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>
Adds a one-run diagnostic that distinguishes "guest never called
Nt/KeSetEvent on this handle" from "signal landed but waiter wasn't
woken", for any handle named via `--trace-handles-focus`.
Parked-waiter context (project_xenia_rs_sylpheed_stage3_2026_04_29):
four worker threads block Sylpheed past `draws=0` on handles
0x1004 / 0x100c / 0x15e4 / 0x42450b5c (mr=true, sig=false). The
pre-existing audit dropped signal-attempts that targeted handles
without a primary trail, so we couldn't tell whether the producer
was unreachable in the guest or whether the signal landed but missed
its waiter.
Three changes:
* audit.rs: `HandleAudit` gains `focus: HashSet<u32>` and
`ghost_trails: HashMap<u32, GhostTrail>`. `record_signal`
auto-falls-through to a new `record_signal_attempt_ghost` when no
primary trail exists AND the handle is in `focus`. Bounded by
AUDIT_RING_CAPACITY per handle. Two new tests cover the focus
ghost-trail and no-double-record invariants.
* main.rs: new `--trace-handles-focus=<LIST>` flag (hex 0x or decimal,
comma-separated) populates `kernel.audit.focus`. Implies
`--trace-handles`. New "=== Handle audit (focus) ===" section in
`dump_thread_diagnostic` emits per-handle:
- signal_attempts (primary + ghost), waits, wakes
- merged cycle-sorted timeline (last 16)
- GuestExport / KernelInternal classification
- <AUDIT_BLIND> marker when waiter_count > 0 but the audit
saw no waits (i.e. waiter parked via a non-audit path —
CS / spinlock / DPC).
- DIAGNOSIS conclusion that selects between five branches.
* `cmd_check` passes None for focus → goldens unaffected.
Empirical run output at -n 500M lockstep with
`--trace-handles-focus=0x1004,0x100c,0x15e4,0x42450b5c`:
handle=0x00001004 kind=Event/Manual waiters=1 signaled=false
signal_attempts=0 (primary=0, ghost=0)
waits=1 wakes=0
created cycle=0 tid=1 lr=0x824a9f6c src=NtCreateEvent
=> producer is a missing kernel signal source
(or BST-paradox upstream)
... (same shape for 0x100c, 0x15e4)
handle=0x42450b5c kind=<UNCREATED> waiters=1 signal_attempts=0
waits=0 wakes=0 <AUDIT_BLIND>
=> waiter parked via non-audited path
Conclusion: hypothesis (A) confirmed for all 4 handles. Producer is
NOT a wake/eligibility bug — it is a genuinely missing kernel signal
source. The 3 Event/Manual handles share a creator
(lr=0x824a9f6c, tid=1) and the same wait-call wrapper at
lr=0x824ac578 — these are 3 worker threads all parked on
"work-available" notifications that never come.
Verification:
* cargo test --workspace --release: 558 passing (+2 new ghost-trail
tests vs prior 556 baseline)
* lockstep -n 100M --stable-digest: bit-identical to master HEAD
Audit IDs: KRNBUG-AUDIT-001 (closed — diagnostic instrumentation).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a regression-catcher golden for Sylpheed boot at -n 50M lockstep,
covering the first VdSwap pair (the n2m oracle is swap-blind because
the first VdSwap fires at ~18M instructions). The new --stable-digest
flag emits/compares only fields that are deterministic in lockstep:
instructions, imports, unimpl, draws, swaps,
unique_render_targets, shader_blobs_live, texture_cache_entries
Excluded:
packets — empirically ±2-8% lockstep variance (GPU thread race per
audit M11)
resolves, interrupts_delivered, interrupts_dropped, texture_decodes —
scheduling-sensitive under --parallel
path — cwd-dependent
Empirical determinism: 3 consecutive lockstep -n 50M runs produce
byte-identical stable-digest output.
The n4b canonical-invocation golden the audit's recommended next sprint
also called for is deferred. Per audit memory `--parallel
--reservations-table` is pathologically slow (>32 min for -n 100M), so
-n 4B in that mode would be many hours per run, not the 5-15 min the
plan estimated. n4b will be captured one-shot post-renderer-unblock as
a manual artifact under audit-runs/post-fix/, not as a test golden. See
crates/xenia-app/tests/golden/README.md.
Test infrastructure:
- crates/xenia-app/tests/sylpheed_oracles.rs — invokes
CARGO_BIN_EXE_xenia-rs against the ISO. Path resolved via SYLPHEED_ISO
env var (skips gracefully if missing).
- #[ignore]-gated; run via:
cargo test --release -p xenia-app --test sylpheed_oracles \\
-- --ignored --nocapture
Closes ORACBUG-004 (P0). Partial: ORACBUG-006 (P1 deferred).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
observability.rs installs the tracing subscriber stack (env-filter +
JSON file appender + chrome trace + error layer) and the metrics
recorder shared by the workspace. main.rs grows the new CLI surface:
--parallel, --reservations-table, --trace-handles, --analyze=
{rust,sql,both}, xenia dis --json, --ui, plus the wiring that runs
the CPU through the new scheduler, drives the GPU's threaded backend,
and surfaces the framebuffer + HUD via xenia-ui.
Add tests/parallel_stress.rs (#[ignore]-gated long form, short form
runs 20×@5M) and tests/golden/sylpheed_n2m.json — the digest the
lockstep/parallel combos compare against.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rust reimplementation of the xenia Xbox 360 emulator targeting reverse-
engineering and preservation, initially scoped to Project Sylpheed.
Includes:
- XEX2 loader (LZX decompression, AES decryption, PE parsing)
- XISO / XGD2 disc image VFS
- PPC interpreter with 200+ opcodes and VMX128 decoding
- Static analyzer: functions, cross-references, labels, asm + SQLite output
- HLE kernel covering the xboxkrnl/xam subset used by Sylpheed init
- Debugger with in-memory and SQLite-backed execution tracing
- `xenia-rs` CLI with extract/dis/exec commands that produce cumulative,
superset SQLite databases and opt-in instruction/import/branch traces
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
