Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> writes:

> The time between the idle reset and the IdleTimeWakeupHandler to be called is
> indeterminate. Clients with an PositiveTransition or NegativeTransition alarm
> on a low threshold may miss an alarm.
>
> Work around this by keeping a reset flag for each device. When the
> WakeupHandler triggers and the reset flag is set, we force a re-calculation of
> everything and pretend the current idle time is zero. Immediately after is the
> next calculation with the real idle time.
>
> Relatively reproducible test case: Set up a XSyncNegativeTransition alarm for
> a threshold of 1 ms. May trigger, may not.
>
> X.Org Bug 70476 <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70476>

This all looks quite reasonable, although I would have declared the
reset flag as Bool and used TRUE/FALSE everywhere instead of int 0/1.

Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <[email protected]>

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