[Spice-devel] [PATCH] randr: Make resolution changing more robust

Alon Levy alevy at redhat.com
Mon Jan 20 08:51:17 PST 2014


On 01/20/2014 06:43 PM, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> When running a guest using a KMS QXL driver on a RHEL6 hypervisor,
> spice_vdagent would crash on resolution changes with:
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  139 (RANDR)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  21 (RRSetCrtcConfig)
>   Value in failed request:  0x0
>   Serial number of failed request:  75
>   Current serial number in output stream:  75
> 
> (if using a newer QEMU, this will not crash as the resolution codepath is
> totally different, see red_dispatcher_use_client_monitors_config() in
> spice-server, when using the UMS QXL driver, the crash will not happen
> because of
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/commit/?id=907d0ff0
> ).
> 
> This crash happens in vdagent_x11_set_monitor_config() because the X server
> rejects the request because we are trying to set a CRTC to a size which is
> bigger than the current screen (using 'screen' and 'CRTC' as in the RandR
> spec at http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/randrproto/randrproto.txt ).
> 
> If we resize the screen before changing the CRTCs resolution, then this
> error will no longer happen. However, if we first call XRRSetScreenSize()
> and then XRRSetCrtcConfig(), the call to XRRSetScreeSize() will fail when
> we try to make the screen smaller as there will be active CRTCs which would
> be bigger than the screen.
> 
> In order to solve these issues, we follow the same process as what mutter
> does in meta_monitor_manager_xrandr_apply_configuration()
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/mutter/tree/src/core/monitor-xrandr.c#n689:
> 
> 1. we disable the CRTCs which are off and the ones which are bigger than the
>    size we want to set the screen to.
> 2. we resize the screen with a call to XRRSetScreenSize().
> 3. we set each CRTCs to their new resolution.

ACK with two lines removed, see below.

> ---
>  src/vdagent-x11-randr.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/vdagent-x11-randr.c b/src/vdagent-x11-randr.c
> index 5223f88..77b2127 100644
> --- a/src/vdagent-x11-randr.c
> +++ b/src/vdagent-x11-randr.c
> @@ -688,8 +688,6 @@ void vdagent_x11_set_monitor_config(struct vdagent_x11 *x11,
>                                      VDAgentMonitorsConfig *mon_config,
>                                      int fallback)
>  {
> -    int width, height;
> -    int x, y;
>      int primary_w, primary_h;
>      int i, real_num_of_monitors = 0;
>      VDAgentMonitorsConfig *curr = NULL;
> @@ -748,24 +746,40 @@ void vdagent_x11_set_monitor_config(struct vdagent_x11 *x11,
>      for (i = mon_config->num_of_monitors; i < x11->randr.res->noutput; i++)
>          xrandr_disable_output(x11, i);
>  
> +    /* First, disable disabled CRTCs... */
>      for (i = 0; i < mon_config->num_of_monitors; ++i) {
>          if (!monitor_enabled(&mon_config->monitors[i])) {
>              xrandr_disable_output(x11, i);
>              continue;

You can drop this "continue" now.

>          }
> -        /* Try to create the requested resolution */
> -        width = mon_config->monitors[i].width;
> -        height = mon_config->monitors[i].height;
> -        x = mon_config->monitors[i].x;
> -        y = mon_config->monitors[i].y;
> -        if (!xrandr_add_and_set(x11, i, x, y, width, height) &&
> -                enabled_monitors(mon_config) == 1) {
> -            set_screen_to_best_size(x11, width, height,
> -                                    &primary_w, &primary_h);
> -            goto update;
> +    }
> +
> +    /* ... and disable the ones that would be bigger than
> +     * the new RandR screen once it is resized. If they are enabled the
> +     * XRRSetScreenSize call will fail with BadMatch. They will be
> +     * reenabled after hanging the screen size.
> +     */
> +    for (i = 0; i < curr->num_of_monitors; ++i) {
> +        int width, height;
> +        int x, y;
> +
> +        width = curr->monitors[i].width;
> +        height = curr->monitors[i].height;
> +        x = curr->monitors[i].x;
> +        y = curr->monitors[i].y;
> +
> +        if ((x + width > primary_w) || (y + height > primary_h)) {
> +            if (x11->debug)
> +                syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "Disabling monitor %d: "
> +                       "(%d+%d, %d+%d) < (%d,%d)",
> +                       i, x, width, y, height, primary_w, primary_h);
> +
> +            xrandr_disable_output(x11, i);
> +            continue;

Also here.

>          }
>      }
>  
> +    /* Then we can resize the RandR screen. */
>      if (primary_w != x11->width[0] || primary_h != x11->height[0]) {
>          if (x11->debug)
>              syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "Changing screen size to %dx%d",
> @@ -793,7 +807,28 @@ void vdagent_x11_set_monitor_config(struct vdagent_x11 *x11,
>          }
>      }
>  
> -update:
> +    /* Finally, we set the new resolutions on RandR CRTCs now that the
> +     * RandR screen is big enough to hold these.  */
> +    for (i = 0; i < mon_config->num_of_monitors; ++i) {
> +        int width, height;
> +        int x, y;
> +
> +        if (!monitor_enabled(&mon_config->monitors[i])) {
> +            continue;
> +        }
> +        /* Try to create the requested resolution */
> +        width = mon_config->monitors[i].width;
> +        height = mon_config->monitors[i].height;
> +        x = mon_config->monitors[i].x;
> +        y = mon_config->monitors[i].y;
> +        if (!xrandr_add_and_set(x11, i, x, y, width, height) &&
> +                enabled_monitors(mon_config) == 1) {
> +            set_screen_to_best_size(x11, width, height,
> +                                    &primary_w, &primary_h);
> +            break;
> +        }
> +    }
> +
>      update_randr_res(x11,
>          x11->randr.num_monitors != enabled_monitors(mon_config));
>      x11->width[0] = primary_w;
> 



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