bug#61667: 29.0.60; Failure to redisplay

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/03/2023 06:50, Po Lu wrote:
> OK, I have to be 100% sure we're not missing something here.  With
> stderr redirected to a file, and the following instrumentation applied::
>
> diff --git a/src/xfns.c b/src/xfns.c
> index 9e004f6a678..b4bef7f38fd 100644
> --- a/src/xfns.c
> +++ b/src/xfns.c
> @@ -2232,6 +2232,18 @@ x_set_name_internal (struct frame *f, Lisp_Object name)
>                          SDATA (encoded_icon_name),
>                          SBYTES (encoded_icon_name));
>   
> +	long long
> +        current_ust (void)
> +       {
> +         struct timespec ts;
> +
> +         clock_gettime (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
> +         return ts.tv_sec * 1000000 + ts.tv_nsec / 1000;
> +       }
> +
> +       fprintf (stderr, "x_set_title: %s, %lld\n",
> +                SSDATA (name), current_ust ());
> +
>         if (do_free_icon_value)
>           xfree (icon.value);
>         if (do_free_text_value)
> diff --git a/src/xterm.c b/src/xterm.c
> index 70bcb67d80d..c7ad1bbb722 100644
> --- a/src/xterm.c
> +++ b/src/xterm.c
> @@ -7439,6 +7439,18 @@ show_back_buffer (struct frame *f)
>         swap_info.swap_action = XdbeCopied;
>         XdbeSwapBuffers (FRAME_X_DISPLAY (f), &swap_info, 1);
>   
> +	long long
> +        current_ust (void)
> +       {
> +         struct timespec ts;
> +
> +         clock_gettime (CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &ts);
> +         return ts.tv_sec * 1000000 + ts.tv_nsec / 1000;
> +       }
> +
> +       fprintf (stderr, "show_back_buffer: %lld\n",
> +                current_ust ());
> +
>   #if defined HAVE_XSYNC && !defined USE_GTK && defined HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME
>         /* Finish the frame here.  */
>         x_sync_update_finish (f);
>
> do you see a significant amount of time taken between setting the title
> and swapping buffers?

It seemed more difficult to reproduce with this patch, but still I 
managed to hit that twice over a couple of dozen tries.

Attached are three logs: two when the problem was hit, and one "normal" 
for comparison.

err.log
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err-2.log
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err-okay.log
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