[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] texobj: add verbose api trace messages to several routines

[Carl Worth]

Jose Fonseca <jfonseca at vmware.com> writes:
> I see.  But one can use apitrace through LD_LIBRARY_PATH instead of
> LD_PRELOAD. Steam is not the first app to have issues with LD_PRELOAD.

I spend some time looking at this issue today.

First, things aren't as bad as I had first thought. I had
misunderstood the original report thinking that the Steam overlay made
it so that no Steam games could be traced. But in fact, it's easy to
trace a Steam game with "apitrace trace"—the only trick is to ensure
that LD_PRELOAD does not include gamoverlayrenderer.so.

But, yes, there's definitely a failure if one actually does want to
trace the operation of the overlay itself.

And switching from LD_PRELOAD to LD_LIBRARY_PATH for apitrace didn't
fix things in my experiments. Regardless of the mechanism for invoking
apitrace, I found the same behavior: If both apitrace and
gameoverlayrenderer are loaded then the game will segfault. The crash
is from infinite mutual recursion as the two wrappers continue to call
into each others functions.

I don't think it should be too hard to get this to work, (though it
may require a source change to the Steam overlay). I'll do some more
experiments tomorrow and see if I can't make a concrete recommendation
to be able to give to Valve as a bug report.

And, obviously, if there's something we can do to make apitrace more
robust here, I'll submit that change as well.

-Carl

-- 
carl.d.worth at intel.com
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