"Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 2011/11/7 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
>> "Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 2011/11/7 Måns Rullgård <[email protected]>:
>>>> Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> tags 647824 upstream
>>>>> stop
>>>>>
>>>>> On So, Nov 06, 2011 at 17:53:30 (CET), Harald Dunkel wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Package: libav
>>>>>> Version: 4:0.7.2-1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If I build the current xbmc snapshot, then it dies at runtime when
>>>>>> creating thumbnails for wmv files. See http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/11789
>>>>>> for more details
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.ffmpeg.devel/134444
>>>>>>
>>>>>> provides a workaround. Do you think this could be included in the
>>>>>> libav and libav-extra packages?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> That patch does not apply to Debian's libav package. In fact, it seems
>>>>> that this bug is still present in the master branch.
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to reproduce the segmentation fault using the following
>>>>> command in libav *master* (inspired by
>>>>> https://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/ticket/397):
>>>>>
>>>>> ./ffmpeg -v 9 -loglevel 99 -i 
>>>>> /srv/scratch/fate-suite/amv/MTV_high_res_320x240_sample_Penguin_Joke_MTV_from_WMV.amv
>>>>>  -sws_flags fast_bilinear -vf "scale=640:480" -vframes 1 -vcodec png 
>>>>> output.png
>>>>>
>>>>> Unforutnately, this (adapted) patch does not seem to fix the
>>>>> segmentation fault:
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/libswscale/x86/swscale_template.c 
>>>>> b/libswscale/x86/swscale_template.c
>>>>> index 5e7df5c..51ea303 100644
>>>>> --- a/libswscale/x86/swscale_template.c
>>>>> +++ b/libswscale/x86/swscale_template.c
>>>>> @@ -1657,6 +1657,11 @@ static void RENAME(hyscale_fast)(SwsContext *c, 
>>>>> int16_t *dst,
>>>>>      DECLARE_ALIGNED(8, uint64_t, ebxsave);
>>>>>  #endif
>>>>>
>>>>> +    // HACK: gcc 4.6 no longer decrements esp,
>>>>> +    // use this to make it reserve space for the call
>>>>> +    // return address
>>>>> +    void *dummy;
>>>>
>>>> The real problem here comes from hiding a call inside inline asm.  On
>>>> x86_64 leaf functions have a "red zone" of 128 bytes below the stack
>>>> pointer which can be used for whatever the compiler feels like.  If the
>>>> compiler has made use of this (gcc frequently does) and a call is
>>>> injected with inline asm, any values kept in the red zone are destroyed.
>>>>
>>>> There are 3 solutions to this problem:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Do the calls in C.
>>>> 2. Convert the function to yasm.
>>>> 3. Manually protect the red zone in the inline asm.
>>>>
>>>> Option 3 is difficult to do if any asm parameters might reference the
>>>> stack as is the case here.
>>>>
>>>> Why is this using asm at all?  It's only a few function calls.
>>>
>>> You should check what it's calling. :-).
>>
>> It's calling some generated code.  So what?  Use a function pointer.
>
> Ugliest version of emulating pmaddubsw ever? That's essentially what it is...

Option 4: delete it

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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