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Guarantees a terminal disposition for every accepted tokened iOS render.

Ghostty now reports presented, discarded, and backend-failed outcomes across Metal, OpenGL, generic, and renderer-thread paths. Tokened asynchronous requests reject synchronously when iOS or external-drain mode has no consumer. Explicit callback userdata stays independent, and the delivery gate releases even without a failure callback.

Also adds a non-blocking scroll-to-bottom entrypoint so display-driven embedders never block their output queue on the terminal-state lock.

Verification:

  • focused frame-presentation, callback, and tokened-update tests pass
  • GhosttyKit builds from source at 3da10da
  • published framework checksum 6a02a2ec3794de79a02af993083292a89517d2533eb20c746deca377f23456bd validates after download
  • cmux isolated simulator passes 200 forced recovery cycles and recovers a deliberate discarded frame

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Tokened render failure reporting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Callback contract and surface wiring
include/ghostty.h, src/apprt/embedded.zig
Adds render statuses, a failure callback, per-surface registration, callback forwarding, and registration tests.
Terminal presentation statuses
src/renderer.zig, src/renderer/Thread.zig, src/renderer/generic.zig
Reports discarded and backend-failed outcomes for skipped, unrealized, zero-sized, and failed render paths.
Backend failure and discard delivery
src/renderer/metal/*, src/renderer/opengl/Frame.zig
Propagates failure callback data through backend completion and surface updates. Tests cover callback ordering and teardown behavior.

Nonblocking scroll to bottom

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scroll API and viewport operation
include/ghostty.h, src/apprt/embedded.zig, src/Surface.zig, src/termio/Termio.zig
Adds a surface API that attempts to scroll to the bottom without blocking on terminal or renderer state.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3da10

The change reports discarded and failed tokened renders so presentation gates can resolve promptly, but OpenGL failure behavior still conflicts with existing test expectations. Merge should wait until the behavior and tests are reconciled or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Surface
  participant RendererThread
  participant Backend
  participant FailureCallback
  Surface->>RendererThread: submit tokened render
  RendererThread->>Backend: process presentation
  Backend-->>RendererThread: report discarded or backend-failed status
  RendererThread->>FailureCallback: deliver token and status
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Suggested reviewers: lawrencecchen, mitchellh, austinywang

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Actionable comments posted: 3

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)
src/renderer/opengl/Frame.zig (1)

84-97: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Update the failure-path test expectations.

FramePresentation.fail invokes delivery_gate even when no failure callback exists. The two failure assertions in this file omit .gate, so this test fails after these changes.

Proposed test update
-        &.{ .present, .frame_completed },
+        &.{ .present, .frame_completed, .gate },

-        &.{ .present, .finish, .check_errors, .frame_completed },
+        &.{ .present, .finish, .check_errors, .frame_completed, .gate },
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In `@src/renderer/opengl/Frame.zig` around lines 84 - 97, Update the two
failure-path test expectations in Frame.zig to include the expected .gate state
when asserting FramePresentation.fail outcomes, matching fail’s delivery_gate
behavior even without a failure callback.
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Inline comments:
In `@include/ghostty.h`:
- Around line 1429-1430: Ensure tokened render requests never return success
without delivering the token when iOS external-drain mode is active: either
reject the mode before queueing in ghostty_surface_request_render_with_token or
route it through the external renderer queue so drawPendingTokenedFrame consumes
it. Update the surrounding render contract comment to document the chosen
behavior.

In `@src/renderer.zig`:
- Around line 74-79: Preserve explicitly null callback userdata by passing it
directly instead of falling back to render userdata: update
FramePresentation.fail in src/renderer.zig lines 74-79 and the presentation
failure callback path in src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig lines 419-432 to
use failure_userdata and presentation_failure_userdata respectively.

In `@src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig`:
- Around line 199-209: Ensure failed tokened frames always release the delivery
gate: in src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig lines 199-209 invoke failure handling even
when presentation_failure_callback is absent, and in lines 223-228 call
value.fail(.backend_failed) without guarding on value.failure_callback; in
src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig lines 419-432 run
presentation_delivery_gate before checking the optional callback.

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In `@src/renderer/opengl/Frame.zig`:
- Around line 84-97: Update the two failure-path test expectations in Frame.zig
to include the expected .gate state when asserting FramePresentation.fail
outcomes, matching fail’s delivery_gate behavior even without a failure
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  • src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig
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Comment thread src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig Outdated
Comment on lines +199 to +209
if (block.presentation_failure_callback) |callback| {
(FramePresentation{
.callback = undefined,
.userdata = block.presentation_userdata,
.token = block.presentation_token,
.failure_callback = callback,
.failure_userdata = block.presentation_failure_userdata,
.delivery_gate = block.presentation_delivery_gate,
.delivery_gate_userdata = block.presentation_delivery_gate_userdata,
}).fail(.backend_failed);
}

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Release the delivery gate when the failure callback is absent.

FramePresentation.fail releases the delivery gate before it checks the optional failure callback. These backend-specific paths skip that release when no failure callback is registered. A host gate can then remain occupied after a discarded or backend-failed tokened frame.

  • src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig#L199-L209: invoke the delivery gate for an unhealthy command buffer even when presentation_failure_callback is null.
  • src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig#L223-L228: call value.fail(.backend_failed) without testing value.failure_callback.
  • src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig#L419-L432: run presentation_delivery_gate before the optional callback check.
📍 Affects 2 files
  • src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig#L199-L209 (this comment)
  • src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig#L223-L228
  • src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig#L419-L432
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In `@src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig` around lines 199 - 209, Ensure failed tokened
frames always release the delivery gate: in src/renderer/metal/Frame.zig lines
199-209 invoke failure handling even when presentation_failure_callback is
absent, and in lines 223-228 call value.fail(.backend_failed) without guarding
on value.failure_callback; in src/renderer/metal/IOSurfaceLayer.zig lines
419-432 run presentation_delivery_gate before checking the optional callback.

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azooz2003-bit merged commit 3da10da into main Aug 22, 2026
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