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common: retry the Windows fastmem backing allocation instead of losing fastmem - #645
On Windows, HostMemory charges the whole fastmem backing (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the commit limit with one CreateFileMapping2(SEC_COMMIT). When the free commit is only just above that size, the call fails with error 1450 (ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES), and a system-managed page file is not grown. HostMemory then logs Platform can support fastmem, but can't create it and falls back to a plain VirtualAlloc of the same size. That allocation does grow the page file and succeeds, but the whole session then runs without fastmem, so every guest memory access goes through the page table.
This change commits the same size privately once when the section fails (which grows the page file), releases it and tries the section again, up to five times. Each failure is logged with the error code and the free commit. Nothing changes when the first attempt succeeds.
One file: src/common/host_memory.cpp. Windows only.
Impact
This is the cause of #493 (Ocarina of Time: about half of my benchmark boots ran 20-25% slower). It isn't the game. Over 50 boots with a guest thread report, the fastmem warning matched the slow state every time:
can't create it at boot
slow state
normal state
yes
14
0
no
0
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In the slow state, all guest code ran about 1.4x slower (memcpy 1.34x, nn::os critical sections 2.6-4x), and no fastmem faults were recorded, because there was no fastmem. The boots that failed were back-to-back benchmark launches on a desktop holding about 43 GB of commit against a 61 GB limit (32 GB RAM, system-managed page file). Machines with 16 GB of RAM are probably closer to that limit on every launch.
Testing
Build check: MSYS2 UCRT64 clang 23.1.5, -fsyntax-only of host_memory.cpp on top of 92f021240 with the windows-x86_64-pgo-style flags. MSVC not built.
Improved host memory initialization reliability on Windows. When a backing-file allocation fails, the application now retries up to five times, with a brief pause between attempts. These retries may help initialization succeed after a temporary allocation failure. If all attempts fail, initialization continues to report the failure as before.
…g fastmem
HostMemory charges the whole backing (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the
commit limit with one SEC_COMMIT CreateFileMapping2. When the free commit is
only just above that size, the call fails with ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES and a
system-managed page file is not grown. HostMemory then falls back to a plain
VirtualAlloc of the same size, which does grow the page file and succeeds, but
the session runs without fastmem: every guest memory access goes through the
page table. On Ocarina of Time that costs 20-25% of the frame rate for the
whole session.
On a failure, commit the same size privately once (this grows the page file),
release it and try the section again, up to five times. Each failure is
logged with the error code and the free commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows fastmem backing-map initialization now retries allocation up to five times. After a failed attempt, it logs diagnostic information and probes an equal-sized private allocation. It waits 50 ms between attempts and retains the existing failure path after the final failure.
Windows initialization retries backing-map allocation up to five times. On failure, it logs the error and available commit, probes and releases a private allocation of the same size, and waits 50 ms before the next attempt. Successful retries are logged. The existing failure path remains after all attempts fail.
[Crash] Lichii crashes at OOT launch #308: This issue reports a launch failure after fastmem backing allocation fails in the same initialization path. The retries target that allocation failure, but the available context does not establish that they resolve the reported failure.
Suggested reviewers:crueter, maranbr, takoroka
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Review comments at @src/common/host_memory.cpp:
- Around line 184-185: Update the retry delay condition in the
allocation-attempt loop so failed attempts 1–4 wait 50 ms before retrying, while
the final failed attempt does not wait before fallback. Use the existing
BackingAttempts limit and preserve the current retry and fallback behavior.
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Review feedback on zortos293#645: sleep after failed attempts 1-4 so the first retry also
gets time for the page file to grow, and fall back without a pointless wait after
the final attempt.
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Review feedback on zortos293#645: sleep after failed attempts 1-4 so the first retry also
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(cherry picked from commit 35cdee1)
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…g fastmem (zortos293#645)
* common: retry the Windows fastmem backing allocation instead of losing fastmem
HostMemory charges the whole backing (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the
commit limit with one SEC_COMMIT CreateFileMapping2. When the free commit is
only just above that size, the call fails with ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES and a
system-managed page file is not grown. HostMemory then falls back to a plain
VirtualAlloc of the same size, which does grow the page file and succeeds, but
the session runs without fastmem: every guest memory access goes through the
page table. On Ocarina of Time that costs 20-25% of the frame rate for the
whole session.
On a failure, commit the same size privately once (this grows the page file),
release it and try the section again, up to five times. Each failure is
logged with the error code and the free commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* common: wait before each fastmem backing retry, not after the last attempt
Review feedback on zortos293#645: sleep after failed attempts 1-4 so the first retry also
gets time for the page file to grow, and fall back without a pointless wait after
the final attempt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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(cherry picked from commit e532eab)
HostMemory created the backing section with SEC_COMMIT, which charges all of
it (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the commit limit in one call. A
system-managed page file grows in steps of about 1 GiB, so the call fails
whenever the free commit is below the backing size, and the session runs
without fastmem. zortos293#645 retries after a private probe commit; with a 26 GB WSL VM
beside the emulator the free commit is often a few hundred MiB and the retries
still fail (`Failed to allocate 14336 MiB of backing memory` on 2 of 3 boots).
Create the section with SEC_RESERVE instead, which charges nothing. The backing
granules (64 KiB, already tracked for the zero-page clear) are committed when
the kernel hands them out (MarkUsed) and when a range is mapped into the
fastmem arena, since a view over uncommitted pages faults and refuses
VirtualProtect. A vectored exception handler commits a granule the host
touches through the backing view outside those paths. Kernel-mode accesses
(ReadFile into an uncommitted page) fail with ERROR_NOACCESS instead of
faulting, which is why the explicit commits come first.
Measured on the PC with a standalone probe: a 64 GiB SEC_RESERVE section is
created with 664 MiB of commit free and charges nothing; committing 10 GiB of a
14 GiB section in 512 MiB steps through its view succeeds on the first try at
every step while the page file grows from 71932 to 81530 MiB; a commit through
one view shows as committed in the backing view and in a view mapped later.
This replaces the retry loop from zortos293#645. Linux is unchanged (memfd).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
HostMemory created the backing section with SEC_COMMIT, which charges all of
it (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the commit limit in one call. A
system-managed page file grows in steps of about 1 GiB, so the call fails
whenever the free commit is below the backing size, and the session runs
without fastmem. zortos293#645 retries after a private probe commit; with a 26 GB WSL VM
beside the emulator the free commit is often a few hundred MiB and the retries
still fail (`Failed to allocate 14336 MiB of backing memory` on 2 of 3 boots).
Create the section with SEC_RESERVE instead, which charges nothing. The backing
granules (64 KiB, already tracked for the zero-page clear) are committed when
the kernel hands them out (MarkUsed) and when a range is mapped into the
fastmem arena, since a view over uncommitted pages faults and refuses
VirtualProtect. A vectored exception handler commits a granule the host
touches through the backing view outside those paths. Kernel-mode accesses
(ReadFile into an uncommitted page) fail with ERROR_NOACCESS instead of
faulting, which is why the explicit commits come first.
Measured on the PC with a standalone probe: a 64 GiB SEC_RESERVE section is
created with 664 MiB of commit free and charges nothing; committing 10 GiB of a
14 GiB section in 512 MiB steps through its view succeeds on the first try at
every step while the page file grows from 71932 to 81530 MiB; a commit through
one view shows as committed in the backing view and in a view mapped later.
This replaces the retry loop from zortos293#645. Linux is unchanged (memfd).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- common: retry the Windows fastmem backing allocation instead of losing
fastmem (port of zortos293#645). Kept our SEC_RESERVE choice inside
the retry loop; the retry only runs when the section can't be created.
- vulkan: free compute IR and SPIR-V before a synchronous driver compile
(port of zortos293#878). The kept SPIR-V/info for the precompiled
fast path is saved before the IR is freed.
- video_core: invalidate every 32-byte block a cached GPU write touches, and
stop IsRegionGpuModified at the first dirty query (port of
zortos293#700, from nemyu 99c953389 and Orchid d38d025).
- shader: interpolate noperspective varyings perspective-correct (port of
zortos293#820, the AMD red line in the Royal Family's Tomb). Changes
SPIR-V for those shaders, so kept precompiled SPIR-V of them is the old form
until the next preparation.
Skipped: zortos293#699 (we have our own clear_variant fix), zortos293#910 (no texture memo here),
zortos293#687 (already in), zortos293#621 (our default poll path never takes the 50 us sleep it
fixes), zortos293#752 (channel scheduling change without a switch: after v5).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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On Windows,
HostMemorycharges the whole fastmem backing (14 GiB for Switch 2 programs) to the commit limit with oneCreateFileMapping2(SEC_COMMIT). When the free commit is only just above that size, the call fails with error 1450 (ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES), and a system-managed page file is not grown.HostMemorythen logsPlatform can support fastmem, but can't create itand falls back to a plainVirtualAllocof the same size. That allocation does grow the page file and succeeds, but the whole session then runs without fastmem, so every guest memory access goes through the page table.This change commits the same size privately once when the section fails (which grows the page file), releases it and tries the section again, up to five times. Each failure is logged with the error code and the free commit. Nothing changes when the first attempt succeeds.
One file:
src/common/host_memory.cpp. Windows only.Impact
This is the cause of #493 (Ocarina of Time: about half of my benchmark boots ran 20-25% slower). It isn't the game. Over 50 boots with a guest thread report, the fastmem warning matched the slow state every time:
can't create itat bootIn the slow state, all guest code ran about 1.4x slower (memcpy 1.34x,
nn::oscritical sections 2.6-4x), and no fastmem faults were recorded, because there was no fastmem. The boots that failed were back-to-back benchmark launches on a desktop holding about 43 GB of commit against a 61 GB limit (32 GB RAM, system-managed page file). Machines with 16 GB of RAM are probably closer to that limit on every launch.Testing
-fsyntax-onlyofhost_memory.cppon top of92f021240with thewindows-x86_64-pgo-style flags. MSVC not built.9fa4a71fa(+ video_core: macro DMA reads on the split front without draining the back #243 Fix Ocarina of Time's green tint on AMD: bind light-table shadow maps through descriptor arrays #354 common, video_core: experimental setting to pin the split GPU threads to their own cores #418 gpu_thread: poll suspended channels every 50 us instead of every 1 ms (Ocarina ~11% faster in Kokiri village) #446 texture_cache: don't upload stale guest memory into new images (Ocarina of Time +20% in Castle Town) #463 and local diagnostics) with this change. Setup: Windows 11, Ryzen 7 5700G, RTX 4070, Ocarina of Time,eden-cli, GPU accuracy Low, 8 back-to-back boots under the conditions that had failed 5 of 15 times before.error 1450, 14343-14362 MiB of commit free for a 14336 MiB backing).Refs #493.
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