Exports pause (EDyhWelj7UY), sigwait (mrbHXqK8wkg) and sigwaitinfo
(Uq5BGthgbl4) from libkernel. NIDs computed with tools/nid_names.py and
matched in aerolib; ps5-payload-dev/sdk f5d40f02 sce_stubs/libkernel.c
places all three in libkernel.
They throw like the merged sigtimedwait (#3430), with the same message
pattern: "sigwait: waiting for a pending signal", "sigwaitinfo: waiting
for a pending signal" and "pause: waiting for a delivered signal". In
FreeBSD 11.4 (8c639945) sigwaitinfo is kern_sigtimedwait without a
timeout (sys/kern/kern_sig.c:1212), sigwait is the same wait returning
the error number (kern_sig.c:1150, lib/libthr/thread/thr_sig.c:676-728)
and pause is sigsuspend of the current mask (lib/libc/gen/pause.c:46-56).
AnyPS5 never leaves a guest signal pending (blocked signals are dropped
in Dispatch, raise delivers at once), so there is nothing to take, and
raise, kill and pthread_kill run a handler only on the calling thread,
so nothing can end a pause.
Titles (predicted stops, registry order; not observed runs):
- Ruffle PPSA68091, observed today
"FAIL: unresolved ELF import 1t1-JoZ0sZQ from libSceLibcInternal.prx"
(sinhf, #3519), predicted next
"FAIL: unresolved ELF import EDyhWelj7UY from libkernel.prx"
(pause, call site 0x8F7266).
- RetroArch PPSA99169: pause (0x30DB1, an address table entry).
- PS5MC PPSA99420: pause (0x3BD80F6, 0x3C9E220), sigwait (0x3C9E4C7),
sigwaitinfo (0x3C9E588).
- XPSemu PPSA97358: sigwait (0xE02AEC, 0x1101294, 0x1101368), QEMU's
dummy vCPU thread and sigwait_compat thread.
guest_sigtimedwait now also checks the three throws, with an empty set,
a null info, a SIGINT raised while blocked, and that neither the output
nor the blocked mask changes. TechnicalDebt records the call sites.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
XPSemu (PPSA97358) stops next at sigsetjmp (aRo9AhFUXcM) from libkernel,
per the body of #3323 "feat(libkernel): implement cpuset_setaffinity for
the calling thread or process": "XPSemu: with this PR, the next stop is
`sigsetjmp` (`aRo9AhFUXcM`)". RetroArch and PS5MC list it under libkernel
in the absent-import tables of #1578; aerolib names aRo9AhFUXcM sigsetjmp.
sigsetjmp is FreeBSD's amd64 sigsetjmp (lib/libc/amd64/gen/sigsetjmp.S,
release/11.4.0 8c639945), the counterpart of the merged siglongjmp (#2935)
and its sigjmp_buf layout (sys/x86/include/setjmp.h, _JBLEN 12): it stores
savemask at offset 88 and, when it is nonzero, saves the current mask at 72
through _sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, oset); then it records the return
address, rbx, rsp, rbp, r12-r15 and the x87 control word, and returns 0.
guest_signal_sets now jumps through the export instead of its copy of
FreeBSD's sigsetjmp, and checks that savemask 0 leaves the mask slot
untouched, a nonzero savemask records the current mask and its own value,
and the callee-saved registers come back after siglongjmp.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8a609a5a1f189dce107a871e7da0fd55c746921f)
PSXS5, SwanStationPS5 and Nuvio stop at start-up on setcontext on main,
and EVO Player and ProsperoStore do on Windows. The three are imported
by the statically linked OpenSSL's ASYNC code.
The three use FreeBSD 11's amd64 ucontext_t (mcontext at 0x10, mc_len
800, uc_link at 0x330, 0x370 bytes), which the titles are built
against: EVO Player's ASYNC_is_capable captures into a 0x370-byte stack
buffer, and async_fibre_makecontext sets uc_link at 0x330 and uc_stack
at 0x338. getcontext saves every register at its call in assembly and
stores the context as FreeBSD's sys_getcontext does: rax and rdx as 0,
the carry flag clear, the FXSAVE image and the signal mask, and nothing
from uc_link on. setcontext checks mc_len and mc_flags as set_mcontext
does, installs the signal mask, masks MXCSR with the host's MXCSR_MASK
and returns through iretq, so every general register and the flags are
restored and nothing is written below the target stack pointer.
makecontext follows FreeBSD 11's amd64 libc.
Windows checks guard-page growth and exception unwinding against the
stack bounds in the TEB. setcontext and longjmp now set them to the
stack they switch to, which makecontext registers and pins writable as
libSceFiber does for fiber stacks. OpenSSL enters a context with
setcontext and then switches with _setjmp and _longjmp.
Titles that import it now load; calling it throws like the other
coredump queries, since host crashes are not turned into guest dumps.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
(cherry picked from commit e0e5fd9ffbbaffdc065d1471ce1c91b144af5f98)
(cherry picked from commit 2ac0c88fdbb9e380b6eb5a37d5f98d557940f131)
(cherry picked from commit 1279010b1bc123d3b87664ede15ec6ab2ced806a)
Two defects found in review of the Linux delivery:
A raise right after scePthreadCreate reached the new thread before
RunThread set currentThread, so scePthreadSelf() in the handler adopted
a second handle, and could deadlock on glibc's thread lock when the
signal interrupted pthread_getattr_np. The creator now blocks all
signals around the std::thread construction, so the child starts with
them blocked, and RunThread restores the creator's mask once the thread
is registered, as libthr does. A raise in that window stays pending and
is delivered just before the entry runs.
A handler that set reserved MXCSR bits made rt_sigreturn fail with
SIGSEGV. The MXCSR the handler leaves is now masked with the frame's
MXCSR_MASK (0xffbf when it reads 0), as FreeBSD's fpusetregs does, on
both platforms; Windows also keeps CONTEXT.MxCsr equal to
FltSave.MxCsr.
guest_raise_exception raises right after each of 50 thread creations and
checks scePthreadSelf() in the handler, and its context round trip sets
a reserved MXCSR bit and FZ and checks that only FZ is kept.
AI-assisted: yes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LwJx7AHrSUaMGSpEGhL1Kb
sceKernelRaiseException threw on Linux, so a title whose garbage
collector stops threads with it (Unity's PS5Util raises SIGUSR1 on each
thread and reads mc_rsp from the handler's context) could not run there.
The raise now sends the host SIGUSR1 to the target thread with
pthread_kill. The host handler, installed on first use with SA_SIGINFO
and SA_RESTART, builds the FreeBSD-layout ucontext from the interrupted
registers and the FXSAVE area, calls the guest handler on the target's
own stack and writes the registers back, so the handler's changes reach
the interrupted code, as they do on Windows. errno is left as the
handler leaves it, as libthr does.
A raise on another thread takes the target's join lock with the host
signal blocked and returns ESRCH once the thread has finished, so a
detached thread's pthread_t is never signalled after it exits. The
pthread_t is recorded when the thread is created or adopted. Handlers
are now lock-free atomics, as the host handler reads them.
guest_raise_exception now runs on every platform. It also checks that
r13 and xmm8 reach the handler and that r12 and xmm8 written by the
handler reach the interrupted code.
AI-assisted: yes
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LwJx7AHrSUaMGSpEGhL1Kb
FreeBSD's kernel_sigaction rejects SIGKILL and SIGSTOP only for a handler other than SIG_DFL, so signal(9, SIG_DFL) and signal(17, SIG_DFL) succeed. Drop the SIG_ERR rejection, which has no kernel basis and which sigaction does not apply.
signal() returned SIG_ERR with EINVAL for any signal without a host
equivalent, such as SIGHUP, SIGPIPE and SIGUSR1, while sigaction()
accepted them. FreeBSD's signal() is sigaction() with SA_RESTART and fails
only for numbers outside 1..128 and for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.
The title id now comes from GetAppTitleId, so param.json has one parser and
its validation (a missing file or titleId throws). Another pid returns EPERM
and a null info returns 0 without writing, as shadPS4 does. app_id stays 1,
the running title's id in libSceSystemService, which is inferred, not
measured.
guest_app_info runs the call without param.json in a child process and
checks that the field between app_id and the title id is left alone.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sceKernelGetAppInfo fills the app id and the title id of the calling
process: app id 1, the running title's id in libSceSystemService, and the
titleId of /app0/sce_sys/param.json at offset 0x10, up to 9 characters and a
terminator. Only those fields are written, since callers declare the
structure with different sizes. Another pid returns ESRCH and a null info
EFAULT.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The detached alarm thread waits on a condition variable that was a
namespace-scope static. At exit its destructor ran with the thread still
waiting, and glibc's pthread_cond_destroy blocks then, so a process that
called alarm never exited on Linux. The mutex, condition variable, deadline
and started flag now live in one structure allocated once and never
destroyed.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
RetroArch (PPSA99169) stops at alarm on main: `FAIL: unresolved ELF import DQXJraCc1rA from libSceLibcInternal.prx`.
alarm(seconds) arms one process-wide real-time alarm and returns the seconds left on the previous one, rounded up like FreeBSD's alarm.c (any partial second counts); alarm(0) cancels it. When it expires, SIGALRM's disposition as recorded by sigaction or signal applies: ignored, nothing happens; default, the process terminates as on FreeBSD (exit status 128 + 14); a guest handler throws, because asynchronous delivery to a guest handler is not implemented.
The timer lives in libkernel next to the signal dispositions (GuestAlarm_nid_no_patch); libSceLibcInternal, which the titles import alarm from, forwards to it.
AI-assisted (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PokeMMO Prospero (PPSA98001) stops at siglongjmp (pebqbE5ws8s) from
libkernel. The title links its own FreeBSD sigsetjmp, so siglongjmp
follows FreeBSD's amd64 __siglongjmp and its sigjmp_buf layout: when the
save-mask flag at offset 88 is set it restores the mask saved at 72
through _sigprocmask, then reloads rbx, rsp, rbp, r12-r15 and the x87
control word and returns to the saved address with val, or 1 for 0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VLC (PPSA85300) imports execvp (0NJDcQ2B8vE) from libkernel and fails
to load because no library exports it. Replacing the process image is
not supported, so it throws if called, like sceSystemServiceLoadExec
does for executable replacement. VLC itself cannot reach the call: its
fork and vfork fail with ENOSYS, so the child that would call execvp is
never created.
ProsperoStore (PPSA99000) imports kill from libkernel and stops at it on
current main. Its crash reporter resets a crash signal to SIG_DFL and
sends it again with kill(getpid(), signal).
kill follows FreeBSD's kern_kill and killpg1 for the only guest process:
EINVAL for signals outside 0 to 128, signal 0 only checks the target,
and the caller's own pid, 0 and minus its pid deliver through raise.
Any other pid, and -1, which skips the caller, report ESRCH.
On Windows, getargc and getargv reported only the executable path, read
with GetModuleFileNameA in the ANSI code page, and dropped every other
argument. Linux returns the whole command line from /proc/self/cmdline,
and the relinker's Windows entry stub already passes the guest entry all
arguments converted to UTF-8.
Parse GetCommandLineW with CommandLineToArgvW and convert each argument
to UTF-8 with WC_ERR_INVALID_CHARS, as the entry stub does, so getargv
matches the entry's argv and the Linux behaviour. The Linux path is
unchanged.
On Windows std::_Exit ends in ExitProcess, which still runs every module's
DLL_PROCESS_DETACH and TLS callbacks after the other threads are gone. A
static destructor that joins a worker then waits forever: a title that calls
_Exit while libSceVideoOut's flip queue runs (ps5-opengl's retirement
fail-stop) stays alive in FlipQueue's destructor. _Exit and libkernel's _exit
now terminate the process with TerminateProcess, as _exit ends a POSIX
process: no atexit handlers, stream flushes or module destructors.
waitpid returns -1 with ECHILD, or EINVAL for an option FreeBSD does not know, and leaves the status unwritten: AnyPS5 runs the title as one process and exports nothing that creates a child. VLC PPSA85300 stops on main at this import.
SDL queries the SCHED_OTHER range before it sets a thread priority. It gets
the same 256 to 767 range as SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR, which
pthread_setschedparam applies regardless of policy. The console's answer is
unverified and recorded in TechnicalDebt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
sigprocmask keeps the first word of the title's set as it is, where
FreeBSD keeps signal n at bit n - 1 (_SIG_BIT), but Dispatch tested bit
n. A title that blocked SIGTERM with a FreeBSD-built set (bit 14) was
not protected, and a set with bit 15 blocked SIGTERM instead of SIGURG.
Dispatch now tests bit n - 1; the stored mask and the set returned by
sigprocmask are unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
EVO-PLAYER (PPSA99039) v0.11.0 stops at sigaction once its earlier
imports resolve: it installs a crash handler for SIGSEGV, SIGBUS and
SIGABRT and a quit handler for SIGTERM, SIGINT and SIGHUP at start-up.
sigaction records the handler, flags and mask of signals 1 to 128 and
reports them back, with FreeBSD's EINVAL cases. signal shares the table
and records SA_RESTART, as FreeBSD's libc does. Plain handlers on the
signals signal already delivers run as signal handlers do; SA_SIGINFO
handlers and other signals are recorded only, and raise of such a
signal throws.
Assisted by Claude Code.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DwFnKjMxmwGDWiuYYf1v4D
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