Closed
Bug 312929
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
Firefox does not launch on latest Intel Mac OS X build (8F1099)
Categories
(Core :: XPCOM, defect)
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RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: jaas, Assigned: jaas)
References
Details
(Keywords: fixed1.8)
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(2 files)
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dougt
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review+
dbaron
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superreview+
asa
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approval1.8rc1+
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Details | Diff | Splinter Review |
Firefox does not launch on latest Intel Mac OS X build (8F1099).
> Exception: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (0x0002)
Probably misaligned stack. From the seed notes for 8F1099:
"The 16-byte stack alignment requirement in the Intel ABI is now
aggressively enforced. Applications which crash with an illegal
instruction exception are probably misaligning the stack. This should
only affect assembly code; all code built with GCC should automatically
align the stack correctly."
Comment 2•19 years ago
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We have hit this problem in my group at Apple, this sounds like some assembly somewhere, NSPR? is not 16-byte aligned. Someone in my group took a look at this stack and suggested that frames 1 and 14 of Thead 0 looks like a good place to start looking. I can give more details in email and/or hook people up with OS people, send me mail.
If anyone else who cares is as uneducated on this subject as I am, you can visit http://tinyurl.com/965zr for an idea of what is going on.
Comment 4•19 years ago
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See http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix/xptcinvoke_gcc_x86_unix.cpp&mark=132-134#132 I think that backing out parts of http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&root=/cvsroot&subdir=mozilla/xpcom/reflect/xptcall/src/md/unix&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=xptcinvoke_gcc_x86_unix.cpp&rev2=1.4&rev1=1.3 might solve this. See bug 195736.
bsmedberg: We use "xptcinvoke_unixish_x86.cpp" not "xptcinvoke_gcc_x86_unix.cpp". McAfee: Almost assuredly the problem is in "xptcinvoke_unixish_x86.cpp". We are short on people who know x86 assembly, and if you know someone who could take a look that would be great. See 297326 for what we had to do for the first Mac OS X for Intel builds.
Severity: major → critical
Comment 6•19 years ago
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I have a few people to ask, just sent mail.
Comment 7•19 years ago
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Comment 8•19 years ago
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Firefox wasn't aligning the stack inside nsXPTCStubBase::Stub5. I've attached diffs against mozilla TOT which do this. With this change in place I can launch DeerPark and browse the web a bit. I eventually hit a crash inside some plugin code that isn't due to a misaligned stack, so I'm guessing that's a separate problem in TOT. For what it's worth, I'm not sure why nsXPTCStubBase::Stub##n has inline asm at all. As far as I can tell, the function could be written like this: return PrepareAndDispatch(firstArg, n, &secondArg); You can't quite do that today because the stubs are defined as taking no arguments in xptcstubsdecl.inc, but that's clearly wrong. They obviously do take arguments, and if they were declared like that this code would be a lot more maintainable.
(In reply to comment #8) > You can't quite do that today because the stubs are defined as taking no arguments in > xptcstubsdecl.inc, but that's clearly wrong. They obviously do take arguments, and if they were > declared like that this code would be a lot more maintainable. The problem is that they take variable numbers of arguments using normal (not varargs) calling conventions, and the numbers and types are determined by information contained in data structures that the callee has access to.
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Comment 10•19 years ago
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With Eric's patch, Firefox is up and running again. Thanks!
Attachment #200322 -
Flags: superreview?(dbaron)
Attachment #200322 -
Flags: review?(dougt)
Comment on attachment 200322 [details] [diff] [review] Align the stack inside nsXPTCStubBase::Stub##n >+#define ALIGN_STACK \ >+ "andl $0xfffffff0, %%esp\n\t" \ >+ "subl $0x4, %%esp\n\t" You could put an "addl $0x4, %%esp\n\t" \ in as the first line of this macro to avoid wasting 16 bytes in one of the 4 possible cases (although we probably never hit that one; I suspect there's no room for variation and if we hit that one nobody would have filed the bug) With or without that, sr=dbaron.
Attachment #200322 -
Flags: superreview?(dbaron) → superreview+
Updated•19 years ago
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Attachment #200322 -
Flags: review?(dougt) → review+
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Comment 12•19 years ago
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Comment on attachment 200322 [details] [diff] [review] Align the stack inside nsXPTCStubBase::Stub##n Requesting 1.8 approval. Consider carefully - while we don't need this fix for FF 1.5, we will need it on the Mozilla 1.8 branch within the next 2-3 months. It is absolutely necessary in order to get FF running on Intel Macs. So, we either take the risk now or in a later point release. Perhaps get some guidance on the risk factor from dbaron.
Attachment #200322 -
Flags: approval1.8rc1?
Comment 13•19 years ago
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The diff to me looks like MACOSX/i386 only, we could test this with other OS's that use the xptcstubs_unixish_x86.cpp file to build, hmm looks like linux/i386 does?
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Comment 14•19 years ago
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Landed on trunk with dbaron's suggestion from comment #11 (it seems to work fine). Forgot to give Eric credit in the cvs commit credit. Won't forget on branch landing whenever that happens. Thanks Eric!
Comment 15•19 years ago
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(In reply to comment #9) > The problem is that they take variable numbers of arguments using normal (not > varargs) calling conventions, and the numbers and types are determined by > information contained in data structures that the callee has access to. The weird thing about that, though, is that the stubs don't seem to pass those extra arguments on to the function they're calling or use those extra arguments. Maybe that's something specific to the x86 implementation -- I haven't looked at any of the others -- but PrepareAndDispatch only takes three arguments. If we pass fewer than two arguments it'll be passed junk, and if we pass more than that they'll get ignored. Because we're calling PrepareAndDispatch rather than jumping to it, it doesn't really have a way to access extra arguments unless it's both written in assembly and doing some very nasty stuff. Or maybe I'm missing something very important here. :) Which wouldn't be surprising considering that I hadn't looked at this code before last night....
Comment 16•19 years ago
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Magic! or... The stub doesn't pass arguments to PrepareAndDispatch in accordance with the standard calling convention, it passes a pointer to the base of the arguments in memory. The args argument that PrepareAndDispatch receives points to the arguments that the stub received in its own stack frame. methodIndex, the same as the stub number, informs PrepareAndDispatch of the quantity and types of the arguments. Other architectures work similarly, although the calling conventions are of course different.
Comment 17•19 years ago
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*** Bug 313398 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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Attachment #200322 -
Flags: approval1.8rc1? → approval1.8rc1+
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Comment 18•19 years ago
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Landed on branch. Thanks Eric!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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