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MechaCat02
4b78c67605 [iterate-4A] jit: superblock chaining B2 — bcx two-way + loop back-edges
Extends B1's forward-linear superblock into a full same-page CFG: chains
through conditional bcx (BOTH directions) and loop back-edges (a successor
already in the chain jumps to its existing IR block), not just unconditional
bx + fall-through. This roughly doubles the block-merge ratio (run_block calls
145.7M interp -> 116.2M B1 (1.25x) -> 74.7M B2 (1.95x)) and halves the
run_superblock dispatch bucket (30.4% interp -> 26.2% B1 -> 16.2% B2).

Mechanism:
 - enumerate_chain is now a two-pass CFG builder: BFS the reachable, chainable
   (same-page / covered / non-thunk) blocks deduped by start PC (so a back-edge
   becomes a loop, not a new node), capped at MAX_CHAIN_NODES=64; then resolve
   each terminator to Succ edges (node indices or Exit). bx/fall -> One; bcx ->
   Two{taken,fall} (each side Node or Exit); bclrx/bcctrx/uncovered -> Exit.
 - emit_bcx extracted from emit_op's bcx arm: computes the taken predicate ONCE
   (decrementing CTR at most once) and returns it; emit_node_body captures it so
   the two-way boundary branches on the SAME value (recomputing would double the
   CTR decrement). Single-block compile is unchanged (ignores the return).
 - No Cranelift Variables/phi needed for the loop CFG: the budget/MMIO state
   lives in memory (cycle_count, *mmio_count), so emit_stop reloads it and
   compares against entry-sampled constants (cycle_entry/mmio_entry), which the
   entry block dominates across back-edges. Budget = (cycle_count - cycle_entry)
   >= remaining, correct across loop iterations; a native loop spins until the
   budget is spent then hands back — same bound as the runner. MMIO check still
   skipped for load/store-free blocks. seal_all_blocks handles the arbitrary CFG.
 - Degenerate guard fixed: compile single-block only when the ENTRY has no
   chainable successor (Succ::Exit) — a one-node self-loop is NOT degenerate.

Validation: 3 new unit tests (bcx always-taken chains to target; bcx not-taken
falls through; self-loop runs natively until budget then stops — all bit-equal
to the interpreter over the same PCs) -> 7/7 jit tests pass. Diff MISMATCHES=0
over 47.95M blocks (the emit_bcx refactor didn't perturb op bodies).
XENIA_JIT_CHAIN=1 movie plays: tid25 resumes (decode handoff / interleaving
preserved under the deeper chaining).

Perf finding (honest): despite ~2x merge and half the dispatch, wall is ~parity
with B1 (both ~-6% vs interp same-batch). step_block MIPS dropped (~82 vs B1
~102) because the deeper/bigger native superblocks cost more per boundary (B1's
compile-time-constant budget became a runtime cycle_count reload, needed for
loops) and Cranelift's default regalloc spills more in larger functions. The
dispatch savings are real but offset by native-code overhead that grows with
chain length. Converting the extra chaining into wall time now needs
host-register allocation (tighter code) — the clear next lever. Env gate,
diff-off-under-chain, and probe/mem-watch exclusivity unchanged from B1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 21:25:21 +02:00
MechaCat02
2c17a511f7 [iterate-4A] jit: native superblock chaining B1 (bx + fall-through), −6.4% wall
Increment B1 of block-linking: compile a chain of same-page, fully-covered
blocks into ONE Cranelift function whose internal block-to-block edges are
direct machine jumps, eliminating the per-block return to run_block and the
run_superblock dispatch tax for the chain. Env-gated XENIA_JIT_CHAIN (off by
default), and additionally disabled under the diff harness or with diagnostic
probes / mem-watch armed (chaining runs several blocks natively without the
per-block-entry observation those need, so they are mutually exclusive).

Mechanism (cranelift-jit can't patch finalized code, so no QEMU-style TB
chaining): SUPERBLOCK COMPILATION. compile_chain enumerates the forward-linear
chain from the entry — following static bx targets and fall-throughs, all
same-page (so the entry page_version is a sound cache key), outside the thunk
band, and covered — and emits one node per block plus a shared exit. At every
internal boundary it re-checks the two runtime stop-conditions exactly as the
Rust runner does: an MMIO touch (*mmio_count advanced vs the entry sample) and
the instruction budget (cumulative >= remaining, passed as a runtime param);
either stops the chain with pc/cycle/timebase already correct, and the runner
re-dispatches from the clean boundary. B1 scope is forward-linear: a bx or
fall-through continues; a conditional bcx, dynamic bclrx/bcctrx, off-page /
thunk / uncovered / already-visited successor ends the chain (B2 adds bcx
two-way + loop back-edges). Being *more* conservative (stopping earlier) is
always safe.

Correctness rests on composition: each node body is the same emit_node_body IR
the single-block path emits (already diff-validated bit-exact), so only the
chain glue is new — validated by two new unit tests (multi-block chain vs
interpreter over the same PCs; budget cut at the exact boundary) plus e2e.
Boundary MMIO check is skipped for load/store-free blocks (a pure-ALU block
can't advance mmio_count), dropping a memory load+compare per ALU boundary.

Plumbing: build_block exposed (xenia-cpu); KernelState::thunk_band getter;
MemEnv mmio_count null-safety (points at a static zero when no flat mapping);
CompiledFn gains a remaining-budget param (single-block ignores it); all
compiled entries share the (ctx, mem_env, remaining) ABI.

Validation: diff MISMATCHES=0 over 25.0M blocks (single-block op bodies
unbroken by the emit_node_body refactor); XENIA_JIT_CHAIN=1 movie plays,
tid25 resumes, source-read=12; fair perf (RUST_LOG=warn) interp 44.1s vs
chain 41.3s = −6.4% wall — run_superblock "other" 30.4%->26.2%, run_block
calls 145.7M->116.2M (1.25x block merge), step_block at parity (100.6->102.4
MIPS; the earlier "slower" reading was cranelift IR-logging inside the STEP
timer). Uncommitted probe knobs unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 20:55:12 +02:00
MechaCat02
56dbf52a5f [iterate-4A] jit: wire compiled-block cache + cover bx/bcx/bclrx (diff-clean, 6.57% native)
Wire the Cranelift block-JIT into execution and add branch coverage. Both
increments validated bit-exact against the interpreter via the in-process
differential harness on a full boot+movie run (movie plays, clean exit):

  wiring only (addi/addis): checked 146.8M blocks, 0.01% native, MISMATCHES=0
  + branches (bx/bcx/bclrx): checked 148.5M blocks, 6.57% native (9.76M), MISMATCHES=0

jit.rs
  * JitCache: direct-mapped 64K-slot compiled-block cache keyed (start_pc,
    page_version) identically to BlockCache, so self-modifying / DMA'd code
    invalidates native code the same way. Caches the None ("uncovered") verdict
    so an uncovered block is compile-attempted at most once per (pc,version).
    Owns the Jit/JITModule (keeps every CompiledFn valid for its lifetime).
  * covered(): addi/addis + bx/bcx/bclrx. bcctrx excluded (indirect target +
    dispatch_rec diagnostic hook the native path would skip).
  * pc-handling refactor: a branch terminator writes pc itself (writes_pc());
    the block epilogue stores end_pc only for straight-line (max-len / page-
    boundary) blocks. cycle/timebase still += N (covered ops never fault/yield;
    a branch is always the last instruction).
  * Branch lowering uses immediate targets — the interpreter's ctx.pc equals the
    instruction address at emit time, so bx/bcx relative targets are constants.
    emit_branch_taken mirrors the interpreter: optional CTR decrement, ctr_ok =
    (ctr as u32 vs 0) inverted by BO3, cond_ok = CR-bit BI byte == BO1 (both BO
    sub-cases const-fold), combined with select. bclrx reads lr&!3 before the LK
    link overwrites lr.

recompiler.rs
  * run_block / diff_step take &mut JitCache. run_block runs the native fn when
    get_or_compile returns one (else interpreter fallback); diff_step runs it on
    the speculative clone/OverlayMemory so every native block is diff-checked.
  * report_jit_summary(): native-vs-interpreted block counts (XENIA_JIT / _DIFF).

main.rs
  * WorkerCtx owns a JitCache; run_superblock routing passes it to
    diff_step/run_block; report_jit_summary() at clean exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-07 07:28:26 +02:00
MechaCat02
07cd272412 [iterate-4A] jit: opcode-frequency histogram (XENIA_JIT_HIST) for coverage targeting
Gated 1-in-16 sampled opcode histogram in the recompiler (tallied in run_block,
printed sorted with cumulative % at clean exit). Drives which opcodes the JIT
lowers first. Boot+movie result: workload is FP-heavy — addi 15%, lwz 12%,
rlwinm 10%, lfs 9%, stfs 7.5%, lfsx 5%, fmaddsx 4.6%, bc 3.7%, fmulsx 3.6%,
stw 3.4% ... top-20 = 90%, ~33% floating-point. This is why we go straight to a
Cranelift machine-code JIT (which attacks the FP op bodies) rather than a
closure-threaded stage (which only removes dispatch).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 20:36:53 +02:00
MechaCat02
ac289bca5e [iterate-4A] jit M0: recompiler seam + in-process differential harness
Foundation for a staged PPC block-recompiler (plan: closure-threaded ->
Cranelift -> block-linking). No codegen yet — proves the integration seam and
the correctness harness before any lowering exists.

New crates/xenia-cpu/src/recompiler.rs:
- run_block: executes a DecodedBlock; M0 falls back to the interpreter's
  execute() for every opcode, so it is bit-identical to step_block. Later
  stages dispatch lowered ops here and fall back only for uncompiled opcodes.
- gates jit_enabled()/diff_enabled() (XENIA_JIT / XENIA_JIT_DIFF, cached).
- In-process differential harness (diff_step): the interpreter is AUTHORITATIVE
  (drives real ctx+mem, so a JIT bug can never corrupt a run); the JIT runs
  SPECULATIVELY on a ctx clone against OverlayMemory (writes buffered in a byte
  HashMap, reads fall through to real pre-block memory), then registers are
  compared. Blocks touching MMIO or sync_sensitive (reservation/barrier) are
  skipped — a device callback can't be run twice and reservation state is
  shared cross-thread. report_diff_summary() prints checked/skipped/mismatch.

Why in-process: the guest is only COARSELY deterministic — coord_idle_advance
ticks vsync from wall-clock when idle, so two separate runs are not bit-exact
and a cross-run signature compare would measure jitter, not JIT divergence.

Supporting changes: PpcContext #[derive(Clone)] (harness clears the speculative
clone's reservation_table Arc); is_mmio() on the MemoryAccess trait (default
false) + GuestMemory impl via find_mmio; execute() made pub(crate); run_superblock
routes the block body (DIFF->diff_step, JIT->run_block, else step_block).

Validated: full boot+movie XENIA_JIT_DIFF=1 run = checked 218.4M blocks,
skipped(mmio/sync) 511.6K (0.23%), MISMATCHES=0 CLEAN; movie plays (ADVreads=30,
tid25 resumes); diff-mode ~2x slower (test-only path).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 20:25:18 +02:00
MechaCat02
e07f93ed0a [iterate-4A] perf: superblock budget 128->192 (movie-validated ~7% wall) + profiler attribution
Speed frontier, increment 1 (measure-first, then bank the cheap win).

Profiler (crates/xenia-gpu/src/prof.rs): extend XENIA_PROFILE with hierarchical
attribution of the single-thread lockstep loop — ROUND (per-round tax) /
PROLOGUE (worker_prologue) / RUNSB (run_superblock) top level, plus the
STEP/EPILOGUE/KERNEL/BUILD subsets. Gated zero-cost via is_on() (off-check emits
0 lines). Movie-time split: interp step_block 42%, run_superblock chain-loop
body ~30%, worker_prologue+epilogue ~22%, kernel HLE 6%, per-round tax 0.6%,
texture 0.4%. => overhead-bound; the ceiling is a JIT (attacks the ~72% interp
+ dispatch). The per-round tax is a non-lever (0.6%).

Budget (crates/xenia-app/src/main.rs SUPERBLOCK_INSTR_BUDGET 128->192): the
per-slot-visit tax (prologue+epilogue ~22%) scales with slot-visit count, and
chains are NOT break-limited here — 128->192 cuts visits 27.4M->18.9M (-31%),
128->256 -44%. Banked 192 (not 256): the movie decode pipeline is more
timing-sensitive than boot. At 256 the decode worker tid25 (0x82506588)
intermittently fails to resume (1-of-2 runs) with a weakened feeder loop
(source-read 27->5-11) — a scheduling race the coarser interleaving exposes.
192 is deterministic and safe: 3/3 runs byte-identical (source-read=21,
tid25-resume=1, ADVreads=30) at both env-override and compiled-default, ~-7%
movie wall, well below the 384 boot cliff. XENIA_SUPERBLOCK_BUDGET still
overrides for A/B.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 19:45:23 +02:00
MechaCat02
2c883e9d5e [iterate-4A] diagnostics: XENIA_PROFILE wall-time profiler + probe/tooling snapshot
Handoff snapshot of the env-gated diagnostic scaffolding used across the
intro-video RE. Kept out of the milestone commits (645feb8..5573ac1) to keep
those clean; committed here so nothing is lost on handoff.

New — XENIA_PROFILE wall-time profiler (crates/xenia-gpu/src/prof.rs):
  Coarse buckets attributing playback wall time to interpreter (step_block),
  kernel HLE (call_export), block decode/cache (lookup_or_build), texture
  decode, host draw, and present; prints periodic snapshots (every 500M guest
  instr, or every 500 presents) + a clean-exit report. Hot path is gated on a
  cached is_on() (one relaxed load) so it is zero-cost when XENIA_PROFILE is
  unset. Call sites: main.rs run_superblock / parallel worker (step_block,
  lookup_or_build, call_export), texture_cache ensure_cached, render.rs present
  + dispatch_xenos_draws.

  First profile (movie playback, headless single-thread lockstep): effective
  ~35 MIPS; interpreter body ~40% @ ~95-102 MIPS; texture decode 0.3% (cache
  works); present ~0%; the rest is per-block dispatch + scheduler plumbing
  (~13 instr/block over 229M blocks). Overhead-bound, not interpreter-body
  bound; the levers are coarser execution units (superblock chaining) and
  ultimately a JIT.

Pre-existing read-only probe knobs (were uncommitted; env-gated, observe-only):
  XENIA_RET_CAPTURE_PC/_REG/_MEM, LOG_RESUMES, LOG_WAITS, LOG_SIGNAL,
  FORCE_TID, STARVE_LIMIT, INCUMBENT_PICK, INSTR_PER_MS, DUMP_FRAME,
  DUMP_WGSL, BIND_LOG, CONST_LOG, DISPATCH_REC, AUDIT_PC_TRACE.

Tooling: sylph-run.sh (movie oracle loop, 180s default timeout),
  zq.py (DuckDB disasm/xref helper).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-03 07:43:53 +02:00
MechaCat02
43441523f9 [iterate-4A] intro-video: re-baseline boot golden 50M -> 200M after clock fix
The clock fix (INSTRUCTIONS_PER_MS 10_000 -> 1_000_000, commit 645feb8) moves
the worker-hub +66 ms render gate from ~660k to ~66M instructions, so the old
-n 50M anchor is now pre-render (swaps=0) and no longer guards boot rendering.

Re-anchor sylpheed_n50m -> sylpheed_n200m: at -n 200M the fixed build renders
steadily (draws=3165, swaps=895) and the stable digest is deterministic across
repeated inline lockstep runs. Renames the golden, updates the test's -n and
doc comment, and refreshes tests/golden/README.md. Per the README's re-baseline
policy (intentional digest move -> separate commit).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 20:39:38 +02:00
MechaCat02
3e17d37b4e [iterate-4A] intro-video RE: XENIA_AUDIT_PC_TRACE (per-tid PC-range r3/r4/r5/r30/r31 trace)
Observe-only diagnostic (lockstep digest unaffected) added during the
milestone-2 video investigation. `XENIA_AUDIT_PC_TRACE=lo:hi:tid` logs
AUDIT-TRACE r3/r4/r5/r30/r31 for blocks in [lo,hi) on a given tid —
used to capture the demux registrar's stream-id (r4) at sub_82509E40.

Handoff (full detail in memory cont.10ff-10ii):
- Video decode is GUEST SOFTWARE (decoder vt 0x82009f70, 615 fns/30k
  instr, zero host/video imports) — no host codec to build; fix is upstream.
- Video IS registered/routed/queued (refutes "not selected"); the engine
  never reaches ready-state, pump sub_825078D8 bails 5262x, begin-playback
  sub_825076F0 never fires -> 2000ms readiness timeout.
- CANARY oracle measured: video producer sub_824FF678 drives demux SM
  sub_825211A0 72x+ (loops/pulls continuously); OURS drives it 1x then the
  pull loop sub_824FA8A0 exits on no-data (assembly sub_8250A2B0 returns
  0x8050000B = incomplete unit). Root: ours delivers INCOMPLETE video units
  where canary delivers complete ones.
- NEXT: compare ours-vs-canary fragment chain [slot+24] for the video
  stream (missing end-fragment / fragment-header mis-parse).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-28 21:17:27 +02:00
MechaCat02
7e9ee1ac33 intro-video RE: deep demux-core instrumentation + handoff hygiene
Investigation probes for the ADV.wmv intro-video deadlock (feeder's demux
source-read 0x825211a0 returns no-data 0x80500000 where canary returns 0).

- xenia-kernel/state.rs: extend AUDIT-DEREF (fire_audit_pc_probe_if_match) to
  deep-dump the demux-state object (to +0xfc), its buffer descriptor [sub+4],
  the byte-source sub-objects ([sub+0]/[+0x30]/[+0x94] and [src0+0x2c]), and
  to WALK the windowed-buffer cached-block linked list (AUDIT-BLK: per-block
  64-bit start/size/dataptr) exactly as mapper 0x82522118 does. Read-only,
  env-gated (XENIA_AUDIT_DEREF); lockstep digest unaffected.
- xenia-app/main.rs: XENIA_DUMP_SLOTS observe-only scheduler runqueue dump.
- xenia-app/tests/sylpheed_oracles.rs: resolve ISO via SYLPHEED_ISO, then the
  repo-root sylpheed.iso symlink, then default; fix path typo.
- .gitignore: exclude .claude/ (71k files / 66GB agent worktrees) and the
  local investigation artifacts (audit-runs/, exit-thread-state.json, zq_*.py).

Findings (full chain in handoff notes): all ASF header metadata parses
correctly (packet size 16415, count 4728, 2 streams); cursors correct
(cur=5868, limit=77.6M); the windowed buffer works and slides (512B blocks);
no-data originates deep in the byte-read/parse chain, not from an empty buffer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-26 07:54:15 +02:00
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
acb29db444 [iterate-3AL] Superblock dispatch: chain basic blocks per slot-visit (~1.6x boot-to-splash)
Replace the one-basic-block-per-slot-per-round lockstep dispatch with a
SUPERBLOCK runner: each slot-visit chains straight-line blocks through
their terminating branches up to a deterministic instruction budget,
amortizing the per-round (timebase/coord/round_schedule) and per-slot
(worker_prologue) dispatch tax over ~128 instructions instead of ~6.

Yield-points (end the chain, return to the round) are pure functions of
guest state, preserving the lockstep cross-thread interleaving correctness:
  - non-Continue step result (Yield/SystemCall/Trap/Unimpl/Halted);
    db16cyc Yield is the spin-wait producer hand-off.
  - sync-sensitive block: lwarx/ldarx/stwcx./stdcx. or sync/eieio/isync
    (new PpcOpcode::is_sync_sensitive, flagged on DecodedBlock at build).
  - MMIO touch: new GuestMemory::mmio_access_count() watermark, sampled
    per block, keeps GPU/register ordering at one-block granularity.
  - next PC leaves ordinary guest code (import thunk / halt sentinel /
    unmapped) -> hand to the full worker_prologue next round.
  - instruction budget reached.

Instruction-count/clock accounting stays exact: per-block cycle_count
deltas are summed and handed to worker_epilogue once (instruction_count +
decrement_quantum advance by the precise retired count). XENIA_SUPERBLOCK_BUDGET=1
reproduces the old one-block schedule byte-for-byte.

Budget tuned to 128 (env-overridable): boot progression stays healthy up
to 256, sharp cliff at ~384 (a boot producer/consumer handoff starves);
128 is 3x below the cliff. Also scale the inline-GPU per-round fairness
cap with the budget (flat 64 throttled GPU command processing 17x under
superblocks and collapsed the present loop).

PERF (check -n 100M --gpu-inline): 25.3 -> 42.7 MIPS (1.69x); 1B: 26.0 ->
41.4 MIPS (1.59x). Callgrind n=5M: host instructions 2.178B -> 1.507B
(-31%); worker_prologue -90%, coord_pre_round -91%, begin_slot_visit /
round_schedule_into / coord_post_round / update_timestamp_bundle each
~-90%; interpreter execute byte-identical (real work unchanged).

GATES: C1 boot progression 150M draws 7391/swaps 2164 (baseline 7415/2172),
1B draws 88547/swaps 29228 linear no stall, K8888 decode + RTs=2 intact.
C2 determinism: n50m stable digest byte-identical across fresh runs;
golden re-baselined intentionally (pacing-only deltas: imports 333453->243387,
draws 1274->1279). C3 milestone-1 render: texture_decodes/draws/swaps/
present cadence track baseline (3AJ fade-in pacing preserved). C4: 690
tests green (+2 sync_sensitive).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-19 22:31:54 +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
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
6bb4355e3d [iterate-3M] Fix Xenos shader CF/fetch decode so the textured logo binds
The publisher splash (title idx0) rendered FLAT in ours while canary samples
a texture: ours never decoded the logo's textured pixel shader
(E59B2B3D, a `tfetch2D` sprite) even though our guest IM_LOADs the exact same
microcode canary does (verified byte-identical against the Wine oracle). The
shader was misparsed as flat. Three coupled bugs in the ucode decoder, all
off vs canary `gpu/ucode.h`:

1. CF opcode table was off-by-one (`control_flow.rs`): mapped opcode 0→Exec
   and 1→Exit, but Xenos has 0=kNop, 1=kExec, 2=kExecEnd, 3..6/13..14 the
   cond-exec variants, 7/8 loop, 9/10 call/return, 11 condjmp, 12 alloc,
   15 mark-vs-fetch-done. So a real `kExec` clause was read as a terminal
   `Exit`, truncating the CF block and dropping every instruction (incl. the
   `tfetch`) after it. Added Nop/MarkVsFetchDone variants; parse now ends on
   an END-bit exec clause.

2. exec/loop `address` is an absolute instruction-triple index from shader
   dword 0, but indexed our post-CF `instructions` slice directly
   (`ucode/mod.rs`). Rebase addresses by the CF triple count so `address*3`
   lands on the right instruction.

3. Fetch instruction bitfields were wrong (`ucode/fetch.rs`): `const_index`
   read from bit 5 (actually `src_reg`) instead of bit 20, and texture
   `dimension` from dword1 instead of dword2 bit14. The logo's `tfetch ..,tf0`
   was read as `tf1`, whose empty fetch-constant failed to decode → no
   texture. Also the `sequence` fetch/ALU bit is bit[0] of each pair, not
   bit[1] (`shader_metrics.rs`, `translator.rs`, `xenos_interp.wgsl`).

Result (--gpu-inline, deterministic 2x): the active PS's `tfetch_slots` now
resolves slot 0, the tf0 fetch-constant decodes (fmt K8888), and
`gpu.texture.decode` fires (137x at -n 50M; texture_cache_entries 0→1, the
only golden field that changed — all draw/swap counts unchanged). The same
fixes correct the WGSL uber-shader's fetch/CF walk for the threaded/--ui path.

Added a regression test that parses the real E59B2B3D microcode and asserts a
tfetch slot is found. Golden re-baselined (texture_cache_entries 0→1).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-17 21:53:35 +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
ad9c8e4cb8 [iterate-2U] VdGlobalDevice: allocate a real device cell so the swap counter (clock B) can advance
Sylpheed's title loop re-runs its per-frame manager update sub_821741C8
only when "clock B" ([controller+88], the swap count) changes. Clock B's
sole source is the CP swap-complete callback sub_824CE2B8, which bumps
[gfx+15160] via the TWO-LEVEL deref [[VdGlobalDevice]+0]+15160, where
VdGlobalDevice is the kernel variable export 0x01BE at guest .data
0x82000750.

Ours patched that import slot with literal 0 (the old "passed through to
Vd* shims, write 0" behaviour). Consequences, both confirmed at runtime:
  * the guest's graphics init stores its D3D device object via
    `stw r31, 0([0x82000750])` (sub_824C6DC0 @0x824C6F18) — with the slot
    0, that store lands at address 0;
  * the swap callback reads [[0x82000750]] = [0] = 0 and increments
    [0+15160] (the null page) instead of the real device's swap counter.
So [gfx+15160] never moved, clock B stayed frozen at 0, sub_821741C8
fired exactly once, and the game submitted one render batch (the 78-draw
splash) then stalled.

Fix mirrors xenia-canary RegisterVideoExports (xboxkrnl_video.cc:557-564)
exactly: allocate a 4-byte cell, point the import slot at it, zero the
cell. The guest then stores its device into the cell, and the callback's
two-level deref resolves correctly. Verified: [0x82000750] now holds a
real cell whose [+0] is the device (gfx state), the swap callback bumps
[gfx+15160] 0->1, clock B advances, and the per-frame chain steps forward
(sub_821741C8 fires 1->2x, GamePart update sub_821C7CB8 0->1x).

Determinism: --gpu-inline digest re-baselined and byte-identical across
runs. The fix shifts the early execution trajectory (clock B unfreezing),
so the n50m golden moves imports 451500->178937 and instructions
50000001->50000014; draws/swaps/RTs/shaders unchanged (78/4/2/3). n2m
golden unchanged (early boot, pre-fix-effect). 675 workspace tests green;
sylpheed_n50m oracle green.

Note: this breaks the FIRST hard blocker (clock B could never advance at
all). Full per-frame sustain (draws past 78) needs a further step: each
GamePart update must submit a per-frame command buffer (with PM4_INTERRUPT)
during the asset-streaming phase to keep generating CP interrupts; ours
currently produces only the single seed interrupt from the initial batch,
so the chain advances once and re-stalls. Tracked for the next iterate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 16:20:08 +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
1ae472bd2b [iterate-2S] GPU: implement CP SCRATCH_REG memory writeback — arms Sylpheed's swap-callback slot
Sylpheed renders the splash (draws=78, iterate-2O) then plateaus: the
title's per-frame manager (sub_821741C8) only re-fires when "clock B"
([gfx+15160], swap count) changes, which only the CP swap-complete
callback sub_824CE2B8 increments. The graphics ISR sub_824BE9A0
indirect-calls that callback via [[gfx+10772]+16] on CP (source=1)
interrupts, but the slot stayed NULL so the callback never ran.

Root (runtime-verified, ours-side GPU): the guest arms the slot through
the Xenos CP scratch-register writeback path, which ours never
implemented. The arming IB (drained by ours at 0x4adf5180) contains a
Type-0 register write of the callback PC 0x824ce2b8 into SCRATCH_REG4
(0x057C). On hardware/canary, writing a SCRATCH_REG{n} mirrors the value
to SCRATCH_ADDR + n*4 in memory when the matching SCRATCH_UMSK bit is
set. Runtime values: SCRATCH_ADDR=0x0b1d5000 (the [gfx+10772]
descriptor), SCRATCH_UMSK=0x20033 (bit 4 set), so SCRATCH_REG4 ->
0x0b1d5010 = descriptor+16 = the callback slot (0x4b1d5010). Ours
decoded the Type-0 write into the register file but performed no
writeback (case a: drained-but-mishandled), so the slot stayed NULL.

Fix mirrors canary's CommandProcessor::HandleSpecialRegisterWrite
(command_processor.cc:545-552): a scratch_register_writeback() helper
called from handle_type0/handle_type1 after every register write; for
SCRATCH_REG0..7 with the UMSK bit set, it writes the value (big-endian,
as mem.write_u32 already stores) to SCRATCH_ADDR + n*4 (projected via
physical_to_backing). Deterministic given identical register state;
proven by unit test.

Cascade (verified by runtime probe): slot 0x4b1d5010 now armed with
0x824ce2b8; on the 2-3 CP interrupts that fire, the ISR reads the slot
and bcctrl's into sub_824CE2B8 (runs 2x; 0x cascade on master);
sub_824CE2B8 increments clock B ([gfx+15160]). The cascade does NOT yet
reach draws>78: there are only ~3 CP interrupts (from the initial 9825-
packet batch), and the title render loop stalls upstream (the iterate-2Q
title-respawn gate) before it submits more PM4_INTERRUPT work, so the
callback can't bootstrap a self-sustaining loop. This is the remaining
update-17/18 arming gap closed; the upstream stall is the next gate.

The default threaded GPU backend drains the ring on a separate host
thread, so with the callback now doing work the exact CP-interrupt
delivery instruction varies run to run (pre-existing GPU-thread race).
Pin the n50m oracle test to --gpu-inline (instruction-count
deterministic) and re-baseline its golden; bit-exact across repeated
runs. New unit test scratch_reg_write_mirrors_to_memory_when_umsk_enabled.

Tests: 675 pass (was 674). Golden re-baselined + determinism verified.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-14 14:21:30 +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
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
de21c7a544 [iterate-2G] db16cyc spin-hint cooperative yield: unblock title-screen 0x10a0 gate
The silph title state machine (tid13) blocked on event 0x10a0, never signaled.
Root: the event's producer chain runs on the silph worker (entry 0x821C4AD0,
our tid14), which was starved. tid14 shares a HW slot with a guest spinlock/
barrier participant (sub_824D1328, entry 0x824D2940) that busy-spins on the
db16cyc hint `or r31,r31,r31` (encoding 0x7FFFFB78) at 0x824D140C. Under our
round-robin lockstep the spinner consumed its whole block every round and
starved the co-located tid14 (only 9 progress hits over 200M instr) — so the
producer never reached the event-create/duplicate/signal dance the canary
oracle performs (handle F80000E8 set by the submitter F8000044 via a duplicated
handle).

Fix (canary-faithful): recognize the db16cyc spin hint exactly as canary's
InstrEmit_orx does (code 0x7FFFFB78 -> DelayExecution) and surface it as a new
StepResult::Yield. The scheduler's yield_current() promotes every Ready peer on
the slot past STARVE_LIMIT so begin_slot_visit picks one next round, then they
reset and the spinner reclaims the slot — fair alternation, no priority
inversion, pure function of slot state (deterministic).

Result (lockstep, cache-persist, -n 200M): tid14 progresses past its old stall
into a real wait; tid13 advances off 0x10a0 to a new event; hub/submitter
re-enter their wait loops. imports 280k->592k, packets 124M->164M, swaps 1->2.
draws still 0 (the splash's first draw is a further-upstream gate).

Determinism preserved (two cold n50m runs byte-identical). n50m golden
re-baselined (imports 90296->339766, swaps 1->2; draws unchanged 0). n2m
golden unchanged (db16cyc not reached in first 2M). Tests 670/670.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 10:38:17 +02:00
MechaCat02
f3b7e8b760 [iterate-2F] Scheduler anti-starvation floor: fix job-4 handoff render gate
The lockstep scheduler's pick_runnable is strict priority
(max_by_key (priority, -idx)). On a cooperative single-host HW slot,
a CPU-bound spinner that never blocks (the silph poll loop pinned by
affinity to hw=5) wins pick_runnable every round forever, permanently
starving a co-located peer (the submitter, tid6) that the spinner is
actually waiting on. On real hardware those threads run on separate SMT
contexts concurrently, so the spinner never starves the submitter; ours
collapses them onto one slot with no anti-starvation, turning priority
(or equal-priority index order) into permanent starvation.

The starved submitter never dequeued job-4 -> the worker-hub (tid5)
blocked INFINITE on completion event 0x1080 -> silph (tid13) wedged on
0x1078 -> no vsync -> draws_seen=0, the publisher splash never renders.
(decrement_quantum's within-slot rotation is dead: begin_slot_visit
unconditionally re-pick_runnable()s each round, discarding the rotated
running_idx. The fix is therefore evaluated at pick time, not via that
discarded rotation.)

Fix (Option A, bounded anti-starvation, deterministic):
- Add per-thread steps_starved counter to GuestThread.
- begin_slot_visit increments it for every Ready peer passed over this
  visit, resets it to 0 for the picked thread.
- pick_runnable selects by effective_priority: once steps_starved
  reaches STARVE_LIMIT (4096) the thread is lifted to i32::MAX and wins
  exactly one pick, then resets. The genuinely higher-priority thread
  still wins ~4095/4096 visits -- the boost grants periodic forward
  progress only, it does NOT invert priority. Pure function of
  counter/priority/index -> deterministic (no wall-clock, no RNG).

Cascade (lockstep exec, XENIA_CACHE_PERSIST=1, -n 200M):
- submitter dequeue sub_82458508 now fires 4x (was 3x); the 4th job
  (buf 0x40baa2c0) is dequeued at cycle 6.15M.
- hub tid5 leaves Blocked(0x1080) -> now Ready (no more INFINITE wait).
- GPU packets 0 -> 116,101,363 (command stream now flowing).
- tid13 (silph::UImpl) advances past the old 0x1078 wedge to a NEW
  downstream wait (handle 0x10a0); 3 new threads spawn (tid14/15/16).
- draws_seen still 0 -> the splash's first draw is a NEW downstream gate,
  not this starvation.

Determinism: two cold lockstep `check -n 5M` runs byte-identical (full
and stable digests). New n50m stable digest deterministic across two
cold runs. Golden re-baselined: instructions 50000007->50000003,
imports 92317->90296 (trajectory shift from the changed pick order).

Tests: 666/666 (+1 test_anti_starvation_bounded_progress).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-13 10:02:02 +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
341196a111 [Issue-1 PPCBUG-020] Word-form ALU ops produce full 64-bit results
Xenon is a 64-bit PPC core (32-bit *pointer* ABI, but 64-bit registers and
integer arithmetic). The interpreter was truncating every word-form integer
ALU writeback to 32 bits and zero-extending, on a false "MSR.SF=0 / 32-bit
ABI" premise. This silently corrupted any genuine 64-bit value flowing through
word-form arithmetic.

Confirmed load-bearing via runtime ours-vs-canary capture: Sylpheed's
millisecond->LARGE_INTEGER timeout converter sub_824ACA88 does
`clrldi; mulli r11,r11,-10000; std`. For a 16 ms wait the correct result is
-160000 = 0xFFFFFFFF_FFFD8F00 (relative). canary stores exactly that; ours'
truncating `mulli` stored 0x00000000_FFFD8F00 (positive) -> the i64 timeout
read as a huge *absolute* deadline -> a ~26000x over-wait that froze the main
frame loop. After the fix the timeout matches canary and the previously-frozen
frame/worker loops run (parallel boot NtWaitForMultipleObjectsEx 94 -> 30428;
KeWaitForSingleObject/critical-section loops resume).

Fix mirrors canary's INT64 emitters (ppc_emit_alu.cc) op-by-op for the 17
data-losing word-form ops: addis, addic(.), subfic(.), mulli, add(c/e/ze/me)x,
subf(c/e/ze/me)x, negx, mullwx. Only the result *writeback* widens to full
64 bit; the 32-bit carry (XER[CA]) and overflow (XER[OV]) computations and the
CR0 i32 view are preserved byte-identical (the low 32 bits of the new result
equal the old truncated result), so this is a strict no-op for clean 32-bit
values and only restores the previously-zeroed upper bits for genuine 64-bit
values. Genuinely-32-bit ops (rlwinm/slw/srw/cmpw, mulhw/divw whose upper bits
are ISA-undefined) are left untouched.

Updated 7 unit tests that asserted the truncation (they encoded the bug) to the
canary-correct full-64-bit values. Re-baselined the sylpheed_n50m golden
(imports 40454 -> 1790936: the unwedged frame/worker loops now cycle under the
instruction-count timebase); sylpheed_n2m unchanged (pre-frame-loop). Lockstep
determinism preserved (two 50M runs identical). Full suite 660/660.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-12 16:21:11 +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
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
5a8fe21ad5 Iterate-2.BF.γ: refine is_in_callback gate to per-thread exclusion
Lockstep vsync delivery was capped at 54/run despite the ticker firing
333 periods and dispatcher being called 1.2M times. Root cause: the
blanket `is_in_callback()` gate skipped dispatch entirely whenever the
async audio path held `interrupts.saved`, which is essentially the
entire boot (audio worker rarely hits its LR_HALT_SENTINEL between
back-to-back callbacks). 5.85M dispatch_skip_in_callback events drowned
out the 55 with-pending windows.

Graphics dispatch (iterate-2.BE) runs the ISR synchronously and
restores the borrowed context before returning — it doesn't touch
`interrupts.saved`. The only real conflict is if graphics picks the
*same* thread audio borrowed (which would stomp audio's
SavedCallbackCtx). Replace the blanket gate with per-thread exclusion:
when audio is mid-flight, exclude only its `injected_ref` from
victim selection. Falls through to the existing no-victim drop if
that's the only candidate.

Lockstep (50M instr): gpu.interrupt.delivered{source=0} 54 → 295
(5.5×), all 333 ticker periods either delivered or unarmed (no more
queue_full_drops). Wallclock unchanged ~3 s.

Parallel (30M instr): 1193 → 3458 baseline lift (2.9×), no regression.

Tests: xenia-kernel 127/127, xenia-app 5/5 non-ignored. Lockstep
goldens will drift (interrupts.delivered is in the digest); deferred
to next iterate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 19:52:16 +02:00
MechaCat02
51489e34db Iterate-2.BE Path β: tick vsync from coord_idle_advance
The iterate-2.BE host-driven synchronous ISR dispatcher relies on
something queueing v-syncs. In lockstep that's `tick_vsync_instr`,
called from `coord_pre_round` per round. If the scheduler stalls into
`coord_idle_advance` (no Ready threads), the instruction counter
freezes — the accumulator stops incrementing, the ticker stops
queueing, and the dispatcher is left starved for the duration of the
idle wait.

Tick `tick_vsync_wallclock` at the top of `coord_idle_advance` so
v-syncs keep firing on host time even when the guest scheduler is
parked. The dispatcher in the outer loop drains whatever we queue on
the next iteration. Same MMIO `D1MODE_VBLANK_VLINE_STATUS` bit-set as
the production path.

Note: empirically in Sylpheed at 50M/500M instruction horizons,
`coord_idle_advance` is never reached (tids 9/10/12 stay Ready through
the early-boot deadlock), so this commit doesn't move
`gpu.interrupt.delivered{source=0}` off 54 for this title at these
horizons. It is the correct fix for the documented starvation pattern
and will activate as soon as the kernel reaches a state where Ready
threads drop to zero with timers/waits pending.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-06 19:22:03 +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
ac2f89a7bb Re-baseline sylpheed_n50m golden post-AUDIT-054
instructions: 50000002 → 50000001 (1-instr shift from FILE_DIRECTORY_FILE
plumbing on NtCreateFile path; all other digest fields unchanged —
imports/swaps/draws/render-targets/shaders/textures all match
prior golden).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 18:11:11 +02:00
MechaCat02
25704c5811 Re-baseline sylpheed_n50m golden post-AUDIT-032
Companion to 49f3eaf (AUDIT-032 dedicated audio worker). With the
audio callback ticker now on by default, the boot trajectory at
50M instr changes:

  instructions  50000009 -> 50000002  (interpreter stop boundary shift)
  imports         407215 -> 40454     (-90% — left audio-wait busy loop)
  swaps                2 -> 1         (degenerate splash repeat lost;
                                       main thread advances past splash)
  draws                0 -> 0         (audio gate != renderer gate per
                                       AUDIT-032 methodology correction)

The 10x imports drop reflects exiting the NtWaitForSingleObjectEx
busy-wait pattern (1.49M -> 30 calls per audit-runs/audit-048-*).
Boot now reaches Stfs/Xam content/crypto init phase. The single
remaining swap is the first splash; main thread is then blocked on
a different handle (0x1280) for follow-up.

sylpheed_n2m unchanged — at 2M instr the audio worker hasn't fired
yet, so the digest is byte-identical pre/post AUDIT-032.

Verified deterministic via two consecutive --expect runs at the new
digest (cargo test -p xenia-app --test sylpheed_oracles -- --ignored
passes in 2.82s).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 15:07:40 +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
e428ce33aa M9.5 + M11.5 + VMX + SJIS/UTF-8: close the post-M5.5 deferred set
Closes the four remaining deferred follow-up items in one bundle.
All four are smaller-scope and additive; lockstep determinism
unaffected (analyzer-only changes).

## M9.5 — __CxxFrameHandler scope-table parsing

- New `xenia_analysis::eh_scope` module. Magic-scans .rdata for the
  three documented MSVC FuncInfo signatures (0x19930520/21/22) on
  4-byte alignment. Each match is parsed as the documented struct
  (BE u32 fields), with sanity caps on max_state / n_try_blocks /
  pointer validity.
- Walks pUnwindMap (UnwindMapEntry, 8 bytes) and pTryBlockMap
  (TryBlockMapEntry, 20 bytes) into one row each.
- New tables eh_funcinfo, eh_unwind_map, eh_try_blocks.
- Sylpheed yield: 2,588 FuncInfo (all version 0x19930522) /
  10,019 unwind entries / 315 try-blocks.

## M11.5 — Static-init driver chain detection

- New `xenia_analysis::static_init` module. Walks every function
  looking for the canonical _initterm loop: lwz cursor; mtctr;
  bcctrl; addi cursor, cursor, 4 bounded by a compare against another
  constant register. Extracts (array_start, array_end) and reads
  the array.
- Reuses `function_pointer_arrays` table — drivers' arrays land with
  kind='static_init' (replacing M11's prologue-heuristic output where
  the structurally-grounded pattern fires).
- Sylpheed yield: 0 drivers detected — the binary's static-init
  structure does not match the canonical CRT loop. Infrastructure
  ready; future M11.6 can relax.

## VMX vector-store xrefs (M6 follow-up)

- Adds AltiVec/VMX X-form load/store XOs to the M6 opcode-31
  dispatch: lvx/lvxl/lvebx/lvehx/lvewx (reads) and
  stvx/stvxl/stvebx/stvehx/stvewx (writes), all addr_mode=
  'x_form_indexed'. Static resolution still requires both rA and rB
  constant.
- Sylpheed yield: 110 newly-detected stvx writes.

## Shift_JIS + UTF-8 localised-string detection (M7 follow-up)

- Extends `xenia_analysis::strings::analyze` with scan_shift_jis (JIS
  X 0208 lead/trail byte ranges + half-width katakana pass-through)
  and scan_utf8 (2- and 3-byte sequences). At least one multi-byte
  unit required so pure-ASCII strings aren't double-counted.
- SJIS bytes rendered as \xHH escapes for diagnostic readability;
  full SJIS→UTF-8 decoding deferred.
- Sylpheed yield: 790 Shift_JIS strings (Japanese debug + UI text)
  + 39 UTF-8.

## Tests

- +2 EH (parses_minimal_funcinfo_v0, rejects_bogus_max_state)
- +2 static_init (detects_canonical_initterm_loop, rejects_function_without_pattern)
- +2 strings (detects_shift_jis_string, detects_utf8_multibyte_string)

Tests 649→655 (+6 unit tests). DB schema golden + write_analysis_results
signature updated for new EH parameter.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-10 00:36:53 +02:00
MechaCat02
56ffa40a6a M5.5: this-flow indirect-dispatch resolution via vptr-write inference
Closes the dominant case M5 could not resolve — `lwz vt, off(this);
lwz fn, slot(vt); mtctr; bcctrl` (real C++ dispatch). Implements
class-membership inference using constructor-side vptr writes as an
oracle for which vtables can land at each offset.

## Algorithm

Phase 1 — vptr-write scan: walk every function with the existing
lis+addi register tracker. When `stw rA, off(rB)` writes a known M3
vtable address into off(rB), record `(vtable_addr, vptr_offset,
writer_pc, writer_function)` as a constructor-side vptr write.

Phase 2 — invert by offset: `vtables_by_offset[off] = {V : V written
at off in any ctor}`.

Phase 3 — dispatch detection: from each `bcctrl LK=1`, walk back
≤16 instructions looking for the canonical chain. Bail on register
clobber, branch, or label (basic-block) boundary.

Phase 4 — edge emission: for `(dispatch_pc, vptr_off, slot)`, emit one
`xrefs.kind='ind_call'` row per vtable V where:
  - `vtables_by_offset[vptr_off]` contains V, AND
  - `V.length > slot` (V actually has a method at that slot)

Multi-candidate sites (the common case at offset 0) are an
over-approximation; downstream queries filter to single-candidate sites
for high confidence:
  `WHERE candidate_count=1` in `indirect_dispatch_sites`.

## Schema

NEW TABLES:
- `vptr_writes(writer_pc, vtable_address, vptr_offset, writer_function)`
- `indirect_dispatch_sites(dispatch_pc PK, vptr_offset, slot, candidate_count)`
- `indirect_dispatch_candidates(dispatch_pc, vtable_address, method_address)`

NEW INDICES on vtable_address / vptr_offset / method_address /
(vptr_offset, slot) for fast joins.

## Sylpheed yield

- 567 vptr writes / 214 vtables / 29 offsets (offset 0 = 88%).
- 6,842 dispatch sites resolved: 97 single-candidate (high-confidence) +
  6,745 multi-candidate.
- 687,963 ind_call xref rows.
- 2,746 newly-reachable functions via v_indirect_reachability_from_entry
  (compared to 0 with M5 alone).
- Audit-009 cluster: functions including 0x823BC9E0, 0x823BC290,
  0x823BC5A0, 0x823BB158 newly reachable — actionable for the
  renderer-plateau hunt.

Tests 640→649 (+4 ind_dispatch_typed unit tests + 5 from tighter golden
expansion). Schema golden + write_analysis_results signature updated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-09 23:35:05 +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
38d8871e8d M6: addr_mode column on xrefs + extended store/load classes
Adds finer-grained addressing-mode classification to every data xref row
plus new dispatch for instruction families not previously emitted:
- New `xrefs.addr_mode VARCHAR NULL` column. NULL for control-flow edges
  (call / ind_call / j / br); one of d_form / lis_addi / lis_ori /
  multiword / x_form_indexed / x_form_byterev / atomic / dcbz for data
  edges. Index idx_xrefs_addr_mode.
- New `xenia_analysis::xref::AddrMode` enum + Xref::addr_mode field.
- Opcode 46/47 (lmw/stmw) expand to one xref per slot — D-form multi-word
  load/store now resolves all (32-rS) consecutive addresses.
- Opcode 31 X-form dispatch — stwx/stbx/sthx/stwux/stbux/sthux/stdx/stdux,
  lwzx/lbzx/lhzx/lhax/lwzux/lbzux/lhzux/lhaux/ldx/ldux,
  stwcx./stdcx. (atomic),
  stwbrx/sthbrx/lwbrx/lhbrx (byte-reverse),
  dcbz (cache-line clear).
- X-form rows are emitted ONLY when both rA and rB resolve to known
  constants (rare but present); the dominant runtime-indexed pattern
  remains correctly skipped.

Sylpheed yield (regen on master + merge):
- 442 newly-detected x_form_indexed reads (lwzx/lhzx into static tables).
- 40 newly-detected atomic writes (stwcx./stdcx. with resolvable address).
- 28,834 lis_addi refs, 18,485 d_form reads, 3,288 d_form writes — every
  pre-existing data row now tagged.
- 0 multiword / dcbz / byterev (these instructions exist but aren't on
  lis+addi-tracked code paths).

Tests 633→636 (+3 xref unit tests covering AddrMode tag uniqueness,
data-edge addr_mode round-trip, control-edge None invariant). Schema
golden updated (xrefs gains addr_mode column).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:38:47 +02:00
MechaCat02
ab4fe211e5 M5+M7: indirect-dispatch reachability + .rdata string detection
Two MEDIUM milestones bundled (both opportunistic per plan; both small).

## M5 — indirect-dispatch reachability

- `xenia_analysis::indirect`: per-basic-block register tracker over each
  detected function. Recognises the canonical static-vtable pattern
  `lis+addi → lwz off(rA) → mtctr → bcctrl` where rA holds a known M3
  vtable address. Emits one `Xref { kind: IndirectCall }` per resolvable
  bcctrl site.
- PowerPC ABI awareness: `bl`-style calls clobber volatile r0..r12 + ctr
  but preserve non-volatile r13..r31, so a vtable pointer parked in r30/r31
  before a call survives.
- Label-based basic-block boundaries kill register state — bounds
  false-positive risk for jump-IN paths.
- New `XrefKind::IndirectCall` variant (DB tag `'ind_call'`).
- New SQL view `v_indirect_reachability_from_entry` — strict superset of
  `v_reachability_from_entry`, taking `ind_call` edges in the BFS.

Sylpheed yield: 0 edges detected. The binary's 1,001 static lis+addi
references into vtables are nearly all constructor-side vptr writes, not
dispatches; real method dispatch goes through `this->vptr` which requires
alias analysis we explicitly don't do. Documented in SCHEMA.md as the
expected limitation. Three unit tests cover the synthetic-correctness path.

## M7 — string / constant-pool detection

- `xenia_analysis::strings`: scans `.rdata` for runs of ≥ 6 printable
  ASCII bytes (NUL-terminated) and ≥ 6 UTF-16LE code units (basic-plane
  printable ASCII, NUL u16 terminator).
- New `strings(address PK, encoding, length, content)` table + encoding index.
- Implicit cross-ref via existing `xrefs.kind='ref'` rows whose target
  matches a strings.address.

Sylpheed yield: 6,311 ASCII strings (including embedded HLSL shader source
and AS_CB_SURFACE_SWIZZLE_* assertion strings). 9,132 lis+addi sites
cross-reference detected strings — names source PCs near each string in
one query. Four unit tests cover encoding detection, NUL termination, and
short-run rejection.

Tests 626→633 (+3 indirect, +4 strings).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 21:22:50 +02:00
MechaCat02
4ff08f6116 M4: class-aware probe tokens via M3 vtable+method tables
CLI extension only — no schema change. Adds symbolic resolution for
--pc-probe / --branch-probe / --ctor-probe tokens:
- `0xADDR` / `2186674160` — numeric (current behavior, no DB load).
- `Class::method` — joins classes × methods × demangled_names.
- `Class::*` — joins classes × methods (all slots).
- `function_name` — falls back to functions.name for free functions /
  saverestore stubs / labels.

New `xenia_analysis::lookup::resolve_probe_token(db_path, token)` opens the
DB read-only ONLY when a token is non-numeric, so legacy numeric flows pay
no IO. New `--probe-db PATH` flag (or `XENIA_PROBE_DB` env / default
`sylpheed.db` next to the .iso) selects the DB.

Symbolic resolution happens BEFORE any guest exec, so it cannot affect the
lockstep digest. Verified deterministic across two reruns at -n 2M
(instructions=2000005 identical).

End-to-end smoke test on Sylpheed: `--pc-probe='ANON_Class_6B674251::*'`
resolves to all 45 method PCs of that anonymous class (matching the
methods-table row count for that vtable).

Tests 621→626 (+5 lookup unit tests covering numeric passthrough,
symbolic-without-DB error, Class::method resolution, Class::* expansion,
and functions.name fallback).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:22:21 +02:00
MechaCat02
1d6c51fbf8 M3: vtable scan + MSVC RTTI walk + 3 new tables
Adds detection of statically-allocated MSVC vtables in .rdata/.data:
- New `xenia_analysis::vtables` walks read-only sections looking for runs of
  ≥3 contiguous big-endian u32 values where each value lands on a known
  function start (from M1's corrected functions table). 2-slot runs are
  rejected to keep false-positive rate down.
- For each candidate the MSVC RTTI walk vtable[-1] → CompleteObjectLocator
  → TypeDescriptor → mangled name is attempted; on success the demangled
  class name is recorded along with a best-effort RTTIClassHierarchyDescriptor
  walk to fill base_classes_json. On failure (RTTI stripped — common for
  shipped game binaries) the class is named ANON_Class_<fnv1a-hash> keyed
  by sorted method-PC list, so identical vtables collapse to one entry.
- DB: new tables `vtables`, `methods`, `classes` with indices on
  function_address and rtti_present. `write_analysis_results` takes a
  `&[Vtable]` slice; `write_disasm` (back-compat) passes empty.
- cmd_dis wires the scan after xref analysis using
  `func_analysis.functions.keys()` as the function-start oracle.

Validation on Sylpheed (RTTI stripped, as expected): 722 vtables / 499
unique classes / 5571 methods. Sanity invariant: every methods.function_address
joins to functions.address (0 broken refs). Largest vtable: 131 slots.

Tests 617→621 (+4 vtable unit tests covering 3-slot detect, 2-slot reject,
synth name stability, and synth name divergence).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 20:17:45 +02:00
MechaCat02
70120465a3 M1: parse .pdata RUNTIME_FUNCTION; cross-validate function boundaries
Adds an authoritative function-boundary source from the linker:
- New `xenia_xex::pdata` parses .pdata 8-byte entries (BeginAddress + packed
  prolog/length/flags). Bit layout per Microsoft PE32 PowerPC spec: prolog in
  bits 0..7, function_length in bits 8..29, flags in 30..31.
- `func::analyze_with_pdata` unions pdata BeginAddresses into the candidate
  set, attaches `pdata_validated`/`pdata_length` to each `FuncInfo`, and trims
  any function whose `end` overlaps the next start (catches mis-merge where
  one row spanned two prologues — the audit-031 sub_824D23B0/sub_824D29F0
  case).
- DB: extends `functions` with `pdata_validated BOOLEAN`, `pdata_length BIGINT`;
  new table `pdata_entries`; index on pdata_validated.
- New `crates/xenia-analysis/SCHEMA.md` documents M1 layer + forward work.

Validation on Sylpheed: 25481 functions (was 12156) / 23073 pdata_validated /
0 orphans / 0 mis-merges. Audit-031 mis-merge resolved: sub_824D29F0 now has
its own row with `pdata_length=280` (70 dwords); sub_824D23B0 now correctly
ends at 0x824D2878 (`pdata_length=1224` matches prologue walk).

Tests 605→610. New 5-test pdata unit suite covers bit layout + sentinel +
out-of-range filtering + real-world layout round-trip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-08 19:44:02 +02:00