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.
Since the Screens class is a convenience wrapper around AbstractOutput
objects that come from the Platform, it should not be platform-specific.
By dropping createScreens(), output-related code becomes simpler.
These signals can be useful if you want to know what output exactly has
been disabled or enabled.
The outputEnabled signal is emitted after the outputAdded signal, and
the outputDisabled signal is emitted before the outputRemoved signal.
Listen to logind for resume notification and turn the outputs on when it
happens, much like we do when pressing a key.
This way laptops come back on when the lid opens.
BUG: 428424
They would override KScreen in case we were using a dock station that
brings 2 displays.
We'd get:
- udev: event for the first hotplughed screen
- kwin: process all screens properly (both)
- kscreen: would offer the right configuration for such displays
- udev: process the event for the second hotplug udev event
- kwin: restore the configuration
- kscreen: would think this is a conscious decision and embrace it as a
configuration
With this change we are only re-reading the configuration in case the
outputs changed.
When dragging files on the desktop, the cursor image might be just too
big for the cursor plane, in which case we need to abandon hardware
cursors for a brief moment and use a software cursor. Once the files
have been dropped and the cursor image is small enough, we can go back
to using hw cursors.
BUG: 424589
Currently, if there is no pointer, only the hardware cursor will be
hidden. If the software cursor is forced, you are going to see a dead
immovable cursor.
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.
On some devices, the GPU nodes are also added as /dev/dri/cardX, they
are not useful for KMS purposes and does not have display resources.
If we encounter such cards, then skip them.
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.
It is possible for updateOutputs to be called when a pageflip is pending.
Freeing a DrmOutput with a pending pageflip is not allowed (see ~DrmOutput assert - the page flip handler will be called on the freed memory, possibly leading to use-after-free).
This works around the problem by delaying the destruction with teardown().
BUG: 422460
Summary:
It turns out DRM connectors are not static and may change over time.
This patch refreshes them right before looking for new outputs.
BUG: 419061
FIXED-IN: 5.19.0
Test Plan:
Seems to work better, it's still not ideal but I think there's an unrelated bug
sending updates to clients.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson, meven
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson, meven
Subscribers: dalbers, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D28642
Summary:
As is KWin only had 1 Cursor which was a singleton. This made it impossible for
us to properly implement the tablet (as in drawing tablets) support and show where
we're drawing.
This patch makes it possible to have different Cursors in KWin, it makes all the
current code still follow the mouse but the tablet can still render a cursor.
Test Plan: Tests pass, been using it and works as well as before but with beautiful tablet cursors.
Reviewers: #kwin, cblack, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, cblack, davidedmundson
Subscribers: davidedmundson, cblack, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D28155
Summary: No need to keep them around for no reason.
Test Plan: Tested the plugins I thought could be affected. Have been using it for a couple of days without problems
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D28062
Summary:
Set outputs enablement also when none outputs are present. This patch is
similar to earlier attempt at D17985.
BUG: 402827
BUG: 389551
BUG: 398680
BUG: 413758
Test Plan:
Starting without outputs, manual disconnects and DPMS changes. There is still
an issue when an output gets disconnected while the DPMS is off. But it's an
improvement already.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T10016
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26511
Summary:
In some environemnts it is possible that udev detection of primary GPU
fails and it picks the first available card (normally card0). But it is
not desired, and it would be required to use different card (card1).
Introduce environment variable, which when used, will make it possible
to use different card node then one selected by udev.
You can use it like KWIN_DRM_DEVICE_NODE=/dev/dri/card1 kwin_wayland
Test Plan: Tested on the device where card0 was not usable for kms, but card1
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D24051
Summary:
This patch further refines output management.
We go now through AbstractWaylandOutput virtual functions to enable and
disable outputs.
Dpms changes and enablement switches use separate code paths at start in the
Drm backend code since they are similar but not the directly same. Common code
is shared though, functions are renamed accordingly.
Asserts have been put in place to better understand and check the control
flow. A seemingly unnecessary call to DrmOutput::pageFlipped on reactivation
after Vt switch has been removed to allow for that.
In future patches we need to look additionally at the legacy mode switching
code path which was and is still not working and better handling of the
current monitor Dpms state. For example a monitor being switched off is not
properly acted on and the workspace still expanded.
Test Plan:
With one and two monitors:
* Dpms off/on
* Vt switches
* Screen disable/enable
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11459
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23600
Summary:
This lifts the enablement code for outputs from the DRM backend to Platform
allowing other Wayland backends in the future to use this interface as well.
To do that we also create some helper functions on Platform level and have to
spill some KWayland classes into AbstractOutput what motivates a further split
of Platform into a Wayland child class like for AbstractOutput.
Test Plan: Disabled and enabled an output in DRM session.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23545
Summary:
Since we now use in the backends the OutputDeviceInterface for output data
all access must be complete before the Wayland server goes down. For that
introduce a new function to prepare shutdown in the backends.
While at it also remove the output deletion, since they get deleted through
Qt's object system leading to crashes on double free.
Test Plan: Shutdown works without seg faults in the Drm backend.
Reviewers: #kwin, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, zzag
Subscribers: zzag, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11459
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23602
Summary:
With f013a4369c, cd6b69a4d2, d960be4b3f and edb200f6bc all possible
backends of a Wayland session have been ported to using the internal functions
of AbstractWaylandOutput's for managing outputs.
This removes the alternative code path used before in these backends, what
simplifies the code and is also a prerequisite to removing the Screens global
in the future.
Reviewers: #kwin, apol, zzag
Reviewed By: #kwin, apol, zzag
Subscribers: apol, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Maniphest Tasks: T11459, T11098
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D23485
Summary:
Position and most importantly scaling will likely be the same on the next run,
This saves a flicker round at startup when scaling is different of 1 initialising the view at 1 then jumping at whatever the user requested.
Test Plan: Restarted my system several times
Reviewers: #kwin, #plasma, romangg
Reviewed By: #kwin, #plasma, romangg
Subscribers: davidedmundson, zzag, romangg, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D22292
Summary:
Every time a display gets connected/disconnected, every output will be
reinitialized. We don't really need to reset the scaling to 1 every time
we don't know, especially since the setting has been set voluntarily.
Test Plan: When I disconnect the external display, my laptop doesn't fallback to scale=1.
Reviewers: #plasma, apol
Reviewed By: apol
Subscribers: davidedmundson, ngraham, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D20521
Summary:
This is the initial implementation of a DRM backend based on the EGLDevice,
EGLOutput, and EGLStream extensions, supporting NVIDIA graphics hardware using
their proprietary driver. The new backend will be used if the environment
variable KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS is set. On initialization, it will attempt to
create an EGLDevice based on the DRM device currently in use and create
EGLOutputs and EGLStreams for any attached displays. These are used to control
presentation of the final composited frame. Additionally, it will register the
wl_eglstream_controller Wayland interface so that native EGL windows created by
clients can be attached to an EGLStream allowing buffer contents to be shared
with the compositor as a GL texture.
At this time there are two known bugs in the NVIDIA driver's EGL implementation
affecting desktop functionality. The first can result in tooltip windows drawn
by plasmashell to contain incorrect contents. The second prevents KWayland from
being able to query the format of EGLStream-backed buffers which interferes
with the blur effect. Fixes for both of these are currently in development and
should appear in an upcoming NVIDIA driver release.
Additionally, hardware cursors are currently not supported with this backend.
Enabling them causes the desktop to intermittently hang for several seconds.
This is also likely a bug in the NVIDIA DRM-KMS implementation but the root
cause is still under investigation.
Test Plan:
On a system with an NVIDIA graphics card running a recent release of their
proprietary driver
* Ensure the nvidia_drm kernel module is loaded with the option "modeset=1"
("# cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset" should print "Y")
* Ensure EGL external platform support is installed
https://github.com/NVIDIA/eglexternalplatform
* Ensure KWin was build with the CMake option
KWIN_BUILD_EGL_STREAM_BACKEND=ON (this is the default)
* Start a plasma wayland session with the environment variable
KWIN_DRM_USE_EGL_STREAMS set
* Ensure output from KWin OpenGL initialization indicates the NVIDIA EGL
driver is in use (as opposed to Mesa / llvmpipe).
* Desktop should be fully functional and perform smoothly.
Reviewers: #kwin, romangg, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, romangg, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18570
Summary:
Currently there is no any good reason for keeping ScopedDrmPointer;
providing our own deleter for QScopedPointer would make more sense.
Given that we already have type that acts as a scoped pointer for drm
objects we can improve it a bit and make simpler, e.g.
DrmScopedPointer<drmModeConnector> connector;
is much simpler than
ScopedDrmPointer<_drmModeConnector, &drmModeFreeConnector> connector;
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: apol, kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19905
Summary:
If hardware cursor support is not available when using the drm backend for
Wayland compositing, the software cursor texture will not be updated when the
cursor image changes, and it will still be drawn when no cursor image is set
(such as when running a full-screen game). Furthermore, the drmModeSetCursor
and drmModeMoveCursor functions will still be unnecessarily called when the
cursor is moved or hidden.
To correct this, SceneOpenGL should connect Platform::cursorChanged as opposed
to Cursor::cursorChanged to its texture update function, as only the former
will be emitted when the cursor is updated and the compositor should check if
the cursor is hidden and the software cursor image is not null before rendering
it. DrmBackend::moveCursor and DrmBackend::hideCursor should also return
immediately if using a software cursor.
Reviewers: #kwin, davidedmundson
Reviewed By: #kwin, davidedmundson
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18376
Summary:
On Wayland we cannot switch from OpenGL to QPainter compositor as this
would break any running OpenGL application. KWin registers it's
EGLDisplay to Wayland and without OpenGL this doesn't make sense any
more. We are not able to render OpenGL buffers in the QPainter
compositor.
While it's theoretically possible to switch from QPainter to OpenGL it
doesn't make any sense for the same reason. Any running OpenGL
application would be using llvmpipe and could not be switched to proper
OpenGL.
This change stores the selected compositing type in Platform and the
implementations can use it to restrict the supported compositors. On X11
we don't need this, all other Platforms implement the restriction. Thus
it's no longer possible to switch the backends at runtime.
Test Plan:
Adjusted tests run, no runtime test as gui doesn't support
switching to QPainter anyway.
Reviewers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D19084
Summary:
With the new Output class we can set the gamma directly here. This is also
a stepping stone to adjust individual output gamma adjustment later on.
This means any future backend, which aims to support the color correction
frontend needs to use the Output class.
Test Plan: Night Color test still passes.
Reviewers: #kwin
Subscribers: kwin
Tags: #kwin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D11803
