qxl: Don't notify userspace when monitors config is unchanged
When the QXL driver receives a QXL_INTERRUPT_CLIENT_MONITORS_CONFIG interrupt,
we currently always notify userspace that there was some hotplug event.
However, gnome-shell/mutter is reacting to this event by attempting a
resolution change, which it does by issueing drmModeRmFB, drmModeAddFB,
and then drmModeSetCrtc. This has the side-effect of causing
qxl_crtc_mode_set() to tell the QXL virtual hardware that a primary
surface was destroyed and created. After going through QEMU and then the
remote SPICE client, a new identical monitors config message will be
sent, resulting in a QXL_INTERRUPT_CLIENT_MONITORS_CONFIG interrupt to
be emitted, and the same scenario occurring again.
As destroying/creating the primary surface causes a visible screen
flicker, this makes the guest hard to use (
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266484 ).
This commit checks if the screen configuration we received is the same
one as the current one, and does not notify userspace about it if that's
the case.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20161108091209.25568-7-cfergeau@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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