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fix(linux): retry on shared memory when every DMA-BUF frame arrives corrupted - #1504
On niri with the NVIDIA proprietary driver, the stream negotiates DMA-BUF and then every chunk arrives with chunkSize=0 and SPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTED. No frame ever reaches the encoder, and the app gives up after 10 s.
For a video session, that spare remote is now released on the first usable frame rather than on streaming, since these corrupted frames arrive after streaming.
The GPU-import branch of the shim now reports corrupted frames as well, so it hits the same retry.
Tests
New unit test a_corrupted_dmabuf_frame_counts_toward_the_shared_memory_retry.
cargo test on the helper under WSL Ubuntu: 105 passed. No new clippy warnings.
Not verified
No niri + NVIDIA machine has run this. The reporter of #1503 offered to test, so the CI AppImage goes to them next. A LINEAR-only second retry is out of scope here; it is the next step if shm also fails on their setup.
Corrupted video frames are now reported as dropped. Capture can retry with shared-memory buffers after repeated corrupted frames or a buffer-allocation failure during startup.
Audio samples remain available to drain after a capture is paused and resumed, then stopped.
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Walkthrough
The PipeWire capture helper now reports corrupted DMA-BUF frames. After three qualifying reports, video capture retries with shared-memory buffers using the retained portal grant. The buffer-allocation retry uses the same cleanup and reconnect helper. Audio sources remain available for capture rebuilds.
The DMA-BUF import path reports corrupted chunks using a separate capped counter. The capture code identifies producer-marked corrupted DMA-BUF reports, and tests cover matching and non-matching reports.
Shared-memory retry and capture state electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs, electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/capture.rs
After three qualifying reports, video capture drops the current session and reconnects with shared memory only. The fallback grant remains available until a video frame stages. Cursor-only sessions release it when streaming starts. Audio sources are cloned for capture startup and remain available for a capture rebuild. The capture test verifies that the audio ring accepts and yields samples after pause, resume, and drop.
getopenscreen/openscreen#1446: This PR adds the shared-memory-only retry path that this change reuses for repeated corrupted DMA-BUF reports and buffer-allocation failures.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to fcc3c
This change adds a shared-memory fallback for Linux capture when DMA-BUF frames arrive corrupted. No outstanding merge-blocking issues were found. Verification on the affected niri + NVIDIA setup is still advisable.
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This test checks only report classification. It cannot detect a missing counter increment or an early grant release. Add a test that sends three qualifying reports after streaming and checks for one shared-memory retry. Also check that a usable frame before the threshold prevents the retry.
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Extend the PipeWire capture tests around is_corrupted_dmabuf_frame to exercise
the retry lifecycle, not just report classification: after streaming starts,
send three qualifying reports and verify exactly one shared-memory retry occurs.
Add a separate case where a usable frame arrives before the threshold and verify
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- Around line 637-640: Update the CPU-mapped DMA-BUF zero-stride handling
alongside is_corrupted_dmabuf_frame so corrupted chunks are reported before
being discarded as metadata-only, allowing the shared-memory retry to trigger.
Preserve metadata-only handling for uncorrupted chunks.
- Around line 897-898: The frame-processing path clears shared_memory_fallback
before staging has succeeded, preventing recovery when GPU import fails and
subsequent frames are corrupted. Retain the fallback until a frame stages
successfully, and ensure the shared-memory retry can run after Capture has been
created.
- Around line 657-659: Update the PipeWire stream event handling around session
retirement so events are associated with their originating session and ignored
once that session is retired. Ensure queued errors from the old stream cannot
terminate the shared-memory retry before its first frame, while continuing to
handle events from the active session.
- Around line 1293-1295: Separate the corrupted DMA-BUF frame count in the
`corrupted` handling from the report budget consumed by other validation
failures. Ensure `corrupted_frames` can reach `CORRUPTED_FRAMES_BEFORE_RETRY`
and trigger the retry regardless of prior validation failures.
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…orrupted
niri on the NVIDIA driver negotiates DMA-BUF, then marks every chunk
SPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTED with size 0, so no frame ever reaches the encoder
and the app gives up after 10 s. After three such frames before any usable
one, reconnect through the retained portal remote offering shm alone, the
path the allocation-failure retry already takes. The GPU-import branch now
reports corrupted frames too, so it triggers the same retry.
Refs #1503
Three review findings on the corrupted-frame retry:
- the portal grant was released when a frame left the mailbox, before its
GPU import could fail; it is now released once a frame stages;
- corrupted-frame reports shared the shim's five-report budget with other
drops, so other failures could keep the count under three; they now
have their own budget;
- events the old stream queued before it was joined are dropped at the
retry, so a late error from it cannot end the new stream.
Refs #1503
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Review comments at @electron/native/pipewire-capture/src/main.rs:
- Line 694: When the helper retires the current stream by clearing
portal_stream, also clear streaming_since so pointer presses cannot use the old
stream’s timestamp during replacement startup. Set streaming_since again only
when the replacement reaches its streaming edge, preserving the timestamp check
for the active stream.
- Line 707: Update the capture retry flow around begin_stream to recreate the
unstarted Capture when the first shared-memory frame arrives after DMA-BUF
import failed, rather than reusing its importing VAAPI encoder; preserve the
capture’s existing audio sources during recreation.
- Line 688: Before the reconnect flow that drops the session with
session.take(), clear held_frame, reset its crop-wait timer, and discard pending
mailbox frames and old requeue handles; ensure these are cleared before starting
the replacement session so no frame from the retired session can be replayed.
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When the corrupted-frame retry replaces the DMA-BUF stream, drop what the
retired stream left behind: the frame held for its crop and the crop wait,
the frame still in the mailbox and the buffers queued for return, the
streaming edge the click gate compares against, and an encoder one of its
frames opened but never started. That encoder may be bound to the DMA-BUF
importer, which a shared-memory frame cannot feed. The audio sources are
now cloned into the capture so a rebuilt one keeps them.
Refs #1503
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- Line 1353: Before clearing `capture` in the retry path, restore or transfer
the paused state of the audio rings retained by `audio_sources` using the
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…emory retry drops it
The retry keeps the rings for the replacement capture. Pause had closed
them, and a Resume landing before the replacement opens had no capture
to resume, so the new capture recorded no audio.
Refs #1503
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Refs #1503
Refs #1244
What
On niri with the NVIDIA proprietary driver, the stream negotiates DMA-BUF and then every chunk arrives with
chunkSize=0andSPA_CHUNK_FLAG_CORRUPTED. No frame ever reaches the encoder, and the app gives up after 10 s.streaming, since these corrupted frames arrive afterstreaming.Tests
a_corrupted_dmabuf_frame_counts_toward_the_shared_memory_retry.cargo teston the helper under WSL Ubuntu: 105 passed. No new clippy warnings.Not verified
No niri + NVIDIA machine has run this. The reporter of #1503 offered to test, so the CI AppImage goes to them next. A LINEAR-only second retry is out of scope here; it is the next step if shm also fails on their setup.
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