[meta-freescale] Chromium layout rendering issue

[Eric Nelson]

Hi Gary,

On 05/08/2015 03:47 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On 2015-05-08 06:49, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:41 PM, Nikolay Dimitrov <picmaster at mail.bg>
>> wrote:
>> ...
>>> So I have 2 questions:
>>> 1. The probability that someone knows what's the actual issue is close
>>> to minus infinity, but at least did someone observed similar behavior?
>>> If needed, I can snap photos to visually demonstrate the issue.
>>
>> I have customers using it in Dizzy and I didn't see the error. Please
>> check today's meta-browser as I merged a fix from Khem which address
>> some installation issues.
>>
>>> 2. Chromium on sabresd & fido gave me at least 1 interesting warning
>>> about GPU being frozen and pending reset in 10s. I haven't seen such
>>> error, but this makes me highly concerned about porting my stuff to
>>> fido. Did someone see such error messages?
>>
>> Prabhu?
>>
> 
> I just rebuilt Chrome with the latest meta-browser (and meta-fsl-arm-*)
> There are many rendering problems on the Google main page and then I
> get these errors:
> 
> [872:872:0508/165904:ERROR:image_metadata_extractor.cc(111)] Couldn't
> load libexif.
> [896:896:0508/165907:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(301)] InitializeSandbox()
> called with multiple threads in process gpu-process
> Fontconfig warning: FcPattern object size does not accept value 9(i)
> [958:958:0508/165913:ERROR:image_metadata_extractor.cc(111)] Couldn't
> load libexif.
> [870:890:0508/165930:ERROR:channel.cc(258)] RawChannel read error
> (connection broken)
> [896:906:0508/165943:ERROR:gpu_watchdog_thread.cc(253)] The GPU process
> hung. Terminating after 10000 ms.
> [870:870:0508/165943:ERROR:gpu_channel_host.cc(185)] Failed to send
> GpuChannelMsg_CreateOffscreenCommandBuffer.
> [870:870:0508/165943:ERROR:webgraphicscontext3d_command_buffer_impl.cc(230)]
> Failed to initialize command buffer.
> [1005:1006:0508/165955:ERROR:gpu_watchdog_thread.cc(253)] The GPU
> process hung. Terminating after 10000 ms.
> getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
> getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE) failed
> 
> This is on a board using the Boundary Devices 3.10.53 kernel
> (I don't have a board here that runs a "pure" FSLC kernel)
> but as far as I can tell the BD kernel is the FSLC kernel
> with some of their own patches, mostly to do with cameras.
> 

Was this on master or fido?

> Anything I can look for/test?
> 
> Also note that this kernel has lots of [rendering] problems
> with other applications.  For example, if I run the new Gstreamer-1.0
> based "media player" to play a video, it will bring up the window but
> not render any video frames or sometimes render a few and then freeze.
> 
Can you try with the pre-built image here?
	http://boundarydevices.com/i-mx6-kernel-3-10-53/

We didn't see any issues, but mostly ran things from the command-line
and the pre-built Vivante demos to test graphics.

Please advise,


Eric