates it; the boot's JIT door spent 2,249 ms compiling modules in Firefox against 270 ms in
+Chromium (535 / 548 modules) and 2,634 ms waiting for shared modules against 199 ms (P-B2's per-browser
+compile cost). The same boot's python flood streamed 254 KB. Left as is; the check's bound is unchanged.
+
+### On wmd main (branch rebased onto 9833319c, HEAD ee1886e8 and after)
+
+wmd main brought W14/W15 (9P), W17 (virtio-console interrupts) and W18 (guest entropy from the host
+at boot, 70d03426). Every run below is under the boot lock, `PORT=8798`, with the installed
+`vm.wasm` (sha256 30db07f5..., built after W17/W18).
+
+**wmn suite, run7** (2026-10-05 15:48-15:50, one boot per image and browser; canary 648/704/717 ms
+before and 662/662/717 ms after the Chromium/Firefox/WebKit runs; load average 12-23):
+
+| ms from `bootWmd` | Chromium python / node | Firefox python / node | WebKit python / node |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| control session up | 4,345 / 4,383 | 4,858 / 5,184 | 5,202 / 5,041 |
+| `hello_reply` | 5,707 / 5,707 | 6,157 / 6,416 | 7,795 / 7,785 |
+| `languages_reply` | 7,038 / 6,902 | 8,199 / 8,410 | 9,566 / 9,979 |
+| `session_start` | 7,484 / 3,706 | 11,606 / 2,860 | 9,054 / 4,352 |
+| define / use | 63 / 48, 263 / 101 | 49 / 43, 151 / 81 | 46 / 66, 244 / 114 |
+| interrupt a loop | 35 / 95 | 29 / 68 | 35 / 91 |
+| infinite output (bytes in 1.5 s, stopped in ms) | 1,077,165 (32) / 60,802 (33) | 328,350 (24) / **29,795** (46) | 248,661 (30) / 33,229 (46) |
+| all 13 checks done | 19,866 / 16,152 | 26,441 / 16,281 | 24,127 / 19,814 |
+| checks | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / **13/13** | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+
+- **Firefox node passes all 13 for the first time.** Its flood streamed 29,795 bytes against the
+  check's 10,000 (4,545 and 7,676 in the two runs before). The control session came up at 5.2 s, as in
+  the other browsers. The cause of the change was not isolated; this run's host was quieter than run6's
+  (no throttling), and W18 removed the guest's wait for entropy.
+- **The guest's entropy is seeded at boot in the browser.** Every boot log of run7 and after has
+  `random: crng init done` at `[0.000000]` (13 of 13 logs in `wmn-results/`). Before W18 the same boots
+  logged it at 4.1-19.6 s (`wmn-results/r6`), from jitter entropy over the strictly increasing clock of
+  P-B3 problem 2.
+- Logs: `wmn-results/main-{chromium,firefox,webkit}/`.
+
+**wmn suite, run8** (2026-10-06 08:00-08:05, the finished branch: the out-of-memory change, the
+random_get test; one boot per image and browser; canary 693/637, 924/631, 700/1,012 ms before/after
+the Chromium/Firefox/WebKit runs; load average 13-23):
+
+| ms from `bootWmd` | Chromium python / node | Firefox python / node | WebKit python / node |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| control session up | 5,217 / 4,953 | 6,220 / 6,091 | 6,709 / 7,336 |
+| `hello_reply` | 6,668 / 6,623 | 8,099 / 7,654 | 10,186 / 10,961 |
+| `languages_reply` | 7,864 / 7,621 | 10,210 / 9,969 | 12,717 / 13,606 |
+| `session_start` | 8,183 / 4,091 | 13,157 / 3,885 | 12,631 / 5,456 |
+| define / use | 68 / 77, 287 / 86 | 66 / 77, 187 / 109 | 134 / 73, 303 / 202 |
+| interrupt a loop | 105 / 214 | 210 / 203 | 178 / 107 |
+| infinite output (bytes in 1.5 s, stopped in ms) | 836,785 (64) / 42,824 (89) | 223,008 (226) / 31,916 (233) | 718,514 (229) / 29,391 (93) |
+| all 13 checks done | 22,306 / 17,776 | 31,531 / 19,780 | 33,064 / 25,372 |
+| checks | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / 13/13 | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+
+- Firefox node passes all 13 again (31,916 bytes in its flood against the check's 10,000).
+- `random: crng init done` at `[0.000000]` in all six boot logs.
+- A first WebKit run (07:25, canary **6.2 s** before it: another session's load) also gave 13/13 and
+  13/13; its times are not comparable and are not in the table.
+- Logs: `wmn-results/run8-{chromium,firefox,webkit}/` (the contended WebKit run: `run8-webkit-first/`).
+
+**b11-fixes guest tests on the finished branch** (Chromium, 08:05, canary 881/634 ms): 2/2.
+- The vm handle after 5 forced GCs: `{vm: true, up: true}`.
+- node at `slack=256`: exit 4, "out of memory: the emulator used 1664 MiB of its 1664 MiB memory
+  maximum ...", through the size rule (the installed vm.wasm has no heap reserve).
+
+**b11-fixes on the rebased branch.**
+- No-guest tests, 3 browsers, 16:12 (canary 673/690 ms): 9/9.
+- Guest tests, Chromium (canary 692/640 ms): 2/2.
+  - The vm handle after 5 forced GCs: `{vm: true, up: true}`.
+  - node at `slack=256`: exit 4 with `wmn.error` "the machine ended: 4 (out of memory: the emulator
+    used 1664 MiB of its 1664 MiB memory maximum ...)".
+- The same no-guest tests on the pre-fix code (347f80ed's `boot.js`/`k2.js`): 6 failed, 3 passed. The
+  3 that pass are "a trap far below the maximum keeps its plain reason", which is meant to pass before
+  and after.
+
+**Regression run, Chromium, the whole suite** (16:16-16:49; canary 873 ms before, 641 after; load
+average 23 falling to 7): 102 passed, 51 skipped (opt-in suites), 3 failed.
+
+| failure | cause | re-run |
+|---|---|---|
+| `chan.spec` hvc0, 50 MiB in 120 s | the guest's hvc0 path is slow; vm.wasm, not the browser (below) | 4 MiB in each browser: pass |
+| `jit.spec` P-B2 proof boot "5x faster than P-B1" | load: `PROOF-DONE` at 9,002 ms against the bound of 8,808, on a host whose canary read 873 ms | alone, canary 623 ms: pass (7.3 s test) |
+| `review-errors` `argv --cpus 64` bounded at 60 s | known, left as is (P-B1 review): 64 vCPUs on 10 cores are still booting at 60 s | - |
+
+**Regression run on the finished branch, Chromium, the whole suite** (2026-10-06 08:06-08:37; canary
+638 ms before, 613 after; load average 12 falling to 5): 108 passed, 51 skipped (opt-in suites), 2
+failed, both known:
+- `chan.spec` hvc0, 50 MiB in 120 s: "no exit in 120000 ms" (below). The guest's log of that boot
+  (`run8-logs/timeout-console.stdout.log`, `CONSOLE-START` at 4.04 s) has no `nobody cared` and no
+  `Disabling IRQ`: the storm is gone, the console is just slow;
+- `review-errors` `argv --cpus 64` bounded at 60 s: still booting at 60 s, as before.
+
+The P-B2 proof boot passed this time (8.0 s; the load failure of the run before did not recur).
+Logs of every run of 2026-10-06: `wmn-results/run8-logs/`.
+
+### hvc0 after W17: slow in vm.wasm, not in the browser host
+
+**Superseded by W53 (D-433, below):** the slowness was the test's 2-byte tty writes. The
+conclusions below ("in vm.wasm or the guest's hvc driver", the 2 KiB `put_chars` guess) were wrong.
+
+W17 (2ec1cf9d) stopped vm.wasm raising an interrupt for console-port transmits. The IRQ storm of
+P-B3 problem 1 is gone: no `nobody cared` and no `Disabling IRQ` in any run. But `yes | head -c N >
+/dev/hvc0` on a raw tty is still slow, and the 50 MiB test cannot finish in its 120 s.
+
+The same initramfs (`b3Initrd` + `consoleScript`), the same kernel and the installed vm.wasm, one boot
+each, 1 vCPU, `--mode jit`:
+
+| | bytes | time | rate |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| browser hvc0, Chromium (canary 623 ms) | 4 MiB | 74.5 s | 56 KB/s |
+| browser hvc0, Firefox | 4 MiB | 126.6 s | 33 KB/s |
+| browser hvc0, WebKit | 4 MiB | 58.4 s | 72 KB/s |
+| **native `wmd-run`** hvc0, a Unix-socket sink (canary 727 ms) | 4 MiB | 61.1 s | **69 KB/s** |
+| native `wmd-run` control port (vport1p1), the same sink | 8 MiB | 2.65 s | 3.2 MB/s |
+| browser control port (P-B3 numbers) | 50 MiB | 10.7-15.9 s | 3.3-4.9 MB/s |
+
+- **Native is as slow as the browser**, so the cost is in vm.wasm or the guest's hvc driver, not in the
+  browser host.
+- In every browser run the host kept up:
+  - every byte reached the page, in order;
+  - the guest's `chan_send` never found the ring full (`sendWaits` 0);
+  - the service's first-to-last-byte time was the guest's own time to within 0.1-1.1 s (74.42 against
+    74.51 s, 126.52 against 126.60, 57.30 against 58.37).
+- Likely cause, not proven: Linux's hvc path sends each tty write of at most 2 KiB (`put_chars` ->
+  `__send_to_port`, one device exit each) and then polls. At 69 KB/s that is about 34 sends a second,
+  far fewer than an exit costs. D-391 (W17) already notes that line-by-line hvc output is still slow,
+  at about 22 KB/s.
+- **This is a vm.wasm/guest finding, for the wmd side (a follow-up of W17).** Nothing in wmd uses
+  port 0: container stdio goes over the control port, which runs at MB/s.
+
+**W53 (D-433): the cause was the test, not hvc0.** busybox `head` writes through stdio, which is
+line-buffered on a tty: into `/dev/hvc0` it made one 2-byte write per `y` line, each a full hvc
+write (about 26-36 us in the guest). Natively, on the same vm.wasm and kernel: `dd` into hvc0 with
+512 B-64 KiB blocks moved 256 KiB in 0.03-0.07 s; `yes | head -c 1M | cat > /dev/hvc0` 0.33 s
+(3.2 MB/s); `yes | head -c 256K > /dev/hvc0` 3.42 s (77 KB/s). The control port never showed it
+because a vport is not a tty. The console script now writes through `cat` for every target, and
+chan.spec `-g console` passes in all three browsers:
+
+| 50 MiB | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| hvc0 | 16.81 s, 3.1 MB/s | 24.78 s, 2.1 MB/s | 19.39 s, 2.7 MB/s |
+| control port | 15.71 s, 3.3 MB/s | 20.02 s, 2.6 MB/s | 17.44 s, 3.0 MB/s |
+| /dev/null (guest alone) | 14.86 s, 3.5 MB/s | 17.64 s, 3.0 MB/s | 17.82 s, 2.9 MB/s |
+
+A program that writes a tty line by line still pays about 30 us per line.
+- (Before W53) the test was unchanged and its 50 MiB in 120 s failed; it passes since W53.
+- Re-run: `WMD_WEB_CONSOLE_BYTES=4194304 WMD_WEB_HVC0_TIMEOUT_MS=300000 bunx playwright test chan.spec -g hvc0`.
+  The native comparison boots `wmd-run vm.wasm -- --machine ... --console 7 --control 8` with
+  `WMD_CHAN_UNIX="7=/tmp/x.sock,8=/tmp/y.sock"`. Use a short socket path: macOS caps `sun_path` at 104
+  bytes, and a longer path makes `wmd-run` report "host not listening".
+
+### Review of 70d03426 (W18: WASI random_get in `src/host/wasi.js`)
+
+- **Correct.**
+  - `random_get(ptr, len)` checks the range (EFAULT) against the current memory size, after
+    `views()` has picked up any grow.
+  - It fills at most 64 KiB per `getRandomValues` call, through a private buffer, then copies into the
+    shared memory. Browsers refuse a view of a SharedArrayBuffer, and the call is limited to 64 KiB.
+  - `len` 0 does nothing.
+  - The `worker.js` guard wraps it like every other WASI import, so once the machine has ended it
+    throws instead of running.
+- The installed vm.wasm imports `random_get`, so a host without it could not instantiate vm.wasm at
+  all.
+- **Gap, now covered.** The unit test (`wasi.test.js`) runs in bun, and bun's `getRandomValues`
+  accepts views of shared memory. So the unit test cannot show why the copy is needed; before this
+  commit only a guest boot would. New: b11-fixes "WASI random_get fills shared wasm memory in this
+  browser". It passes in all three browsers (2026-10-06 07:08). With the copy removed
+  (getRandomValues on `u8.subarray`; 07:22, canary 760/698 ms) it fails in each, with the browser's
+  own error:
+  - Chromium: "The provided ArrayBufferView value must not be shared";
+  - Firefox: "can't be a SharedArrayBuffer or an ArrayBufferView backed by a SharedArrayBuffer";
+  - WebKit: "must be an instance of ArrayBufferView".
+- **Effect.** See run7: `crng init done` at 0.000000 in every browser boot.
+- **Unchanged.** The strictly increasing clock (P-B3 problem 2), now a fallback for a host that gives
+  no seed. The run request's own 32-byte `seed` (`fillRunRequest`), which the native engine sends as
+  well.
+
+### Out-of-memory detection with W21's heap reserve (branch `w21-trap`, not merged here)
+
+W21's fix (w21-trap, a64e0c1a + 02a281d3) has vm.wasm grow its memory to the maximum before any thread
+starts (`WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=1`, which `bootWmd` sets by default there). With it, review finding 4's rule
+("a trap with the memory within 64 MiB of its maximum is out of memory") would call every trap out of
+memory. This branch's `finish()` now uses `isOutOfMemory()` (`src/boot.js`):
+
+- vm.wasm's stderr line `vm.wasm: heap reserve used up (W21): out of memory` means out of memory,
+  whatever the size says;
+- without a reserve, the old size rule;
+- with a reserve (below) and no "used up", a plain `trap:` reason.
+
+`finish()` drains stderr before it decides, so vm.wasm's last line counts. `timings.oom` records
+which signal it was.
+
+The reserve counts as in use when either says so:
+- vm.wasm's environment asks for it (`heapReserveAsked(env)`: `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE` set and not `0`, as
+  `heap_reserve.c` reads it). On w21-trap `bootWmd` adds `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=1` unless `heapReserve` is
+  false, so after the merge the size rule applies only with `heapReserve: false`, and a reserve line
+  lost on the way cannot turn every trap into out of memory.
+- vm.wasm printed its reserve line, `vm.wasm: heap reserve N MiB at ...`. That also covers a caller that sets the variable some other way.
+
+Without either (this branch as it is, or `heapReserve: false`), the size rule of finding 4 is unchanged.
+One case is not covered: the reserve asked for, but vm.wasm could not grow its memory at all (memory
+already at its maximum, so `heap_reserve.c` prints nothing and keeps no reserve). Its out-of-memory trap
+would then read as a plain trap; vm.wasm's own `sbrk` prints nothing in that case either.
+
+Merging: w21-trap was cut from this branch before the rebase onto wmd main and the review fixes, so a
+plain merge conflicts in many files. Its two commits (a64e0c1a, 02a281d3) cherry-pick onto this branch
+with one conflict, the README's last section (both append one); `boot.js` merges cleanly: w21-trap turns
+`const env = o.env || []` into `vmEnv(o.env, o.heapReserve)`, and `finish()` here reads that `env`.
+After the merge:
+- the synthetic out-of-memory test (`oom_trap.wat`) passes `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=0`, so it still tests the
+  size rule (vmEnv lets the caller's entry win);
+- a real out-of-memory trap counts only through vm.wasm's "used up" line, so vm.wasm must be the W21
+  build. With the installed vm.wasm (30db07f5, no reserve, prints neither line) and w21-trap's default
+  `heapReserve`, b11-fixes "node out of its memory maximum" would read a plain `trap:`. That is the price
+  of the rule asked for (size check only with `heapReserve: false`); the opposite mistake, every trap
+  called out of memory, is what it prevents.
+
+Tests (each new one fails on the code before it):
+- `test/unit/oom.test.js`: 5 tests (`isOutOfMemory`, `heapReserveAsked`, the two regexes against
+  `heap_reserve.c`'s format strings).
+- b11-fixes, four synthetic guests that print vm.wasm-style lines on stderr and trap (`review-helpers.js`
+  `startBoot` now passes `env`):
+
+  | case | ee1886e8 `boot.js` | first version (keyed on the line only) | now |
+  |---|---|---|---|
+  | reserve line, memory at the maximum, no "used up" | `out of memory: ...` (fail) | `trap: unreachable` | `trap: unreachable` |
+  | `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=1`, no line, memory at the maximum | `out of memory: ...` (fail) | `out of memory: ...` (fail) | `trap: unreachable` |
+  | `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=0`, memory at the maximum | out of memory, no `timings.oom` (fail) | out of memory, "memory at its maximum" | the same |
+  | "used up" line, memory 384 of 640 MiB | `trap: unreachable` (fail) | out of memory, "heap reserve used up" | the same |
+
+  Runs (2026-10-06, under the boot lock, canary 625-634 ms, load average 15-23): ee1886e8's `boot.js` 12
+  of 12 failed (3 browsers); the first version 3 failed (the second case, each browser); now all of
+  b11-fixes' no-guest tests pass, 24 of 24 in the three browsers (07:08).
+
+### Merged into wmd main (d832d730, W3.1-W3.3), 2026-10-06
+
+`git merge --no-ff wmd-web-b11` (f45d6352) into main d832d730 had no textual conflicts: main's side
+(W3.1-W3.3) touches only `guest/vm`, `internal/engine`, `runner` and `docs/research`, and this branch
+only `web/`. Everything below ran on the merged tree in a scratch worktree, with what the tests serve
+built from that tree, never into `~/.wmd/bin`:
+- `vm.wasm`: `make guest-vm` (sha256 f3a7caee..., against the installed 30db07f5...);
+- the Go init's initramfs: `docker buildx build --target container-rootfs-arm64 --build-context
+  c2w=guest/container2wasm -f guest/linux/Dockerfile --output type=tar,dest=- guest/linux`, the archive's
+  `container-initramfs.cpio.gz`. It is byte-identical to the installed one (0bafbaf9...): neither side
+  changed `guest/container2wasm` or `guest/linux`. The kernel (`Image`) was copied from the installed guest;
+- the packs: `fixtures-gen image` for python:3.12-slim and node:22-slim, identical to the branch's;
+- served with `WMD_VM_WASM` and `WMD_GUEST_DIR` pointing at those files, `PORT=8798`.
+
+**A conflict the merge did not show: W3.3's vm.wasm cannot start in the browser.** Each boot ended at
+once with exit 4. Nothing in `web/` (on the branch or on main) knew about W3.3's two vm.wasm changes:
+1. `trap: WebAssembly.Instance(): table import 1 is smaller than initial 158, got 155`. vm.wasm's table
+   import minimum went from 155 to 158, and `jit.js` had it as the constant `TABLE_MIN = 155`. The
+   runner reads it from the module (`host.rs` `table_min`).
+2. With 158: `Import #13 "wmd" "point": function import requires a callable`. W3.3 added the imports
+   `wmd.ctl_attach` and `wmd.point`.
+
+Fixed in this merge:
+- `tableMinOf(bytes)` (`src/host/jit.js`) reads the table import minimum from vm.wasm's import section,
+  since the JS API does not expose import limits. `boot.js` passes it to every Worker, which sizes its
+  table with it, and the JIT door starts its slots after it (`createJitDoor({tableMin})`). `TABLE_MIN`
+  (155) is now only the default, for modules with no table import and for the unit tests. The installed
+  vm.wasm (155) and W3.3's (158) both boot.
+- `wmd-imports.js`: `ctl_attach` returns -1 (no control socket, so the guest starts no ctl thread) and
+  `point` returns -38 (no checkpoint; the guest goes on). These are the weak defaults in
+  `guest/vm/src/dev/chan.c`.
+- `test/unit/vm-imports.test.js` (6 tests, which fail before the fix): `tableMinOf` on hand-made
+  modules, and on the vm.wasm being served (`WMD_VM_WASM`), the table minimum plus "the host provides
+  every `wmd.*` function it imports".
+
+Runs on the merged tree with the fix (all under the boot lock, one at a time; canary 610-632 ms
+before and after each, unless noted):
+
+| suite | result |
+|---|---|
+| `bun test test/unit test/adversarial-b11/yamux-adv.test.js` | 314 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail (308 before `vm-imports.test.js`) |
+| b11-fixes, no guest, Chromium + Firefox + WebKit | 24/24 (6 guest tests skipped) |
+| b11-fixes, guest boots, Chromium (`WMD_WEB_B11FIX=1`) | 2/2: `{vm: true, up: true}` after 5 GCs; node at `slack=256`: exit 4, "out of memory: the emulator used 1664 MiB of its 1664 MiB memory maximum ..." |
+| wmn.spec python / node, Chromium | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| wmn.spec python / node, Firefox | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| wmn.spec python / node, WebKit | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| adversarial-b11 `rob.spec` (`ROB_IMAGES=python,node`), Chromium | python 68 PASS / 4 FAIL, node 66 / 5: the same as before the merge (below) |
+| native `go test -short ./...` | all pass except `test/compat` TestBuildKitCopyLink and TestBuildKitTarOutputOwnership, which fail on main too |
+| native `make test` (`go test ./...`, under the lock; canary 995 ms before, 633 after) | all pass except `internal/buildkit` TestBoltCommitsDoNotFlushTheDriveCache, a timing test (commit 8.9 ms against half of 12.1 ms; it passed 3 of 3 times when run alone afterwards), and `test/compat`, which hit `go test`'s default 10 min timeout in TestBuildFailingRunOutput (`make test-compat` gives it 180 min). Neither package is touched by this merge (no Go file outside `web/` changes) |
+
+Without the fix, the same b11-fixes guest tests and all six wmn boots failed with error 1.
+
+wmn timings, in ms from `bootWmd` (one run each, load average 5-9):
+
+| | Chromium python / node | Firefox python / node | WebKit python / node |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| control session up | 4,134 / 4,119 | 4,067 / 4,111 | 4,145 / 4,209 |
+| `hello_reply` | 5,389 / 5,398 | 5,119 / 5,168 | 6,479 / 6,847 |
+| `session_start` | 6,045 / 3,305 | 7,200 / 2,194 | 6,561 / 3,269 |
+| interrupt a loop | 28 / 57 | 22 / 35 | 25 / 46 |
+| infinite output (bytes in 1.5 s) | 1,185,942 / 96,354 | 293,102 / 74,538 | 369,559 / 59,691 |
+| all 13 checks done | 17,252 / 14,491 | 18,957 / 12,953 | 19,193 / 17,061 |
+
+**adversarial-b11 on the merged tree: no change from the merge.** The same python run with the
+installed (pre-W3) vm.wasm and guest gave the same 68 PASS / 4 FAIL, with the same trap (canary 1,320 ms
+before, 669 after; another session was running). The merged-tree node run ended at canary 1,118 ms. The
+failures:
+- c03 "next cell unaffected" (both images): known; late output, wmn's limit (ROADMAP 4.3b).
+- b04 "65 MiB line refused" and b05 "20 MiB of stdin into an exec" (both images): the review's harness
+  writes 65 MiB and 20 MiB with one synchronous `proc.write()`. Since the finding-7 fix, `write()` past
+  the stream's credit (4 MiB + 64 KiB) returns false and sends nothing, so the agent never sees the line
+  and `wc -c` reads 0. This is the fix's contract, and the review's tests were left unchanged.
+  `writeAsync()` is the call for big data.
+- b08 "20 MB execute_result" (node): the result came back with 10,030 characters. As in the review's own
+  node run, this is not the transport.
+- b05 "30 execs at once" (both images): the machine traps, review finding 1. The trap here is
+  `RangeError: Start offset -2147302880 is outside the bounds of the buffer` at `jit.js` `readGuest` <-
+  the door's `compile` <- `vm_wasm_jit_compile` <- `compile_worker`, and it happens with both vm.wasm
+  builds. **New finding, not fixed here:** the JIT door's `load`/`compile` use the guest pointer as a
+  signed i32 (no `>>> 0`, unlike `wasi.js` and `chan.js`). Once vm.wasm's heap passes 2 GiB (the wmn
+  page's 1 GiB slack allows a 2.4 GiB maximum), the first JIT module there kills the machine. This may
+  be part of finding 1 (W21).
+
+Not run here, as asked: the hvc0 50 MiB `chan.spec` (W22) and the `--cpus 64` boot (over 60 s) are
+known failures; W3's checkpoint guest tests are W3's.
+
+### W23: guest pointers above 2 GiB, and a review of the merge's fix (branch `wmd-web-w23`)
+
+**W23.** vm.wasm passes guest pointers as wasm i32s; a JS import receives them signed. `jit.js`
+`readGuest` (`jit_load`, `jit_compile`) used them as is, so once vm.wasm's heap passed 2 GiB (the
+wmn page's 1 GiB slack gives a 2.4 GiB maximum) the first block translated there trapped the
+machine (the adversarial-b11 b05 trap above). `readGuest` now reads `ptr` and `len` as unsigned
+and a range outside the memory makes the call return -1 with a log line, as the runner's
+`load_slots` does, instead of trapping. The rest of `src/` was audited: `wasi.js` and `chan.js`
+already converted their pointers; two WASI lengths did not (`path_open`'s path length,
+`fd_prestat_dir_name`'s buffer length) and now do. `thread-spawn`'s start argument goes back to
+wasm as the same i32; the hub, the rings, stdio and the 9P server read no guest addresses. Range
+checks are `ptr + len <= byteLength` in doubles, so the 4 GiB end of a 65536-page memory is exact.
+
+Tests (each fails before the fix):
+- `test/unit/w23-pointers.test.js` (9): the door above 2 GiB and ending at 4 GiB, refusals past the
+  end, WASI and channel calls with signed high addresses. 6 fail on 6361975f.
+- `test/e2e/w23-pointers.spec.js`: a synthetic guest booted through `bootWmd` grows to 4 GiB,
+  `jit_load`s a module at 0x8002c220 (the b05 trap's offset), `jit_compile`s one ending at 4 GiB,
+  calls both through its table and `fd_write`s its result from above 2 GiB. Before: exit 4 in
+  `readGuest`: Chromium "Start offset -2147302880 is outside the bounds of the buffer", Firefox
+  "invalid or out-of-range index", WebKit "byteOffset cannot be negative". After: exit 0,
+  "W23 OK", in all three.
+
+**Review of `tableMinOf`, the `ctl_attach`/`point` stubs (6361975f).**
+- `tableMinOf` was right for the vm.wasm shapes built today (155 and 158, one table import),
+  custom sections, non-minimal LEB128, memory64/table64, a table maximum, tags and no table import.
+  It was wrong for: two table imports (it took the first; now `env.__indirect_function_table`,
+  else the last, as `host.rs`), typed references (0x63/0x64 + a heap type) in table and global
+  imports, a custom page size (limits flag 8), a section shorter than its imports, an endless
+  LEB128. Fixed; 16 new cases in `vm-imports.test.js`, 7 failed before.
+- JIT slots: the runner puts slot k at `table_min + k` (`jit.rs`), and so does the door
+  (`tableMin + slotBase`). The guest uses only the index the door returns. Nothing is hard-coded.
+- `ctl_attach` -1: `machine_start_ctl` then starts no ctl thread and returns quietly. The only
+  path to `wmd.point` is a request from that thread, so `point` is never called in the browser;
+  -38 would only print "checkpoint not taken" once. The init's redial loop (W3.2) runs only after
+  a session that set `ckpt`, which the page never sends, and it backs off from 50 ms to 1 s.
+  No busy loop, no flood of log lines, no boot delay.
+
+**With w21-trap.** w21-trap changes neither `jit.js` nor `wasi.js`, and this branch does not touch
+`boot.js`. W21's reserve grows the memory to its maximum before any thread starts, so heap
+addresses above 2 GiB come into use sooner. Without this fix, W21's 30-exec storm would hit W23's
+trap more readily.
+
+Runs on this branch. Everything is under the boot lock, `PORT=8795`, with vm.wasm built in the
+worktree (f3a7caee, `make guest-vm`). The disk floor was lowered to 50 GiB by the user, and
+`locked.sh` now checks 50.
+
+| suite | result |
+|---|---|
+| `bun test test/unit test/adversarial-b11/yamux-adv.test.js` | 339 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail |
+| b11-fixes (no guest) + `w23-pointers.spec`, Chromium / Firefox / WebKit | 9 passed, 2 skipped, in each |
+| wmn.spec python / node, Chromium (canary 660 ms before) | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| wmn.spec python / node, Firefox (canary 1,450 ms before: a loaded host, load average 17) | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| wmn.spec python / node, WebKit (canary 917 ms before, 1,159 after) | 13/13 / 13/13 |
+| adversarial-b11 b11, 30 execs at once (`ROB_IMAGES=python ROB_QUERY='&cases=b11&conc=30'`), Chromium (canary 826 / 733 ms) | FAIL, but not W23. The machine traps with `memory access out of bounds` at `calloc` <- `interp_run_block` (thread 6), with the memory at 1,562 MiB of its 2,432 MiB maximum. This is review finding 1 / W21 (Chromium's stale memory size after another Worker's grow), not merged here. The heap never reached 2 GiB in this run, so it did not reach W23's path. No `readGuest` or "outside the guest memory" line appears. |
+
+The 30-exec run cannot show W23 until W21 is in: W21's trap comes first, below 2 GiB. W23 is shown
+by `w23-pointers.spec.js` (before and after, three browsers) and the unit tests.
+
+## W21: 30 concurrent execs trapped the machine in Chromium
+
+The bug (wmn ROADMAP, "Work in wmd"): 30 `exec`s of `/bin/echo` at once over the control session on
+python:3.12-slim (`test/adversarial-b11`, `cases=b11&conc=30`) ended the machine with exit 4,
+`RuntimeError: memory access out of bounds` at `calloc` <- `interp_run_block` <- `vm_run_blocks`, in
+5 of 6 Chromium boots. Firefox and WebKit passed, and so did native `wmd-run`. The memory was far
+below its maximum, so it was not an out-of-memory.
+
+### Cause
+
+vm.wasm's own heap (dlmalloc, through wasi-libc's `sbrk`) grows memory 0 with `memory.grow` while
+the vCPU threads run. Each thread is a Worker with its own instance of the module. In Chromium, a
+`memory.fill` or `memory.copy` in one Worker can be checked against a memory size that is older than
+another Worker's `memory.grow`. A plain load or store sees the new pages at once. When vCPU A grows
+the heap and dlmalloc hands the new top chunk to vCPU B under its lock, B's `calloc` clears the chunk
+with `memory.fill` (wasi-libc is built with bulk memory) and traps. 30 execs at once make both vCPUs
+translate blocks and allocate fast. The heap then grows one page at a time, about every 0.5 ms, so
+the window comes up again and again.
+
+Evidence:
+
+- **The engine probe** (`test/e2e/w21-probe.spec.js`, `page/w21-probe.html`, no guest). Two Workers
+  share one memory. Worker A grows it by one page and sets a flag; worker B spins on the flag, then
+  touches the new page. 300 trials of each:
+
+  | B's access to the new page | Chromium 153 (PW 1.63) | Firefox | WebKit |
+  |---|---|---|---|
+  | `memory.fill` | **3/300 trap** | 0 | 0 |
+  | `memory.copy` | **4/300 trap** | 0 | 0 |
+  | `memory.fill` after `memory.atomic.wait` (not a spin) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+  | `i32.store8` (plain store) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
+  | `memory.fill` / `memory.copy`, memory grown before the Workers start | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 |
+
+  The trap message reports B's `memory.size` as already including the page. So the stale size is
+  only the one that `memory.fill` and `memory.copy` are checked against. A wait refreshes it.
+- **In the guest** (a per-grow log in a diagnostic build, kept on branch `w21-trap-wip-backup`).
+  Chromium, without the reserve: thread 6 (vCPU 1, `vcpu_thread_fn`) trapped in `calloc` at
+  20.027630 s (CLOCK_MONOTONIC), 36 us after vCPU 0's `memory.grow` 24185 -> 24186 pages at
+  20.027594 s. vCPU 0 had grown the heap 25 times in the 18 ms before, one page at a time. The
+  trapping thread's last own grow was at 20.0095 s. The memory was 24,186 pages (1.5 GiB) of
+  38,912.
+
+### Fix: the heap reserve (`WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=1`)
+
+`guest/vm/src/heap_reserve.c` replaces wasi-libc's `sbrk`. When `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE` is set, vm.wasm
+grows memory 0 to its maximum in `run_machine`, after guest RAM and the vCPU arena and before
+`machine_run` starts any thread. It grows in the largest steps the host accepts. `sbrk` then hands
+out those pages from an atomic bump pointer. Memory 0 never grows while more than one thread runs,
+so no Worker can hold a stale size. Without the variable, `sbrk` behaves exactly like wasi-libc's,
+so native `wmd-run` is unchanged. When the reserve is used up, vm.wasm says
+`vm.wasm: heap reserve used up (W21): out of memory` once and stops (see the review follow-ups below).
+`bootWmd` sets the variable unless `heapReserve: false` is passed or the caller's env already has a
+`WMD_HEAP_RESERVE` entry (`vmEnv`, `src/boot.js`). An older vm.wasm ignores it.
+
+Cost: the reserve is address space, not RAM. Untouched pages are not resident. Peak RSS of one
+browser process in a 1-round run with the reserve was 1,210 MiB. The baseline runs, which trapped
+part-way, peaked at 1,034 and 1,721 MiB. That is not a clean A/B, but there is no extra 1 GiB.
+
+### Adversarial review follow-ups (`w21-trap-adv`, 22a71aa9), 2026-10-06
+
+The branch is rebased onto wmd main 6361975f (P-B11 merged). The review's tests are in
+`test/adversarial-w21/` (its `RESULTS.md`, `storm.spec.js`, `usermode.spec.js`, `node-repro.mjs` for a V8
+bug report). `fixq.sh` is this round's run queue, and `out/f*.log` and `out/*.json` are its logs.
+
+- **A4, done.** vm.wasm takes the reserve only for `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=1` exactly. Before, `=no` turned it
+  on; `heapReserveAsked` in `src/boot.js` now matches. The native runner no longer passes
+  `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE` to the guest (`runner/src/wasi.rs` `guest_env_from`, cargo unit test). So the
+  native snapshot cost the review measured cannot happen from a shell variable.
+- **A2, done: the user-mode traps were not W21.** User mode now takes the reserve in `main()` before any
+  thread. rthreads still trapped 4 of 20 times with the reserve in place, and every trap came *after* the
+  program's output. `main()` freed the block cache and guest RAM while the guest's detached threads were
+  still translating (`emit_block_code` on freed memory). It now drains them first
+  (`linux_user_wait_vcpus`, as `runprog.c` does). A thread trap also never ends in exit 0 any more:
+  `worker.js` counts traps in `CTL_TRAPS`, and `finish()` turns an exit 0 into 4 if a thread trapped.
+- **A3, done (this overlaps W20).** When the reserve is used up, vm.wasm no longer hands NULL to
+  dlmalloc's callers:
+  - `sbrk` calls `vm_out_of_memory`. That prints the exact `vm.wasm: heap reserve used up (W21): out of
+    memory` line, then `vm.wasm: out of memory: <what> of <n> bytes; ...`, then calls `_Exit(4)`.
+  - `interp_run_block`'s calloc and `wasm_enc` call it too. Without a reserve the detail line still
+    comes out. Natively it aborts after the message, as the unit tests expect.
+  - `boot.js` reports that exit as out of memory (`VM_OOM_RE`) and stops every Worker.
+  - Before the heap runs out, the reserve's *low mark* asks the block cache for one reset. The first
+    request comes with a quarter of the reserve left, then one at each halving (`heap_rsv_take`,
+    `heap_reserve_reset_wanted`, unit test `test_low_mark`).
+  - With the reserve, each reset logs `vm.wasm: block cache reset: ...`.
+- **Why the IR cap was not sized from the reserve.** `ir_bytes` overcounts the heap: 805 MB of IR
+  "bytes" with 546 MiB of a 1023 MiB reserve still free. A cap at 1/2 or 3/4 of the reserve reset the
+  cache in every 30-exec storm and made it 2–3x slower. At 1/2 the heap passed 2 GiB after the reset
+  and hit W23. With the cap at the reserve's full size, the slack-64 run reset again and again until the
+  JIT door's module log filled (1 GiB), and the guest stalled instead of stopping. The low mark
+  measures the heap itself, so D-254's cap is left alone.
+- **A1 is W23** (`wmd-web-w23`, not fixed here). With its host fix applied, a storm that crossed 2 GiB
+  passed. **A6** (`9p-diff.test.js` dirent-type) fails on main too.
+
+Runs on the final build (Apple Silicon, `PORT=8797`, every step under the boot lock with a 50 GiB disk
+floor; canary 609–723 ms around every step):
+
+| Run | Result |
+|---|---|
+| `w21.spec.js` 30-exec storm, Chromium x5 | 5/5 pass, 0 bad, 12.1–15.2 s, 0 cache resets, no grow |
+| same, Firefox / WebKit | pass / pass (14.7 s / 13.9 s) |
+| python c45 / c60 / c100, `--ram 512` (Chromium) | 0 bad each; 0 / 2 / 6 cache resets. Of two c100 runs, one passed and one hit "used up" in round 0 and stopped cleanly with the message |
+| slack 64, c30 mixed, reserve (Chromium) | **stops cleanly**: 4 resets, then `heap reserve used up`, the detail line, exit 4, reported as out of memory. No trap, no garbage IR |
+| slack 64, no reserve | stops cleanly: `vm.wasm: out of memory: interp_run_block calloc ...`, out of memory (before: abort, or garbage IR) |
+| rthreads user mode x20 (Chromium) | 0/20 traps (was 8/20) |
+| `w21-fixes.spec.js` + `b11-fixes.spec.js` | 13/13 in each of C/F/W |
+| engine probe `w21-probe.spec.js` | C/F/W pass |
+| web unit tests | 288 pass, 3 fail (all `9p-diff.test.js`, A6) |
+| native (`runner/target/release/wmd-run`, this worktree) | `smoke-wasm.sh` 13/13 PASS. arm64 `wmd.proof` boot (jit, 4 vCPUs) `PROOF-DONE` with `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=0` and `=1` (no reserve line: the runner drops the variable). rthreads x20, with and without the variable: 0 bad. `make test` in `guest/vm`: all binaries pass |
+
+### Joint W21/W23 review (`w21-w23-review` a597f429), fixes 2026-10-06
+
+- **R1 (major, native): fixed.** A2's drain in user-mode `main()` waits for the guest's threads, but
+  `clone` (`guest/vm/test/linux_user.c`) kept starting threads after `group_exiting` was set. So for a
+  guest whose threads keep starting threads (`progs/spawnloop.c`), the wait did not settle: 5 of 15
+  native runs took 6.7–8.1 s and printed `vm.wasm: guest threads still running at exit`.
+  - `clone` now returns `-EAGAIN` once the group is exiting. It adds to `live_threads`, then reads
+    `group_exiting`; the drain does the reverse; both seq_cst. So each new thread is either counted by
+    the drain or refused.
+  - A thread that registers after the drain walked the thread list does not enter `vm_run`.
+  - Tests and logs: `test/adversarial-w21/native-spawnloop.sh` and `native-a2.sh`, from the review,
+    with the guest programs in `progs/`.
+  - Native, no variable: spawnloop **0/15** bad, 0.61–1.16 s, no new line.
+  - Against main's vm.wasm, stderr is identical for blockread, blockwrite, pipewait, spawnloop,
+    futexwait, exit3, threxit, rthreads and threads, with the same exit codes and times.
+  - Main itself trapped (exit 4) on spawnloop in **2 of 10** runs: the use-after-free that A2's drain
+    removes. This branch had 0 in 15.
+- **(4) minor: fixed.** `boot.js` now treats vm.wasm's out-of-memory lines as out of memory only with
+  exit status 4, the status `vm_out_of_memory` uses. Before, a user-mode guest that printed the lines
+  and exited 1 (`oomspoof`) was reported as out of memory. A guest that prints the lines *and* exits
+  4 cannot be told apart in user mode; in machine mode the guest cannot write vm.wasm's stderr.
+  `w21-fixes.spec.js` has the exit-1 case.
+- **Stale node test: fixed.** With the reserve, node passes 13/13 at `slack=256`, and also at
+  `slack=64` (C/F/W), so `b11-fixes.spec.js` now boots node at `slack=8`. It ends with exit 4, the used-up
+  line and `wmn.error` "out of memory ... 1416 MiB maximum" (run with `WMD_WEB_B11FIX=1` and
+  `WMD_WEB_IMAGE_FIXTURES` pointing at a tree that has the node packs).
+- **(3) late trap:** left as is, with a comment in `finish()`. Traps are counted until the 50 ms
+  settle.
+
+### Runs (2026-10-05, Apple Silicon, `PORT=8797`, worktree vm.wasm via `WMD_VM_WASM`, each under the boot lock)
+
+`test/e2e/w21.spec.js` boots python:3.12-slim (`page/wmn.html?checks=0&nonet=1&hold=1`) and runs
+3 rounds of 30 control execs at once, then 10 in sequence. It checks every exit code and output, no
+trap, the reserve line, and that the memory did not grow while the vCPUs ran.
+
+| Run | Result | Storm time | Canary before / after |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Chromium, reserve, 5 boots | 5/5 pass, 0 bad | 13.3-13.9 s | 631 ms after |
+| Firefox, reserve | pass | 17.4 s | 673 ms |
+| WebKit, reserve | pass | 18.5 s | 673 ms |
+| Chromium, no reserve (`WMD_WEB_W21_BASELINE=1`), 2 boots | **2/2 trap** (77 and 100 execs failed); memory grew 22532 -> 30532 and 22532 -> 23631 pages under the vCPUs | | 657-660 ms |
+| Earlier session: Chromium with the reserve via `test/adversarial-b11` `cases=b11&conc=30` (build before the used-up message) | 5/5 pass; Firefox and WebKit 1/1 each | 23-28 s per boot | |
+| Earlier session: Chromium `cases=b11&conc=30` without the reserve (`WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=0`, or the vm.wasm built before it) | 3/3 trap | | |
+
+Also run: `bun test test/unit` (270 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail). Native, with the installed `~/.wmd/bin/wmd-run`
+(main 9833319c): `guest/vm/test/smoke-wasm.sh` passed 13/13, and an arm64 `wmd.proof` machine boot (jit, 4 vCPUs)
+matched all of `test/expected/boot-arm64.txt` both with `WMD_HEAP_RESERVE=0` and with `=1` (canary 624 / 639 ms). `guest/vm`
+`build/test/test_heap_reserve`. That test covers the grow loop against a fake memory with a smaller
+maximum and a step limit, the bump (exact fit, refusals that leave the break alone, a reserve ending
+at 4 GiB), and 8 threads taking disjoint ranges that cover the reserve exactly.
+
+### Running
+
+```sh
+cd web
+# no guest: the engine probe in each browser
+PORT=8797 bunx playwright test w21-probe
+# under the boot lock, one browser per run (about 25 s each)
+PORT=8797 WMD_VM_WASM=../guest/vm/build/vm.wasm bunx playwright test w21.spec --project=chromium --repeat-each=5
+PORT=8797 WMD_VM_WASM=../guest/vm/build/vm.wasm WMD_WEB_W21_BASELINE=1 bunx playwright test w21.spec --project=chromium   # A/B: must trap
+```
+
+## W21 + W23 merged into wmd main (2026-10-06)
+
+Branch `w21-w23-review` = main 6361975f + `--no-ff` wmd-web-w23 (9f7b4866) + w21-trap (822f3aaf, then
+15945505 with the joint review's fixes) + the joint review's tests (`test/adversarial-w21w23/`, its
+`STATUS.md`). Conflicts: this README (W23 kept under P-B11, W21 after it) and
+`adversarial-b11/locked.sh` (w21's wait-and-retry floor of 50 GiB).
+
+The joint review (STATUS.md) found R1 (major, native: the exit drain never settled while guest threads
+kept spawning), R2 (a guest's own stderr taken for vm.wasm's out-of-memory lines) and R3 (the node OOM
+test went stale once W21 stopped node running out at slack 256). All three were fixed on w21-trap
+15945505 and rechecked here. W23 (no signed guest pointer or length left in `src/`; 300k-module
+`tableMinOf` fuzz in bun and node) had no findings.
+
+Final runs on the combined tree (vm.wasm dfdb0d24 and wmd-run built in the worktree, port 8794, every
+step under the boot lock, P-core canary 606–748 ms around every step; logs in
+`test/adversarial-w21w23/out/`, round 1 in `out/r1/`):
+
+| Run | Result |
+|---|---|
+| native spawnloop, no variable (`native-spawnloop.sh 15`) | 0/15 bad (was 5/15 slow with the new stderr line) |
+| native A2 programs vs main 6361975f, no variable (`native-a2.sh`) | blockread, blockwrite, pipewait, spawnloop, futexwait, exit3, threxit, rthreads, threads: same exit codes and times, stderr identical |
+| `a2.spec.js` (A2 programs in user mode, oomspoof, 5 arm64 proof boots at 4 vCPUs) | 10/10 in each of Chromium, Firefox, WebKit; no trap after an exit |
+| `bun test test/unit` | 316 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail (`9p-diff` passes) |
+| b11-fixes + w21-fixes + w23-pointers, no guest | 15/15 in each of C/F/W |
+| b11-fixes guest tests (`WMD_WEB_B11FIX=1`, node packs) | 10/10 C, 9/9 F and W (node at slack 8: exit 4, out of memory) |
+| wmn.spec python + node | 13/13 and 13/13 in each of C/F/W |
+| w21.spec 30-exec storm | Chromium 5/5 (12.3–13.1 s, 0 bad, no grow, 0 resets); Firefox 16.0 s and WebKit 12.9 s pass |
+| storm c60, `--ram 1024`, Chromium x3 (the W23 case) | 180/180 each, no grow |
+| storm c100, `--ram 1024`, Chromium x3 | 1 of 3 clean (300 execs). 2 of 3 used up the 1023 MiB reserve after 3 cache resets: the used-up line, `sbrk of 54460416 bytes; 37289984 ... left`, exit 4, reported as out of memory. No trap, no `readGuest` error (W23 is gone). Heap headroom at 100 execs at once is a limit, not a crash (W20). |
+| b05 (adversarial-b11, python) | the 30 execs pass (they trapped before W21); the 2 remaining FAILs are the same on main 6361975f |
+| slack 64, 30 mixed execs, Chromium (round 1) | clean stop: 4 cache resets, used-up line, exit 4, out of memory |
+| rthreads user mode x20, Chromium (round 1) | 0/20 traps |
+| native `smoke-wasm.sh` (`WMD_REQUIRE_WASM=1`) | 13/13 PASS |
+| native arm64 `wmd.proof` (jit, 4 vCPUs) | PROOF-DONE with the variable unset, `=0`, `=1` (no reserve line: the runner drops it) |
+| `make test` in guest/vm | pass |
+| `go test -short ./...` (round 1; no Go change since) | only the 2 pre-existing TestBuildKit failures |
+
+Not fixed, by design or minor: a trap later than the 50 ms settle after an exit 0 is not counted (none
+seen in 15 proof boots); with the reserve every failed allocation stops the machine (exit 4) instead of
+cache.c's NULL fallbacks, which never saved it before.
+
+## P-B10: the guest's network through a relay
+
+The proof (wmn PROOFS.md P-B10): outbound TCP from the browser guest through a WebSocket relay;
+`pip install requests` and `apk add curl` work in the browser. Adversarial: the relay drops
+mid-download, DNS fails, the guest tries to reach the relay's own host or private ranges (must be
+refused). Branch `wmd-web-b10`.
+
+### What runs
+
+```
+guest virtio-net ──net channel (rings)──▶ channel service ──MessagePort──▶ network Worker ──WebSocket──▶ relay ──TCP──▶ the internet
+ (vm.wasm net.c)      4-byte BE length     (NetSession)                     stack.js + relay-client.js    relay.ts
+                       + Ethernet frame
+```
+
+- **The device.** vm.wasm's virtio-net already sends each Ethernet frame on a net channel with a
+  4-byte big-endian length, as natively (`--net PORT`, where gvisor-tap-vsock's netstack takes them,
+  `internal/engine/netstack.go`). The page passes `--net 9 --mac 02:00:00:00:00:01` and a service
+  `{port: 9, kind: 'net', relay: {url, tokenUrl}}`; the kernel command line no longer blacklists
+  virtio-net, so the init runs udhcpc as natively.
+- **The channel service** (`NetSession`, `src/host/chan-services.js`) moves the bytes between the
+  rings and the network Worker: the guest's bytes go out as they are read (at most 1 MiB the Worker
+  has not processed), the Worker's frames are queued for the guest's ring and the Worker is told how
+  much the ring took (`wrote`), which bounds what it sends (1 MiB). vm.wasm waits rather than drops
+  when the guest has no receive buffer (`chan_pump.c`), so the link is reliable both ways.
+- **The network Worker** (`src/net/net-worker.js`) runs the stack and the relay connection, off the
+  page and off the channel service. It answers, on the engine's addresses (192.168.127.0/24,
+  gateway .1, guest .2, the netstack's gateway MAC):
+  - ARP for the gateway only; DHCP with one static lease (router and DNS server: the gateway);
+  - DNS on gateway:53: A queries go to the relay, which resolves and filters them; AAAA and other
+    types get an empty answer at once (the guest has no IPv6 route); `gateway.wmd.internal`;
+  - TCP: each connection the guest opens is a relay stream. The SYN-ACK goes back only once the
+    relay has connected, so a refused connect is a RST for the SYN (ECONNREFUSED, curl exit 7);
+  - ICMP echo to the gateway; other ICMP and UDP get "unreachable" (only TCP and DNS leave);
+  - the gateway, other guest-network addresses and loopback/multicast never reach the relay.
+- **TCP** (`src/net/stack.js`) is the passive end of each connection, without congestion control
+  (the link is reliable): it sends what the guest's window and the ring's room allow, takes back
+  credit from the guest's ACKs, advertises a window of what the relay has not taken (256 KiB, window
+  scale 3), and has retransmission on a timeout and three duplicate ACKs, zero-window probes, and an
+  answer to the guest's own probes. A batch of the guest's segments goes to the relay in messages of
+  up to 64 KiB (problem 2). **A stream ends with a FIN only when the remote closed cleanly; a
+  stream that fails (the remote reset, the relay connection dropped, a relay limit) ends with a
+  RST**, so a program never sees a cut-off body as a complete one.
+- **The relay** (`relay/relay.ts`, Bun, about 860 lines with its policy and tokens; the browser side, `src/net/`, about 1,600) carries one
+  WebSocket per guest (protocol in `src/net/proto.js`: CONNECT, DATA, END, ABORT, CREDIT and DNS,
+  with per-stream credit both ways, 256 KiB windows).
+
+### Security on the relay
+
+- **Addresses, after resolution** (`relay/policy.ts`). Every connect is checked on the address the
+  relay actually dials. A name is resolved by the relay once and the checked address is dialled (no
+  second lookup), so DNS rebinding cannot swap it. Refused: 0/8, 10/8, 100.64/10, 127/8,
+  169.254/16 (metadata 169.254.169.254 named as such), 172.16/12, 192.0.0/24, 192.0.2/24,
+  192.88.99/24, 192.168/16, 198.18/15, 198.51.100/24, 203.0.113/24, 224/4, 240/4,
+  100.100.100.200; IPv6 ::, ::1, ::/96, 64:ff9b:1::/48, 100::/64, 2001::/23 (Teredo),
+  2001:db8::/32, 3fff::/20, 5f00::/16, fc00::/7 (fd00:ec2::254), fe80::/10, fec0::/10, ff00::/8;
+  ::ffff:0:0:0/96 (IPv4-translated, SIIT); IPv4 inside IPv6 (mapped, NAT64 64:ff9b::/96, 6to4,
+  ISATAP interface ids) is checked as IPv4; and **the relay host's
+  own addresses** (every interface, refreshed every 30 s, plus `WMD_RELAY_SELF` for a public
+  address behind NAT). Only strict dotted-decimal IPv4 is an address: `127.1`, `0x7f.0.0.1`,
+  `2130706433` and `localhost` are refused as names before any lookup.
+- **DNS answers** leave refused addresses out; a name that resolves only to refused addresses
+  gets REFUSED (curl exit 6).
+- **Tokens**: HMAC-SHA256 over `{sid, exp, uid, grp}` with the relay's secret, parsed strictly (one
+  spelling verifies), presented as a WebSocket subprotocol (`t.<token>`), not in the URL. `sid` is the
+  token (one live connection per sid), `uid` the guest identity (one guest machine of one page), `grp`
+  the client the issuer saw (its address, or a user). An expired, forged or missing token is refused
+  (401); `WMD_RELAY_ORIGINS` restricts page origins.
+- **Token issuance** (`relay/token.ts` `TokenIssuer`, used by `test/serve.ts` `/relay-token?instance=ID`;
+  wmn's server would use it with its user id as the client): per client at most 60 tokens a minute
+  and 20 page instances an hour, each token at most 1 h. The network Worker asks for a fresh token at
+  each reconnect, with the same instance id.
+- **Caps per guest identity** (uid), kept across reconnects and fresh tokens for as long as a token
+  for it is valid: 64 connections at once, 600 connects, 1,200 DNS lookups and 30 WebSocket opens a
+  minute, 16 MiB/s down and 4 MiB/s up (token buckets with a 1 s burst, covering every byte, a new
+  stream's first window too), 4 GiB in all (after that the identity is refused new sessions); one
+  live session per identity (a newer one replaces it, code 4010); 8 live sessions per client (grp),
+  100 in all; port 25 refused; data past the granted credit ends the stream. All are `WMD_RELAY_*`
+  settings (head of `relay/relay.ts`). The state is in memory: a relay restart resets it.
+- **An allowlist** (`WMD_RELAY_ALLOW_HOSTS`, `name[:port|port]`, ports 80 and 443 when none are
+  given): the relay then resolves only those names and connects only to (address, port) pairs it gave
+  out for them to this guest. The tests use it, so the relay connects only to dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org,
+  pypi.org and files.pythonhosted.org.
+- **The Worker's stack never wedges** on abandoned connections: a handshake the guest does not finish
+  is given up after 60 s (as Linux's `tcp_synack_retries`), at most 32 handshakes are pending at once,
+  and a connection the guest closed is ended (RST, relay ABORT) after 120 s with no word from the
+  remote.
+- **Test routes** (`WMD_RELAY_TEST_ROUTES`, `WMD_RELAY_TEST_HOSTS`) let the tests reach a local
+  server as `bulk.wmd.test` (203.0.113.10:80 → 127.0.0.1:4572). The relay prints a warning when
+  they are set; a public relay must never set them.
+
+### Numbers (2026-10-07, Apple Silicon, Playwright 1.63, `--mode jit`, 2 vCPUs, 1 GiB; relay and bulk server on this host)
+
+ms and MB/s; one run each. Chromium and Firefox: the final run (09:37-09:48, canary 623 ms before,
+load average 8). WebKit: its last clean runs (run11, 08:56-09:00, canary 630 / 613 ms, the final stack code,
+for the transfers; run8, 08:17-08:25, before problem 1's fix, which changes only uploads, for the
+rest). A dash: no clean WebKit number. The WebKit pass of the final run (09:48-09:53) overlapped another session's guest and is
+not used for numbers (it passed 5/5). "Uncapped" is with the relay's bandwidth caps raised to
+1 GiB/s; the others run with the default caps (16 MiB/s down, 4 MiB/s up, each with a 1 s burst).
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| udhcpc (the lease from the network Worker; 15 s with no answer before) | 465 | 427 | 419 |
+| container answers an exec (from `bootWmd`) | 5,290 | 5,256 | 6,155 |
+| `apk add curl` (index + 9 packages from dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org) | 9,930 | 13,410 | 10,205 |
+| `curl` APKINDEX over HTTPS (474 KB): DNS / TCP connect / TLS done / total | 40 / 57 / 1,220 / 1,454 | 43 / 63 / 1,195 / 1,542 | – |
+| `pip install requests` (5 wheels from pypi.org / files.pythonhosted.org) | 57,949 | 90,395 | 52,774 |
+| `requests.get('https://pypi.org/simple/requests/')` in the guest (s) | 1.94 | 1.20 | – |
+| connect latency, guest `curl` `time_connect` to the local server (DNS + TCP via the relay), 5 runs | 36-40 | 41-50 | 37-40 (run11) |
+| relay-side connect (the relay to the local server) | 1.4-17.6 | 1.8-17.0 | 1.8-15.6 |
+| download 32 MiB, default cap (MB/s; sha256 equal) | 31.0 | 30.6 | 30.5 |
+| download 128 MiB, uncapped | **90.0** (1.49 s) | **45.6** (2.94 s) | **81.4** (1.65 s) |
+| upload 8 MiB, default cap (server's sha256 equal) | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.5 |
+| upload 32 MiB, uncapped | **47.3** (0.71 s) | **13.4** (2.50 s) | **38.9** (0.86 s) |
+| download at a 512 KiB/s relay cap (4 MiB, python) | 506 KB/s | 515 KB/s | 517 KB/s |
+| TCP retransmissions / duplicate-ACK retransmissions (whole alpine run) | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 |
+
+- **Connect latency.** The guest's `time_connect` (about 40 ms) is mostly the guest itself: the DNS
+  query for `bulk.wmd.test` and the TCP handshake through the emulated kernel. The relay reaches the
+  local server in 1-2 ms once warm (the first connects of a session, 13-18 ms, include its startup).
+- **Throughput.** The default caps bind on the 32 MiB transfers (16 MiB/s plus a 16 MiB burst gives
+  32 MiB in about 1 s). Uncapped, the path runs at 45-90 MB/s down and 13-47 MB/s up; Firefox is the
+  slowest both ways. The guest's own work (virtio, its TCP, curl writing the file) is in these numbers.
+- **Package installs** are dominated by the guest (unpacking, `pip` itself under emulation), not the
+  network: the bytes are under 3 MB for each.
+
+### Results
+
+Every run under the boot lock, `PORT=8790`, relay on 4571, bulk server on 4572.
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| pass: alpine `apk add curl`, then curl over HTTPS, throughput | pass | pass | pass |
+| pass: python `pip install requests`, then `requests.get` over HTTPS | pass | pass | pass |
+| adversarial: refused addresses, DNS failures | pass | pass | pass |
+| adversarial: relay drop / kill / restart / upstream reset mid-download, apk across a relay kill | pass | pass | pass |
+| caps: connections at once, bandwidth | pass | pass | pass |
+| `bun test test/unit test/adversarial-b11/yamux-adv.test.js` | 386 pass, 2 skip, 0 fail | | |
+
+**Refused, from the guest** (`curl -m 20 http://ADDR:PORT/`): 169.254.169.254 (metadata),
+100.100.100.200 (metadata), 10.0.0.1 and 172.17.0.1:2375 (private), 203.0.113.10:81 (reserved; the
+test route covers only port 80), and this host's own addresses on the relay's port (its LAN address
+192.168.0.9 and its Tailscale address 100.119.72.125: "self"). Each failed at once, in 330-500 ms with
+curl exit 7, and the relay's log names the reason (`blocked`, "... is metadata"). 0.0.0.0 and
+224.0.0.1 never left the guest. Names that resolve to refused addresses (`127.0.0.1.nip.io`,
+`169.254.169.254.nip.io`, public DNS) got REFUSED from the relay: curl exit 6, about 430 ms. The
+gateway's port 80 is refused by the Worker; another guest-network address fails after ARP (3.5 s,
+EHOSTUNREACH).
+
+**DNS failures.** A real NXDOMAIN (`no-such-host.invalid`): curl exit 6 in under 0.6 s. The relay
+restarted with a dead resolver (`WMD_RELAY_DNS=127.0.0.1:4579`): SERVFAIL, curl exit 6 in 0.4 s; with
+the relay restarted normally the next download worked. The guest kept running throughout.
+
+**Mid-download failures** (a 4 MiB body sent at 256 KiB/s; each case cut at about 5 s):
+
+| | Chromium | Firefox | WebKit |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| the page drops the relay WebSocket | curl 56, 1.25 MB kept, 319 ms after | 56, 331 ms | 56, 1,298 ms |
+| relay killed (SIGKILL) and started again | 56, 270 ms | 56, 337 ms | 56, 1,358 ms |
+| relay restarted (SIGTERM) | 56, 287 ms | 56, 384 ms | 56, 1,349 ms |
+| the remote resets mid-body | 56 | 56 | 56 |
+| the next download (`curl \| sha256sum`) | equal | equal | equal |
+| `apk add python3` with the relay (256 KiB/s) killed during the package downloads | apk exit 1: "python3-pycache-pyc0: IO ERROR", "1 error"; the rerun installed that one package, `python3 -c 'print(6*7)'` printed 42 | same | same |
+
+Never a curl exit 0 with other bytes: a failed stream is a RST to the guest, never a FIN. In WebKit
+(run8) a failure took about 1.3 s to reach the guest's stream, against about 0.3 s in the other two;
+in the overlapped final run the relay kills took 0.27-0.38 s there too. The cause was not checked.
+
+### Problems found, and their causes
+
+1. **Uploads stalled in Firefox and WebKit** (fixed). A 32 MiB upload ran at 26.8 MB/s in Chromium
+   but at 0.59 MB/s in Firefox and 1.05 MB/s in WebKit, with every byte arriving (sha256 equal).
+   Cause: each guest segment (1,460 bytes) became its own WebSocket message, and the relay answered
+   each socket write with its own CREDIT: about 23,000 messages each way for 32 MiB, against a few
+   hundred 64 KiB messages for the same download. Sending a WebSocket message from a Worker costs
+   far more per message in Firefox and WebKit. Fix: the stack sends a batch of segments to the
+   relay in messages of up to 64 KiB, and the relay sends one CREDIT per stream per turn. After it:
+   Firefox 12.6 MB/s, WebKit 38.9 MB/s, Chromium 48 MB/s (test: `net-stack.test.js` "a batch of
+   the guest's segments goes to the relay as few large messages"). Two causes ruled out on the
+   way: `Atomics.waitAsync` woken by the same Worker's notify takes 11-15 ms in all three browsers
+   (a probe, not kept), and answering the guest's zero-window probes (a real gap, now fixed and
+   tested, but not this stall).
+2. **Bun's node:net and a remote reset.** In the relay's own tests, a bulk server written with
+   `drain` events sometimes never sent its reset; the relay was not at fault (pausing and resuming
+   a socket in Bun 1.4.2 does report ECONNRESET). The test server writes with write callbacks.
+3. **Bandwidth caps trickled one byte at a time.** With the bucket empty, `take()` returned the
+   few bytes refilled since the last call, so the relay sent DATA messages of 1-10 bytes. It now
+   waits until 16 KiB (or the whole request) is there.
+
+### What remains
+
+- **IPv6.** The guest gets no IPv6 route, and the relay resolves A records only.
+- **UDP** other than DNS (NTP, QUIC, DNS over TCP from the guest) is not carried.
+- **Inbound connections** (published ports) are not possible in the browser.
+- **Native comparison.** The relay path was not measured against native wmd's netstack here.
+- **Deployment** (ROADMAP 14.8): a hosted relay needs TLS (`wss:`), a token service in wmn's
+  server, and its public address in `WMD_RELAY_SELF`.
+
+### Running
+
+```sh
+cd web
+bun test test/unit/net-stack.test.js test/unit/net-chan.test.js test/unit/net-relay.test.js   # no guest
+# under the boot lock, one browser per run (about 5-6 min each); needs the alpine and python fixtures:
+#   go run ./web/test/fixtures-gen image -ref docker.io/library/alpine:3.20 -out web/test/fixtures/images/alpine
+#   go run ./web/test/fixtures-gen image -ref docker.io/library/python:3.12-slim -out web/test/fixtures/images/python
+export WMD_RELAY_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 16) WMD_RELAY_URL=ws://127.0.0.1:4571/relay PORT=8790
+test/locked.sh bunx playwright test net.spec --project=chromium   # WMD_WEB_NET_CASES=pass,adversarial,restart,caps
+# a relay of your own:
+WMD_RELAY_SECRET=... bun relay/relay.ts
+```
+
+The spec starts the relay (`bun relay/relay.ts`, port 4571) and a bulk HTTP server (port 4572)
+itself, and kills them by PID. Results: `net-results/<browser>-<case>.{json,stdout.log,stderr.log}`.
+
+## P-B8: two vCPUs on Workers sharing memory (branch `wmd-web-b8`, in progress)
+
+Status (2026-10-07): **partly done; no passing proof run yet.**
+- Done: the stall hook (`bootWmd({stallHook})`, `vm.stallThread(tid, ms)`, `vm.stats().stall`; cells 9-13
+  and bytes 112-127 in `layout.js`; checked in `worker.js`'s import guard only when on); case `b8` in
+  `page/chan.js` (alpine:3.20 + build-base from one pack, chroot from the proof initramfs, `test/b8/run.sh`
+  phases); fixtures `test/b8/build.sh` (Docker: build-base pack, static `b8lock` LL/SC and LSE builds,
+  Lua 5.4.7); `test/b8/b8lock.c` (mutex, spin, atomic, cond, futex, work); specs `b8.spec.js` (opt-in
+  `WMD_WEB_B8=1`) and `b8-hook.spec.js` (synthetic `b8-synth/stall.wat`); native reference
+  `test/b8/native.sh`; `test/b8/pw.sh` (waits for the lock with no "playwright test" in its command line).
+- Evidence so far: one Chromium boot, 1 vCPU, with 1024 MiB of slack (canary 612/624 ms). nproc, getconf
+  and cpuinfo all reported 1, and cpuinfo lists `atomics` (LSE). The first `make` of Lua then **used up
+  vm.wasm's 1023 MiB heap reserve** (4 block-cache resets, then exit 4, reported as out of memory). gcc's
+  cc1 needs more than 1 GiB of translator heap. The spec now defaults to 2560 MiB of slack
+  (`B8_SLACK`); that run never got the lock.
+- Not started: the 1/2/4-vCPU runs in Chromium/Firefox/WebKit, the speed-ups, the lock contention
+  numbers, the stall runs (RCU stall at >21 s: `CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=21`; the kernel has no
+  soft-lockup detector), the native reference, `b8-hook.spec.js` runs, and the unit tests under the lock.
+- Note for the stall work: `machine_cache_flush_all` (world-stop) waits for every running vCPU to park, so a
+  stopped vCPU Worker would stall any other vCPU that flushes the whole cache.
+- Run: `PORT=8774 WMD_VM_WASM=../guest/vm/build/vm.wasm WMD_WEB_B8=1 test/locked.sh test/b8/pw.sh b8.spec --project=chromium`.
+
+## P-B7: packs from a static host and the registry proxy
+
+**Status: done and reviewed; results, root causes and limits are in `test/b7/README.md`.** Branch `wmd-web-b7`. (The text below is the design record; where it says "not done", the later runs in `test/b7/README.md` did it.)
+
+Built: `src/registry/ref.js` (refs, platforms, the layout: `/blobs/sha256/<hex>` packs, immutable;
+`/idx/<registry>/<repo>/<tag>/<os>-<arch>.json` per image@platform), `page/sw.js` (packs cached only
+after a sha256 check; everything else network first, cache when offline), `page/b7.js` (index -> packs
+-> container run over the control channel), `registry/` (Bun host + proxy `server.ts`; Docker Hub client
+with anonymous tokens, host allowlist, streamed digest/size checks `upstream.ts`; `pull.ts`: index ->
+linux/arm64, 4 parallel verified downloads, layers converted in order by wmd's `union.PackLayer`
+(`wmdpack/`), chain cache, gzip-6 copies served with Content-Encoding, disk floor; `export.ts` from
+`~/.wmd/data` (read only); `testreg.ts` + `testimages.ts`: a Docker-free registry with 50-layer,
+multi-arch, nested, lying, corrupt, slow, cut and size-lie images).
+
+Decision: convert on the proxy, not in the browser. Packs are byte-identical to P-B11's fixtures-gen
+packs (same converter); gzip-6 packs are within 2% of the registry's layer.gz on the wire (48.5 vs
+47.6 MB, alpine + python); conversion runs once per layer chain for every visitor. In-browser gunzip +
+tar walk of python's layers (148.7 MB tar) is 275 / 297 / 231 ms (C/F/W), vs 717 ms for the Go
+converter, so a browser converter is affordable in CPU, but would be a second implementation of
+fromtar.go's whiteout, opaque, hard-link copy-up and symlinked-parent rules.
+
+Evidence so far:
+- `bun test test/unit/b7-registry.test.ts`: 17 pass (no guest): refs/platforms, allowlist and foreign
+  token realm/redirect refused, 50-layer union checked with wmd's Go union, multi-arch/nested/no-arm64/
+  lying index, corrupt layer refused with no index or chain or tmp left, size lie, cut transfer then
+  retry, disk floor, concurrent pulls joined, static headers.
+- No-guest browser tests pass in Chromium, Firefox and WebKit: the SW caches a pack and a second visit
+  with the host killed gets it from the cache (`probe`); a tampered pack is refused by the SW and not
+  cached; corrupt layer refused by the proxy (`do not match`); the gunzip probe.
+- Proxy against Docker Hub (curl, no browser): busybox 1.1 s (1.9 MB), ruby:3.3-slim 2.56 s (69.8 MB,
+  5 layers; download 1.63 s, convert 0.99 s; packs 176 MB, gz 72.7 MB). Export from wmd's store:
+  python 0.85 s (convert 717 ms, 207 MB/s).
+- Guest boots (Chromium, one run, canary 617/619 ms): alpine and python ran from the static host
+  through the SW (alpine main exit at 5.2 s, python at 7.6 s from navigation; exit 0, outputs right);
+  the run stopped at a test regex (apk warnings on stderr), fixed in the spec, not rerun.
+
+Not done: the offline second-visit boot, the Docker Hub images in the browser, the 50-layer,
+multi-arch and proxy-killed-mid-pull browser tests (all written in `test/b7/b7.spec.js`), Firefox and
+WebKit guest runs, the numbers table. The boot lock was held by other sessions most of the session
+(goprof.sh waits for no `pgrep -f "playwright test"` while holding the lock, which a waiting
+`locked.sh bunx playwright test ...` matches; this suite queues through `test/b7/run.sh`).
+
+```sh
+go build -o web/registry/.bin/wmdpack ./web/registry/wmdpack
+cd web && bun test test/unit/b7-registry.test.ts
+test/locked.sh test/b7/run.sh --project=chromium     # then firefox, webkit (ports 8780-8783)
+```
+
+## W24: start-up events for wmn's engine start-up screen
+
+`bootWmd({onEvent})` also gets the start-up events wmn's start-up screen draws (wmn D-211, ROADMAP 7.14), from
+`src/host/boot-events.js`. `atMs` is milliseconds from the boot's `t0` (page clock, `timings.t0`), `tookMs` the stage's own
+duration, sizes are bytes. Progress-like events (download and restore progress, workers progress, `heap`, `layer`) go out at
+most 4 times a second per kind (a download's kind is its file, a layer's its port): the latest waits, and a `start` or `done`
+of the same kind replaces it. Nothing is sent after `exit`. The events that were there before (`chan`, `pool`, `panic`,
+`throttle`, `thread`, `phase`, `host-calls`) are unchanged.
+
+| event | when | fields |
+|---|---|---|
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'download', state:'progress'\|'done', file}` | per file, as bytes come; `done` when it is in | `bytes`, `total` (Content-Length; null when absent or content-encoded), `cached` (null on progress), `port` (packs), `tookMs` (the fetch's own time) on done; a file the caller passed as bytes: `given: true`, `cached: null`; a file vm.restore() reused: `cached: true` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'download', state:'done'}` (no `file`) | everything in | `fileBytes`, `layerBytes` (`timings`), `tookMs` (`timings.allDownloadMs`) |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'compile', state:'start'\|'done'}` | around `WebAssembly.compile` | `moduleBytes`, `reused` (vm.restore() reuses the Module), `tookMs` = `timings.compileMs` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'memory', state:'done'}` | shared memory, control block, JIT store, rings made | `initialBytes`, `maxBytes`, `ringBytes` (stdio + channel block), `tookMs` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'workers', state:'progress'\|'done'}` | each Worker change; `done` once every Worker started before the vCPU is ready | `workers: [{id, role, state, atMs, tid?}]`, `vcpus`, `jitShared`, `tookMs` on done; after the end every Worker is `ended` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'kernel', state:'start'\|'done'}` | `start`: vm.wasm's `_start` began; `done`: the first console (stdout) byte. Not sent for a restored machine | `tookMs` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'restore', state:'progress'\|'done'}` | a base snapshot coming in (`restoreLazy`), every 250 ms; `done` when its memory is written | `bytes`, `total`, `source`: `'opfs'`, `'network'` or `'memory'` (vm.restore()), `used` (false with `fallback`: the snapshot was refused and the kernel boots instead), `tookMs` from `t0` to the memory written (`timings.restore.pagesWrittenAt`; a base snapshot's download may have begun before the boot). A base snapshot that falls back from the cache to the network starts its `bytes` again with `source: 'network'` |
+| `{t:'boot', stage:'control', state:'done'}` | the guest's yamux control session first up | `tookMs` from the vCPU start |
+| `{t:'heap'}` | the shared memory's size changed (checked every 250 ms) | `bytes`, `maxBytes` |
+| `{t:'layer'}` | a 9P service's upper first seen, then on each change of 1 MiB or more | `port`, `usedBytes`, `capBytes` (null: no cap), `kind: 'memory'` |
+| `{t:'exit'}` | the machine ended (the same as `vm.exited`) | `code` (-1 stopped, -2 no progress, -3 panic, -4 service died, else the guest's), `reason`, `oom` |
+
+Worker ids and roles: `vcpu-0` (`vcpu`, the main Worker), `pool-<n>` (`pool`; `tid` is the guest thread it runs now:
+the other vCPUs and vm.wasm's own threads, which wmd-web cannot tell apart), `chan-service`, `net`, `jit-hub`.
+
+The Workers stage has no `done` when a Worker failed (the list says which); every vCPU after vCPU 0 runs on a `pool` Worker.
+
+What is not measured, so not sent: a `container` stage (the container's init is behind the control session; runtime-web
+knows when its run answers), the heap vm.wasm
+uses inside its memory (with W21's heap reserve the memory is at its maximum from the start, so `heap.bytes` is then the
+maximum). `cached` comes from Resource Timing: `transferSize` 0 with a body is true, bytes transferred is false; Firefox and
+WebKit give a service worker's cached response zero sizes (`page/w24/`, `test/e2e/w24-cached.spec.js`), so a zero-size
+entry is true only for a same-origin file that had bytes; null when the browser has no entry (its timing buffer is full).
+
+A storage failure is an error named `QuotaExceededError`: a checkpoint store's `CheckpointError` with code `quota`, and the
+base snapshot cache's (`info.cacheWrite.name`).
+
+```sh
+bun test test/unit/w24-boot-events.test.js
+PORT=8796 bunx playwright test test/e2e/w24-cached.spec.js                     # no guest, three browsers
+PORT=8795 ~/.wmd/bootlock/bootlock.sh run --max 1800 -- test/b9/run.sh b9w24 --project=chromium   # boots python
+```
+
+## 2.7: `wmd image export --format web` (D-477)
+
+    wmd image export --format web -o ./site alpine:latest python:3.12-slim
+
+writes a folder any static file server can host: the images as packs in the static host layout
+(`blobs/sha256/`, `idx/...`, as `src/registry/ref.js` names them), the guest's `vm.wasm`, kernel
+and init (`guest/arm64/`), a copy of `src/` (`wmd-web/`, embedded in the wmd binary by
+`web/embed.go`), and the runner page from `export-page/` (`index.html?ref=...&cmd=...`). The page
+checks every guest file against `wmd-web.json`'s sha256 and every pack against its name before it
+boots. `_headers` carries the COOP/COEP/CORP/CSP for hosts that read it; on a host that sends no
+headers the page registers `coi-sw.js` and reloads once. The packs are byte-identical to
+`wmd pull`'s (`test/export/byte-identity.py`), and each index equals the registry proxy's
+(`test/export/compare-proxy.ts`). Browser gate: `test/locked.sh bunx playwright test -c test/export`.
+
+## Releases: `make web-release` (2.15, D-482)
+
+A release of wmd-web is the version in `package.json`, the local git tag `wmd-web-v<version>` on the
+commit, and `~/.wmd/releases/wmd-web-<version>.tgz` with its `.sha256`, made from a clean main commit
+by `make web-release` (`scripts/web-release.py`). Nothing is published and nothing is committed by it:
+bump `version` in a commit first (minor for a change to the public API, patch otherwise).
+
+The tarball is in `npm pack` layout, so it can go to a registry unchanged later:
+
+    package/package.json  package/README.md  package/src/**  package/export-page/**   from git, at the commit
+    package/guest/arm64/vm.wasm Image Image-4k initramfs.cpio.gz                     VM= (default guest/vm/build/vm.wasm), GUEST= (default ~/.wmd/bin/guest/arm64)
+    package/RELEASE.json  version, commit, previous release, the D numbers since it, guest/vm's tree hash, the sha256 of every file
+
+The same commit and guest files give the same bytes. `python3 -I scripts/web-release.py --verify
+FILE.tgz` checks the `.sha256` beside the file (required), that the tarball holds only regular files
+named `package/<clean path>`, once each, mode 0644, owner 0, nothing after the end, and every file
+against RELEASE.json; an installer should run it, or do the same checks, before it uses a tarball. A released version is never rewritten, and a
+tag that already marks another commit is refused. `make web-release-test` tests all of this on a
+throwaway clone.
+
+## Guests above 1536 MiB: RAM in a memory64 of its own (D-533)
+
+vm.wasm's memory 0 is 4 GiB at most and also holds the emulator's heap, so `--ram` stopped at 1536 MiB
+(`MAX_BROWSER_RAM_MIB`). With a shared memory64 (Chrome 133, Firefox 134; `haveMemory64()`) a bigger `--ram`
+now boots the **flat layout**: `bootWmd` makes a second shared memory of exactly `--ram` (at most 16 GiB, the
+engines' memory64 limit), passes `WMD_RAM_FLAT=1` to vm.wasm and hands the memory to every Worker.
+
+- Translated code imports it as `env.win` and reads guest RAM with 64-bit addresses (`host/jit.js`).
+- vm.wasm's C code cannot address a second memory. It calls `wmd.ram_rw` and `wmd.ram_cas`, two exports of a
+  200-byte wasm module made in `host/ram-mem.js` (wasm to wasm: no BigInt, no JS on a page-table walk).
+- Memory 0 is vm.wasm's 384 MiB + a 512 MiB stand-in the board loads the kernel through + 1536 MiB of heap
+  slack (`flatMaxPages`), whatever the guest's RAM. Leave `maxPages` out for such a boot.
+- `flatRam: true|false` forces the layout on or off; unset, it is chosen for `--ram` above 1536 when the engine
+  has memory64 and `allowLargeRam` is not set. Safari has no memory64: the old limit and its message stay.
+- No checkpoint yet: `checkpoint: true` is ignored and `restore` / `restoreLazy` are refused with a message
+  (a checkpoint holds memory 0 only).
+
+Measured in Chromium (page/b7.js, `ram=`): 4096 shows `Mem: 3976`; 8192 with 4 vCPUs held 5366 MB in six
+processes with every byte checked; the same work at 1536 (small) and 4096 (flat) took 35 s and 39 s.
+Tests: `test/unit/ram-mem.test.js` (bun has no memory64: the helper's part runs under node).