Use a semaphore to signal the event handler

Semaphores allow for semi-persistent signals, compared to a condition variable
which requires a mutex for proper detection. A semaphore can be 'post'ed after
writing some data on one thread, and another thread will be able to recognize
it quickly even if the post occured in between checking for data and waiting.

This more correctly fixes a race condition with events since the mixer
shouldn't be using mutexes, and arbitrary wake-ups just to make sure an event
wasn't missed was quite inefficient.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/OpenAL32/event.c b/OpenAL32/event.c
index ff53d7d8..38c12d98 100644
--- a/OpenAL32/event.c
+++ b/OpenAL32/event.c
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ static int EventThread(void *arg)
 {
     ALCcontext *context = arg;
 
-    almtx_lock(&context->EventCbLock);
     while(1)
     {
         AsyncEvent evt;
@@ -21,30 +20,19 @@ static int EventThread(void *arg)
 
         if(ll_ringbuffer_read_space(context->AsyncEvents) == 0)
         {
-            /* Wait 50ms before checking again. Because events are delivered
-             * asynchronously by the mixer, it's possible for one to be written
-             * in between checking for a readable element and sleeping. So to
-             * ensure events don't get left to go stale in the ringbuffer, we
-             * need to keep checking regardless of being signaled.
-             */
-            struct timespec ts;
-            altimespec_get(&ts, AL_TIME_UTC);
-            ts.tv_nsec += 50000000;
-            ts.tv_sec += ts.tv_nsec/1000000000;
-            ts.tv_nsec %= 1000000000;
-            alcnd_timedwait(&context->EventCnd, &context->EventCbLock, &ts);
+            alsem_wait(&context->EventSem);
             continue;
         }
         ll_ringbuffer_read(context->AsyncEvents, (char*)&evt, 1);
         if(!evt.EnumType) break;
 
-        /* Should check the actual type is enabled here too. */
+        almtx_lock(&context->EventCbLock);
         enabledevts = ATOMIC_LOAD(&context->EnabledEvts, almemory_order_acquire);
         if(context->EventCb && (enabledevts&evt.EnumType) == evt.EnumType)
             context->EventCb(evt.Type, evt.ObjectId, evt.Param, (ALsizei)strlen(evt.Message),
                              evt.Message, context->EventParam);
+        almtx_unlock(&context->EventCbLock);
     }
-    almtx_unlock(&context->EventCbLock);
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -114,6 +102,7 @@ AL_API void AL_APIENTRY alEventControlSOFT(ALsizei count, const ALenum *types, A
             while(ll_ringbuffer_write_space(context->AsyncEvents) == 0)
                 althrd_yield();
             ll_ringbuffer_write(context->AsyncEvents, (const char*)&kill_evt, 1);
+            alsem_post(&context->EventSem);
             althrd_join(context->EventThread, NULL);
         }
         else