1707736 - 3 crash reporting tests skipped on apple_silicon

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Crash Reporting, task)

Description

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

Last week we turned on tests for Apple Silicon (OSX 11.2.3 on new Apple based hardware). We are using the simplified new test config process:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/ci-configs/index.html

As the tests are live, we are now filing bugs to help close the loop and hope to fix any issues over the next 7 weeks. As the process outlines, there are tier-3 jobs running on m-c which run these skipped tests and will expect a failure/timeout/crash- if it doesn't fail, then the job will turn orange.

here are some failing tests:
dom/ipc/tests/JSWindowActor/browser_crash_report.js

here are some more failing tests:
dom/ipc/tests/browser_CrashService_crash.js
dom/ipc/tests/browser_crash_oopiframe.js

Comment 1

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

:neha, a heads up that we have a few tests that are skipped on the new apple silicon platform- I suspect these are related to issues with the crashreporter.

Comment 2

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

Gabriele might be interested in these failures.

Comment 3

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

Just skimming the failure logs, these tests intentionally crash a process, and the failure log just shows that there's a crash, so presumably the "ignore a crash" mechanism is failing.

Comment 4

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

:mccr8 and :gsvelto - I would encourage you to look at the other bugs blocking bug 1706716, there are some other crashing related tests.

Comment 5

[Gabriele Svelto [:gsvelto]]

Looking at the test logs the exception handler is failing which is something I feared might happen eventually. We need to fix bug 1035892 ASAP which is something I've been delaying for a long, long time because my patch causes issues elsewhere. I'll have to get an ARM-based mac to test because I don't have one ATM so I don't expect to fix this in the very short term.