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Re: segfaults, working version?

Posted by Michael Bien on Jun 21, 2010; 3:12pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Re-segfaults-working-version-tp911744.html

Hi Michael :)

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On 06/21/2010 02:19 PM, notzed [via jogamp] wrote:
All,

I was moving some stuff to a different machine and downloaded a different jogl/etc than last time because I can't remember where I got the other one (and that was x64 so I couldn't use it) ...  Anyway, it has the nicer object based api, so I converted the minimal code I have over to use it.

But .. it just crashes pretty consistently when executing some simple kernels with "Java Result 139".
could you provide a testcase so I could try to reproduce the crashes? Small as possible so we can add it to the unit tests... would be cool.

if you are using JOGL:
please call GLProfile.initSingleton() before doing any UI work. This changed recently to enable some threading optimizations. We try to get rid of this workaround somehow.



And even when it doesn't, odd things happen like data seemingly not making it to the buffers by the time I use them - I converted a bastardised version of the 'simplemandelbrot' demo I found at http://www.jocl.org/samples/samples.html to the new api and 9 times out of 10 I get a blank result, and at best a few inconsistent pixels around the mandelbrot curve show up (but that indicates the kernel is at least executing).
looks like a missing queue.finish() or queue.readFoo(..., blockingread=true,...); at the end of the computation. But difficult to tell without taking a look at the code... (this could even cause the segfaults above).

I believe all callbacks were disabled in this build, so please don't use them for now if possible.



I'm using the one from here: http://jogamp.org/deployment/autobuilds/jocl-2010-06-16_12-21-31/, with jogl-2.0-pre-20100616-linux-i586.zip on linux x86, with the ati stream sdk 2.1, and still just using the cpu device so far.  I've tried the sun jdk 1.6.0_20 as well as an older openjdk.

I guess i'm asking - is this stuff at a stage it is expected to be usable and i'm simply stuffing things up (the 'hellojocl' demo works), is it premature to be playing with it, and/or is there a version I should be using and is known to work ok?
we have several junit tests covering a big part of the OpenCL api which are run basically after each commit on at least 5 machines. The CL core binding looks stable so far.

There is also a linux related driver bug worth mentioning. For a workaround, start your program from console and enable signal chaining with:
export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib/amd64/libjsig.so
The bug was only reproducible with NV drivers so far (which is fixed in the upcoming driver release) but it could happen on AMD too...
(in short: some drivers replace mandatory JVM signal handlers which leads to crashes and very unstable behavior esp in GL-CL interop. apps.)


Regards,
 Michael
hope that helps,

Regareds,
Michael Bien




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