Files
hsmc/verification/INVARIANTS.md
T
swaits 081bd28cca journal + determinism tests + Creusot verification scaffolding
Phase 1 — semantics doc
  docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md

Phase 2 — deterministic execution journal
  hsmc/src/journal.rs (TraceEvent, JournalSink, ActionKind)
  hsmc-macros: __chart_journal! emission at every observable site
    (entry/exit/action/transition/timer arm-cancel-fire/during/emit/
    event delivery/terminate). Per-state during count helpers, stable
    chart-hash via FNV-1a. Action observation moved out of run_action
    and into call sites so ActionKind is accurate.
  Public API on the generated machine: journal(), take_journal(),
    clear_journal(), CHART_HASH.

Phase 3 — verification crate (Creusot scaffolding)
  verification/{Cargo.toml,mise.toml,requirements.txt,INVARIANTS.md}
  verification/src/{event_queue.rs,timer_table.rs} — Pearlite
    contracts on simplified mirrors of the runtime types. cargo
    creusot generates Coma IR cleanly; VCs not yet discharged.
  Correspondence tests drive the verified mirror and the runtime
    type with the same op sequences and assert observable parity.

Tests — 113 deterministic-flow tests across 22 files. Each compares a
  hand-built expected journal byte-for-byte against actual, anchored
  to a spec section: initial entry, lateral/self/up transitions,
  bubbling, timers, emit, ordering, durings, step/dispatch
  equivalence, root-targeting, current_state, termination.

Tooling — mise.toml (root): stable Rust + cargo subcommands.
  verification/mise.toml: pinned nightly-2025-11-13 + opam + python
  venv + uv. just verify is fully self-installing.

Bug fix — root state targetable by the chart's own name (e.g.
  `on(Trig) => ChartName;`) per spec §"How transitions work".

CHART_HASH — stable FNV-1a fingerprint over the chart's structural
  definition; mismatch on replay = different chart.
2026-04-27 20:15:05 -06:00

4.4 KiB
Raw Blame History

Invariants Mapping

Maps spec rules from docs/002. hsmc-semantics-formal.md to Pearlite contracts in this crate. Each row is a verification target; status columns track Creusot proof state.

Status legend

  • ✅ proof discharged by Creusot
  • 🟡 contract written, proof not yet attempted (Creusot not installed)
  • 🔴 contract incomplete or proof failing
  • ⏭ out of scope for this phase

EventQueue (src/event_queue.rs)

Spec rule Statement Function Status
S6.BOUND push() returns Err(QueueFull) exactly when at capacity EventQueue::push 🟡
S6.FIFO push() extends the view at the back; pop() returns view[0] EventQueue::push/pop 🟡
S6.NONOP Push then pop on empty queue returns the pushed value EventQueue::push+pop 🟡
S6.EMPTY is_empty() ⇔ view().len() == 0 EventQueue::is_empty 🟡
S6.CLEAR clear() makes the view empty EventQueue::clear 🟡
S6.LEN len() returns the view length EventQueue::len 🟡

TimerTable (src/timer_table.rs)

Spec rule Statement Function Status
S5.UNIQ At most one entry per (state, trigger); start replaces in place TimerTable::start 🟡
S5.CAP View length ≤ CAP across all operations (all) 🟡
S5.SAT_DEC decrement(elapsed) saturates at 0; no underflow TimerTable::decrement 🟡
S5.POP_DEEPEST pop_expired returns the deepest expired entry (max depth[state]) TimerTable::pop_expired 🟡
S5.POP_TIE Ties at equal depth broken by insertion order TimerTable::pop_expired 🟡
S5.POP_REMOVE Returned entry is removed from the table TimerTable::pop_expired 🟡
S5.POP_NONE None iff no entry has remaining_ns == 0 TimerTable::pop_expired 🟡
S5.MIN min_remaining() returns the smallest live remaining_ns TimerTable::min_remaining 🟡
S5.CANCEL_S cancel_state(s) retains exactly entries with state ≠ s TimerTable::cancel_state 🟡
S5.CANCEL_1 cancel_one(s, t) retains exactly entries ≠ (s, t) TimerTable::cancel_one 🟡

Out of scope (this phase)

Item Reason
transition() codegen invariants (path validity) Requires threading Creusot attrs through the proc-macro. Phase 4.
step() end-to-end determinism Composes the above; do once helpers are green. Phase 4.
Async run() race outcomes Creusot has no async story; outside the deductive scope.
User action bodies User code, not part of the runtime.
duration_from_secs_f64 Floating-point not modeled. Use #[trusted] + property tests.

How to verify

just verify

That's it. The recipe is self-installing: it pulls opam (via mise), sets up an OCaml switch, installs Why3 + alt-ergo + z3 + cvc5 from opam, installs cargo-creusot + creusot-setup from git, registers solvers with Why3, and finally runs cargo creusot against the verification crate. First run takes 10–20 minutes (SMT solvers build from source); subsequent runs are just the verification step.

Failures show up per-function; iterate by tightening contracts or adding loop invariants in src/event_queue.rs / src/timer_table.rs.

Correspondence with the runtime

The mirrors in src/event_queue.rs and src/timer_table.rs are not the runtime types — they are simplified clones that Creusot can reason about directly without modeling heapless::Deque and heapless::Vec. They are kept observably equivalent to hsmc::__private::EventQueue and hsmc::__private::TimerTable by:

  • tests/correspondence_event_queue.rs
  • tests/correspondence_timer_table.rs

These run both the mirror and the runtime type with identical operation sequences and assert their visible behavior agrees on every step. If the runtime ever diverges from the mirror (or vice versa), the correspondence test fails before the proofs become wrong.