669640 - Fix the message manager API/impl for multiple content processes

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: IPC, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The message manager currently makes some assumptions in both the API and implementation about having a single content process. Since this is changing, we need to design and implement the correct API for multiple content processes.

Comment 1

[Olli Pettay [:smaug] [away July 4-8]]

Attachment: patch

This is pretty simple. The current process mm becomes global process message manager (gpmm), and
whenever a new ContentParent is created, it gets a new message manager which is
added as a child to the global pmm.

The patch adds also nsITreeItemFrameMessageManager interface, which is
implemented by all the chrome message managers. That way one can iterate through the child message managers of some parent.
Later we can add some process ID to the per-process message managers (ppmm)

This is on top the patch for bug 666748

I haven't posted this to tryserver yet, since I don't know if the patch
for bug 666748 works there.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug] [away July 4-8]]

Also, I need to mochitestify the tests, but I'd like to do that once it is
clear that the patch for bug 666748 works reasonable well.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

That patch has review, so if you can post the mochitests for this one, I'll land that all together in the e10s tree.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Also, it's probably better to disconnect the message manager in ContentParent::ActorDestroy, not in ~ContentParent.

Comment 5

[Olli Pettay [:smaug] [away July 4-8]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/electrolysis/rev/0ecd5149132c

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0ecd5149132c