[PATCH v2 0/3] present: various fixes

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sat May 31 00:32:50 PDT 2014


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 05:40:28PM +0100, Frank Binns wrote:
> This is v2 of some present fixes for issues discovered when adding
> DRI3+present support to the PVR video driver.
> 
> Patch 1 has been reworked to now always restore the screen pixmap
> at the point a pending flip is marked as aborted. Previously it
> only did this in one place and only for the root window.
> 
> Patch 2 is new and deals with the same problem, but in in different
> way, as the old patch 2. Essentially both patches attempt to deal
> with resource leaks related to flipping. The old patch did this by
> preventing any pending flip, associated with the window being
> destroyed, from being aborted and destroyed during window
> destruction. However, this relied on the DDX waiting for all kernel
> events to arrive and be processed so that the necessary resource
> clean up was triggered. The new patch just does the clean up at
> the point the window is destroyed.
> 
> Patch 3 is identical to the old patch 4 (as patch 3 has now been
> dropped).
> 
> Some issues still remain but these are fixed by the following patches
> that are currently on the list but not in master:
> - [PATCH] present: Queue flips for later execution
> - [PATCH 3/6] present: Reorder Window teardown to avoid use-after-free
> 
> Frank Binns (3):
>   present: restore screen pixmap when aborting a flip
>   present: clean up all current flip resources on window destruction
>   present: sync flips unless requested not to

This fixes the issues I was seeing earlier, notably the dangling vblank
after applications quit.

Tested-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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