Every direct memory allocation had a memfd of its own, so each one the
GPU used became its own udmabuf and its own imported buffer object. An
imported buffer object cannot be always valid in the GPU VM: amdgpu
validates every one of them at every command submission. PPSA14632
(LEGO Horizon Adventures) imports about 7000 allocations, 5800 of them
64 KiB, and each vkQueueSubmit took about 2.3 ms (5 s per 10 s, held
under the GPU mutex). A standalone test shows the cost follows the
count of imported dma-buf buffer objects, not their size or the count
of ordinary allocations.
- libkernel: on Linux all direct memory lives in one sparse memfd of
DIRECT_MEMORY_SIZE, at file offset = physical address
(PhysicalBacking keeps the file and its offset; SharedBacking returns
that offset). A range allocated again is zeroed through a temporary
mapping, as the old per-allocation memfd was.
- Driver: an import of shared direct memory that lies inside one
64 MiB chunk of the file binds its own VkBuffer into that chunk's
memory, one udmabuf import per chunk (HostImport::chunk holds it, so
it lives until the last buffer bound to it retires). Ranges that
cross a chunk or do not meet the buffer alignment are imported alone
as before.
On PPSA14632 vkQueueSubmit drops from about 2400 us to 46 us on
average, the GPU idles 36 ms instead of 172 ms per present, and
presents go from about 40 to 80-97 per 10 s.
Released direct memory stays committed in the file (see
TechnicalDebt.md): a live chunk import pins its pages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
macOS has no counterpart to userfaultfd write-protect or
MEM_WRITE_WATCH, so GuestWriteWatch had no backend there and the driver
re-read every guest buffer on each use.
The macOS backend write-protects watched pages. The first write to a
page faults, the SIGBUS/SIGSEGV handler records the page and restores
its protection, and Collect reports the recorded pages and protects
them again. A page is protected before its record is cleared, under the
lock the handler takes, so a write that lands in between is recorded.
The lock hands out turns in order: an unfair one starved writers under
Rosetta.
The protection is real, which adds three entry points:
- GuestWriteWatchBeginHostWrite/EndHostWrite lift it around a system
call that writes guest memory, which would otherwise fail with
EFAULT. GuestArena::HostWrite calls them, as it calls the Windows
equivalent.
- GuestWriteWatchProtectionChanged tells the watch the protection given
to watched pages by mprotect or a new mapping.
- GuestWriteWatchProtection reports that protection, since a watched
page is read-only between a collection and the next write.
Register keeps the recorded protection of a page it already watches:
read from the kernel it would be the watch's own read-only protection,
and the page would never be watched again.
The tests build without the prx libraries and run natively and through
Rosetta.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Retain an immutable decoded program and structured control flow while
preparing the registration variants for one shader.
Match owned code, stage and the complete SWAPPC inputs before reuse.
Translate and plan each variant separately using its current inputs.
Keep cache keys and persisted artifact layouts unchanged.
Provide a cache-neutral off switch for controlled comparisons.
Cover identity, lifetime, failed replacements and variant equivalence.
Main's Linux job fails since #1028 and #1714: guest_video_out_resolution_status aborts when SDL's offscreen
driver has no Vulkan window, and check_skips.py rejects the skips of guest_video_out_wqhd_detection and the
flip tests because "no display" is not among the device limitations it accepts.
The resolution status test now skips with code 77 like its wqhd sibling, the flip tests print the same skip
reason, and check_skips.py accepts "no display" as a device limitation. ANYPS5_REQUIRE_DISPLAY still turns
the skip into a failure.
AI-assisted: yes. Full current-main project build passed. Seven focused Windows tests pass; four shader tests also pass in full and none optimization modes with actual Vulkan execution required. Updated Linux and title runs remain pending.
gmtime, localtime, mktime, strftime and asctime took and returned the
host std::tm. The guest's FreeBSD tm has tm_gmtoff and tm_zone after the
nine calendar fields, so on Windows, where std::tm is 36 bytes, a title
reading those fields read past the thread-local result, and gmtime_s left
them unwritten. Windows gmtime_s also accepts only 1969-12-31 12:00 to
3001-01-19 21:59 UTC, where the guest libc converts any time.
Convert through a GuestTm with the guest layout on both hosts. Compute
the UTC fields from the day count, so every time whose year fits an int
converts, and on Windows take the local offset and zone name from the
CRT. gmtime reports the zone as UTC like the guest libc. localtime and
mktime keep the CRT's range on Windows; recorded in TechnicalDebt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <[email protected]>
As requested in review: a failed sceKernelGetModuleInfoFromAddr no longer
reports an empty answer. Adds a failure test (symbol interposition) and
extends the metadata test (EH record walk, terminator, no-header DSO).
Co-authored-by: jweidenh <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude <[email protected]>
A title that ships its own libc.prx unwinds C++ exceptions with that
libc's libunwind, which asks sceKernelGetModuleInfoForUnwind where each
frame's eh_frame is. On Linux the call always reported no tables, so
no C++ exception thrown in guest code could be caught. For the main
executable and .guest.prx images, report the PT_GNU_EH_FRAME tables
that sceKernelGetModuleInfoFromAddr finds, as Windows does from
.ehmeta. Other host images still report none.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HeC9bA3n74TzJRYv9AgBE8
CB_COLOR_INFO format 6 (COLOR_10_11_11) with NUMBER_UNORM threw in
DecodeColorFormat: Vulkan has only the B10G11R11 float format. Such a
target now renders into an R32_UINT attachment in the layout of
format-30 images (unorm11 R and G in bits 0-21, unorm10 B in bits
22-31), so later image loads of the surface read the same words.
The target format is draw state, so the packing is a specialization of
the registered pixel shader: every float MRT export also computes the
packed word (EmitFormatStoreComponent) behind specialization constant
ExportPackingBase + target, and the specialized module turns a packed
target's output into a uint4 that ValidateShaders expects. The new
request field targetExportPacking is in the module key, the result memo,
the draw key and the serialized request (version 14). Blending, partial
RGB writes, UNORM16/SNORM16/UINT16 exports, DCC and ROUND_MODE throw.
agc_driver_pending_exact_surface writes mip 0 of a 2-mip 256x256 surface and then a 1-mip surface at the same address. The chain's mip 0 lies past the 1-mip surface's bytes, so both images stay pending, the chain first. A lookup of the 1-mip size must return the 1-mip image, and with only the chain pending it must still return the chain. On main the first lookup returns the chain.
Winsock fails send, sendto and sendmsg on a socket shut down for writing
with WSAESHUTDOWN, which neither Windows error map handled, so libkernel
and libSceNet reported EIO. FreeBSD reports EPIPE there, and the Linux
maps already translate the host's EPIPE to 32. Map WSAESHUTDOWN to 32
in both.
agc_driver_graphics registers a D32 and a D16 surface on a mock device and looks up views at their addresses. Views of the surface's own extent in R32F or R16, and T#s that read the raw depth bits, sample the depth plane; a view of another extent, a 2D array view of another extent, an R11G11B10 view, an R32 uint view without a depth layout and an R32F view of a D16 surface return null and take the ordinary texture path. On main the first of these throws in DepthSurface::Sampled.
Measured on a PS5 (firmware 13.60) through dlopen of
libSceVideoOut.sprx on a handle the payload opened.
sceVideoOutInitializeOutputOptions writes 0xFF to byte 2 of the 64-byte
options and returns INVALID_ADDRESS for a null pointer.
sceVideoOutIsOutputSupported checks the handle, then the reserved
arguments, then the mode, then the options. It never answers 0: a mode
the display lacks returns UNSUPPORTED_OUTPUT_MODE, and a value that is
not a mode returns 0x8029001E. Options must keep the initialized words,
except word 3.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
