/* $Id: Helper.cpp 82968 2020-02-04 10:35:17Z vboxsync $ */ /** @file * * VBox frontends: VBoxSDL (simple frontend based on SDL): * Miscellaneous helpers */ /* * Copyright (C) 2006-2020 Oracle Corporation * * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software; * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software * Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the * VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind. */ #define LOG_GROUP LOG_GROUP_GUI #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "VBoxSDL.h" #include "Helper.h" /** * Globals */ #ifdef USE_XPCOM_QUEUE_THREAD /** global flag indicating that the event queue thread should terminate */ static bool volatile g_fTerminateXPCOMQueueThread = false; /** How many XPCOM user events are on air. Only allow one pending event to * prevent an overflow of the SDL event queue. */ static volatile int32_t g_s32XPCOMEventsPending; /** Semaphore the XPCOM event thread will sleep on while it waits for the main thread to process pending requests. */ RTSEMEVENT g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread = NULL; /** * Thread method to wait for XPCOM events and notify the SDL thread. * * @returns Error code * @param thread Thread ID * @param pvUser User specific parameter, the file descriptor * of the event queue socket */ DECLCALLBACK(int) xpcomEventThread(RTTHREAD hThreadSelf, void *pvUser) { RT_NOREF(hThreadSelf); int eqFD = (intptr_t)pvUser; unsigned cErrors = 0; int rc; /* Wait with the processing till the main thread needs it. */ RTSemEventWait(g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread, 2500); do { fd_set fdset; FD_ZERO(&fdset); FD_SET(eqFD, &fdset); int n = select(eqFD + 1, &fdset, NULL, NULL, NULL); /* are there any events to process? */ if ((n > 0) && !g_fTerminateXPCOMQueueThread) { /* * Wait until all XPCOM events are processed. 1s just for sanity. */ int iWait = 1000; /* * Don't post an event if there is a pending XPCOM event to prevent an * overflow of the SDL event queue. */ if (g_s32XPCOMEventsPending < 1) { /* * Post the event and wait for it to be processed. If we don't wait, * we'll flood the queue on SMP systems and when the main thread is busy. * In the event of a push error, we'll yield the timeslice and retry. */ SDL_Event event = {0}; event.type = SDL_USEREVENT; event.user.type = SDL_USER_EVENT_XPCOM_EVENTQUEUE; rc = SDL_PushEvent(&event); if (!rc) { /* success */ ASMAtomicIncS32(&g_s32XPCOMEventsPending); cErrors = 0; } else { /* failure */ cErrors++; if (!RTThreadYield()) RTThreadSleep(2); iWait = (cErrors >= 10) ? RT_MIN(cErrors - 8, 50) : 0; } } else Log2(("not enqueueing SDL XPCOM event (%d)\n", g_s32XPCOMEventsPending)); if (iWait) RTSemEventWait(g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread, iWait); } } while (!g_fTerminateXPCOMQueueThread); return VINF_SUCCESS; } /** * Creates the XPCOM event thread * * @returns VBOX status code * @param eqFD XPCOM event queue file descriptor */ int startXPCOMEventQueueThread(int eqFD) { int rc = RTSemEventCreate(&g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread); if (RT_SUCCESS(rc)) { RTTHREAD Thread; rc = RTThreadCreate(&Thread, xpcomEventThread, (void *)(intptr_t)eqFD, 0, RTTHREADTYPE_MSG_PUMP, 0, "XPCOMEvent"); } AssertRC(rc); return rc; } /** * Notify the XPCOM thread that we consumed an XPCOM event. */ void consumedXPCOMUserEvent(void) { ASMAtomicDecS32(&g_s32XPCOMEventsPending); } /** * Signal to the XPCOM even queue thread that it should select for more events. */ void signalXPCOMEventQueueThread(void) { int rc = RTSemEventSignal(g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread); AssertRC(rc); } /** * Indicates to the XPCOM thread that it should terminate now. */ void terminateXPCOMQueueThread(void) { g_fTerminateXPCOMQueueThread = true; if (g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread) { RTSemEventSignal(g_EventSemXPCOMQueueThread); RTThreadYield(); } } #endif /* USE_XPCOM_QUEUE_THREAD */