The recent changes of the GUI stack (proper accounting of cap and RAM
resources by the window manager and nitpicker, output buffered at the
server side) require quota adjustments at various GUI-related places.
Issue #5356
This interface allows a GUI client to express the intent to exclusively
observe relative motion events while locking the absolute pointer
position. This patch merely extends the interface without implementing
it.
As this change touches os/include/input/component.h, it moves the
manage/dissolve operations into the class, ensuring the call of
dissolve at destruction time.
Issue #5355
In multi-monitor scenarios, the mode is no longer a single rectangular
area but a panorama with potentially many captured rectangles. This
patch replaces the former 'mode' and 'mode_sigh' RPC by a new 'info'
ROM accessor.
Issue #5353
Capture clients used to always capture the view stack at the origin of
the coordinate system. So each capture client obtained a mirror of the
same picture. This patch allows for the placement of capture clients on
larger panorama using Genode's usual label-based policy-selection
approach. Thereby, each monitor in multi-monitor scenario can display a
different portion of the panorama.
The patch takes special care to always keep the pointer in a visible
position. The pointer cannot be moved to any area that is not captured.
Should the only capture client displaying the pointer disappear, the
pointer is warped to the center of (any) remaining capture client.
Fixes#5352
The operators == and != make the 'Rect' consistent with 'Point' and
'Area'. The patch also adds the 'Rect::clamp' method, which is generally
useful for sanitizing input.
Issue #5352
The new Framebuffer::Session::sync_source RPC function allows for the
selection of a specific source of sync signals in the presence of
multiple capture clients at the GUI server.
This patch contains only the extension of the interface. The information
is not evaluated by the GUI server yet.
Issue #5347
This patch adds central and safe utilities for accessing the distinct
parts of the virtual framebuffer to relieve clients from pointer
calculations.
Issue #5351
This patch eases the vertical organization of multiple surfaces within
one larger surface, which is the case when keeping front/back buffers
within one compounding GUI buffer.
Issue #5351
The new bytes() accessor returns a Byte_range_pointer as an alternative
to the 'local_addr' for accessing the content of the dataspace. This
facilitates the safe practice of passing (and validating) the buffer
bounds along with the pointer.
Issue #5351
Propagate the want of an alpha channel as attribute of Framebuffer::Mode
instead of passing this property as a separate bool argument.
This clears the way for adding useful accessors for pixel/alpha/input
surfaces to the Mode type as a subsequent step.
Issue #5351
This patch ensures that the displayed pixel buffer is always consistent
by applying intermediate drawing steps on an invisible back buffer,
which is blitted to the front buffer by the GUI server.
Note that the addition of the back buffer increases the decorator's RAM
demand by 4*w*h (4 bytes per pixel) whereas w and h are the screen size.
Issue #5350
By enhancing the Framebuffer::Session interface by the new RPC functions
'blit' and 'panning', GUI clients become able to attain tearing-free
output. Two modes of operations are supported.
1. Atomic back-to-front blitting
GUI clients that partially update their user interface like regular
application dialogs, can now implement double buffering by placing
both the back buffer and front buffer within the GUI session's
framebuffer and configuring a view that shows only the front buffer.
The 'blit' operation allows the client to atomically flush pixels
from the back buffer to the front buffer.
2. Atomic buffer flipping
GUI clients that always update all pixels like a media player or
a game can now use the 'panning' feature to atomically redirect the
displayed pixels to a different portion of the GUI session's virtual
frame buffer. The virtual framebuffer always contains two frames,
the displayed one and the next one. Once the next frame is complete,
the client changes the panning position to the portion containing
the next frame.
Issue #5350
Call lx_emul_setup arch after kmem_cache_init, because
unflatten_device_tree requires 'memblock_alloc' which does not work
when using native slub.c/memblock.c on ARM platforms.
issue #5264
Limit the use of Reg_list::for_each that caches a next pointer
of its items to allow destruction of items in its lambda body.
Instead provide an Reg_list::apply function in addition, which
takes a condition lambda to find the matching item, and a lambda
processed on it. In most use-cases where for_each was used, only
one item was searched for. Here we can use apply now., without
the need for a cached pointer, nor too many iterations.
Fixesgenodelabs/genode#5349
Unless nitpicker is used in 'request_framebuffer' mode, it no longer
depends on a periodic timer but merely acts as a broker between capture
clients and GUI clients. Sync signals as delivered to GUI clients are
now wired to Capture::Session::capture_at calls. So the display driver
defines the occurrence of those signals.
Note that sync signals are only delivered while a driver actively calls
'capture_at'. If a driver stops capturing, GUI clients no longer receive
any sync signal. This is a change from the previous situation where GUI
clients could depend on the periodicity of sync signals.
Issue #5347
This patch changes the precision of the configuration's motion attribute
to a multiple of 10 ms (centi-seconds). The previous version used steps
of 20 ms. Hence, one needs to adjust existing configurations by doubling
the motion attribute values of the themed decorator.
Issue #5347
This patch removes the use of sync signals as time source. The animation
phase is now timed using a timer connection as tick source while sync
signals are used for scheduling the redraws.
Issue #5347
- touch all memory before time measurements, to reduce lazy paging jitter
- diff of 100us between 2 memset runs are now considered a failure (before 10us)
- add refrence measurements of same region size which is not write-combined
- make the output easier parse able of write-combined test
Fixes#5342
With this change, a client (i.e., display driver) can register
a wakeup signal handler to be notified on the arrival of new data to
capture. The signal is delivered only when the client has stopped
capturing. The client propagates this condition to the server using
the new 'capture_stopped' RPC call.
This change in principle enables a display driver to suspend its
periodic mode of operation after a few frames without capturing any
new data. As the first driver, the fb_sdl driver has been adapted to
the new protocol. This change not only eliminates the driver's CPU
load when idle, it also reduces the latency of sporadic output
because the response to such GUI updates is no longer bound by a
fixed periodic interval.
Issue #5344
This patch is a preparatory step for relaxing the strictly periodic
operation of fb_sdl. With the new design, the SDL event loop can block
for events while Genode's main entrypoint stays receptive for I/O.
The main entrypoint can interact with the SDL thread by injecting
SDL user events.
The patch also replaces the full-screen clearing and update of the
SDL window by an update of the captured bounding box only. This reduces
the CPU load of fb_sdl when idle. When updating a small part of the
screen (e.g., when moving the mouse only), the load is still rather
heavy though.
Issue #5344
This patch enhances the Capture::Connection::Screen such that the
bounding box of the affected pixels can be tracked by the caller,
which can use this information to adjust its behavior to the
activity/inactivity of the capture server.
Issue #5344
This patch adds the physical screen size as argument to the
Capture::Session::buffer RPC function, which allows drivers to
propagate DPI information to the GUI server. While changing the
the interface, the patch replaces the former use of C++ exceptions
by a result type. The 'Buffer_result' is handled transparently by the
Capture::Connection. The client.h code is now integrated in
connection.h.
Issue #5344
This commit streamlines the interaction between the Wifi::Manager
and the wpa_supplicant's CTRL interface.
As user-facing changes it alters some default settings and introduces
new features:
* Every configured network now needs to explicitly have its
'auto_connect' (to be considered an option for joining) attribute
set to 'true' whereas this was previously the default value if the
attribute was not set at all.
* The 'log_level' attribute is added and configures the supplicant's
verbosity. Valid values correspond to levels used by the supplicant
and are as follows 'excessive', 'msgdump', 'debug', 'info', 'warning'
and 'error'. The default value is 'error' and configures the least
amount of verbosity.
* The 'bgscan' attribute may be used to configure the way the
supplicant performs background-scanning to steer or rather optimize
roaming decision within the same network. The default value is set
to 'simple:30:-70:600'. It can be disabled by specifying an empty
value, e.g. 'bgscan=""'.
* The 'verbose_state' attribute was removed alltogether and similar
functionality is now coverted by 'verbose' attribute.
Implementation-wise the internals changed significantly and are
outlined in the following paragraphs.
Formerly the interaction between the manager and the supplicant
was handled in an apparent way where the internal state of each
interaction was in plain sight. This made the flow cumbersome to
follow and therefor each interaction is now confined to its own
'Action' object that encapsulates the ping-pong of commands and
responses between the manager and the supplicant. All actions are
processed in an sequential way and thus there is no longer any
need to defer pending actions depending on the interal state of
the current interaction. Configuration changes as well as events
issued by the supplicant where new actions can be created are
handled in this fashion. Of note are both signal-handlers,
'_handle_cmds' and '_handle_events' respectively.
The state report, which provides the information about the current
state of connectivity to a given wireless network, was dealt with
in the same vein and its handling was spread across the manager
implementation. Again, to make it easier to follow, the generation
of the state report is now purely driven by the 'Join_state' object.
This object encapsulates the state of connectivity and is normally
updated by events issued from the supplicant (see '_handle_events').
It is also incorporated when handling command responses (see
'_handle_cmds').
Handling of timed-actions, like scan and signal quality
update requests, was done by setting a timeout at the Timer session
directly and thus only one timed-action could be pending at any time.
This excluded dealing with timed-actions like connected-scanning
and signal quality polling concurrently. This was changed and now
a One_shot_timeout is used to programm each concurrent timed-action.
For implementing the communication channel for the CTRL interface the
manager and supplicant use a shared memory buffer, the Msg_buffer.
Since the CTRL interface for Genode was implemented using C, some
shenanigans were performed to access the memory buffer. Now the
CTRL interface implementation uses C++ and only exports the functions
required by the supplicant as C. This simplifies the usage of the
Msg_buffer and allows for removing the global functions needed for
synchronizing the Msg_buffer access as those are now part of the
object itself via the 'Notify_interface'.
Fixes#5341.
The 'convert_errno_from_linux' function was already used internally to
convert the Linux errno values to the matching FreeBSD libc ones when
calling socket functions.
It will now also be used to convert the error values included in
netlink messages as those, naturally, also correspond to the Linux
ones.
Issue #5341.
