Xorg input thread (2)

[Keith Packard]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 03:38 -0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:

> Got it? In summary, I locked to memory all functions until Dispatch is
> called and when the X server is in the D state the cursor lags when some
> clients connected to X are using blocks which aren't locked. And if
> we're using the input thread (consequently not SIGIO) it doesn't lags!

Excellent!

> How easily I could identify these functions? I think that I must dig
> more this way and study these ELF tricks. Keith, could you please tell
> more about it or point me something? Some docs would be good.

It should be fairly easy to statically examine the code to determine
which functions are related to mouse/cursor echoing. If you want an
automatic mechanism, you might look at the -finstrument-functions
compiler option. 

When I did the SIGIO analysis to ensure no 'unsafe' functions were used
from a signal handler, I don't recall it taking but an hour or so to
trace the program flow for mouse motion though; it's not that long a
path.

I'm not sure who we can call on to help with suitable ELF magic though;
certainly the kernel uses this kind of stuff to place initialization
code in separate segments (so they can be discarded, I presume).

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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