CppunitTest_vcl_skia failing on tb68 with illegal instruction

Michael Stahl mst at libreoffice.org
Tue Mar 9 13:35:46 UTC 2021


On 09.03.21 14:19, Luboš Luňák wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 of March 2021, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> (e.g., <https://ci.libreoffice.org/job/gerrit_windows/90702/>).
>>
>> @Luboš:  I assume that external/skia (maybe since
>> <https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/ad8bff9d2625524999871ace65cfe0382f991f2
>> 4%5E!/> "update Skia to chrome/m90", which reached master on 2021-03-03?) is
>> built with support for instruction set extensions that are not available on
>> tb68.
> 
>   That doesn't make sense to me. The crashing test calls normal Skia code that
> shouldn't be special WRT instruction sets, and it's normally compiled with
> clang-cl without explicit instruction set flags. The only plausible
> explanation I can think of is that clang-cl defaults to a higher instruction
> set default than cl's (or ours) and the relevant code is somehow unlucky to
> have clang-cl to actually use such an instruction there. But even that
> doesn't really make sense, because that code should get called also by some
> of the previous tests. Moreover tb68 is reportedly E5530 CPU, which supports
> up to SSE4.2, so I don't quite see how something would get accidentally
> compiled to something not supported there without people noticing. Even on
> x86_64 clang doesn't default to anything higher than the baseline SSE2.
> 
>   Is it possible to debug the crash?
> 

is that tb68 running some virtualization?  it's possible to restrict the 
result of CPUID via the hypervisor (to enable live migrations to other 
hosts), could that be the case?


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