Take upload stamps before protection, initialize cached checks from those stamps, and wait out pages another thread is unprotecting before retrying. Publish page generations before advancing the clock again in both the fault handler and batched host pre-write path. A shared stamp_page helper closes the remaining batched publication race in the original PR. Add deterministic publication regressions for both paths and document the mechanism and the limits of the game-level evidence. The regressions fail on main, and the batched case also fails with the original PR applied. Validation: full graphics suite, Wonder Mac host build, all 133 iOS source compile checks, and documentation tests pass. No fresh gameplay or iPhone runtime validation. Co-authored-by: Aleksandr Svidchenkov <a.svidchenkov@gmail.com>
Subsystem references
How the host meets each part of a Switch game, and every failure met so far, one entry per mechanism: symptom, cause, fix (file and function), the games it was found on (linked to their notes in dm/games/<id>/README.md). Start from the symptom index when you have a log line or a visible result; the workflows that lead here are in docs/agents.
| File | Covers |
|---|---|
| rewriter.md | The NSO rewriter patch_nso.py: jump tables, exclusive windows, patch area reach, cuts and observation gates, functions without unwind entries, stack and system registers, relocations |
| memory.md | Guest layout, heap and application pool, virtual address memory and the alias region (the SDK's node area), engine allocators, mapping SVCs, running out of memory |
| threads.md | Thread creation and cores, address arbitration, yields and spin waits, events |
| services.md | SDK calls and system services: sm connections, names that changed between SDKs, file system and saves, add-on content, input, keyboard and applets, display and operation mode, accounts and network, settings and fonts, C library and time, modules |
| movies.md | The SDK's movie library: decoder lifecycle, output slots, native-texture output, demuxers and codecs, game movie players |
| audio.md | The audio renderer and its command lists by SDK, AudioOut and devices, codecs, timing |
| frame-rate.md | The host's frame step, engine frame limiters, present intervals and display rates, CPU cost |
| nvn-objects.md | NVN object sizes, memory pools, command memory, queues and syncs, CPU-written textures, NVN entry points |
| rendering.md | The replay on Metal: textures, passes and clears, blend / depth / stencil, vertex input, uniforms and ordering, conditional rendering; the Vulkan and OpenGL layers |
| shaders.md | Shader containers by engine, control sections and code, translation, bindings and handles, shaders compiled at run time, pipelines and caches |
| game-state.md | Saves, scripted state, and game behaviour that looks like a host bug but is not |
A new general finding goes into the file and section it belongs to, in the same form, with a line in the symptom index; a fact about one game goes into that game's note.