Hi there! As you can read on the frontpage, I’ll continue working for Haiku in february.This will be the 5th month of this contract. Thanks to everyone who donated to Haiku, Inc for making this possible!
So, I’ve sorted out my filesystem issues over the week-end (no important data was lost), and I’m back to full-speed work. As I was saying last week, we had a problem with gcc4.7 not compiling the most recent WebKit code.
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The work started last week on ClipToPicture made some progress this week. We discussed this further with Stippi and now have a solution that doesn’t involve rewriting half of app_server code, and is also a bit simpler and faster than what I tried to do first. I wrote a test application and some boilerplate code, then Stippi jumped in and implemented the missing bits. There are still some missing features like the ability to stack multiple clippings using PushState/PopState, and some problems when scaling and translating the view, as expected.
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As I said last week, the remaining drawing glitches are because of BView limitations. Well, it’s time to solve those as well!
I’ll start with what is now known as the “border bleeding” bug. You have encountered it if you tried opening the Haiku website, or the bugtracker, in Web+. You will easily notice that some items are completely filled with the border color, instead of the expected background one. To understand what’s going on, let’s have a look at the way WebKit draws things.
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No big new changes this week, but a lot of small fixes and improvements.
I reviewed the growing issues list for Web+ on the bug tracker, and fixed several of them. Most of these were small and rather easy to fix bugs (I kept all the harder ones for later). Here is a list with comments, not that the issues were hard to track, but this is also a way to learn a bit more about the WebKit codebase.
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Well, somehow quiet and regular activty this week. Not too much exciting things, but progress is being made.
I updated WebKit to early december version. This is not the latest one, but the guys at WebKit started using even more C++11 as Visual Studio on Windows finally gets more support for it. So, enter std::chrono and some std::thread stuff. Unfortunately, our version of gcc4 seems to be missing some of these.
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You probably already read the news on the homepage: I’m continuing to work on WebKit for January. Maybe you noticed there was no report last week, as I was visiting family and didn’t get much work done. I’m not counting that week as paid work for Haiku.
Most of the work I did during the last two week revolves around the testsuite stuff. The testsuite engine got support for tests that need some time before the reports are parsed.
It’s been quite a long time since my last report so I think it is a good time to describe what I have been doing in the last two months. The main scheduler logic has been completed and now I am concentrating mainly on bug fixes, adjusting tunables and some minor improvements. I also removed gSchedulerLock, a spinlock I mentioned in my last post, and replaced it with more fine grained locking. An new interfaces for cpufreq and cpuidle modules has been created together with a cpufreq module for Intel Sandy Bridge or newer cores and cpuidle module for all processors that support C-states and invariant TSC. Furthermore, IRQs (including MSI) can be now directed to an arbitrary logical processor. Implementation of inter-processor interrupts has been improved so that it avoids acquiring any lock if it is not necessary and supports multicast interrupts. And, last but not least, 8 processor limit has been removed.
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I was a bit bored of messing with the testsuite so this week I looked into “real” issues. The merge of a new WebKit version to trunk last week led to a few more bugreports, and I also looked at some very old ones to see if I could do something. Turned out the answer is yes, and for some of them, the fixes were also rather simple. So let’s see what we have:
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Some progress again this week.
First of all, I finally updated the haikuwebkit package, for both gcc2hybrid and gcc4. This means you can download things with WebPositive again, and all the bugfixes since the last release are in as well.
On the testsuite side, I got the crash-report feature to more or less work thanks to help from Rene and Ingo. There was one improvement to Debugger to allow extracting the stack trace when using the –save-report option on a thread that’s not (yet) crashed.
