EXT: [PATCH weston v6 00/73] Head-based output configuration API a.k.a clone mode infrastructure

Ray, Ian (GE Healthcare) ian.ray at ge.com
Fri Mar 23 17:16:30 UTC 2018


> On 23 Mar 2018, at 15.12, Ray, Ian (GE Healthcare) <ian.ray at ge.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 16 Feb 2018, at 16.56, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> here is the v6 of the shared-CRTC clone mode series. Since v5, quite
>> many patches have been extracted from this series, sent out and merged
>> upstream. However, now the series is bigger than ever, because here I am
>> posting the complete series, including the full DRM-backend migration
>> and DRM shared-CRTC clone mode implementation, thanks to having the
>> basic atomic modesetting landed upstream.
>> 
>> The previous submission is here:
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-December/036236.html
>> 
>> Design discussion etc. (sequence diagrams!) can be found here:
>> https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/T7727
>> https://phabricator.freedesktop.org/w/wayland/weston/atomic-output-config/
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2017-October/035604.html
>> 
>> The series is available as a branch at:
>> https://gitlab.collabora.com/pq/weston/commits/clonemode-6
>> 
>> Highlights since v5:
>> - DRM-backend migration
>> - shared-CRTC clone mode implemented in DRM backend
>> - applied review comments from v5
>> - don't create a weston_output just to turn it off (DRM)
>> - cms-colord will print a warning when used with clone mode
>> - cms-colord vs. clone mode mentioned in weston-drm.man
>> 
>> Unfortunately the testing results are not 100%, you can find my testing
>> procedure below the diffstat.
>> 
>> The patch series is structured as follows:
>> 
>> - Patches 1-17 introduce most of the new head-based API, and build the
>> scaffolding that allows migrating the frontends and the backends one
>> by one.
>> 
> 
> Patches 01-17 : Reviewed-by Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com>
> 
> 
>> - Patches 18-24 migrate the frontends one by one. Patch 19 introduces
>> the simple output configurator which is first used for all backends,
>> including the DRM-backend.
>> 
>> - Patches 25-30 clean up libweston after the frontend migration.

Patches 18-30 : Reviewed-by Ian Ray <ian.ray at ge.com>


>> 
>> - Patches 31-38 migrate all the backends to the head-based API. At this
>> point the DRM-backend migration is basically a fake, though.
>> 
>> - Patch 39 removes weston_output::head with the last bits of the
>> scaffolding.
>> 
>> - Patches 40-44 enhances libweston core to better support the
>> DRM-backend's clone mode configuration and improve logging.
>> 
>> - Patches 45-55 implement the head-based API for real in the
>> DRM-backend, culminating in patch 55 which creates heads for all
>> connectors.
>> 
>> - Patch 56 removes unused_connectors array which has been replace with
>> the head list.
>> 
>> - Patches 57-70 finally implement everything needed for shared-CRTC
>> clone mode in the DRM-backend.
>> 
>> - Patches 71-73 add a new output configrator logic in the frontend to
>> handle clone mode, supporting a new weston.ini key "same-as".
>> 
>> 
>> Do you think we should call the weston.ini key "clone-of" instead, to
>> leave "same-as" reserved for clone mode where only the desktop area is
>> the same but the monitors would have different video modes, scaling,
>> etc.?
>> 
>> There are several imaginable uses for "same-as" variants:
>> - get me shared-CRTC clone mode or fail
>> - get me clone mode, preferring shared-CRTC but automatic fallback to
>> independent CRTCs
>> - get me clone mode, but I want one monitor with HiDPI and one with
>> LoDPI
>> 
>> Here I have implemented the automatic fallback version, except it cannot
>> actually fall back, because we have no API to make two weston_outputs
>> show the same area, and libweston's damage tracking could not handle it
>> even if we could.
>> 
>> 
>> Pekka Paalanen (73):
>> libweston: introduce weston_head
>> libweston: move wl_output to weston_head
>> libweston: use head in wl_output global
>> libweston: make wl_output point to weston_head
>> libweston: refactor weston_mode_switch_finish
>> libweston: introduce weston_output::head_list
>> libweston: properly orphan wl_output resources
>> libweston: strdup head make, model, serial_number
>> cms-colord: find a good head
>> libweston: add name to weston_head
>> libweston: add weston_head::connected
>> libweston: add weston_head_is_enabled()
>> libweston: add compositor list of heads
>> libweston: add heads_changed hook
>> libweston: new head-based output management API
>> libweston: add weston_head destroy signal
>> libweston: add weston_head_is_device_changed() API
>> weston: move weston_output_enable() into callers
>> weston: migrate headless to head-based output API
>> weston: migrate x11 to head-based output API
>> weston: migrate wayland to head-based output API
>> weston: migrate fbdev to head-based output API
>> weston: migrate RDP to head-based output API
>> weston: migrate DRM to head-based output API
>> libweston: change windowed_output_api output_create to create_head
>> libweston: remove output_pending_signal
>> libweston: stop auto-adding the implicit head
>> libweston: assert make/model in weston_output_enable()
>> libweston: assert current_mode in weston_output_enable()
>> libweston: cancel idle_repaint on output destroy
>> compositor-headless: migrate to head-based output API
>> compositor-rdp: migrate to head-based output API
>> compositor-fbdev: make re-enable less drastic
>> compositor-fbdev: migrate to head-based output API
>> compositor-x11: migrate to head-based output API
>> compositor-wayland: strict surface create/destroy
>> compositor-wayland: migrate to head-based output API
>> compositor-drm: start migration to head-based output API
>> libweston: remove weston_output::head
>> libweston: print head names on output enable
>> libweston: create/find output by name
>> libweston: support user data on weston_output
>> libweston: allow attaching heads to enabled outputs
>> libweston: log head detach on enabled output
>> compositor-drm: drm_output_find_by_connector from head_list
>> compositor-drm: use head_find_by_connector in update_unused_outputs
>> compositor-drm: find disconnects from head_list
>> compositor-drm: move backlight into drm_head
>> compositor-drm: move connector fields into drm_head
>> compositor-drm: allocate CRTC on enable()
>> compositor-drm: simplify drm_output_find_by_crtc()
>> compositor-drm: simplify drm_output_find_special_plane()
>> compositor-drm: get current mode on head discovery
>> compositor-drm: move mode list to set_mode()
>> compositor-drm: create heads for all connectors
>> compositor-drm: remove unused_connectors array
>> compositor-drm: drm_output_apply_state_legacy heads
>> compositor-drm: drm_output_apply_state_atomic heads
>> compositor-drm: drm_set_backlight heads
>> compositor-drm: unify head status logging
>> compositor-drm: combine mode list from heads
>> compositor-drm: backlight control for all heads
>> compositor-drm: update video mode printing
>> compositor-drm: introduce drm_head_read_current_setup()
>> compositor-drm: no need to clear inherited_mode
>> compositor-drm: rewrite crtc picking for clone mode
>> compositor-drm: preserve CRTC routing harder
>> compositor-drm: head detach requires a modeset
>> compositor-drm: head attach requires a modeset
>> compositor-drm: allow shared-CRTC cloning
>> weston: store weston_compositor in wet_compositor
>> weston: use wet.compositor consistently in main()
>> weston: support clone mode on DRM-frontend
>> 
>> compositor/cms-colord.c             |   45 +-
>> compositor/main.c                   |  818 +++++++++++++++++++++----
>> compositor/weston-screenshooter.c   |    2 +-
>> desktop-shell/input-panel.c         |    4 +-
>> desktop-shell/shell.c               |    4 +-
>> fullscreen-shell/fullscreen-shell.c |    4 +-
>> ivi-shell/input-panel-ivi.c         |    4 +-
>> libweston-desktop/wl-shell.c        |    2 +-
>> libweston-desktop/xdg-shell-v6.c    |    2 +-
>> libweston/compositor-drm.c          | 1128 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>> libweston/compositor-fbdev.c        |  206 ++++---
>> libweston/compositor-headless.c     |   75 ++-
>> libweston/compositor-rdp.c          |   64 +-
>> libweston/compositor-wayland.c      |  254 ++++++--
>> libweston/compositor-x11.c          |   71 ++-
>> libweston/compositor.c              | 1107 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>> libweston/compositor.h              |  198 +++++-
>> libweston/windowed-output-api.h     |   23 +-
>> man/weston-drm.man                  |   12 +
>> tests/weston-test.c                 |    2 +-
>> 20 files changed, 3249 insertions(+), 776 deletions(-)
>> 
>> 
>> Testing procedure and results:
>> 
>> All tests were successful except where otherwise mentioned.
>> 
>> 
>> headless-backend testing:
>> 
>> $ make -j7 distcheck
>> 
>> 
>> x11-backend testing:
>> 
>> $ weston
>> $ weston --output-count=3
>> - close x11 windows one by one
>> $ weston --fullscreen (equally broken before and after)
>> 
>> 
>> Wayland-backend testing:
>> 
>> parent: $ weston --output-count=2 --width=700
>> outputs have different height
>> 
>> tests:
>> 
>> weston --use-pixman
>> weston --use-pixman --fullscreen
>> weston --use-pixman --output-count=2
>> weston --use-pixman --sprawl
>> - close parent outputs one by one
>> 
>> In the --sprawl case, closing the first output soon results in the
>> parent compositor:
>> 
>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> 0x00007ffff7ba3b8f in wl_signal_emit (signal=0x555555da74a8, data=0x555555da74a0) at /home/pq/local/include/wayland-server-core.h:467
>> 467		wl_list_for_each_safe(l, next, &signal->listener_list, link)
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x00007ffff7ba3b8f in wl_signal_emit (signal=0x555555da74a8, data=0x555555da74a0) at /home/pq/local/include/wayland-server-core.h:467
>> #1  0x00007ffff7ba8a4c in weston_surface_destroy (surface=0x555555da74a0) at /home/pq/git/weston/libweston/compositor.c:1904
>> #2  0x00007fffee108196 in fade_out_done_idle_cb (data=0x555555da7d20) at /home/pq/git/weston/desktop-shell/shell.c:2281
>> #3  0x00007ffff798dcac in wl_event_loop_dispatch_idle (loop=loop at entry=0x55555576c250) at src/event-loop.c:600
>> #4  0x00007ffff798dd64 in wl_event_loop_dispatch (loop=0x55555576c250, timeout=timeout at entry=-1) at src/event-loop.c:646
>> #5  0x00007ffff798c4fa in wl_display_run (display=0x55555576c170) at src/wayland-server.c:1260
>> #6  0x000055555555dd86 in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdb58) at /home/pq/git/weston/compositor/main.c:2477
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> parent: $ weston --output-count=2 --width=700 --shell=fullscreen-shell.so
>> 
>> tests:
>> 
>> weston --use-pixman
>> - close parent outputs one by one
>> 
>> 
>> RDP-backend testing:
>> 
>> - using remmina as client, connected twice in a row
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> fbdev-backend testing:
>> 
>> $ weston -Bfbdev-backend.so
>> 
>> 
>> DRM-backend testing:
>> 
>> Two outputs plugged in, third unplugged.
>> 1. start Weston, ensure both outputs work
>> 2. unplug one output, ensure remaining output works
>> 3. re-plug the output, ensure both outputs work
>> 4. quit
>> 
>> One output plugged in, the rest unplugged. The plugged-in output is
>> configured to be off in weston.ini.
>> 1. start Weston, zero outputs, check via remote login weston-info works
>> 2. plug in an output, check it works
>> 3. unplug the output, check weston-info via remote
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> pq
>> 
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