709510 - Hard lockups with GL layers on Linux 64bit NVIDIA

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled gives me a few hard lockup a week, on this debian testing / x86_64 box, a Thinkpad W510 with a Quadro FX 880 M. This happens with both the 275.xx and 290.xx NVIDIA driver series.

On the same setup, using the Flash plugin also results in hard lockups, much quicker (generally within seconds). Even without GL layers.

By lockup I mean that all I can do is physically power off the machine.

On the other hand, pure-GL stuff like WebGL do not result in lockups. This makes me confident that if we switch to skia for content drawing, and no longer use XRender and texture_from_pixmap, GL layers might no longer cause these issues.

Comment 1

[Daniel C]

I force-enabled accelerated layers on 64-bit Linux to test. I haven't yet had a crash or hard lockup with plugins disabled, but when I enabled Flash and tested YouTube, I did get a crash after a few seconds of watching a video: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/bp-7f88b5ff-153a-49f9-8a53-2c59a2120122

This was just a crash though, I didn't have a hard lockup. Using an Nvidia GeForce GT 520 with the 280.13 binary drivers (those are the latest version that Ubuntu 11.10 gives when selecting the post-release-updates driver with jockey-gtk).

WebGL content doesn't seem to crash.

Comment 2

[Silviu C]

Does this still happen for you guys with the latest nvidia drivers and firefox?
 
I can't reproduce this on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit with FF 35.0.1 and the nvidia 346.35 on a GTX 660

Comment 3

[Ivan Baldo]

Maybe this bug should be closed since no one seems to be able to reproduce it anymore...

Comment 4

[Andrew Comminos [:acomminos]]

I agree- it's also less relevant now that XRender and EXT_texture_from_pixmap are off by default. If anyone is able to reproduce, feel free to reopen.