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Re: [PATCH v6 00/28] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura Dec. 9, 2024

Dec. 9, 2024

On Monday, 9 December 2024 14:24:36 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, at 19:58, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > == Previous versions == > > > > No changes were made from v5 other than rebasing on top of the 6.13-rc1 > > char-misc-next tree. > > > > I would like to repeat a question from the last round of review, though. Two > > changes were suggested related to API design, which I did not make because the > > APIs in question were already released in upstream Linux. However, the driver is > > also completely nonfunctional and hidden behind BROKEN, so would this be > > acceptable anyway? The changes in question are: > > If it was impossible to use the driver, there is no regression. > I feel the entire point of marking it as broken was to be able > to add that type of change. Makes sense. [I figured that the BROKEN was just there to prevent anyone from trying to use a half-finished driver, and the point of committing a half-finished driver was just to reduce the number of patches that needed to be resent.] I'll make these changes and resend. > > * rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE (matching the NT > > terminology instead of POSIX), > > No objections my me on either name. > > > * change object creation ioctls to return the fds directly in the return value > > instead of through the args struct. I would also still appreciate a > > clarification on the advice in [1], which is why I didn't do this in the first > > place. > > > > [1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/ioctl.html#return-code > > The git log tells me that I have written that, but I don't remember > why I put that in, maybe someone else suggested it. > > My feeling right now is that returning a file descriptor number > as a small positive integer from the ioctl() return code makes > sense. On the other hand, returning pointers, negative signed > integers or large (> 32bit) 'unsigned long' values can cause > a number of issues, so I would avoid all those the same way we > discourage passing those integers as a literal 'arg' into ioctl() > instead of going through a pointer. Ah, that makes sense to me, thanks.

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[PATCH v6 00/28] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura Dec. 9, 2024

Dec. 9, 2024

This patch series implements a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. NT synchronization primitives are unique in that the wait functions both are vectored, operate on multiple types of object with different behaviour (mutex, semaphore, event), and affect the state of the objects they wait on. This model is not compatible with existing kernel synchronization objects or interfaces, and therefore the ntsync driver implements its own wait queues and locking. This patch series is rebased against the "char-misc-next" branch of gregkh/char-misc.git. == Background == The Wine project emulates the Windows API in user space. One particular part of that API, namely the NT synchronization primitives, have historically been implemented via RPC to a dedicated "kernel" process. However, more recent applications use these APIs more strenuously, and the overhead of RPC has become a bottleneck. The NT synchronization APIs are too complex to implement on top of existing primitives without sacrificing correctness. Certain operations, such as NtPulseEvent() or the "wait-for-all" mode of NtWaitForMultipleObjects(), require direct control over the underlying wait queue, and implementing a wait queue sufficiently robust for Wine in user space is not possible. This proposed driver, therefore, implements the problematic interfaces directly in the Linux kernel. This driver was presented at Linux Plumbers Conference 2023. For those further interested in the history of synchronization in Wine and past attempts to solve this problem in user space, a recording of the presentation can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjU4nyWyhU8 == Performance == The performance measurements described below are copied from earlier versions of the patch set. While some of the code has changed, I do not currently anticipate that it has changed drastically enough to affect those measurements. The gain in performance varies wildly depending on the application in question and the user's hardware. For some games NT synchronization is not a bottleneck and no change can be observed, but for others frame rate improvements of 50 to 150 percent are not atypical. The following table lists frame rate measurements from a variety of games on a variety of hardware, taken by users Dmitry Skvortsov, FuzzyQuils, OnMars, and myself: Game Upstream ntsync improvement =========================================================================== Anger Foot 69 99 43% Call of Juarez 99.8 224.1 125% Dirt 3 110.6 860.7 678% Forza Horizon 5 108 160 48% Lara Croft: Temple of Osiris 141 326 131% Metro 2033 164.4 199.2 21% Resident Evil 2 26 77 196% The Crew 26 51 96% Tiny Tina's Wonderlands 130 360 177% Total War Saga: Troy 109 146 34% =========================================================================== == Patches == The intended semantics of the patches are broadly intended to match those of the corresponding Windows functions. For those not already familiar with the Windows functions (or their undocumented behaviour), patch 27/28 provides a detailed specification, and individual patches also include a brief description of the API they are implementing. The patches making use of this driver in Wine can be retrieved or browsed here: https://repo.or.cz/wine/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ntsync5 == Previous versions == No changes were made from v5 other than rebasing on top of the 6.13-rc1 char-misc-next tree. I would like to repeat a question from the last round of review, though. Two changes were suggested related to API design, which I did not make because the APIs in question were already released in upstream Linux. However, the driver is also completely nonfunctional and hidden behind BROKEN, so would this be acceptable anyway? The changes in question are: * rename NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST to NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_RELEASE (matching the NT terminology instead of POSIX), * change object creation ioctls to return the fds directly in the return value instead of through the args struct. I would also still appreciate a clarification on the advice in [1], which is why I didn't do this in the first place. [1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/ioctl.html#return-code * Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240519202454.1192826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers… * Link to v4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240416010837.333694-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240329000621.148791-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.… * Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240219223833.95710-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240214233645.9273-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.co… * Link to RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240131021356.10322-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… * Link to RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240124004028.16826-1-zfigura(a)codeweavers.c… Elizabeth Figura (28): ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_UNLOCK. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_KILL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_EVENT. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_SET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_RESET. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_PULSE. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_READ. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_EVENT_READ. ntsync: Introduce alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for semaphore state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for mutex state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with WINESYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for manual-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for auto-reset event state. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling with events. selftests: ntsync: Add tests for alertable waits. selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for wakeup signaling via alerts. selftests: ntsync: Add a stress test for contended waits. maintainers: Add an entry for ntsync. docs: ntsync: Add documentation for the ntsync uAPI. ntsync: No longer depend on BROKEN. Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst | 398 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 - drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 989 +++++++++++- include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 39 + tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile | 7 + tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c | 1407 +++++++++++++++++ 11 files changed, 2850 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c base-commit: cdd30ebb1b9f36159d66f088b61aee264e649d7a -- 2.45.2

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Wine staging 10.0-rc1 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Dec. 6, 2024

Dec. 6, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 10.0-rc1 (350 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * windows.networking.connectivity: Add stub dll. * indows.networking.connectivity: Implement IActivationFactory stubs. * windows.networking.connectivity: Implement INetworkInformationStatics stubs. * windows.networking.connectivity: Implement INetworkInformationStatics GetInternetConnectionProfile. * windows.networking.connectivity: IConnectionProfile GetNetworkConnectivityLevel always return internet access. Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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Unable to completely replace vkd3d with vkd3d-proton?
by zhengxianwei Nov. 28, 2024

Nov. 28, 2024

I tried replacing Wine’s built-in DLLs with the d3d12.dll compiled from vkd3d-proton and the dxgi.dll compiled from dxvk. However, I noticed that Wine’s built-in D3DCompile2 still calls vkd3d_shader_compiler( https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/dlls/d3dcompiler_43/compi…) which belongs to vkd3d, not vkd3d-proton. Does this mean that even in Proton, vkd3d and vkd3d-proton coexist, and it’s not possible to completely replace vkd3d? So if there’s a bug in it, I would still need to fix the issue in vkd3d rather than being able to replace it with functions from vkd3d-proton. Is that correct?

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How could I use my own build vkd3d in wine ?
by zhengxianwei Nov. 26, 2024

Nov. 26, 2024

I want to try modifying and building vkd3d myself, but I’m not sure how to make Wine use my custom-built vkd3d. My development environment is Ubuntu 24.04 + x64.

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Wine staging 9.22 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Nov. 23, 2024

Nov. 23, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.22 (350 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * ntdll: Implement HashLinks field in LDR module data. * ntdll: Use HashLinks when searching for a dll using the basename. Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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How to use DLL files from vkd3d-proton in Wine?
by zhengxianwei Nov. 22, 2024

Nov. 22, 2024

I am a beginner with Wine and currently using it to run Photoshop 23. I noticed that vkd3d seems to lack support for Tiled Resource, which causes Photoshop’s compatibility check to fail in displaying the correct GPU information. I found that vkd3d-proton appears to implement this feature, so I compiled vkd3d-proton and copied the resulting d3d12.dll and d3d12core.dll directly into Wine’s directory. I also ensured that the required d3d12.dll was loaded correctly. However, when launching Photoshop, it crashes when using certain swapchain features. Setting aside the swapchain crash for now, is my approach of directly using the d3d12.dll generated by vkd3d-proton correct?

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Pending Reviews page
by Alexandre Julliard Nov. 19, 2024

Nov. 19, 2024

Folks, In our grand tradition of shaming people into doing work, after the Regressions page I'm proud to present the Pending Reviews page: https://source.winehq.org/reviews As with the regressions page, the goal should be to *not* be number one on the list. But feel free to congratulate Huw anyway ;-) Note that the list is a little overestimated, commenting on the diff counts as a review but simply adding a note doesn't, so you may see some MRs in your list that you have actually commented on already. If people find this thing useful we can try to make it smarter. Feedback is welcome! -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Wine staging 9.21 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes Nov. 8, 2024

Nov. 8, 2024

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.21 (358 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * d3dx9_36: Add semi-stub for D3DXOptimizeVertices. Removed (No longer required). * None Added: * [56699] dmime: Semi-Implement IDirectMusicSegment8::GetAudioPathConfig * [55982] dmscript: IDirectMusicScript::EnumRoutine return S_FALSE by default Updated: * vkd3d-latest * win32u-NtGdiExtTextOutW-rotation Where can you help * Run Steam/Battle.net/GOG/UPlay/Epic * Test your favorite game. * Test your favorite applications. * Improve staging patches and get them accepted upstream. * Suggest patches to be included in staging. As always, if you find a bug, please report it via https://bugs.winehq.org Best Regards Alistair.

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Release plans
by Alexandre Julliard Oct. 31, 2024

Oct. 31, 2024

Folks, Since there has been little activity this week, and I'm travelling on Friday, I'm going to delay Wine 9.21 until next Friday, November 8. There will then be a 9.22 release two weeks later, and two weeks after that, on December 6, the 10.0-rc1 release will mark the beginning of our annual code freeze period. As usual, the freeze will last until the final 10.0 is released sometime around mid-January. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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