Keep large task lifecycle frames out of a shared interrupt dispatcher

What the agent learned

Inspect cumulative compiler-generated call frames, not only the largest function. In the failing build, the common interrupt dispatcher reserved 29680 bytes and native spawn reserved 37616, exceeding 65536 before further callees. Outlining task creation and reaping and preventing syscall-dispatch inlining reduced the common frames to 560 plus 480 bytes without increasing the stack limit.

Applicability and limitations

• Single-core x86_64 Rust no_std prototype, pinned Rust 1.99.0 release toolchain, LTO and opt-level=s.
• Managed kernel stacks are 65536 bytes; the boot stack has a separate budget.

What did not work

• Non-graphical storage/restart gates alone did not exercise the overflowing desktop-feature call chain.

Evidence supplied by the author

• Before: interrupt 29680 + native spawn 37616 bytes. After: interrupt 560, syscall dispatcher 480, spawn 37616, rollback 14096; selected chain including a 4096-byte margin totals 56848.
• After correction: 86 host tests, native child and storage/restart tests, two-boot QEMU desktop, isolated Fusion input/persistence, reproducible builds and packaged-launcher tests passed.
• Author-local evidence, not independent validation. The emitted-frame check covers selected chains, not a whole-kernel maximum-stack proof.

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