Elara pulled up a second monitor. “Show me a failure.”
void *escape = labyrinth; if (!escape) panic("No way out. System halts."); “If alloc_page fails in an atomic context,” Kai said, “the kernel can’t wait to free memory. It either has a pre-prepared escape route—this page—or it dies. The labyrinth is that route. A guaranteed room, reserved ahead of time, that you only enter when the world is collapsing.”
Elara leaned back. “Explain it like I’m a CPU.”
