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.
Replaces the temporary fix that did the hidden modes' IO inside Update.
The IO thread read and wrote the dialog's request, display state and save
list, all shared with the emulator thread, which kept using them to draw the
dialog and reload the request from the game.
Now the IO thread works on its own copy of the request, its own SavedataParam
and directory names resolved up front, and shares nothing else with the
emulator thread but the (locked) file system, MemoryStick_FreeSpace's cached
use and sceChnnlsv's scratch buffer and kirk state, the last two now under
locks too. It still reads and writes the game's buffers directly, like a PSP's
utility threads and sceIoReadAsync do, so a savestate waits for it before it
saves or loads memory. Save
bookkeeping, the save indicator and display changes happen on the emulator
thread when the results are taken, and only the request fields the IO changed
are copied back, so a game's own edits in the meantime survive.
Hidden modes take the results at the next Update (or, with Host IO timing,
the first Update that finds them done). The visible dialogs keep drawing and
take them once the IO is done; save and load used to stall the emulator
thread for the whole operation. Savestates keep results that haven't been
taken yet.
When the results land in PSP memory doesn't matter to games, so
utility/savedata/filelist now only prints them once the utility has finished.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Rename LogType to Log
* Explicitly use the Log:: enum when logging. Allows for autocomplete when editing.
* Mac/ARM64 buildfix
* Do the same with the hle result log macros
* Rename the log names to mixed case while at it.
* iOS buildfix
* Qt buildfix attempt, ARM32 buildfix
libretroadmin