[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] vulkan/wsi: Improve the DRI3 error message

Kai Wasserbäch kai at dev.carbon-project.org
Sun Feb 19 10:08:18 UTC 2017


Jason Ekstrand wrote on 19.02.2017 06:01:
> On Feb 18, 2017 12:37 PM, "Kai Wasserbäch" <kai at dev.carbon-project.org>
> wrote:
> 
> Hey Jacob,
> sorry for not spotting this the first time, but I have an additional
> comment.
> Please see below.
> 
> Jacob Lifshay wrote on 18.02.2017 18:48:> This commit improves the message
> by
> telling them that they could probably
>> enable DRI3.  More importantly, it includes a little heuristic to check
>> to see if we're running on AMD or NVIDIA's proprietary X11 drivers and,
>> if we are, doesn't emit the warning.  This way, users with both a discrete
>> card and Intel graphics don't get the warning when they're just running
>> on the discrete card.
>>
>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99715
>> Co-authored-by: Jason Ekstrand <jason.ekstrand at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  src/vulkan/wsi/wsi_common_x11.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ++---------
>>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/vulkan/wsi/wsi_common_x11.c b/src/vulkan/wsi/wsi_common_
> x11.c
>> index 64ba921..b3a017a 100644
>> --- a/src/vulkan/wsi/wsi_common_x11.c
>> +++ b/src/vulkan/wsi/wsi_common_x11.c
>> @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
>>  struct wsi_x11_connection {
>>     bool has_dri3;
>>     bool has_present;
>> +   bool is_proprietary_x11;
>>  };
>>
>>  struct wsi_x11 {
>> @@ -63,8 +64,8 @@ static struct wsi_x11_connection *
>>  wsi_x11_connection_create(const VkAllocationCallbacks *alloc,
>>                            xcb_connection_t *conn)
>>  {
>> -   xcb_query_extension_cookie_t dri3_cookie, pres_cookie;
>> -   xcb_query_extension_reply_t *dri3_reply, *pres_reply;
>> +   xcb_query_extension_cookie_t dri3_cookie, pres_cookie, amd_cookie,
> nv_cookie;
>> +   xcb_query_extension_reply_t *dri3_reply, *pres_reply, *amd_reply,
> *nv_reply;
>>
>>     struct wsi_x11_connection *wsi_conn =
>>        vk_alloc(alloc, sizeof(*wsi_conn), 8,
>> @@ -75,20 +76,39 @@ wsi_x11_connection_create(const VkAllocationCallbacks
> *alloc,
>>     dri3_cookie = xcb_query_extension(conn, 4, "DRI3");
>>     pres_cookie = xcb_query_extension(conn, 7, "PRESENT");
>>
>> +   /* We try to be nice to users and emit a warning if they try to use a
>> +    * Vulkan application on a system without DRI3 enabled.  However,
> this ends
>> +    * up spewing the warning when a user has, for example, both Intel
>> +    * integrated graphics and a discrete card with proprietary driers
> and are
>> +    * running on the discrete card with the proprietary DDX.  In this
> case, we
>> +    * really don't want to print the warning because it just confuses
> users.
>> +    * As a heuristic to detect this case, we check for a couple of
> proprietary
>> +    * X11 extensions.
>> +    */
>> +   amd_cookie = xcb_query_extension(conn, 11, "ATIFGLRXDRI");
>> +   nv_cookie = xcb_query_extension(conn, 10, "NV-CONTROL");
>> +
>>     dri3_reply = xcb_query_extension_reply(conn, dri3_cookie, NULL);
>>     pres_reply = xcb_query_extension_reply(conn, pres_cookie, NULL);
>> -   if (dri3_reply == NULL || pres_reply == NULL) {
>> +   amd_reply = xcb_query_extension_reply(conn, amd_cookie, NULL);
>> +   nv_reply = xcb_query_extension_reply(conn, nv_cookie, NULL);
>> +   if (!dri3_reply || !pres_reply || !amd_reply || !nv_reply) {
> 
> I don't feel wsi_x11_connection_create should fail if there's no amd_reply
> or
> nv_reply. That should just lead to unconditionally warning, in case there's
> no
> DRI3 support.
> 
> 
> Of there is no reply then we either lost our connection to the X server or
> ran out of memory.  Either of those seem like a valid excuse to fail.  The
> chances of successfully connecting to X to create a swapchain at that point
> is pretty close to zero.

Fair enough.

> With that fixed, this patch is
>   Reviewed-by: Kai Wasserbäch <kai at dev.carbon-project.org>
> 
> Cheers,
> Kai
> 
>>        free(dri3_reply);
>>        free(pres_reply);
>> +      free(amd_reply);
>> +      free(nv_reply);
>>        vk_free(alloc, wsi_conn);
>>        return NULL;
>>     }
>>
>>     wsi_conn->has_dri3 = dri3_reply->present != 0;
>>     wsi_conn->has_present = pres_reply->present != 0;
>> +   wsi_conn->is_proprietary_x11 = amd_reply->present ||
> nv_reply->present;
>>
>>     free(dri3_reply);
>>     free(pres_reply);
>> +   free(amd_reply);
>> +   free(nv_reply);
>>
>>     return wsi_conn;
>>  }
>> @@ -100,6 +120,18 @@ wsi_x11_connection_destroy(const
> VkAllocationCallbacks *alloc,
>>     vk_free(alloc, conn);
>>  }
>>
>> +static bool
>> +wsi_x11_check_for_dri3(struct wsi_x11_connection *wsi_conn)
>> +{
>> +  if (wsi_conn->has_dri3)
>> +    return true;
>> +  if (!wsi_conn->is_proprietary_x11) {
>> +    fprintf(stderr, "vulkan: No DRI3 support detected - required for
> presentation\n");
>> +                    "Note: you can probably enable DRI3 in your Xorg
> config\n");
>> +  }
>> +  return false;
>> +}
>> +
>>  static struct wsi_x11_connection *
>>  wsi_x11_get_connection(struct wsi_device *wsi_dev,
>>                      const VkAllocationCallbacks *alloc,
>> @@ -264,11 +296,8 @@ VkBool32 wsi_get_physical_device_xcb_
> presentation_support(
>>     if (!wsi_conn)
>>        return false;
>>
>> -   if (!wsi_conn->has_dri3) {
>> -      fprintf(stderr, "vulkan: No DRI3 support detected - required for
> presentation\n");
>> -      fprintf(stderr, "Note: Buggy applications may crash, if they do
> please report to vendor\n");
>> +   if (!wsi_x11_check_for_dri3(wsi_conn))
>>        return false;
>> -   }
>>
>>     unsigned visual_depth;
>>     if (!connection_get_visualtype(connection, visual_id, &visual_depth))
>> @@ -313,9 +342,7 @@ x11_surface_get_support(VkIcdSurfaceBase *icd_surface,
>>     if (!wsi_conn)
>>        return VK_ERROR_OUT_OF_HOST_MEMORY;
>>
>> -   if (!wsi_conn->has_dri3) {
>> -      fprintf(stderr, "vulkan: No DRI3 support detected - required for
> presentation\n");
>> -      fprintf(stderr, "Note: Buggy applications may crash, if they do
> please report to vendor\n");
>> +   if (!wsi_x11_check_for_dri3(wsi_conn)) {
>>        *pSupported = false;
>>        return VK_SUCCESS;
>>     }

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