Bug 105132 - glxSwapBuffers has no effect
Summary: glxSwapBuffers has no effect
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Mesa
Classification: Unclassified
Component: GLX (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: mesa-dev
QA Contact: mesa-dev
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Depends on: 108705
Blocks: 108651
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Reported: 2018-02-16 16:52 UTC by Julien Isorce
Modified: 2019-09-18 17:45 UTC (History)
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wip-not-working: poll special dri2 events (2.90 KB, patch)
2018-02-19 14:08 UTC, Julien Isorce
Details | Splinter Review

Description Julien Isorce 2018-02-16 16:52:49 UTC
Hi, 

Initially looking at the gstreamer bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774809 it seems it could be a pb in mesa:

In src/glx/dri2_glx.c::dri2SwapBuffers psc->f->invalidate is not called when using dri2 on an up to date Ubuntu 16.04. Because the call to dri2InvalidateBuffers is guarded by "if (!pdp->invalidateAvailable)"

But with dri2 and egl the '->invalidate' is always called, see dri3_swap_buffers/loader_dri3_swap_buffers_msc and egl/dri2_x11_swap_buffers_msc

X server is version 1.18.4 and xorg-video-intel is 2:2.99.917

So it looks like xserver/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2ext.c::DRI2InvalidateBuffersEvent is not called and the comment "/* Old servers don't send invalidate events */" src/glx/dri2_glx.c make sense.

1: Why this difference between dri2 and dri3/egl ? I would have expect the otherway, always called on dri2 and not on dri3.

2: Is "pdp->invalidateAvailable = (pdp->driMinor >= 3);" not accurate ? Should it check for the exact xserver version which contains the fix ?

Thx in advance for any feedback.
Comment 1 Scott D Phillips 2018-02-16 17:41:03 UTC
It looks like the Xext hooks used by the dri2 code never get called by Xlib when xcb owns the event queue. I think we can either disable invalidateAvailable if xcb owns the event queue (I don't see how to query that), or maybe change the dri2 code to use xcb-dri2.
Comment 2 Emil Velikov 2018-02-16 18:11:46 UTC
Could swear I pushed something on the topic - commit c9d449de640f62d83149e64015029b466c44b12c. Which seems to be EGL/x11 :-(

invalidateAvailable is available only for DRI2 1.3+

Having a look at the server side
DRI2Version seems off - it always advertises DRI2 1.2
minor is set based on the driver DRI2InfoRec::version v4, relates to DRI2 1.3

Skimming through a local xorg-video-intel checkout, the only way it advertises v3 or less, is when built against ancient xserver.

So if built correctly, the issue "should not happen" (tm)
Comment 3 Emil Velikov 2018-02-16 18:17:54 UTC
Grr scratch that - I missed the negation in from of invalidateAvailable :-\
Comment 4 Julien Isorce 2018-02-19 14:08:49 UTC
Created attachment 137438 [details] [review]
wip-not-working: poll special dri2 events

As Scott also mentioned, mesa/src/glx/dri2.c::DRI2WireToEvent is never called when xcb owns the Xlib event queue or as soon as xcb_poll_for_event is called from the app client.

I was curious of what is done for present extension in src/loader/loader_dri3_helper.c, so I mimic that solution, i.e. poll special events by calling "xcb_register_for_special_xge(xcb_dri2_id)" and "xcb_poll_for_special_event".

The attached experimental patch builds and runs but "xcb_poll_for_special_event" does not return any event but it was worth a try. (I am not sending it to mesa-dev as it is an experimentation)
Comment 5 Michel Dänzer 2018-02-19 15:39:09 UTC
(In reply to Julien Isorce from comment #4)
> The attached experimental patch builds and runs but
> "xcb_poll_for_special_event" does not return any event [...]

That's not surprising, since there are no DRI2 special events. :)
Comment 6 Julien Isorce 2018-02-20 10:13:23 UTC
(In reply to Scott D Phillips from comment #1)
> maybe change the dri2 code to use xcb-dri2.

Hi Scott, were you thinking to make https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/glx/dri2_glx.c use more xcb_dri2_* calls ?

Currently it uses a mix, for example it calls "DRI2Connect" but also calls "xcb_dri2_swap_buffers"

The remaining DRI2 calls are:
DRI2Connect
DRI2Authenticate
DRI2CreateDrawable
DRI2DestroyDrawable
DRI2CopyRegion
DRI2GetBuffersWithFormat
DRI2QueryExtension
DRI2QueryVersion

Looks like https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/tree/src/egl/drivers/dri2/platform_x11.c#n612 is a good example for this conversion. Also some refactoring can be done to share the code between mesa/src/glx/dri2_glx.c and mesa/src/egl/drivers/dri2/platform_x11.c

But why it will solve the fact that currently mesa/src/glx/dri2.c::DRI2WireToEvent::dri2InvalidateBuffers is not called when the app owns the event queue ?
Comment 7 Julien Isorce 2018-02-20 10:41:37 UTC
(In reply to Michel Dänzer from comment #5)
> (In reply to Julien Isorce from comment #4)
> > The attached experimental patch builds and runs but
> > "xcb_poll_for_special_event" does not return any event [...]
> 
> That's not surprising, since there are no DRI2 special events. :)

Maybe it would have worked if the DRI2 events were generic event: XGenericEvent
which is the case for Xpresent:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/proto/presentproto/tree/presentproto.h#n139 

Not for dri2: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/dri2/dri2ext.c#n376

(I believe the "xge" in "xcb_register_for_special_xge" stands for X generic events but I do not know if all generic events are "special")
Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2019-09-18 17:45:45 UTC
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