On a PSP, sceKernelExitGame in a game the XMB launched goes back to the
XMB. Ours ended the session. In a session booted as vshmain.prx, an exit
from anything but the VSH itself now LoadExecs vshmain.prx again; the
shell then plays its opening and comes back on the Game column.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
While the XMB is running, the pause screen offers "Insert UMD" with the
drive empty, opening the Switch UMD game picker, and "Eject UMD" with a disc
in. The XMB notices the change through its drive callback, as it does over
the debugger's game.umd.insert/eject. Games keep "Switch UMD".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The user modules started after the manager now come from the firmware's
own boot configuration (pspbtcnf.bin's POPS mode), since they differ by
version: 4.05's pafmini.prx needs heaparea2.prx first. 6.60's also
lists common_util.prx, which wasn't started before.
4.05 renumbered the kernel NIDs again. Its aliases are checked like
5.55's, and the sysreg ones by what they do to the registers: the call
sites got five of those wrong. Its manager allocates from a pool with
the kernel's sceKernelAllocateFpl, which stays unresolved for kernel
modules (see ThreadManForKernel), so only the manager's import gets the
user one. scePower_driver gets 6.60's clock frequency NID, which 6.20's
and 4.05's old one now map to.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A PS1 EBOOT now boots the installed firmware's POPS manager
(flash0:/kd/popsman.prx), which loads its PS1 emulator (pops_0Xg.prx) for
the game. Load_PSP_POPS stands in for the kernel's reboot into its POPS
configuration: it loads the manager and that configuration's user modules,
and a helper thread makes the kernel init's scePopsManLoadModule(path, 0)
call. InitForKernel reports a POPS boot from the memory stick.
The emulator plays its sound on the Media Engine, so a PS1 boot always
gets the emulated ME, whatever the homebrew setting says, and is refused
on platforms that can't emulate it. The manager boots the ME with its own
code (POPS's reboot has no me_wrapper, so Sony's ME firmware isn't booted
for it), and its ME loop runs there unchanged, playing through the audio
block.
Everything in POPS that reaches hardware registers is kernel code, so a
POPS boot leaves the ME's kernel mode stopgap (g_kernelModeAnywhere) off:
7% fewer host instructions in Crash Bandicoot.
The manager also drives the GE directly: its stall register and FINISH
status are an MMIO device that only answers during a POPS boot, and stall
writes extend the HLE GPU's current list.
The 6.60 and 6.61 popsman.prx and pops_01g/02g.prx have the same code. The
manager's is checked when it's loaded, and any other one fails the boot
with a message. Savestates include the boot's threads.
Reading a game's disc image needs the next two changes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The firmware's semawm.prx (6.61), which PMP Mod and psp-me-bench load, decrypts
code that walks LoadCore's registered-library hash buckets at the start of this
block, looking for libraries a custom firmware would add. We don't keep those
structures, so it gets an empty table in kernel memory, made on first use and
kept in the savestate.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Custom firmware calls, which homebrew that runs ME code uses to reach
its own kernel modules: KUBridge's kuKernelCall runs a function with the
first eight of its arguments and stores v0/v1 in ret1/ret2 afterwards;
sctrlHENFindFunction (SystemCtrlForKernel, and a new SystemCtrlForUser)
finds a loaded module's export by module, library and NID.
Tanaka's Touhou ports find and call their GE4 wrapper's exports with
them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
HLEFunc and ReplaceFunc now take the MIPSState they run on. The dispatch
paths (both interpreters and every JIT backend) pass in the state they
belong to, and CallSyscall*, hleFinishSyscall and the HLE mips call
machinery use it instead of currentMIPS.
The wrappers in FunctionWrappers.h take the function as `auto` and call it
through HLECall, which also accepts an implementation with an extra leading
MIPSState * parameter and passes the state to it. Any other signature still
fails to compile, as before. PARAM/RETURN now refer to a local `mips`.
The HLE functions (and replacement functions) that used currentMIPS now take
the state that way. Callers outside a syscall's own frame - CoreTiming
events, the adhoc matching thread, dialogs, PPGe, the debugger UIs - pass
currentMIPS or &mipsr4k explicitly. The kernel's thread internals still use
currentMIPS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every load hashed all known functions again, for the replacement hooks:
2.4-6 ms, about half the load. Functions in module code the load left as
it was keep their hash, so only the rest is hashed now (0.5-1 ms). The
code is compared on every load for this, not only with a JIT.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loading a state started the JIT over, so every block the game runs had to
be compiled again, which stutters. Now the loaded modules' code is
compared with the state's as RAM is loaded (a chunk that already matches
isn't copied either), and blocks entirely inside unchanged code stay.
Everything else is invalidated as before, and without a JIT, or with no
unchanged code, the JIT still starts over.
The JIT throws its blocks away if the loaded state needs code they weren't
compiled for (rounding mode switches, or no default prefixes at block
start). The other way round it keeps them, along with the flags they were
compiled under: before, a loaded hasSetRounding of false, or the reset of
lastSetRounding, had the next compile rebuild everything anyway.
In the three seconds after loading a state, Ridge Racer compiles 28 blocks
instead of 4823, Force Unleashed 31 instead of 7727. Frames rendered after
the load are identical either way.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tekken 6 never reaches gameplay with the real mpeg.prx: it plays its intro
movie, returns to the title screen, starts loading a demo match and loads
forever. With the sceMpeg HLE it plays fine.
The game unloads its video libraries before the level load and expects the
memory back. It gets most of it - scePsmf and scePsmfPlayer do go away - but
mpeg.prx stays resident, 33KB of it, sitting in the middle of the region the
loader then asks for:
08c64000 - 09e24000 18.6MB taken UserSbrk
09e24000 - 09ed4000 720KB free
09ed4000 - 09edc300 33.5KB taken ELF/sceMpeg_library
09edc300 - 09f44000 425KB free
09f44000 - 09f4c000 32KB taken UtilityModule/302_av_atrac3plus
0x09f44000 - 0x09e24000 is 0x120000, which is exactly the allocation that
fails. Without mpeg.prx in the way that span is one free block and the level
loads.
sceUtility notifies the per-library hooks with state 1 when a utility module is
loaded and -1 when it is unloaded. The hooks that swap in a firmware module
only ever handled the load, so nothing ever took them back out. That affects
sceMpeg, sceMp3, sceMp4 and sceAtrac alike; Tekken is just the game whose
memory budget is tight enough to notice.
The unload has to take out what we put in and nothing else, so the loaded ids
are remembered rather than looked up by name: a game like Death Jr ships its
own mpeg.prx and loads it itself, and freeing that would be freeing the game's
memory. Verified that Death Jr still decodes its 1033 frames with our loader
never touching its module.
Savestates from before this have no record of what was swapped in, so they keep
the old behaviour of leaving the modules loaded rather than risk freeing
something the game owns.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Doing this was written once, for sceMp4, remembering the two UIDs it had
loaded in a static. That static was the only thing stopping a second copy
being loaded on top of the first, and it didn't survive a savestate: resuming
in a fresh process left it at zero while the restored module list already had
the modules in it. Ask the module list instead, which needs no state of its
own and is right after a savestate load and across games.
With the mechanism shared, sceMp3 and sceAtrac get it too. libmp3.prx and
libatrac3plus.prx each import nothing but the kernel and sceAudiocodec, so
both run against what we already have. The sceAtrac checkbox previously led
to an error log and a debug assert saying it wouldn't work, with a note that
we could go and find the file - which is what this does.
This is only ever the path for a game that ships no copy of the library. One
that does loads it directly and never asks sceUtility for it.
Also:
- a module we're really loading no longer reserves its stand-in block as
well. That block only stands in for memory we aren't otherwise taking, so
reserving both charges the game twice, at the top of user memory where
thread stacks come from.
- the module loads at the bottom of the user partition. fromTop is for a
module injected before the game's executable is placed; by the time a game
calls sceUtility nothing moves either way, and the firmware's utility.prx
allocates AV module memory as PSP_SMEM_Low.
- NotifyLoadStatusAtrac read the raw setting rather than the effective
flags, so it could fire for a flag that wasn't in effect.
- the missing-firmware case now says so on screen, naming the library and
pointing at installing a firmware, rather than only logging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The flash0 PRXes we swap in for our HLE took the lowest free block, which sits
right where a game's own EBOOT wants to go. That pushes the game up, shifting
every address in it - invalidating cheats and RetroAchievements - and for a game
whose EBOOT has to load at a fixed low address it fails outright: Tekken 6 wants
0x08804018 and got "block taken", so it didn't boot at all.
Give KernelLoadModule a fromTop flag and use it for the modules we inject. The
game keeps its normal load address and the firmware sits out of the way at the
top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GgACRqkQNpfJQ4fjwyoEup
Adds SceKernelLoadExecVSHParam and fills in the rest of LoadExecForKernel's
NIDs: real implementations for sceKernelExitVSHVSH/Kernel
(mirrors sceKernelExitGame) and sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan (loads
an exec from an in-RAM buffer instead of a file, plus UNIMPL stubs.
sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan needed __KernelLoadExec split into a
file-reading front end and a shared __KernelLoadExecFromPtr back end
that both it and the new buffer-based path call into.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSNaZnHCjmryS3ziVN9gZU
(cherry picked from commit 4adbedec9e2e3221113c9e5ad00b248bba1153e1)
Load and start VSH's kernel modules before booting vshmain.prx
A few flash0 modules (vshbridge.prx, paf.prx, common_gui.prx,
common_util.prx) should run for real once we know we're
actually booting the VSH rather than a game, since our fakes are unlikely
to be good substitutes for the genuine thing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSNaZnHCjmryS3ziVN9gZU
Adds SceKernelLoadExecVSHParam (matching JPCSP's reference layout - its
first four fields line up with the existing SceKernelLoadExecParam,
which is why the plain sceKernelLoadExec already worked for
sceKernelLoadExecVSHMs2) and fills in the rest of LoadExecForKernel's
NIDs from JPCSP: real implementations for sceKernelExitVSHVSH/Kernel
(mirrors sceKernelExitGame) and sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan (loads
an exec from an in-RAM buffer instead of a file - the VSH's "push a game
over USB/WLAN" path), plus UNIMPL stubs for everything JPCSP itself only
knows by NID.
sceKernelLoadExecBufferVSHUsbWlan needed __KernelLoadExec split into a
file-reading front end and a shared __KernelLoadExecFromPtr back end
that both it and the new buffer-based path call into - a pure
extract-method refactor of the single most heavily used boot path in the
emulator. Verified no regression: same 11 passed / 9 pre-existing-failed
split on pspautotests/tests/cpu/*, and loader/bss still passes, before
and after this change.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSNaZnHCjmryS3ziVN9gZU
Added KernelModuleAddressDescription() (Core/HLE/sceKernelModule.cpp),
which looks up which currently loaded module (and text/data/bss/segment
section within it) an address falls in, e.g. "EBOOT.BIN.text+1234".
Wired it into:
- Core_MemoryException/Core_ExecException/Core_BreakException
(Core/Core.cpp), appended next to every address/pc/ra shown in their
log lines.
- FormatStackTrace (Core/MemFault.cpp), appended per-frame next to the
existing symbol description.
This makes crash/exception logs actionable even when there's no symbol
at the faulting address - you at least get which module and section
it's in, useful for reverse engineering unfamiliar code.
Verified live via headless: injected a MIPS break instruction at the
current PC (through Tools/wsdbg) and confirmed the log line changed from
"break instruction hit at 088040ac" to "break instruction hit at 088040ac
[sceDisplayWaitVblank Test.text+ac]".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XDNwPPuidmNxQGRJxBuRL6
A call through a still-pending import gets written as a generic "invalid
syscall" opcode (WriteFuncMissingStub) that no longer carries the
original module name or NID by the time it's actually invoked - but the
address of the syscall instruction itself is exactly the stubAddr every
pending FuncSymbolImport already records. Added
KernelFindImportByStubAddr() to search loaded modules' importedFuncs for
a match, and use it in GetSyscallFuncPointer's unknown-syscall path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Driver 76 uses sceKernelGetModuleIdList to get a module list
after calling sceUtilityLoadNetModule, then go module by module
with sceKernelQueryModuleInfo to check if at least pspnet_adhoc.prx
was loaded.
Load modules during sceUtilityLoadNetModule, expand success lying
modules to have real names, add adhoc modules to the success lying
list, list lied modules during sceKernelGetModuleIdList.
* Add draft sceKernelFindModuleByUID
#13205
* Add KERNEL_SYSCALL flag
* oop
* oop2
* Not sure why make this change before
* Last night I might be too tried
This tries to execute them within the context of the emulator as much as
possible, so we don't have weird bugs. Going with a file type so we can
easily load the dump by opening the file directly.
Couldn't think of a better way to do this, maybe there's some fancy
one I don't know about.
Also finished up a couple left over kernel objects.
Maybe a quarter the way there?
