This logs to a tracefs filesystem which can be viewed in tools such as
gpuvis to see precise timings of activities in relation to other trace
markers in X or graphic drivers.
This patch is loosely based on D23114. Though modified with thread
safety, support for string building, and a RAII pattern for durations.
Ultimately that expanded it somewhat.
At the moment, our frame scheduling infrastructure is still heavily
based on Xinerama-style rendering. Specifically, we assume that painting
is driven by a single timer, etc.
This change introduces a new type - RenderLoop. Its main purpose is to
drive compositing on a specific output, or in case of X11, on the
overlay window.
With RenderLoop, compositing is synchronized to vblank events. It
exposes the last and the next estimated presentation timestamp. The
expected presentation timestamp can be used by effects to ensure that
animations are synchronized with the upcoming vblank event.
On Wayland, every outputs has its own render loop. On X11, per screen
rendering is not possible, therefore the platform exposes the render
loop for the overlay window. Ideally, the Scene has to expose the
RenderLoop, but as the first step towards better compositing scheduling
it's good as is for the time being.
The RenderLoop tries to minimize the latency by delaying compositing as
close as possible to the next vblank event. One tricky thing about it is
that if compositing is too close to the next vblank event, animations
may become a little bit choppy. However, increasing the latency reduces
the choppiness.
Given that, there is no any "silver bullet" solution for the choppiness
issue, a new option has been added in the Compositing KCM to specify the
amount of latency. By default, it's "Medium," but if a user is not
satisfied with the upstream default, they can tweak it.
In order to unlock per screen rendering, we need to track repaints for
every screen individually. While we could do this in the Compositor class,
tracking repaints in the Scene seems a better alternative in long run
because we will have to instantiate a Scene for each composited screen
one day.
In rare cases, the Compositor has to perform a compositing if there is
nothing to repaint. For example, if a client has committed a frame
callback to get notified about the next vblank event without damaging
the surface.
Effects are given the interval between two consecutive frames. The main
flaw of this approach is that if the Compositor transitions from the idle
state to "active" state, i.e. when there is something to repaint,
effects may see a very large interval between the last painted frame and
the current. In order to address this issue, the Scene invalidates the
timer that is used to measure time between consecutive frames before the
Compositor is about to become idle.
While this works perfectly fine with Xinerama-style rendering, with per
screen rendering, determining whether the compositor is about to idle is
rather a tedious task mostly because a single output can't be used for
the test.
Furthermore, since the Compositor schedules pointless repaints just to
ensure that it's idle, it might take several attempts to figure out
whether the scene timer must be invalidated if you use (true) per screen
rendering.
Ideally, all effects should use a timeline helper that is aware of the
underlying render loop and its timings. However, this option is off the
table because it will involve a lot of work to implement it.
Alternative and much simpler option is to pass the expected presentation
time to effects rather than time between consecutive frames. This means
that effects are responsible for determining how much animation timelines
have to be advanced. Typically, an effect would have to store the
presentation timestamp provided in either prePaint{Screen,Window} and
use it in the subsequent prePaint{Screen,Window} call to estimate the
amount of time passed between the next and the last frames.
Unfortunately, this is an API incompatible change. However, it shouldn't
take a lot of work to port third-party binary effects, which don't use the
AnimationEffect class, to the new API. On the bright side, we no longer
need to be concerned about the Compositor getting idle.
We do still try to determine whether the Compositor is about to idle,
primarily, because the OpenGL render backend swaps buffers on present,
but that will change with the ongoing compositing timing rework.
The purpose of Compositor::aboutToSwapBuffers() is notify the compositor
about a pending buffer. It's totally safe to call it multiple times if you
have multiple outputs. Ideally, it should also take an AbstractOutput or
screen id, but with the introduction of render loops per each output, we
won't need Compositor::aboutToSwapBuffers(). So, for the time being, this
change drops the annoying assert to make necessary per screen rendering
related refactorings easier to perform.
In order to allow per screen rendering, we need the Compositor to be
able to drive rendering on each screen. Currently, it's not possible
because Scene::paint() paints all screen.
With this change, the Compositor will be able to ask the Scene to paint
only a screen with the specific id.
AnimationEffect schedules repaints in postPaintWindow() and performs
cleanup in preScreenPaint(). With the X11-style rendering, this doesn't
have any issues, scheduled repaints will be reset during the next
compositing cycle.
But with per screen rendering, we might hit the following case
- Paint screen 0
- Reset scheduled repaints
- AnimationEffect::prePaintScreen(): update the timeline
- AnimationEffect::postPaintScreen(): schedule a repaint
- Paint screen 1
- Reset scheduled repaints
- AnimationEffect::prePaintScreen(): destroy the animation
- AnimationEffect::postPaintScreen(): no repaint is scheduled
- Return to the event loop
In this scenario, the repaint region scheduled by AnimationEffect will
be lost when compositing is performed on screen 1.
There is no any other way to fix this issue but maintain repaint regions
per each individual screen if per screen rendering is enabled.
BUG: 428439
If a cursor animation is driven purely by frame callbacks and kwin
uses hardware cursors, the cpu usage may spike to 100%.
This change addresses that issue by sending frame callbacks after a
compositing cycle has been performed.
The main advantage of SPDX license identifiers over the traditional
license headers is that it's more difficult to overlook inappropriate
licenses for kwin, for example GPL 3. We also don't have to copy a
lot of boilerplate text.
In order to create this change, I ran licensedigger -r -c from the
toplevel source directory.
If the Xwayland process crashes, it will bring down the entire session
together with itself. Obviously, we don't want that. At least, Wayland
clients should survive the crash.
This change refactors relevant X11 parts to handle Xwayland crashes in a
less fatal way.
In order to handle Xwayland crashes better, a pair of start() and stop()
methods had been introduced in the Xwayland class to allow starting and
stopping the Xwayland process at any moment.
If we detect that the Xwayland process has crashed, we will immediately
stop the Xwayland server, which in its turn will deactivate the socket
notifier and destroy all connected X11 clients. Unfortunately, a couple
of subtle changes in X11Client::releaseWindow() and Unmanaged::release()
had to be made to ensure that we are left with a valid state after the
Xwayland server has been stopped.
Summary:
On X11, Workspace stores windows in two lists. One with desktop windows
and the other one with all other windows. On Wayland, desktop windows
and normal windows are stored in the same list - m_allClients.
In order to unify scripting on X11 and Wayland, this change makes the
Workspace class store X11 desktop windows and normal X11 windows in the
same list. It's the responsibility of scripts to filter desktop windows.
Reviewers: #kwin, apol
Reviewed By: apol
Subscribers: apol, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29522
Summary:
In order to help with debugging why the OpenGL scene is not loaded,
it can be really helpful to know what scenes the Compositor attempts to
load.
Test Plan: Ran kwin with QT_LOGGING_RULES="*.debug=true".
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D29261
Summary:
Currently, we have only one shell client type - XdgShellClient. We use
it when we are dealing with Wayland clients. But it isn't really a good
idea because we may need to support shell surfaces other than xdg-shell
ones, for example input panel surfaces.
In order to make kwin more extensible, this change replaces all usages
of the XdgShellClient class with the AbstractClient class.
Test Plan: Existing tests pass.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27778
Summary:
The GLX backend might need a combination of swap and composite timer events for
continous painting.
The reason for that is that if the buffer age extension is not available we
fall back to copies in case not the whole screen is repainted.
The timer logic is adapted to make this possible in a lean way what cleans up
the Compositor class in several ways.
Test Plan: Tested on X11 (with/without swap events, buffer age enabled) and Wayland.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: hurikhan77, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26216
After paint in case we have swap events the buffer swap should be pending.
This is not always the case with the X11 standalone plugin what needs to be
investigated some more. This is for now a quick fix to make sessions work
again without failing on the assert.
Summary:
When the compositor is stopped there might still be a buffer swap ongoing, in
particular when a client blocks compositing on X11.
Depending on the backend the next buffer swap event might be handled in
bufferSwapComplete (Wayland) or not be handled (X11 GLX, since a new
GLX window will be created while the swap event is sent for the old one).
With this patch the buffer swap state is reset on stop such that on later
start no outdated data might create errors and instead a new repaint can be
triggered with updated data.
BUG: 415262
Test Plan: Manually on X11 and Wayland.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26090
Summary:
When swap events are available do not delay the next repaint by one frame
through the composite timer but directly repaint on swap event.
Test Plan: i915
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: davidedmundson, zzag
Maniphest Tasks: T11071
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25299
This reverts commit 9151bb7b9e.
This reverts commit ac4dce1c20.
This reverts commit 754b72d155.
In order to make the fix work, we need to redirect the client window
instead of the frame window. However, we cannot to do that because
Xwayland expects the toplevel window(in our case, the frame window)
to be redirected.
Another solution to the texture bleeding issue must be found.
CCBUG: 257566
CCBUG: 360549
Summary:
Since KDE 4.2 - 4.3 times, KWin doesn't paint window decorations on real
X11 windows, except when compositing is turned off. This leaves us with
a problem. The actual client contents is inside a larger texture with no
useful pixel data around it. This and decoration texture bleeding are
the main factors that contribute to 1px gap between the server-side
decoration and client contents with effects such as wobbly windows, and
zoom.
Another problem with naming frame pixmap instead of client pixmap is
that it doesn't quite go along with wayland. It only makes more difficult
to abstract window quad generation in the scene.
Since we don't actually need the frame window when compositing is on,
there is nothing that holds us from redirecting client windows instead
of frame windows. This will help us to fix the texture bleeding issue
and also help us with the ongoing redesign of the scene.
Test Plan: X11 clients are still composited.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D25610
Summary:
Qt has its own thing where a type might also have corresponding list
alias, e.g. QObject and QObjectList, QWidget and QWidgetList. I don't
know why Qt does that, maybe for some historical reasons, but what
matters is that we copy this pattern here in KWin. While this pattern
might be useful with some long list types, for example
QList<QWeakPointer<TabBoxClient>> TabBoxClientList
in general, it causes more harm than good. For example, we've got two
new client types, do we need corresponding list typedefs for them? If
no, why do we have ClientList and so on?
Another problem with these typedefs is that you need to include utils.h
header in order to use them. A better way to handle such things is to
just forward declare a client class (if that's possible) and use it
directly with QList or QVector. This way translation units don't get
"bloated" with utils.h stuff for no apparent reason.
So, in order to make code more consistent and easier to follow, this
change drops some of our custom typedefs. Namely ConstClientList,
ClientList, DeletedList, UnmanagedList, ToplevelList, and GroupList.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24950
Summary:
Compositing in X11 was done time shifted, meaning that we paint first, then
wait one vblank interval length and present on prepareRenderingFrame the
previous paint result. This is supposed to make sure we don't miss the vblank
and in case of block till retrace be able to continue issuing commands and
only shortly before next vblank present.
This is counter-intuitiv, not how we do it on Wayland or even on MESA with X.
The reason seems to be that the GLX backend was in the beginning written
against Nvidia proprietary driver which needed this but nowadays even this
driver defaults to non-blocking behavior on buffer swap.
Therefore remove this legacy anomaly fully and directly present after paint.
We then wait one refresh cycle and in the future can optimize this by delaying
the paint and present till shortly before vsync.
Test Plan: kwin_x11 tested on i915 and Nvidia proprietary driver.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, alexeymin, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11071
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23514
Summary:
Selecting not to vsync does not make sense for an X11 compositor. In the end
we want clients to be able to present async if they want to but the compositor
is supposed to send swaps with vsync to the XServer in order to not generate
tearing artifacts.
There was also a detection logic which did some questionable things in case
vsync was not available. I don't think this is necessary at all since we can
just always run a timer to present with or without vsync.
Test Plan: kwin_x11 tested on i915.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11071
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23511
Summary: getShadow is not a getter method as it doesn't return a shadow.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24298
Summary:
Qt's metaobject is rather sensitive with scope resolution.
Foo::Bar and Bar don't always match to a Qt metaobject, even if they
refer to the same thing to a compiler. Here we register
X11Compositor::SuspendReason but Q_ARG uses SuspendReason and they don't
match. This leads to a runtime failure where the method isn't invoked.
Rather than fixing metaobject usage, port the whole thing to lambdas
which does better compile time checking and is generally nicer to read.
BUG: 412353
Test Plan:
Ran xprop to block compositing. Compositing was blocked.
Grepped source code for Q_ARG use
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24244
Summary:
Currently each managed X11 client is represented with an instance of
Client class, however the name of that class is very generic and the
only reason why it's called that way is because historically kwin
was created as an x11 window manager, so "Client" was a sensible choice.
With introduction of wayland support, things had changed and therefore
Client needs to be renamed to X11Client in order to better reflect what
that class stands for.
Renaming of Client to X11Client was agreed upon during the last KWin
sprint.
Test Plan: Compiles, the test suite is still green.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, davidedmundson, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24184
Summary:
It doesn't belong with advanced compositing settings as it's quite user
friendly, and we also want to adjust other animation speeds. May as well
do it together.
In the current form all compositing is still completely reinitiliased
like with the previous slider. Change notifications come in the form of
KConfigWatcher rather than our own bespoke update interface.
Test Plan:
Moved new slider, minimised a window.
It still behaved as expected.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, broulik, anthonyfieroni, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22887
Summary:
Rename ShellClient to XdgShellClient in order to reflect that it
represents only xdg-shell clients.
Test Plan: Compiles, tests still pass.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23589
Summary:
So far wayland was used by internal clients to submit raster buffers
and position themselves on the screen. While we didn't have issues with
submitting raster buffers, there were some problems with positioning
task switchers. Mostly, because we had effectively two paths that may
alter geometry.
A better approach to deal with internal clients is to let our QPA use
kwin core api directly. This way we can eliminate unnecessary roundtrips
as well make geometry handling much easier and comprehensible.
The last missing piece is shadows. Both Plasma::Dialog and Breeze widget
style use platform-specific APIs to set and unset shadows. We need to
add shadows API to KWindowSystem. Even though some internal clients lack
drop-shadows at the moment, I don't consider it to be a blocker. We can
add shadows back later on.
CCBUG: 386304
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T9600
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22810
Summary:
Because KWin is a very old project, we use three kinds of null pointer
literals: 0, NULL, and nullptr. Since C++11, it's recommended to use
nullptr keyword.
This change converts all usages of 0 and NULL literal to nullptr. Even
though it breaks git history, we need to do it in order to have consistent
code as well to ease code reviews (it's very tempting for some people to
add unrelated changes to their patches, e.g. converting NULL to nullptr).
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson, romangg
Subscribers: romangg, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23618
Summary:
Compositor::hasScene() is redundant. Depending on use case, it can be
replaced by checking either m_state or Compositor::scene().
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23744
Summary: Less likely to happen but still we need to handle this case.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23611
Summary: Overlay windows is an X11 thing.
Test Plan: Compiles.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23608
