The stub that moves a hazard scalar compare out of line is checked
through its bytes but never run, so nothing confirms that the compare
still produces the mask it would inline. The x86-64 execution section
now calls the stub for both outcomes of a CMPSS with an unsafe predicate
and checks the destination's lanes.
XSAVEOPT raises an illegal instruction under Rosetta on an M5 running
macOS 27.0.1, as XSAVEC does, while XSAVE and XRSTOR save and restore
x87, SSE and AVX state in the standard format. The PS5's Zen 2 has
XSAVEOPT, so code built for it can use the instruction without a CPUID
check.
XSAVEOPT differs from XSAVE only in the init and modified optimizations:
it may skip writing state that is in its initial configuration or
unchanged since the last XRSTOR from the same area. XRSTOR restores the
same state from the area XSAVE writes, so --to-rosetta rewrites
XSAVEOPT (NP 0F AE /6, memory operand) to XSAVE (/4) in place, keeping
the prefixes and the operand, as RDSEED becomes RDRAND. CLWB (66 0F AE
/6), MFENCE, UMONITOR, UMWAIT and the Intel target are left alone.
XSAVEC is not converted: it writes the compacted format.
The converter tests check the rewrite for the plain, REX.W,
RSP-relative, extended-base, RIP-relative and FS-relative forms, check
that the neighbouring 0F AE encodings are not taken, and execute the
rewritten XSAVEOPT64 followed by XRSTOR on YMM3 in the x86-64 build.
The --to-rosetta integration test now covers XSAVEOPT as well.
A 4-byte 256-bit store at the start of a segment followed by an AMD-only
site that can only be emitted in place (RDSEED, CLWB, MOVNTSS, ...) had no
preceding instruction to move, so WindowPlacer gave up with "No room for a
jump to the stub of 256-bit store within its neighbours or a nearby island".
Try a last-resort window placement that allows EmitOutOfLine to use the
in-place lowering for the follower. Preferred preceding and following moves
are unchanged.
The stub that splits an unaligned 256-bit store is checked through its
bytes but never run, so nothing confirms that the two halves land where
the original store would, including across a page boundary, which is the
case the split exists for. The x86-64 execution section now runs the
stub at three operand offsets and checks the 32 bytes it writes and the
pages around them.
RDPID, RDSEED and CLWB are checked through their replacement bytes but
never run, although all three raise an illegal instruction on a Rosetta
host, which is what the replacements exist for. The x86-64 execution
section now calls the RDPID stub and the RDSEED and CLWB replacements
and checks the value, the carry flag and the registers they leave.
MCOMMIT becomes STC plus NOP padding and RDPRU goes through a
runtime-checked stub returning the host TSC for MPERF/APERF while
other selectors yield zero, with converter and execution tests.
docs/dev/debt/relinker.md records the new lowering and its unverified
assumptions.
A short AMD-only instruction takes the following instructions into its stub until its site fits a jump. The loop did not check which instructions an earlier 256-bit store island had already claimed, so with --to-rosetta two trampolines covered the same bytes: for je; jmp; vmovups [rdi],ymm0; rcpps xmm1,xmm2 followed by adds, the RCPPS site at +8 overlapped the island at +11, the patched code crashed, and the real patchers failed with 'AMD-only site bytes changed before patching'. A claimed follower now ends the attempt: an optional instruction such as RCPPS or RDPID is kept, and any other instruction fails with an error naming the moved follower.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
A short AMD-only instruction lowered through a stub takes the following instructions with it. When one of them is an AMD-only instruction that is replaced in place (MOVNTSS, MOVNTSD, MONITORX, MWAITX, and RDSEED and CLWB for Rosetta), MatchSequence found no out-of-line lowering for it and the conversion failed with 'AMD-only instruction sequence has no out-of-line lowering', for example on extrq xmm0,xmm1 followed by movntss [rdi],xmm0. A following instruction with an in-place replacement now has that replacement moved into the stub, with its RIP-relative displacement relocated. Out-of-line emission for 256-bit store windows is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Outputs whose input carries no PT_GNU_STACK get one appended with
PF_R|PF_W and alignment 16 so the kernel does not fall back to an
executable stack marking.
RequiredProgramHeaderCount and WriteLayout now derive from one shared
header list, so the reserved slot and the written header cannot
disagree at any PhNum boundary, when a free input slot should be
reused, or when the RELRO coverage guard reduces the kept count.
Space exhaustion beyond the 16-bit header limit fails loudly instead
of silently skipping the header.
The program header table moves when the layout needs more slots than
the input provides, so the stub lookup must follow the output e_phoff
instead of assuming the table stays at file offset 64.
In PS4 executables and modules the bytes between unwind functions are
16-byte slots of function tails and padding, and a tail can begin inside
an instruction, such as a lone REX byte before a 15-byte NOP. The
syscall and call-site scans decode the executable segment linearly, so
such a slot failed the relink with "Cannot decode instruction".
For images with a PT_SCE_DYNLIBDATA segment the scans now receive the
unwind function ranges. Outside every range an undecodable byte is
skipped and decoding resumes at the next byte, and a decoding that would
cross into a range ends at its start, so gap bytes cannot change how a
function is decoded. Inside a range a decode failure still fails the
relink, and images without unwind ranges are scanned as before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Rosetta sets RDTSCP's ECX to its constant TSC_AUX, 0xAAAAAAAB, which is
not a processor index. --to-rosetta already makes RDPID return processor
0 for the same reason, so code reading the processor through RDTSCP saw
a different value from code reading it through RDPID.
--to-rosetta now moves RDTSCP into an optional stub that runs the
instruction unchanged and then loads 0 into ECX with a MOV, which
leaves the counter in EDX:EAX and the flags as they were. A site with no
movable instruction after it for the jump is kept, as for RDPID. The
Intel target and a plain relink are unchanged.
Covers a thread-pointer read (FS and GS form) after the store with a movable
instruction before it, and the fallback to the following access when there is
no other neighbour.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
The CLZERO case that needs a 32-bit address found no mapping because a
64-bit Mach-O executable reserves 4 GiB as `__PAGEZERO`, not because
Rosetta withholds low memory: the same `mmap` succeeds once the
executable is linked with a smaller zero page. The Apple x86-64 build
links the test that way and the case runs with the other three, so the
skip it had is gone and the Linux mapping failure stays fatal. The arm64
build keeps the 4 GiB zero page, which it requires to start.
The execution part of the AMD64-only converter tests was compiled for
Linux x86-64 only, so the SSE4A, SHA-1, SHA-256, CLZERO and reciprocal
stubs were never run on a macOS x86-64 build, unlike the ANDN lowering
tests. Rosetta maps no memory below 4 GiB, so the CLZERO case that needs
a 32-bit address is left out when that mapping is unavailable.
The Rosetta split covered only VEX scalar compares. #5642 measured the
same lost load after legacy CMPSS and CMPSD, and the decoder already
hands them to the matcher with the right length and RIP offset.
Recognise F3 or F2, segment overrides and an optional REX before
0F C2 /r ib, with the same predicate rule as the VEX forms. A 66, 67 or
LOCK prefix, or both F2 and F3, keeps the instruction inline as before.
The AMD-only converter moves the instructions next to a short AMD-only
instruction into its stub, and refuses to move one that a branch
enters. It knew only direct jump and call targets, so a switch case
entered through a jump table could land inside the jump written over
the moved instructions.
The converter now also reads relative jump tables: a RIP-relative LEA
whose address lies in a loaded segment starts a table of 32-bit
offsets from that address, read while each target starts an
instruction of the segment being converted. To read them, Convert
takes the program headers and converts their executable load
segments; the relinker passes all headers, and
ElfReader::ReadCodeSegments, now unused, is removed.
The converter test builds a dispatch through such a table whose second
case enters the instruction after a 4-byte 256-bit store, and checks
that the store takes the instruction before it instead. It also checks
that reading stops at an entry that does not start an instruction,
that only a LEA forms a table address, that tables are read only
inside loaded segments, that only executable load segments are
converted, and that a segment past the end of the file fails the
conversion.
PPSA12544: one 256-bit store in Il2cppUserAssemblies moved the
instruction after it, which is case 1 of a switch; it now goes through
an island. The other relinked files are unchanged.
AI-assisted: yes
Rosetta 2 ends the process when an unaligned 256-bit store crosses into
a page the store may not write ("rosetta error: unexpectedly need to
EmulateForward on a synchronous exception") instead of raising the
fault. A store inside such a page, and a 128-bit store across one,
fault normally. The macOS write watch keeps watched pages read-only
between collections, so a guest that stores 32 bytes across the start
of a watched page ends the process.
--to-rosetta now lowers VMOVUPS, VMOVUPD and VMOVDQU with a 256-bit
memory destination to a stub that stores the low half with the same
instruction at VEX.L=0 and the high half with VEXTRACTF128 at the
operand plus 16, so each half faults like any other store. RIP-relative
operands are relocated from the instruction's place in the site. A
store whose upper half has no 32-bit displacement fails the conversion.
Aligned stores (VMOVAPS, VMOVAPD, VMOVDQA and the non-temporal forms)
cannot cross a page and are left alone.
Every store is lowered. A 4-byte store has no room for the jump to its
stub, so its stub also takes one neighbouring instruction. The
following one: a return ends the stub, a call pushes its original
return address and jumps, a jump or conditional branch is re-encoded
with a 32-bit displacement, and another 256-bit store is lowered in the
same stub. Otherwise the preceding one, unless it is a call, a jump, a
return or a trap. Register calls, LOOP, JRCXZ and branches with a
prefix that changes them do not move. When neither neighbour can move,
the store becomes a short jump to an island: a run of movable
instructions within reach is moved to its own stub, and the bytes it
frees hold the jump to the store's stub. A store with neither fails the
conversion.
The converter tests compare the halves with clang's encodings for base,
SIB, disp8 overflowing to disp32, disp32, RSP-relative, FS-absolute,
r13-based and RIP-relative operands, and check that aligned stores,
loads, register forms and masked stores are not split. They check the
stub of a short store followed by a return, a call (direct, with an
address-size prefix, and through a RIP-relative pointer), short, near
and RIP-relative jumps, short and near conditional branches and another
store; that a following register call, LOOP, JRCXZ, prefixed branch or
CLWB makes the store take the instruction before it; islands past
instructions already moved, a store that needs its own stub, a branch
target, a register call and the short-jump reach; and that a store with
no room fails.
PPSA12544: 55295 stores split in the executable, 278 of them in the
stub of the store before them; every module converts with none kept.
AI-assisted: yes
Rosetta runs AVX2, FMA, BMI1/2, F16C and MOVBE, but, unlike an Intel
host, it has neither RDSEED, CLWB nor RDPID. --to-rosetta converts
everything --to-intel does and lowers these three as well:
- RDSEED becomes RDRAND (the /6 form of the same opcode), which also
returns a random value and sets CF.
- CLWB only writes a cache line back, so it becomes a NOP of the same
length.
- RDPID becomes a load of 0 through an optional stub: Rosetta's TSC_AUX
is a constant, not a processor index, so every thread reports
processor 0. A site with no movable instruction after it for the jump
is kept.
The flag implies --to-intel and conflicts with --windows. It is
independent of --macos: it only changes what the conversion produces, so
--macos alone leaves these instructions as they are, as on an Intel Mac,
and a title for Rosetta is relinked with --macos --to-rosetta. Intel
output is unchanged: the target is a parameter of the converter, Intel by
default.
The x86 decoder had no XOP (AMD 8F escape) support and read 8F E8.. as
POP r/m, losing instruction boundaries. Since #2238 roots code addresses
taken by RIP-relative LEA, code analysis reaches CPU-dispatched XOP
paths, such as the vpperm routines in Stremio Plus (PPSA74126), OpenNOW
(PPSA99082) and PPSA99420, and their Windows conversion failed with
"Code analysis: overlapping instruction boundaries". Decode 8F followed
by a map of 8 or more as a three-byte XOP prefix (8F can only be POP r/m
with ModRM.reg 0) with a ModRM operand, an 8-bit immediate in map 8 and
a 32-bit immediate in map 0Ah, in both the length and operand decoders.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
ClassifyInstruction assumed a ModRM byte right after every opcode that
was not a near branch. A length-changing rewrite therefore adjusted
immediates such as MOVABS imm64 that looked like a RIP-relative ModRM,
and missed RIP-relative operands of VEX and 0F 38 / 0F 3A instructions
and the rel8 targets of LOOP and JRCXZ. Take the RIP-relative
displacement and branch target from DecodeInstruction instead.
UD1 (0F B9 /r) always raises #UD, like UD2, but DecodeInstruction
reported it as sequential. Reachability analysis then followed the
bytes after it, so an import reachable only through that fallthrough
was kept by the strict unused NID filter. UD1 keeps its ModRM, so a
RIP-relative operand is still reported.
SHA-1 and SHA-256 instructions with a [rip+disp32] operand, and
instructions with one that a short site absorbs, now move into the
stub. The stub records each displacement as a relocation relative to
the site, and the Linux, guest and Windows placements resolve it once
the stub address is known. Indirect branches through [rip+disp32]
still fail the relink.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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