Morrowind imports rtprio_thread, pthread_setconcurrency and pthread_getconcurrency and stops at start-up. Report every guest thread as normal priority and accept a set without applying it; store the concurrency level as a hint. Recorded in the libkernel debt.
PS5CEMU-HAR (PPSA99360, ps5-payload-dev build, relinks with
--trap-sdk-syscall-stubs) imports pthread_setaffinity_np (5KWrg7-ZqvE)
from libkernel.prx. babyhuey's run with #3787 merged onto main e7c70a2d
(PR #3787, 2026-10-12T10:54:44Z) stops at it:
Windows: FAIL: unresolved ELF import 5KWrg7-ZqvE (pthread_setaffinity_np) from libkernel.prx
Linux: undefined symbol: 5KWrg7-ZqvE (pthread_setaffinity_np)
It follows FreeBSD 11.4 libthr thr_affinity.c (8c639945) over
kern_cpuset_setaffinity: another thread is looked up first (EINVAL for
null, ESRCH when unknown or finished, as _thr_find_thread without dead
threads), a size other than the 32-byte cpuset_t returns ERANGE, the
mask is clipped to sceKernelGetAvailableCpumask and an empty result
returns EDEADLK, as cpuset_setaffinity does. The affinity is stored on
the guest thread through scePthreadSetaffinity, for the caller and for
any live guest thread.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Measured on a PS5 (firmware 13.60): a thread created with
PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED, a null attribute or a default attribute runs at
its creator's priority, whatever priority the attribute holds; with
explicit scheduling it takes the attribute's priority.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Linux, glibc maps the stack of every guest thread near the top of the
host address space (around 0x7fff00000000). On the console, application
stacks lie inside the application area below 0xFC00000000, and guest code
relies on that: ChakraCore's garbage collector indexes a 4 MiB table with
address >> 18, so it only covers addresses below 1 TiB and reports
Js::OutOfMemoryException for a stack above it.
Map each guest thread's stack with DoMapAnon, which allocates from the
guest arena, behind a PROT_NONE guard page, and pass it to pthread_attr_setstack.
The stack is freed after a join; the stack of a detached thread is freed once its
host thread is gone from /proc/self/task.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) pthread_setschedparam and
scePthreadSetschedparam accept only SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR with a
priority of 256 to 767 or 896 to 959, return EINVAL otherwise, and
keep the policy for pthread_getschedparam. A created thread takes the
policy of explicit scheduling attributes, or its creator's when it
inherits. Here any policy and priority were accepted and SCHED_FIFO
was always reported.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Allow calling threads to query and set affinity using their own thread ID in addition to -1. Return ESRCH for non-matching thread or process IDs and EINVAL for invalid level/which arguments instead of throwing NotImplemented, matching FreeBSD cpuset semantics.
pthread_atfork (U9t5kJAWPnA, aerolib) appends the prepare, parent and
child handlers to a process-wide list under a lock and returns 0, or
ENOMEM when the entry cannot be allocated, as FreeBSD 11.4's
_pthread_atfork does (lib/libthr/thread/thr_fork.c:78-100, freebsd-src
8c639945a44588f6cfdddfb057bb5aad88735da0). Null handlers are accepted;
FreeBSD's fork skips them. The handlers never run: fork
(libkernel_sys) throws and vfork is absent, so no child process is
created. The list is kept, in registration order, for a later fork
(PthreadAtforkHandlers_nid_no_patch); recorded in TechnicalDebt.
XPSemu (PPSA97358) calls it from a constructor, before main
(ZiZc3/XPSemu 8eec07b4, util/rcu.c:488-495):
static void __attribute__((__constructor__)) rcu_init(void)
{
smp_mb_global_init();
#ifdef CONFIG_POSIX
pthread_atfork(rcu_init_lock, rcu_init_unlock, rcu_init_child);
#endif
rcu_init_complete();
}
so a throwing export would stop the title before main. Predicted stop
removed (registry index 255, not run):
FAIL: unresolved ELF import U9t5kJAWPnA from libkernel.prx
guest_pthread_atfork checks registration order, null handlers,
concurrent registration from four threads and that no handler runs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit f37bccf6efd76edcde5d582800c89b83fdd30472)
Before: raise, kill and pthread_kill delivered a signal at once or failed
with EINVAL, nothing stayed pending, and pause, sigwait, sigwaitinfo and
sigtimedwait called NotImplemented_nid_no_patch.
Now: a process-wide pending set holds signals 1 to 128. A signal raised
while it is blocked stays pending and is delivered when _sigprocmask
unblocks it, taken by sigwait, sigwaitinfo or sigtimedwait, or delivered by
pause, which runs its handler on the calling thread and returns -1 with
EINTR. pthread_kill to another thread leaves the signal pending for
whichever thread waits for it and answers ESRCH for a handle that is not a
live guest thread. sigtimedwait follows FreeBSD's sigtimedwait(2): EAGAIN
on timeout, EINVAL for a tv_nsec outside 0 to 1000000000 while nothing is
pending, and an indefinite wait with a null timeout.
Guest rwlocks were a host std::shared_timed_mutex. On Linux that is a
glibc rwlock, which prefers readers: a reader is let in while a writer
is blocked, so a writer waiting on a lock that readers keep taking in
overlapping turns never gets it (a probe with four readers each holding
the lock for 4 ms still had scePthreadRwlockWrlock waiting after 5 s,
with 4924 read acquisitions meanwhile), and tryrdlock succeeds while a
writer waits.
FreeBSD 11.4 libthr gives waiting writers precedence. A rwlock starts
without URWLOCK_PREFER_READER (rwlock_init() callocs it), and
lib/libthr/thread/thr_umtx.h, _thr_rwlock_tryrdlock(), refuses a reader
while a writer waits:
if ((flags & URWLOCK_PREFER_READER) != 0 ||
(rwlock->rw_flags & URWLOCK_PREFER_READER) != 0)
wrflags = URWLOCK_WRITE_OWNER;
else
wrflags = URWLOCK_WRITE_OWNER | URWLOCK_WRITE_WAITERS;
as does do_rw_rdlock() in sys/kern/kern_umtx.c for the blocking wait.
The only exception is a thread that already holds a read lock, so that a
recursive read cannot deadlock (lib/libthr/thread/thr_rwlock.c,
rwlock_rdlock_common()):
if (curthread->rdlock_count) {
...
flags = URWLOCK_PREFER_READER;
The rwlock is now a mutex and condition with a count of waiting writers:
a reader waits while a writer holds the lock or, unless the thread
already holds a read lock, while a writer waits; a timed writer that
gives up wakes the readers it held back. The TechnicalDebt note about
locking guest rwlocks once for winpthreads no longer applies to them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reject invalid initial counts without replacing the semaphore and preserve a saturated count on post, matching the existing guest POSIX limits with encoded SCE errors. Add boundary and unchanged-value guest regressions.
pthread_once and scePthreadOnce removed their reset handler with a pop
that runs whatever handler is on top of the cleanup stack. An
initializer that pushed a handler of its own and then threw left that
handler on top, so the pop ran it with dangling state. Both now record
the stack top before pushing the reset handler; on a throw they restore
the stack to it and reset the control directly, and a normal return
restores it as well.
Reported in review by Hussein Kadhim, who fixed it the same way.
Co-authored-by: Hussein Kadhim <husseinkad.dev@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) scePthreadJoin on the calling thread returns
EDEADLK and scePthreadCreate with a zeroed attribute creates a thread
with the default attributes. Here both threw.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) the SCE mutex attribute calls return EINVAL
for a null or uninitialized attribute, scePthreadMutexattrSetprotocol
accepts 0 to 2, scePthreadMutexInit takes an uninitialized attribute as
the default one, and destroying a destroyed mutex returns EINVAL. Here
these threw, including for the priority protection protocol.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) the scePthreadAttr setters and getters return
EINVAL for a null or uninitialized attribute and for a null output,
ENOTSUP for a policy other than SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR, an inheritance
other than explicit and inherit, and a priority outside 256 to 767, and
EINVAL for an invalid detach state. Here they threw, or stored any
policy, inheritance and priority.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) scePthreadAttrSetsolosched and
pthread_attr_setsolosched_np accept only 0 and 16; every other value
returns ENOTSUP and keeps the stored one. The SCE set and get calls
return EINVAL for a null or uninitialized attribute instead of throwing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On a PS5 (firmware 13.60) destroying a rwlock returns 0 even while it
is held, and leaves 1 in the handle; every later call on that handle
returns EINVAL until it is initialized again. A zero handle is
initialized on first use by the scePthreadRwlock calls too. Here a held
rwlock returned EBUSY, a destroyed handle became null and was silently
re-created by the next POSIX call, and the scePthreadRwlock calls threw
on a zero handle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Dean