Paging tests

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added comprehensive paging tests covering page-directory separation, permissions, CR3 switching, cleanup, and frame reuse.
  • Added paging tests to standard and coverage test runs.

• Documentation

  • Updated testing documentation and regression checklists to include the paging test suite.

• Chores

  • Updated repository ignore rules for generated local files.

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• README.md
• kernel/VERSION
• kernel/src/paging.c
• kernel/tests/paging_test.c
• site/index.html

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds host-test hooks to paging code, introduces a paging test suite, integrates it into normal and coverage workflows, updates test documentation, and moves the .freebuff ignore pattern to the repository root.

Changes

Paging Test Integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host paging hooks kernel/src/paging.c	Test builds resolve physical addresses through a host mapping and record kernel or user CR3 switches.
Paging behavior test suite kernel/tests/paging_test.c	The suite tests initialization, mappings, permissions, invalid inputs, allocation failures, cleanup, CR3 switching, and frame reuse.
Test workflow and documentation kernel/Makefile, README.md	Normal and coverage targets compile and run paging_test. The README adds the suite to unit-test and regression-test requirements.

Ignore File Cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ignore pattern update .gitignore, kernel/.gitignore	The .freebuff pattern moved from kernel/.gitignore to the repository root .gitignore.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 9d2ae

User-space mappings outside the first 4 MiB window can write beyond the allocated page-table frame, risking kernel memory corruption and incorrect paging behavior; the PR is not safe to merge until the indexing bug is fixed. The test backing storage also needs guaranteed 32-bit alignment for reliable results.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant paging_test
  participant paging_c
  participant fake_physical_memory
  paging_test->>paging_c: initialize paging and prepare user space
  paging_c->>fake_physical_memory: resolve physical page addresses
  paging_c->>paging_test: record kernel or user CR3 switch
  paging_test->>paging_c: clean up user page directory and tables

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding paging tests and related test support.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 99.58%. Comparing base (92739aa) to head (67939d7).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

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Inline comments:
In `@kernel/tests/paging_test.c`:
- Around line 21-23: Update the paging tests to include a successful user-space
window in a nonzero PDE and assert the selected PDE plus both expected PTEs. In
paging_prepare_user_space, index the page table with the page-table-local index
((va shifted right by 12) masked to 0x3FF) rather than the full virtual-page
number, and explicitly preserve the intended VGA mapping behavior for nonzero
user windows.
- Around line 48-63: Update the fake physical-memory storage used by
paging_test_phys_to_ptr so g_phys_ram has uint32_t alignment, using an aligned
union or _Alignas(uint32_t), while preserving its byte-addressable behavior and
existing bounds checks.

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📥 Commits

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📒 Files selected for processing (6)

• .gitignore
• README.md
• kernel/.gitignore
• kernel/Makefile
• kernel/src/paging.c
• kernel/tests/paging_test.c

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• kernel/.gitignore