[meta-freescale] [meta-fsl-arm] Memory leak in graphic application (dora)

[Chris Tapp]

Hi Vincent,

Sorry, but I can’t really advise as I’m not familiar with those drivers.

Chris

> On 1 May 2017, at 11:00, Vincent DEHORS <vincent.dehors at smile.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am not using the Intel driver but the Vivante one packaged by these recipes :
> 
> https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/tree/dora/recipes-graphics <https://github.com/Freescale/meta-fsl-arm/tree/dora/recipes-graphics>
> Do you think I can use another version of gpu-viv-bin-mx6q and xf86-video-imxfb keeping my 3.0.35 kernel ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Vincent
> 
>  
>  
> Le 2017-04-28 11:52, Chris Tapp a écrit :
> 
>> Hi Vincent,
>>  
>> I saw something similar to this a while back with Fido when using the Intel video driver (Thread “"Crazy" Xorg memory usage after upgrading from Daisy to Fido”).
>>  
>> My app would often get killed due to lack of memory, but it sometimes ran long enough that a load of memory was released back to the pool and the app would then run as long as I left it running.
>>  
>> My fix was:
>>  
>> The undesirable memory usage within Xorg isn’t there if I create an xorg.conf file containing:
>> 
>> Section “Device”
>>  Identifier “Intel Video”
>>  Driver “intel”
>>  Option “TearFree” “true"
>> EndSection
>> 
>> So it looks as if I need to enable “TearFree”. I didn’t need to add this for the 2.99.910 version of xf86-video-intel included with ‘daisy’.
>>  
>> This probably won’t work for you, but it may be worth a try.
>>  
>> Chris
>>  
>>> On 28 Apr 2017, at 10:21, Vincent DEHORS <vincent.dehors at smile.fr <mailto:vincent.dehors at smile.fr>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I use a dora branch (as constructor only provides a 3.0.35 kernel) and when I launch any graphical application using libGLES2 (with X11), the memory increase continuously until there is no memory left (and oom-killer kill the app).
>>> 
>>> I can see the leak with a minimalist Qt5/qml application with an animation or with a Gstreamer pipeline using eglvivsink.
>>> 
>>> Is there any known issue with graphic application in old BSP for i.MX6 ?
>>> 
>>> If the leak is located in the proprietary libGL, is there a way to use a more recent one without upgrading the kernel version ?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Vincent
>>> 
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