On Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:37:25 GMT, Jayathirth D V <[email protected]> wrote:

> When we use XOR mode to clear the drawn content in Metal pipeline, it is 
> leaving some traces.
> We noticed similar issue when Metal pipeline was under development: 
> [JDK-8251167](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8251167). But the fix is 
> not complete and we still see some traces. Using uiScale 1.0 with contrasting 
> background and foreground color reveals this not so easily noticeable issue.
> 
> In case of Metal XOR mode is implemented using shaders and we are using an 
> interpolated position passed from Vertex shader to determine the current 
> position of fragment/pixel. We also add magic offsets to line vertices in 
> MTLRenderer.DrawLine() and it can cause different approximations while 
> calculating the interpolated position.
> 
> Because of this we end up in mismatch between the pixel from which we are 
> reading the content and the pixel to which we are writing. Instead of using 
> interpolated position we should use the rasterized position present in 
> fragment shader to pick the appropriate pixel. When we use rasterized 
> position mismatch doesn't happen and XOR draw clears the content properly.
> 
> We need this change in both `frag_col_xorMode` and `frag_txt_xorMode` 
> shaders. Gradient and texture paint shaders are no-op in case of XOR as they 
> use software loops, so no change is made in those shaders. Regression test is 
> added only for color shader as mathematically i was able to reproduce issue 
> only for color shader, but product fix is needed in case of text shader also.
> 
> If we use rasterized position to pick pixels we don't need fix done under 
> [JDK-8251167](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8251167), so that change is 
> also reverted.
> 
> Code update is tested in CI and no regressions seen.
> 
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test/jdk/java/awt/Graphics2D/ClearPolyLineUsingXORTest.java line 34:

> 32:  * @run     main/othervm -Dsun.java2d.metal=true -Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1
> 33:  *                       ClearPolyLineUsingXORTest
> 34:  */

Does the test really need to be macos specific and metal-only? can it cover 
other platforms and ogl?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31981#discussion_r3627064281

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