fix(core): precise anchors, interrupt-time channels, deadlines in every session (R5 wave 3) by donislawdev · Pull Request #105 · donislawdev/ChronoMock

donislawdev · 2026-10-14T13:39:32Z

R5 wave 3: session clock precision and axes (R5/2)

One commit, 6f869a7. Covers P1, P2, P3, P17, WY11, WY12 and F4 from the R5 report, plus two findings made while designing it (F5, F7).

What changes

Precise anchors (P2). Every anchor of a session (start, rate change, jump, state) is read from QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise, which has the same epoch and the same sleep bias as QueryUnbiasedInterruptTime (disassembled on both bitnesses), so the sleep semantics of ADR-5 hold. GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime projects from the precise clock. The other wall channels stay on the plain one, and fake_wall_at gains the floor the duration axes already had, so a plain reading right after a precise anchor holds at the anchor. Precise is never behind plain at the same moment, as in Windows.
Interrupt-time channels (F4). QueryInterruptTime, QueryInterruptTimePrecise and QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise (exported by kernelbase only) become duration channels, scaled under --scale-duration. The interrupt-time pair adds the real sleep bias, read as a QUIT, QIT, QUIT triple whose two QUIT readings agree, and kept non-decreasing. 44 channels. CTL_LAYOUT_VERSION 10 to 11 (calls widens, Cov.absolute_dues appended).
Deadlines in every session (P3). The settable and thread-pool timers and NtDelayExecution stand in every session and convert an absolute deadline on the wall's speed. Relative times and periods scale only under --scale-duration. An absolute NtDelayExecution under --scale-duration used to reach the kernel unconverted. Without --scale-duration the five channels are expected but not listed as substituted, and a failed one is reported uncovered. New warning timer.absolute_due_converted, raised only when a conversion came before a jump or a speed change.
Sleep of the machine (P1). The core watches the sleep bias at every heartbeat. New event host_slept {slept_ms, total_slept_ms}, session_verdict.host_slept_ms, warning time.host_slept, and the report states the length of the sleep.
Call counter ceiling (WY11). Counters stop at 2^20. coverage marks such a count with capped (absent when false), and the report, the window's audit table and the copied summary say "at least".
Stuck seqlock (WY12). The bound stays, because a shorter one would answer from a half-written anchor after a preempted write and step a duration axis back. A write that stays open is now remembered (block address and odd seq), so later readers do not wait the bound again. No hot-path change.
P17. Fake elapsed time saturates. The duration axis is also reported standing when its banked base reaches the top over several rate changes.
F5. On 32-bit Windows, ntdll's RtlGetSystemTimePrecise and RtlGetInterruptTimePrecise call the exported RtlQueryPerformanceCounter, where the QPC detour stands under --scale-qpc. The hook's own reads of those clocks raise a thread flag, and the QPC detour passes them untouched and uncounted. Under --scale-qpc without --scale-duration, the two precise interrupt clocks are hooked so that they are answered real.
F7. The 1 ms floor of a scaled relative delay no longer lengthens a delay shorter than it (NtDelayExecution(-1) became 1 ms at every speed and was reported as held at the floor).
GUI. The audit table's count column is shared-size and computed like its other two columns. A count at the ceiling and a long count were cut in the fixed width, as shown on the render. New strings EN and PL.

Measured (Windows 11 26200, both bitnesses)

Precise wall resolution at x60: 9.87 M distinct values a second with a 6.1 us mean step, where it was 1 221 a second with 47 ms. Zero steps back. Revert probe: 1 020 a second.
Rate changes x1440 to x1 every 10 ms, eight clocks read in a loop: 242 M reads on x64, 124 M on x86 (with --scale-qpc), zero steps back on every clock, precise never below plain. Revert probe (no floor in fake_wall_at): GetSystemTimeAsFileTime stepped back 1 058 times, up to 2.14 s.
Absolute deadlines at x60: 33 to 35 ms in a default session and under --scale-duration. Relative ones take 1 000 ms in a default session and about 17.5 ms under --scale-duration. Revert probe: without the always-installed group, the absolute NtDelayExecution of the default session never returned.
Interrupt-time channels under --scale-duration x60: rate 60 on all four, QueryInterruptTime minus QueryUnbiasedInterruptTime equal to the real sleep bias without the tool. Revert probes: without the QIT detour its rate is 1, which gives a bias of -163 s. Without the bias it is 0.
F5, x86 with --scale-qpc: the precise wall clock after the session was 200 331.8 ms ahead before the change and is 0.0 ms now. During the session the precise interrupt clocks were 199 s off and are 0.9 ms off now. x64 was not affected. Revert probe: back to 198 502 ms.
Gates 13/13, harness 229/229 on both bitnesses, Rust 1 012 tests, C# 868. Every unit-level change has a revert probe that turns the matching test red.

Not covered here

A physical sleep of the machine was not tested. The detection is tested on pure functions with injected readings.
hook_integrity.rs and session_end.rs do not exercise the three new detours yet.
The Chromium mode counts sleep at the session speed, because its clock base is the wall clock. That belongs to a later wave.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added support for additional interrupt-time clocks and improved how absolute timer deadlines are handled during clock changes.
- Session reports now show significant computer sleep and warn when absolute timers are converted after clock changes.
- Call counts that reach the reporting limit are marked as “at least” in reports and the audit view.
Bug Fixes
- Corrected timer scaling for short delays and absolute deadlines, and improved elapsed-time handling at clock boundaries.
- Improved clock anchoring and handling of 32-bit clock values.

…ry session (R5 wave 3) Session clock precision and axes (R5/2: P1, P2, P3, P17, WY11, WY12, F4, plus F5 and F7 found while designing it). - P2: every anchor is read from QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise (same epoch and sleep bias as QUIT), GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime projects from it, the plain channels stay on QUIT and fake_wall_at holds them at the anchor until their clock catches up. Measured at x60: 9.87 M distinct values a second and a 6.1 us mean step, where it was 1 221 and 47 ms. - F4: QueryInterruptTime, QueryInterruptTimePrecise and QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise become duration channels (44 in all). The interrupt-time pair keeps the real sleep bias, read from a consistent QUIT/QIT/QUIT triple. CTL_LAYOUT_VERSION 11. - P3: SetWaitableTimer(Ex), SetThreadpoolTimer(Ex) and NtDelayExecution are installed in every session and convert an absolute deadline on the wall's speed. Relative times scale only under --scale-duration. An absolute NtDelayExecution is converted under --scale-duration too, where it used to pass through. New warning timer.absolute_due_converted when a conversion came before a jump or a speed change. - P1: the core watches the sleep bias and reports the machine's sleep: event host_slept, session_verdict.host_slept_ms and warning time.host_slept. - WY11: call counters stop at 2^20, coverage marks such a count `capped`, and the report, the window and the copied summary say "at least". - WY12: a seqlock write that stays open is waited for once per process, not on every clock call. The bound stays: a shorter one would answer from a half-written anchor after a preemption and step a duration axis back. - P17: fake elapsed time saturates, and the duration axis is reported standing when its banked base reaches the top over several rate changes. - F5: on 32-bit Windows ntdll computes the precise system clocks through the exported RtlQueryPerformanceCounter, where the QPC detour stands under --scale-qpc. The hook's own clock reads now pass the QPC detour untouched and uncounted. Measured: the precise wall clock stayed 200 s ahead after a 3 s session at x60, now 0. - F7: the 1 ms floor no longer lengthens a relative delay shorter than it. The audit table's count column takes the width its numbers need, so a count at the ceiling, and a long one, are no longer cut. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The changes add interrupt-time clock hooks, convert absolute timer deadlines, and update clock arithmetic. They also track host sleep and pending deadlines in session events and reports. Coverage counts now identify capped values and display them as lower bounds in CLI reports and the application UI.

Changes: Clock and timer behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Clock channels and precise anchors `crates/ctl/src/lib.rs`, `crates/mech/src/lib.rs`, `crates/hook/src/lib.rs`, `gui/ChronoMock.Protocol.Tests/BinaryImportsTests.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Adds three interrupt-time channels. Precise clock reads and session anchors use precise unbiased interrupt time. Hook setup accounts for QPC behavior and the added clock imports.
Absolute deadlines and relative timers `crates/ctl/src/lib.rs`, `crates/mech/src/lib.rs`, `crates/hook/src/lib.rs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Converts absolute timer deadlines in every session. Relative delays and periods use duration scaling only when enabled. Deadline coverage and missing-hook reporting are updated.
Clock bounds and arithmetic `crates/ctl/src/lib.rs`, `crates/mech/src/lib.rs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Clamps negative elapsed time and uses saturating arithmetic for fake elapsed time. The control-block reader records stalled seqlock writes. Tests cover clock and timer boundary cases.

Host sleep and session warnings

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sleep measurement and session state `crates/ctl/src/lib.rs`, `crates/mech/src/lib.rs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	Session state measures host sleep from interrupt-time clock differences. The control code adds bounded sleep-bias sampling.
Sleep events and verdicts `crates/cli/src/core.rs`, `crates/proto/src/lib.rs`, `crates/cli/src/cdp_session.rs`	The session loop emits sleep events after the reporting threshold and includes qualifying accumulated sleep in the verdict. Successful clock changes also track whether absolute deadlines were pending.
Sleep and deadline warnings `crates/cli/src/run/collect.rs`, `crates/cli/src/report.rs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/*`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LocalizationTests.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The collector passes sleep duration to report rendering. Reports format positive sleep durations and include host-sleep and converted-deadline warnings.

Capped coverage counts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Call-count cap and coverage data `crates/ctl/src/lib.rs`, `crates/core/src/lib.rs`, `crates/mech/src/lib.rs`, `crates/proto/src/lib.rs`, `gui/ChronoMock.Protocol/WireTypes.cs`	Call counters stop at 1,048,576. Coverage and wire data mark capped counts, with defaults that preserve exact-count behavior for older messages.
Lower-bound counts in reports `crates/cli/src/events.rs`, `crates/cli/src/run/collect.rs`, `crates/cli/src/report.rs`, `crates/cli/src/cdp_audit.rs`	The CLI propagates capped status into reports. Capped channel counts and covered totals display as lower bounds.
Lower-bound counts in the application `gui/ChronoMock.App/AuditRowsConverter.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Session/SessionViewModel.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Parts.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Themes/Values.xaml`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Localization/*`, `gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/AuditRowsTests.cs`, `gui/ChronoMock.App/Views/ComponentCatalogue.xaml.cs`, `CHANGELOG.md`	The application displays capped audit and read counts with localized lower-bound wording. The audit count column uses shared sizing.

Lint thresholds

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Line-count thresholds `.github/clippy-tight/clippy.toml`, `clippy.toml`	Both Clippy configurations lower the too-many-lines threshold and update measurement notes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Application
  participant h_ntdelay
  participant absolute_delay
  participant NtDelayExecution
  Application->>h_ntdelay: Pass positive absolute interval
  h_ntdelay->>absolute_delay: Convert deadline using fake time and wall rate
  absolute_delay-->>h_ntdelay: Return converted relative interval
  h_ntdelay->>NtDelayExecution: Forward converted interval

Suggested labels: bug, enhancement, performance, ui

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No actionable merge-blocking defect remains. An exact-function import test would improve regression protection but need not block merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
System Changes Are Reversible		The PR adds process hooks. `make_deadline_hooks` installs five new deadline detours in every session, and the interrupt-time detours are added under duration/QPC opt-ins. `make_hook` creates MinHook p…	Add ownership-tracked teardown for every detour and injected module. Disable and remove the MinHook detours, restore the saved original bytes, release the hook DLL and late-module references, and clear shared session state before unmapping …

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Title check		The title clearly describes the main changes: precise clock anchors, interrupt-time channels, and deadline handling in every session. It is specific and within the length limit.
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Tests For Changed Behavior		The PR adds tests for the changed runtime behavior. Rust tests cover sleep reporting and deadline tracking in `crates/cli/src/core.rs`, deadline coverage and saturated elapsed time in `crates/mech/src…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers		The pull-request diff adds no CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .claude, or .env files. Added lines contain no credentials, tokens, private URLs, local absolute paths, hostnames, IP addresses, or personal email a…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling		The PR touches WPF UI code, but it does not add hardcoded control styling. The XAML changes replace the audit count column's fixed resource width with an `Auto` shared-size group and bind the count th…
No Obvious Performance Problems		No clear performance defect matches the check. The new core work is bounded: deadline tracking scans the fixed 256-slot registry only after clock-change commands, and sleep reporting runs at the exist…
Desktop Robustness		PASS. The diff adds clock/session reporting, coverage flags, localization, and a read-only audit converter. It does not add working-directory asset loads, file writes, settings persistence, network ca…
Safe File Parsing		No unsafe file parsing was introduced. The PR only adds literal localization entries to the existing JSON files; the unchanged loader validates the culture tag, builds a fixed `Localization` path, and…
Clear User-Facing Text		PASS — The changed user-facing text is clear. New warnings explain what happened and its effect; capped counts use “at least” and preserve units. No new buttons, icon-only controls, vague action label…
No Resource Leaks		The PR introduces session clock precision, interrupt-time channels, and deadline handling improvements. Investigation of all modified files reveals no resource leaks or unbounded accumulation: 1. **Ca…
Scope, Duplication And Docs		The PR scope, documentation, and backward compatibility are all properly handled. Scope alignment: The PR title accurately describes the three main changes: precise anchors (using `QueryUnbiasedIn…

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Explanation

The PR adds process hooks. make_deadline_hooks installs five new deadline detours in every session, and the interrupt-time detours are added under duration/QPC opt-ins. make_hook creates MinHook patches and stores trampolines, then enable_all_hooks activates them. On session end or core loss, the watcher only sets DETACHED and releases clock axes; the source has no normal disable/remove/uninitialize teardown. The visible end path therefore restores returned clock values but leaves target code patched and the hook DLL loaded. A core crash has the same result.

Resolution

Add ownership-tracked teardown for every detour and injected module. Disable and remove the MinHook detours, restore the saved original bytes, release the hook DLL and late-module references, and clear shared session state before unmapping it. Invoke this teardown on clean stop, target close, core crash, DLL/process detach, and startup recovery. Keep hooks limited to the selected target and its selected child tree, and expose a stop action that reports teardown success or residue.

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Review comments at @gui/ChronoMock.Protocol.Tests/BinaryImportsTests.cs:
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crates/cli/src/core.rs
crates/cli/src/events.rs
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crates/core/src/lib.rs
crates/ctl/src/lib.rs
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gui/ChronoMock.App.Tests/LocalizationTests.cs
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