Re: [RFC uncompiled PATCH] cocoa: run qemu_init in the main thread

[Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 1:39 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/7/22 16:34, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> > Thanks for this interesting suggestion. However I don't think this
> > improves the situation much. The main contribution of this change is
> > that elimination of display_init_sem but it is still necessary for
> > command line usage of the executable.
> >
> > display_init_sem is kind of overloaded has two roles. One is to tell
> > that the QEMU is ready to initialize the display. The other is to tell
> > if it is going to initialize the display, which would not happen when it
> > is used entirely in the command line. The former role can be eliminated
> > by waiting for qemu_init, but the latter cannot be.
>
> This is easy to account for.  On top of this patch:
>
> diff --git a/ui/cocoa.m b/ui/cocoa.m
> index 44d8ea7a39..3903fa4b9b 100644
> --- a/ui/cocoa.m
> +++ b/ui/cocoa.m
> @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static DisplayChangeListener dcl = {
>   static int last_buttons;
>   static int cursor_hide = 1;
>   static bool full_screen;
> +static bool have_cocoa_ui;
>
>   static bool stretch_video;
>   static NSTextField *pauseLabel;
> @@ -1899,6 +1900,11 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv) {
>
>       /* Takes iothread lock, released in applicationDidFinishLaunching:.  */
>       qemu_init(argc, argv);
> +    if (!have_cocoa_ui) {
> +         qemu_main_loop();
> +         qemu_cleanup();
> +         return 0;
> +    }
>
>       NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
>
> @@ -2021,6 +2027,7 @@ static void cocoa_refresh(DisplayChangeListener *dcl)
>   static void cocoa_display_init(DisplayState *ds, DisplayOptions *opts)
>   {
>       COCOA_DEBUG("qemu_cocoa: cocoa_display_init\n");
> +    have_cocoa_ui = 1;
>       if (opts->has_full_screen && opts->full_screen) {
>           full_screen = 1;
>       }
>
> Paolo

This would allow to have gtk and sdl2 in the same binary.

Regards,
Akihiko Odaki