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[Impeller] Fix dirty-range race in DeviceBufferGLES uploads#187932

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Fixes #187931.

DeviceBufferGLES::Flush() merges dirty ranges from writer threads (for example the UI thread writing to a flutter_gpu host-visible buffer) while BindAndUploadDataIfNecessary() consumes the range on a reactor thread. The upload read the dirty range, called glBufferSubData, and cleared dirty_range_ afterwards, so any flush landing during the upload was silently discarded and its data never reached the GPU. Draws could then read stale vertex/instance/uniform data, and when a buffer's only flush was lost, uninitialized buffer contents.

This change guards dirty_range_ with a mutex and takes and clears it before uploading, so a concurrent flush merges into a fresh range that the next bind uploads.

Also adds BufferSubData to the GLES test mocks and a regression test that flushes from inside the mocked upload, which fails with the previous ordering.

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This pull request introduces thread safety to DeviceBufferGLES by guarding the dirty_range_ member with a mutex (dirty_range_mutex_). In Flush, the dirty range is updated under lock, and in BindAndUploadDataIfNecessary, the dirty range is extracted and cleared under lock before uploading to prevent concurrent updates from being discarded. Additionally, mock support for glBufferSubData and a unit test verifying this behavior have been added. I have no feedback to provide.

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std::optional<Range> dirty;
{
Lock lock(dirty_range_mutex_);
dirty = dirty_range_;

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This can be done using std::swap(dirty_range_, dirty)

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Done in 2e8cbdf.

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Flush() merges dirty ranges from writer threads (for example the UI
thread writing to flutter_gpu host-visible buffers) while
BindAndUploadDataIfNecessary() consumes the range on a reactor thread.
The upload read the dirty range, called glBufferSubData, and cleared
dirty_range_ afterwards, so any Flush() that landed during the upload
was silently discarded and its data never reached the GPU. On GLES this
showed up as draws reading stale vertex/instance data and, when a
buffer's only flush was lost, as draws reading uninitialized buffer
contents.

Guard dirty_range_ with a mutex and take-and-clear it before uploading,
so a concurrent Flush() merges into a fresh range that the next bind
uploads.
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Fixes flutter#187931.

`DeviceBufferGLES::Flush()` merges dirty ranges from writer threads (for
example the UI thread writing to a flutter_gpu host-visible buffer)
while `BindAndUploadDataIfNecessary()` consumes the range on a reactor
thread. The upload read the dirty range, called `glBufferSubData`, and
cleared `dirty_range_` afterwards, so any flush landing during the
upload was silently discarded and its data never reached the GPU. Draws
could then read stale vertex/instance/uniform data, and when a buffer's
only flush was lost, uninitialized buffer contents.

This change guards `dirty_range_` with a mutex and takes and clears it
before uploading, so a concurrent flush merges into a fresh range that
the next bind uploads.

Also adds `BufferSubData` to the GLES test mocks and a regression test
that flushes from inside the mocked upload, which fails with the
previous ordering.

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