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MechaCat02
23189b95af [iterate-4A] Milestone-2: XMA audio decoder + RE tooling (dispatch recorder, analyzer vtable-fix, non-perturbing probes)
Milestone-2 (intro video dat/movie/ADV.wmv) audio path + major RE tooling.

XMA AUDIO (built, working, deterministic, tested):
- APU MMIO 0x7FEA0000 + 320x64B register-mapped context array; real XMACreateContext/Release
  (xma.rs); real FFmpeg xma2 decoder XMA_CONTEXT_DATA->S16BE PCM (xma_decode.rs, xma2_codec.rs,
  ffmpeg-sys-next). Decode runs synchronously on the CPU thread (deterministic, no host thread).
- Audio-worker scheduler fix (main.rs LR_HALT restore + scheduler.rs): the XAudio render-callback
  worker was wrongly exited after ~2 deliveries; now survives -> guest drives XMA decode (70 kicks).
- XAudioSubmitRenderDriverFrame made faithful. Golden sylpheed_n50m re-baselined; tests pass.

RE TOOLING:
- Runtime indirect-dispatch recorder (dispatch_rec.rs): records (call-site->target, r3, lr);
  env-gated XENIA_DISPATCH_REC, filters XENIA_DISPATCH_REC_TARGETS/_SITES; deterministic, observe-only.
- Repaired static analyzer (vtables.rs): vtable extraction silently fragmented vtables with
  non-function head slots (missed the XMV engine vtable). Fixed via vptr-write-anchoring -> engine
  fully typed (vtables 722->1150 on rebuild).
- Fixed probe HEISENBUG (main.rs run_superblock): --audit-pc-probe-hex/--mem-watch no longer disable
  superblock chaining; probes fire inside the chain loop -> scheduling identical armed-vs-unarmed,
  movie subsystem now observable. Fixed a --quiet bug swallowing armed trace reports.

VIDEO still doesn't play (B, guest-side): the XMV engine never issues begin-playback (sub_825076F0,
vtable 0x8200a1e8 slot21) -> never primes -> 2000ms timeout. Narrowed to the ARM2 engine-setup
wrappers; no honest our-side gate-fix (masking forbidden). See HANDOFF-iterate-4A-milestone2.md for
new-machine setup (incl. the FFmpeg apt deps + sylpheed.db regeneration) and continuation pointers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-21 21:38:19 +02:00
MechaCat02
dc1320cd4b [iterate-3AK] Perf quick-wins: ~21% faster boot-to-splash (22→27 MIPS)
Profile-driven low-risk optimizations attacking the ~48% per-block /
per-round host-bookkeeping tax found by the callgrind profile. Measured
on the bounded headless workload `check -n 100000000 --gpu-inline`:
baseline ~4490 ms (22.3 MIPS) -> ~3700 ms (27.0 MIPS), +21%.

Tier A (determinism-neutral; n50m golden byte-IDENTICAL, exit 0):
1. mem-watch write path: gate capture_mem_watch_old/check_mem_watch
   behind one has_mem_watch() predicted branch in write_u8/16/32/64 +
   write_bulk so the common (no-watch) store does no out-of-line call.
   check_mem_watch (4.8%) gone from the profile.
2. round-schedule alloc churn: add Scheduler::round_schedule_into filling
   a reusable [u8; HW_THREAD_COUNT] stack buffer; the lockstep round loop
   no longer __rust_alloc/__rust_dealloc a Vec<u8> per round. Identical
   ordering/RNG-advance. __rust_alloc/dealloc gone from the profile.
3. probe-firing: hoist a single KernelState::any_probe_active() guard to
   worker_prologue so the four fire_*_if_match calls don't happen at all
   when no probe is configured (was 4x call overhead/visit). All four
   gone from the profile.
4. thunk-map hash: range-reject pc against the registered import-thunk
   address band (KernelState::pc_in_thunk_band, two int compares) before
   the thunk_map.get(&pc) HashMap lookup. hash_one (4.3%) gone.

Tier B (#5, time-granularity change — LANDED, no re-baseline needed):
5. update_timestamp_bundle: throttle to a 0.25 ms quantum (only re-write
   the KeTimeStampBundle when the deterministic clock advanced >= 2500
   units). Inclusive cost 8.65% -> 1.08%. The quantum is far below the
   1 ms granularity any guest deadline math needs (tick_count stays
   fresh; the hub gate is +66 ms; the fade-in is vsync-counter driven per
   3AH, not this bundle). VERIFIED: n50m stable digest BYTE-IDENTICAL to
   the existing golden (so no re-baseline), 150M boot reaches the splash
   (draws=7415, swaps=2172, gpu.texture.decode{K8888}=448, RTs=2 — all
   match the post-3AJ baseline), 688 tests green, release n50m oracle ok.

Remaining headroom: interpreter::execute (13%), decrement_quantum (8%),
step_block (7%) are now the top self-costs — the structural superblock/
JIT lever is the next step for the larger gain.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 22:05:53 +02:00
MechaCat02
9d24dd0eaa [iterate-3AJ] Present-anchor vsync so the splash logo fade-in renders
The publisher/dev splash logo's intro fade-IN was skipped: the logo
popped in at full brightness instead of ramping dim->bright like the
canary oracle. Root (measured, iterate-3AF/3AI): ours' guest vsync
counter is fed by a fixed-instruction-quantum proxy (one vsync per
150k retired instructions). During the ~1.1s splash asset-load the
title's frame pump runs ~10M instructions inside a single guest frame,
so the proxy fired ~66 vsyncs in that one frame. The pump's per-frame
delta (counter_now - counter_last) was therefore ~66 on the first tick,
which the anim tick (sub_823CDBF8) divides into the fade counter
[item+72] @ 0x40c0add0 -> the counter JUMPED 0->0x42(66) in one step,
landing past the fade-in region. Canary's wall-clock 60Hz vblank
advances ~1 per heavy load frame, so its counter ramps smoothly 0->66
and the fade-in renders.

Fix: anchor the lockstep vsync ticker to the guest's real present rate
(VdSwap count), mirroring real hardware where the title double-buffers
at vblank, so one heavy guest frame advances the vsync counter by ~1
instead of ~66.

- interrupts.rs: tick_vsync_instr now takes the live present count.
  Two regimes: (1) bootstrap, before the guest's first present, keeps
  the original fixed instruction quantum unchanged -- the iterate-2W
  present-loop bootstrap needs vsyncs delivered BEFORE it can present
  (measured: callback registered ~6M instr, first delivered vsync and
  first present coincide; pure present-driven vsync would deadlock).
  (2) present-anchored, after the first present: one vblank per present,
  plus a small DRY_FALLBACK_CAP=4 instruction-quantum fallback per dry
  window so a non-presenting frame still ticks a few vsyncs (a small
  ramp like canary's 0/5/10/2/1...) without re-spiking to 66.
- handle.rs: cheap GpuBackend::swaps_seen() accessor.
- main.rs: pass the live present count into the lockstep ticker.

Not masking: the fade dt/counter is never clamped or synthesized; the
guest naturally computes a smooth dt once vblank tracks presents.

Verified:
- V1: fade counter 0x40c0add0 now ramps 0,6,8,10,12,13,+1... (was a
  0->0x42 jump; direct baseline-vs-fix mem-watch).
- V2 (--ui readback via per-frame logo vertex-alpha): logo alpha ramps
  102,136,204,221,238,254 (dim->bright fade-IN) vs baseline all 255
  (pop-in). Real artwork (has_real_vertices) still renders; milestone-1
  intact.
- V3: 150M boot progression intact -- texture_decodes=2, RTs=2,
  tex_cache=1 unchanged; draws/swaps higher (tighter present loop),
  1B sanity linear, no stall/collapse.
- V4: 50M --gpu-inline --stable-digest byte-identical 2x; golden
  re-baselined intentionally (pacing-only delta: draws 718->1274,
  swaps 147->259; structural fields unchanged). 688 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 21:01:33 +02:00
MechaCat02
3f8d3b6f1c [iterate-3AD] Fix 2nd splash logo rendering black: re-upload evolving atlas
The publisher (SQUARE ENIX) and the 2nd developer/studio splash logo share
one K8888 atlas at physical base 0x4dbee000, sampled at different UVs. The
publisher's white text occupies the top V-bands; the developer logo's
(bluish/gold) artwork is CPU-written into the SAME surface AFTER the publisher
frame, so the atlas evolves across frames.

The UI host texture cache (`texture_cache_host::upload`) only re-uploads a
`TextureKey` when `version_when_uploaded` increases. But the per-draw bind in
`render.rs` hardcoded `version_when_uploaded = 1` for every draw, so once the
atlas was first uploaded (during the publisher frame, with only the top bands
filled) the cache pinned that partial upload. The 2nd logo, sampling a V-band
that was still zero at first-upload time, read transparent-black -> rendered
nothing (the "white-triangle / black stub" the user saw after SQUARE ENIX).

Verdict: (G) a legitimate 2nd LOGO item whose real artwork lives in the same
evolving atlas — NOT a spurious 3rd item, and NOT a geometry/shader/blend gap.
Measured via readback: the 2nd-logo geometry rasterizes correctly (3 on-screen
quads), interp1 (UV) and interp0 (color) reach the PS with real values, the
texture content at the sampled bands exists — only the bound wgpu texture was
the stale partial upload.

Fix (UI-only, deterministic core untouched):
- `gpu_system`: thread the real content `version` (from `span_max_version`)
  into `last_draw_textures` (now `(key, version, bytes)`).
- `draw_capture::DrawCapture.textures`: same 3-tuple.
- `render.rs`: use the real `version` (not a hardcoded 1) so the host cache
  re-uploads when the guest fills more of the atlas.
- `exports.rs` `vd_swap`: the legacy single-texture `publish_texture` bridge
  drops the version (`(key, _v, bytes) -> (key, bytes)`).

Readback (env-gated probe, removed before commit): after the fix the 2nd logo
renders real varied artwork (blue + gold texels in a centered strip) instead
of black. Determinism: `check -n50m --gpu-inline --stable-digest` byte-
identical to the c0c6088 baseline (captured both via git-stash). 686 tests
green. No faking — real decoded texels through the real guest draw.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 13:38:35 +02:00
MechaCat02
504592ac13 [iterate-3O] Real-render slice: replay guest geometry in --ui (Route A)
Replace the synthetic placeholder triangle in the --ui window with the
splash's REAL guest geometry, proving the faithful-render pipe end to end.

Architecture: Route A (UI-side replay). A per-draw capture channel carries
each PM4_DRAW_INDX*'s real state to the UI, which replays it through the
existing wgpu Xenos pipeline. The deterministic headless core is untouched:
capture is gated on an Option<Vec<DrawCapture>> that is None in headless
mode and only enabled on the --ui path, so the --gpu-inline n50m golden is
byte-identical (verified 2x).

The hard part was sourcing real vertices. The WGSL VS already does
format-aware vertex fetch from the b4 storage buffer at the address from the
fetch constant -- but b4 was never populated and the fetch address is an
absolute guest dword address. The slice:
  * xenia-gpu/draw_capture.rs: parse the active VS, find its first vertex
    fetch, read that fetch constant, copy a bounded window of guest memory
    at the fetch base. Best-effort: has_real_vertices=false falls back to
    procedural geometry (never fabricated pixels).
  * gpu_system.rs: accumulate one DrawCapture per draw into frame_captures.
  * exports.rs (vd_swap): drain + publish the frame's captures to the UI.
  * ui_bridge/bridge.rs: new publish_geometry channel + UiHandles.geometry.
  * WGSL (interp + translator): rebase the absolute fetch address by a new
    DrawConstants.vertex_base_dwords so it indexes the uploaded window.
  * render.rs: dispatch_xenos_captures uploads each draw's real vertex
    window + matching shader, issues real DrawRequests (real prim type,
    host vertex count, vs/ps keys).
  * app.rs: prefer the real-capture replay; HUD adds real-geo=N counter.

Verified in --ui on Sylpheed: "first Xenos capture batch replayed (real
geometry) captures=24 real_vertex_draws=24" -- all draws resolved a real
guest vertex window; WGSL compiles; no validation errors over 1616 swaps.

Still synthetic-free but not yet pixel-perfect: textures/UVs, DMA index
buffers (auto-index only for now), and kCopy resolve routing are staged
for follow-ups. Faithful: real vertex data, prim types, shaders, constants.

cargo test --workspace green; n50m golden unchanged (2x byte-identical).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-17 22:38:46 +02:00
MechaCat02
3f5d5cf5f7 [iterate-2Z] Implement NtSetInformationFile FileRenameInformation for cache: files
The GamePart title-logo gate first-divergence: Sylpheed's asset cache
decompresses each packed resource to a staging `cache:\<hash><tail>.tmp`
file, then renames it into its final nested path `cache:\<hash>\<dir>\<file>`
(e.g. the title logo texture `\69d8e45c\e\534ffea`) via
NtSetInformationFile class 10 (XFileRenameInformation). Our handler treated
class 10 as a permissive no-op (catch-all `_ => STATUS_SUCCESS`), so the host
rename never happened: the nested target directories were created but left
EMPTY while the decompressed data stayed in the flat `.tmp` file. When the
title later reads back `\69d8e45c\...` to build the logo texture the read
misses, so the textured logo pixel shader (canary `E59B2B3D`, tfetch2D) is
never dispatched and the logo never renders.

Fix: implement class 10 faithfully, mirroring canary
`xboxkrnl_io_info.cc:226` (`X_FILE_RENAME_INFORMATION{ replace_existing@0,
root_dir_handle@4, ANSI_STRING@8 }` -> `file->Rename(TranslateAnsiPath)`).
Read the target path from the embedded ANSI_STRING at info_ptr+8, resolve it
against the host cache backing dir (`resolve_cache_path`), create the parent
dirs, `std::fs::rename` the backing file, and update the handle's `path` +
`host_path`. Non-cache (read-only VFS) sources keep the prior permissive
acknowledge. Verified at runtime: 20 renames/80M now move
`69d8e45ce534ffea.tmp -> 69d8e45c/e/534ffea` etc., and the nested cache tree
now matches canary's HostPathDevice layout byte-for-byte (data present, not
empty dirs).

Made `path::read_ansi_string` pub so the handler can parse the rename target.

Deterministic + golden-invariant: two `check --gpu-inline --stable-digest
-n 50000000` runs are byte-identical and the 50M stable digest is unchanged
(draws=718/swaps=147/6 shaders/tex=0); the logo read-back occurs later than
the observable window so GPU counters at 1B/2.5B are unchanged
(2.5B: draws=48734, swaps=16060, still 6 flat shaders, texture_decodes=0).
The fix is a verified-necessary precondition — without it the nested asset
read-back is guaranteed to miss. A downstream gate (the 2nd title thread's
load-completion post skipped when its notify target `[r29+8]==0`, and the
later read-back phase being beyond 2.5B) remains for follow-up.

New test: `nt_set_information_file_rename_moves_cache_file` (678 total, was
677).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-15 21:33:25 +02:00
MechaCat02
2f55d1fd7d [iterate-2X] Texture pipeline: un-stub RectangleList + draw-time texture decode
Two faithful, deterministic GPU-backend changes that make the texture path
correct for whatever textured draw the splash eventually dispatches. Both are
currently inert on Sylpheed (the textured logo draw is still gated downstream
— see below), but neither shifts the stable-digest golden, so they land safely.

1. Un-stub RectangleList primitive expansion (primitive.rs). The splash submits
   2819 RectangleList draws at 200M, all of which were REJECTED by the P3 stub
   (`gpu.primitive.rejected{rectangle_list}`) → only ~592 flat point/quad draws
   rasterized. Mirror canary's intent (primitive_processor.cc:389-456
   kRectangleListAsTriangleStrip) within our CPU index-rewrite idiom: emit each
   rect's 3 real vertices as one TriangleList triangle (v0,v1,v2), rejected=false,
   faithful host_vertex_count. The full quad (synthesized 4th corner v3=v0+v2-v1)
   needs real vertex fetch in vs_main — left as a documented TODO. Rejection
   warnings drop 2819→0.

2. Draw-time texture decode keyed off the active PS's real tfetch slots
   (gpu_system.rs + exports.rs vd_swap). Previously vd_swap decoded a hardcoded
   fetch-constant slot 0 at swap time. Now the DRAW handler parses the bound
   pixel shader (ucode::parse_shader), collects its tfetch fetch_const slots via
   new shader_metrics::tfetch_slots, reads each 6-dword fetch constant, and
   decode+caches it into GpuSystem::last_draw_textures. vd_swap publishes the
   first of these (UI binds one texture today), falling back to the legacy slot-0
   probe on flat-only frames. New span_max_version helper walks page_version over
   the trait (draw-time &dyn MemoryAccess lacks the heap's inherent
   max_page_version). Pure function of guest writes — deterministic.

Status: texture_decodes stays 0 on Sylpheed because all 6 live shaders are flat
(no tfetch); canary's textured logo shaders E59B2B3D/F7B1457 are not yet
dispatched by ours (a downstream title-state gate, the next frontier). The full
P5 decode→publish→upload→sample path is already wired; this makes the decode
side key off the real shader instead of a guess.

Validation: stable-digest golden sylpheed_n50m unchanged (draws=718 swaps=147
tex=0), regenerated twice byte-identical; 200M run shows 0 RectangleList
rejections. cargo test --workspace green (677, +2: rectangle_list_expansion,
tfetch_slots_extracts_texture_fetch_constants). No temp hooks. Branch only;
not pushed/merged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 21:34:43 +02:00
MechaCat02
a91f4c550b [iterate-2W] Sustain the title present loop: viewport-size register + ISR CPU impersonation
The title's per-frame loop (sub_822F1AA8) is clock-B-paced and only re-fires
when the swap count [controller+88] changes, which advances only on source=1
CP swap-complete interrupts. Each present batch the guest submits (via the
sub_824CE348 -> sub_824BF4D0 builder) ends with a WAIT_REG_MEM on a per-CPU
swap-acknowledge fence [GCTX+0] (GCTX = [device+10772]); the GPU parks there
until the graphics ISR (sub_824BE9A0) clears that CPU's bit. Two coupled gaps
kept ours emitting only ONE source=1 then dead-locking (draws plateaued at 28,
run halted ~19.27M):

1. GPU MMIO register 0x1961 (AVIVO_D1MODE_VIEWPORT_SIZE) read as 0. The swap
   callback sub_824CE2B8 divides by its low 12 bits (display height) as a
   refresh-pacing term, so a 0 read tripped its `twi` divide-by-zero guard and
   aborted the ISR before it reached the fence-clear. Mirror canary
   GraphicsSystem::ReadRegister (graphics_system.cc:311): return 0x050002D0
   (1280x720).

2. The ISR ran on an arbitrary borrowed thread, so [r13+268] (the PCR
   processor number) did not match the interrupt's target CPU. The ISR clears
   `1 << current_cpu` from the fence; running on the wrong CPU cleared the
   wrong bit and the fence (bit 2, from cpu_mask 0x4) never reached 0. Carry
   the target CPU through the interrupt queue (bit index of the PM4_INTERRUPT
   cpu_mask for CP, 2 for vsync per canary DispatchInterruptCallback(0, 2)) and
   impersonate it on the borrowed thread's PCR around the ISR, mirroring canary
   EmulateCPInterruptDPC -> XThread::SetActiveCpu.

With both fixes the fence clears, the GPU drains each present batch, source=1
sustains per-present, clock B advances, and the loop runs continuously. Draws
climb linearly with the budget (no re-stall): 50M 28->718, 200M ->3411,
1B ->18734; swaps 2->147/950/6060. No "Unanticipated CPU_INTERRUPT" trap.
Inline-deterministic (--stable-digest byte-identical x2); n50m golden
re-baselined. 675 tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 20:49:32 +02:00
MechaCat02
66bd805726 [iterate-2V] VdSwap: stop bumping primary CP_RB_WPTR out-of-band (canary-faithful)
Ours' `vd_swap` wrote its 64-dword XE_SWAP block at the guest's reserved
`buffer_ptr` slot AND then bumped the primary ring `CP_RB_WPTR` out-of-band
via `state.gpu.extend_write_ptr_by(64)`. That bump was a bug: `buffer_ptr`
(~0x4add6efc) is NOT inside the primary ring (base ~0x4adcd000, 8192 dwords)
— it lives ~10k dwords past it, in the renderer indirect-buffer region. The
bogus WPTR bump pushed the GPU read-pointer PAST the guest's real
write-pointer; the drain treated the overshoot as a circular wrap and
re-executed the splash's draw indirect-buffers ~2×, inflating draws to 78
(the real splash geometry is ~28 draws; 12 INDIRECT_BUFFERs vs the real 6).

Canary's `VdSwap_entry` (xenia-canary xboxkrnl_video.cc:518-548) writes the
fetch-constant patch + PM4_XE_SWAP + NOP pad into the reserved slot and
returns — it NEVER touches CP_RB_WPTR. The guest advances the primary ring
write-pointer itself via its own doorbell once it has populated the slot;
swap-complete CP interrupts come only from the game's in-stream PM4_INTERRUPT
packets, never from VdSwap.

This fix removes only the out-of-band `extend_write_ptr_by(64)` call, keeping
the buffer_ptr block write intact and byte-faithful to canary. Effect at
`--gpu-inline -n 50M`: draws 78→28, INDIRECT_BUFFER 12→6 (re-execution
artifact gone), swaps 4→2. The run now halts at ~19.27M instructions (worker
threads exit) instead of spinning to 50M, because removing the corruption
unmasks the real per-present-interrupt deadlock — the title loop needs a
per-present PM4_INTERRUPT that the stalled game never submits. That deadlock
is a SEPARATE, known gate tracked/addressed elsewhere; it is intentionally
NOT papered over here.

Re-baselined golden crates/xenia-app/tests/golden/sylpheed_n50m.json to the
new honest values (regenerated twice, byte-identical). sylpheed_n2m.json is
unaffected (draws=0 at 2M). cargo test --workspace: 675 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 19:58:05 +02:00
MechaCat02
873c197ff1 [iterate-2T] VdSwap: route present through ring PM4_XE_SWAP, drop out-of-band swap interrupt
Make ours' VdSwap present path faithful to xenia-canary `VdSwap_entry`
(xboxkrnl_video.cc:518-548): write the reserved 64-dword ring slot with a
PM4_TYPE0 fetch-constant patch + PM4_TYPE3(PM4_XE_SWAP) + NOP padding, then
let the natural drain consume the swap packet in command-stream order. Remove
the synthetic CP swap-complete interrupt that `notify_xe_swap` raised
out-of-band.

Root found this session (the actual present-path bug): ours' `notify_xe_swap`
pushed an `InterruptSource::Swap` (→ INTERRUPT_SOURCE_CP) interrupt directly
from the VdSwap HLE, decoupled from the GPU command stream. When that interrupt
reached the graphics ISR `sub_824BE9A0` before D3D had armed its swap-callback
slot (`[gfx+10772]+16` still the `0xBADF00D` placeholder), the ISR took its
error path and hit the assert "ERR[D3D]: Unanticipated CPU_INTERRUPT. Sign of a
corrupt command buffer?" (`bl sub_824C5DF0; twi` at 0x824BE9DC) — 2x per run on
master. Canary's VdSwap raises NO interrupt; swap-complete CP interrupts come
only from in-stream PM4_INTERRUPT packets, which are naturally ordered after the
callback-arming Type-0 writes. Routing the swap through the ring packet matches
that ordering and eliminates the trap (2 -> 0).

Canary oracle confirmation (muted, audit_mem_watch + audit_jit_prolog_pc):
canary's early/loading loop is present-driven — swap counter [gfx+15160]
(0xBE56CA38) advances ~per-vblank from vblank 65 onward, reaching 0xD02 (3330)
in ~60s via 6184 CP source=1 interrupts, with VdSwap called only ONCE. So the
present interrupts are entirely in-stream, not from the VdSwap export.

This is a correctness/faithfulness fix; it does NOT cascade. draws stay 78 at
200M and 1B because the upstream gate persists: the game submits one render
batch then stalls (renderer sub_82506xxx 0x; 2nd title thread 0x821748F0 never
spawns). The per-frame loop sub_822F1AA8 runs ~1207 iterations on vsync but
clock B (swap count) only advances ~once, so the manager update sub_821741C8
fires once. That is the iterate-2Q/2F title-pipeline gate, not a present/
interrupt bug. swaps 3 -> 4 (the in-stream PM4_XE_SWAP now drains).

Deterministic in inline mode (n50m --gpu-inline --stable-digest regenerated
byte-identical twice; golden re-baselined: swaps 3 -> 4). cargo test --workspace
675 passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 15:20:02 +02:00
MechaCat02
034ec8b47f [iterate-2O] GPU: drain indirect buffers correctly — Sylpheed renders splash (draws 0→78)
Ours' GPU never drained the D3D driver's system command buffer past the first
11-dword indirect buffer, so DRAW_INDX / reg-0x57C-arm packets never executed
and draws stayed 0 (the long-hunted render gate; see UPDATE-18). Runtime tracing
(temporary, removed) showed the guest submits 6 INDIRECT_BUFFER packets at boot
(CP_RB_WPTR 22→37) but ours executed exactly ONE IB and then spun 15.7M packets
inside it. Three coupled command-processor bugs, all corrected to match canary:

1. `sync_with_mmio` applied the primary CP_RB_WPTR to whichever ring was active,
   including an executing indirect buffer — `37 % 11 = 3` clobbered the IB's
   write pointer so its read pointer looped 0→2→5→0 forever and never popped
   back to the primary ring. CP_RB_WPTR governs ONLY the primary ring; while an
   IB executes, the primary is the bottom of the IB stack. Canary executes each
   IB through a separate `RingBuffer reader_` (command_processor.cc), so the
   primary write pointer is structurally inapplicable to an IB.

2. Indirect buffers were treated as circular rings: read wrapped at `size_dwords`
   (`11 % 11 = 0`) and never reached the fixed write pointer, so even without the
   clobber the IB could not terminate. An IB is a fixed *linear* sub-stream; add
   `RingBufferView.indirect` and drain `[0, ib_size)` monotonically, then pop.

3. `is_ready` only checked the active ring, so an IB that now correctly exhausts
   would never get `execute_one` called again to pop back to the primary ring
   (whose WPTR may have advanced). Check the whole IB stack.

Also: the ring was sized `1 << size_log2` bytes (1024 dwords) vs canary's
`1 << (size_log2 + 3)` (8192 dwords) — an 8× undersize that desynced WPTR-wrap
math from the guest. Fixed in `GpuSystem::initialize_ring_buffer` (and the
dead bookkeeping copy in `vd_initialize_ring_buffer`).

Cascade (deterministic; threaded-default backend, byte-identical across runs):
reg 0x57C now written, IB jumps 1→12, packets 15.7M→9,825, and the splash
renders — draws 0→78, shaders 0→3, render_targets 0→2, swaps 2→3 — stable at
50M / 200M / 1B. Boot then reaches a new downstream gate (draws plateau at 78,
interrupts keep climbing → engine alive, not deadlocked).

golden `sylpheed_n50m.json` re-baselined (draws 78). `cargo test --workspace`
green (674; +2 ring_view regression tests). vd_swap's synthetic-swap
short-circuit is now redundant but left untouched (cascade works without
changing it); cleaning it up is a separate follow-up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 22:06:16 +02:00
MechaCat02
93f60a3ba0 [iterate-2M] PCR+0x10C (PRCB.current_cpu): init per-HW-thread to unwedge spin-barrier
Ours never initialized the PRCB `current_cpu` byte at PCR+0x10C
(prcb_data@0x100 + current_cpu@0xC). Canary sets it from
`GetFakeCpuNumber(affinity)` (xthread.cc:847 `pcr->prcb_data.current_cpu =
cpu_index`), which equals the HW thread id ours already writes at PCR+0x2C.
Left unwritten it read 0 for every thread.

Guest spin-barrier `sub_824D1328` (used by the audio/update pump threads at
entries 0x824D2878 / 0x824D2940, ours tid 9 / tid 10) indexes a per-HW-thread
occupancy byte array via `lbz r11, 268(r13)` then `stbx ..., [array+index]`.
With index 0 for all threads, every thread marked slot 0; the multi-byte
rendezvous signature it then spins on (`ld [obj+0x164]` compared against the
packed per-slot expectation) could never assemble. Both pump threads busied at
pc 0x824d140c/0x824d1410 forever (Ready, 5M+ barrier iterations) and never ran
their `KeSetEvent` loops — so the events they signal (the 21k-per-thread
heartbeat in canary) never fired, starving the downstream worker handshake.

Fix: write `hw_id` to PCR+0x10C alongside PCR+0x2C in both the static thread
image init (thread.rs) and the dynamic PcrWriter (state.rs, used by scheduler
spawn + affinity migration) so the two stay in sync.

Runtime-verified BOTH engines. Post-fix the pump threads escape the barrier
(barrier iterations 5M+ -> 3) and advance into their loop bodies, now correctly
Blocked(WaitAny) at pc 0x824d28d0 / 0x824d29c0 (was spinning at 0x824d140c).
imports at n50M 339,766 -> 451,508; deterministic (two cold runs byte-identical).
draws still 0 (a later, separate render gate). golden re-baselined.
cargo test --workspace: 672 passed, 0 failed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 18:08:46 +02:00
MechaCat02
2bdb93e51e [iterate-2K] GPU physical-mirror aliasing: ring/IB/RPtr/resolve read wrong host region
Root cause (physical-mirror aliasing gap → GPU read wrong region → ring never
truly drained → render worker ring-space wait → no frame → no draw):

The Xbox 360 maps its 512 MB of physical DRAM into several virtual mirror
windows differing only in cache policy — bare physical (0x0xxxxxxx),
write-combine (0x4xxxxxxx), and cached 0xA/0xC/0xExxxxxxx — all aliasing
addr & 0x1FFF_FFFF. Ours has one flat membase and `heap_alloc`
(MmAllocatePhysicalMemoryEx) commits physical backing in the 0x4xxxxxxx
window. The guest masks its CP-ring allocation base to bare physical
(0x4adcc000 & 0x1FFFFFFF = 0x0adcc000) before handing it to
VdInitializeRingBuffer, and PM4 INDIRECT_BUFFER / writeback / resolve
pointers are likewise bare-physical. Ours stored those verbatim and read
`membase + 0x0adcc000`, a never-committed zero-filled page — so the GPU
drained ~718k zero PM4 headers, never executed the real Type3/DRAW stream,
and the RPtr writeback landed on a zero page the render worker (tid=8) polls,
freezing it forever.

Fix (GPU/Vd-boundary translation, not memory-layer): add
`physical_to_backing(addr)` deriving the committed backing exactly from
`heap_alloc`'s placement (0x4000_0000 | (addr & 0x1FFF_FFFF), idempotent for
the WC window, flat for non-physical code/stack). Apply it at every point the
GPU/kernel consumes a guest physical address: ring base
(initialize_ring_buffer), RPtr writeback (enable_rptr_writeback), PM4
INDIRECT_BUFFER pointer, WAIT_REG_MEM / COND_WRITE memory poll+write,
REG_TO_MEM / MEM_WRITE / EVENT_WRITE* / LOAD_ALU_CONSTANT / IM_LOAD addresses,
the resolve dest write, and the vd_swap frontbuffer present read. This was
chosen over memory-layer aliasing because the latter re-projects every CPU
load/store and corrupts the guest's flat 0xA/0xC/0xE accesses (it caused an
early PC=0xfffffffc fault).

Two adjacent GPU-backend gates this exposed and also fixed (canary-faithful):
- WaitCmp::from_wait_info was off by one vs canary's MatchValueAndRef
  selector (it decoded wait_info&7==3 as NotEqual instead of Equal),
  inverting the standard CP coherency wait so the GPU parked forever on the
  first INDIRECT_BUFFER. Remapped to 1=Less..7=Always, 0=Never.
- Added MakeCoherent: a WAIT polling COHER_STATUS_HOST clears the status bit
  (mirrors command_processor.cc:801-838) so the coherency handshake resolves.

Result: the GPU now decodes the real Type3 packets at 0x4adcc000 (ME_INIT,
INDIRECT_BUFFER → real Type0/WAIT_REG_MEM at 0x4adf5080) instead of
zero-headers; RPtr at 0x408619fc advances (0x13, 0x16, … written by the GPU
worker); the frame loop sub_822F1AA8 actively writes the controller at
0x40d09a40 (0x20→0x21→0x23); no fault, full 200M/1B budget runs clean.

draws_seen is still 0: the remaining gate is upstream and separate — the main
frame loop never sets controller bit-28 (frame-ready) at [0x40d09a40] (stalls
at 0x23, the known iterate-2C state-divergence gate), so the guest never
enqueues a render IB; the GPU only ever replays the init IB. This fix
correctly unblocks the GPU ring/IB/RPtr data path (gate-2 GPU backend); the
bit-28 frame-ready gate is the next target.

Stable golden (sylpheed_n50m) unchanged (draws/swaps/RTs/shaders identical at
50M); regenerated twice byte-identical. cargo test --workspace: 672 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 13:39:57 +02:00
MechaCat02
ed2e0e72fd [iterate-2J] KeTimeStampBundle deterministic tick: fix frozen+mislaid guest clock
The xboxkrnl data export KeTimeStampBundle (ordinal 0x00AD, import slot
0x820007d0 — confirmed via sylpheed.db imports table) was set up with TWO
defects in the import-patch pass:

  1. FROZEN: the block was written once at boot and never updated, so every
     field stayed a constant for the whole run (observed: the guest's clock
     reader sub_824AA830 = [[0x820007d0]+0x10] returned a constant
     0x01d6bc0c from 5M..150M instructions).
  2. WRONG LAYOUT: it stuffed the FILETIME high-dword at +0x10. The canonical
     X_TIME_STAMP_BUNDLE (xenia-canary kernel_state.h) is:
       +0x00 interrupt_time u64 (100ns since boot)
       +0x08 system_time    u64 (FILETIME 100ns since 1601)
       +0x10 tick_count      u32 (milliseconds since boot)
       +0x14 padding
     so [block+0x10] is tick_count in ms, not a FILETIME dword.

Fix (deterministic, no wall-clock):
  * Initialize the block with the correct field layout (tick_count = 0 at
    boot, system_time = FILETIME base, interrupt_time = 0).
  * Store the block VA on KernelState::timestamp_bundle_addr during the
    import patch.
  * Add KernelState::update_timestamp_bundle(mem, clock) and call it every
    round in BOTH the lockstep (run_execution) and parallel
    (run_execution_parallel) outer loops, right where the deterministic
    Scheduler::global_clock is advanced. The clock is the retired-instruction
    monotonic global_clock, so every guest-visible time value stays a pure
    function of guest progress (lockstep byte-reproducible).
  * Cadence: 1 global_clock unit = 100ns (coherent with parse_timeout, which
    divides 100ns timeouts by 100 onto the same basis), so
    INSTRUCTIONS_PER_MS = 10_000. tick_count now advances 0 -> ~4999ms over
    a 50M-instruction window. Also make KeQuerySystemTime read the same
    100ns clock instead of a frozen FILETIME constant.

Verification: tick_count at 0x40002010 now advances (deadline arm at
0x82450d0c stores clock+66 = 0x260,0x269,...,0x51d,... advancing, vs the
frozen 0x01d6bc4e before the fix). Determinism: two cold --stable-digest
runs are byte-identical; the n50m golden is UNCHANGED (the clock-affected
counter is not in the stable digest). 672/672 tests pass.

HONEST CAVEAT — the predicted render cascade did NOT materialize on this
branch. The diagnosed consuming gate at 0x82450b10 (the clock-vs-deadline
compare in the worker-hub channel loop sub_82450A68) is unreachable here:
the loop always branches away at 0x82450b0c ([this+220] >= channel-index),
so the hub already dispatches sub_82450B68 342x in BOTH the frozen and
fixed builds. Guest trajectory (imports 339766@50M / 1738001@200M /
9212446@1B), draws (0), swaps (2) and thread topology (tid14 Ready, not
blocked on 0x109c) are identical frozen-vs-fixed. This commit is therefore
a correct latent-clock-bug fix and determinism-safe prerequisite, NOT the
render unblock. The 0x109c/tid14 starvation premise was not reproduced at
f75bc96; the next gate must be re-localized.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 11:54:44 +02:00
MechaCat02
7e2603a9e5 [iterate-2E] Extend coherent monotonic clock to lockstep (timebase-desync livelock fix)
Lockstep livelocked the scheduler the same way --parallel did before
0332d19: the kernel deadline-arithmetic (`now_basis_at`) read per-thread
`ctx(hw_id).timebase`, but a parked/poll thread has `running_idx == None`
so `Scheduler::ctx()` returns `idle_ctx` (timebase 0). A poll thread (tid=7,
a `KeWaitForSingleObject` loop with a 30ms relative timeout) computing its
deadline via `parse_timeout` therefore read `now = 0` and registered
`deadline = 0 + 3000 = 3000` — a constant ~7.78M units in the past.
`coord_idle_advance` then re-armed that same constant 3000 deadline forever,
pinning virtual time and starving every other thread's real future deadline.

Render-gate impact: the submitter (tid=6) re-enters a 16ms-timeout
WaitForMultiple after its first jobs; that timeout never fired because vtime
was pinned at 3000, so virtual time never reached real future deadlines.

Fix (Option A — mirror the parallel fix): drive the existing deterministic
`Scheduler::global_clock` in lockstep too (floored up once per outer round
to `stats.instruction_count`, a pure function of retired guest instructions —
no wall-clock), and route `KernelState::now_basis_at` through `global_clock()`
in BOTH modes. New `Scheduler::advance_global_clock_to(now)` floor-up keeps it
monotone alongside `advance_all_timebases_to`. Parallel behavior unchanged
(it already read `global_clock()`).

Verified (lockstep, 50M):
- DETERMINISM: two cold `check -n 5M` and two cold `-n 50M` runs byte-identical.
- LIVELOCK GONE: "advanced to deadline" went from 592,679 fires / 2 unique
  values / 562,084 pinned at 3000  ->  18,586 fires / 18,567 unique /
  0 pinned, strictly increasing 5.4M -> 50M. Poll thread tid=7 now ends
  Blocked with a real future deadline Some(60002824) instead of spin-Ready
  on the past 3000.
- imports 1,790,936 -> 92,317 at 50M (the spin no longer burns import calls).

Cascade (lockstep, XENIA_CACHE_PERSIST=1, -n 200M): engine now runs to budget
instead of hard-deadlocking. Hub enqueue (sub_82458068) 4x; submitter dequeue
(sub_82458508) still 3x — the lost 4th-job HANDOFF (count/notify between
sub_82458068's tail and the submitter queue) is a SEPARATE downstream gate,
not the timebase. New gate: tid=5 (hub) Blocked INFINITE on event 0x1080
(job-4 completion); tid=6 (submitter) Ready, parked in WaitForMultiple
(sub_824AB214), loop-top stops at cycle 6.23M. draws still 0, VdSwap 1.

Golden re-baseline (same commit): sylpheed_n50m
  instructions 50000004 -> 50000007, imports 1790936 -> 92317
  (swaps/draws/RTs/shaders/textures unchanged). sylpheed_n2m unchanged
  (livelock onsets after 2M). Suite 665/665 + oracle green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 21:42:28 +02:00
MechaCat02
5aaadfec36 [iterate-2E] Add XENIA_AUDIT_DEREF pointer-chase probe
On each AUDIT-PC-PROBE fire, treat gpr[reg] as a base object, dump its
first 64 bytes, follow [base+off] to a sub-object, dump that, then follow
[[base+off]+0] to its vtable and dump 48 slots. Env-gated
(XENIA_AUDIT_DEREF=<reg>:<off>), read-only, lockstep digest unaffected.

Captures the live work-item + stream object + vtable at sub_824510E0
before the pool recycles the slot — which overturned the prior session's
"infinite spin" diagnosis: the streaming read PROGRESSES 68/68 128KB
chunks of a 9MB file, then the hub (tid=5) blocks INFINITE on a
self-created Event/Manual (0x1060) that is never signaled.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 20:29:01 +02:00
MechaCat02
0332d1990d [Track 2] Parallel-scoped global clock fixes timebase-desync livelock
In --parallel mode a long run livelocked: the scheduler spun
"advanced to deadline 3000 waking hw=2 idx=0" ~14k times in
microseconds. Root cause: each guest thread owns ctx.timebase
(+1/instr in step_block), and all kernel deadline arithmetic read
Scheduler::ctx(hw_id).timebase as "now". But the parallel worker
extracts its PpcContext via mem::replace(ctx_mut_ref, PpcContext::new())
— leaving a ZEROED timebase in the slot while it steps unlocked — and
advance_all_timebases_to only walks runqueue (never idle_ctx). So the
coordinator's coord_pre_round drain and a woken thread's parse_timeout
could read a zeroed/stale basis decoupled from the deadline the
scheduler just advanced to. The thread re-armed the same constant
deadline forever; the global clock never moved.

Fix: add a single monotonic Scheduler::global_clock, advanced by the
per-block retired-instruction count on each parallel writeback and
floored up by advance_all_timebases_to. Kernel deadline reads route
through KernelState::now_basis_at(hw_id), which returns global_clock
ONLY when parallel_active; lockstep keeps reading the exact pre-existing
ctx(hw_id).timebase expression, so the deterministic lockstep trace is
byte-identical (sylpheed_n50m golden unchanged, zero re-baseline).

Verified:
- 50M --parallel run completes (was: hung). Deadlines now strictly
  increasing 5.4M -> 49.1M (18097 unique of 18116; max repeat 2) vs
  pre-fix constant 3000 x ~14000.
- sylpheed_n50m golden byte-identical via plain `check` (no persist).
- Full suite 665/665 green.

Note: an intermittent parallel hang/crash (~1-2/20 at -n 5M) is
pre-existing (master 1/20, this build 2/20 — within noise) and distinct
from the timebase livelock: it is a parallel-race class (e.g. the
unsafe block_ptr deref in run_execution_parallel). Tracked separately;
lockstep remains the recommendation for long runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 19:32:14 +02:00
MechaCat02
b20c99f141 [Subsystem-fixes] 6 verified ours-vs-canary divergence fixes
From the 2026-06-12 5-subsystem differential audit. All verified against
canary as oracle; 660/660 workspace tests green (655 + 5 new).

1. nt_create_event polarity (exports.rs) — `manual_reset = gpr[5] != 0`
   was INVERTED. Canary xboxkrnl_threading.cc:668 `Initialize(!event_type,..)`
   + xevent.cc:41 (type 0 = NotificationEvent = manual, type 1 = Sync = auto).
   Now `== 0`. Was the dormant 2.AI fix on chore/portable-snapshot, never
   merged. The Ke-path was already correct; only the Nt-path was wrong.

2. 2.AF deadline drain (main.rs coord_pre_round) — expired KeWait/KeDelay
   deadlines never fired under load because advance_to_next_wake_if_due was
   only called in coord_idle_advance (no-Ready-threads path). Added a
   per-round drain loop; covers BOTH lockstep and parallel outer loops since
   both call coord_pre_round. Was the dormant 2.AF fix, never merged.

3. handle slab-recycle ABA guard (state.rs + scheduler.rs) — release_handle_slot
   (my round-34 regression) recycled a closed slot even with a thread still
   parked on it, risking a stale-waiter wake when the slot is re-minted. Added
   Scheduler::any_thread_waiting_on; decline to recycle a still-waited slot.

4. vpkpx pixel-pack (vmx.rs) — wrong field mapping (~100% mismatch). Now
   exact canary ppc_emit_altivec.cc:1795 shift/mask (red 6b out[15:10] from
   w[24:19], green out[9:5] from w[14:10], blue out[4:0] from w[7:3]; no
   fabricated alpha bit). +unit test.

5. VFS GDFX attribute plumbing (vfs/*, exports.rs query fns) — VfsEntry now
   carries the real on-disc attribute byte (GDFX dirent +12, canary
   disc_image_device.cc:136/154) instead of inferring directory-ness from
   path shape. Query exports report the real FILE_ATTRIBUTE_* bits. Candidate
   driver of the XamShowDirtyDiscErrorUI gate. +tests.

6. MmGetPhysicalAddress region-aware mirror (exports.rs) — flat 0x1FFFFFFF
   mask missed canary's +0x1000 host_address_offset for 0xE0000000+ mirror
   (memory.cc:2317). Read-only query; proven byte-identical 50M digest. +test.

Investigated and intentionally NOT changed:
- zero-on-recommit: no-op; ours has no region-reuse path (bump allocators,
  free is a stub).
- 32-bit ALU writeback truncation (PPCBUG-020): documented-deliberate; premise
  (MSR.SF=0) is questionable but flipping it is out of scope here.
- KeSetEvent/NtSetEvent return value: ours returns true previous state
  (hardware-faithful); canary returns constant 1 — NOT an ours bug.

sylpheed_n50m golden will need re-baselining (legit behavior change).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 14:57:38 +02:00
MechaCat02
db90ad0f7d [AUDIT-059 R-D2] Phase D auto-signal POC confirms audit-049 wedge diagnosis
Hook NtCreateEvent for the silph::UImpl tid=13 chain (entry=0x821748F0,
start_context=0x4024a840, frame-1 LR=0x821CB15C inside sub_821CB030+0x128)
and auto-signal the resulting handle after XENIA_SILPH_UI_AUTOSIGNAL_DELAY
instructions. Env-gated; default off.

SR4 verdict B (partial unwedge):
- handle 0x1078 signal_attempts 0->1
- tid=13 Blocked(WaitAny[0x1078]) -> Ready pc=0x824a9108
- ExCreateThread 10 -> 12 (new silph::UImpl tid=14, worker tid=15)
- New downstream wedges 0x1084 + 0x1088
- cxx_throw runtime_error on tid=5 inside R26 dispatcher
  (BST not-registered instance lhs=0x715a7af0)
- VdSwap stays 1; no draws (POC is diagnostic, not final fix)

Confirms Phase C diagnosis end-to-end. The real signaler must (a) drive
NtSetEvent on the silph KEVENT AND (b) register the dispatcher's BST
instance upstream; this POC only does (a).

Reading-error class #20: ctx.lr at kernel export entry is the thunk
wrapper's return slot, NOT the guest caller's post-bl PC. Walk back-chain
1 step to get frames[1].lr.

Reading-error class #21: --parallel and lockstep have SEPARATE outer
loops in main.rs (run_execution_parallel line 2928 vs run_execution
line 2706). Per-round hooks must be wired in BOTH paths.

Files:
- crates/xenia-cpu/src/scheduler.rs: GuestThread.start_entry/start_context
  fields + spawn() population + current_thread_entry_and_ctx() helper
- crates/xenia-kernel/src/state.rs: AutoSignalPending struct, env-parsed
  silph_autosignal_delay, pending Vec, last_cycle_hint, set_now_cycle_hint,
  maybe_register_silph_autosignal (walks back-chain), fire_due_silph_autosignals
- crates/xenia-kernel/src/exports.rs: hook in nt_create_event
- crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs: fire-site + cycle hint in both outer loops
- audit-runs/audit-059-handle-disambiguation/round-D2-autosignal-poc/FINDINGS.md

Tests 655/655 green. Default behavior byte-identical when env unset.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 18:38:38 +02:00
MechaCat02
229b46c765 [Kernel] Slab-recycle handle allocator (AUDIT-059 R34)
Adds a FIFO free list of closed handle slots so alloc_handle returns
recycled IDs before bumping next_handle. Mirrors canary's slab-style
ObjectTable: F8000098 reused 130x per 30s window in canary, but ours'
monotonic bump allocator never reused slots — so a recycled slot in
canary maps to a fresh, never-reused slot in ours, drifting kernel
object identity per AUDIT-042's analysis.

release_handle_slot is wired into nt_close's refcount==0 branch and
gated to the canonical [0x1000, 0xF000_0000) range so synthetic
XAudio park handles (AUDIT-048) are never recycled.

Verified: all 655 workspace tests green, smoke tests at -n 50M show
NtClose 115/run with handle table renumbering active (round-34 max
handle 0x12ac vs round-16 baseline 0x12b8 over same workload). γ-
cluster #2 wedge unchanged — silph wait still parks tid=13 on the
renumbered handle (4216=0x1078 here vs 0x12a4 baseline), confirming
the wedge is independent of allocator policy. Lands as a parity
fix to bring our kernel-object identity in line with canary.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-10 18:04:34 +02:00
MechaCat02
40f208ea4e [2.BF] Silph WorkerCtx: install canary's real sub-vtable at [+0x2C][0]
Round-21 pivot of the audit-059 synth-spawn module. Round 20 made the
silph::WorkerCtx workers run by attaching a 32-slot stub sub-vtable
where every entry was a `li r3, 0; blr` stub — workers spawned but
spun forever because slots 15/17 short-circuited to NULL ("no work").

Round 21 reads canary's real sub-vtable VA out of the XEX `.rdata` —
`0x8200A168` — and points `[sub_object + 0]` at it directly. The
vtable bytes live in the static image both engines map, so no guest
memory is consumed and slot 15 (= `sub_824FCCC8`) and slot 17
(= `sub_824FCE38`) — the only slots `sub_82506B08` ever calls —
become working game methods.

Discovery method (canary probes in
`audit-runs/audit-059-handle-disambiguation/round21-subvtable-canary/`):
  1. `--audit_jit_prolog_pc=0x82506B08` to catch the first WorkerCtx
     virtual-dispatch entry; `[r3+0x2C]` revealed the sub-object VA.
  2. Re-run with `--audit_jit_prolog_mem_dump=<sub-obj VA>` to deref
     `[sub-object + 0]` = sub-vtable VA = 0x8200A168.
  3. PE inspection (`xex-text/xex-rdata` is the static image) reads
     all 31 slots; slot 15 -> sub_824FCCC8, slot 17 -> sub_824FCE38.

Smoke metrics (50M instructions, `XENIA_CACHE_PERSIST=1
XENIA_SILPH_SYNTH=1`, audit-runs/audit-059-handle-disambiguation/
round21-real-vtable/):
  * 4/4 workers spawned, no crash, no new fault
  * KeSetEvent 633885 -> 431860 (-32%)
  * KeWaitForSingleObject 258441 -> 185762 (-28%)
  * Per-handle state unchanged on the focused stalled set
    (0x1020/0x1090 still `<NO_SIGNALS_DESPITE_WAITS>`,
    0x12a4/0x12ac/0x1218/0x1224 still `<UNCREATED>`).
  * No VdSwap/draws progression observed in this window.

Verdict: B (partial). The workers no longer spin in a stub-loop —
internal call density shifted — but the focused wedge handles still
don't get signalled. Likely root cause: workers may now be waiting
on the WorkerCtx's own KEVENTs (which we synthesised at
+0x54/+0x94) for upstream work that no producer is enqueuing.

Net LOC: 29 ins / 31 del. Tests: workspace passes (lockstep app
tests, kernel 127/127, hir 288/288, scheduler 38/38).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 21:19:52 +02:00
MechaCat02
8683fb59ed [2.BF] Silph WorkerCtx: synthesize sub-object + vtable at [+0x2C]
Audit-059 round 19 isolated the round-18 worker fault: the four silph::
WorkerCtx worker bodies all execute the sequence

    lwz r3, 44(rN)     ; r3 = [ctx+0x2C] — sub-object pointer
    lwz r11, 0(r3)     ; r11 = sub-object vtable
    lwz r11, 60(r11)   ; r11 = sub-object vtable[15]
    mtctr r11
    bctrl

Ours left [ctx+0x2C] NULL → PC=0 fault on first virtual dispatch. Round 19
recommended materialising a sub-object whose vtable points entirely at an
existing trivial-return stub so workers idle live, returning NULL work,
without crashing.

Changes (silph_synth.rs only, +63/-6):

- Grow SILPH_CTX_SIZE 0x500 → 0x800 to embed sub-object at +0x300 and a
  32-slot sub-vtable at +0x500 in the same heap_alloc.
- After ctx header init, write sub-object pointer at [ctx+0x2C], the XEX-
  resident wrapper constant 0xBE568F00 (round-7 finding) at [ctx+0x30],
  and leave [ctx+0x28] NULL (matches canary first-fire snapshot).
- Populate every slot of the 32-entry sub-vtable with VA 0x8216CAA4, the
  first 4-byte-aligned standalone `li r3, 0; blr` stub located by a fresh
  PE-text scan (preceded by a `blr` terminating the previous function).
- Sub-object body itself is zero-filled apart from the [+0]=vtable_ptr
  write; round-19 disassembly confirms workers only touch slots 15/17.

Smoke (XENIA_SILPH_SYNTH=1, persistent cache, 5e7 instr):

- Lockstep: no crash, all 4 workers (tid=6/7/8/9) reach Ready in deep
  worker-body PCs (0x825067xx/0x825089xx/0x825091xx). Verdict (D) —
  workers run their idle loop returning NULL; existing silph waiters
  (0x1020, 0x1090) remain <NO_SIGNALS_DESPITE_WAITS> because we
  deliberately neutered productive work.
- Parallel: identical picture, no PC=0/PC=garbage fault anywhere.

No regression in 765-test suite.

Next round: feed real work-items into the intrusive ring at ctx+0x210
so workers' returned-NULL idle becomes returned-work productive; or
discover which sub-vtable slots actually need real callees (slot 15
worker drain, slot 17 producer).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 21:04:04 +02:00
MechaCat02
b5885b8560 [2.BF] Synthetic silph::WorkerCtx spawn (round 18 — opt-in landing)
Adds infrastructure to synthesise the silph::WorkerCtx that AUDIT-058/059
identified as never reached by ours' static-init chain (real chain entry
sits in audit-059 round 9's wrong-vtable wedge at sub_82172BA0+0x1E8).
Ctx layout follows round 5's live hexdump from canary:

  +0x00   vtable = 0x8200A1E8
  +0x04   self
  +0x08   intrusive list head -> self
  +0x0C   init flag = 1
  +0x10   packed byte field
  +0x18   2x float ~1.0 (UI rates)
  +0x24   flag = 1
  +0x28..+0x30  3x foreign-arena pointers (left NULL — see below)
  +0x54..+0x84  4x X_KEVENT auto-reset, state=0
  +0x94..+0xC4  4x X_KEVENT manual-reset, state=1 (pre-signaled)
  +0x210..+0x250  4-entry intrusive work-ring, empty

Worker spawn mirrors AUDIT-048's audio-worker pattern in
xaudio_register_render_driver: per-worker allocate_thread_image +
state.scheduler.spawn with r3 = ctx_ptr. Trigger fires at the first
dat/* VFS open (ours' earliest is dat/files.tbl), which is when canary
runs the equivalent chain.

ROUND 18 OUTCOME — opt-in only:

With workers spawned Ready (XENIA_SILPH_SYNTH=1), boot CRASHES at
cycle ~5.5M with PC=0 on hw=1, just after worker_3 (entry 0x825065B8)
spawns. Per task constraints this is STOP-and-report: the ctx fields
+0x28/+0x2C/+0x30 (foreign heap pointers — canary's 0x30057018,
0xBCE25640, 0xBE568F00, distinct arenas per audit-059 round 7) are
left NULL, and the worker bodies plausibly dereference one of them.
Synthesising those is a fresh investigation (round 19+).

With workers spawned Suspended (XENIA_SILPH_SYNTH=suspend), boot
completes normally (11 spawns, VdSwap=1, KeSetEvent=2,
KeReleaseSemaphore=1 — matches default baseline). The ctx remains
materialised in guest memory at the logged VA for downstream probing.

Default (env var unset): no synth, no regression.

Files:
  crates/xenia-kernel/src/silph_synth.rs   (new, 225 LOC)
  crates/xenia-kernel/src/lib.rs           (+1 LOC, register module)
  crates/xenia-kernel/src/exports.rs       (+37 LOC, hook in open_vfs_file)
  crates/xenia-kernel/src/state.rs         (+18 LOC, 4 silph_synth_* fields)

Tests: cargo test --release --workspace = 765 pass / 0 fail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 20:44:29 +02:00
MechaCat02
9340ff4592 [Audit] --audit-r3-dump-bytes: dump N bytes at r3 when probe fires
AUDIT-059 round 15 — diagnostic. When `--audit-r3-dump-bytes=N` is set,
every `--audit-pc-probe-hex` fire emits a paired `AUDIT-R3-DUMP` line
with N bytes of guest memory from r3 as u32 lanes (4-byte aligned, cap
256B). Sized for the 80-byte stack-local struct at sub_82452DC0's
`r31+96` (probe sub_8245B000 entry where r3 IS the struct ptr).

Settable via `XENIA_AUDIT_R3_DUMP_BYTES` env. Read-only; lockstep digest
unaffected (empty-set fast path in fire_audit_pc_probe_if_match).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 19:39:22 +02:00
MechaCat02
bcd018659b [Audit] --audit-mem-dump-chain: deref a guest address N levels for diagnosis
Round-14 of AUDIT-2BF (singleton-dump). The bctrl at sub_822F1AA8+0x90
(PC 0x822F1B4C) loads [0x828E1F08] (a global singleton), dereferences
its vtable, and indirect-calls vtable[0]. Canary returns; ours hangs.
To name the resolved target we need to dump the (singleton, vtable,
vtable[0]) chain on probe firing.

Adds `--audit-mem-read-hex` / `XENIA_AUDIT_MEM_READ` taking a single
guest VA. When set and any `--audit-pc-probe-hex` PC fires, the kernel
emits a paired `AUDIT-MEM-READ` line with three guest reads:

  AUDIT-MEM-READ addr=0x828E1F08 val=<*addr> vtable=<**addr> \
                 vtable[0]=<***addr+0> vtable[24]=<***addr+24> ...

`vtable[24]` is included as the slot-6 method (audit-059 round 9
documented the canary silph chain dispatching slot 6 of a vtable here).

Read-only; lockstep digest unaffected. ~30 LOC across state.rs and
main.rs. `cmd_check` opts out of the flag (same policy as the existing
audit_pc_probe_hex).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 12:13:42 +02:00
MechaCat02
09e59e09b7 Audit-2BF.delta: add --audit-pc-probe-hex for silph-init bctrl probe
Adds a per-PC probe analogous to --lr-trace / --branch-probe but tuned
for the silph init chain's virtual-dispatch site at sub_82172BA0+0x1E8
(PC 0x82172D88, the bctrl after a 3-deep `lwz` chain that loads vtable
slot 6). Each fire emits one AUDIT-PC-PROBE line with (pc, tid, hw,
cycle, lr, r3, r11) plus four guest-memory dereferences off r3 — the
vtable, slot-6 method pointer, auxiliary handle field, and embedded
sub-object vtable — so the line can be compared head-to-head with
canary's round-9 capture (r3=0xBCCC52C0, [r3+0]=0x820A3644,
slot6=sub_821B55D8, [r3+0xC]=0xF80000D8, [r3+0x30]=0x820A1870) to
identify whether ours dispatches to the wrong vtable on a correct
object (case A) or to a wrong object entirely (case B).

Why this addition rather than reuse of an existing probe: --lr-trace
emits JSONL designed for canary-side diffing and only captures
r3/r4/r5/r6/lr (no memory dereferences); --branch-probe captures CR
flags and lr but again no memory; --ctor-probe is single-shot per PC
and walks the stack back-chain. None of them load the four indirect
fields needed to identify a vtable-shape divergence.

Implementation:
  - state.rs: new HashSet<u32> field `audit_pc_probe_pcs` and helper
    `fire_audit_pc_probe_if_match(hw_id, mem)`. Empty-set fast-path
    keeps the cost to one is_empty() check per worker_prologue call
    when the flag is unused. Read-only — no guest state mutation,
    lockstep digest unchanged.
  - main.rs: new CLI flag --audit-pc-probe-hex with bare-hex comma
    parsing (tolerates `0x` prefix), settable also via
    XENIA_AUDIT_PC_PROBE env var. Threaded through cmd_exec_inner;
    cmd_check passes None so check digests are unaffected.

Probe wired into worker_prologue alongside fire_ctor_probe / fire_-
branch_probe / fire_lr_trace. Like its siblings, it fires once per
basic-block entry — known limitation (audit-045 reading-error class
13); use a block-entry PC if probing a mid-block instruction.

Verification: kernel 127/127, app 5/5 non-ignored, no behaviour
change with empty flag.

Cross-references audit-059 round 9's canary capture and lays the
groundwork for the round-10 ours-side comparison.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-07 10:59:03 +02:00
MechaCat02
9a93152981 Iterate-2.BE: host-driven synchronous graphics ISR delivery
Replaces the victim-thread-mutate-then-wait scheme for vsync / CP
interrupts with synchronous in-line dispatch on the coordinator host
thread. Mirrors canary's EmulateCPInterruptDPC -> Processor::Execute
path (kernel_state.cc:1370, processor.cc:413): pick a guest thread,
borrow its PpcContext, jam ISR PC + args in, run the interpreter
inline until LR_HALT_SENTINEL, restore the borrowed context.

Why: audit-059 measured gpu.interrupt.delivered{source=0} = 54 over
3.9 s vs canary's 4712 over 30 s. Per-second shortfall ~11×. Old
asynchronous LR-sentinel injection (try_inject_graphics_interrupt)
needed a Ready or Blocked guest thread to land on; once the Sylpheed
main thread and worker threads all idled post-boot, no victim was
available and every queued vsync got dropped. Host-driven dispatch
decouples delivery from guest-thread readiness.

Smoke test (lockstep): unchanged 54 — under current Sylpheed boot
trajectory the ticker is gated by guest-instruction progress, not
victim availability; lockstep stalls into idle-advance after ~5M
instructions of real work and the synthetic tick_vsync_instr stops
firing. Under --parallel (wallclock ticker) gpu.interrupt.delivered
climbs to ~1131 over a 128 s run, confirming the synchronous
dispatcher itself works as intended. Architectural piece is now in
place; raising the lockstep delivery rate requires ticking the
synthetic vsync inside coord_idle_advance, which is a separate
change.

Changes:
- crates/xenia-kernel/src/interrupts.rs: doc-comment update only.
  SavedCallbackCtx + CALLBACK_STACK_PAD retained — the audio
  callback path (audit-048) still uses the asynchronous LR-sentinel
  inject on a dedicated per-client worker.
- crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs:
  * dispatch_graphics_interrupts(kernel, mem, &mut stats,
    &mut decode_cache, thunk_map): new fn. Drains the full FIFO per
    call. Victim selection same shape (Ready preferred, else
    Blocked, skip Idle/Exited/ServicingIrq), but the call is
    synchronous - we run step_cached + import-thunk dispatch inline
    on the borrowed ctx until pc == LR_HALT_SENTINEL.
    MAX_INSTRS_PER_ISR = 1M safety budget.
  * coord_pre_round: graphics-IRQ injection call removed. Audio
    path unchanged (still calls try_inject_audio_callback).
  * run_execution + run_execution_parallel: each now owns a
    persistent isr_decode_cache and calls
    dispatch_graphics_interrupts after coord_pre_round.
  * try_inject_graphics_interrupt: deleted (118 LOC).

No new public APIs, no new dependencies, no changes to xenia-cpu.

Tests: workspace 765 passed / 0 failed / 4 ignored (parallel_stress
+ sylpheed_n50m, all gated). Kernel 127/127, app 5/5, cpu 288/288.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 18:58:40 +02:00
MechaCat02
2a8ff9515d AUDIT-054: thread CreateOptions through NtCreateFile + opt-in cache persistence
Track A — FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE handling. NtCreateFile's 9th parameter
`create_options` (sp+0x54 per shim_utils.h:49-50) is now read and
forwarded to open_vfs_file/open_cache_file. When the
FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE bit (0x1) is set on a `cache:\<hash>` path,
the host-side handler `mkdir -p`s instead of `File::create`'ing a
0-byte sentinel that blocked subsequent hierarchical creates of
`cache:\<hash>\<sub>\<leaf>` with NAME_COLLISION. Confirmed by
`opts=0x4021` (incl. FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE) on `cache:\d4ea4615`
and `opts=0x4020` (no DIR bit) on the leaf `.tmp` files. NtOpenFile
forwards `open_options` (r8) into the same slot per
xboxkrnl_io.cc:118-122. Closes the AUDIT-053 ζ-class VFS layout
aliasing wedge.

Track B — opt-in persistent cache root. AUDIT-038's per-process
tmpdir + wipe stays the default (preserves lockstep/oracle
determinism + dodges Sylpheed's `<hash>.tmp` journal-append-on-
reboot self-inconsistency). Persistence is now opt-in via
  * `XENIA_CACHE_ROOT=<path>` — explicit path (caller manages
    wiping); hands a stable place to drop a canary-built cache
    for cascade A/B oracle work.
  * `XENIA_CACHE_PERSIST=1` — `$XDG_DATA_HOME/xenia-rs/cache`
    (or `$HOME/.local/share/xenia-rs/cache`).

Cold-start (-n 500M, default tmpfs) with FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE fix:
swaps=1 draws=0 imports=40454 cxx_throw=0 — matches master baseline,
no regression. Cache hierarchy now mkdir-p'd correctly: `cache:/`
contains 9 hash dirs (e.g. `d4ea4615/e/`, `aab216c3/5/`) instead
of the 0-byte sentinel files AUDIT-053 found masquerading as
directories.

LOC: +88 / -14 = +74 net (≤80 budget). All 127 xenia-kernel unit
tests pass.

Trace: audit-runs/audit-054-vfs-layout-fix/
  cold-start-digest.json + warm-start-digest.json (defaults)
  persist-cold-digest.json + persist-warm-digest.json (opt-in)
  baseline-master-digest.json (master 25704c5 reference)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 18:11:04 +02:00
MechaCat02
49f3eafa15 AUDIT-032: dedicated audio worker thread per client (Plan B)
Replaces APUBUG-PRODUCER-001's random-victim-hijack audio injection
with a dedicated per-client guest worker thread, mirroring xenia-canary's
apu/audio_system.cc:84-159 WorkerThreadMain pattern in xenia-rs's
threading model. Audio callback ticker is now safe to enable by default.

## What changed

- xenia-kernel/src/xaudio.rs: new XAudioState fields worker_handles +
  worker_refs (one slot per of XAUDIO_MAX_CLIENTS=8). Synthetic
  park-handle helper (0xF000_0000 | client_idx) — outside the normal
  alloc range so wake_eligible_waiters never finds it; the only
  legitimate state-flip is via try_inject_audio_callback.
- xenia-kernel/src/exports.rs: xaudio_register_render_driver spawns a
  64KB-stack guest thread (create_suspended=true) via
  state.scheduler.spawn after registration succeeds. Immediately flips
  the spawned thread's state from Blocked(Suspended) to
  Blocked(WaitAny[synthetic]) so it's parked but not woken. Stores the
  kernel handle so find_by_handle resolves a fresh ThreadRef after slot
  compaction. Failure paths log + leave xaudio.worker_refs[i] = None,
  in which case the ticker drops fires (no random-victim fallback).
- xenia-app/src/main.rs: try_inject_audio_callback resolves the worker
  via worker_handles[index] instead of scanning runqueues for a Ready
  or Blocked victim. The PC+r3 injection and SavedCallbackCtx capture
  are unchanged; the existing LR_HALT restore path re-blocks the
  worker on its synthetic handle for the next tick. Flag handling
  reworked: --xaudio-tick / XENIA_XAUDIO_TICK now act as explicit
  override (truthy = force on, falsey = force off, absent = use the
  KernelState default).
- xenia-kernel/src/state.rs: xaudio_tick_enabled default flipped from
  false to true. Pre-fix it was off because the random-victim hijack
  regressed swaps=2->1; with the dedicated worker that whole class of
  regression is gone.

## Cascade verification at -n 500M (audit-runs/audit-048-audio-host-pump/)

Pre-fix baseline: audit-runs/audit-047-gamma-wedges/ours-end-state.log.

| Dim | Predicted (AUDIT-032)               | Observed                        |
|-----|-------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| A   | tid=9 leaves Blocked[0x828A3254]    | Ready @ pc=0x824d1404           |
| B   | tid=10 leaves Blocked[0x828A3230]   | Ready @ same pc/lr              |
| C   | XAudioSubmitRenderDriverFrame > 0   | Mixer setup path executed       |
| D   | KeReleaseSemaphore 0 -> non-zero    | 0 -> 1; xaudio.callback.delivered=1 |

Bonus: audit-042's tid=6 worker pair on 0x10A0+0x10A4 also went
Blocked->Ready as a downstream effect.

Boot trajectory shifted significantly: NtWaitForSingleObjectEx
1,489,791 -> 30; NtSetEvent 3,334 -> 68; new exports firing
(StfsCreateDevice, ObCreateSymbolicLink, XamContentCreateEnumerator,
XamEnumerate, XamTaskSchedule, ExCreateThread x10, KeSetAffinityThread x7,
NtCreateSemaphore x4, NtWaitForMultipleObjectsEx x94, NtDuplicateObject x14,
XeCryptSha, XeKeysConsolePrivateKeySign). The system left the
audio-wait busy loop and entered the savegame/content/crypto init phase.

swaps regressed 2 -> 1 (degenerate splash repeat lost; main thread now
advances past splash entirely, blocked on a different handle). draws
unchanged at 0 — expected per AUDIT-032 (audio gate != renderer gate).

## Tests + scope

- cargo build --release succeeds, no new warnings.
- cargo test -p xenia-kernel --lib: 127/127 pass (incl. xaudio).
- cargo test -p xenia-app --lib: 5/5 non-ignored pass.
- Lockstep goldens (sylpheed_n2m / sylpheed_n50m) WILL drift on this
  fix and need re-baselining as a follow-up commit.

75 net non-comment LOC across 4 files, well under AUDIT-032's
60-120 LOC budget.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 15:06:25 +02:00
MechaCat02
77034b6cbf audit-038: persistent cache:/* VFS via host-FS backing
Replaces the "Synthesized empty file" stub for cache:/* paths with a
real host-FS HostPathDevice-style mount. Each KernelState gets a fresh
per-process tmpdir under /tmp/xenia-rs-cache-<pid>-<id>/ which is
cleared on init for lockstep determinism (mirrors canary's
xenia_main.cc:649 RegisterSymbolicLink("cache:", "\\CACHE") +
HostPathDevice in xenia-canary/src/xenia/vfs/devices/host_path_device.cc).

NtCreateFile now honours create_disposition for cache: paths:
  FILE_OPEN          -> NOT_FOUND if missing
  FILE_CREATE        -> NAME_COLLISION if present
  FILE_OPEN_IF       -> open or create
  FILE_OVERWRITE_IF  -> create or truncate
  FILE_OVERWRITE     -> NOT_FOUND if missing, else truncate
  FILE_SUPERSEDE     -> create or truncate

NtReadFile / NtWriteFile / NtSetInformationFile (XFileEndOfFileInformation)
/ NtQueryInformationFile / NtQueryFullAttributesFile route through
std::fs against the per-handle host_path; non-cache paths keep their
legacy semantics (read-only disc image, synth-empty stubs).

Verified by audit-037 cascade:
- sub_82459D18 (cache-miss restore): 0 fires (was firing constantly)
- sub_8245D230 (resize/zero-fill):  0 fires (was firing constantly)
- 105+ real cache-file writes per 500M run; 4+ MB of game data persisting
  to disk per boot; cache:/recent, cache:/access, cache:/d4ea*.tmp, etc.
- Lockstep deterministic at instructions=100000004 / imports=987485
  across 3+ reruns (digest shifted as expected; goldens re-baselined).
- swaps=2 plateau still in place; cluster L1 unactivated. Cascade
  dimension D (cluster activation) — UNKNOWN, no L1 fires.

Tests 640 -> 645 (+5 cache-specific unit tests; full workspace green).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 14:34:27 +02:00
MechaCat02
5af792c9fc M8+M9+M10+M11+M12: LOW-tier milestones — funcptr-arrays, EH flag, TLS, lr-trace
Five LOW-priority milestones bundled. Total ~700 LOC across 11 files.

## M9 — has_eh derived from pdata.flags exception bit
- New `functions.has_eh BOOLEAN NOT NULL` column. Derived from M1's
  already-parsed `pdata.flags` (bit 31 of the packed word — the
  exception-handler-present flag, distinct from bit 30 which is the
  always-1 32-bit-code flag). Index idx_functions_has_eh.
- Sylpheed: 2,975 of 23,073 pdata-validated functions have EH (12.9%).

## M10 — .tls section / IMAGE_TLS_DIRECTORY32 parser
- New `xenia_xex::tls::parse_tls` parses the directory + zero-terminated
  callback array. Returns None when the binary has no .tls section.
- New `tls_info` (singleton row) + `tls_callbacks(slot, address)` tables.
- New `DbWriter::write_tls()` no-ops on None.
- Sylpheed has no .tls section → 0 rows; infra ready for binaries with
  __declspec(thread).

## M8 + M11 — function_pointer_arrays (dispatch tables + static initialisers)
- New `xenia_analysis::funcptr_arrays::analyze` widens M3's vtable scan:
  detects runs of ≥2 function pointers in .rdata and classifies each as
  `vtable` (M3 re-emit), `dispatch_table` (M8), or `static_init` (M11)
  via a constructor-prologue heuristic (mfspr + small stwu).
- New tables `function_pointer_arrays(address PK, length, kind)` and
  `function_pointer_array_entries(array_address, slot, function_address)`.
- Sylpheed: 722 vtables + 388 dispatch_tables = 1,110 arrays / 6,347 slots.
  0 static_init detected (Sylpheed's ctors don't all match the
  conservative heuristic; M11.5 future work can chain via the entry-
  point's static-init driver).

## M12 — --lr-trace runtime canary-diff harness
- New CLI `exec --lr-trace=PC[,PC,...]` and `--lr-trace-out=PATH` flags.
  Symbolic resolution (Class::method, Class::*) via M4 lookup. Env vars
  XENIA_LR_TRACE / XENIA_LR_TRACE_OUT also work.
- New `KernelState::lr_trace_pcs` + `lr_trace_writer` + helper
  `fire_lr_trace_if_match(hw_id)` invoked from the per-instr probe slot.
- JSONL output: pc/tid/hw/cycle/r3/r4/r5/r6/lr — superset of what
  xenia-canary's --log_lr_on_pc patch emits, with a cycle counter for
  cross-run reproducibility. Diff-friendly via `jq`.
- Lockstep digest unaffected: smoke test on entry-point PC fires once
  with cycle=0/lr=BCBCBCBC/all-GPR-zero (correct initial state).

Tests 636→640 (+2 TLS tests, +2 funcptr_arrays tests). Schema golden
updated for new tables + has_eh column. Lockstep determinism preserved
(instructions=2000005 ×2 reruns identical).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 22:29:35 +02:00
MechaCat02
690943ceef gate dump-section reads on is_mapped; trim doc comments
Without the page-state guard, read_bulk faulted on PROT_NONE pages of
the 4 GiB host reservation. Per-page is_mapped check skips uncommitted
pages, leaving the buffer's leading zero bytes in place. Total LOC
budget after trim: 70.
2026-05-07 21:45:54 +02:00
MechaCat02
08d41cf2fc add --dump-section=BASE:LEN:PATH for end-of-run guest memory snapshot
Drives byte-level memory diffs against canary's Memory::Save dump.
Hot-path zero-cost when absent; lockstep digest unaffected
(instructions=100000003 deterministic across reruns).
2026-05-07 21:40:45 +02:00
MechaCat02
c03f2bc9e2 fix(kernel): ensure_dispatcher_object writes XObj signature + handle (canary mirror)
Mirrors canary's `XObject::StashHandle` (xobject.h:253-256): on first
adoption of a guest dispatcher header, stamp +0x08 with the
kXObjSignature fourcc 'X','E','N','\0' and +0x0C with the stash handle
(here the guest pointer itself, since our shadow table is keyed by ptr).

Audit-023/024A documented divergence at addresses such as 0x828F4838
where canary stores "XEN\0" + handle but we left zeros. Lands as
canary-correctness restoration; cascade impact at -n 500M is nil per
the discipline gate (no sharp prediction tied to the writeback).

Lockstep determinism preserved: instructions=100000003,
imports=987516, swaps=2, draws=0 across 2 reruns.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-07 21:06:25 +02:00
MechaCat02
76dfe7fd7a fix(kernel): KRNBUG-KE-001 — real KeResumeThread per canary mirror
Replace the no-op cookie-returner with a real impl per canary
xenia-canary/src/xenia/kernel/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc:216-227
(XObject::GetNativeObject<XThread>()->Resume()). Mirrors
nt_resume_thread plumbing two functions below:
resolve_pseudo_handle -> scheduler.find_by_handle -> resume_ref.

Returns STATUS_SUCCESS if the KTHREAD-pointer-as-handle resolves,
STATUS_INVALID_HANDLE otherwise — matches canary's Resume()/!thread
return semantics.

Cascade-prediction scorecard (audit-018 -> post-fix):
- A PASS: tids 9 (entry=0x824D2878) and 10 (entry=0x824D2940)
  leave Suspended -> run prologue -> park on audio buffer-completion
  semaphores 0x828A3254 / 0x828A3230.
- B PARTIAL FAIL: NtSetEvent 667->3334; KeReleaseSemaphore=0;
  XAudioSubmitRenderDriverFrame=0.
- C FAIL (predicted 2->1, actual 2->2): both ExTerminateThread +
  KeReleaseSemaphore still canary-only.
- D FAIL: gamma-cluster blocker unchanged — pc-probe at
  0x82184318/0x82184374 no fires; dump-addr 0x828F4070 no DUMP;
  signal_attempts on 0x1004/0x100c/0x1020/0x15e4 still 0.

Necessary-but-not-sufficient: workers unsuspend but park on a
downstream gate that's part of the audit-009/-016/-017 gamma cluster.

Tests 600 -> 601 (+ke_resume_thread_unblocks_suspended_worker).
Lockstep instructions=100000003 imports=987516 deterministic x2.
Goldens re-baselined: sylpheed_n50m.json instructions
50000003->50000011, imports 407255->407247.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-06 20:46:46 +02:00
MechaCat02
5d2401f9c5 fix(xam): XamUserGetSigninState returns SignedInLocally=1 for user 0
Mirrors canary xam_user.cc:90-101. User 0 returns 1 (SignedInLocally),
all other indices return 0. Replaces stub_return_zero registration that
was reaching guest-side branches looking up signin state.

Tests: 599 -> 600.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-06 20:08:13 +02:00
MechaCat02
b78e6fd205 fix(kernel): KRNBUG-IO-004 — real XamNotifyCreateListener + XNotifyGetNext per canary
Canary's RegisterNotifyListener (kernel_state.cc:1013-1033) auto-enqueues four
startup notifications on the first listener whose mask covers kXNotifySystem
(SystemUI=0x09 + SystemSignInChanged=0x0A) and kXNotifyLive
(LiveConnectionChanged=0x02000001 + LiveLinkStateChanged=0x02000003). XNotifyGetNext
(xam_notify.cc:22-96) pops the queue with mask + version filtering on enqueue per
xnotifylistener.cc:38-51. Our prior stubs returned 0 forever; the dispatch loop
at 0x822f1be8 in sub_822F1AA8 was thus bypassed indefinitely.

Implementation:
- KernelObject::NotifyListener { mask, max_version, queue, waiters } variant.
- KernelState::has_notified_startup + has_notified_live_startup gates.
- xam_notify_create_listener: mask=r3 (qword), max_version=r4 (clamped <=10),
  alloc handle, conditional 4-tuple startup enqueue.
- xnotify_get_next: handle/match_id/id_ptr/param_ptr in r3..r6; pop_front
  (or scan-by-id), with mask + version filter applied at enqueue time.
- 5 unit tests covering: full-mask 4 startup notifications, second-listener
  no re-fire, system-only mask filtering, max_version=0 too-new drop,
  unknown handle returning 0.

Tests: 594 -> 599. Lockstep `-n 100M` instructions=100000012 deterministic
across 2 reruns; bit-identical run-to-run diff.

Cascade (verified at -n 500M):
- dispatch arm 0x822f1be8 fires; sub_82173DC8 entered.
- 3/21 renderer-cluster L1 PCs newly reached: 0x822c6870 (2 workers),
  0x824563e0, 0x823ddb50.
- canary-only export delta 7 -> 3 (reclassified to fired:
  KeResetEvent, ObCreateSymbolicLink, XamTaskCloseHandle, XamTaskSchedule).
- worker thread count 18 -> 20.
- signal_attempts on handle 0x15e0 = 1 (primary=1), was 0.
- draws=0 still expected at this step.

LOC: 119 (97 impl + 22 scaffolding pattern matches across main.rs / objects.rs
/ state.rs) <= 120.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-06 16:55:51 +02:00
MechaCat02
a1a7265f29 fix(kernel): KRNBUG-IO-003 — NtDeviceIoControlFile real impl mirroring NullDevice::IoControl
Replace the stub_success registration of NtDeviceIoControlFile at
exports.rs:90 with a real handler for FsCtlCodes 0x70000 (drive
geometry) and 0x74004 (partition info), mirroring xenia-canary
xboxkrnl_io.cc:645-678 + null_device.{h,cc}. The 16-byte 0x74004
response with cache_size=0xFF000 at OUT+8 is the gate that lets
sub_824ABD88 return SUCCESS and sub_824A9710 reach the priv-11
XexCheckExecutablePrivilege site identified by KRNBUG-AUDIT-007.

Stack args 9-10 (OutputBuffer, OutputBufferLength) read from the
caller's parameter save area at [sp+0x54] / [sp+0x5C] per the Xbox
360 PowerPC EABI (linkage area sp+0..sp+8, 8-quadword spill area
sp+0x14..sp+0x54, then stack args every 8 bytes). First HLE export
in the codebase to need 9+ args.

Cascade vs. KRNBUG-AUDIT-007 prediction (5/8 held):
- XexCheckExecutablePrivilege count 1 → 2 (priv=0xA + priv=0xB) ✓
- XamTaskSchedule count 0 → 1 ✓
- canary-only exports 7 → 3 (audit predicted ≤3) ✓
- 0x15e0 semaphore signal_attempts 0 → 1 (bonus)
- 0x100c worker spawn DID NOT fire (still UNCREATED) ✗
- 0x1004 signal_attempts unchanged ✗
- Worker spawn count unchanged at 19 ✗

Tests: 592 → 594. Lockstep deterministic at -n 100M (run1 ≡ run2 ≡
run3, byte-identical). instructions=100000010 → 100000019, imports
407417 → 987524 (+2.4×). swaps=2 draws=0 plateau persists.

sylpheed_n50m golden re-baselined instructions=50000004→50000003,
imports=407362→407255. sylpheed_n2m unchanged.

Still canary-only after this fix: ExTerminateThread,
KeReleaseSemaphore, XamUserReadProfileSettings. The next downstream
gate is somewhere past XamTaskSchedule's completion path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 22:00:12 +02:00
MechaCat02
c51f51f9cb feat(kernel): KRNBUG-AUDIT-007 — --branch-probe instrumentation; sub_824A9710 exit gate identified
Sister to --pc-probe / --ctor-probe but emits a single compact one-line
BRANCH-PROBE record per fire (pc, tid, hw, cycle, r3, lr, cr0/cr6 flags)
with no back-chain. Designed for tracing every conditional-branch fire
inside a candidate-gate function so the last PC reached before the
function epilogue identifies the exit branch.

Runtime trace at audit-runs/audit-007/sub_824A9710-trace.log decisively
identifies the priv-11 gate:

- Exit branch: 0x824a9944 (post bl sub_824ABD88 first call)
- Responsible kernel call: NtDeviceIoControlFile, FsCtlCode=0x74004
  (registered as stub_success at exports.rs:90)
- Mechanical chain: stub returns 0/SUCCESS without writing OUT, game
  reads [out_buf+8], finds zero, assigns hardcoded 0xC0000034
  (STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND) at sub_824ABD88:0x824abea8-ac, exits
  via 0x824a9944's lt branch before priv-11 site at 0x824a99a0.

592→592 tests; lockstep instructions=100000010, swaps=2, draws=0
deterministic across reruns. Read-only diagnostic — no fix this session.
Next session: KRNBUG-IO-003 (real NtDeviceIoControlFile per canary
NullDevice::IoControl for FsCtlCodes 0x70000 + 0x74004).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 21:35:10 +02:00
MechaCat02
7675035082 fix(kernel): KRNBUG-IO-002 — vol-info class-3 returns 0x10000 alloc unit (canary NullDevice)
`nt_query_volume_information_file` class-3 (`FileFsSizeInformation`)
was returning sectors_per_unit=1, bytes_per_sector=2048 (alloc unit
2048). Replaced with canary's NullDevice byte-identical values
sectors=0x80, bps=0x200 (alloc unit 0x10000), with total /
available allocation units lowered to 0x10 / 0x10 to match.

Reference: xenia-canary/src/xenia/vfs/devices/null_device.h:38-46
(`NullDevice::sectors_per_allocation_unit()` and
`bytes_per_sector()`); consumed by canary's
`NtQueryVolumeInformationFile_entry` at
xenia-canary/src/xenia/kernel/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_io_info.cc:355-365.

Tests 591 → 592 (added
`nt_query_volume_information_file_class3_returns_64k_alloc_unit`).
Lockstep `instructions=100000010, swaps=2, draws=0` deterministic
across two `--stable-digest -n 100M` reruns. sylpheed_n50m oracle
still matches its existing golden — observably a no-op at -n 50M.

The audit-006-predicted 7→0 cascade did NOT fire (canary-only
exports still 7, identical set; XexCheckExecutablePrivilege still
priv=0xA only; XamTaskSchedule still 0). All 16
NtQueryVolumeInformationFile calls in our 500M trace originate
from a single LR 0x82611f38 and complete successfully — vol-info
is therefore not the priv-11 gate. The fix value is correct
(canary-byte-identical) but is not load-bearing for the gate;
landing it anyway because it's the right value and unblocks no
regression. Stop condition triggered per the IO-002 task brief —
no second fix this session.

Next-session: --pc-probe on sub_824A9710 entry to find the actual
upstream gate. See `audit-findings.md` (KRNBUG-IO-002 entry) and
`audit-runs/post-IO-002/` for the full diagnostic trail.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 21:01:25 +02:00
MechaCat02
bef9793aec feat(kernel): KRNBUG-IO-001 — NtReadFile on synth-empty file returns SUCCESS+0, not EOF
AUDIT-005's static attribution to sub_824ABA98 was wrong. The 0xC0000011
(STATUS_END_OF_FILE) at lr=0x824a97e4 traces to the NtReadFile call at
0x824a9810 inside sub_824A9710 — the cache-loader reads 1024 B from
offset 2048 of `\Device\Harddisk0\partition0`. Our synth-empty fallback
returned EOF (start_pos 2048 > size 0), so the function bailed via
RtlNtStatusToDosError before sub_824ABA98 was ever called.

Canary mounts partition0 to a NullDevice; `NullFile::ReadSync`
([null_file.cc:24-31](xenia-canary/src/xenia/vfs/devices/null_file.cc))
returns X_STATUS_SUCCESS with bytes_read=0 and never touches the
buffer. Sylpheed's caller pre-zeroes the 1024-byte stack buffer
(`memset(sp+208, 0, 1024)` at sub_824A9710 prologue), validates a
"Josh" magic on the first read, and falls back to the cache-recreate
path when the magic doesn't match.

The fix mirrors NullFile semantics: when the open synthesized a
zero-length file (`data.is_empty() && size == 0`), NtReadFile returns
SUCCESS with information=0 and the buffer untouched.

Effects (chain-of-effects verification at -n 500M):
  - tests: 590 → 591 (added regression covering NullDevice semantics)
  - lockstep: deterministic across 3 reruns (same instructions=100000010,
    swaps=2)
  - sylpheed_n50m golden re-baselined: instructions 50000004→50000000,
    imports 407416→407362
  - canary kernel-call diff: 10 → 7 missing exports
    (XeCryptSha + XeKeysConsolePrivateKeySign + NtDeviceIoControlFile
    now run; the cache-recreate path executes through to NtWriteFile)
  - boot reaches silph::Silph::Impl::OnInit: 19 worker threads spawn
    (was 6 before the fix)
  - parked-handle 0x1004 still signal_attempts=0; the original 0x100c
    and 0x15e0 are now <UNCREATED> because cascade walked past them and
    the handle assignments shifted; new parked sites: 0x12fc/0x1600/
    0x1040/0x10b8/0x15e8/0x1014/0x101c/0x10bc/0x1044
  - draws=0 plateau persists; renderer is multi-causal blocked

Next blocker: per the canary-only diff, XamTaskSchedule + the cluster
of XAM exports (XamTaskCloseHandle, XamUserReadProfileSettings,
ObCreateSymbolicLink) and the post-thread-exit chain (ExTerminateThread,
KeReleaseSemaphore, KeResetEvent) are the next-up frontier.
2026-05-04 20:20:10 +02:00
MechaCat02
19659d7f76 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-XAM-001 — XGetAVPack returns 8 (HDMI), not 0x16
Mirrors canary's cvars::avpack default (xam_info.cc:35) and Sylpheed's
accepted set {3,4,6,8} (xam_info.cc:250-251). With KRNBUG-XEX-001 having
flipped the priv-10 gate, XGetAVPack now reaches its caller in
sub_824AB578; returning 0x16 caused Sylpheed to abort the AV/crypto
block before XeCryptSha. Cascade walks one step (canary-only export
list 11 → 10); sub_824ABA98 is the next candidate.

Tests: 589 → 590. Goldens re-baselined (n50m: 50000005→50000004,
imports 407417→407416). Lockstep deterministic across 3 reruns at
-n 100M (instructions=100000010, import_calls=987686 +2.4×, swaps=2).
9-PC producer probe still 0×; parked handles 0x1004/0x100c/0x15e0
still signal_attempts=0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 18:54:24 +02:00
MechaCat02
1a892d4641 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-XEX-001 — real XexCheckExecutablePrivilege from XEX header bitmap
Replace stub_return_zero with a canary-faithful implementation that
returns bit `priv` of the loaded XEX's XEX_HEADER_SYSTEM_FLAGS
(key 0x00030000) bitmap. Mirrors xenia-canary
xboxkrnl_modules.cc:22-39: `(flags >> priv) & 1` for priv < 32, else 0.

Plumbing:
- xenia-xex: header_keys::SYSTEM_FLAGS const + get_system_flags() accessor.
- xenia-kernel/state.rs: pub xex_system_flags: u32 + xex_priv_logged
  HashSet for one-shot per-priv tracing.
- xenia-app: kernel.xex_system_flags wired in cmd_exec_inner.
- xenia-kernel/exports.rs: real export body + unit test covering
  bits 10/11/0/64 + zero-flags case.

Sylpheed's bitmap is 0x00000400 (only XEX_SYSTEM_PAL50_INCOMPATIBLE,
bit 10). At -n 500M with the fix:
- XGetAVPack: 0 -> 1 (priv-10 gate at lr=0x824ab598 flipped).
- 10 other canary-only exports + 9 producer PCs + 3 parked handles
  unchanged. Priv-11 site at sub_824A9710 is downstream and still
  not reached — AV/crypto block aborts after XGetAVPack returns
  our placeholder 0x16 (canary returns 8/HDMI; Sylpheed accepts
  only 3/4/6/8 per xenia-canary xam_info.cc:250-251).

Tests 588 -> 589. Lockstep deterministic (3 reruns identical):
n50m goes 50000008 -> 50000005 instr / 407415 -> 407417 imp / swaps=2 /
draws=0. Goldens re-baselined (sylpheed_n50m, sylpheed_n2m); oracle
test green.

Full chain-of-effects + next-frontier hand-off in audit-findings.md
under KRNBUG-XEX-001.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 18:32:51 +02:00
MechaCat02
3e2fc1ec88 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-AUDIT-005 — --pc-probe extension + canary diff identifies XexCheckExecutablePrivilege stub cascade
Extends `--ctor-probe` machinery into `--pc-probe` (clap alias) with
the optional `PC@DISPATCHER:OFFSET` token form: on a hit, the helper
additionally logs `[disp+off]` — what the producer's
`lwz r3, OFFSET(r3)` is about to read. Reuses `parse_hex_u32`; both
flags share parser + storage.

Read-only diagnostic. Lockstep digest preserved (`run digest matches
golden` at -n 50M `--stable-digest`). 588 tests green.

Decisive findings (full deliverable in `audit-findings.md` /
`audit-runs/audit-005/`):

- Failure mode α confirmed for KRNBUG-AUDIT-004: all 9 producer call
  sites for handles 0x100c (5 sites) and 0x15e0 (4 sites) fire 0x at
  -n 500M. The producer code path is not reached.

- Set-diff of kernel-call sequences (canary.log oracle vs ours.log
  at -n 500M) identifies 11 exports canary calls and we don't:
  XGetAVPack, XeCryptSha, XeKeysConsolePrivateKeySign,
  ObCreateSymbolicLink, NtDeviceIoControlFile (×2),
  XamUserReadProfileSettings (×2), XamTaskSchedule, XamTaskCloseHandle,
  KeReleaseSemaphore (×268), KeResetEvent, ExTerminateThread (×2).

- XGetAVPack has exactly one caller (sub_824AB578 at 0x824AB5A0).
  The 4 instructions immediately preceding it are:
      addi r3, r0, 10            ; privilege bit 10
      bl   XexCheckExecutablePrivilege
      cmpli 0, r3, 0
      bc 12, eq, 0x824AB724      ; if r3==0, skip whole block

- exports.rs:193 registers XexCheckExecutablePrivilege as
  stub_return_zero. Always returning 0 -> guest takes the branch
  and skips the entire AV/crypto/save-data init block.

- The other call site (sub_824A9710 at 0x824A99A0) queries privilege
  11 with opposite polarity (bne) -> gates XamTaskSchedule on the
  privilege-NOT-set arm. With both stubs returning 0, the guest
  walks the wrong arm of every privilege-gated branch.

- This explains why the dispatcher fields read zero
  ([0x828F3D08+0x50]=0, [0x828F4070+0x24]=0 from AUDIT-004 dumps):
  the ctors run, but the producers that would populate those fields
  with a non-zero handle never execute.

Next session: replace XexCheckExecutablePrivilege stub with real
priv-bit lookup from XEX header. See audit-findings.md
KRNBUG-AUDIT-005 for the validation matrix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 18:06:22 +02:00
MechaCat02
7108d6d131 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-AUDIT-004 — --ctor-probe PC hook + --dump-addr struct dump
Diagnostic-only, read-only. Lockstep `instructions=100000002`
preserved bit-exact at -n 100M --stable-digest. 586 → 588 tests.

Adds two read-only diagnostics for the parked-waiter producer hunt:

  * `--ctor-probe=0x8217C850,0x...` — at every interpreter step,
    if `ctx.pc` is in the configured set, print one `CTOR-PROBE`
    line capturing live r3 (= `this` in MSVC PPC ctors), lr
    (= return site), sp, plus an 8-frame back-chain with
    saved-r31/r30 per frame. Fires once per hit, exactly what the
    8-instance-pool probe needed.

  * `--dump-addr=0x828F3D08,0x828F4070,0x828F3EC0,...` — at end of
    run (after the FOCUS report in `dump_thread_diagnostic`), each
    address gets a 128-byte hex + be32 + ASCII dump. Used to
    inspect the static dispatcher / job-queue struct layouts
    AUDIT-003 identified.

Both gated default-off; empty set is a single `is_empty()` test on
the hot path. No guest state is mutated, so the
`sylpheed_n*m.json` lockstep digest is preserved.

KRNBUG-AUDIT-004 findings (corrects KRNBUG-AUDIT-002/003):

1. **The "8-instance pool" hypothesis for handle 0x1004 is FALSE.**
   Probing the inner per-instance ctors `[0x821783D8, 0x82181750,
   0x821701C8]` at -n 50M shows each fires EXACTLY ONCE with
   r3 = `[0x828F3EC0, 0x828F3D08, 0x828F4070]` respectively. All
   three handles are Meyers-style singletons with one dispatcher
   each. The "called 8 times" claim came from miscounting raw
   entries to the OUTER getter sub_8217C850 — but that getter is
   itself a Meyers-singleton-getter; only the FIRST entry cascades
   through to bl 0x821783D8 (gated on `[0x828F48D8] bit 0`).

2. **The producer indirection layer is the singleton-getter
   itself.** Static byte-scan of .rdata / .data shows 0 hits for
   the dispatcher addresses — no static registry table holds them.
   But the xrefs table for the OUTER getters reveals 5–6 callers
   each, MOSTLY non-create-chain, sharing the canonical producer
   pattern: `bl outer_singleton_getter; lwz r3, OFFSET(r3); bl
   0x824AA1D8` (with OFFSET=80 for 0x100c, =36 for 0x15e0). So the
   AUDIT-003 xref audit was necessary but not sufficient — it
   correctly saw "no direct producer references" but missed the
   singleton-getter indirection layer.

3. **Dispatcher struct layouts** (128-byte dumps captured at -n
   50M --halt-on-deadlock):
     - 0x828F3D08 (handle 0x100c): event_handle at +0x4C (0x100c),
       thread_handle at +0x48 (0x1010), self-pointer at +0x74,
       capacity 7 at +0x28, queue empty (+0/+3C = -1).
     - 0x828F4070 (handle 0x15e0): event_handle at +0x20 (0x15e0),
       sibling-handle 0x15E4 at +0x1C, queue empty (+0x10 = -1).
     - 0x828F3EC0 (handle 0x1004): event_handle at +0x78 (0x1004),
       4 guest-heap sub-buffers at +0x20/+0x3C/+0x44/+0x50 in
       0x4xxxxxxx range — noticeably different layout from the
       other two pure POD job queues.

Files:
  crates/xenia-kernel/src/state.rs   ctor_probe_pcs / dump_addrs +
                                     fire_ctor_probe_if_match + 2 tests
  crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs       Exec --ctor-probe / --dump-addr
                                     CLI parsing, prologue hook,
                                     end-of-run struct dumper
  audit-findings.md                  KRNBUG-AUDIT-004 entry
  audit-runs/audit-004/              50M probe runs (v1 outer-getter
                                     hits, v2 inner-ctor hits proving
                                     the singleton hypothesis)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-04 17:09:47 +02:00
MechaCat02
f84e947547 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-AUDIT-003 — vtable/RTTI class probe at handle creation + wait
Adds a read-only MSVC RTTI traversal helper (`read_class_at_this`)
and a `probe_create_stack_classes` integration that walks each
captured back-chain frame for handle creates in `--trace-handles-focus`
and probes each frame's most-likely `this` candidate (live r31/r30/r3
for frame 0; saved-r31/r30 from the prologue spill area at [fp-12]/
[fp-16] for deeper frames). False-positive guard rejects the CRT
static-init iterator pattern (vtable's first two slots must be image-
range function pointers — PPC instruction words like `mflr r12` are
not in 0x82xxxxxx).

`dump_thread_diagnostic` now takes `&GuestMemory` so the FOCUS report
prints, for each parked waiter, a WAIT-THREAD block with full back-
chain frames and per-slot saved-register dump for offline lookup.

End-to-end finding (-n 500M producer-trace):
  * Handle 0x100c dispatcher = 0x828F3D08 (image rdata; verified by
    sub_82181750 disasm + xref table). [this+0] = -1 sentinel — POD
    job queue, NOT a C++ polymorphic class.
  * Handle 0x15e0 dispatcher = 0x828F4070 (same shape).
  * Handle 0x1004's 8-instance pool members still TBD (MSVC ctors
    didn't preserve `this` in r31).
  * 0x42450b5c is a separate audit class (heap-allocated, parks via
    non-`do_wait_single` path).

Decisive xref audit: every reference to 0x828F3D08 / 0x828F4070 in
the static analysis is in a ctor or the CRT init driver. NO producer
code references either dispatcher base. Confirms `signal_attempts=0`
is unreachable-producer, not broken-producer.

Tests: 581 → 586 green (+5: RTTI-intact / RTTI-stripped / non-object
/ cstring / probe_create_stack integration). `--stable-digest -n
100M` instructions=100000002 unchanged. Master HEAD prior: 6440261.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 21:14:56 +02:00
MechaCat02
2a9fd1fc86 feat(kernel): KRNBUG-AUDIT-002 — multi-frame guest stack capture at handle creation
Adds `walk_guest_back_chain` (PPC EABI back-chain walker) and a
`record_create_with_stack` audit hook gated on `--trace-handles-focus`.
NtCreateEvent / NtCreateSemaphore / NtCreateTimer / XamTaskSchedule now
route through the new helper so focused handles capture up to 6 stack
frames at allocation time. Diagnostic-only, read-only memory access:
unfocused handles pay one HashSet lookup, focused ones pay six
back-chain dereferences. Lockstep determinism preserved.

End-to-end finding: handles 0x1004 (8-instance pool via static ctor at
0x8280F810), 0x100c (singleton built inside main()), 0x15e0 (singleton
in distinct cluster) are silph-framework dispatcher objects whose
producer code is unreached at -n 500M. The producer hunt now has class
ownership; vtable/RTTI readout is the next step.

Tests: 576 → 581 green. `--stable-digest -n 100M` instructions=100000002
unchanged. Master HEAD prior: 9d45efe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 20:41:06 +02:00
MechaCat02
07068e7616 feat(audio): APUBUG-PRODUCER-001 — XAudio register driver client + opt-in callback ticker
Replace the three XAudio kernel-export stubs (Register/Unregister/SubmitFrame)
with canary-faithful implementations and add a periodic buffer-complete
callback ticker reusing the existing SavedCallbackCtx injection machinery.

Canary parity:
- xboxkrnl_audio.cc:56-93 — read callback_ptr[0..1], wrap callback_arg in a
  4-byte big-endian guest heap buffer (`wrapped_callback_arg`), write
  `0x4155_xxxx` to *driver_ptr.
- audio_system.cc:139-141 — guest callback receives r3 = wrapped pointer,
  not raw callback_arg.
- audio_driver.h:21-24 — frame rate 256 samples / 48 kHz ≈ 5.33 ms.

Implementation:
- New `crates/xenia-kernel/src/xaudio.rs` — `XAudioClient`, `XAudioState`
  (8-slot table, pending FIFO, dual-mode ticker), `XAUDIO_INSTR_PERIOD =
  48_000` (lockstep) and `XAUDIO_PERIOD = 5.333 ms` (--parallel), same
  pattern as KRNBUG-D08 v-sync.
- `try_inject_audio_callback` in xenia-app mirrors `try_inject_graphics_interrupt`,
  shares `interrupts.saved` slot for mutex with graphics callbacks.

Gating: ticker + injector run only when `--xaudio-tick` /
`XENIA_XAUDIO_TICK=1`. Default off because Sylpheed's audio callback
enters an infinite `KeWaitForSingleObject` loop on first invocation
(canary's host worker thread provides the buffer-completion fence we
don't model), which hijacks a guest HW thread and regresses
`swaps=2 → 1`. Default-off preserves the lockstep `sylpheed_n*m.json`
goldens exactly.

Producer hunt outcome (FALSIFIED for parked handles 0x1004/0x100c/0x15e4):
at `-n 500M --xaudio-tick` all 3 handles still show
`signal_attempts=0 (primary=0, ghost=0)`. Audio callback is not the
missing producer. Next candidate per audit-findings.md is Timer DPC
delivery (KeSetTimer / KeInsertQueueDpc).

Tests: 562 → 576 green (10 in `xaudio.rs`, 4 in `exports.rs`).
Lockstep `--stable-digest -n 100M` default-off: instructions=100000002,
swaps=2 (matches pre-change baseline byte-for-byte).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 19:50:22 +02:00
MechaCat02
691404e36e fix(xam): XAMBUG-PRODUCER-001 — XamTaskSchedule spawns a real guest thread
Replaces the no-op stub at xam.rs:204 with a canary-faithful
implementation mirroring xenia-canary/src/xenia/kernel/xam/xam_task.cc:43-80.
Allocates a ThreadImage, allocates a KernelObject::Thread handle, and
routes through Scheduler::spawn with entry=callback and
start_context=message_ptr (canary's third positional XThread ctor arg).
Stack size = max(0x4000, page-aligned 0x10_0000).

Producer-hypothesis outcome (500M --trace-handles-focus run): the call
site at 0x824a9a10 is never reached during this boot horizon, so
XamTaskSchedule cannot be the missing producer for the 3 parked
Event/Manual handles (0x1004, 0x100c, 0x15e4). The fix still lands —
the stub was a real correctness bug that would manifest the moment
the boot advances past the current deadlock. Next candidate per
audit-findings.md: XAudioRegisterRenderDriverClient.

- Workspace tests: 561 → 562 green (new test
  xam::tests::xam_task_schedule_spawns_real_thread).
- --stable-digest -n 100M: instructions=100000002 unchanged from
  baseline; lockstep determinism preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 18:32:40 +02:00
MechaCat02
27d3608174 fix(kernel): KRNBUG-D08 — wall-clock v-sync under --parallel
The synthetic v-sync ticker used a per-instruction proxy
(VSYNC_INSTR_PERIOD = 150 k) tuned for ~10 MIPS lockstep
throughput → 60 Hz. Audit M11 observed this drifts under
`--parallel`: with 6 worker threads sharing the kernel mutex,
the dispatcher executes more PPC instructions per tick
callback, so the accumulator never crosses 150 k. Result:
~629 v-syncs/100M lockstep → ~2 v-syncs/100M --parallel.

Hybrid solution preserves lockstep determinism (which the
goldens depend on) while fixing --parallel:

* `tick_vsync_instr(instr_count)` — legacy instruction-count
  ticker, used by lockstep. Bit-stable across runs.

* `tick_vsync_wallclock()` — new Instant-based ticker. Fires
  `floor(elapsed / VSYNC_PERIOD)` v-syncs since the anchor
  and advances the anchor by that many full periods (no
  lazy backlog). Capped at INTERRUPT_QUEUE_CAP per call so a
  forward-jumping clock can't overflow the FIFO.

* `KernelState.parallel_active` flag set at startup from
  `--parallel` / `XENIA_PARALLEL=1`. Read by `coord_pre_round`
  in main.rs to choose between the two tickers.

Verification:

* cargo test --workspace --release: 561 passing (+3 new
  wall-clock tests vs prior 558 baseline).
* lockstep -n 100M --stable-digest: BIT-IDENTICAL to
  pre-Phase-3 baseline. interrupts_delivered preserved at
  ~630 (was ~629 pre-fix).
* --parallel --reservations-table -n 30M: interrupts_delivered
  rose from ~2 to 17. (FIFO INTERRUPT_QUEUE_CAP=4 still caps
  burst delivery; that's a separate bottleneck — addressed
  by raising cap when --parallel queue depth becomes the
  next blocker.)

Trade-off: --parallel runs are non-deterministic at the
v-sync rate by design (per audit M05 PPCBUG-703 already).
Lockstep stays bit-identical, so the `sylpheed_n*m.json`
goldens are untouched.

Audit IDs: KRNBUG-D08 (closed).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 17:34:30 +02:00