Also, it seems that Android doesn't use the Linux stack defaults.

Is the stack size under our control on Android?

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote:
>> From black-box testing, it seems that some part of layout has gotten a
>> new << 200 depth limit for nested display:table-cell some time between
>> September 11 and September 14.
>>
>> To save myself the trouble of bisecting this, does anyone know which
>> patch did this and why?
>
> The above was based on running the wrong apk. Please disregard.
>
> However, investigating further showed that with display: table-cell
> the depth limit takes effect at a DOM depth that's about 1/5 of the
> stated limit. I'm assuming that anonymous frames count towards the
> limit and a display: table-cell that doesn't belong to a table ends up
> creating 5 frames. Correct?
>
> I guess this means that empirically finding the crash threshold for
> display: table-cell is more complicated than I thought and the numbers
> probably end up being such that the HTML parser won't be able to
> protect against nested table-cells hitting the frame construction
> limit without setting the HTML parser limit to something unreasonably
> low.
>
> Since we run unrelated sites in the same content process, we should
> avoid content process crashes more carefully than Chromium. Still, in
> some ways, crashing the content process indeed can be less confusing
> UX than parts of the page going silently missing. If we are going to
> keep *some* depth limit at which the frame constructor makes content
> not show up, it seems to me that it would be appropriate to make the
> frame constructor signal to the browser UI that it hit the limit so
> that the browser UI could show an infobar about parts of the page
> being omitted. I was investigating this very area and *still* I got
> confused by content disappearing and started to doubt my test case.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivo...@hsivonen.fi
> https://hsivonen.fi/



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