Loop on stop_token and remove final_entry in Entry.
Move Backend thread out of Impl Constructor to its own function.
Add Start function for backend thread.
Use stop token in PopWait and check if entry filename is nullptr before logging.
This simplifies the logging system.
This also fixes some lost messages on startup.
The simplification is simple. I removed unused functions and moved most things in the .h to the .cpp. I replaced the unnecessary linked list with its contents laid out as three member variables. Anything that went through the linked list now directly accesses the backends. Generic functions are replaced with those for each specific use case and there aren't many. This change increases coupling but we gain back more KISS and encapsulation.
With those changes it was easy to make it thread-safe. I just removed the mutex and turned a boolean atomic. I was planning to use this thread-safety in my next PR about stacktraces. It was actually async-signal-safety at first but I ended up using a different approach. Anyway getting rid of the linked list is important for that because have the list of backends constantly changing complicates things.
These can just use a view to a string since its only comparing against
two names in both cases for matches. This avoids constructing
std::string instances where they aren't necessary.
* Change the logging backend to support multiple sinks through the
Backend Interface
* Add a new set of logging macros to use fmtlib instead.
* Qt: Compile as GUI application on windows to make the console hidden by
default. Add filter configuration and a button to open log location.
* SDL: Migrate to the new logging macros
I decided to overload LogMessage because I don't see a reason to come up with a new function name just for this, but if you guys want me to overload FmtLogMessage instead I'm fine with that.
fmt was updated during the clang-format update, which breaks the previous implementation of FmtLogMessage
Changes were:
* Move definition of FmtLogMessage into log.h to use variadic templates as FMT_VARIADIC was removed
To supplement the change above:
* Move Entry and CreateEntry into log.h
* Add LogEntry in backend.cpp
* Uses PopWait to reduce the amount of busy waiting if there aren't many
new logs
* Opens the log file as shared on windows, letting other programs read
the logs, but not write to them while citra is running
* Flushes the logs to disk if a log >= error arrives
* Change the logging backend to support multiple sinks through the
Backend Interface
* Add a new set of logging macros to use fmtlib instead.
* Qt: Compile as GUI application on windows to make the console hidden by
default. Add filter configuration and a button to open log location.
* SDL: Migrate to the new logging macros
It provided a large increase in complexity of the logging system while
having a negligible performance impact: the usage patterns of the ring
buffer meant that each log contended with the logging thread, causing
it to effectively act as a synchronous extra buffering.
Also removed some broken code related to filtering of subclasses which
was broken since it was introduced. (Which means no one ever used that
feature anyway, since, 8 months later, no one ever complained.)
