Remove dead #if 0'd code in math.h
On amd64, page_size == 4096 constant, on amd64 w/ win32, allocation_granularity == 65536. These values for x86 windows havent changed over the last 20 years so this is probably safe
and gives a modest code size reduction
Enable XE_USE_KUSER_SHARED. This sources host time from KUSER_SHARED instead of from QueryPerformanceCounter, which is far faster, but only has a granularity of 100 nanoseconds.
In some games seemingly random crashes were happening that were hard to trace because
the faulting thread was actually not the one that was misbehaving, another threads stack was underflowing into the faulting thread.
Added a bunch of code to synchronize the guest stack and host stack so that if a guest longjmps the host's stack will be adjusted.
Changes were also made to allow the guest to call into a piece of an existing x64 function.
This synchronization might have a slight performance impact on lower end cpus, to disable it set enable_host_guest_stack_synchronization to false.
It is possible it may have introduced regressions, but i dont know of any yet
So far, i know the synchronization change fixes the "hub crash" in super sonic and allows the game "london 2012" to go ingame.
Removed emit_useless_fpscr_updates, not emitting these updates breaks the raiden game
MapGuestAddressToMachineCode now returns nullptr if no address was found, instead of the start of the function
add Processor::LookupModule
Add Backend::DeinitializeBackendContext
Use WriteRegisterRangeFromRing_WithKnownBound<0, 0xFFFF> in WriteRegisterRangeFromRing for inlining (previously regressed on performance of ExecutePacketType0)
add notes about flags that trap in XamInputGetCapabilities
0 == 3 in XamInputGetCapabilities
Name arg 2 of XamInputSetState
PrefetchW in critical section kernel funcs if available & doing cmpxchg
Add terminated field to X_KTHREAD, set it on termination
Expanded the logic of NtResumeThread/NtSuspendThread to include checking the type of the handle (in release, LookupObject doesnt seem to do anything with the type)
and returning X_STATUS_OBJECT_TYPE_MISMATCH if invalid. Do termination check in NtSuspendThread.
Add basic host exception messagebox, need to flesh it out more (maybe use the new stack tracking stuff if on guest thrd?)
Add rdrand patching hack, mostly affects users with nvidia cards who have many threads on zen
Use page_size_shift in more places
Once again disable precompilation! Raiden is mostly weird ppc asm which probably breaks the precompilation. The code is still useful for running the compiler over the whole of an xex in debug to test for issues
"Fix" debug console, we were checking the cvar before any cvars were loaded, and the condition it checks in AttachConsole is somehow always false
Remove dead #if 0'd code in math.h
On amd64, page_size == 4096 constant, on amd64 w/ win32, allocation_granularity == 65536. These values for x86 windows havent changed over the last 20 years so this is probably safe
and gives a modest code size reduction
Enable XE_USE_KUSER_SHARED. This sources host time from KUSER_SHARED instead of from QueryPerformanceCounter, which is far faster, but only has a granularity of 100 nanoseconds.
In some games seemingly random crashes were happening that were hard to trace because
the faulting thread was actually not the one that was misbehaving, another threads stack was underflowing into the faulting thread.
Added a bunch of code to synchronize the guest stack and host stack so that if a guest longjmps the host's stack will be adjusted.
Changes were also made to allow the guest to call into a piece of an existing x64 function.
This synchronization might have a slight performance impact on lower end cpus, to disable it set enable_host_guest_stack_synchronization to false.
It is possible it may have introduced regressions, but i dont know of any yet
So far, i know the synchronization change fixes the "hub crash" in super sonic and allows the game "london 2012" to go ingame.
Removed emit_useless_fpscr_updates, not emitting these updates breaks the raiden game
MapGuestAddressToMachineCode now returns nullptr if no address was found, instead of the start of the function
add Processor::LookupModule
Add Backend::DeinitializeBackendContext
Use WriteRegisterRangeFromRing_WithKnownBound<0, 0xFFFF> in WriteRegisterRangeFromRing for inlining (previously regressed on performance of ExecutePacketType0)
add notes about flags that trap in XamInputGetCapabilities
0 == 3 in XamInputGetCapabilities
Name arg 2 of XamInputSetState
PrefetchW in critical section kernel funcs if available & doing cmpxchg
Add terminated field to X_KTHREAD, set it on termination
Expanded the logic of NtResumeThread/NtSuspendThread to include checking the type of the handle (in release, LookupObject doesnt seem to do anything with the type)
and returning X_STATUS_OBJECT_TYPE_MISMATCH if invalid. Do termination check in NtSuspendThread.
Add basic host exception messagebox, need to flesh it out more (maybe use the new stack tracking stuff if on guest thrd?)
Add rdrand patching hack, mostly affects users with nvidia cards who have many threads on zen
Use page_size_shift in more places
Once again disable precompilation! Raiden is mostly weird ppc asm which probably breaks the precompilation. The code is still useful for running the compiler over the whole of an xex in debug to test for issues
properly byteswap r13 for spinlock
Add PPCOpcodeBits
stub out broken fpscr updating in ppc_hir_builder. it's just code that repeatedly does nothing right now.
add note about 0 opcode bytes being executed to ppc_frontend
Add assert to check that function end is greater than function start, can happen with malformed functions
Disable prefetch and cachecontrol by default, automatic hardware prefetchers already do the job for the most part
minor cleanup in simplification_pass, dont loop optimizations, let the pass manager do it for us
Add experimental "delay_via_maybeyield" cvar, which uses MaybeYield to "emulate" the db16cyc instruction
Add much faster/simpler way of directly calling guest functions, no longer have to do a byte by byte search through the generated code
Generate label string ids on the fly
Fix unused function warnings for prefetch on clang, fix many other clang warnings
Eliminated majority of CallNativeSafes by replacing them with naive generic code paths.
^ Vector rotate left, vector shift left, vector shift right, vector shift arithmetic right, and vector average are included
These naive paths are implemented small loops that stash the two inputs to the stack and load them in gprs from there, they are not particularly fast but should be an order of magnitude faster than callnativesafe
to a host function, which would involve a call, stashing all volatile registers, an indirect call, potentially setting up a stack frame for the arrays that the inputs get stashed to, the actual operations, a return, loading all volatile registers, a return, etc
Added the fast SHR_V128 path back in
Implement signed vector average byte, signed vector average word. previously we were emitting no code for them. signed vector average byte appears in many games
Fix bug with signed vector average 32, we were doing unsigned shift, turning negative values into big positive ones potentially
remove xe_kernel_export_shim_fn field of Export function_data, trampoline is now the only way exports get invoked
Remove kernelstate argument from string functions in order to conform to the trampoline signature (the argument was unused anyway)
Constant-evaluated initialization of ppc_opcode_disasm_table, removal of unused std::vector fields
Constant-evaluated initialization of export tables
name field on export is just a const char* now, only immutable static strings are ever passed to it
Remove unused callcount field of export.
PM4 compare op function extracted
Globally apply /Oy, /GS-, /Gw on msvc windows
Remove imgui testwindow code call, it took up like 300 kb
Add vector simplification pass, so far it only recognizes whether VECTOR_DENORMFLUSH is useless and optimizes them away
Tag restgplr/savegplr/restvmx/savevmx/restfpr/savefpr with useful information, i intend to inline them (they tend to be the most heavily called guest functions)
But for normal msvc builds i would put it at around 30-50%
Added per-xexmodule caching of information per instruction, can be used to remember what code needs compiling at start up
Record what guest addresses wrote mmio and backpropagate that to future runs, eliminating dependence on exception trapping. this makes many games like h3 actually tolerable to run under a debugger
fixed a number of errors where temporaries were being passed by reference/pointer
Can now be compiled with clang-cl 14.0.1, requires -Werror off though and some other solution/project changes.
Added macros wrapping compiler extensions like noinline, forceinline, __expect, and cold.
Removed the "global lock" in guest code completely. It does not properly emulate the behavior of mfmsrd/mtmsr and it seriously cripples amd cpus. Removing this yielded around a 3x speedup in Halo Reach for me.
Disabled the microprofiler for now. The microprofiler has a huge performance cost associated with it. Developers can re-enable it in the base/profiling header if they really need it
Disable the trace writer in release builds. despite just returning after checking if the file was open the trace functions were consuming about 0.60% cpu time total
Add IsValidReg, GetRegisterInfo is a huge (about 45k) branching function and using that to check if a register was valid consumed a significant chunk of time
Optimized RingBuffer::ReadAndSwap and RingBuffer::read_count. This gave us the largest overall boost in performance. The memcpies were unnecessary and one of them was always a no-op
Added simplification rules for multiplicative patterns like (x+x), (x<<1)+x
For the most frequently called win32 functions i added code to call their underlying NT implementations, which lets us skip a lot of MS code we don't care about/isnt relevant to our usecases
^this can be toggled off in the platform_win header
handle indirect call true with constant function pointer, was occurring in h3
lookup host format swizzle in denser array
by default, don't check if a gpu register is unknown, instead just check if its out of range. controlled by a cvar
^looking up whether its known or not took approx 0.3% cpu time
Changed some things in /cpu to make the project UNITYBUILD friendly
The timer thread was spinning way too much and consuming a ton of cpu, changed it to use a blocking wait instead
tagged some conditions as XE_UNLIKELY/LIKELY based on profiler feedback (will only affect clang builds)
Shifted around some code in CommandProcessor::WriteRegister based on how frequently it was executed
added support for docdecaduple precision floating point so that we can represent our performance gains numerically
tons of other stuff im probably forgetting
C++17ification!
- Filesystem interaction now uses std::filesystem::path.
- Usage of const char*, std::string have been changed to
std::string_view where appropriate.
- Usage of printf-style functions changed to use fmt.
This was a headache to work out, big thanks to the lack of documentation on .xexp files... a ton of guesswork was involved here but luckily it turned out well.
I did have to make some pretty major changes to the way XEX files are loaded though.
Previously it'd just load everything in one go: XEX headers -> decrypt/decompress data -> load imports/symbols -> set loader data table entries, etc...
Now it's changed to something like this:
- Load base XEX headers + decrypted/decompressed image data, return X_STATUS_PENDING
- In the LoadFromFile call used to load the XEX, search for XEXP patch file (only .xexp in same folder atm)
- If patch exists: load XEXP, decrypt headers/data, apply patch to base XEX, dispose of XEXP
- Finish XEX load via LoadXexContinue() (handles imports/symbols/loader data...)
This saves us from needing to reset the imports/function/symbol stuff after patching (since all the XEX code will be a lot different), but I'm not really sure if I went about it the best way.
Code is mainly just copy/pasted from kernel/util/xex2.cc, I've tried fixing it up to work better in a class, but there's probably some things I missed.
Also includes some minor improvements to the XEX loader, like being able to try both XEX keys (retail/devkit) automatically, and some fixes to how the base address is determined.
(Previously there was code that would get base address from optional header, code that'd get it from xex_security_info, code that'd use a stored base address value...
Now everything reads it from a single stored value instead, which is set either from the xex_security_info, or if it exists from the optional header instead.
Maybe this can help improve compatibility with any weird XEX's that don't have a base address optional header?)
Compressed XEX loader also has some extra checks to make sure the compressed data hash matches what's expected.
Might increase loading times by a fraction, but could save reports from people unknowingly using corrupt XEXs.
(still no checks for non-compressed data though, maybe need to compare data with xex_security_info->ImageHash?)
This avoids having to guess the display window title format
Also manually fixed the linting errors picked out by travis which do not
get picked up using xb format locally
