Declare a GPU process and corresponding Service in the
AndroidManifest. This is of a new class GeckoServiceGpuProcess which
inherits from GeckoServiceChildProcess, and provides a binder
interface ICompositorSurfaceManager which allows the parent process to
set the compositor Surface for a given widget ID, and the compositor
in the GPU process to look up the Surface for a widget ID. The
ICompositorSurfaceManager interface is exposed to the parent process
through a new method getCompositorSurfaceManager() in the
IChildProcess interface.
Add a new connection type for GPU processes to GeckoProcessManager,
along with a function to look up the GPU process connection and fetch
the ICompositorSurfaceManager binder. When the GPU process is launched
we store the returned binder in the GPUProcessHost, and when each
widget's compositor is created we store a reference to the binder in
the UiCompositorControllerChild.
Each nsWindow is given a unique ID, and whenever the Surface changes
due to an Android resume event, it sends the new surface for that ID
to the GPU process (if enabled) by calling
ICompositorSurfaceManager.onSurfaceChanged().
Stop inheriting AndroidCompositorWidget from InProcessCompositorWidget
and instead inherit from CompositorWidget directly. This class holds a
reference to the Surface that will be rendered in to. The
CompositorBridgeParent notifies the CompositorWidget whenever it has
been resumed, allowing it to fetch the new Surface. For the
cross-process CompositorWidgetParent implementation it fetches that
Surface from the CompositorSurfaceManagerService, whereas the
InProcessAndroidCompositorWidget can read it directly from the real
widget.
AndroidCompositorWidget::GetClientSize() can now calculate its size
from the Surface, rather than racily reading the value from the
nsWindow. This means RenderCompositorEGL and RenderCompositorOGLSWGL
can now use GetClientSize() again rather than querying their own size
from the Surface.
With this patch, setting layers.gpu-process.enabled to true will cause
us to launch a GPU process and render from it. We do not yet
gracefully recover from a GPU process crash, nor can we render
anything using SurfaceTextures (eg video or webgl). Those will come in
future patches.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D131231
There are decreasingly-plausible explanations for how mWidget becomes NULL in
the crash reports we are seeing. This patch closes one of the possible -- but
still unlikely -- reasons by checking for a NULL pointer after a static_cast.
The contract for static_cast should not allow it to return NULL with non-NULL
input, but it would trigger the crashes we are seeing.
Another possibility is that dangling pointers to InProcessCompositorWidget
objects are being held. The patch adds a canary pointer and a sanity-checking
function that's called in all member functions that dereference mWidget.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D106672
It caused us substantial confusion investigating this bug under the belief that
StartRemoteDrawingInRegion may have been modifying the dirty region. None of our
existing widget code anymore uses the API in this way, so it makes sense to just
force this dirty region to be const so that we no longer support the assumption
and alleviate confusion in the future about how our widget code actually behaves.
Depends on D106246
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D106247
This code was assuming that the only non-opaque parts of compositor rendering would be the
parts of the window that had vibrancy. But now that the default window background is transparent,
we can have non-vibrant parts where we render into transparency. Dialog windows such as sheet
windows are an example of this.
So instead of using the non-vibrant region of the window as its opaque region, we now use
the region that is covered by opaque Gecko layers. This region is a lot more conservative:
For example, the main browser chrome is now entirely transparent, because the chrome's opaque
parts share a layer with its transparent parts.
As a result, this change slightly affects the CALayer partitioning in the main browser window:
The entire browser chrome is now transparent, not just the tab bar.
The web content area is still opaque.
I think this will be fine. The thing I'm most concerned about is that scrolling inside web
content might cause invalidations of pixels from the chrome, because then we'd recomposite
the CALayers that cover the vibrant tab bar. This doesn't seem to happen most of the time
though, from what I can tell.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D51466
This code was assuming that the only non-opaque parts of compositor rendering would be the
parts of the window that had vibrancy. But now that the default window background is transparent,
we can have non-vibrant parts where we render into transparency. Dialog windows such as sheet
windows are an example of this.
So instead of using the non-vibrant region of the window as its opaque region, we now use
the region that is covered by opaque Gecko layers. This region is a lot more conservative:
For example, the main browser chrome is now entirely transparent, because the chrome's opaque
parts share a layer with its transparent parts.
As a result, this change slightly affects the CALayer partitioning in the main browser window:
The entire browser chrome is now transparent, not just the tab bar.
The web content area is still opaque.
I think this will be fine. The thing I'm most concerned about is that scrolling inside web
content might cause invalidations of pixels from the chrome, because then we'd recomposite
the CALayers that cover the vibrant tab bar. This doesn't seem to happen most of the time
though, from what I can tell.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D51466
Add AndroidCompositorWidget to act as the intermediary between gfx code
and GeckoLayerClient, in place of AndroidBridge. AndroidCompositorWidget
currently inherits from InProcessCompositorWidget, but when Android
eventually supports OOP compositing, it will be made to inherit from
CompositorWidget directly.
Jamie Nicol