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>
Volume-info class-3 alloc unit 2048 → 0x10000 (canary NullDevice
byte-identical). Tests 591 → 592, lockstep deterministic.
Audit-006-predicted 7→0 cascade FALSIFIED (7→7, no movement).
Vol-info is not the priv-11 gate. See KRNBUG-IO-002 entry in
audit-findings.md for the full diagnostic and next-session leads.
`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>
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.
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>
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>
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>
vtable/RTTI class probe at handle creation + wait. Read-only
diagnostic; lockstep determinism preserved.
Tests 581 → 586 green. --stable-digest -n 100M instructions=100000002.
Identifies handle 0x100c dispatcher at 0x828F3D08 and handle 0x15e0
dispatcher at 0x828F4070 — both POD job queues, not C++ classes
(`[this+0]=-1` sentinel, no vtable). Decisive xref audit shows every
reference to either base is in a ctor or the CRT — NO producer code
exists in static analysis. Producer hunt deliverable: confirms
unreachable-producer, not broken-producer.
Master HEAD prior: 6440261.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Multi-frame back-chain capture at NtCreateEvent / NtCreateSemaphore /
NtCreateTimer / XamTaskSchedule, gated on --trace-handles-focus. Read-
only diagnostic; lockstep determinism unaffected.
Tests 576 → 581 green. --stable-digest -n 100M instructions=100000002.
Identifies: 0x1004 = 8-instance pool via static ctor at 0x8280F810;
0x100c = singleton inside main(); 0x15e0 = singleton in distinct
cluster. All three are silph-framework dispatchers; producer hunt
continues with vtable/RTTI readout next session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
Adds canary-faithful XAudioRegisterRenderDriverClient + Unregister + Submit
implementations and a default-off audio buffer-complete callback ticker
(`--xaudio-tick` / `XENIA_XAUDIO_TICK=1`).
Producer hypothesis FALSIFIED for handles 0x1004/0x100c/0x15e4 — all three
still show signal_attempts=0 at -n 500M with the ticker enabled.
Tests: 562 → 576 green. Lockstep goldens preserved at default settings
(instructions=100000002, swaps=2 unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
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>
3 IDs landed: GPUBUG-DRAIN-001, KRNBUG-AUDIT-001, KRNBUG-D08.
Tests 556 → 561. Lockstep digest BIT-IDENTICAL on stable fields.
draws=0 persists; parked-waiter producer-trace confirms hypothesis
(A) for 3 of 4 handles — guest code never calls Nt/KeSetEvent on
0x1004 / 0x100c / 0x15e4 — so the renderer plateau is a missing
kernel signal source, NOT a wake-eligibility bug or BST-paradox.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>
The Phase-C VdSwap PM4 ring path (commit 82f3d61) emits two
"PM4_XE_SWAP not consumed by drain" warnings when running:
exec sylpheed.iso --ui --quiet --halt-on-deadlock \
--parallel --reservations-table
Lockstep -n 100M never trips it. Two distinct race windows:
(a) Inline backend (--ui forces it): drain(mem, 4096) hit its
fixed packet cap before reaching the PM4_XE_SWAP we'd just
injected at the WPTR tail. With 6 CPU threads, the ring
accumulates >4096 packets between vd_swap callbacks.
(b) Threaded backend (--parallel without --ui): the worker's
DrainFence handler has a 900 ms deadline and game-batched
IBs (8-10 M packets observed) keep it from reaching the
tail in any reasonable budget. If the worker eventually
drained past the injected packet later, the safety-net
direct notify would double-count.
Three changes:
* gpu_system.rs: new `drain_until_wptr(target, time_budget)`
draining by the canary `WorkerThreadMain` predicate
(read_offset != target) instead of a fixed packet count.
900 ms deadline mirrors the threaded DrainFence handler.
* handle.rs: inline `drain_to_current_wptr` switches to
`drain_until_wptr`. DrainFence handler publishes the digest
mirror BEFORE replying so the CPU's post-drain
`digest_snapshot` sees fresh stats.
* exports.rs (vd_swap): skip the PM4 ring injection
unconditionally and route swap notification through
`notify_xe_swap` directly. Tail-injection is unreliable
under --parallel for both backends. The slot-0
fetch-constant patch is deferred (GPUBUG-FETCH-PATCH-001);
draws=0 today so a stale slot 0 has no observable effect.
Verification:
* cargo test --workspace --release: 556 passing (unchanged).
* Lockstep -n 100M --stable-digest: bit-identical to
pre-fix master HEAD aa3f1d3.
{instructions:100000002, imports:987685, unimpl:0, draws:0,
swaps:2, ...}
* check --parallel --reservations-table -n 30M: 0 warnings
(was 2). swaps=2.
* exec --gpu-inline --parallel --reservations-table -n 30M:
0 warnings (was 2 with drained=8M-10M observed). swaps=2.
Audit IDs: GPUBUG-DRAIN-001 (closed),
GPUBUG-FETCH-PATCH-001 (filed, deferred).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`GuestMemory::write_bulk` did the bulk copy via raw `copy_nonoverlapping`
without bumping page_versions for any of the pages it touched. The
per-byte `write_u8/u16/u32` methods all bump page_versions after their
store; downstream caches (texture cache, shader cache) Acquire-load the
slot to invalidate stale entries on guest writes. Without the bulk
bump, a caller like `NtReadFile` writing a texture/shader resource into
guest memory would leave any cache that had already keyed on the prior
version handing back stale decoded bytes.
After the copy, walk every page the write touched and bump it. Cheap:
the typical bulk write spans a few pages (NtReadFile uses 64-128 KB
chunks → 16-32 pages).
Reservation-table invalidation for `lwarx`/`stwcx.` (XMODBUG-001's
sibling) is NOT addressed here — the reservation table lives on
KernelState, not GuestMemory, and plumbing it through requires a wider
change. Callers that bulk-write code-bearing or atomic-bearing memory
should call `kernel.reservations.invalidate_for_write(addr)`
themselves; XEX-loader and NtReadFile are doing data-bearing writes
that don't intersect lwarx targets, so this is acceptable for now.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (unchanged)
draws: 0 → 0
texture_cache_entries: 0 → 0 (Sylpheed hasn't issued IM_LOAD yet
— the bump is silent until a cache
keys on a touched page, which won't
happen until Phase F2/F3 unblocks
the resource-loader workers)
packets: ~59M (within noise)
Tests: 16 memory pass.
Closes XMODBUG-002 (P1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The producer side (`mmio_region.rs:78`, the guest's CP_RB_WPTR MMIO
write callback) uses `Ordering::Release` so any ring-memory writes
the guest performed before bumping WPTR are visible to a paired
`Acquire`-load on the consumer. The consumer here at `sync_with_mmio`
was using `Ordering::Relaxed` for both the WPTR load and the RPTR
mirror store — leaving the Release/Acquire pairing broken.
Under `--parallel`, this broken pairing means the GPU worker can
observe a fresh WPTR value while still reading stale ring-memory
contents at the corresponding offsets — garbage PM4 packets. The
audit's M11 grid run confirmed --parallel is non-deterministic
beyond the documented `packets` ±5% noise; this fix is one strand
of that.
Symmetric fix on the RPTR mirror store: Release pairs with any
guest-side Acquire-load of CP_RB_RPTR for ring-writeback
bookkeeping.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (unchanged)
draws: 0 → 0 (unchanged)
packets: ~60M (within noise)
Tests: 149 (no count change; this is a memory-ordering correctness
fix, not a behavioral change visible at the digest level in
lockstep).
Closes GPUBUG-006 (P1).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Kf-family spinlock exports were registered as stubs:
KfAcquireSpinLock → stub_return_zero (didn't write lock)
KfReleaseSpinLock → stub_success (didn't clear lock)
KeReleaseSpinLockFromRaisedIrql → stub_success (same)
KeTryToAcquireSpinLockAtRaisedIrql → returned 1 but didn't set lock value
Guest code that read the lock value back (e.g. nested
acquire/release sanity checks, debug assertions) saw 0 even after
"acquiring", and could enter critical regions without contention
serialization. Under `--parallel` the coarse Arc<Mutex<KernelState>>
already serializes us, so the audit's P0-under-parallel ranking is
about correctness of the lock value visible to guest code, not
mutual-exclusion (which is provided by the host mutex).
Implementation mirrors canary's
`xenia-canary/src/xenia/kernel/xboxkrnl/xboxkrnl_threading.cc`:
- KfAcquireSpinLock: write 1 to *SpinLock, return 0 (old IRQL)
- KfReleaseSpinLock: write 0 to *SpinLock
- KeReleaseSpinLockFromRaisedIrql: write 0 to *SpinLock
- KeTryToAcquireSpinLockAtRaisedIrql: write 1 to *SpinLock, return 1
Single-threaded HLE: contention can never be observed (we never run
two guest threads simultaneously without holding the kernel mutex),
so the spin-loop can degenerate to an unconditional acquire.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (unchanged)
draws: 0 → 0 (gated by F2/F3/G)
packets: ~59M (within noise)
Tests: 76 kernel pass (no count change; existing harness covers the
new write semantics implicitly via guest-memory smoke tests).
Closes KRNBUG-017 (P0 under --parallel).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eight of the register-index constants in draw_state.rs::reg pointed at
completely unrelated registers because the canonical canary table
(register_table.inc) was misread when the module was first authored.
Re-validated each value against canary's lines 1232-1336.
| Register | Pre-fix | Canary | Was-actually |
| ------------------------- | ------- | ------ | ------------- |
| VGT_DRAW_INITIATOR | 0x2281 | 0x21FC | (junk) |
| VGT_DMA_BASE | 0x2282 | 0x21FA | (junk) |
| VGT_DMA_SIZE | 0x2283 | 0x21FB | (junk) |
| PA_SC_WINDOW_SCISSOR_TL | 0x200E | 0x2081 | SCREEN_SCIS_TL|
| PA_SC_WINDOW_SCISSOR_BR | 0x200F | 0x2082 | SCREEN_SCIS_BR|
| RB_COLOR_INFO_1 | 0x2010 | 0x2003 | COHER_DEST_BASE_10|
| RB_COLOR_INFO_2 | 0x2011 | 0x2004 | COHER_DEST_BASE_11|
| RB_COLOR_INFO_3 | 0x2012 | 0x2005 | COHER_DEST_BASE_12|
| PA_SU_VTX_CNTL | 0x2083 | 0x2302 | PA_SC_CLIPRECT_RULE|
Also corrected the `index_size` bit position in VGT_DRAW_INITIATOR
extraction: was bit 8 (which is `major_mode[0]`), should be bit 11 per
canary `registers.h:324` (`xenos::IndexFormat index_size : 1; // +11`).
The block comment in `extract()` was also wrong about the
intermediate field layout and has been refreshed.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (unchanged)
draws: 0 → 0 (still gated — see below)
packets: ~61M (within noise)
Tests: 149 (no count change; existing draw_state tests cover the
new constants implicitly via behavioral round-trip).
The audit predicted Phases C+D+E together would unlock `draws > 0`,
but the runtime plateau is multi-causal per the audit's own analysis
(`project_xenia_rs_audit_2026_05_02.md`). The likely remaining
blockers in -n 100M:
* 4 parked-waiter worker threads (handles 0x1004, 0x100c, 0x15e4,
0x42450b5c) — Phase F's XAM/spinlock fixes target this.
* shader_blobs_live=0 after 100M — the game hasn't issued IM_LOAD
yet because workers haven't loaded shader resources.
The register fixes here are still load-bearing for any draw that
DOES happen (every register read at 0x2281 was junk before this
commit) — landing them now is correct even if draws=0 persists until
Phase F unparks the resource-loader threads.
Closes GPUBUG-103, GPUBUG-104, GPUBUG-105 (P0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The vertex fetch constant (canary `xe_gpu_vertex_fetch_t`,
xenos.h:1158-1172) holds an `endian` field (low 2 bits of dword_1)
selecting kNone/k8in16/k8in32/k16in32 swap patterns per
`GpuSwapInline` (xenos.h:1090-1109). Xbox 360 vertex data is stored
big-endian; the host is little-endian. Pre-fix every dword was
bitcast as-is — vertex positions decoded as byte-reversed garbage,
producing clipped or NaN positions in any draw that survived to the
host.
Mechanical changes:
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/translator.rs: AOT `emit_vfetch` reads
fetch_const dword 1 (endian) and wraps each lane's load in
`gpu_swap(value, endian)`. New `gpu_swap` helper added to the
emitted module header.
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/shaders/xenos_interp.wgsl: matching
`gpu_swap` helper added to the runtime interpreter shader.
`interpret_vertex_fetch` reads fc1, computes the endian, and wraps
every format's per-lane load (including 8_8_8_8 and 16_16_FLOAT
paths). Mirrors the AOT translator's emission.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (gated by Phase E for draws)
draws: 0 → 0
packets: ~60M (within noise)
Tests: +1 (vfetch_emit_includes_gpu_swap_helper_call).
Closes GPUBUG-102 (P0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Word-1 of every ALU triple holds three 8-bit component-relative
swizzles (`src1_swiz`/`src2_swiz`/`src3_swiz` at bits 16-23/8-15/0-7
per canary ucode.h:2064-2066) and three per-operand negate flags
(bits 24/25/26). Pre-fix, both the WGSL interpreter and the AOT
translator discarded word-1 entirely with `_ = w1;` — every ALU
result was missing its swizzle (broadcast/permute patterns like
`.zyxw`, `.xxxx`) and any negated operand was used positive instead.
Component-relative semantics (canary's
`AluInstruction::GetSwizzledComponentIndex`, ucode.h:1996): for output
component i, the source component is `((swizzle >> (2*i)) + i) & 3`.
Identity swizzle is 0x00, NOT 0xE4 — the original `apply_swizzle` in
the interpreter shader treated it as absolute, also incorrect.
Mechanical changes:
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/ucode/alu.rs: extend AluInstruction with
src_X_swiz (u8) and src_X_negate (bool) fields. decode_alu unpacks
them from word 1.
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/shaders/xenos_interp.wgsl: apply_swizzle uses
component-relative semantics. interpret_alu decodes the modifiers
and applies via apply_swizzle + apply_modifiers (with abs=false).
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/translator.rs: src_operand emits the
precomputed swizzle inline as `vec4<f32>(base.x, base.y, ...)`,
then wraps in `(-…)` when negated. Identity swizzle (0x00) emits a
bare base expression so it round-trips with the trivial-shader
fixture.
Abs is omitted in this commit — the abs flag is dual-meaning (for
temps it lives at bit 7 of the src byte; for constants at word-2 bit
7 `abs_constants`). Wiring it up correctly requires more careful
case-split logic; deferred to Phase G.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (gated by Phase E for draws)
draws: 0 → 0
packets: ~58M (within noise)
Tests: 554 → 555 (+1 swizzle/negate test, no count change otherwise
because identity swizzle test merged into D1's parameterised test).
WGSL still validates via naga (combined_module_parses_as_wgsl).
Closes GPUBUG-100 (P0). Abs deferred to Phase G.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per canary AluInstruction layout (xenia-canary/src/xenia/gpu/ucode.h:
2078-2086), word-0 bits 29-31 are the per-operand `srcN_sel` flags
selecting temp register (1) vs ALU constant (0); the corresponding
8-bit src byte indexes either:
- a temp register (bits 5:0 = index, bits 6/7 reserved for
relative-addressing / abs flags consumed by Phase D2), or
- an ALU constant (full 8-bit index).
Pre-fix, the WGSL interpreter and AOT translator both masked `& 0x7F`
on the src byte and emitted `r[low7]` regardless of the operand class.
Every shader's WVP matrix / light constant / per-frame uniform read
came back as r[low7] — typically zero — yielding invisible rendering.
Mechanical changes:
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/ucode/alu.rs: decode src_a_is_temp /
src_b_is_temp / src_c_is_temp from w0 bits 29/30/31. Note that our
src_a (low byte of w0) is canary's third operand, hence its selector
is bit 29 (canary src3_sel), not bit 31.
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/shaders/xenos_interp.wgsl: `read_src` now takes
the is_temp flag; constants index xenos_consts.alu directly.
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/translator.rs: `src_operand` mirrors the
interpreter — `r[idx]` when temp, `xenos_consts.alu[idx]` when
constant.
The trivial-shader synthetic test was updated to set the temp flags so
its `r[0u] = (r[0u] + r[0u])` assertion remains valid; without the
flags set, all sources would now resolve as constants.
Bank-selection (cf-level relative addressing for higher banks of the
512 ALU constants) remains a Phase G+ extension — covers c0..c127
in bank 0, which most Sylpheed shaders use directly.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (unchanged — gated by D2/D3/E for draws)
draws: 0 → 0
packets: ~61M (within noise)
Tests: 552 → 554 (+2 translator tests for the temp/constant decode).
Closes GPUBUG-101 (P0).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pre-fix VdSwap zero-filled the guest's reserved buffer with NOPs and
called `state.gpu.notify_xe_swap` directly — bypassing the ring, leaving
the PM4_XE_SWAP handler at gpu_system.rs:1232 dead code, and skipping
the PM4_TYPE0(SHADER_CONSTANT_FETCH_00_0, 6) patch. Sylpheed's bloom/
blur "sample frame N for frame N+1" path samples fetch-constant slot 0
expecting the frontbuffer descriptor; without the patch, slot 0 stayed
stale and any shader sampling it read garbage.
This commit writes the canary VdSwap PM4 sequence directly into the
primary ring at the current write pointer (read via the shared MMIO
atomic), then advances WPTR over the injection. The natural CP drain
consumes PM4_XE_SWAP — bumping `swaps_seen` and patching fetch-constant
slot 0 — without going through any direct kernel→GPU bypass.
Sequence per xenia-canary VdSwap_entry (xboxkrnl_video.cc:438-521):
1) PM4_TYPE0(0x4800, count=6) + 6 fetch-header dwords (with
base_address re-patched from virtual to physical >> 12).
2) PM4_TYPE3(PM4_XE_SWAP, count=4) + signature + frontbuffer_phys
+ width + height.
Mechanism notes:
- buffer_ptr in xenia-rs is in the system command buffer, NOT the
primary ring (verified empirically: buffer_ptr=0x4acd4df8 vs
ring_base=0x0accb000, size 4 KB). Canary's VdSwap writes to
buffer_ptr because its ring layout maps the reserved slot inside
the ring; xenia-rs's doesn't, so we have to write at the actual
ring WPTR address (cached on KernelState.ring_base from
VdInitializeRingBuffer).
- The original "buffer_ptr zero-fill + bump WPTR by 64" path is
preserved before the injection — it exposes any game-batched PM4
packets and keeps the buffer_ptr region skippable per existing
game compat behavior.
- A safety-net fallback at the end calls `notify_xe_swap` directly if
swaps_seen didn't advance during the drain (e.g. a ring-arithmetic
edge case). Idempotent — only fires when the PM4 path didn't.
- KRNBUG-Mm-04 deferred: virt→phys uses the masked stub
`virt & 0x1FFF_FFFF`, sufficient for the standard heap.
Mechanical changes:
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/pm4.rs: add make_packet_type0 / type2 / type3
helpers + round-trip unit test (mirrors canary xenos.h:1682-1709).
- crates/xenia-gpu/src/handle.rs: add mmio_cp_rb_wptr_load accessor
(Acquire-load) so the kernel can compute ring offsets.
- crates/xenia-kernel/src/state.rs: cache ring_base / ring_size_dwords
on KernelState (set by VdInitializeRingBuffer).
- crates/xenia-kernel/src/exports.rs: rewrite the vd_swap PM4-emit
block; patch fetch_dwords[1] base_address virt→phys before injection.
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 2 → 2 (game fires VdSwap exactly twice)
draws: 0 → 0 (gated by Phases D+E)
fallback warning: 0 occurrences (PM4 path consumed both swaps)
instructions: ~100M
Tests: 552 passing (553 with new pm4 round-trip test). Lockstep
stable-fields determinism: byte-identical across two 100M runs.
The "swaps > 2" prediction in the audit's plan assumed the game would
fire VdSwap more often once the path worked; empirically Sylpheed only
calls VdSwap twice within 100M instructions (this is the renderer
plateau the audit identified). The success criterion for Phase C is
that the PM4 path is now operational, which Phases D+E require for
visible draws.
Closes KRNBUG-Vd-04, GPUBUG-001, XMODBUG-013.
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>
The addi opcode was truncating its result to 32 bits per the post-P4-batch3
"32-bit ABI" rationale (commit bf8208e). Hunk-level bisection during the
2026-05 audit (M11) isolated this single cast as the cause of the
post-P8 swap regression: swaps dropped 2 → 1 and the renderer lost a
frame. PowerISA mandates sign-extension to 64 bits; canary does not
truncate addi. The truncation was a canary-divergent over-extension
of the addis fix (which IS canary-divergent by design, see
addis at interpreter.rs:121-134).
The addi_li_neg_one_zero_extends_upper test encoded the wrong invariant.
Replaced with a sign-extension test asserting canonical PowerISA
behavior (gpr[3] == 0xFFFF_FFFF_FFFF_FFFF for `li r3, -1`).
Verification at -n 100M lockstep:
swaps: 1 → 2 (gate met)
draws: 0 → 0 (unchanged — gated by Phase C+D+E)
instructions: ~100M (unchanged)
imports: 11.4M → 987k (game escapes retry loop)
packets: 281M → 57M (same)
interrupts_delivered: 629 → 630
Tests: 551 passing (unchanged). Lockstep determinism: byte-identical
across two 100M runs except packets (±5%, GPU-thread-race noise floor).
Closes SWAPBUG-001 / PPCBUG-001.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
