fix: an out-of-memory GPU no longer aborts the process

The crash in #358 was not the out-of-memory itself. wgpu reports OOM as
recoverable and the app already installs a handler that logs and keeps
the session alive. What killed the process was what happened next:

  create_buffer_init maps the new buffer unconditionally, and mapping the
  invalid buffer an OOM device returns panics. That panic unwinds through
  iced's main-thread redraw, trips the wgpu-hal swapchain assertion in a
  destructor, and becomes a non-unwinding abort -- no chance to autosave.

Every allocation whose size scales with the drawing now goes through
src/scene/pipeline/gpu_upload.rs, which creates the buffer unmapped and
fills it with Queue::write_buffer. A failed allocation then surfaces as a
validation error on the write, which reaches install_gpu_error_handler
and degrades the frame -- exactly what that handler's comment promised:
"A bad frame must degrade, not end the session."

Converted: block-wire vertices and instances, the wire const storage
buffer, all three wire-arena allocators, face3d vertices and instances,
block-text instances and text vertices, both hatch backends, and the
silhouette buffers. mesh_gpu already allocated this way, which is why the
mesh path never produced this panic; the rest now match it.

No mapped_at_creation:true remains in the renderer. The create_buffer_init
calls left are fixed-size or bounded-small -- uniforms, the viewcube's
static geometry, per-image and per-wipeout quads -- where an allocation
failure is not a realistic outcome.

Two trade-offs worth stating:

  * write_buffer stages through a copy, which mapping at creation avoided.
    Chunking bounds that transient cost, and the measured block-wire
    upload got faster with chunking, not slower.
  * `queue` had to be threaded through the wire, face3d, text and hatch
    builders and their callers. Mechanical, but it widens the diff.

This touches every upload path, so it needs a visual check against a real
drawing before it goes upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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PanosandClaude Opus 5 committed 2026-09-04 16:21:08 +03:00
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@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ impl HatchGpu {
.filter(|hatch| hatch.boundary.len() >= 3)
.cloned()
.collect();
*resident = StorageHatchBatch::build(device, &self.bind_group_layout, &renderable);
*resident = StorageHatchBatch::build(device, queue, &self.bind_group_layout, &renderable);
}
HatchBackend::Texture { resident, .. } => {
let renderable: Vec<HatchModel> = hatches
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ impl HatchGpu {
.filter(|hatch| hatch.boundary.len() >= 3)
.cloned()
.collect();
*preview = StorageHatchBatch::build(device, &self.bind_group_layout, &renderable);
*preview = StorageHatchBatch::build(device, queue, &self.bind_group_layout, &renderable);
}
HatchBackend::Texture { preview, .. } => {
let renderable: Vec<HatchModel> = hatches