* [HLE] Fix guest-thread sync and boot for Unreal Engine titles
Silent Hill: The Short Message (and other UE titles) now boot the full
engine thread graph instead of hanging early. Four related fixes:
- pthread cond/mutex semantics: retain a signal raised with no waiter as
pending, and key block/wake on the state's identity rather than a
resolved address that could differ between lock and unlock. This ends
the ~1.5M-call cond_wait busy-spin.
- Warm HLE type initializers and force-JIT their methods on a host thread
at Freeze(). A .cctor or first-time JIT running on a guest thread's
hijacked stack fail-fasts the CLR as "Invalid Program: attempted to
call a UnmanagedCallersOnly method from managed code".
- Guest thread scheduling: pump after a wake so a readied thread actually
runs, add a dispatcher thread for when every guest thread is parked,
and make the pump-depth guard an atomic CAS.
- Route mutex/rwlock lock/unlock off the non-blocking leaf-import fast
path so a contended lock can deschedule its guest thread.
Ported from the unreal-boot-fixes branch.
* [HLE] Keep mutex/rwlock unlock on the leaf-import fast path
The previous change routed all mutex/rwlock lock and unlock NIDs off the
leaf fast path so a contended lock could deschedule its guest thread. But
unlock never blocks, and taking it off the fast path made it slow enough
that Demon's Souls' job workers livelocked in a guest spinlock (millions
of mutex_unlock calls, no import progress, main thread stuck in
sceKernelWaitEventFlag).
Only *lock* needs to leave the leaf path. Restore the four unlock NIDs
(mutex + rwlock) so guest spinlocks stay cheap, while lock/rd/wrlock
remain off it for the blocking case Silent Hill needs.
* [HLE] Gate pthread_mutex_lock guest-thread blocking (fixes Demon's Souls)
Re-enabling cooperative deschedule on a contended pthread_mutex_lock
regressed Demon's Souls: its job workers run on libSceFiber, and blocking
a guest thread mid-fiber left sceFiberSwitch returning ESRCH followed by
a null fiber-context deref (0xC0000005). Bisect confirmed the pthread
change as the cause; the game reaches the same point as before it once
the block is skipped.
Gate the block behind SHARPEMU_MUTEX_LOCK_BLOCKING (off by default) so
contended locks fall through to the synchronous host-thread wait. The
rest of the pthread fixes (cond_wait pending signals, identity wake keys)
are unaffected.
Two gaps around the VOP3 signed multiplies caused whole-shader SPIR-V
compilation failures:
- v_mul_lo_i32 (0x16B) decoded correctly but had no emission case, so
any shader containing it failed with "unsupported vector opcode
VMulLoI32". Its low 32 result bits are identical to the unsigned
multiply in two's complement, so it now shares the v_mul_lo_u32 IMul
case.
- v_mul_hi_i32 (0x16C) was missing from the VOP3 decode table entirely
and decoded as an opaque Vop3Raw16C, which also fails at emission.
It is now decoded and emitted by sign-extending both operands to
64 bits, multiplying, and taking the upper 32 bits of the product,
mirroring the existing v_mul_hi_u32 pattern.
Opcode numbers verified against LLVM's AMDGPU backend
(VOP3Instructions.td): V_MUL_LO_U32 gfx10 = 0x169, V_MUL_HI_U32 =
0x16a, V_MUL_LO_I32 = 0x16b, V_MUL_HI_I32 = 0x16c. Behavior verified
by decoding and fully compiling a synthetic program containing all
four multiplies: previously the 0x16C word decoded as Vop3Raw16C and
compilation failed at the v_mul_lo_i32 instruction; now all four
decode by name and the program compiles to SPIR-V.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VOP2 opcode 0x2B was mapped to v_ldexp_f32, which is its gfx6/gfx7
assignment. On gfx10-class hardware 0x2B is v_fmac_f32, so any shader
using it silently computed ldexp(a, b) instead of dst += a * b.
v_ldexp_f32 on gfx10 only exists as VOP3 0x362, which the VOP3 table
already maps correctly.
Also add the remaining members of the fmac family:
- v_fmamk_f32 (0x2C) and v_fmaak_f32 (0x2D), including their mandatory
literal dword in instruction sizing and operand construction, reusing
the existing v_madmk/v_madak handling.
- The VOP3-encoded form of v_fmac_f32 (0x12B), emitted when source
modifiers are present.
SPIR-V emission reuses the existing v_mac_f32 body (fma with the
destination register as addend) and the v_mad/v_fma case group.
Opcode assignments verified against LLVM's AMDGPU backend
(VOP2Instructions.td): V_FMAC_F32 gfx10 = 0x02b, V_FMAMK_F32 = 0x02c,
V_FMAAK_F32 = 0x02d; V_LDEXP_F32 is 0x02b only on gfx6/gfx7 and is
VOP3-only 0x362 on gfx10. Decode verified by feeding hand-assembled
gfx1013 words through Gen5ShaderTranslator: 0x560A0501 previously
decoded as VLdexpF32 and a v_fmamk_f32 program failed with
unknown-vop2 op=0x2C; both now decode correctly, and VOP3 0x362 still
decodes as VLdexpF32.
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SelectPhysicalDevice took the first device exposing a graphics+present
queue. On hybrid-graphics laptops that is the integrated GPU, so the
discrete card went unused - and AMD's integrated driver access-violates
inside vkCreateGraphicsPipelines while compiling some translated guest
shaders, killing the process. The CLR surfaced that native AV as
"Invalid Program: attempted to call a UnmanagedCallersOnly method from
managed code", which made it look like a CPU/threading fault.
Score the candidates instead: NVIDIA parts win, other discrete GPUs come
next, and an integrated GPU is only chosen when nothing else can present.
SHARPEMU_VK_DEVICE=<substring> pins a specific adapter, and the selected
device is logged.
* fix(core): implement 4-tier lazy dlsym stub materialization and argument normalization
Enforce transactional and thread-safe resolution for standalone ELF bootstrapper pipelines. - Implement a 4-tier additive fallback cascade (T0: runtime symbols, T1: import entries scan, T2: Aerolib mapping, T3: runtime slack-pool lazy stub allocation at 0x7000_0000_0000). - Fix UnmanagedCallersOnly CLR runtime crashes on second bootstrap by adding NormalizeKernelDynlibDlsymArguments to detect and swap mirrored (symbol, handle) register inputs via rigorous pointer bounds verification. - Protect failure paths via CompleteKernelDynlibDlsymFailure, cleanly zero-filling target outputAddress buffers and returns Rax = -1 with zero managed logging execution in hot native paths.
* fix(core): harden lazy-stub diagnostics with COW snapshots and deferred bootstrap logging
Follow-up to lazy stub pool copy-on-write publishing in TryGetOrCreateLazyImportStub. - Snapshot _importEntries in ProbeReturnRip before near-call and PLT import lookup loops to prevent torn iteration during concurrent array replacement. - Defer SHARPEMU_LOG_BOOTSTRAP output: hot path records raw register slots in a ring buffer under lock; TryReadAsciiZ and Console.Error run only after import handler completion via DrainDeferredBootstrapTraces. - Normalize bootstrap dynlib register order at DispatchImport gateway entry before any logging or trace reads, so swapped RDI/RSI on Import#2 cannot fault the native gateway when bootstrap tracing is enabled. - Resolve lazy stub pool bounds from the full SelfLoader-mapped import region via VirtualQuery instead of a hardcoded 4 KiB cap. - Use ConcurrentDictionary for runtime symbol registration during concurrent dlsym. - Emit distinct [LOADER][WARN] reasons when import stub region resolution fails versus lazy stub pool exhaustion.
* fix(vfs): defer host cursor commit in getdirentries
Follow-up VFS hardening task applying the same guest-writes-first discipline established in the time subsystem to directory enumeration.
Deferred Commit in KernelGetdirentriesCore:
- Reordered guest output so the 512-byte dirent buffer is written first via TryWriteCompat, basep is updated second (when non-null) via TryWriteUInt64Compat, and directory.NextIndex is advanced only after both guest writes succeed.
- Removed the early basep write at method entry that could mutate guest memory before buffer validation and advance the host cursor before a successful dirent delivery, causing permanent entry loss on MEMORY_FAULT at bufferAddress.
- EOF handling: when currentIndex >= Entries.Length, write basep with the final offset and return 0 without mutating NextIndex, matching FreeBSD getdirentries(2) semantics and preventing infinite retry loops.
KernelGetdents path: basePointerAddress is passed as 0, so the transaction collapses to buffer write then host cursor advance with no basep side effect.
Out of scope: coalesced {id, size} writes in sceKernelAprResolveFilepathsToIdsAndFileSizes; NetCtl connected-state stubs.
Files: KernelMemoryCompatExports.cs
* fix(vfs): resolve-first bulk commit in APR filepath resolution
Refactored sceKernelAprResolveFilepathsToIdsAndFileSizes to stop writing ids and sizes into guest memory one element at a time.
- Removed the uint.MaxValue placeholder write at the start of each loop iteration.
- Path resolution and file size lookup now fill host-side buffers first; on EFAULT or NOT_FOUND the guest ids/sizes arrays are left untouched.
- ids and sizes are packed into contiguous byte buffers and written with one TryWriteCompat call per output array instead of separate TryWriteUInt32Compat / TryWriteUInt64Compat per index.
- AmprFileRegistry.Register is called only after guest writes succeed.
- AmprFileRegistry.ComputeFileId is internal so ids can be computed without registering paths during the resolve loop.
Files: KernelMemoryCompatExports.cs, AmprFileRegistry.cs
Add a Split button to detach the emulator console into a resizable window.
The detached console keeps search, auto-scroll, copy, and clear controls. The main console hides while detached and restores when the split window closes if it was previously open.
Treat the exact untextured transparent-black premultiplied fill used by Chowdren as an overwrite. This prevents Dreaming Sarah fog and vignette render targets from accumulating across frames; SHARPEMU_DISABLE_TRANSPARENT_FILL_CLEAR=1 restores prior behavior.
Port the libSceDiscMap stubs from Kyty (InoriRus/Kyty, MIT) into the
SysAbiExport model. Disc-installed titles probe these NIDs on most file
accesses to decide whether a read must be redirected to the disc drive;
answering that every request is already resident on internal storage
keeps I/O on the regular file system path instead of failing with
unresolved-import errors.
- sceDiscMapIsRequestOnHDD (lbQKqsERhtE): validates args, writes 1 to
the result pointer, returns 0
- fJgP+wqifno / ioKMruft1ek: zero-fill the three output pointers,
return 0 (names not present in ps5_names.txt; kept as descriptive
Unknown exports like the existing sceKernelUnknown* convention)
- DISC_MAP_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT (0x81100001) on null pointers,
matching the documented libSceDiscMap error range
- optional tracing via SHARPEMU_LOG_DISCMAP=1
Co-authored-by: j92580498-max <252151737+j92580498-max@users.noreply.github.com>
* [agc] WAIT_REG_MEM suspend/resume, draw packet fixes, new HLE exports, debug cleanup
Rebased onto upstream 79a7437 (par274/sharpemu, rewritten history).
- GpuWaitRegistry: DCBs suspended on unsatisfied WAIT_REG_MEM are re-polled
against guest memory on every submit; fixed 64-bit and standard packet parse
offsets, apply the mask, treat PM4 compare function 0 as "always".
- TryReadSubmittedDrawCount: accept the 5-dword ItDrawIndex2 form emitted by
DcbDrawIndex (count at +4); menu draws were silently discarded before.
- sceAgcDriverSubmitMultiDcbs: reversed ABI (rdi=address array, rsi=dword
sizes, rdx=count).
- VideoOut: vblank events, sceVideoOutGetFlipStatus, buffers registered via
sceVideoOutRegisterBuffers are valid flip targets.
- New HLE: libc stdio (fopen/fread/fseek/ftell/fclose/fgets), Dinkumware
_Getpctype ctype table, NpTrophy2 stubs, AMPR PAK sequential-read tracker,
MsgDialog lifecycle, NGS2 alt NIDs + dummy vtable for handle objects,
guarded memset intrinsic, abort()/strcasecmp null-arg recovery.
- Removed investigation-only code (INT3 breakpoints, qfont/mcpp dumps,
error-candidate printf traces, unconditional debug logs).
First rendered frame: Quake (PPSA01880) presents a 1920x1080 guest frame.
* Implemented a guarded native intrinsic (rep movsb) in DirectExecutionBackend to bypass HLE dispatch overhead, while preserving memory safety checks.
* [hle] clock_gettime clock ids, AudioOut2 canary fix, NID rebinds, new offline stubs
- clock_gettime (lLMT9vJAck0): support CLOCK_SECOND and the *_PRECISE/*_FAST
variants instead of returning EINVAL, which games treated as fatal and
retried in a tight loop.
- AudioOut2: context param writes shrunk to the guest-observed layout (the
old 0x80-byte reset smashed the stack canary at +0x60 and killed audio
init); ContextQueryMemory writes the single u64 the caller expects.
- NGS2: dropped wrong alt-NID aliases (they hash to sceImeUpdate,
sceMouseRead, sceSystemGestureUpdateAllTouchRecognizer - now bound in
their real libraries); added sceNgs2PanInit; fixed VoiceGetState NIDs.
- New verified stubs: sceUltInitialize, sceNpUniversalDataSystemDestroyHandle,
sceNpGetOnlineId, sceNpGetNpReachabilityState, sceImeKeyboardOpen,
sceImeKeyboardGetResourceId, sceMouseOpen, sceKernelAprGetFileSize.
- Import gateway: unwind guest workers at dispatch during backend teardown;
env-gated SHARPEMU_LOG_THREAD_MODE tracing.
* [cpu] Isolate guest execution on native worker threads
Guest entry stubs no longer run above CLR-managed frames: each run is handed
to a pooled raw OS thread whose loop is emitted native code. While guest code
executes there is not a single managed frame on the thread and it stays in
preemptive GC mode, so the GC never walks a frame chain interleaved with
guest stubs that carry no CLR unwind info (the ReversePInvokeBadTransition /
UnmanagedCallersOnly FailFast class of crashes on pumped guest threads).
- NativeGuestExecutor: CreateThread + emitted run loop (WaitForSingleObject,
UnmanagedCallersOnly prologue/epilogue, entry stub call, SetEvent). The
prologue rebinds guest TLS, the host-RSP slot, thread affinity and the
Active* ambient per run, so workers carry no guest identity and pool
freely; the orchestrating managed thread parks in a preemptive wait.
- All three entry sites route through RunGuestEntryStub: guest thread
entries, blocked-continuation resumes, and the main ExecuteEntry.
- Teardown stops workers before any executable stub or TLS index they
reference is freed; a worker that will not stop leaks its loop instead of
freeing running code.
- Kill switch: SHARPEMU_DISABLE_NATIVE_GUEST_WORKERS=1 restores the inline
calli path.
Publish launcher status to Discord over its local IPC named pipe with
no external dependency: framed-JSON handshake and SET_ACTIVITY, a
background worker with reconnection and latest-state dedup, and silent
no-op behavior when Discord is not running.
- "Browsing the library" (game count, session elapsed) while idle;
"Playing <game>" with title id and elapsed time during emulation.
Activities always carry timestamps: Discord accepts but does not
render activities without them
- Presence flips back to browsing immediately on Stop instead of
waiting for process exit: a game wedged in a GPU driver call can
outlive termination for a while. Stop also terminates the job
object so the whole child tree dies even in that state
- Toggle in the Options panel (persisted); client id configurable in
gui-settings.json; SHARPEMU_LOG_DISCORD=1 traces queue/send/failure
Implements the sceKernelNanosleep export (NID QvsZxomvUHs) for both Gen4
and Gen5 targets. Reads the requested timespec from guest memory,
validates the pointer and tv_nsec range, sleeps for the requested
duration, and zeroes the optional remaining-time struct on completion.
Also fixes: reading rqtp as a guest pointer to a timespec (tv_sec/tv_nsec
int64 pair) instead of raw register values, and keeps the optimized
sceKernelUsleep short-sleep path untouched.
Co-authored-by: par274 <par274@users.noreply.github.com>
Comprehensive refactoring of the system time subsystem to unify clock dispatching, support precise clock extensions, and secure memory boundaries against partial state corruption.
Centralized Clock Dispatch Engine:
- Extracted shared elapsed-tick calculation and clock-routing math into a unified internal static bool ResolveClockTime() dispatch engine under KernelRuntimeCompatExports.cs.
- Moved all clock identifiers from KernelMemoryCompatExports to KernelRuntimeCompatExports as internal const int constants to eliminate cross-file duplication while preserving raw compiler switch-case layout optimizations.
- Added native alias mapping support for CLOCK_REALTIME_PRECISE (9) and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_PRECISE (11).
- Hardened the Orbis sceKernelClockGettime path by routing it through the new dispatcher, resolving a pre-existing logic flaw where any non-zero clock_id incorrectly fell back to monotonic time. Invalid IDs now properly fail with ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT.
Coalesced Single-Transaction Memory Writes:
- Replaced consecutive isolated 8-byte scalar writes across POSIX clock_gettime, gettimeofday, and Orbis sceKernelClockGettime/sceKernelGettimeofday with safe single-transaction 16-byte stackalloc byte buffer writes via BinaryPrimitives and ctx.Memory.TryWrite. This entirely prevents partial memory state corruption on virtual page boundaries.
- Implemented a single 8-byte coalesced zero-fill transaction for the deprecated/legacy timezone buffer (timezoneAddress != 0), aligning it with standard FreeBSD stub behavior.
- Standardized POSIX failure path routines. Write faults cleanly issue TrySetErrno(ctx, Efault) while safely omitting explicit manual Rax writes, letting the import dispatcher natively sign-extend the return -1 value to 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Zero-Alloc Host RDTSC Execution Stub:
- Patched CreateRdtscReader() to stream native architecture opcodes out of stack-allocated spans directly into host executable memory zones (VirtualAlloc) via unsafe { Buffer.MemoryCopy(...) }, completely removing the high-frequency .ToArray() runtime allocation overhead on the hot path.
Files: KernelRuntimeCompatExports.cs, KernelMemoryCompatExports.cs
Follow-up task to enforce coalesced guest memory writes within the gettimeofday subsystem, removing remaining partial-write risks on virtual memory page boundaries.
* sceKernelGettimeofday Hardening: Replaced consecutive isolated 8-byte scalar writes with a single 16-byte coalesced transaction buffer using stackalloc byte[16] and BinaryPrimitives. It preserves native Orbis semantics by returning ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_MEMORY_FAULT on failure states without side-effect partial-writes.
* POSIX gettimeofday Compliance:
- Applied the identical single-transaction 16-byte write pattern for the timeval structure.
- Implemented a single 8-byte coalesced zero-fill transaction for the deprecated/legacy timezone buffer (timezoneAddress != 0) using BinaryPrimitives.WriteInt32LittleEndian, aligning it with standard FreeBSD stub behavior.
- Integrated proper TrySetErrno(ctx, Efault) tracking upon write failures. The method safely omits explicit manual Rax writes on error paths, allowing the import dispatcher to cleanly sign-extend the return -1 value to 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.
Out of scope: Subsystem clock and timeval validation is now fully complete; no further temporal partial-write vulnerabilities remain within the core runtime memory compat layers.
Files: KernelRuntimeCompatExports.cs
Replaced the no-op stub for sceKernelGetCompiledSdkVersion with a proper runtime compliance implementation.
Runtime Validation: Added explicit NULL pointer verification for the destination buffer address (versionAddress == 0). It returns ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_INVALID_ARGUMENT and sign-extends the target Rax register to 0xFFFFFFFF80020003, strictly mirroring the PthreadJoin error-handling pattern of this subsystem.
Target-Based SDK Fallback: Implemented deterministic fallback version routing based on ctx.TargetGeneration (0x05000000 for Gen4 and 0x09000000 for Gen5 standard Orbis layout). This ensures guest applications pass early firmware checks until native metadata extraction is implemented.
Atomic Memory Write: Secured the state write sequence via the native ctx.TryWriteUInt32 layer, correctly catching virtual memory page faults, propagating ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_MEMORY_FAULT to Rax, and safely bypassing partial-write state corruption.
Out of scope (follow-up): Native parsing of the compiled SDK version flags directly out of the guest ELF note/metadata sections.
sceKernelWaitSema parks a guest thread on the scheduler when the count is not
yet available, but sceKernelSignalSema only incremented the count and returned:
there was no WakeBlockedThreads call anywhere in the file, so a thread blocked
in WaitSema was never woken and the game hung there. sceKernelCancelSema and
sceKernelDeleteSema left parked waiters stranded the same way.
Give each semaphore a per-handle wake key and each waiter a small record with
the count it needs and a result slot. Signal, cancel, and delete wake the
waiters through the scheduler after releasing the semaphore lock, matching the
lock order the event flag and event queue paths already use. The wake handler
runs under the scheduler gate and consumes the count under the semaphore lock,
so a waiter needing more than is available stays parked while a smaller waiter
can still proceed; the resume handler hands the recorded result back as the
guest's return value.
Cancel bumps an epoch and delete sets a flag so woken waiters return what the
kernel returns in those cases: ECANCELED (0x80020055) for a canceled wait and
the EACCES-class 0x8002000D for a deleted semaphore. Delete succeeds even with
waiters present. Only the woken waiter's own handler adjusts the waiting-thread
count, so a waiter that parks during a cancel is not double-counted, and the
create path now wakes a waiter that raced onto the handle if the handle
write-back fails instead of stranding it.
This does not change the immediate paths: an available count is still consumed
inline, and a wait with a timeout pointer still returns immediately (honoring
the timeout through the scheduler is a separate change).
Verified with a block/wake harness that drives real guest threads through the
real import trampolines: signal-after-block, signal racing the park,
multi-waiter signal, need-count gating with a smaller waiter slipping past, and
cancel and delete with parked waiters including the reported waiter count, plus
event flag and event queue regression checks. Builds clean on Windows and
Linux.
* [GUI] Added Atrac9 audio decoder and improved GUI with audio preview and controller support
* fix: package.lock.json for SharpEmu.CLI to match the other projects
* fix: packages.lock.json file to include new dependencies for GUI improvements
* rollForward: "disable"
* [cpu] Implement SysV variadic float ABI (xmm0-7 capture, float returns, printf %f)
The import trampoline spilled only xmm0 and never reloaded a return xmm0. The
guest uses the System V AMD64 ABI: variadic float args pass in xmm0..xmm7 and
float/double returns come back in xmm0. As a result variadic float args past
the first were unavailable to HLE handlers, float returns never reached the
guest, and direct printf read %f/%e/%g from GP registers instead of XMM,
printing garbage and desynchronizing every following argument.
- Trampoline: spill xmm0..xmm7 into a 0x80-byte save area below the GP argpack
(r12 stays at the argpack base) and reload the return xmm0 in the epilogue.
- Gateway: read xmm0..7 from the save area into CpuContext and write the
handler's xmm0 back. XMM is caller-saved in SysV, so restoring xmm0 on return
is safe for non-float imports too.
- RegisterPrintfArgumentSource: read float args from xmm0..7 with independent
GP/FP counters and a shared stack-overflow cursor.
Every emitted byte was decoded; a unit test confirms float args read xmm0..7
(not GP) and interleaved "%d %f %d %f" stays synchronized. Build 0/0.
* [cpu] Document the scalar-only leaf-import constraint at its registration site
- IsLeafImport: spell out the no-XMM-args / no-XMM-return invariant the fast
path relies on and what breaks if it is violated; record the 2026-07-11 audit.
- Name every previously uncommented NID in the leaf list (mutex lock/unlock,
usleep, the Ampr/Apr command-buffer block, the unknown AGC packet NID).
- IsNoBlockLeafImport: document that it is a sub-filter of IsLeafImport and
that its five extra entries currently take the full gateway path; fix the
mislabeled K-jXhbt2gn4 comment (pthread_mutex_trylock, not
scePthreadMutexTrylock, which is upoVrzMHFeE).
- Point the DispatchImport call-site note at the audited list.
Comment-only change: the comment-stripped diff is empty and the solution
builds with 0 warnings / 0 errors.
Refactored parts of the time subsystem to improve POSIX/Orbis compliance and secure guest memory boundaries.
**1. POSIX `clock_gettime` updates:**
- Added `CLOCK_REALTIME_FAST` (10) and `CLOCK_MONOTONIC_FAST` (12) support for games using FreeBSD fast clock extensions.
- Fixed `NULL` pointer handling for `timespecAddress == 0`. It now returns `-1` with `EINVAL` (22) instead of `EFAULT` to match Orbis runtime behavior.
- Invalid `clock_id` values now properly fallback to `default` -> `-1` + `EINVAL`.
**2. Memory safety & monotonic tracking:**
- Replaced dual 8-byte scalar writes in both POSIX `clock_gettime` and Orbis `sceKernelClockGettime` with a single 16-byte write via `stackalloc byte[16]` and `BinaryPrimitives`. This prevents partial memory corruption at page boundaries.
- Bad non-NULL guest addresses now fail cleanly as `EFAULT` (POSIX) or `MEMORY_FAULT` (Orbis).
- Extracted core monotonic math into `GetProcessMonotonicTime()` in `KernelRuntimeCompatExports.cs` so both clock paths share the exact same `_processStartCounter` base.
**3. Host RDTSC optimization:**
- Fixed `CreateRdtscReader()` to copy stack-allocated opcode bytes into host `VirtualAlloc` memory via `unsafe { Buffer.MemoryCopy(...) }`. This completely gets rid of the redundant `.ToArray()` allocation on the hot path.
**Out of scope:** `sceKernelGettimeofday` / POSIX `gettimeofday` partial-write hardening; stricter clock validation in `sceKernelClockGettime`.
Read guest C strings in page-bounded chunks without heap allocations.
Return false when the buffer fills without a null terminator. Route exit
and _exit through RequestProcessExit.
* GUI: redesign library as a cover-art grid with game management
Replace the sidebar game list with a full-width grid of cover tiles.
Cover art is loaded automatically from each game's sce_sys/icon0.png
(pic0.png fallback) and decoded off the UI thread; games without art
get a deterministic gradient placeholder with the title's initials.
- New layout: search/scan toolbar, tile grid with hover and selection
states, bottom launch bar with cover thumbnail, collapsible launch
options and console panels (console auto-opens on launch)
- Right-click context menu on tiles: launch, open game folder, copy
path/title ID, remove from library
- Removed games persist in an ExcludedGames settings list; re-adding
a folder restores any removed games beneath it
- Search now also matches title IDs
- Fix: placeholder brushes were constructed on the scan thread, which
throws in Avalonia and was silently swallowed, yielding empty scans
* GUI: show full install folder size instead of eboot.bin size
The library previously displayed the size of eboot.bin alone, which
wildly understates a game's real footprint. The install folder is now
totaled recursively in the existing background pass (after cover art,
which is cheaper and more visible), and each tile updates live once
its size is ready.
* GUI: selection backdrop, smaller tiles, controller navigation
Address review feedback on the library redesign:
- Selecting a game fades its key art (sce_sys/pic0.png, pic1.png
fallback) in as the window backdrop, dimmed by a gradient scrim;
decoded off the UI thread and cached per entry
- Cover tiles reduced from 156px to 128px
- The library can be driven with a DualSense: d-pad/left stick moves
the selection (hold-to-repeat, row-aware), Cross launches, Circle
stops; input is ignored while the launcher window is unfocused.
Reuses the pad HID reader by compile-linking its dependency-free
sources instead of referencing all of SharpEmu.Libs
* Pad: native DualSense support via raw HID
Read a real DualSense (or DualSense Edge) controller directly over
Win32 HID and feed its state into scePadRead/scePadReadState, replacing
the keyboard-only input path. No new dependencies.
- Device discovery by Sony VID/PID through setupapi/hid.dll, with
hot-plug: disconnects fall back to keyboard and reconnect
automatically
- USB input report 0x01 and Bluetooth extended report 0x31 (activated
via the feature report 0x05 handshake) are both parsed
- Full mapping to SCE_PAD_BUTTON conventions: face buttons, d-pad hat,
L1/R1/L2/R2 digital bits, analog triggers, L3/R3, Options, touchpad
click, both sticks
- Controller and keyboard input merge: buttons OR together, controller
sticks win past a small deadzone, triggers take the max
* Pad: rumble and lightbar output for DualSense
Wire scePadSetVibration, scePadSetLightBar and scePadResetLightBar to
real DualSense output reports. The output payload follows the same
layout as the Linux hid-playstation driver: both rumble motors,
lightbar RGB and the player LED indicator.
- USB uses output report 0x02; Bluetooth uses the 0x31 wrapper with a
sequence tag and CRC32 (0xA2-seeded) trailer, transport detected
from the first input report
- Output goes through a dedicated device handle so writes never
contend with the blocking input read loop
- On connect the controller gets a default state (blue lightbar,
player 1 LED); rumble state resets on disconnect
Verified on hardware over USB: lightbar color cycling and both motors.
Bluetooth output is implemented per spec but not yet hardware-tested.
- FileLogSink: thread-safe file writer with AutoFlush, FileShare.Read for
concurrent read access (tail -f), automatic parent directory creation,
full date-time timestamps, IDisposable for graceful shutdown
- CompositeLogSink: fan-out to multiple sinks with per-sink exception
isolation (one broken sink cannot silence the others), IDisposable
propagates to children
- SharpEmuLog: ResolveSinkFromEnvironment() reads SHARPEMU_LOG_FILE and
creates CompositeLogSink(console + file) when set; Sink setter now
disposes the previous IDisposable sink to prevent file handle leaks;
Shutdown() flushes and disposes the active sink
- Program.cs: Main wrapped in try/finally to guarantee SharpEmuLog.Shutdown()
runs on all exit paths (GUI, mitigated child, normal, exception)
Co-authored-by: Hermes Atlas <hermesatlas@example.com>
* [agc] Add shader type 4 (GS) and register defaults v13 support
Astro Bot (#11) crashes on boot due to two missing GPU features:
1. Shader type 4 (Geometry Shader) — SPI_SHADER_PGM_LO/HI register
offsets 0x8A/0x8B were missing. Added constants and switch cases
for shader type 4 in GetExpectedSpiShaderPgmLo/Hi. Also added
type 4 to IsEsGeometryShaderType (2 or 4 or 6).
2. Register defaults version 13 — was not recognized as supported.
Added RegisterDefaultsVersion13 constant and included it in
IsSupportedRegisterDefaultsVersion.
* [kernel] Add POSIX pthread_cond_timedwait export
SILENT HILL (#4) and Poppy Playtime (#3) crash on boot due to
missing POSIX pthread_cond_timedwait (NID 27bAgiJmOh0).
The Sony wrapper scePthreadCondTimedwait (NID BmMjYxmew1w) was
already implemented, but the raw POSIX symbol was not exported.
Added [SysAbiExport] for pthread_cond_timedwait delegating to
existing PthreadCondWaitCore with timed: true.
* [memory] Fix FlushInstructionCache null process handle
PhysicalVirtualMemory.cs called FlushInstructionCache with null as the
process handle in two places (SetProtection and TryWriteExclusive).
On Windows, a null handle does not reliably resolve to the current
process — the correct call is GetCurrentProcess() (pseudo-handle -1).
Also corrected the P/Invoke signature:
- Changed return type from void to bool with [return: MarshalAs(Bool)]
- Added SetLastError = true
- Added GetCurrentProcess() P/Invoke import
This matches the pattern already used in DirectExecutionBackend.cs
which correctly passes GetCurrentProcess() to all FlushInstructionCache
calls.
* [hle] Distinguish NOT_FOUND from NOT_IMPLEMENTED and log duplicate NIDs
Three diagnostic improvements to the HLE dispatch path:
1. ModuleManager.RegisterFromAssembly — duplicate NID registration was
silently skipped (dispatchTable first-wins, exportTable last-wins,
causing metadata divergence). Now logs a warning with the NID and
export name so conflicts are visible.
2. ModuleManager.TryDispatch — generation mismatch returned
ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_NOT_FOUND, conflating 'function does not exist'
with 'function exists but not for this generation'. Now returns
ORBIS_GEN2_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED for generation mismatch, matching
the existing convention in CpuDispatcher. Also adds debug logging
for both NOT_FOUND and NOT_IMPLEMENTED paths.
3. DirectExecutionBackend.Imports.cs — the import dispatch else-branch
(the actual hot path that bypasses ModuleManager.TyDispatch via
cached export) had the same conflation. Split into:
- else if (export exists but generation mismatch) → NOT_IMPLEMENTED
- else (no export at all) → NOT_FOUND
This makes runtime diagnostics correctly distinguish missing exports
from generation-unsupported exports.
* [cpu] Check VirtualProtect return values in all stub creation paths
9 VirtualProtect calls in DirectExecutionBackend.cs had unchecked
return values. If VirtualProtect silently fails, memory protection
remains incorrect — stubs allocated with PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE (0x40)
never get downgraded to PAGE_EXECUTE_READ (0x20), or guest thread
entry stubs never get upgraded to writable. This causes access
violations on next execution or silent data corruption.
Fixed all 9 sites with proper error handling:
- 6 stub creation methods (return 0 on failure + log error)
- 2 guest thread entry methods (set reason + return Exception)
- 1 guest entry method (set LastError + return MEMORY_FAULT)
Stub creation sites fixed:
- CreateImportDispatchStub (line ~1683)
- EnsureTlsHandler (void, log + return)
- CreateUnresolvedReturnStub (return 0)
- CreateGuestReturnStub (return 0)
- CreateExceptionHandlerTrampoline (return 0)
- CreateTlsStoreHelperStub (return 0)
Guest thread entry sites fixed:
- StartGuestThreadNativeCall (return Exception)
- StartGuestContinuationNativeCall (return Exception)
- RunGuestEntryPoint (return MEMORY_FAULT)
* [kernel] Remove unused duplicate _nextFileDescriptor field
KernelExports.cs declared _nextFileDescriptor but never used it.
The actual field used for file descriptor allocation lives in
KernelMemoryCompatExports.cs (lines 1314, 1337). This was a dead
duplicate causing CS0414 warning.
Build is now 0 errors, 0 warnings.
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Co-authored-by: Hermes Atlas <hermesatlas@example.com>
