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+/* $Id: Helper.cpp $ */
+/** @file
+ *
+ * VBox frontends: VBoxSDL (simple frontend based on SDL):
+ * Miscellaneous helpers
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
+ * available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
+ * License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+ */
+
+#define LOG_GROUP LOG_GROUP_GUI
+#include <iprt/errcore.h>
+#include <VBox/log.h>
+#include <iprt/asm.h>
+#include <iprt/assert.h>
+#include <iprt/thread.h>
+#include <iprt/semaphore.h>
+#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 */