feat(exec): Run userland in ring 3 with an ELF64 loader and per-process page tables

SUB-OS had a syscall table and user GDT descriptors but nothing that could
actually leave ring 0: lazybox and the shell run as kernel code, and
syscall_handler() was never reachable from a user program. This adds the
missing path end to end on x86_64.

Address spaces (arch/x86_64/mm/vmspace.c)
- The boot page tables identity-map the low 4 GB off PML4[0] and leave the
  rest empty, so userland is given its own PML4 slot (512 GiB) rather than
  holes punched in the kernel's 2 MB huge-page map. A process PML4 shares
  entry 0 with the kernel and privately owns entry 1.
- Frames outside the identity map are refused rather than written through an
  unmapped pointer; lifting that needs a recursive map or a higher-half
  direct map, which is noted in the file.

ELF loader (kernel/elf.c)
- Validates ELF64/little-endian/ET_EXEC/machine, bounds-checks every program
  header against both the image and the user address range, and lays PT_LOAD
  segments into an address space. Frames arrive zeroed, so .bss is covered.

Ring transition (arch/x86_64/cpu/usermode.asm)
- user_enter() drops to ring 3 via iretq after scrubbing every GPR, and
  user_return() unwinds back to it when the process exits, so exec looks like
  a call that blocks until the program finishes.

Syscalls
- INT 0x80 installed at DPL 3 with the Linux x86_64 register convention.
  The process gets its own kernel stack for the trap, because TSS.rsp0 must
  not point at the stack user_enter() is standing on.
- Every user pointer is range-checked before use. The process page tables are
  still live during a syscall, so without that check a program could pass a
  kernel address and have write(2) dump kernel text to the console. The new
  /sbin/init asserts both a wild pointer and a kernel pointer are rejected.
- write(2) to stdout/stderr routes through the new console_write(), which
  reuses printk's routing so output reaches serial and the framebuffer
  console rather than only the VGA text buffer.

Faults
- A ring 3 exception now kills that process and reports CR2 instead of
  panicking the machine.

Userland (userland/init/)
- /sbin/init is a real freestanding static executable, linked at the user
  base and embedded in the kernel image by scripts/mkblob.py. It reports its
  pid, verifies .bss was zeroed and .data is writable, checks the two pointer
  rejections, and exits.

aarch64 and armv8i keep building: the loader and exec path are portable, and
those ports get honest vmspace stubs that fail cleanly rather than pretending
to run a program with kernel privileges.

Verified under QEMU: init loads at 0x80004000a0, reports pid 1, .bss zeroed,
.data writable, both bad pointers rejected, and exits 0 back into the shell.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0161Jh7uCEMLYEMNPsjC1LKf
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@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <arch/x86_64/pic.h>
#include <kernel/printk.h>
#include <kernel/panic.h>
#include <kernel/exec.h>
#include <lib/string.h>
extern void* isr_stub_table[48];
@@ -54,6 +55,26 @@ void isr_unregister_handler(uint8_t int_no) {
void isr_handler_common(registers_t* regs) {
if (regs->int_no < 32) {
/* A page fault reports the offending address in CR2; everything else
* is best described by where it was executing. */
uint64_t fault_addr = regs->rip;
if (regs->int_no == 14) {
__asm__ volatile("mov %%cr2, %0" : "=r"(fault_addr));
}
/*
* CS still carries the privilege level the fault was taken from. A
* ring 3 fault is the process's problem, not the kernel's: report it
* and tear that process down instead of bringing the machine down
* with it.
*/
if ((regs->cs & 3) == 3 && uproc_current()) {
printk(KERN_ERR "\n[USER FAULT] Vector %llu: %s (error 0x%llx) at rip=0x%llx\n",
regs->int_no, exception_messages[regs->int_no],
regs->error_code, regs->rip);
uproc_fault(exception_messages[regs->int_no], fault_addr);
}
// CPU Exception Fault
printk(KERN_EMERG "\n[EXCEPTION] Vector %llu: %s (Error code: 0x%llx)\n",
regs->int_no, exception_messages[regs->int_no], regs->error_code);