Bug 480334 – media-libs/libvpx-1.3.0: avx not supported

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Fabian Köster 2013-08-09 10:21:46 UTC]

Recently in Firefox 23.0 and also 22.0 I get a segmentation fault when trying to use WebRTC, although it did work some time ago (I think with Firefox 22.0).

This happens with the WebRTC reference implementation at https://apprtc.appspot.com/ as well as with other sites, e.g. https://palava.tv.

The segfault seems to happen in media-libs/libvpx (both versions 1.1.0 and 1.2.0_pre20130625), see the following stacktrace gathered using gdb:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7fff9aafc700 (LWP 31670)]
0x00007ffff11dc6f0 in vpx_codec_destroy () from /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.1
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

	Inferior 1 [process 31570] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) n
Not confirmed.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff11dc6f0 in vpx_codec_destroy () from /usr/lib64/libvpx.so.1
#1  0x00007ffff48705a3 in webrtc::VP8DecoderImpl::Release (this=0x7fffa9bf9540)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/codecs/vp8/vp8_impl.cc:907
#2  0x00007ffff4861138 in webrtc::VCMCodecDataBase::ReleaseDecoder (this=<optimized out>, decoder=0x7ffff6a7f340)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/main/source/codec_database.cc:446
#3  0x00007ffff48616f1 in webrtc::VCMCodecDataBase::CreateAndInitDecoder (this=this@entry=0x7fffa8cece68, payload_type=payload_type@entry=120 'x', new_codec=new_codec@entry=0x7fffa8cecf10, 
    external=external@entry=0x7fffa8cecfd0) at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/main/source/codec_database.cc:509
#4  0x00007ffff486178d in webrtc::VCMCodecDataBase::GetDecoder (this=0x7fffa8cece68, payload_type=120 'x', decoded_frame_callback=0x7fffa8cec440)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/main/source/codec_database.cc:418
#5  0x00007ffff486f1c4 in webrtc::VideoCodingModuleImpl::Decode (this=0x7fffa8cea000, frame=...)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/main/source/video_coding_impl.cc:1040
#6  0x00007ffff486f47d in webrtc::VideoCodingModuleImpl::Decode (this=0x7fffa8cea000, maxWaitTimeMs=<optimized out>)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/modules/video_coding/main/source/video_coding_impl.cc:914
#7  0x00007ffff48865a1 in webrtc::ViEChannel::ChannelDecodeProcess (this=<optimized out>)
    at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/video_engine/vie_channel.cc:2215
#8  0x00007ffff485f9ec in webrtc::ThreadPosix::Run (this=0x7fffc9ac4dc0) at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/system_wrappers/source/thread_posix.cc:338
#9  0x00007ffff485faa5 in webrtc::StartThread (lp_parameter=<optimized out>) at /var/tmp/portage/www-client/firefox-23.0/work/mozilla-release/media/webrtc/trunk/webrtc/system_wrappers/source/thread_posix.cc:95
#10 0x00007ffff7bc6ec6 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#11 0x00007ffff6efd6ed in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6

Reproducible: Always




Portage 2.1.12.2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.9.11-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-3.9.11-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2720QM_CPU_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     8055748 total,    382788 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 08:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-java/java-config:     2.1.12-r1
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5, 3.2.5-r1
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.10.2-r2
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.11.8
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.1
sys-devel/gcc:            4.6.3, 4.7.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.15-r3
Repositories: gentoo sunrise gentoo-haskell java steam-overlay systemd-love x-portage hibiscus-gentoo-overlay
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE freedist as-is"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf /usr/share/maven-bin-3.1/conf /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/"
LANG="de_DE.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/haskell /var/lib/layman/java /var/lib/layman/steam /var/lib/layman/systemd-love /usr/local/portage /home/fabian/workspace/Privat/gentoo/hibiscus-ebuild/hibiscus-gentoo-overlay.git"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
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USE_PYTHON="2.7 3.2"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Fabian Köster 2013-08-09 10:24:08 UTC]

Btw: WebRTC does currently not work on my system with www-client/chromium-28.0.1500.95 either, although it used to work some time ago. I do not know what changed since then.

[Comment 2 Fabian Köster 2013-08-09 12:09:53 UTC]

Firefox does not crash with media-libs/libvpx-9999

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2013-08-11 23:16:58 UTC]

Could you please rebuild libvpx with -mno-avx. The reason this appears to be working fine in current 9999 ebuilds is avx is officially supported.

[Comment 4 Fabian Köster 2013-08-12 12:29:38 UTC]

(In reply to Jory A. Pratt from comment #3)
> Could you please rebuild libvpx with -mno-avx. The reason this appears to be
> working fine in current 9999 ebuilds is avx is officially supported.

I can confirm that -mno-avx actually works, thanks for the hint!

My configuration:

media-libs/libvpx-1.1.0 was built with the following:
USE="mmx (multilib) sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 threads (-altivec) -debug -doc -postproc -static-libs" ABI_X86="64"
CFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -mno-avx"
CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O2 -pipe -mno-avx"

[Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt 2013-08-12 13:23:30 UTC]

As compiling with -mno-avx has resolved your issue, I am gonna pass it to media-video so they can update their ebuild.

[Comment 6 Fabian Köster 2014-04-02 11:03:29 UTC]

Any update on this?

[Comment 7 Oleh 2015-01-13 15:18:29 UTC]

and...any updates on this?

[Comment 8 Alexis Ballier 2015-11-12 11:45:02 UTC]

please test with libvpx 1.4.0 which has been stable for a while and should support avx