The core and the headless tools no longer use mutexes, condition variables,
spinlocks, std::atomic, std::thread or volatile flags. Threads hand off through
libretro-common's retro_atomic and rthreads plus a few small pieces on top of
them in Common/Thread: Thread, MpscQueue, EventCounter, ParkingLot waits and
ReaderGate. Every wait blocks until it's woken; nothing polls on a timer.
State that only one thread touches just loses its lock. The PSP filesystem,
sceIo and the savedata dialog now belong to the emulation thread: async reads
and writes run when they're queued and complete later in emulated time, and
the IO and savedata threads are gone. The friend finder only talks to the
adhoc server and hands what it gets to the emulation thread. GPU init always
runs on the thread that starts the game.
The Vulkan render and compile queues, pipeline and render pass caches, delete
list and SPIR-V cache, the GL render queue, the software renderer's jit caches,
the file loader caches, the web debugger, UPnP, input, savestates, logging and
the GE debugger all hand off through queues and atomics. The IR jit's spinning
profiler thread goes.
A CPU thread with nothing to run now sleeps until work is queued instead of
spinning. Headless with --debugger waits for a client while stopped, and ends
the run once every client that connected has left. Web server shutdown keeps
servicing the CPU queue until the server has finished.
The core no longer sleeps to pace itself: the frontend runs retro_run at
its own rate, so the frame throttle, the idle-vblank delay and the real
clock sync event (and its core option) are gone, and a stepping CPU hands
straight back instead of waiting 2 ms. Waits that polled now park on a
lock-free eventcount through Common/Thread/ParkingLot and are woken by
whoever changes the state: a paused GL emu thread, which also queues a
marker behind its last frame so pausing runs the render queue up to it
instead of polling; async I/O results; the software renderer when its
queue is full; Vulkan pipeline compiles; and debugger requests once
stepping ends. Boot joins the loader thread, cache shutdown joins its
read-ahead thread, and the slow-I/O simulation is removed.
The path browser, the HTTP and WebSocket servers, the Windows console and
the game info cache are left out of the core build. libretro/test gains
lrgltest, which drives the GL backend on a surfaceless EGL context through
every path that pauses or stops the emu thread; run.sh and the image
checks CI job run it on llvmpipe.
Pipelines still in the compile queue weren't in flight yet, so the
shader cache load could stop waiting (and the spinner) early.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
These own GPU objects, memory or refcounts in their destructors (or assert
there that they were torn down), so a copy would double-free. Nothing copies
them today; this keeps it that way. The manager base classes cover every
backend's subclass.
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pipelineLayouts_ was mutated from the main thread (CreatePipelineLayout, and the
deferred callback queued by DestroyPipelineLayout) while the render thread walked
it every frame in FlushDescriptors. Exiting a game in Vulkan mode hits this
reliably: ~GPU_Vulkan stops the render thread and destroys the draw engine's
layout, but the destruction is deferred onto the delete list and doesn't actually
run until a BeginFrame two frames later, with the render thread running again.
Guard the list, and the lifetime of the layouts in it, with a mutex.
The global delete list had the same problem - VulkanDescSetPool::Recreate queues
the old pool from FlushDescSets on the render thread, which happens for real once
a game goes past the initial 1024 descriptors, while the main thread moves the
list into the current frame's list in EndFrame(). Lock the queueing functions and
Take's source list.
While in there:
* Take() didn't move queryPools_, so query pools queued for deletion sat on the
global list until device teardown instead of being deleted a few frames later.
* PerformDeletes now drains into a local list before destroying anything. A
callback is allowed to queue further deletes (~VKFramebuffer's does, via
~VKRFramebuffer), which used to append to the very vector being iterated.
They now get the normal deferral instead of running in the same pass.
* Missing semicolon in BeginFrame that only compiles because VLOG is empty.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vd8ntC2brCUtCrDJMqLbs8
We can't create a swapchain in this case but we still want emulation to
keep running. So we ditch the last renderpass in VulkanQueueRunner but
run all the rest (if PauseWhenMinimized isn't set).
Now works without any validation errors or hangs.
libretroadmin