[PATCH xserver] dri2: Invalidate DRI2 buffers for all windows with the same pixmap on swap.

[Mario Kleiner]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Fre, 2011-03-25 at 14:47 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:35:37PM +0100, ext Michel Dänzer wrote:
>>> From: Michel Dänzer <daenzer at vmware.com>
>>>
>>> Without this, when a compositing manager unredirects a fullscreen  
>>> window which
>>> uses DRI2 and page flipping, the DRI2 buffer information for the  
>>> compositing
>>> manager's output window (typically the Composite Overlay Window  
>>> or root window)
>>> may become stale, resulting in all kinds of hilarity.
>>
>> Make sense to me.
>
> Thanks, does that mean I have your Reviewed-by: ?


fwiw (haven't touched that part of the code for multiple months), you  
can also have a ...

Reviewed-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de>
Acked-by: Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner at tuebingen.mpg.de>

... from me. I was suffering the same problems and was just about to  
spend my weekend on hunting this bug in the xserver, so thanks for  
saving my weekend!

-mario


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