[PATCH 1/2] DRI2SwapBuffers: Don't reuse swap_target variable.

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Fri Apr 18 16:43:23 PDT 2014


Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> writes:

> swap_target is an out-parameter that needs to be set to the value that
> SBC will take on after this SwapBuffers request completes.
>
> However, it was also being used as a temporary variable to hold the MSC
> at which the SwapBuffers request got scheduled to occur. This confusion
> makes it harder to reason about whether swap_target is being set
> correctly for its out-parameter usage. (Hint: It isn't.)
>
> For the latter use, it makes more sense to use the existing target_msc
> variable, which already has the right value unless target_msc, divisor,
> and remainder are all 0, in which case we can set it using swap_interval
> as usual.

This seems harmless to me; the only change is that if ScheduleSwap
returns failure, *swap_target will not have been changed.

Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>

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