Metal Gear Solid 4 (PPSA18194) aborts on main when its launcher starts
the game: sceSystemServiceLoadExec runs the guest shutdown, a render
thread that then calls into the stopped AGC driver gets ProcessShutdown
back from LibcAwaitExit, and the exception unwinds into title code,
which terminates the process before the new executable starts.
LibcAwaitExit parks a thread only once an exit has been requested, and
LoadExec ran the shutdown without requesting one. It now starts the
shutdown the way exit does, so such threads wait until the process is
replaced.
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Lines queued behind the logger were lost when the process ended through
abort(), std::terminate, the Windows crash report or a guest _Exit,
because only driver failure, Driver::stop and a normal exit flushed the
queue.
libc keeps one end flush (LibcSetEndFlush_nid_no_patch) and runs it from
those paths. Its first registration chains a SIGABRT handler in front of
the previous one, so every abort() and std::terminate in the process is
covered, on Linux as well; with the default disposition the handler
restores it and raises again, so raise(SIGABRT) still ends the process.
Guest abort() and _Exit, and ReportCrash for the first fatal exception,
run the flush directly. AsyncLog registers a bounded flush (FlushFor, 2 s)
that polls two counters and takes no lock, so a dying process cannot hang
on a blocked stream or on the queue lock; after its first timeout it
returns at once. Flush counts queued and finished entries instead of
watching the queue and the writer flag, so it waits for the lines queued
before the call and not for a moment in which no thread is logging.
agc_async_log_fatal runs the test executable as a child that queues lines
behind a held stream and ends in abort(), std::terminate(), raise(SIGABRT)
(POSIX) or an access violation (Windows), and once more with the stream
never released. The lines of the first four must arrive in order, the last
child must end after the bound, and every child has a watchdog.
agc_async_log gains the bounded flush case.
A guest handler that called exit threw out of the libc exit path because the exiting thread waited on itself. Like FreeBSD, the nested call now runs the handlers that are still registered and ends the process with the status it passed.
VLC (PPSA85300) imports daemon (Wn6I3wVATUE) and fails to load because
no library exports it. Forking into the background is not supported,
so it throws if called. VLC 3.0 calls daemon only when its daemon
option is set, and the title starts libVLC with --ignore-config and
without --daemon.
On Windows std::_Exit ends in ExitProcess, which still runs every module's
DLL_PROCESS_DETACH and TLS callbacks after the other threads are gone. A
static destructor that joins a worker then waits forever: a title that calls
_Exit while libSceVideoOut's flip queue runs (ps5-opengl's retirement
fail-stop) stays alive in FlipQueue's destructor. _Exit and libkernel's _exit
now terminate the process with TerminateProcess, as _exit ends a POSIX
process: no atexit handlers, stream flushes or module destructors.
LibcExit called std::exit, which ran the static destructors of the libraries
before the guest exit handlers. A guest handler that freed memory then locked
a destroyed std::mutex, which throws, and a noexcept guest destructor ended in
std::terminate. The guest handlers now run first, while the library objects
are alive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings in main up to 9958d26 (homebrew runtime, POSIX wrappers in
libkernel, sce_module guest modules and --skip-sce-module, the --to-intel
general pipeline, libSceRandom, libSceRtc, libScePosixForWebKit,
libRenoirCore, test wiring).
Resolutions where both sides implemented the same thing:
- libkernel pthread: main's structure (lazy static initialisation,
destroyed markers, MutexOperations/CondOperations, mutex protocol and
condattr clock) with this branch's TimedWait deadlines and condition
(precise timed lock/wait on Windows), wait tracing, the adaptive mutex
type 4, POSIX default ERRORCHECK mutexes, EDEADLK/EPERM results instead
of throws, and condition clocks honoured for absolute timeouts.
- libc locale: the guest Dinkumware ABI (_Locimp, facet vtables, short
ctype/case tables, locale ids, stream storage) is kept because guest code
inlines those layouts; main's C character functions are kept on top.
- libc stdio/strings/math: main's stream functions (guest FILE status
sync), strerror/perror, remove, formatting, string and math exports win
over this branch's duplicates.
- libc paths: main's working directory with this branch's path aliases
resolved on the normalised guest path.
- libkernel file: this branch's sceKernel* results as SCE errors, main's
POSIX wrappers and both fstat helpers.
- relinker: this branch's stub lowering keeps its trampolines through the
main executable path; guest modules refuse lowerings that need stubs.
- AGC driver: main's rendering wait is executed by this branch's workers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177gthrWEBBfBu5xJDXgBfo
- libc: reserve guest memory in one arena below the PS5 map limit with
MEM_WRITE_WATCH (GuestArena) and a caching guest heap; the allocation
registry gains a generation counter, an invalidator callback for the
driver's page cache and a pin waiter for leased ranges. This replaces
the fault-based GuestMemoryTracking/GuestMemoryBacking layer, whose
files are removed.
- libkernel: mmap/mprotect/munmap on the arena, flexible memory budget,
real sceKernelVirtualQuery; POSIX pthread layer, rwlocks, timed locks,
TSD, event flags; 0.5 ms scheduler tick and high-resolution sleeps;
TSC/clock/time functions; file APIs return SCE errno codes; the APR
file-streaming API.
- libc: vectored crash reporter with backtraces for fatal exceptions,
SIGABRT, UCRT invalid parameters and process exit; SSE4a EXTRQ/INSERTQ
emulation for Intel hosts; %ls/%lc/%S/%C with the guest's 16-bit
wchar_t; hand-written setjmp/longjmp for the guest jmp_buf; a path
alias table for short save-data mount points; more string, stdio and
math exports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177gthrWEBBfBu5xJDXgBfo
