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Moving Wine Mono
by Esme Povirk 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

I'm starting the process of moving Wine Mono off of my personal Github account and onto the Winehq Gitlab in the organization here: https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine-mono Obviously, I haven't gotten very far yet, as the main repo for Wine Mono itself doesn't exist, but the intent is to move every submodule that we've forked (as well as projects I've started just for Wine Mono) over to Winehq, set up CI there, and archive my Github repos. The procedure for contributing will be to fork the repository and create merge requests (which I will also do for my own contributions, once we're set up for it). I'm also rethinking the branch structure. The Mono repo will have three mainline branches: upstream (the upstream project as it exists in the official repos), main (upstream plus further development that I will review and maintain), and wine-mono (main plus changes we have only in Wine). The "upstream" and "main" branches should be the same for any upstream that is responsive and cares about preserving ABI compatibility (right now that's just FNA and monoDX). The wine-mono branch should only exist for projects that have a general use case in which Wine's changes don't make sense (I think that's just Mono, corefx, and FNA). The answer to "which branch should I send my MR to?" will almost always be main. There should be a very few changes on wine-mono only. The ones I can think of off the top of my head are: enabling native dll loading without coree hooks, renaming a bunch of assemblies to start with "WineMono.", winforms hooks in FNA, and proprietary media formats in FNA. Over the years we've been doing a lot of development on top of Mono that, in my opinion, belongs upstream. I will also accept changes to Mono that have nothing to do with Wine, such as winforms changes, and I will try to keep the main branch working for use cases outside of Wine and Windows, to the extent that it's feasible (there are a bunch of configurations I can't easily test, like PowerPC, ARM, Android, and iOS, and I can't see myself doing development to support new platforms like M1). I don't know how much development interest there will be, but I seem to be in a unique position to maintain Framework Mono, and I think it is needed.

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Re: [PATCH 02/31] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM.
by Elizabeth Figura 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

On Thursday, 15 February 2024 01:28:32 CST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 05:36:38PM -0600, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > This corresponds to the NT syscall NtCreateSemaphore(). > > > > Semaphores are one of three types of object to be implemented in this driver, > > the others being mutexes and events. > > > > An NT semaphore contains a 32-bit counter, and is signaled and can be acquired > > when the counter is nonzero. The counter has a maximum value which is specified > > at creation time. The initial value of the semaphore is also specified at > > creation time. There are no restrictions on the maximum and initial value. > > > > Each object is exposed as an file, to which any number of fds may be opened. > > When all fds are closed, the object is deleted. > > > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> > > --- > > .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 + > > drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++ > > include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 21 +++ > > 3 files changed, 143 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst > > index 457e16f06e04..2f5c6994f042 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst > > +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst > > @@ -173,6 +173,8 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments > > 'M' 00-0F drivers/video/fsl-diu-fb.h conflict! > > 'N' 00-1F drivers/usb/scanner.h > > 'N' 40-7F drivers/block/nvme.c > > +'N' 80-8F uapi/linux/ntsync.h NT synchronization primitives > > + <mailto:wine-devel@winehq.org> > > 'O' 00-06 mtd/ubi-user.h UBI > > 'P' all linux/soundcard.h conflict! > > 'P' 60-6F sound/sscape_ioctl.h conflict! > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > index e4969ef90722..3ad86d98b82d 100644 > > --- a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > +++ b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > @@ -5,26 +5,146 @@ > > * Copyright (C) 2024 Elizabeth Figura > > */ > > > > +#include <linux/anon_inodes.h> > > +#include <linux/file.h> > > #include <linux/fs.h> > > #include <linux/miscdevice.h> > > #include <linux/module.h> > > +#include <linux/slab.h> > > +#include <uapi/linux/ntsync.h> > > > > #define NTSYNC_NAME "ntsync" > > > > +enum ntsync_type { > > + NTSYNC_TYPE_SEM, > > +}; > > + > > +struct ntsync_obj { > > + enum ntsync_type type; > > + > > + union { > > + struct { > > + __u32 count; > > + __u32 max; > > + } sem; > > + } u; > > + > > + struct file *file; > > + struct ntsync_device *dev; > > +}; > > + > > +struct ntsync_device { > > + struct file *file; > > +}; > > No reference counting is needed for your ntsync_device? Or are you > relying on the reference counting of struct file here? > > You pass around pointers to this structure, and save it off into other > structures, how do you know it is "safe" to do so? Yes, this relies on the reference counting of struct file. The sync objects (semaphore etc.) grab a reference when they're created, via get_file(), and release it when they're destroyed. This reference is taken from within ioctls on the ntsync_device, so the file must be valid when we grab a reference. Maybe I'm missing something, though?

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Re: [PATCH 01/31] ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device.
by Elizabeth Figura 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 19:57:23 CST Randy Dunlap wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/14/24 15:36, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > ntsync uses a misc device as the simplest and least intrusive uAPI interface. > > > > Each file description on the device represents an isolated NT instance, intended > > to correspond to a single NT virtual machine. > > > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> > > --- > > drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++ > > drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + > > drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 3 files changed, 62 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig > > index 4fb291f0bf7c..bdd8a71bd853 100644 > > --- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig > > +++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig > > @@ -504,6 +504,15 @@ config OPEN_DICE > > measured boot flow. Userspace can use CDIs for remote attestation > > and sealing. > > > > +config NTSYNC > > + tristate "NT synchronization primitive emulation" > > + help > > + This module provides kernel support for emulation of Windows NT > > + synchronization primitives. It is not a hardware driver. > > + > > + To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the > > + module will be called ntsync. > > + > > If unsure, say N. > > It looks like the "If unsure" line belongs to the OPEN_DICE kconfig entry > above here. If you want one for NTSYNC, please add one. Oops, looks like that was a bad rebase :-( > > > > > config VCPU_STALL_DETECTOR > > > > diff --git a/drivers/misc/ntsync.c b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > new file mode 100644 > > index 000000000000..e4969ef90722 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/drivers/misc/ntsync.c > > @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only > > +/* > > + * ntsync.c - Kernel driver for NT synchronization primitives > > + * > > + * Copyright (C) 2024 Elizabeth Figura > > It would be nice to have your email address above... > > > + */ > > + > > > + > > +MODULE_AUTHOR("Elizabeth Figura"); > > but at least please add it in MODULE_AUTHOR(). Yes it's optional, but > roughly 7900 of 10400 entries do include it (according to my rough > grepping). > > Yes, I know that it's in MAINTAINERS. Will add, thanks. As you guessed I did just pick an arbitrary module to copy.

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[PATCH 00/31] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

This patch series introduces a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. This was previously submitted as an RFC [1]. Since there were no major changes requested to the last RFC revision, I've stripped the RFC prefix. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240131021356.10322-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com/ == 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 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 31/31 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 == Implementation == Some aspects of the implementation may deserve particular comment: * In the interest of performance, each object is governed only by a single spinlock. However, NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL requires that the state of multiple objects be changed as a single atomic operation. In order to achieve this, we first take a device-wide lock ("wait_all_lock") any time we are going to lock more than one object at a time. The maximum number of objects that can be used in a vectored wait, and therefore the maximum that can be locked simultaneously, is 64. This number is NT's own limit. The acquisition of multiple spinlocks will degrade performance. This is a conscious choice, however. Wait-for-all is known to be a very rare operation in practice, especially with counts that approach the maximum, and it is the intent of the ntsync driver to optimize wait-for-any at the expense of wait-for-all as much as possible. * NT mutexes are tied to their threads on an OS level, and the kernel includes builtin support for "robust" mutexes. In order to keep the ntsync driver self-contained and avoid touching more code than necessary, it does not hook into task exit nor use pids. Instead, the user space emulator is expected to manage thread IDs and pass them as an argument to any relevant functions; this is the "owner" field of ntsync_wait_args and ntsync_mutex_args. When the emulator detects that a thread dies, it should therefore call NTSYNC_IOC_MUTEX_KILL on any open mutexes. * ntsync is module-capable mostly because there was nothing preventing it, and because it aided development. It is not a hard requirement, though. == Previous versions == Changes from the last (v2) RFC: * Add a new wait flag NTSYNC_WAIT_REALTIME. I had originally missed a corner case in NtWaitForMultipleObjects() related to its interaction with system time adjustments. Essentially the function is sometimes supposed to respect system time adjustments and sometimes supposed to ignore them, so in order to achieve this I've added a function that controls which flag is being synchronized to. Thanks Piotr Caban for catching this. * Add tests for overflowing semaphore and mutex counters, and a test for exceeding NTSYNC_MAX_WAIT_COUNT, per Andi Kleen. * Add a more intense and realistic test involving multiple threads using the same mutex to access data, per Andi Kleen. * Use check_add_overflow() instead of writing out overflow checking manually [and thereby avoid relying on -fwrapv]. * Add some missing headers that were being implicitly included: atomic.h, hrtimer.h, ktime.h, sched.h, sched/signal.h, spinlock.h. * Link to RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240131021356.10322-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com/ * Link to RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240124004028.16826-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com/ Elizabeth Figura (31): ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST. 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. ntsync: Allow waits to use the REALTIME clock. 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. Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 + Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst | 399 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 1146 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 62 + tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile | 8 + tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c | 1407 +++++++++++++++++ 12 files changed, 3046 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ntsync.c create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h 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: e21817acb23ece75d41a4fa7b40c85550f147389 -- 2.43.0

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Wine staging 9.2 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 11 Feb '24

11 Feb '24

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.2 (489 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * d3dx9_36-D3DXDisassembleShader Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest * ntdll-Junction_Points The patch count is down due to the upstreaming of the rawinput changes and due to conflicts, the wine-staging rawinput patches are disabled. 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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Wine staging 9.0 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 10 Feb '24

10 Feb '24

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0 (505 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * 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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Staging reparse point fix
by DodoGTA GT 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Hello, I have made an updated version of the reparse points patchset fix that should reduce the patch noise quite a bit (I think the original version is better in terms of code duplication though)

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kernelbase: adding support for callback in CopyFileEx, and implementing CopyFile2
by sendtokartavya＠gmail.com 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

context: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55897 While implementing CopyFile2, I noticed that CopyFileEx does not respect the progress callback and never calls it. The tests too assume that it will not be invoked other than in the case of a file having multiple streams, which is not something that Wine supports. There seem to have been multiple efforts to implement this functionality (in 2022 and 2013) but I can't tell find any reasoning for why they were not successful. Would implementing this be a desirable contribution? I don't know how to get assigned to an issue on Bugzilla. I read the Wine Developers Wiki but it doesn't seem to have the information, so I left a comment in the bug log itself.

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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 19/29] selftests: ntsync: Add some tests for NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY.
by Elizabeth Figura 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

On Wednesday, 31 January 2024 02:52:11 CST Andi Kleen wrote: > Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> writes: > > > +TEST(test_wait_any) > > +{ > > + struct ntsync_mutex_args mutex_args = {0}; > > + struct ntsync_wait_args wait_args = {0}; > > + struct ntsync_sem_args sem_args = {0}; > > + __u32 owner, index, count; > > + struct timespec timeout; > > + int objs[2], fd, ret; > > + > > + clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &timeout); > > + > > + fd = open("/dev/ntsync", O_CLOEXEC | O_RDONLY); > > + ASSERT_LE(0, fd); > > + > > + sem_args.count = 2; > > + sem_args.max = 3; > > + sem_args.sem = 0xdeadbeef; > > + ret = ioctl(fd, NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM, &sem_args); > > + EXPECT_EQ(0, ret); > > + EXPECT_NE(0xdeadbeef, sem_args.sem); > > + > > + mutex_args.owner = 0; > > + mutex_args.count = 0; > > + mutex_args.mutex = 0xdeadbeef; > > + ret = ioctl(fd, NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX, &mutex_args); > > + EXPECT_EQ(0, ret); > > + EXPECT_NE(0xdeadbeef, mutex_args.mutex); > > It seems your tests are missing test cases for exceeding any limits, > especially overflow/underflow cases. Since these are the most likely > for any security problems it would be good to have extra coverage here. > The fuzzers will hopefully hit it too. > > Also some stress testing with multiple threads would be useful. Thanks, I'll add these.

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Upcoming vkd3d 1.11 release
by Henri Verbeet 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Hi all, The tentative release date for vkd3d 1.11 is March 5. As usual, that means the development branch will become increasingly frozen as we're nearing release. In particular, the public API should be considered frozen after February 6, and we'll only accept targetted fixes after February 20. If you're an upstream vkd3d developer, please do the following: - Keep an eye on Bugzilla for any reported regressions. - Review any API changes since the previous release. - Verify all the vkd3d tests pass on your hardware, and please send fixes if they don't. - Review and improve the documentation. - Apply your best judgment about which patches are appropriate for the current stage of the release process. If you're a downstream user of vkd3d, please test your applications for regressions, and file bug reports if you find any. If you're the maintainer of a Wine module that (indirectly) depends on vkd3d, like e.g. d2d1, d3dx9, d3dcompiler, or any of the core Direct3D modules, that includes making sure the unit tests still pass with the new version. The planned release date for vkd3d 1.12 is currently May 28. Regards, Henri

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[RFC PATCH v2 00/29] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

This patch series introduces a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. == 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 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 29/29 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 == Implementation == Some aspects of the implementation may deserve particular comment: * In the interest of performance, each object is governed only by a single spinlock. However, NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL requires that the state of multiple objects be changed as a single atomic operation. In order to achieve this, we first take a device-wide lock ("wait_all_lock") any time we are going to lock more than one object at a time. The maximum number of objects that can be used in a vectored wait, and therefore the maximum that can be locked simultaneously, is 64. This number is NT's own limit. The acquisition of multiple spinlocks will degrade performance. This is a conscious choice, however. Wait-for-all is known to be a very rare operation in practice, especially with counts that approach the maximum, and it is the intent of the ntsync driver to optimize wait-for-any at the expense of wait-for-all as much as possible. * NT mutexes are tied to their threads on an OS level, and the kernel includes builtin support for "robust" mutexes. In order to keep the ntsync driver self-contained and avoid touching more code than necessary, it does not hook into task exit nor use pids. Instead, the user space emulator is expected to manage thread IDs and pass them as an argument to any relevant functions; this is the "owner" field of ntsync_wait_args and ntsync_mutex_args. When the emulator detects that a thread dies, it should therefore call NTSYNC_IOC_KILL_OWNER, which will mark mutexes owned by that thread (if any) as abandoned. * This implementation uses a misc device mostly because it seemed like the simplest and least obtrusive option. Besides simplicitly of implementation, the only particularly interesting advantage is the ability to create an arbitrary number of "contexts" (corresponding to Windows virtual machines) which are self-contained and shareable across multiple processes; this maps nicely to file descriptions (i.e. struct file). This is not impossible with syscalls of course but would require an extra argument. On the other hand, there is no reason to forbid using ntsync by default from user-mode processes, and (as far as I understand) to do so with a char device requires explicit configuration by e.g. udev or init. Since this is done with e.g. fuse, I assume this is the model to follow, but I may have chosen something deprecated. * ntsync is module-capable mostly because there was nothing preventing it, and because it aided development. It is not a hard requirement, though. == Previous versions == Changes in v2: * Send the whole series instead of just the first few patches. * Try to add more description to each patch, as a short documentation of the functions to be implemented. A more complete documentation of all aspects of the driver is provided in the contents of the last patch. * Objects are now files rather than indices into a table. This prevents a process from changing the state of an object which it should not have access to. Suggested by Andy Lutorminski. * Because the device no longer inherently has a table of all objects, marking a thread's owned mutexes as abandoned is now done through an ioctl on the mutex. * Change the names of a couple ioctls to be a bit less odd (PUT_SEM -> SEM_POST, PUT_MUTEX -> MUTEX_UNLOCK), and to reflect that they are ioctls on an object rather than on the device. * Pass the timeout for wait functions as a bare u64 (in ns), per Arnd Bergmann, with U64_MAX used to indicate no timeout. I originally indicated that I would change the timeout to be relative, but on reflection ended up keeping it as absolute, as this results in the least number of calls to get the current time (i.e. one). * Use compat_ptr_ioctl(), per Arnd Bergmann. * Remove the fixed minor number and module alias, per Greg Kroah-Hartman. * Allocate the fds array on stack in setup_wait(). This array takes up 260 bytes. * Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240124004028.16826-1-zfigura@codeweavers.com/ Elizabeth Figura (29): ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_SEM_POST. 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. maintainers: Add an entry for ntsync. docs: ntsync: Add documentation for the ntsync uAPI. Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 + .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 + Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst | 390 +++++ MAINTAINERS | 9 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 1132 ++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 58 + tools/testing/selftests/Makefile | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/Makefile | 8 + tools/testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/config | 1 + .../testing/selftests/drivers/ntsync/ntsync.c | 1300 +++++++++++++++++ 12 files changed, 2912 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/ntsync.rst create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ntsync.c create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h 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 -- 2.43.0

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The future of WineConf
by Alexandre Julliard 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Folks, As you may have noticed, we haven't been making any plans for WineConf this year. Jeremy has been busy preparing his retirement, and I haven't been pushing it either, mostly because I'm not convinced that we want to continue the traditional WineConf model. Even though we skipped a few years because of the pandemic, attendance at last year's WineConf wasn't great. We also suggested meeting at FOSDEM in February, like we did in previous years, but essentially no one showed up. So I'm wondering whether there is still enough interest for a traditional WineConf, or whether we should try a different approach, to maybe capture some of the recent excitement around gaming and downstream uses of Wine in general. I'd like to hear your thoughts. Should we do a Proton conference, or join some kind of gaming-related event? Do people even want to travel to conferences anymore? What kind of event would you be interested in, particularly those of you who don't show up to the traditional WineConf? -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Wine staging 9.1 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.1 (508 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * include: Add more D3D_FEATURE_LEVEL_ defines. * oleaut32: Do not reimplement OleLoadPicture in OleLoadPicturePath. * oleaut32: Factor out stream creation from OleLoadPicturePath. * oleaut32: Implement OleLoadPictureFile. (v2) * user32/tests: Add tests for clicking through layered window. * user32/tests: Add tests for window region of layered windows. Added: * [50148] msi: Process cabinet files only when one is supplied. * [51965] msxml3: IMXWrite::output to support DOMDocument. * [52128] scrrun: Implement IFileSystem3 MoveFolder. Updated: * vkd3d-latest * user32-Mouse_Message_Hwnd (Rebased and enabled) * wined3d-bindless-texture (Rebased and enabled) * ddraw-version-check (Rebased and enabled) * vcomp_for_dynamic_init_i8 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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Staging patchset update
by DodoGTA GT 27 Jan '24

27 Jan '24

Hello, I just updated the vkd3d-latest staging patchset with the latest vkd3d commit (attached below) Hopefully someone can push this to wine-staging Thanks, Aida/Echo (DodoGTA)

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[RFC PATCH 0/9] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

This patch series introduces a new char misc driver, /dev/ntsync, which is used to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives. == 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 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, FuzzyQuills, 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 == This is the first part of a 32-patch series. The series comprises 17 patches which contain the actual implementation, 13 which provide self-tests, 1 to update the MAINTAINERS file, and 1 to add API documentation. The intended semantics of the patches are broadly intended to match those of the corresponding Windows functions. Since I do not expect familiarity with Windows syscalls, however, and especially not with some of the more subtle or unspecified behaviour that they provide, the documentation patch included in the series also describes the intended behaviour in detail, and can be used as a specification for the rest of the series. The entire series can be retrieved or browsed here: https://repo.or.cz/linux/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/ntsync4 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/ntsync4 == Implementation == Some aspects of the implementation may deserve particular comment: * In the interest of performance, each object is governed only by a single spinlock. However, NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL requires that the state of multiple objects be changed as a single atomic operation. In order to achieve this, we first take a device-wide lock ("wait_all_lock") any time we are going to lock more than one object at a time. The maximum number of objects that can be used in a vectored wait, and therefore the maximum that can be locked simultaneously, is 64. This number is NT's own limit. The acquisition of multiple spinlocks will degrade performance. This is a conscious choice, however. Wait-for-all is known to be a very rare operation in practice, especially with counts that approach the maximum, and it is the intent of the ntsync driver to optimize the wait-for-any pattern at the expense of the wait-for-all pattern as much as possible. * NT mutexes are tied to their threads on an OS level, and the kernel includes builtin support for "robust" mutexes. In order to keep the ntsync driver self-contained and avoid touching more code than necessary, it does not hook into task exit nor use pids. Instead, the user space emulator is expected to manage thread IDs and pass them as an argument to any relevant functions; this is the "owner" field of ntsync_wait_args and ntsync_mutex_args. When the emulator detects that a thread dies, it should therefore call NTSYNC_IOC_KILL_OWNER, which will mark mutexes owned by that thread (if any) as abandoned. * This implementation uses a misc device mostly because it seemed like the simplest and least obtrusive option. Besides simplicitly of implementation, the only particularly interesting advantage is the ability to create an arbitrary number of "contexts" (corresponding to Windows virtual machines) which are self-contained and shareable across multiple processes; this maps nicely to file descriptions (i.e. struct file). This is not impossible with syscalls of course but would require an extra argument. On the other hand, there is no reason to forbid using ntsync by default from user-mode processes, and (as far as I understand) to do so with a char device requires explicit configuration by e.g. udev or init. Since this is done with e.g. fuse, I assume this is the model to follow, but I may have chosen something deprecated. * ntsync is module-capable mostly because there was nothing preventing it, and because it aided development. I am not aware of any reason why being a module is required, though. * The misc minor number has not been reserved with LANANA. I am not sure at what point in the process this makes the most sense, but since this is still only an RFC I've abstained from doing so yet. Elizabeth Figura (9): ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device. ntsync: Reserve a minor device number and ioctl range. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM and NTSYNC_IOC_DELETE. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_PUT_SEM. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ALL. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_PUT_MUTEX. ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_KILL_OWNER. Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 3 +- .../userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 + drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 + drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 + drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 916 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h | 53 + 7 files changed, 984 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 drivers/misc/ntsync.c create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h base-commit: 6613476e225e090cc9aad49be7fa504e290dd33d -- 2.43.0

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Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY.
by Elizabeth Figura 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

On Thursday, 25 January 2024 11:02:26 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 23:28, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 13:52:52 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 19:02, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > >> > That'd be nicer in general. I think there was some documentation that > >> > advised using timespec64 for new ioctl interfaces but it may have been > >> > outdated or misread. > >> > >> It's probably something I wrote. It depends a bit on > >> whether you have an absolute or relative timeout. If > >> the timeout is relative to the current time as I understand > >> it is here, a 64-bit number seems more logical to me. > >> > >> For absolute times, I would usually use a __kernel_timespec, > >> especially if it's CLOCK_REALTIME. In this case you would > >> also need to specify the time domain. > > > > Currently the interface does pass it as an absolute time, with the > > domain implicitly being MONOTONIC. This particular choice comes from > > process/botching-up-ioctls.rst, which is admittedly focused around GPU > > ioctls, but the rationale of having easily restartable ioctls applies > > here too. > > Ok, I was thinking of Documentation/driver-api/ioctl.rst, which > has similar recommendations. > > > (E.g. Wine does play games with signals, so we do want to be able to > > interrupt arbitrary waits with EINTR. The "usual" fast path for ntsync > > waits won't hit that, but we want to have it work.) > > > > On the other hand, if we can pass the timeout as relative, and write it > > back on exit like ppoll() does [assuming that's not proscribed], that > > would presumably be slightly better for performance. > > I've seen arguments go either way between absolute and relative > times, just pick whatever works best for you here. > > > When writing the patch I just picked the recommended option, and didn't > > bother doing any micro-optimizations afterward. > > > > What's the rationale for using timespec for absolute or written-back > > timeouts, instead of dealing in ns directly? I'm afraid it's not > > obvious to me. > > There is no hard rule either way, I mainly didn't like the > indirect pointer to the timespec that you have here. For > traditional unix-style interfaces, a timespec with CLOCK_REALTIME > times usually makes sense since that is what user space is > already using elsewhere, but you probably don't need to > worry about that. In theory, the single u64 CLOCK_REALTIME > nanoseconds have the problem of no longer working after year > 2262, but with CLOCK_MONOTONIC that is not a concern anyway. > > Between embedding a __u64 nanosecond value and embedding > a __kernel_timespec, I would pick whichever avoids converting > a __u64 back into a timespec, as that is an expensive > operation at least on 32-bit code. Makes sense. I'll probably switch to using a relative and written-back u64 then, thanks!

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device.
by Elizabeth Figura 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

On Thursday, 25 January 2024 10:47:49 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, at 04:42, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 16:56:23 CST Elizabeth Figura wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 15:26:15 CST Andy Lutomirski wrote: > >> > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: > >> [There is also a potential problem where some broken applications > >> create a million (literally) sync objects. Making these into files runs > >> into NOFILE. We did specifically push distributions and systemd to > >> increase those limits because an older solution *did* use eventfds and > >> *did* run into those limits. Since that push was successful I don't > >> know if this is *actually* a concern anymore, but avoiding files is > >> probably not a bad thing either.] > > > > Of course, looking at it from a kernel maintainer's perspective, it > > wouldn't be insane to do this anyway. If we at some point do start to > > care about cross- process isolation in this way, or if another NT > > emulator wants to use this interface and does care about cross-process > > isolation, it'll be necessary. At least it'd make sense to make them > > separate files even if we don't implement granular permission handling > > just yet. > > I can think of a few other possible benefits of going with > per-mutex file descriptors: > > - being able to use poll() for waiting on them individually in > combination with other file descriptor based events (socket, > signalfd, pidfd, ...) I can say for sure this isn't going to be useful for Wine, at least not with the current design. It also doesn't really mesh well with the NT design in the first place. NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY differs from poll() in two major ways: it consumes state of most object types, and (as coded here) it needs the owner thread ID to be specifically passed for mutexes. Anyway, as Alexandre has informed me I clearly have misunderstood our requirements, so I'm going to try to put together something using files instead.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 13:52:52 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 19:02, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:56:52 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 01:40, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > >> > >> > + if (args->timeout) { > >> > + struct timespec64 to; > >> > + > >> > + if (get_timespec64(&to, u64_to_user_ptr(args->timeout))) > >> > + return -EFAULT; > >> > + if (!timespec64_valid(&to)) > >> > + return -EINVAL; > >> > + > >> > + timeout = timespec64_to_ns(&to); > >> > + } > >> > >> Have you considered just passing the nanosecond value here? > >> Since you do not appear to write it back, that would avoid > >> the complexities of dealing with timespec layout differences > >> and indirection. > > > > That'd be nicer in general. I think there was some documentation that advised > > using timespec64 for new ioctl interfaces but it may have been outdated or > > misread. > > It's probably something I wrote. It depends a bit on > whether you have an absolute or relative timeout. If > the timeout is relative to the current time as I understand > it is here, a 64-bit number seems more logical to me. > > For absolute times, I would usually use a __kernel_timespec, > especially if it's CLOCK_REALTIME. In this case you would > also need to specify the time domain. Currently the interface does pass it as an absolute time, with the domain implicitly being MONOTONIC. This particular choice comes from process/botching-up-ioctls.rst, which is admittedly focused around GPU ioctls, but the rationale of having easily restartable ioctls applies here too. (E.g. Wine does play games with signals, so we do want to be able to interrupt arbitrary waits with EINTR. The "usual" fast path for ntsync waits won't hit that, but we want to have it work.) On the other hand, if we can pass the timeout as relative, and write it back on exit like ppoll() does [assuming that's not proscribed], that would presumably be slightly better for performance. When writing the patch I just picked the recommended option, and didn't bother doing any micro-optimizations afterward. What's the rationale for using timespec for absolute or written-back timeouts, instead of dealing in ns directly? I'm afraid it's not obvious to me. --Zeb

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Re: [RFC PATCH 8/9] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_PUT_MUTEX.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:42:19 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 01:40, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > @@ -738,6 +803,8 @@ static long ntsync_char_ioctl(struct file *file, > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h b/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h > > index 26d1b3d4847f..2e44e7e77776 100644 > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ntsync.h > > @@ -46,5 +46,7 @@ struct ntsync_wait_args { > > struct ntsync_wait_args) > > #define NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_MUTEX _IOWR(NTSYNC_IOC_BASE, 5, \ > > struct ntsync_mutex_args) > > +#define NTSYNC_IOC_PUT_MUTEX _IOWR(NTSYNC_IOC_BASE, 6, \ > > + struct ntsync_mutex_args) > > > > In your implementation, this argument is not written back to > user space, so I think this should be _IOW rather than than _IORW. > > Again, no practical difference here. Hm, but there is a put_user() at the end of the function, or am I missing something?

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Re: [RFC PATCH 5/9] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_WAIT_ANY.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:56:52 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 01:40, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > > + if (args->timeout) { > > + struct timespec64 to; > > + > > + if (get_timespec64(&to, u64_to_user_ptr(args->timeout))) > > + return -EFAULT; > > + if (!timespec64_valid(&to)) > > + return -EINVAL; > > + > > + timeout = timespec64_to_ns(&to); > > + } > > Have you considered just passing the nanosecond value here? > Since you do not appear to write it back, that would avoid > the complexities of dealing with timespec layout differences > and indirection. That'd be nicer in general. I think there was some documentation that advised using timespec64 for new ioctl interfaces but it may have been outdated or misread. > > > + ids = kmalloc_array(count, sizeof(*ids), GFP_KERNEL); > > + if (!ids) > > + return -ENOMEM; > > + if (copy_from_user(ids, u64_to_user_ptr(args->objs), > > + array_size(count, sizeof(*ids)))) { > > + kfree(ids); > > + return -EFAULT; > > + } > > This looks like memdup_user() would be slightly simpler. That's useful, thanks.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] ntsync: Reserve a minor device number and ioctl range.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 06:32:13 CST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 09:43:09PM -0600, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > > Why do you need a fixed minor number? Can't your userspace handle > > > dynamic numbers? What systems require a static value? > > > > I believe I added this because it's necessary for MODULE_ALIAS (and, more > > broadly, because I was following the example of vaguely comparable devices > > like /dev/loop-control). I suppose I could instead just remove MODULE_ALIAS > > (or even remove the ability to compile ntsync as a module entirely). > > Do you really need MODULE_ALIAS()? Having it for char devices to be > auto-loaded is not generally considered a good idea anymore as systems > should have the module loaded before userspace goes and asks for it. > > It also reduces suprises when any random userspace program can cause > kernel modules to be loaded for no real reason. I think there's no reason we can't make loading the system's problem. I'll remove it in v2.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/9] ntsync: Introduce the ntsync driver and character device.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Wednesday, 24 January 2024 01:38:52 CST Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2024, at 01:40, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > ntsync uses a misc device as the simplest and least intrusive uAPI interface. > > > > Each file description on the device represents an isolated NT instance, intended > > to correspond to a single NT virtual machine. > > > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> > > I'm looking at the ioctl interface to ensure it's well-formed. > > Your patches look ok from that perspective, but there are a > few minor things I would check for consistency here: > > > + > > +static const struct file_operations ntsync_fops = { > > + .owner = THIS_MODULE, > > + .open = ntsync_char_open, > > + .release = ntsync_char_release, > > + .unlocked_ioctl = ntsync_char_ioctl, > > + .compat_ioctl = ntsync_char_ioctl, > > + .llseek = no_llseek, > > +}; > > The .compat_ioctl pointer should point to compat_ptr_ioctl() > since the actual ioctl commands all take pointers instead > of interpreting the argument as a number. > > On x86 and arm64 this won't make a difference as compat_ptr() > is a nop. Thanks; will fix.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] ntsync: Reserve a minor device number and ioctl range.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:54:02 CST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:40:21PM -0600, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> > > --- > > Note, we can't take patches without any changelog text, and you don't > want us to :) > > > Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt | 3 ++- > > Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 ++ > > drivers/misc/ntsync.c | 3 ++- > > include/linux/miscdevice.h | 1 + > > 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt > > b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt index 94c98be1329a..041404397ee5 > > 100644 > > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt > > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt > > @@ -376,8 +376,9 @@ > > > > 240 = /dev/userio Serio driver testing device > > 241 = /dev/vhost-vsock Host kernel driver for virtio vsock > > 242 = /dev/rfkill Turning off radio transmissions (rfkill) > > > > + 243 = /dev/ntsync NT synchronization primitive device > > > > - 243-254 Reserved for local use > > + 244-254 Reserved for local use > > Why do you need a fixed minor number? Can't your userspace handle > dynamic numbers? What systems require a static value? I believe I added this because it's necessary for MODULE_ALIAS (and, more broadly, because I was following the example of vaguely comparable devices like /dev/loop-control). I suppose I could instead just remove MODULE_ALIAS (or even remove the ability to compile ntsync as a module entirely). It's a bit difficult to figure out what's the preferred way to organize things like this (there not being a lot of precedent for this kind of driver) so I'd appreciate any direction. --Zeb

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Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] ntsync: Introduce NTSYNC_IOC_CREATE_SEM and NTSYNC_IOC_DELETE.
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 19:14:17 CST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:40:22PM -0600, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > +static int ntsync_create_sem(struct ntsync_device *dev, void __user > > *argp) > > +{ > > + struct ntsync_sem_args __user *user_args = argp; > > + struct ntsync_sem_args args; > > + struct ntsync_obj *sem; > > + __u32 id; > > + int ret; > > + > > + if (copy_from_user(&args, argp, sizeof(args))) > > + return -EFAULT; > > + > > + if (args.count > args.max) > > + return -EINVAL; > > No bounds checking on count or max? > > What's the relationship between count and max? Indeed, no bounds checking. The counter is just the semaphore's internal value and has no meaning other than that. It's basically like an EFD_SEMAPHORE, except that the maximum is configurable rather than always being 2**64-2. > Some sort of real > documentation is needed here, the changelog needs to explain this. Or > somewhere, but as-is, this patch series is pretty unreviewable as I > can't figure out how to review it because I don't know what it wants to > do. There is some comprehensive documentation in the series, but for ease of review I will try to write a basic description of the API in each relevant patch in v2.

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Re: [RFC PATCH 0/9] NT synchronization primitive driver
by Elizabeth Figura 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

On Tuesday, 23 January 2024 18:59:35 CST Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:40:19PM -0600, Elizabeth Figura wrote: > > == Patches == > > > > This is the first part of a 32-patch series. The series comprises 17 patches > > which contain the actual implementation, 13 which provide self-tests, 1 to > > update the MAINTAINERS file, and 1 to add API documentation. > > 32 patches? I only see 9 here, why not submit them all? Because Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst makes a point of asking people not to submit large patch series (and it matches the expectation of other projects I've worked with—that patches would be submitted and reviewed a few at a time). I suppose I've misunderstood that advice, though. I'll resend with the entire series. Sorry for the noise.

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9.0 release notes, please review
by Alexandre Julliard 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Folks, We've once again made very good progress on the regressions during this code freeze period, thanks to everybody for your help! It's now time for the final release. I've attached the tentative release notes, written with help from Jacek, Rémi and Zeb, and for the first time in Markdown format <g>. Please review these and let me know if anything is wrong, missing, or unclear. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Force feedback auto center implementation?
by Tyson Whitehead 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

Would like to get disabling force feedback auto-centering working so that trimming will work properly with force feedback devices in flight simulators. Currently the call to disable it is a stub static HRESULT dinput_device_set_property( IDirectInputDevice8W *iface, const GUID *guid, const DIPROPHEADER *header ) { ... case (DWORD_PTR)DIPROP_AUTOCENTER: { const DIPROPDWORD *value = (const DIPROPDWORD *)header; if (!(impl->caps.dwFlags & DIDC_FORCEFEEDBACK)) return DIERR_UNSUPPORTED; if ( header->dwHow != DIPH_DEVICE) return DIERR_INVALIDPARAM; impl->vtbl->set_property( iface, FIXME( "DIPROP_AUTOCENTER stub!\n" ); impl->autocenter = value->dwData; return DI_OK; } ... } After having looked through the wine, SDL, and kernel code and read up on the force feedback HID physical interface device (PID) usage table reports, I am guessing this was left as a stub because it doesn't fit in with the current design of dipnut communicating with the backend via HID reports. The issue being that auto centering, unlike everything else, isn't part of the PID specification, so there isn't a predefined report that can be used for this (see table 0x0f) https://www.usb.org/document-library/hid-usage-tables-14 Although I am no wine or Windows code expert, I am guess this leaves the following options - leave it disabled in the backend and emulate it via a frontend spring effect - abuse an existing HID report to communicate it - add a WINE specific HID report to communicate it - add a WINE specific IOCTL to communicate it For the first option, I mean have the winebus backends disable it via the kernel or an SDL call and then have the dinput layer enable simulate it by adding a default spring effect. This then lets the dinput frontend disable it again by removing or disabling its spring effect. For the second one I mean something like reserve an effect ID for specifying auto centering. Both of these are inspired by the fact that from the kernel code, it seems auto centering for HID devices is an undocumented use of the first effect ID for a spring effect https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/610a9b8f/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidf… https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/610a9b8f/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidf… Would be interesting in knowing what sort of implementation people think would be best and acceptable for inclusion into wine? Thanks! Tyson

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Wine staging 9.0-rc5 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0-rc5 (500 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * 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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vkd3d request
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi All, Now that vkd3d 1.10 is out, I have a request for developers. Would it be possible to include a file of all games/applications that have fixes when they are committed. It's too hard to track unless you really doing serious work with it. The whole concept of including the latest vk3d3d in staging was to help with testing but if people don't know what to test, they wont. This would also, give a nice section in the ANNOUNCE as to what now works. :) Best Regards Alistair

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[PATCH] po: Update Asturian translation
by Enol P. 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

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Wine staging 9.0-rc4 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0-rc4 (500 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * 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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Re: x86 SGDT emulation for Wine
by H. Peter Anvin 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

On January 4, 2024 6:47:04 PM PST, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3(a)citrix.com> wrote: >On 05/01/2024 1:02 am, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Note that there is no fundamental reason you cannot run the Unix user space code inside the VM container, too; you only need to vmexit on an actual system call. > >I know this is going on a tangent, but getting a VMExit on the SYSCALL >instruction is surprisingly difficult. > >The "easy" way is to hide EFER.SCE behind the guests back, intercept #UD >and emulate both the SYSCALL and SYSRET instructions. It's slow, but it >works. > >However, FRED completely prohibits tricks like this, because what you >cannot reasonably do is clear CR4.FRED behind the back of a guest >kernel. You'd have to intercept and emulate all event sources in order >to catch SYSCALL. > >I raised this as a concern during early review, but Intel has no >official feature to take a VMExit on privilege change, and FRED >(rightly) wasn't an appropriate vehicle to add such a feature, so it was >deemed not an issue that the FRED design would break the unofficial ways >that people were using to intercept/monitor/etc system calls. > >~Andrew > >P.S. Yes, there are more adventurous tricks like injecting a thunk into >the guest kernel and editing MSR_LSTAR behind the guest's back. In >principle a similar trick works with FRED, but in order to do this to >Windows, you also need to hook checkpatch to blind it to the thunk, and >this is horribly invasive. *In this case* it shouldn't be a problem, since the "guest operating system" would be virtually nonexistent and entirely puppeted by Wine.

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Re: x86 SGDT emulation for Wine
by H. Peter Anvin 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

On January 3, 2024 7:19:02 AM PST, Sean Christopherson <seanjc(a)google.com> wrote: >On Tue, Jan 02, 2024, Elizabeth Figura wrote: >> On Wednesday, December 27, 2023 5:58:19 PM CST H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > On December 27, 2023 2:20:37 PM PST, Elizabeth Figura <zfigura(a)codeweavers.com> wrote: >> > >Hello all, >> > > >> > >There is a Windows 98 program, a game called Nuclear Strike, which wants to >> > >do some amount of direct VGA access. Part of this is port I/O, which >> > >naturally throws SIGILL that we can trivially catch and emulate in Wine. >> > >The other part is direct access to the video memory at 0xa0000, which in >> > >general isn't a problem to catch and virtualize as well. >> > > >> > >However, this program is a bit creative about how it accesses that memory; >> > >instead of just writing to 0xa0000 directly, it looks up a segment >> > >descriptor whose base is at 0xa0000 and then uses the %es override to >> > >write bytes. In pseudo-C, what it does is: > >... > >> > A prctl() to set the UMIP-emulated return values or disable it (giving >> > SIGILL) would be easy enough. >> > >> > For the non-UMIP case, and probably for a lot of other corner cases like >> > relying on certain magic selector values and what not, the best option >> > really would be to wrap the code in a lightweight KVM container. I do *not* >> > mean running the Qemu user space part of KVM; instead have Wine interface >> > with /dev/kvm directly. >> > >> > Non-KVM-capable hardware is basically historic at this point. >> >> Sorry for the late response—I've been trying to do research on what would be >> necessary to use KVM (plus I made the poor choice of sending this during the >> holiday season...) >> >> I'm concerned that KVM is going to be difficult or even intractable. Here are >> some of the problems that I (perhaps incorrectly) understand: >> >> * As I am led to understand, there can only be one hypervisor on the machine >> at a time, > >No. Only one instance of KVM-the-module is allowed, but there is no arbitrary >limit on the number of VMs that userspace can create. The only meaningful >limitation is memory, and while struct kvm isn't tiny, it's not _that_ big. > >> and KVM has a hard limit on the number of vCPUs. >> >> The obvious way to use KVM for Wine is to make each (guest) thread a vCPU. >> That will, at the very least, run into the thread limit. In order to avoid >> that we'd need to ship a whole scheduler, which is concerning. That's a huge >> component to ship and a huge burden to keep updated. It also means we need to >> hoist *all* of the ipc and sync code into the guest, which will take an >> enormous amount of work. >> >> Moreover, because there can only be one hypervisor, and Wine is a multi- >> process beast, that means that we suddenly need to throw every process into >> the same VM. > >As above, this is wildly inaccurate. The only KVM restriction with respect to >processes is that a VM is bound to the process (address space) that created the >VM. There are no restrictions on the number of VMs that can be created, e.g. a >single process can create multiple VMs. > >> That has unfortunate implications regarding isolation (it's been a dream for >> years that we'd be able to share a single wine "VM" between multiple users), >> it complicates memory management (though perhaps not terribly?). And it means >> you can only have one Wine VM at a time, and can't use Wine at the same time >> as a "real" VM, neither of which are restrictions that currently exist. >> >> And it's not even like we can refactor—we'd have to rewrite tons of code to >> work inside a VM, but also keep the old code around for the cases where we >> don't have a VM and want to delegate scheduling to the host OS. >> >> * Besides scheduling, we need to exit the VM every time we would normally call >> into Unix code, which in practice is every time that the application does an >> NT syscall, or uses a library which we delegate to the host (including e.g. >> GPU, multimedia, audio...) > >Maybe I misinterpreted Peter's suggestion, but at least in my mind I wasn't thinking >that the entire Wine process would run in a VM, but rather Wine would run just >the "problematic" code in a VM. > Yes, the idea would be that you would run the "problematic" code inside a VM *mapped 1:1 with the external address space*, i.e. use KVM simply as a special execution mode to give you more control of the fine grained machine state like the GDT. The code that you don't want executed in the VM context simply leave unmapped in the VM page tables and set up #PF to always exit the VM context.

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x86 SGDT emulation for Wine
by Elizabeth Figura 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

Hello all, There is a Windows 98 program, a game called Nuclear Strike, which wants to do some amount of direct VGA access. Part of this is port I/O, which naturally throws SIGILL that we can trivially catch and emulate in Wine. The other part is direct access to the video memory at 0xa0000, which in general isn't a problem to catch and virtualize as well. However, this program is a bit creative about how it accesses that memory; instead of just writing to 0xa0000 directly, it looks up a segment descriptor whose base is at 0xa0000 and then uses the %es override to write bytes. In pseudo-C, what it does is: int get_vga_selector() { sgdt(&gdt_size, &gdt_ptr); sldt(&ldt_segment); ++gdt_size; descriptor = gdt_ptr; while (descriptor->base != 0xa0000) { ++descriptor; gdt_size -= sizeof(*descriptor); if (!gdt_size) break; } if (gdt_size) return (descriptor - gdt_ptr) << 3; descriptor = gdt_ptr[ldt_segment >> 3]->base; ldt_size = gdt_ptr[ldt_segment >> 3]->limit + 1; while (descriptor->base != 0xa0000) { ++descriptor; ldt_size -= sizeof(*descriptor); if (!ldt_size) break; } if (ldt_size) return (descriptor - ldt_ptr) << 3; return 0; } Currently we emulate IDT access. On a read fault, we execute sidt ourselves, check if the read address falls within the IDT, and return some dummy data from the exception handler if it does [1]. We can easily enough implement GDT access as well this way, and there is even an out-of-tree patch written some years ago that does this, and helps the game run. However, there are two problems that I have observed or anticipated: (1) On systems with UMIP, the kernel emulates sgdt instructions and returns a consistent address which we can guarantee is invalid. However, it also returns a size of zero. The program doesn't expect this (cf. the way the loop is written above) and I believe will effectively loop forever in that case, or until it finds the VGA selector or hits invalid memory. I see two obvious ways to fix this: either adjust the size of the fake kernel GDT, or provide a switch to stop emulating and let Wine handle it. The latter may very well a more sustainable option in the long term (although I'll admit I can't immediately come up with a reason why, other than "we might need to raise the size yet again".) Does anyone have opinions on this particular topic? I can look into writing a patch but I'm not sure what the best approach is. (2) On 64-bit systems without UMIP, sgdt returns a truncated address when in 32-bit mode. This truncated address in practice might point anywhere in the address space, including to valid memory. In order to fix this, we would need the kernel to guarantee that the GDT base points to an address whose bottom 32 bits we can guarantee are inaccessible. This is relatively easy to achieve ourselves by simply mapping those pages as noaccess, but it also means that those pages can't overlap something we need; we already go to pains to make sure that certain parts of the address space are free. Broadly anything above the 2G boundary *should* be okay though. Is this feasible? We could also just decide we don't care about systems without UMIP, but that seems a bit unfortunate; it's not that old of a feature. But I also have no idea how hard it would be to make this kind of a guarantee on the kernel side. This is also, theoretically, a problem for the IDT, except that on the machines I've tested, the IDT is always at 0xfffffe0000000000. That's not great either (it's certainly caused some weirdness and confusion when debugging, when we unexpectedly catch an unrelated null pointer access) but it seems to work in practice. --Zeb [1] https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/blob/HEAD:/dlls/krnl386.exe16/ instr.c#l702

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Handling stack overflow
by Dāvis Mosāns 01 Jan '24

01 Jan '24

Hi, I've been looking to get League of Legends work in Wine. The issue is that their Anti-Cheat hooks bunch of functions in ntdll.dll directly by prepending `jmp their_code` before the real function and it seems it messes something up. Anyway, topic of this email is about handling of stack overflow. When their exception handler gets messed up it is invoked recursively until stack overflow. And because it happened while it was in critical section it causes other threads to deadlock. My question is how such case should be handled? When thread is killed should lock be released so other threads can still proceed? Or maybe just whole process should be killed if any thread has stack overflow? To me it looks like in Windows when exception handler goes too deep then Just in Time debugger is invoked or if that's not enabled then process is killed with EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (maybe because it tried to access beyond end of stack?) Log looks like: [...] 0120:trace:seh:call_handler calling handler 00006FFFFFC97030 (rec=00007F3214C54360, frame=00007F3214D4E710 context=00007F3214C538D0, dispatch=00007F3214C537A0) 0120:trace:seh:call_handler handler at 00006FFFFFC97030 returned 2 0120:trace:seh:call_stack_handlers nested exception 0120:trace:seh:call_handler calling handler 00000001413B347C (rec=00007F3214C54360, frame=00007F3214D4F570 context=00007F3214C538D0, dispatch=00007F3214C537A0) 0120:err:virtual:virtual_setup_exception stack overflow 2576 bytes addr 0x6ffff9e66327 stack 0x7f3214c505f0 (0x7f3214c50000-0x7f3214c51000-0x7f3214d50000) 0124:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 00006FFFFFCAE4C0 "../wine/dlls/ntdll/loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 0124, blocked by 0120, retrying (60 sec) 011c:err:sync:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 00006FFFFFCAE4C0 "../wine/dlls/ntdll/loader.c: loader_section" wait timed out in thread 011c, blocked by 0120, retrying (60 sec) [...] // stuck like this And several threads stuck like this Thread 8 (Thread 472 "011c"): #0 0x00006fffffc966d4 in NtWaitForAlertByThreadId () from /opt/wine-lol-staging/lib/wine/x86_64-windows/ntdll.dll #1 0x00006fffffc9db68 in RtlWaitOnAddress (addr=addr@entry=0x6fffffcae4d8 <loader_section+24>, cmp=cmp@entry=0x6fffffcbda90 <zero>, size=size@entry=4, timeout=timeout@entry=0x7fc37b38f700) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/sync.c:912 #2 0x00006fffffc9dd06 in wait_semaphore (timeout=<optimized out>, crit=0x6fffffcae4c0 <loader_section>) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/sync.c:196 #3 RtlpWaitForCriticalSection (crit=crit@entry=0x6fffffcae4c0 <loader_section>) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/sync.c:314 #4 0x00006fffffc9df71 in RtlEnterCriticalSection (crit=crit@entry=0x6fffffcae4c0 <loader_section>) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/sync.c:383 #5 0x00006fffffc7667b in loader_init (context=context@entry=0x7fc37b38fb00, entry=entry@entry=0x7fc37b38fb80) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/loader.c:4405 #6 0x00006fffffc9a444 in LdrInitializeThunk (context=0x7fc37b38fb00, unk2=<optimized out>, unk3=<optimized out>, unk4=<optimized out>) at ../wine/dlls/ntdll/signal_x86_64.c:1716 #7 0x00006ffff88f7954 in ?? () from /mnt/Riot Games/League of Legends/wine/dosdevices/s:/Riot Games/League of Legends/Game/stub.dll Best regards, Dāvis

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Wine staging 9.0-rc3 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 23 Dec '23

23 Dec '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0-rc3 (498 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Added: * None Updated: * None 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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Wine staging 9.0-rc2 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0-rc2 (498 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Added: * [45455] setupapi: Add stub for DriverStoreFindDriverPackageW. * [55282] where: Implement search with default options. Updated: * vkd3d-latest to 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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Code freeze for Wine 9.0
by Alexandre Julliard 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Folks, With the end of the year approaching, it's time to start preparing for the 9.0 stable release. We'll follow the same schedule as every year, with code freeze in early December, and a final release sometime in January. This year, the code freeze period will start on December 8th. So if you have things that you'd like to see included in 9.0, make sure to submit them soon, so that there's enough time for review before code freeze starts. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard(a)winehq.org

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Wine staging 9.0-rc1 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 9.0-rc1 (493 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * bcrypt: Allow multiple backends to coexist. * bcrypt: Implement BCryptSecretAgreement with libgcrypt. * bcrypt: Implement BCRYPT_KDF_HASH. Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest to latest. * ntdll-DOS_Attributes * mfplat-streaming-support * ntdll-ForceBottomUpAlloc 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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Wine 8.0.2 fails to create a window
by volker.schlegel＠tutanota.com 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

Hello everyone,I've recently switched from Manjaro to Mint, and just installed WINE again.Latest stable release, 8.0.2, from the wineHQ repos.Any application trying to create a window seems to crash.Example crash dump (new prefix): https://pastebin.com/T6WG9EhQ Since it seems to be a graphics issue, here is the output of inxi -G: https://pastebin.com/SvURv3fYWhile searching for a fix I stumbled across this bug, might be related? https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51210"Deactivate your GPU" isn't really a solution though in my opinion.I'd try to actually fix it myself (I've built wine myself before, and I have written quite a bit of C code), but I've never used Vulkan or OpenGL, so any help is appreciated!

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Wine staging 8.21 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 25 Nov '23

25 Nov '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.21 (491 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * None Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest to 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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GCC 4.3 support and language features
by Fabian Maurer 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Hello wine-devel, I wanted to follow up on the discussion on https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/ wine/-/merge_requests/3059 For those not in the loop: The question came up what GCC version is the oldest supported one, and which language features can't be used in Wine. Is there already a wiki entry on this? Associated bug report: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54601 (Compilation fails with gcc 4.3.4 (error: unknown field ‘Type’ specified in initializer) I have a bunch of gcc 4.3 patches, and if it's supported, I think it would be useful getting those in before the next stable. Although ongoing gcc 4.3 support is probably a bit of work, since most people don't test against gcc 4.3 compatibility so there's some "regressions" from time to time. An option would be to just patch it when someone complains, which would be the most reasonable to me. Or just cap it at 4.8 which currently works. In the end, some compiler will be too old, so where is the line? In a similar vein, what about https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20474 (Wine can't be built with GCC in C99 mode) Is this a supported setup? IMHO itwould be too much effort work to get this working, but I don't make the decisions. Regards, Fabian Maurer

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Wine staging 8.20 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 11 Nov '23

11 Nov '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.20 (493 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * winemenubuilder: Create .desktop files for programs that open URIs. * winecfg: Mention protocol associations. Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest to 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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Upcoming vkd3d 1.10 release
by Henri Verbeet 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Hi all, The planned release for vkd3d 1.10 is about 4 weeks away. As usual, that means the development branch will become increasingly frozen as we're nearing release. If you're an upstream vkd3d developer, please do the following: - Keep an eye on Bugzilla for any reported regressions. - Review any API changes since the previous release. - Verify all the vkd3d tests pass on your hardware, and please send fixes if they don't. - Review and improve the documentation. - Apply your best judgment about which patches are appropriate for the current stage of the release process. If you're a downstream user of vkd3d, please test your applications for regressions, and file bug reports if you find any. If you're the maintainer of a Wine module that (indirectly) depends on vkd3d, like e.g. d2d1, d3dx9, d3dcompiler, or any of the core Direct3D modules, that includes making sure the unit tests still pass with the new version. The planned release date for the release following vkd3d 1.10 is currently sometime in March. Regards, Henri

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A case for policy changes to get to zero test failures
by Francois Gouget 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

TL;DR; Making lasting progress on fixing the Wine tests requires TBD policy changes to incentivize working on them. While there has definitely been progrees on the Wine tests front lately (and I'm grateful for all the Wine developpers who made it possible), I think there are structural problems that will prevent us from ever getting close to zero failures. Why would a developer work on fixing Wine test bugs? The naive thinking was that they would do so out of pride in the Wine code. Or that they would jump at the chance of fixing issues where all the source is available. But if those where the only factors we would not still have 200 hundred failing test units afer two decades. Another part of the naive thinking was that if developers did not work on the tests it was just because the tools needed to be improved or the test environments were too unreliable. So for a long time all efforts have centered on that. But I think the CI is good enough now to not be the main obstacle [1]. The inconvenient truth is there are forces that discourage working on the Wine tests: * Most developers come to Wine to fix a game or application they want to run, or to add some sexy new functionality. They will prefer to work on these over fixing tests. * Professional developers will be asked to work on issues for paying customers, not fixing tests. * There is a big exception to the source availability: Windows. So figuring out the logic behind the Windows behavior can still be maddeningly frustrating. * Replicating failures can sometimes be frustratingly hard. Even if you happen to have access to the CI environment! [2] * And usually one does not have access to the CI environment. That's the the case for the Windows environments for licensing reasons. On the Linux side the GitLab CI should mean progress but replicating it needs to be made much simpler before that's effective. In the meantime that means no debugger, no watching what happens on screen while the test runs, little poking into the test environment entrails (short of writing a dedicated program to do the poking), etc. In short it's remote debugging. * The CI itself can be an obstacle when it systematically reports failures unrelated to the current MR (a warning light that is on all the time is no warning light at all). [3] * The GitLab CI has been allowed to have a 99% failure rate for days on end (see failures-mr.txt in my 2023-10-20 email). That tells the developers that fixing tests is unimportant. There is also nothing to counterbalance that and push developers to work on Wine tests. A developer will not see their patches reverted if they don't fix the failures they introduce. In fact I'm not sure introducing new failures in Wine has any negative consequences. And that's assuming the commit causing the failures is ever identified. Developers fixing tests don't get rewards either. So the conclusion I have come to is that making further and lasting progress will require policy changes to incentivize work on the tests. This touches on the domain of social sciences so there will be no obvious 'right fix'. It's also something I cannot do myself since I don't have any authority to make policy changes. Anyway, here are a few ideas, including some extreme ones, and hopefully we can decide on something that works for Wine: * Revert commits that introduced new failures. - Do it the very next day if the failure is systematic? - What if the failure is random and only happens once a day? Or once a week? - What if the failure does not impact the CI? For instance if the CI has no macOS test configuration and the failure only happens on macOS. - Should only the test part of the MR be reverted? (if that's the cause of the failure) - Who makes the decision to revert? Alexandre? A dedicated person who will catch a lot of flak? * Block an author's new MRs if they did not fix failures introduced by one of their previous commit. - This has the potential to slow down Wine development. - Or the author could request their previous commit to be reverted to get unblocked. * If the CI shows failures, block the MR. - That can still cause the Wine development to halt when the CI has a 100% failure rate (as has been the case for the GitLab CI recently). - So it's only doable if the false positive rate is pretty low. But then it's likely to just result in the developer trying their luck with the next CI run. * If the CI shows failures, require that the author explain why they are not caused by their MR before it can be considered for merging. - The TestBot's new failure lookup tool would be a good way to prove the failure pre-existed the MR. https://testbot.winehq.org/FailuresList.pl - This is a softer version of the previous option and should not block Wine development. It may also push developers to fix the failures out of frustration at having to explain them away again and again since they cannot ignore them. - Reviewers would also be responsible for verifying that the explanations are accurate and for objecting to the merge if not. - Determining if the CI results contain new failures would not longer fall on Alexandre alone. * Have someone dedicated to tracking the source of new failures, reporting them to the authors, following up on the failures, asking for progress on a fix, etc. This would be a developer role bordering on community manager. * Do away with direct commits? (see the 'New failures analysis' email) * Use the Wine party fund to pay developers to fix test bugs. * Send swag to developers who fixed 10 or more test failures. Or set rewards for fixing specific test units like user32:msg, d3d11:d3d11, etc. * Point test.winehq.org/ to the patterns page instead of the index page: the patterns page better reflects the tests progress [4] and thus is less discouraging than the main index page. https://gitlab.winehq.org/winehq/tools/-/merge_requests/71 Suggestions welcome. Hopefully we can figure something out that will get us on the path to zero failures. [1] There are still a few infrastructure improvements that could help: - Fix the TestBot integration with GitLab so its reports don't go into a black hole. At least, while I cannot fix the bridge, I think I can replace it with a better solution. - Allowing to run the tests with WINEDEBUG. - Taking screenshots while the test runs. - Make it easier for developers to replicate the GitLab CI debian environment, build their Wine in it, run the tests, interact with the virtual X server, etc. [2] I will very humbly claim that the wt-test-bisect tool represents a huge step forward on that front when the faiure only happens in full test suite runs. https://gitlab.winehq.org/fgouget/wt-daily/-/blob/bisectors/wt-test-bisect?… [3] Though the GitLab CI false positive rate needs to get better. However my understanding is that the strategy there is to not have the CI try to distinguish false positives from the real issues. Rather my understanding is that it's a two prong approach: 1. Summarily hide unreliable tests by marking them as flaky. 2. Let all the systematic failures annoy the developers so they fix them out of frustration. However this is essentially the naive strategy that was used for years with the TestBot and that only resulted in the developers dismissing and ignoring the CI results. [4] For instance the patterns page makes it clear that there has been progress for Windows 10 1809 whereas that is invisible on the index page. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ Theory is where you know everything but nothing works. Practice is where everything works but nobody knows why. Sometimes they go hand in hand: nothing works and nobody knows why.

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Wine staging 8.19 release
by Alistair Leslie-Hughes 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: https://www.winehq.org/download Summary since last release * Rebased to current wine 8.18 (493 patches are applied to wine vanilla) Upstreamed (Either directly from staging or fixed with a similar patch). * ntdll: Don't use Wine frames during exception processing on x64. Added: * None Updated: * vkd3d-latest to latest. * fltmgr.sys-FltBuildDefaultSecurityDescriptor 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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Win16 tests
by Zeb Figura 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

Hello! The idea of having tests for our win16 functionality has been raised every so often, but never actualized. I would like to change that now. I think win16 has been broken several times recently, especially with large scale refactoring like the PE conversion and wow64 work, and I'd like to put tests in place to stop that happening. I'd also like to have a way to easily *write* tests for nontrivial functionality, which is currently something of an ordeal. By my understanding, the big blocker for having win16 tests in tree is the lack of a usable win16 compiler. Existing win16 compilers are mostly hard to find; OpenWatcom is sometimes mentioned, but that only has win32 builds (as far as I'm aware), which makes it hard if not impossible to integrate into Wine. I've spent a while over the past year or so trying a certain idea, where we write a small win16 entry point, and use generic thunks to call into win32 code, then use generic thunks the other way (WOWCallback16Ex) to call back into win16 functions. I managed to get a working PoC that actually worked on Windows XP; however, it did not work on Windows 98 [1]. In light of this, I tried a different approach. I considered but ultimately rejected the idea of introducing Win16 support into GCC [2], and instead tried an experiment to see if I could write an extremely minimalist, non-optimizing Win16 compiler myself from "scratch" [3]. It turns out that I could, in the span of what didn't end up being more than a couple months' worth of weekends. The compiler is called Rosé, and it lives here: https://gitlab.winehq.org/zfigura/rose It is not fully featured; it's still missing a few notable pieces (in particular: unions, multiple code segments) but it is reasonably complete, and I was able to use it to compile a modified version of winetest.exe, and produce working executables for Windows 98. It is therefore my proposal to use this compiler in Wine, and write in-tree Win16 tests. Here are some of the important considerations involved in this proposal: * The compiler is small and could potentially be easily just imported into Wine. I don't have any feelings about continuing to maintain it outside of Wine—i.e. it could easily just be imported and any further development done in Wine (much like e.g. widl). "Small" here means about 15k LoC across a few files, including the builtin CRT and headers. * NE executables, unlike both their predecessor (MZ) and successor (PE), cannot output to a controlling console, and in general have no concept of a stdin/stdout/stderr. This does not fit well with wine tests, which are built to run with a console. There is also not much in the way of IPC available to a win16 process. They can, on the other hand, open a file and output to it. For Marvin (or gitlab CI), this is not a huge concern, but for development it's a bit more important. In light of this we may want to write a small win32 wrapper for win16 tests, possibly one that self-extracts the win16 test. * In order to properly test Win16 we need a contemporaneous test VM, I think ideally 98. A modern 32-bit Windows machine (of which I think we still have some) will *run* 16-bit code, and may be usable to test *some* functionality, but I do not think the results can be trusted. This is probably a more general problem—I think our current ability to test native ddraw is similarly worthless. (ddraw is also harder, though, because we need contemporaneous *hardware* as well.) There may be other areas where our current CI is not very valuable and we really do want to test old Windows versions, although I can't think of any off the top of my head. Thoughts and opinions? If not (as per usual) I will try to put together a patch series soon. --Zeb [1] In a sense this is actually very similar to how we currently implement 16-bit DLLs in Wine, except that we use a private thunk instead of the exported generic thunks [CallProcEx32W], so I spent some time refactoring various parts of krnl386 and winebuild to match my proposed design. This was going well up until I tried running the executable on Windows 98. It turns out that, unlike with NT, one cannot call any win32 functions from the 32-bit DLL without crashing. This may not be prohibitive per se [if we avoid ever making any win32 calls] but it did impose some pretty severe limitations. It's also worth mentioning that the process of refactoring was *very* convoluted, things had to be moved around very carefully in order to work. [2] The idea of introducing compiler support into GCC has obvious advantages: not just the reuse of frontend and optimization code, but the dialect is something that will already be perfectly familiar to a Wine developer. However, it also has disadvantages: it would take a lot of time to become familiar with gcc, and I expect that segmented address spaces will be very hard to fit into the GCC code and probably not accepted upstream. [3] In fact it is not built from scratch, but rather built from the HLSL compiler. This is largely because I am very familiar with the HLSL compiler, and familiarity is very important. I also found it far less daunting to start with the HLSL compiler, rip out everything specific to HLSL, rather than to start from scratch even using the HLSL compiler as a model.

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New failures analysis
by Francois Gouget 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

New failures: Where do they come from? How do they get in? All you've ever wanted to know (or not). So I collected data about the new failure modes (see failure-new.txt), mostly from the start of July (older data is incomplete). By new failure mode I mean any failure group that I can say started happening on a specific day in that range. This calls for some caveats: * A failure mode is a group of failures that happens together in a given test unit and thus likely all have the same origin. Normally each failure mode is described in a bug. In the rest of this document I'll just say 'failure' in place of 'failure mode'. * This includes failures that happen on non GitLab / TestBot machines. * I don't know the origin of all of them so there are certainly some that are not caused by a change in Wine. So not all are Wine regressions. * But until their cause is known they still need to be investigated so I'm still counting them when it seems appropriate. However I did not include those where it was known from the start that they were caused by external factors. First the date range I used for each month: Jul 2023-06-30 - 2023-07-28 28 days Aug 2023-07-28 - 2023-08-28 31 days (08-28 is about when the TestBot -> GitLab CI bridge broke) Sep 2023-09-01 - 2023-10-06 39 days So how many new failures are there? Jul 36 new failures -> 1.3 / day Aug 7 new failures -> 0.2 / day (vacation effect!) Sep 53 new failures -> 1.4 / day Note that a single MR may cause multiple tests to fail but each new failing test would be counted separately here on the premise that they each need to be investigated and reported. Where do they come from? Jul Aug Sep Unknown 8 4 18 Commit 4 1 6 MR 7 2 17 Total 19 7 41 Total / day 0.7 0.2 1.1 * These counts are deduplicated except for the new failures of unknown origin obviously. * The commits correspond to direct Wine commits so they don't go through the GitLab CI or the TestBot. * About half of the new failures have no known origin. This can be because they happen on machines I don't have access to and thus where I cannot bisect. It can also be because the failure fails to reproduce which is annoyingly common. * To keep up 5 to 8 failure would have to be fixed How do they get in? Jul Aug Sep Untested 2 1 7 Bad 2 0 0 Module 1 0 1 Extra configs 0 0 2 Flaky 2 0 2 WineTest only 1 0 0 Bridge 0 0 7 Misc 1 1 0 Total 9 2 19 Here's a description of the way the failures got in. Those correspond to deduplicated failure counts since we're not interested in the number of tests impacted but in how the commits got in: o 33% Untested These correspond to direct Wine commits. As such they bypass the GitLab CI and TestBot so there was no way to detect them beforehand. There has been a lot of changes in the lowe level code lately so I think this is usually lower. o 23% Bridge These failures were detected by the TestBot but not forwarded to the MR page because the mailing list to GitLab bridge broke on or about 2023-08-28. o 13% Flaky These failures are random and just did not happen when the MR got tested by the GitLab CI and TestBot. One way to minimize the chances of this happening is to run the tests multiple times. But the TestBot already runs the tests on up to 24 Windows configurations and 10 Linux ones which means random failures that are not configuration-specific have a very good chance of being caught. It's the other ones that get through, like those that only impact a specific locale or a specific Windows version. o 7% Module When a patch modifies a module but not the tests it contains the TestBot skips some test configurations which can lead to some failures being undetected. o 7% Extra This corresponds to failures specific to test configurations that the TestBot only uses for the nightly WineTest runs. In the above counts I omitted the following: o 18 Unknown This corresponds to cases where what is causing the failure has not been identified, and thus how they got in undetected is not known. Note that there is one exception: if the failure does not impact the GitLab and TestBot machines then the reason is automatically "Non TestBot". o 17 Non TestBot These new failures impact neither the GitLab nor the TestBot machines. This corresponds to macOS-specific failures for instance. Detecting them beforehand is therefore impossible... except by expanding the set of test machines. Are they fixed yet? Jul Aug Sep Fixed 15 (47%) 2 (33%) 21 (40%) Not fixed 17 (53%) 4 (67%) 31 (60%) Not there yet. * Take with a big grain of salt : the bugs are not always closed when a failure is fixed. I may also have forgotten to mark some entries as fixed in failures-new.txt but I think that part is mostly okay now. * Older failures don't seem more likely to be fixed. But then failures are not necessarily reported in the order they appear. -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>

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GitLab CI's Most Wanted list
by Francois Gouget 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Processing the failures-mr.txt file for the past month (see previous email) points to the following test units as plagging the most merge requests: 100 msxml3:domdoc (55720) 87 amstream:amstream (55725) 81 quartz:filtergraph (55758) 44 build:mac 26 d2d1:d2d1 (55765) 19 winmm:mci (55605) 15 user32:msg (55786, mostly) 13 user32:win (55766) 12 psapi:psapi_main (55744, fixed on day 3) 11 wscript.exe:run (55746, fixed on day 3) 11 tasklist.exe:tasklist (55745, fixed on day 3) Good hunting! -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>

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TestBot News - MR false positives analysis
by Francois Gouget 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

I have been reviewing the TestBot and GitLab CI test results for the merged MRs. While doing that I updated the TestBot's known failures list (https://testbot.winehq.org/FailuresList.pl) in order to drive down the false positive rate. Incidentally I also collected the list of test units causing false positives, so I'll start with that. Specifically, here are the bugs to fix to help the GitLab CI: * Bug 53433 - mmdevapi:capture - impacted 18 MRs * Bug 54064 - ntdll:threadpool - impacted 15 MRs * Bug 54078 - ntdll:pipe - impacted 11 MRs * Bug 54140 - mmdevapi:render - impacted 5 MRs * Bug 54005 - ole32:clipboard - impacted 5 MRs * Bug 54037 - user32:msg - impacted 5 MRs * Bug 54074 - ws2_32:sock - impacted 5 MRs I classified the TestBot / GitLab CI results as follows: * False positive Cases where the CI system incorrectly claimed the MR introduces new failures. This is typically the case when the failures that are already present in nightly WineTest results. * Bad merge MRs that break a test and got merged anyway. * Collateral Damage from a bad merge The false positives (aka collateral damage) caused by one of the bad merges above. * Outside interference This identifies false positives that are not random and intrinsic to the test but that result from change outside the Wine infrastructure, for instance certificates that expire, or configuration changes to servers that break the tests that depend on it. Of those the only ones that a CI can really avoid are the first type, aka "False positive". So I calculated the corresponding weekly rate: Adjusted False Positive rate Week | TestBot | GitLab CI 2022-11-14 | 21.9% | 8.3% 2022-11-21 | 8.0% | 21.6% 2022-11-28 | 14.7% | 28.4% 2022-12-05 | 8.5% | 24.5% 2022-12-12 | 0.0% | 20.0% Note that the TestBot's 8% rate for the 11-21 week is not representative because Wine was broken that week (collateral damage) which prevented the tests from running in Wine, and thus from contributing real "false positives". Also the 12-12 week is still incomplete obviously. Even so I think his shows the TestBot is improving. Here's a list of the incidents for the weeks above: * 11-14 An external certificate revocation issue caused crypt32:cert to fail systematically. This impacted 14 merge requests and was fixed in MR1360. * 11-17 MR!1399 got merged despite the TestBot detecting that it prevented 32-bit Wine tests from running to completion. This impacted 39 merge requests. I could have reduced that number if I had been faster to reconfigure the TestBot to stop running the full 32-bit Wine test suite. This was fixed in MR!1524. * 11-17 MR!1398 got merged despite the TestBot detecting that it broke ntoskrnl.exe:ntoskrnl on Windows 7. This was fixed in MR!1803. * 11-22 MR!1495 got merged despite the TestBot detecting that it broke vbscript:run on Windows *. I don't have a record of the impacted MRs or of when it was fixed. * 11-23 The b00a831d direct commit broke kernel32:process in Wine. This got fixed since. * 12-07 MR!1732 got merged despite the TestBot detecting that it broke taskschd:scheduler on Windows *. I immediately added a known failure entry and no MR got impacted. This was fixed in MR!1736. If not filtering out the failures caused by these incidents, the false positive rate is: Raw False Positive rate Week | TestBot | GitLab CI 2022-11-14 | 52.1% | 27.1% 2022-11-21 | 50.0% | 29.5% 2022-11-28 | 20.0% | 33.7% 2022-12-05 | 19.1% | 57.4% 2022-12-12 | 0.0% | 20.0% I think that also shows that the TestBot is improving. I have attached the raw data I collected and shell snippets to extract various statistics (failures-mr.txt) as well as a spreadsheet import (failures.xls). -- Francois Gouget <fgouget(a)codeweavers.com>

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