1838218 - WebGL 2 does not work TypedArrays with a view length >=2GB

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Graphics: CanvasWebGL, defect, P2)

Description

[Jukka Jylänki]

Attachment: webgl2_throw_wasm_4gb.png

WebAssembly has in the past years lifted its signed int32 2GB linear Memory restrictions, and is able to do up to unsigned int32 4GB maximum Memory sizes.

We are in the process of updating Unity to support up to 4GB of memory. While testing this change, it looks like the WebGL 2 implementation in Firefox is not ready for this change, but throws an exception

TypeError: WebGL2RenderingContext.uniform4fv: Float32Array branch of
(Float32Array or sequence<unrestricted float>) can't be an ArrayBuffer
or an ArrayBufferView larger than 2 GB

This prevents Firefox from being able to run newer Unity content that requires more than 2GB of RAM.

Comment 1

[Jukka Jylänki]

A test case can be downloaded from http://clb.confined.space/bugs/webgl2_more_than_2gb_of_ram.zip

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:jgilbert, could you have a look please?

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Comment 3

[Jukka Jylänki]

Attachment: hello_webgl.zip

Attaching a possibly smaller-to-work-with repro.

This issue is still important, all Unity content will soon be running in this mode, which would break running on Firefox.

Comment 4

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

This exception is thrown from Codegen.py-generated bindings code, and is unconditional when the length of the view is too big.
However, the workaround is to make a subview of just the range you need, and that seems to work.

Comment 5

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

I don't know what our migration path to allowing >2GB arrays through the bindings code looks like. I imagine we'll need to craft an opt-in of some sort, and piecemeal update each binding's backing implementation. (e.g. some custom [AllowLarge])
@jandem probably knows more, I hope? :)

Comment 6

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

An example of the workarounds that I did to make the demo work locally:

 function _glUniformMatrix4fv(location, count, transpose, value) {
  value >>>= 0;
+ if (false) {
   count && GLctx.uniformMatrix4fv(webglGetUniformLocation(location), !!transpose, HEAPF32, (value >>> 2), count * 16);
+ } else {
+  const view = new Float32Array(HEAPF32.buffer, value, count*16);
+  count && GLctx.uniformMatrix4fv(webglGetUniformLocation(location), !!transpose, view);
+ }
 }

Comment 7

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

Actionable next steps in my mind are to add [AllowLarge] to Codegen.py and start using it for WebGL, but I want to know if there's an actual plan for this migration already.

Comment 9

[Jan de Mooij [:jandem]]

(In reply to Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert] from comment #5)

I don't know what our migration path to allowing >2GB arrays through the bindings code looks like. I imagine we'll need to craft an opt-in of some sort, and piecemeal update each binding's backing implementation. (e.g. some custom [AllowLarge])
@jandem probably knows more, I hope? :)

The problem is that dom::TypedArray_base uses uint32_t instead of size_t for mLength, so this needs a careful audit/tests of consumers to check they can handle large array buffers without truncation (or worse).

Ideally we'd support large array buffers everywhere, but the opt-in you mentioned makes sense to me and is a good incremental step I think.

Comment 10

[Kelsey Gilbert [:jgilbert]]

This needs changes to Codegen.py that I don't want to dive into for now, given how many things I'm working on otherwise.

Comment 11

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Attachment: Bug 1838218 - Add [AllowLarge] to WebGL methods to support >2GB TypedArrays

Apply [AllowLarge] alongside [AllowShared] on WebGL buffer source
parameters and list typedefs. Update C++ consumers to pass
AllowLargeTypedArrays=true to ProcessData/ProcessFixedData so that
TypedArray views backed by large WASM heaps (up to 4GB) are accepted.

Comment 12

[Jukka Jylänki]

so that TypedArray views backed by large WASM heaps (up to 4GB) are accepted.

Any chance this might address support for Wasm64 (up to 16GB views) as well?

Comment 13

[Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]]

Wasm64 (up to 16GB views)

Where is this limit comes from? I could not find the value from the spec.

Comment 14

[Jukka Jylänki]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1931401

Comment 15

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/e42d80b5d4de
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/67b78c13343c
Add [AllowLarge] to WebGL methods to support >2GB TypedArrays r=webidl,edgar

Comment 16

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/2d4c80f41868
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d1b0458dc585
Revert "Bug 1838218 - Add [AllowLarge] to WebGL methods to support >2GB TypedArrays r=webidl,edgar" for causing gl2c failures @test_2_conformance2__wasm__bufferdata-4gb-wasm-memory.html.

Comment 17

[agoloman]

Backed out for causing gl2c failures @test_2_conformance2__wasm__bufferdata-4gb-wasm-memory.html.

• Backout link
• Push with failures
• Failure Log

Comment 18

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Attachment: Bug 1838218 - Add [AllowLarge] to WebGL methods to support >2GB TypedArrays

Apply [AllowLarge] alongside [AllowShared] on WebGL buffer source
parameters and list typedefs. Update C++ consumers to pass
AllowLargeTypedArrays=true to ProcessData/ProcessFixedData so that
TypedArray views backed by large WASM heaps (up to 4GB) are accepted.

Comment 19

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

Is now failing with

[task 2026-03-26T21:23:29.329+00:00] 21:23:29     INFO - PROCESS-CRASH | 5e6ebd38-ca72-a2a0-1dda-e77abb5b4f41 | MOZ_CRASH(IPC message size is too large) [@ mozilla::ipc::PortLink::SendMessage] | dom/canvas/test/webgl-conf/generated/test_2_conformance__extensions__webgl-compressed-texture-size-limit.html

Comment 20

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel] from comment #19)

Is now failing with

[task 2026-03-26T21:23:29.329+00:00] 21:23:29     INFO - PROCESS-CRASH | 5e6ebd38-ca72-a2a0-1dda-e77abb5b4f41 | MOZ_CRASH(IPC message size is too large) [@ mozilla::ipc::PortLink::SendMessage] | dom/canvas/test/webgl-conf/generated/test_2_conformance__extensions__webgl-compressed-texture-size-limit.html

This was actually caused by something else

Comment 21

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/b3893aa0f670
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/440de3bdb579
Add [AllowLarge] to WebGL methods to support >2GB TypedArrays r=webidl,edgar

Comment 22

[Iulian Moraru]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/440de3bdb579

Comment 23

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to Jukka Jylänki from comment #12)

so that TypedArray views backed by large WASM heaps (up to 4GB) are accepted.

Any chance this might address support for Wasm64 (up to 16GB views) as well?

I think it doesn't but haven't had a chance to check closely