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Kurt Himebauch aba55031c3 perf: answer chown and bound thermal paths through the proot fast path (#2203) 2026-11-07 01:08:06 -05:00
MaxsTechReview c5577478ca chore: remove source comments and unused code, translate every missing string (#1965)
* chore(i18n): translate every missing string in all locales

Adds the 87 strings the bottom-screen Dashboard and in-game stats pages
introduced to all 32 locales, plus the 51 older settings strings Japanese
and the 50 Chinese locales were still missing. Every locale now has all
3456 translatable strings with the same placeholders as English.

Also translates 36 entries that were still English where the language
does not use the English word, and makes es-419 touch_app_id use the same
%1$s placeholder as English.

* chore(patches): drop comments from the lines downstream patches add

Removes comment lines and trailing comments from lines our patches add,
with hunk headers recounted. Lines that a later patch uses as context
and the upstream backport 0123 are left as they are.

The gamescope, FEX, proot and xodus series still apply to their pinned
sources, and the patched trees differ only in those comments.
test_hud_frames now finds the HUD writer by its first declaration.

* docs: credit Greenlight, Better xCloud, viture-v2, GameNative and DiRTTelemetryErrorFix

These were credited only in source headers and NOTICE files.

* chore: remove source comments and unused functions

Removes explanatory comments from first-party Kotlin, Java, C, C++,
Rust, TypeScript, Python, shell, Gradle, CMake and workflow files.
License and attribution headers stay, and vendored third-party trees,
generated files and license files are untouched. A shellcheck directive
is kept, and udevmon's fallthrough comments became fallthrough attributes.

Syntax trees and token streams match the previous sources apart from the
comments and Python docstrings. Module docstrings that argparse prints
are kept, and device-smoke.sh prints the same --help text from a heredoc.

Also removes 37 functions and 4 fields that nothing referenced.

* chore: remove comments from the Syncthing integration and the latest main sources

* docs: credit Syncthing and the syncthing-android fork

* chore(i18n): translate the Syncthing strings in all locales

The 107 strings the Syncthing integration added are now in all 32 locales.
sync_web_path_locked names the Syncthing tab by its label.

* docs: credit @xXJSONDeruloXx for the HUD metric readers

The CPU, GPU load, thermal and battery readers come from their
PerformanceHudView pull requests #777, #877, #991, #1406 and #1573.
The FusionHUD credit line is unchanged.

* docs: credit the HUD metric readers to @xXJSONDeruloXx's work
2026-11-01 16:27:27 -05:00
MaxsTechReview e9e0186e66 perf(fex): answer raw stat, readlink and statx syscalls through the proot fast path (#1757)
* perf(fex): answer raw stat, readlink and statx syscalls through the proot fast path

FEX issues newfstatat, readlinkat and statx as raw syscall() calls, which skipped the libc wrappers the fast path hooks and fell through to ptrace. Route them through libblfastpath the same way raw openat already is, and keep the fast path's own /proc/self/exe lookup off the hooked syscall().

* test(fex): keep the raw lookup test passing on kernels without statx
2026-10-29 07:25:39 -04:00
Kurt Himebauch c62b9b5d1b perf(proot): expand and cache syscall relays 2026-10-28 07:17:53 -04:00
Kurt Himebauch 4b230cbd0f perf(proot): add opt-in glibc syscall patching 2026-10-27 14:06:52 -04:00
597402107d [FIX] statx call on old kernels < 4.11 (#947)
* [FIX]
Fix git statx call on old kernels < 4.11 for correct using of "Fast proot path"

Issue
https://github.com/Droid-Deck/DroidDeck/issues/770

* [FIX]
fix: don't call major() from the proot fast path

* fix: preserve statx fallback request semantics

* fix statx fallback argument handling

* fix: silence statx null check warning

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Co-authored-by: xXJsonDeruloXx <danielhimebauch@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kurt Himebauch <136133082+xXJSONDeruloXx@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-10-25 12:42:51 -04:00
MaxsTechReviewandKurt Himebauch 006db14561 perf: SD card library files resolve through the fast path instead of proot (#1331)
perf: files in an SD card library resolve through the fast path instead of proot

A library bound at several guest names (droiddeck-sd, bannerlator-sd and
case variants) made every symlink and /proc/self/fd readlink under it fall
back to proot. The fast path now orders its binds the way proot does and
gives each host path the name proot would, and lstat("link/.") follows
the link as the kernel does.

Co-authored-by: Kurt Himebauch <136133082+xXJSONDeruloXx@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-10-22 19:11:29 +00:00
MaxsTechReview 3305724f06 perf: FEX's file lookups and opens go through the fast path instead of proot (#1283)
* perf: FEX's in-root path lookups go through the fast path instead of proot

Android has no openat2, so libblsession walks RESOLVE_IN_ROOT lookups for
FEX one component at a time. Every fstatat, readlinkat and openat in that
walk was a raw syscall that stopped in proot. When libblfastpath is loaded,
the walk now calls its fstatat, readlinkat and openat, which answer without
proot and fall back to the raw syscall themselves. Without it the walk uses
the raw syscalls as before.

One lookup drops from 250-940 us to 26-86 us. A Graveyard Keeper launch
makes 37.5k proot stops instead of 54.0k and reaches its first scene
0.31 s sooner.

* test: count fstatat64 where the preload asks for it

* perf: FEX's own file opens go through the fast path instead of proot

FEX opens host files for the game with syscall(SYS_openat), so every one
stopped in proot even when the fast path could answer it. libblsession's
syscall() now sends SYS_openat to the fast path's openat as well, the same
way the in-root walk does, and makes the raw syscall when the fast path is
not loaded.

A Graveyard Keeper launch makes 28.0k proot stops instead of 37.5k; FEX's
openat stops go from 6,739 to none.

* fix: the fast path's start-up reads don't come back through syscall()

libblsession's syscall() now sends SYS_openat to the fast path. A process
named FEX starts the fast path by reading /proc/self/cmdline with
syscall(SYS_openat), which came straight back into the fast path and
waited on its own pthread_once. Its start-up reads now call libc's
syscall directly.
2026-10-21 22:33:39 -04:00
MaxsTechReview 8ca389149b fix: native Linux games under FEX reach FEXServer, and a refused compat app no longer loops the sync (#1213)
FEX launched through a script (Valve's _v2-entry-point) was judged 32-bit, so the
fast path stayed off in the FEX client while FEXServer bound its socket through it.
The fast path now follows #! lines before judging the program.

The live compat sync drops apps the client refuses GetCompatTools for instead of
reattaching forever.
2026-10-20 14:58:30 -04:00
The412Banner db8d1c9910 feat: optional x86-64 Steam client (Valve's Linux client under FEX) beside the arm64 one (#152)
An opt-in second Steam client (Steam settings, Steam client: x86-64): Valve's
x86-64 Linux client, unchanged, runs under FEX in its own home with its own
game library and the same sign-in. Linux builds run directly, so titles such
as Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life use their Linux versions; Windows games use
DroidDeck-Proton as on arm64. The arm64 client stays the default.

- droiddeck-steam-x64: FEX and the x86-64 rootfs from DroidDeck-Components
  (sha256-pinned), client install and sync from Valve's CDN, sign-in shared
  with the arm64 client, its web helper on the GPU (ANGLE GL over FEX's GL
  thunk, zink, Turnip), Proton wrappers for the arm64 client's tools,
  DroidDeck direct for Linux builds, SD-card library (x86-64/ beside the
  arm64 one), repair.
- FEX 2610 built by build-fex.yml with thunks and three patches: an openat2
  fallback without openat2 (proot), newer-clang thunkgen, MAP_32BIT
  exhaustion returning ENOMEM. libblsession resolves RESOLVE_IN_ROOT paths
  inside the root.
- Session: x86-64 gating, shortcuts and compatibility tools per client,
  logs from the client that ran.
- App: client setting with the FEX version, an x86-64 chip on the Games
  header, the active client's library, art, storage, downloads, repair,
  Offline Mode, Decky, desktop mode, optional VAC diagnostics; per-client
  state for art, the content log, repair and leftovers.
- Strings in every locale.
- Review fixes: the library cache is saved only by the newest scan; an
  abandoned session's Steam logs come from the client it recorded; distinct
  VAC console names; FEXInterpreter in CPU pinning; clearer VAC hint in
  pl, ru, uk, cs and bg.
2026-10-17 23:57:52 -04:00
angelrenefm 91b02a9dda fix: the proot fast path finds unix sockets whose host path is longer than sun_path (#841)
* fix: the proot fast path finds unix sockets whose host path is longer than sun_path

When a socket's host path did not fit sun_path, bind() went to proot, which
bound it to a short temporary name the fast path cannot see. The fast path's
own connect, stat and unlink then answered ENOENT, so FEXServer's socket under
compatdata/<app>/fex-emu/Server could never be reached (#839, #579).

Name such a socket through its directory (/proc/self/fd/N/<name>) instead, so
it lives at its real host path for every process, and report the guest path
back from getsockname, getpeername and accept. equiv3.py's long-path section
binds, connects, stats, names and unlinks a socket there.

* fix: key long socket names per socket and reset their lock after fork

Review follow-up. A long name is now looked up by the socket's inode and the
name, separately for its own and its peer's address, so two sockets with the
same file name in different directories no longer mix up; a missing entry is
left as the kernel reports it. The lock is re-initialised in the child after
fork, and the copies use snprintf. equiv3.py binds a second socket with the
same name in a sibling directory and checks both names.
2026-10-16 10:05:12 -04:00
Kurt Himebauch aecd2ebe1d cleanup (#764) 2026-10-13 21:27:42 -04:00
MaxsTechReview 15b2d19f68 Performance: idle front end, proot stops, launch-time passes and log collection (#529)
* Front end: draw the capsule wall without clipping it every frame

The tilted wall clipped each capsule to a rounded rect and recomposed its columns on every drift
step, and a rotated rounded clip is rasterised in software on the render threads: the idle main
page held about 1.7 cores. The art is now loaded at the capsule's size with its corners already
rounded, each column draws its capsules itself in one layer moved by the drift, and the drift
advances at most every 15 ms. The idle page takes about a third of a core.

* libfakeinput: let calls on descriptors it does not serve skip its lock

Every read, write, ioctl, close and poll of every process in a Proton session went through the
controller lock and the three map lookups, Wine's wineserver pipes and the game's files alike.
A bitmap of the descriptors the maps hold, set before one is handed out and cleared when it is
closed, lets everything else go straight to the kernel.

* Pad motion: ask the display for its rotation four times a second

The rotation was looked up for every sensor reading, every 2 ms, and cost more than the rest of
the reading; it is now refreshed every 250 ms, and the readings no longer allocate pairs.

* Session: keep the library passes out of a game's launch

The redist seeder stamped each prefix with the checksum of the whole set of names, which differs
between the session's pass and the game launch's (the game's own names are added), so every
launch re-appended the markers to every prefix in the library while the game loaded. Each
prefix's marker now lists the names it was given and only the missing ones are added.

The beat's seed and compatibility passes, and the Lossless Scaling ownership probe (which loads
steamclient.so), also wait while a wineserver runs: a launch rewrites the manifest and made them
due at exactly that moment. The game's own launch seeds its prefix regardless.

* Agent: keep the focus watcher's X connection open while nothing changes

The connect timeout stayed on the socket, so with no property change the read timed out, and the
watcher dropped the connection, reconnected and took a fresh snapshot every few seconds.

* Game environment: start Cyberpunk 2077 without REDlauncher

The prelauncher opens REDlauncher, a Qt WebEngine window that hands over to the game half a
minute later and then stays up beside it, well over a core busy for as long as the game runs; its
own --launcher-skip started the game twice. The game's executable is started directly instead.

* netif: answer Wine's network driver from a reading of the link

Mortal Kombat X has Wine's network driver enumerate every interface, address and route table
hundreds of times a second. Each enumeration read /etc/droiddeck-net several times, asked the
kernel for its interface dump again (a netlink socket bound under proot, refused each time) and
looked the real functions up with dlsym. The link file is now read at most once a second, a
refused dump is not asked for again within that second, and the real functions are looked up
once.

* Fast path: create memfds without a stop in proot

proot looks at a memfd's name only to refuse the few that are then executed or locked; every other
memfd_create is now issued from the trampoline. The session's /proc/net and status copies made
one per read, a stop each. Without memfd in the kernel the call still goes to proot's ashmem.

* Logs: run each redaction rule only on a line that could match it

A session's end copies some 70 MB of the Steam client's logs and puts every line through all
twenty-odd rules, most of a minute of a core on the phone after every session. Each rule now runs
only on a line holding what it cannot match without: its keyword, the five separators of a MAC,
the four dashes of a GUID, a long enough hex or token run, the learned account or address text.
Lines with non-ASCII text still meet every case-insensitive rule. Over 895,000 lines of real
client logs, with the device's accounts and addresses learned, the output is identical and the
pass takes a twentieth of the time.
2026-10-10 19:00:33 -04:00
Muaz Kadan e845f91177 Fix CPU temperature showing 0°C in the performance overlay (#516)
Since the proot speed-up in #494, the overlay couldn't find the CPU sensor and showed 0°C. It shows the real temperature again.
2026-10-10 14:39:30 -04:00
MaxsTechReview a6d15bcd0b Expanded Fastpaths for proot and increased performance up to 57% (#494)
* perf: fast path resolves links, /proc and glue as proot does, and answers uname, isatty and passwd

The fast path handed back to proot whatever crossed a symlink, /proc or a directory proot
only shows as glue, which is most of what Steam and Wine ask. It now walks a path the way
proot's canonicalize() does, so those calls stay in-process:

- links are followed in guest terms and their text detranslated as detranslate_path() does,
  including readlink into a buffer the kernel cut short and /proc's exe, cwd and fd links;
- a binding proot dropped at start is dropped here too, glue above a binding is ENOENT, and a
  last component proot cannot stat is left to the kernel;
- pipe and socket dirfds are ENOTDIR, rmdir("dir/") removes dir, and "." and ".." go to proot;
- a blocking accept() with a connection already waiting no longer goes to proot.

Also answered: uname() and gethostname() (proot's utsname never changes), isatty() (glibc
2.43 asks with TCGETS2, which proot rewrites) and getpwnam/getpwuid when nsswitch.conf
sends passwd to files first and the entry is there (Xwayland asks for every client).

equiv.py, equiv2.py and equiv3.py match line for line with and without the fast path
(222, 507 and 924 lines). Per call on the RedMagic: realpath 240 us -> 1.0 us,
realpath /proc/self/fd/N 408 -> 9.9, getpwuid 41.5 -> 4.6, uname 28 -> 0.006.

* perf: LD_AUDIT module skips library lookups proot would fail

ld.so looks each library up along the game's search path, and Proton puts the game's
directory, Steam's runtime and video directories and its own library directories ahead of
/usr/lib: 72% of ld.so's opens in an Among Us launch failed, each a round trip to proot.

libblaudit.so answers la_objsearch() for a candidate proot would certainly fail with ENOENT
(its directory walked as canonicalize() walks it, the name or a directory on the way missing).
It has no libc and maps the fast path's trampoline itself. Each lookup's first candidate is
still opened, since a skipped one fails with ld.so's errno as it stands, and the default
directories are never skipped, so dlerror() reads the same. droiddeck-proton and the extra
wrapper add it to LD_AUDIT when the fast path is on.

* perf: droiddeck-proton checks a tool's components with one sha256sum

Each program the launcher starts pays a dozen traced library lookups under the game's search
path before it does anything. One sha256sum over every listed file replaces one per file;
the check itself is unchanged.

* perf: build a locale archive for C.UTF-8

Every program loads the locale LANG names before main(). glibc ships C.UTF-8 as a directory
it looks for once per category under two spellings, before reading gconv's module lists:
about 30 opens, each a stop in proot, in every process of the session. droiddeck-session
builds /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive (and gconv's cache) once per glibc package, so that is
one open.

localedef names a finished archive by hard link, which Android refuses; with
DROIDDECK_LINK_RENAME=1 libblsession turns a refused link into a rename that will not replace
an existing name.

* perf: library beat starts its helpers only when what they read changed

Every 15 s the session ran droiddeck-seed-redists (some forty programs under proot) and, when
a library directory had changed, steam-compatibility: a burst of thousands of proot stops each
quarter minute, game loads included. The seeder now runs when a library changed or a prefix
(or Proton's template for them) is unmarked, the compat pass when a manifest, depot, tool or
config.vdf changed, both checked from bash without starting anything, and each every five
minutes regardless. The seeder reads its stamp and the time without a subshell each.

* perf: fakeinput opens pad.log on its first line

Every process the library is loaded in opened the session's pad.log at start, a stop in proot
on shared storage, and most never write to it. The file is now opened when there is a line to
write.

* docs: the fast path as it ships, the audit module and measured launch times

* fix: a game the app launches after an idle spell comes to the front

The Steam client brings a game it launched forward only while it counts someone as present,
which it reads from gamescope's input counter. A game the app launched after four or more
minutes without a touch started, mapped its window, and stayed behind the library page until
the next input (device: Palworld, Stardew Valley, Fallout: New Vegas, Mortal Kombat X; the same
on main). The session now watches a requested launch, and when the game's window is focusable
but the interface keeps focus for two polls, counts one input on gamescope's counter, as a key
would. Nothing changes for a launch the client already brings forward.
2026-10-09 20:55:18 -04:00
Kurt Himebauch 416c1b9efd fix: proot fast path hands opendir of a directory symlink to proot (#454) 2026-10-09 07:11:09 -04:00
Kurt Himebauch 7c758c817f perf: fast path answers Steam's pre-2.33 stat calls and stays off without the patched proot (#466) 2026-10-09 03:14:29 +00:00
The412BannerandThe412Banner dba632ea14 Fast path: hold every bind, so added games start in their own folder (#343)
* Fast path: hold every bind, so added games start in their own folder

libblfastpath kept the first 64 binds and dropped the rest without a word. A session has 87 (two
Games folders are the last two), so /root/Games/<folder>/... was mapped into the rootfs - the
empty mount point - instead of the bound storage. Wine resolves a new process's working directory
by those paths, found no drive for it and started every added game in C:\windows ("could not
find DOS drive for current working directory"): DiRT 3 did not mind, FEZ looks for
Content\Essentials.pak there and quits.

The library now holds 256, and turns itself off for the process when a bind does not fit or the
list runs past that, leaving the call to proot, which never maps it wrong. The app keeps the fast
path off for a session with more binds than that.

Verified on an AYANEO Pocket FIT: FEZ (added game) reaches its title screen; the warning is gone.

* Fast path: say in the session log when it stays off

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Co-authored-by: The412Banner <the412banner@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-10-06 13:48:01 -04:00
maxjivi05 fc90b80fd8 Add proot fast path for in-process path lookups
Preload library answers stat/open/access/readlink in-process via a
trampoline page proot 0014 lets through seccomp. On by default with a
Performance toggle; also sets GLIBC_TUNABLES rseq=0 and malloc top_pad.
2026-09-30 21:05:10 -04:00