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Summary

I built Eglantine with ASan + UBSan and, separately, with TSan, then ran the unit tests,
the dynarmic tests and Mario Kart World 1.8.0 under both. This PR fixes the real bugs
that came out of it. Each fix is its own commit.

• dynarmic: the AVX-512 path of the 16-bit vector CLZ (CLZ Vd.8H) only packed the
  low half back, so lanes 4 to 7 came out as 0xfff0. This hits Zen 4 and other
  AVX-512 CD CPUs. The existing A64: CLZ test failed on them and passes now.
• video_core: on shutdown, GPU::Impl freed the channels before the renderer, and the
  Vulkan rasterizer destructor then wrote into the freed Maxwell3D dirty flags. The
  renderer is now destroyed first.
• video_core: the buffer usage tracker shifted by 64 for ranges under 64 bytes, and it
  left a partly used 64-byte unit at the end of a range unmarked. That could let
  CanReorderUpload move an upload before a draw that reads it. The mask now covers
  exactly the touched units.
• audio_core: SystemManager::Add appended to the system list outside the lock the
  render thread iterates it under.
• input_common: InitJoystick and CloseJoysticks took joystick_map_mutex and then
  SDL's joystick lock, the reverse of the event watcher. SDL's lock is now taken first.
• core, common: data races on pause_end_time, perf_stats, the file log backend
  counters, and the exit-lock, exit-request and NVDEC flags, which were bit-fields in
  one byte written from different threads.
• hid_core: the button handler used the shared memory of unassigned applet slots,
  which is null.
• core: VectorVfsFile::Read read out of bounds for an offset past the end.
• Smaller UB: misaligned Opus header read, memcpy from null with size 0 in
  ScratchBuffer, and the zbic zstd include, which broke ASan links.
• tests: new cases for the usage tracker masks and VectorVfsFile::Read.

Type of change

• Bug fix
• Game compatibility / game-support
• Performance
• New feature
• Refactor / cleanup
• CI / build
• Documentation

Related issues

None.

Testing

• Tested on Windows
• Tested on Linux
• Tested on macOS
• Tested on NVIDIA
• Tested on AMD
• Tested on Intel

Games tested:

Mario Kart World 1.8.0: boots to the menu and reported errors are gone.

Checklist

• I built it locally and it compiles without new warnings
• I did not add any copyrighted game data, keys or firmware
• Docs updated if needed
• I added AI Disclosure if one was used

Screenshots / logs

Before: A64: CLZ failed with 0xfff0fff0fff0fff0 instead of 0x000c000d000e000f,
and TSan reported a SEGV in StateTracker::InvalidateCommandBufferState during
shutdown.

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Claude Opus 5.5 was used for the sanitizer investigation and the implementation.

Assisted-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (investigation and implementation)

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved audio decoding and file reads, including requests at or beyond the end of a file.
  • Improved controller handling when device assignments are unavailable.
  • Corrected graphics resource usage tracking for partial ranges and page boundaries.
  • Improved stability during system startup, pausing, shutdown, and logging.
  • Fixed synchronization issues affecting controller connections and graphics processing.
  • Improved reliability when resizing buffers and shutting down graphics resources.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for file reads and graphics resource usage tracking.

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Walkthrough

The pull request updates synchronization, resource lifecycles, and boundary handling across audio, core, input, logging, and video code. It also changes vector instruction emission and sanitizer inclusion, and adds tests for vector-file reads and video usage tracking.

Changes: Core synchronization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Performance statistics and core state src/core/core.cpp	Performance-statistics initialization, reset, and retrieval now use a mutex. Three state fields now use atomic booleans.
Pause-end timestamp src/core/core_timing.h, src/core/core_timing.cpp	Pause-end timestamps use atomic stores and loads. The event-rescheduling comparison remains unchanged.

Resource and input lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
System registration lock scope src/audio_core/renderer/system_manager.cpp	The lock remains held through insertion of a system.
SDL joystick lock ordering src/input_common/drivers/sdl_driver.cpp	Joystick initialization and closure acquire the SDL joystick lock before the map mutex and release the lock on scope exit.
Renderer teardown src/video_core/gpu.cpp	The GPU implementation explicitly resets the renderer during destruction.

File and buffer access

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Buffer and page-range handling src/common/scratch_buffer.h, src/video_core/buffer_cache/usage_tracker.h, src/tests/video_core/usage_tracker.cpp, src/tests/CMakeLists.txt	Scratch-buffer resizing skips copying when capacity is zero. Usage tracking applies masks to all 64-byte units touched by a range. Tests cover partial units and page boundaries.
Vector-file read boundaries src/core/file_sys/vfs/vfs_vector.cpp, src/tests/core/vfs_vector.cpp, src/tests/CMakeLists.txt	Reads at or beyond the data size return zero. Tests cover end offsets and empty files.

Opus packet decoding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Aligned packet-header copies src/audio_core/opus/decoder.cpp	Both decode paths copy packet headers into local objects before reversing their fields.

File logging counters

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Atomic write accounting src/common/logging.cpp	The byte count and enabled flag are atomic. Each write adds its byte count atomically, and the write-limit check uses the resulting total.

AddressSanitizer interface inclusion

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Conditional sanitizer header src/common/zbic_compression.cpp	The source conditionally includes the ASan interface header when AddressSanitizer is enabled.

Vector leading-zero emission

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Pack widened result halves src/dynarmic/src/dynarmic/backend/x64/emit_x64_vector.cpp	The emitter extracts the upper 128-bit result before packing it with the lower half.

Abstracted pad state updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate ARUID entries src/hid_core/resources/abstracted_pad/abstract_button_handler.cpp	Button LIFO and battery-state updates skip ARUID entries that are null or unassigned.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: crueter, takoroka, camillelavey

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 29d5d

No actionable merge-blocking risk was established.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 29d5d

The reviewed changes strengthen synchronization and buffer-access ordering without establishing new externally reachable operations or privileges. No introduced security defect was confirmed. External compatibility and broader security coverage remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The traced buffer-data path takes emulated-device memory ranges into staging copies and uses per-buffer usage state to select copy ordering. The demonstrated scope is in-process rendering state and GPU work ordering; this path does not establish a new credential, tenant or service authority transition.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The public-entrypoint labels describe existing C++ declarations rather than evidence of newly exposed remote or privileged operations. Source comparison shows an existing public field's type change and existing tracker methods' behavior changes, without adding entrypoints to these declarations.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — CoreTiming retains acknowledgement-based synchronous pause handling and centralized timer-thread cleanup. Reset requests stop, wakes waiting paths and joins the thread; destruction invokes Reset. The timestamp change adds no separately owned resource or recovery obligation.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 13.64% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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