Semaphores, event flags, mutexes, lwmutexes, mbx, msgpipes, fpl, vpl,
tlspl and WaitThreadEnd each had their own CoreTiming event, handler
registration and savestate entry for wait timeouts, and their own function
to schedule one. Now one event (WaitThreadEnd's, renamed) times out all of
them, keyed by thread, and dispatches on the thread's wait type to a
timeoutFunc registered alongside the begin/end callback functions.
__KernelWaitCurThreadWithTimeout() starts such a wait, and the HLEKernel
helpers have overloads that use the shared event.
Old savestates still load: each object's section reads its old event id
and points it at the shared handler, so a timeout pending in the state
goes off as before. Checked with a state saved mid-wait by the previous
build, and with four games.
The one behaviour change: tlspl timeouts now follow the same hardware
rule as the others, where they used the raw timeout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Timed on a PSP, each way of handing the CPU to another thread (the call
and the switch together):
hardware before now
rotate to an equal thread 7 14 7
signal, better thread runs 10 17 10
it waits again, back to caller 10 19 12
wakeup, better thread runs 8 13 6
it sleeps again, back to caller 7 12 6
start a better thread, entry 30 28 30
thread ends, back to its waiter 21 13 20
notify, better thread's callback 14 13 14
A switch between two threads now costs 1150 cycles instead of 2700.
Starting a better thread costs 2000 cycles more, ending a thread 3300,
and setting up a callback 1800.
Also splits a wait timeout's ~30us into the deadline being taken 12us
into the call and the timeout going off 18us after it. That only changes
the time left written back, which threads/semaphores/wait and
threads/fpl/cancel pin between them. intr/vblank is re-recorded so it
no longer depends on the phase of the frame.
threads/callbacks/combos now passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
On hardware, notifying a callback of a thread in a CB wait takes it out of
the wait at once, even though the callback only runs when the thread would
get the CPU. A semaphore signalled in between doesn't end the wait: the
callback runs first, then the wait resumes and takes it (pspautotests
threads/callbacks/combos). We left the thread on the wait list until the
callback started, so the signal ended the wait and the callback didn't
run.
The notify now pauses the wait, as starting a callback used to. If the
callbacks are canceled before the thread's turn comes, the wait just
resumes (Thread savestate section version 7).
threads/callbacks/combos goes in the to-do list: a callback returning to
the thread that notified it still takes ~13us where hardware takes ~9,
part of the context switch cost.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
Every wait with a timeout behaves the same on hardware (pspautotests
threads/scheduling/waittimeouts). The deadline is taken, and the alarm set
up a moment later. If the deadline has passed by then, the wait fails with
WAIT_TIMEOUT at once, without yielding or writing the timeout back. That's
usual for 0us, half the time for 1us, and rare after; AllocateVpl does more
first. Otherwise it ends max(t, 205us) + ~35us after the call. Each object
had its own guess (24/245, 25/250, 20/250 and so on), and only MsgPipe had
the immediate case.
__KernelWaitTimesOutAtOnce() and __KernelWaitTimeoutUs() now do it for
semaphores, event flags, mutexes, lwmutexes, mbx, msgpipes, fpl, vpl and
WaitThreadEnd. The latency past the deadline isn't counted in the time
left written back.
Outcomes that hardware decides by the clock's phase (these, and
sceKernelDelayThread returning at once) go with the likelier one. Ones
between 50% and certain are instead spread evenly over calls, so a polling
loop can't lock into never yielding (sceKernelThread section version 7).
This replaces the pseudo-random choice for delays.
Also adds threads/scheduling/readyqueue, which already passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
A delay's deadline is now + usec, and the clock is read again when the
alarm is set. If the deadline has passed by then, the call returns 0 at
once without giving up the CPU. On hardware that makes
sceKernelDelayThread(0) return at once about 60% of the time. On a thread's
first wait after it starts, a delay of 1 does so about two times in three
as well (pspautotests threads/scheduling/delayzero). We always waited at
least 210us.
The choice is pseudo-random off the tick count, not the tick phase, since
our cycle counts are regular enough for a polling loop to lock into never
yielding. Threads remember whether they've waited since starting (Thread
savestate section version 6).
Also moves threads/vpl/create into the passing tests: re-recorded on 6.61,
it agrees with what we do for partitions 8 and 9.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
On hardware the kernel fills a new thread's stack with interrupts on, so
a better thread that wakes during it runs before the call returns, the
time it takes doesn't count towards the call, and worse threads get
nothing (pspautotests threads/scheduling/preemptsyscall). PPSSPP ate the
whole cost at once and only rescheduled at the end.
__KernelBusyDelayResult() models such a syscall: the caller waits, an
idle thread stands in for it while nothing better wants the CPU, and its
remaining cycles only count down while that's the case. When done it
goes back ahead of threads of its own priority, having never given up
the CPU. sceKernelCreateThread uses it for the stack fill, unless a
thread event handler is about to run.
Booting 75 games against master shows no difference.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
PPSSPP decided whether a caller was privileged with hleIsKernelMode(), which reports whether the
syscall being executed is itself a kernel-only export. That's a different question from the one
the hardware answers: on a PSP the privilege belongs to the calling module, and a kernel module
reaches sceKernelCreateTlspl through the ordinary ThreadManForUser NID like anything else. So a
kernel module asking for partition 1, 3 or 4 got ILLEGAL_PERM where a real PSP hands it over,
which the new threads/tls/kernel/partition test shows directly.
BlockAllocatorFromID now also accepts a caller whose thread belongs to a kernel module, via a new
__KernelCurThreadIsKernelMode(). It checks the thread's own attribute first and then the owning
module, because a kernel module's main thread isn't necessarily flagged kernel - the attribute
comes from PSP_MAIN_THREAD_ATTR, which needn't set it. That mirrors how sceKernelCreateThread
already works out allowKernel.
This only ever widens access, and only for threads belonging to kernel modules, so games are
unaffected - they run in user modules and see exactly what they saw before.
This is stuff encountered in the VSH boot research.
sceRtc_driver, scePower_driver, sceImpose_driver, ThreadManForKernel funcs,
sceRtcGetAlarmTick, sceHprm_driver/sceHprmReadLatch
sceVshBridge_Driver imports sceKernelResumeDispatchThread, SuspendDispatchThread,
and NotifyCallback from ThreadManForKernel, but they were only registered under
ThreadManForUser. Added sceKernelGetUserLevel and sceKernelIsUserModeThread (new).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
These KernelObject subclasses (and their Native* status structs) were
private implementation details of their respective .cpp files. Move them
into the matching .h instead, so external code - specifically the upcoming
WebSocket kernel-object introspection endpoints - can read a live object's
state directly via kernelObjects.Get<T>()/Iterate<T>(), the same way
PSPModule/PSPThread already can. Read-only by convention: nothing outside
each file should call DoState() or otherwise mutate these; the fields are
public here for that file's own pre-existing use, not an invitation to
write from elsewhere.
To avoid pulling each type's full dependency set (Memory::, BlockAllocator,
CoreTiming, HLEKernel::...) into headers many other files include, non-trivial
method bodies (DoState, and MsgPipe's buffer/wait-list management) are
declared in the header but still defined out-of-line in the .cpp, same as
before - only genuinely trivial one-liners went inline.
KernelObjectPool also gains IterateAll(), a type-agnostic sibling of the
existing Iterate<T>() - walks every live kernel object regardless of type,
for a coarse "what's alive right now" overview.
No behavior change - this is a pure visibility/declaration-vs-definition
move, not new functionality. That lands in a follow-up commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZq8ZtJmFY7bkX5FVkr3P9
These are names that can often conflict with system headers in ports.
Let's just simplify by prefixing with PSP.
No actual functional/code changes, just syntax and names.
When an operation finishes, whether it uses the priority from the first
operation or the current thread's priority depends on sdk version, it
seems.
This also makes it resolve the default priority on open, so that changing
the default afterward doesn't affect already open descriptors.
Start isn't in the right place or on the right thread, and exit isn't on
the right thread either. But these don't seem very particular about what
thread they run on.
Should be fine to just use the stack to save these things, likely that's
what happens in real firmware. This fixes issues when a second mipscall
is scheduled in the same HLE syscall.
slightly less hacky, as in, a little bit closer to what the actual PSP does, although the timings are still complete guesses
also
* Protect the adhoc Events by a mutex lock
* don't use emplace_back since symbian doesn't compile with it
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