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vo: fix race condition with redraw requests
There is a very subtle race in vo that can manifest itself on pause events. In the renderloop, render_frame, unsurprisingly, does the heavy lifting of actually queuing up and flipping the frames. This is called during normal playback. Sometimes various parts of the player can make a redraw request which will latter trigger another render of the frame later down in the loop (do_redraw). Because these requests can happen at essentially anytime, sometimes the redraw request will happen *before* do_redraw and it'll be caught in render_frame. When this happens, the existing render_frame run works perfectly fine as a redraw so it clears out the request which is sensible. Normally this is all locked of course, but there's one catch. render_frame has to unlock itself when propagating down into specific VOs/backends. That's what causes this bug. While render_frame is unlocked, other parts of the player can send redraw requests which will cause in->request_redraw to become true. The logic in the code always clears out this parameter after a successful render, but this isn't correct. When in->request_become becomes true in the middle of render_frame, there needs to be one more draw afterwards to reflect whatever actually changed (usually the OSD). Instead, this gets simply discarded. If you rapidly spam pause while rendering things to the OSD at the same time, it's possible to for the last render to be behind a frame and appear as if your osd event was ignored. Once you realize what is happening, the fix is quite simple. Just store the initial value of in->request_redraw before the unlock step. After we do the render step and unlock again, only set in->request_redraw to false if there was an initial redraw request. We just finished doing a redraw, so it is safe to clear. Otherwise, leave in->request_redraw alone. If it is initially false, then it will still be false and nothing changes. However if it updated to true in the middle of the rendering, this value is now preserved so we can go and call do_redraw later and show what that last frame was meant to be when you pause. One unfortunate thing about this design is that it is technically possible for other internal things in vo to update during that unlocked period. Hopefully, that doesn't actually happen and only redraw requests work like this. Fixes mpv-player#8172 and mpv-player#8350.
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