Bug 152703 - Skia - resizing StartCenter window with mouse leaves black undrawn areas until mouse button released
Summary: Skia - resizing StartCenter window with mouse leaves black undrawn areas unti...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: graphics stack (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.0.0 beta1+
Hardware: All macOS (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Patrick (volunteer)
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.6.0 target:7.5.0.2 target:7.5.1
Keywords: notBibisectable, regression
Depends on:
Blocks: macOS-UI-polish
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Reported: 2022-12-28 09:30 UTC by Alex Thurgood
Modified: 2023-01-21 23:48 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Sigsegv crash trace (121.59 KB, text/plain)
2023-01-12 16:25 UTC, Alex Thurgood
Details

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Description Alex Thurgood 2022-12-28 09:30:47 UTC
Description:
1) Start LibreOffice

2) The default Skia options are now all activated (Use Skia for all rendering and Skia software raster 

3) The StartCenter window is displayed.

4) With the mouse, resize the window (larger or smaller than initial size)

5) Black areas of the window are displayed unfilled, until the mouse is released.

6) If software Skia rendering is then deactivated, the StartCenter window is resized but parts of the UI only redrawn when the mouse moves over the UI element, otherwise a black space remains on the canvas.

Steps to Reproduce:
See above.

Actual Results:
StartCenter window not redrawn correctly on window resize

Expected Results:
StartCenter window should be redrawn correctly, as the window is being resized.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 7.5.0.1 (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 77cd3d7ad4445740a0c6cf977992dafd8ebad8df
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Telesto 2022-12-28 14:28:12 UTC
Confirm
Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 8635c9aa8c6f1078a9e220076d5a08daf30077e8
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 12.3.1; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

I noticed the same on Windows in the past, unsure if it's still the case..
Comment 2 Telesto 2022-12-28 14:34:17 UTC
(In reply to Telesto from comment #1)
> I noticed the same on Windows in the past, unsure if it's still the case..

Bug 136241 seems a good candidate
Comment 3 Alex Thurgood 2022-12-28 15:27:17 UTC
(In reply to Telesto from comment #2)
> (In reply to Telesto from comment #1)
> > I noticed the same on Windows in the past, unsure if it's still the case..
> 
> Bug 136241 seems a good candidate

It does indeed.

I wonder if the recent fixes to VCL scheduling to prevent crashing on macOS (e.g. bug 148435) have had an unintended consequence and caused this bug to come back ?

@Lubos : any ideas ?
Comment 4 Alex Thurgood 2022-12-28 15:41:19 UTC
Let's have a guess at

commit 8b442d7fae17660b3665da2c1f7a084341987693

overriding Luboš' commit from bug 136241
Comment 5 Alex Thurgood 2022-12-28 15:42:44 UTC
@Noel, Michael : thoughts ?
Comment 6 Telesto 2022-12-28 16:27:17 UTC
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #3)
> I wonder if the recent fixes to VCL scheduling to prevent crashing on macOS
> (e.g. bug 148435) have had an unintended consequence and caused this bug to
> come back ?
> 
> @Lubos : any ideas ?

Unrelated, same issue with 7.4.3
Comment 7 Commit Notification 2023-01-03 07:13:07 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/d118be7ed4dd6596a8b4d766e8507b6dcaf2b7f7

Related: tdf#152703 Eliminate empty window with Skia/Metal while resizing

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 8 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-03 14:00:21 UTC
(In reply to Commit Notification from comment #7)
> Related: tdf#152703 Eliminate empty window with Skia/Metal while resizing
> 
> It will be available in 7.6.0.

Note: this patch does *not* fix this bug. Instead, it fixes a related bug that causes the entire window to be empty during resizing when Skia/Metal is enabled. With my fix, resizing with Skia/Metal enabled will behave the same as either Skia/Raster or Skia disabled.
Comment 9 Commit Notification 2023-01-04 11:08:27 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-5":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f889570b3a70f5e03d8ae7ff7102f3225b512b66

Related: tdf#152703 Eliminate empty window with Skia/Metal while resizing

It will be available in 7.5.0.2.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 10 Commit Notification 2023-01-04 18:50:09 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/3f7406bc4df3c7d6cc618312607bff1ec36a12f7

tdf#152703 Force relayout during live resizing of window

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 11 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-05 13:07:32 UTC
I have posted the following patch that I think fixes all of the various macOS "live resizing" issues mentioned in this bug:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/145053

The patch still needs to be reviewed and tested before it appears in a nightly build, but it should fix the following:

1. During live resizing, the window contents should resize and redraw as the window changes size. Note: there can be a little bit of a lag as I assume that the application code (Writer, Calc, etc.) appear to coalesce resize events by periodically redrawing in a timer.

2. When live resizing ends by releasing the mouse button or trackpad, one last resize and redraw should now occur.

3. Live resizing while using Skia/Metal should no longer flicker.
Comment 12 Commit Notification 2023-01-05 18:33:25 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/2d1a0d86d2d0c00fcfee61c39f2221e786e4245b

Related: tdf#152703 Prevent possible hang when live resizing a window

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 13 steve 2023-01-07 10:05:59 UTC
This is improved in Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 5a1ddc1a92a7883597ab7d825408a1f0adc2ec6e
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.1; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: osx
Locale: de-DE (en_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

When changing window size of start center still seeing artefacts and the window being redrawn, but it is much quicker now. Guess it is fair to call this fixed nonetheless.
Comment 14 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-09 14:46:38 UTC
(In reply to steve from comment #13)
> When changing window size of start center still seeing artefacts and the
> window being redrawn, but it is much quicker now. Guess it is fair to call
> this fixed nonetheless.

I did some testing with a 100+ page Writer document. I rapidly resized the width of the document and the redrawing lag was usually no more than less than a second. However, after about 15 or 20 seconds of continuous rapid resizing, the redraw lag would sometimes jump to several seconds or more and, occasionally, stop redrawing completely until I moved my mouse.

I have posted the following new patch that hopefully fixes the blocked redraws that I saw:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/145211

The patch still needs to be reviewed and tested before it appears in a nightly build, but below is an explanation of what I changed.

In LibreOffice, a resize event doesn't immediately relayout and redraw the window's contents. Instead, a resize event appears to queue a background tasks to do the relayout and redraw. Hence the slight redraw lag when in live resizing. So my previous patch would stop native event dispatching (macOS floods LibreOffice with windowDidResize: events during live resizing) and let any queued background tasks run.

With my previous patch, queued background tasks were running, but the problem was some long-running, low priority background tasks, such as spellcheck and Writer pagination, were also firing and those background tasks would block any screen updates until they finished.

In my new patch, low priority queued background tasks are skipped when live resizing a window. The redraw lag will still be there, but the lag time should hopefully now be consistently short.
Comment 15 Alex Thurgood 2023-01-12 16:25:40 UTC
@Patrick,

Your fixes do seem to have resolved the redraw lag with the StartCenter.

However, I get a repeatable SIGSEGV when resizing the StartCenter window now.

1) Start LibreOffice

2) Use the mouse to select the bottom right hand corner of the StartCenter window.

3) Resize the window continuously, moving the mouse up and down, and left to right, and then with the mouse button still pressed down, try reducing the window size moving right to left to the point where the document preview window disappears and only the left edge (with action buttons) remains displayed. Further movement of the mouse cursor to the left cause the whole of the main LO window to disappear and the Apple trace dialog is displayed.

Attaching Apple trace details here.

The question is whether this is something related to your patches, or whether it is yet another Skia bug.
Comment 16 Alex Thurgood 2023-01-12 16:25:58 UTC
Created attachment 184618 [details]
Sigsegv crash trace
Comment 17 Alex Thurgood 2023-01-12 16:30:43 UTC
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #16)
> Created attachment 184618 [details]
> Sigsegv crash trace

Tested with

Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d2a27ceece84998c686477ffd2073f3516b568a7
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

daily build from master (MacOSX-aarch64@tb92-TDF) 2023-Jan-11 06:25
Comment 18 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-12 18:00:38 UTC
I can reproduce the crash. Your stack trace indicates that my patches that are in the nightly build are causing an infinite recursion of AquaSalInstance::DoYield() calls (you can see that the same few functions repeat in the Thread 0 stack trace).

Fortunately, my latest patch fixes this infinite recursion:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/145211

With the above patch, I don't get a crash. Unfortunately, that patch has not been committed yet and is still waiting for review. Can you retry when the above patch gets committed and included in the night build?
Comment 19 Commit Notification 2023-01-13 14:10:05 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/fed429e4f6f437997aa6a88e2d071f58aa00ee34

Related: tdf#152703 Eliminate potential blocking during live resize

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 20 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-15 14:57:31 UTC
My latest patch is now in the nightly build so marking resolved/fixed. If you see any new crashes, feel free to reopen.
Comment 21 Alex Thurgood 2023-01-16 09:13:35 UTC
Verified with

Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (AARCH64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d50eca2a30bdabdc1735c590d6ec1913c6dd22fd
CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 13.0.1; UI render: Skia/Metal; VCL: osx
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Thanks Patrick !
Comment 22 Patrick (volunteer) 2023-01-16 15:01:06 UTC
I just wanted to summarized which patches will appear in which version of LibreOffice.

The latest patches will be in LibreOffice 7.6. But the last few patches made some significant changes to the code (i.e. they are riskier changes) so LibreOffice 7.5 will only have the "eliminate empty window with Skia/Metal while resizing" patch:

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f889570b3a70f5e03d8ae7ff7102f3225b512b66

Hopefully after a few weeks of use we can consider the latest patches as reasonably tested and, if no more problems (crashing or otherwise) are reported, I will add the latest patches for inclusion in LibreOffice 7.5.1.
Comment 23 Commit Notification 2023-01-21 23:48:26 UTC
Patrick Luby committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-5":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/0a6e128ef6c5f3951873e28931f331591759ae5f

tdf#152703 Force relayout during live resizing of window

It will be available in 7.5.1.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.