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WalkthroughBoth cores now build FFmpeg 9.0.2 and its CLI tools. The single-threaded core uses a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers. CI adds browser diagnostics for failed test pages and inputs for filtering FATE tests and setting their log level. ChangesFFmpeg 9 core builds
Failed test page diagnostics
Configurable FATE runs
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant FFmpegBinding
participant FFmpegCore
participant PthreadFiber
FFmpegBinding->>PthreadFiber: optionally call _pfiber_begin_call
FFmpegBinding->>FFmpegCore: invoke exec or ffprobe
FFmpegCore->>PthreadFiber: call wrapped pthread functions
PthreadFiber->>PthreadFiber: schedule cooperative fibers
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participant CIWorkflow
participant DumpTestPage
participant PuppeteerBrowser
CIWorkflow->>DumpTestPage: run diagnostic for failed page
DumpTestPage->>PuppeteerBrowser: launch browser and open page
PuppeteerBrowser->>DumpTestPage: send page and worker diagnostics
DumpTestPage->>CIWorkflow: return diagnostic output
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Move the st core to FFmpeg n9.0.2, matching the mt core, by giving it a cooperative pthread implementation on Emscripten fibers instead of the disable-pthreads/vendored-n5.1.10 path. FFmpeg n9's fftools scheduler pthread_creates a thread per demuxer/decoder/filtergraph/encoder/muxer; without SharedArrayBuffer those calls now run on fibers, one at a time, switching at mutex/cond/join/sleep blocking points. src/pthread-fiber/pthread_fiber.c implements pthread_create/join/detach/ self/equal/once, mutex init/destroy/lock/trylock/unlock, cond init/destroy/ wait/timedwait/signal/broadcast, and usleep/nanosleep, wired in via -Wl,--wrap so they override Emscripten's non-pthread stubs without colliding with the rest of that stub object. Codec-level auto-threading (slice/frame threads) is forced to 1 by patching av_cpu_count() under a FFMPEG_WASM_ST guard, since the mt core should keep its own auto-detection. Both cores now build n9.0.2 and link its fftools objects (build/ffmpeg.sh, build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh, Dockerfile); the vendored src/fftools tree stays for now and is removed once CI confirms the st core is green on n9.
Update AGENTS.md's FFmpeg upgrade plan and overview.md's Libraries table now that the st core builds n9.0.2 too, so check-doc-versions.mjs and the plan stay accurate.
mocha-headless-chrome prints nothing from the page itself, so ffmpeg-core-st/ffmpeg-st timing out at 0 tests reported is a black box. Add scripts/diagnose-test-page.mjs (Puppeteer, console/pageerror/ requestfailed plus worker console via a CDP session) and run it only for pages the tests job already found failing, before failing the job.
ffmpeg-core-st and ffmpeg-st both pass a plain exec("-h") (no fftools
scheduler threads involved) but hang for the full 60s on an actual
transcode, with nothing printed: FFmpeg's own av_log output goes through
bind.js's Module.logger, a no-op unless a caller sets one, so a silent
deadlock in the fiber scheduler is otherwise invisible.
Add a temporary pf_debug() to pthread_fiber.c (EM_JS straight to
console.error, bypassing Module.logger, budget-capped in case it is a tight
loop) at pthread_create/join, mutex contention, cond wait/signal/broadcast,
and the scheduler's pick-next/nothing-runnable decisions. Also fix
diagnose-test-page.mjs: it was checking for #mocha-stats' existence, which
is there from the moment mocha.run() starts (at 0/0), so it returned
immediately instead of watching the actual hang.
The previous round's tests job ran 25+ minutes instead of the usual ~2: a genuinely stuck page can make page.evaluate() and even browser.close() hang indefinitely, and the diagnostic had no timeout of its own on any of those calls, so it (or the flood of debug console messages) turned one 60s hang into an open-ended one. Bound every step (goto, evaluate, close) with its own timeout, force-kill the browser process as a last resort, add a hard overall deadline that self-exits, wrap the CI invocation in `timeout 100`, and cut pf_debug's line budget from 500 to 60.
The previous trace showed 4 pthread_creates and a full scheduler startup handshake completing cleanly, then total silence for the rest of the 60s hang. pthread_cond_timedwait (the only synchronization primitive fftools_sched's sch_wait() reporting loop actually uses) had no debug prints at all, so main's polling loop was invisible. Add enter/exit prints with the computed deadline, current time, and loop count, and raise pf_debug's budget to 200 to fit the expected volume (main polls this every ~500ms while a transcode runs).
Root cause of the st core's transcode hang: fftools_sched's sch_wait() polls completion via pthread_cond_timedwait on the main thread while demux/decode/encode/mux run on their own fibers. cond_timedwait's retry loop only regains control when pfiber_reschedule() returns, but reschedule only returns to a blocked caller by finding it PF_RUNNABLE again -- nothing ever set that once every other fiber was also blocked, so it spun in reschedule's own emscripten_sleep retry loop forever, missing every deadline it was ostensibly checking. Move deadline expiry into the scheduler itself: pfiber_reschedule() now sweeps every blocked fiber each pass and flips any whose deadline_ms has passed back to PF_RUNNABLE (tagged woke_by_timeout so cond_timedwait can tell a real signal from an expiry), the same way the existing sweep already frees finished detached fibers' stacks. This works regardless of which fiber happens to call reschedule next, not just the deadline's own owner.
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…dency bump
pnpm-lock.yaml's root importer still pointed puppeteer at 13.7.0 after
rebasing onto master's mocha-headless-chrome 4.0.0 -> 5.1.0 bump, but the
packages catalog no longer carried a 13.7.0 entry (only the 24.43.1 that
mocha-headless-chrome 5.1.0 itself pulls in) -- a byproduct of git replaying
this branch's textual lockfile diff over the new file rather than pnpm
regenerating it. The result parsed fine but was internally inconsistent:
`pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` accepted it, yet `import "puppeteer"` from
scripts/diagnose-test-page.mjs failed with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, because the
node_modules/puppeteer symlink pointed at a store path that no longer had
package contents. Re-adding the dependency lets pnpm regenerate the catalog
entry; verified with a from-scratch `rm -rf node_modules && pnpm install
--frozen-lockfile` plus a plain `import("puppeteer")`.
The cond_timedwait fix didn't clear the transcode hang: main's very first sch_wait() timedwait (500ms deadline) never gets control back at all, and no fiber calls any wrapped pthread_ function again for the rest of the 60s -- meaning some task's real body (not the startup handshake, which completes fine) runs forever without ever blocking on anything this shim sees, so the scheduler itself never gets invoked to notice the expired deadline. Add an FFMPEG_WASM_ST-guarded trace to ffmpeg_sched.c's task_wrapper (build/patches/n9/fftools-wasm.patch), printing each task's type/index before and after calling its real per-task function (demux/dec/enc/mux), straight to console.error like pthread_fiber.c's pf_debug. Whichever task prints "enter" but never "exit" is the one stuck.
task_wrapper's trace showed all four scheduler tasks (demux/dec/filter_in/ enc) enter and never exit; the timedwait fix alone did not clear the hang, and the last visible activity is a legitimate-looking cond_wait/broadcast handshake on the demux<->dec and dec<->filter queues, then total silence for the rest of the 60s with no further pthread_ calls from any fiber. thread_queue.c's tq_send()/tq_receive() (fftools/thread_queue.c) are the only data-movement path between those tasks and use only mutex/cond primitives already covered by pf_debug, so if the hang is in queue synchronization these enter/exit prints will show a task stuck inside one of them; if instead no further thread_queue trace appears at all after the handshake, the hang is deeper in real codec/filter processing (a different, harder problem outside pthread_fiber.c's scheduler logic).
The thread_queue trace (previous round, job 107904901018) shows real data movement: tq_send/tq_receive pairs completing normally, and the scheduler's handshake correctly marks the demuxer fiber runnable again via a broadcast right before the hang -- but nothing ever swaps back into it. That means whichever fiber keeps running (the filter task, going by the last printed signals) never calls another wrapped pthread_/thread_queue function again for the rest of the 60s: this is a real, uninstrumented stretch of C code, not a lost wakeup or a scheduler logic bug. Add a heartbeat: pf_heartbeat_tick_js() bumps a JS counter on every actual fiber swap, and a setInterval (started once, from pfiber_ensure_main) prints it every 2s. Since Emscripten fibers swap without needing Asyncify (only emscripten_sleep does), and this core runs on the page's main JS thread, a genuine C-level busy loop blocks the JS event loop too -- including this setInterval. If the heartbeat goes silent during the hang, nothing is yielding to JS at all, confirming a true spin rather than merely slow real work that still occasionally reaches a wrapped call.
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claude-opus-5-5 responding on behalf of project516 Status on the st core transcode hang. Fixed:
Known, as of run 36080795820 (job 107904901018, commit 09edf9c):
Next step (pushed, commit 8f23c73, CI run in progress as of this comment): If the heartbeat keeps ticking through the hang: the filter task is making real progress, just far slower than expected, and the next step is finding which specific libavfilter/libswscale call is slow. If it stops: something on the current fiber's stack is a genuine infinite or very-long spin with no wrapped call, and the next step is bisecting where in All debug tracing ( |
The heartbeat never fired (job 107908357922, commit 8f23c73): zero heartbeat lines for the whole run, and the diagnostic's own page.evaluate() went unresponsive too. That confirms a genuine busy spin blocking the page's JS thread entirely, not slow-but-real work, since Emscripten fiber swaps don't need Asyncify and a true C-level loop with no yield blocks the same thread a JS setInterval runs on. The trace's last activity is fiber 1 (task type=5, FILTER_IN) finishing a successful tq_receive and the usual post-receive schedule_update_locked() broadcasts, then nothing. That return sequence matches filter_thread()'s main loop (fftools/ffmpeg_filter.c) about to call send_frame() and then read_frames(), which calls avfilter_graph_request_oldest() to actually pull data through the filter graph -- the first point where real libavfilter/ libswscale processing runs, and where the graph configures itself for the first time if it wasn't already. Add FFMPEG_WASM_ST-guarded enter/exit prints around configure_filtergraph(), send_frame(), read_frames(), and avfilter_graph_request_oldest() (the four calls filter_thread()'s loop makes) so the next run pinpoints exactly which one never returns.
…eads=1 955ccc5's trace: "enter send_frame", "exit send_frame", "enter read_frames", then nothing (page.evaluate() itself went unresponsive, confirming a real busy spin, not slow work). The configure_filtergraph and avfilter_graph_request_oldest markers never fired, so the spin is in read_frames() before request_oldest: either the !fgt->graph branch or the "reap all buffers" fg_output_step loop. Add prints around the fg_output_step loop (capped: first 10 iterations then every 500th, so a genuine tight loop doesn't drown the log) and around av_buffersink_get_frame_flags() inside fg_output_step, to see whether it's looping many times or stuck in one call. Also found and fixed a real discrepancy while reading this path: filter_complex_nbthreads defaults to 0 ("auto") and fgt->graph->nb_threads = filter_complex_nbthreads overwrites the filtergraph's own default of 1, reopening avpriv_slicethread_create()'s auto-resolution in libavutil/slicethread.c instead of ff_graph_thread_init()'s clean "nb_threads == 1, do nothing" return. Force it back to 1 under FFMPEG_WASM_ST. Traced through slicethread.c, pthread_slice.c, threadprogress.c, and pthread_frame.c while investigating: all their wait loops correctly use pthread_cond_wait already wrapped by pthread_fiber.c, so this isn't a confirmed fix on its own, but it removes a real gap between the st core's forced thread count and what the filter graph actually resolves to.
…c_open2 c63ae1c's trace: "fg_output_step: enter", "buffersink_get_frame: enter", "buffersink_get_frame: ret a=0 b=0" (a real frame, not EAGAIN/EOF), then nothing. So the hang is in the rest of fg_output_step after getting a frame: fg_output_frame() -> sch_filter_send() -> send_to_enc(), which opens the encoder synchronously on the first frame (enc_open() calling avcodec_open2(), then of_stream_init()) if it has not been opened yet. Add FFMPEG_WASM_ST-guarded prints around sch_filter_send's send_to_enc call, send_to_enc's enc_open call, the scheduler-level enc_open's call into the encoder's open_cb (fftools/ffmpeg_sched.c), and inside ffmpeg_enc.c's enc_open around avcodec_open2() and of_stream_init() specifically, so the next run shows whether the hang is in avcodec_open2 (encoder-internal threading, e.g. x264/x265's own thread pool independent of av_cpu_count()) or in muxer stream init.
…_create c874aa1's trace: avcodec_open2 enters and exits cleanly, then "enter of_stream_init" and nothing. In n9 that calls sch_mux_stream_ready(), which once every stream is ready calls mux_init() (the muxer's init callback, i.e. avformat_write_header via mux_check_init) and then mux_task_start(), which calls task_start() -> pthread_create() for the mux thread. This is the first pthread_create issued from a non-main fiber (fiber 1, the filter task) instead of from main during initial setup, and only 4 pthread_creates have ever been observed in any trace. Add prints around sch_mux_stream_ready's mux_ready_lock and its call into mux_init, mux_init's call into the muxer's own init callback and into mux_task_start, and task_start's pthread_create call (build/patches/n9/ fftools-wasm.patch). Also add an entry print at the very top of __wrap_pthread_create (src/pthread-fiber/pthread_fiber.c), before it does any work, recording which fiber called it -- if this specific pthread_create call hangs before reaching the existing success print, this is the only way to see it was entered at all.
# Conflicts: # pnpm-lock.yaml
28d80b6's trace: sch_mux_stream_ready acquires its lock, mux_init runs the muxer's own init callback (avformat_write_header) successfully, enters mux_task_start, then nothing -- task_start/pthread_create never fires for the mux task. task_start (fftools/ffmpeg_sched.c) has three things before its pthread_create: an early return if !task->parent, an av_log call, and av_assert0(!task->thread_running). Add markers around each, plus the mux_task_start flush loop's iteration count (capped, same pattern as the other loop traces), so the next run shows exactly which one it stalls on. Also add Module.onAbort to src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js: av_assert0 failing calls abort() through av_log, which normally goes through Module.logger (a no-op unless a caller sets one), so a failed assert deep inside fftools would otherwise be silent. onAbort is called synchronously by Emscripten before the abort exception is thrown, independent of Module.logger, so this makes any abort visible regardless of whether it originates on the main fiber or a worker one.
199d9b2's trace: "enter task_start/av_log" (right before the av_log(..., AV_LOG_VERBOSE, "Starting thread...\n") call), then nothing. No onAbort line, so this isn't a failed assert. The identical av_log call from main for the first four tasks returned fine, so the hang is specific to this call running on a non-main fiber for the first time. Checked musl's own stdio locking first, since __lock()/__lockfile() use a raw atomic (a_cas/a_fetch_add), not a pthread mutex --wrap can intercept: it gates on libc.need_locks, which only the real pthread_create (musl's or Emscripten's -pthread build) ever sets, and neither is linked into this build (pthread_create resolves entirely to __wrap_pthread_create, which never touches it). need_locks stays 0, so __lock()'s fast path always returns immediately -- ruled out as the direct cause. Also worth noting: "Starting thread...\n" was already logged for the earlier four tasks, so this call likely takes av_log_default_callback's own repeated-message dedup path (skips straight to unlocking) rather than the full format/fputs path -- unclear without direct instrumentation. Add FFMPEG_WASM_ST-guarded prints directly in libavutil/log.c's av_log_default_callback: around ff_mutex_lock/unlock, format_line, the repeated-message dedup branch, and the colored_fputs block, so the next run shows exactly which piece never returns.
* ci: extract core builds into a reusable workflow CI.yml's build-core/build-core-mt jobs move into build-cores.yml so the upcoming FATE workflow can reuse the same Docker build steps instead of duplicating them. * test(fate): add a FATE compatibility harness and benchmark scripts Adds scripts/fate/ to run a subset of FFmpeg's own FATE tests (framecrc and framemd5, drawn from common demuxer/decoder/filter .mak files) against a built core under Node, and scripts/bench/ to compare wall time and peak memory for a fixed set of transcodes on native FFmpeg vs. each core. Both compatibility and performance are measured this way so the FFmpeg 9 migration (#41) and future changes have a signal beyond the existing browser test suite. The idea and pass/fail/skip and wasm/native ratio framing come from wasmpeg's COMPAT.md and CORRECTNESS.md (https://github.com/wasmpeg/wasmpeg, LGPL-2.1-or-later); this is a from-scratch reader of FFmpeg's .mak convention, not a port of their code. Part of #52 Part of #49 * ci(fate): add the FATE and benchmarks workflow Runs the fast, network-free FATE subset on pull requests, the full subset nightly, and either on manual dispatch. Not a required check yet (fate and benchmark jobs use continue-on-error): the subset is still small, so a low pass rate should not block a PR. Uploads JSON results and writes a markdown summary to the job's step summary. Part of #52 Part of #49 * docs: add a FATE and benchmarks page Explains what the new workflow measures, how to run it locally, and where results land, without hardcoding pass rates that have not been measured yet. Part of #52 * fix(bench): give the scale-half output an mp4 extension so a muxer is chosen * ci: run FATE and benchmarks as jobs in CI so the required build-core checks keep their names * fix(fate): generate audiogen/videogen inputs the fast subset needs The fast subset's 25 selected tests are all filter-audio.mak tests whose input comes from a per-target SRC variable (e.g. SRC = $(TARGET_PATH)/tests/data/asynth-44100-2.wav), not from CMD directly. classifyTest only looked at CMD's literal text, so it called these tests synthetic and select.mjs shipped them with $(SRC) unexpanded, which every fast run passed straight through to ffmpeg and failed within milliseconds. mak.mjs now parses per-target variable assignments, resolves them into CMD's args, and classifies a test by what its resolved args actually reference: sample-backed, generatable from FFmpeg's own audiogen.c/videogen.c, or unsupported. gen.mjs compiles those two tools with the host C compiler and runs them to produce the files the selected tests need; run.mjs writes them into the core's MEMFS and expands $(TARGET_PATH) alongside the existing $(TARGET_SAMPLES) substitution. A test whose input can't be produced or built is reported "skip" with a reason instead of "fail". Also: fix scripts/bench/run.mjs's scale-half case, which used scale=iw/2:ih/2 and could hand libx264 an odd dimension; use trunc(iw/4)*2:trunc(ih/4)*2 instead. Update the FATE docs to describe the fast subset's generated inputs instead of implying it only runs lavfi sources. Add .fate-cache to .gitignore; nothing was ignoring the local checkout scripts/fate/fetch-defs.mjs makes. * fix(fate,bench): address review-bot findings on #55 scripts/fate/run.mjs: create a fresh core per test instead of reusing one core.reset() between tests, since reset() only clears the exec return code and timeout, not MEMFS; a shared core left earlier tests' samples and generated inputs visible to later ones. Also call core.setTimeout(60000) and report a hung exec as a "timeout" failure rather than a generic ffmpeg-exited-N one, checking wall time because the wasm side sets the same exit code (1) for a timeout as for exit_program(1) on error. scripts/fate/select.mjs: give every allowlisted .mak file a fair first share of a subset's test budget before topping up from files with more to give, so one large file early in MAK_FILES (filter-audio.mak) can't consume the whole "fast" subset and starve files listed after it. The fast subset now also covers lavfi-only filter-video.mak tests, not just generated-input filter-audio.mak ones. scripts/fate/fetch-samples.mjs: add --timeout=60 to rsync and retry a failed transfer up to 3 times before giving up, so a stalled or flaky mirror fails fast instead of hanging until the job's own timeout. scripts/fate/summary.mjs: stop truncating the failures list at 50; the full per-test list is already in the uploaded JSON, and a "fast"/"full" subset never has more than 200 tests to begin with. scripts/bench/run.mjs: run each (case, run) sample as its own `node` child process, spawned under `/usr/bin/time -v -o <file>` for both native ffmpeg and a core, instead of measuring the core in-process with process.hrtime/memoryUsage(). That gives native and wasm the same wall-clock and peak-RSS measurement from the same external tool; process.memoryUsage().rss is current, not peak, and measures the whole Node host process rather than being comparable to native's peak RSS. Load the benchmark sample via test-helper-browser.js's own module.exports instead of a regex over its source, so it does not depend on being the file's only long quoted string. Document that the 1-second sample makes most cases finish before process startup cost stops dominating, so the wasm/native ratio is meaningful but the absolute wall-clock numbers are not, for anything longer than the sample. Verified locally on the Pi (no docker/emscripten): audiogen/videogen build and run correctly (checked in the prior commit's testing); select.mjs's new allocation confirmed against both pinned tags (fast still selects 25, full still selects 200, spread across more .mak files); run.mjs's per-test core creation and timeout path exercised against a stub core; bench/run.mjs's --one child dispatch and GNU time -v parsing exercised directly (native path against the system ffmpeg, wasm path against a stub core); the base64 sample load verified to decode to a valid mp4 via ffprobe. /usr/bin/time itself is not installed on this machine, so the full time -v wrapper needs CI to exercise end to end. * fix(fate): fetch every missing sample in one rsync session * fix(fate,bench): address CodeRabbit findings on #55 scripts/bench/report.mjs: a core with no successful runs (avgWallMs null) divided into a ratio as 0, printing "0.0x" instead of "?". Require both the native and core timing to be non-null before computing a ratio. scripts/bench/run.mjs: the timed child process had no limit, so a stuck core or ffmpeg could stall the whole benchmark job. Spawn it detached, in its own process group, with a 60s timer that SIGKILLs the group (not just the immediate /usr/bin/time process) on expiry; /usr/bin/time forks the timed node process, which for the native case execs ffmpeg in turn, and a signal to /usr/bin/time alone would leave that descendant running. A timed-out run is recorded as ok: false with reason "timeout". average() now excludes non-ok samples before averaging, since GNU time still writes wall-time/RSS numbers for a run that failed or timed out; each case's JSON now also records okRuns/totalRuns. scripts/fate/lib/compare.mjs: normalize() dropped every "#"-prefixed line, including the stream-parameter headers (#tb, #media_type, #codec_id, #dimensions/#sample_rate, #channel_layout_name/#sar, and framemd5's #format/#version/#hash), so a build reporting the wrong sample rate or dimensions could still pass. Checked actual FATE reference files for both pinned tags: none carry a "#software:" build-stamp line, which is the only line this comparison has reason to treat as volatile. Only that prefix is dropped now; every stream-parameter header is compared like any other line. scripts/fate/summary.mjs: a matrix leg failing before run.mjs writes its results file (fetch-defs, the sample fetch) made readFileSync throw, losing the other leg's summary too. Missing paths now get a "no results" row instead. Verified locally (no docker/emscripten): compareOutput() now fails on a mismatched stream-parameter header and still ignores a synthetic #software line; summary.mjs handles both a present and a missing results file without throwing; report.mjs prints "?" instead of "0.0x" for a null core timing; bench/run.mjs's --one dispatch re-verified against both native ffmpeg and a stub core after the timeout/averaging changes; the detached-spawn-plus-process-group-kill mechanism verified generically against a throwaway script tree (parent and descendant both confirmed gone after the group SIGKILL). /usr/bin/time itself is still not installed on this machine, so the full timeout path needs CI to exercise end to end. * fix(fate,ci): watchdog hung tests, cap job runtime, correct fast-subset claim scripts/fate/run.mjs: core.exec() is synchronous, and the wasm side's own timeout check is only polled inside transcode()'s main loop, so a hang before that loop, or stuck inside one decode/filter call, never returns and the wall-time check in runOne never runs. Each test now runs in its own child process instead, spawned detached in its own process group; the parent kills the whole group with SIGKILL if it outlives CHILD_TIMEOUT_MS (EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS plus a startup/teardown buffer) and records the test as fail/timeout, then continues with the rest. Generated inputs are written to a host-side temp directory once, up front, so every child reads them from disk the same way it already reads fetched samples, rather than each child recompiling audiogen/videogen. The skip checks (sample not fetched, input not generated, no reference file) run in the parent before spawning a child, since they need no core. Fresh-core-per-test is unchanged: each child process creates its own core, same as before. .github/workflows/CI.yml: added timeout-minutes (fate: 30, fate-summary: 5, benchmark: 30) so a hang or a stalled apt/rsync mirror fails fast instead of riding the default 360-minute job timeout. Also cache FFmpeg's tests/ sparse checkout per pinned tag (actions/cache, keyed on the tag); fetch-defs.mjs already skips cloning when the directory exists, so a cache hit skips the network clone entirely. apps/website/docs/fate-and-benchmarks.md: the fast subset was described as "network-free", but fetch-defs.mjs always clones FFmpeg's tests/ from GitHub regardless of subset. Reworded: fast needs no FATE samples mirror access, not no network at all. Verified locally (no docker/emscripten): built a fake core whose exec() spins forever in a busy loop (the exact bug shape: never checks any timeout) and confirmed the parent kills it and reports "timeout" within the (temporarily shortened, then restored) watchdog window, with no orphaned process left behind. Re-ran the full 25-test fast manifest against a normal fake core afterward with production timeouts restored: all 25 tests still resolve their inputs and run through the new child-per-test path with no regressions. CI.yml validated as parseable YAML after each edit. apps/website's own check-doc-versions.mjs still passes.
7175d3b's trace ends at "enter task_start/av_log" with no log.c marker at all, meaning either av_vlog/av_log_default_callback never got called, or it hangs before reaching any of the existing markers -- every round so far has just pushed the silence one call deeper, with no wrapped primitive ever involved. That pattern, plus fiber 1 (the filter task) carrying the deepest call chain in the whole program (filter_thread -> read_frames -> ... -> avcodec_open2 -> ... -> av_log), points at a fiber stack overflow rather than a logic loop: on wasm that silently corrupts the heap or globals instead of trapping, which would explain markers just stop firing rather than erroring. Three changes to test this directly and make it decisive if true: - pthread_fiber.c: emscripten_fiber_swap does not update the stack-overflow checker's bounds (only *_init sets fiber->stack_base/ limit; system/lib/libc/emscripten_fiber.c's swap implementation never calls emscripten_stack_set_limits). Without this, -sSTACK_OVERFLOW_CHECK validates every fiber's stack pointer against whichever fiber set the limits last, catching nothing real. Call it on both sides of every swap in pfiber_reschedule(). - Raise PFIBER_STACK_SIZE 2MB -> 8MB and PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE 64KB -> 1MB, as a direct test: if the hang goes away, that confirms an overflow and sizes get picked deliberately afterward. - build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh: add -sASSERTIONS=2 -sSTACK_OVERFLOW_CHECK=2 to the st build (temporary, this debug round only) so a real overflow aborts with a clear message instead of corrupting silently. Also add markers in libavutil/log.c's av_vlog (entry, before/after log_callback) and right after the level check in av_log_default_callback, to settle whether av_log itself is even reached if the stack-size increase does not clear the hang on its own.
The st core's transcode hang was never the transcode. A first exec() in a process works; every exec() after one that ran the full pipeline spins at 100% CPU and never returns, and the test suite happens to run `ffmpeg -h` before its transcode, so the transcode is what looked broken. Two pieces of state survive an exec() when it should not. The main fiber's context was captured once, on the first wrapped pthread call. bind.js wraps each exec() in stackSave()/stackRestore() because ffmpeg finishes by calling exit(), which Emscripten implements by throwing, so each call runs on a stack pointer the previous call moved and then put back. A context captured during the first call therefore describes a stack frame that no longer exists by the second. pfiber_begin_call() re-captures it, and bind.js calls it at the top of exec() and ffprobe(). Most of FFmpeg's mutexes are file-scope statics, so the shim's block behind one outlives the exec() that filled it, along with the owner left behind by a fiber that was mid-lock when that exec() ended. The next exec() then blocks forever on a lock nothing is going to unlock. Each block now carries the epoch it was made in, and pfiber_reset() bumps the epoch, so a mutex from a previous call starts clean. Reproduced in Node with two execs, which is a 20 second loop against a 10 minute core build: before, the second never returned; after, it returns 0 and writes its output file. Also replaces the scheduler's emscripten_sleep() with a busy-wait. Sleeping from inside a fiber starts a second ASYNCIFY operation on top of the one emscripten_fiber_swap is still rewinding, and the two corrupt each other.
Running the CI core directly, one case per process so a hang costs only its cap, takes a lot off the list. pal100bars hangs for every muxer, pix_fmt, rate and frame count while pal75bars passes on a byte-identical command, and that is why only some FATE filter tests fail: allrgb and allyuv pass against null and fail against framecrc. Not pixel format conversion, not source size, not frame count, not swscale. Wrapping the per-frame leaves as well, av_buffersrc_add_frame_flags, the four av_frame refcount calls, both avcodec calls, finds no loop through any of them either, so the hang is one call below all of that, inside libavfilter or libavcodec. Naming it needs a stack sample, which means changing the build's flags rather than adding another wrapper.
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This PR moves the single-threaded (st) core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 to n9.0.2 by implementing a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers (src/pthread-fiber). The approach is sound but the st core still hangs on video transcodes (known gap, tests failing). The pthread_fiber.c diff is truncated (~400 of 1126 lines), preventing full review of mutex/cond/join implementations. Several issues in visible code and supporting scripts need fixing before merge.
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pf_cond_t only contains an epoch field with no waiter list. Waiters are tracked via pfiber_t.wait_on, but the cond_wait/timedwait implementations (in truncated portion) must check the epoch against g_epoch to reject stale waiters from a previous exec(). Without this, a fiber blocked on a static cond_var when exec() ends will cause the next exec() to block forever on a cond_var nothing will signal.
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Waiters are not tracked in pf_cond_t: a waiting fiber records the cond pointer in pfiber_t.wait_on and is woken by pf_wake_waiters_on(cond). pf_cond_t only carries the epoch so the block behind a file-scope static cond is reclaimed across exec() calls, and pfiber_reset() clears the fiber table, so no waiter can carry over.
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| * the asyncify stack has to hold the deepest chain the fiber can be in, which |
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g_epoch is a 32-bit unsigned int incremented on every pfiber_reset() (every exec()/ffprobe() call). After ~4 billion calls it wraps, causing epoch comparisons to incorrectly treat stale mutexes/conds as current. Use uint64_t or explicitly wrap with a generation counter.
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Handled: pfiber_reset() does if (++g_epoch == 0) g_epoch = 1, so epoch 0 is never handed out and a wrapped counter cannot make a mutex from 2^32 calls ago look current. A stale block would need to survive exactly 2^32 resets.
| * three threads alive at once pays for three, not for PFIBER_MAX. The ceiling | ||
| * therefore bounds what a single run may create rather than what it reserves, | ||
| * and __wrap_pthread_create reports it and returns EAGAIN rather than growing | ||
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PFIBER_MAX = 48 is hardcoded. FFmpeg's scheduler creates one thread per demuxer, decoder, filtergraph, encoder, and muxer; complex filter graphs or multi-input transcodes can exceed this. pthread_create returns EAGAIN which FFmpeg may not handle gracefully. Make this configurable via a build-time define or raise the limit significantly.
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PFIBER_MAX is #ifndef-guarded, so a build can override it. A run that exceeds it gets a pthread-fiber: report and EAGAIN from pthread_create, which fftools turns into an error rather than a hang. A transcode uses about five fibers.
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pf_wake_waiters_on wakes ALL fibers blocked on a mutex or condition variable for both pthread_cond_signal and pthread_cond_broadcast. For signal, only one waiter should be woken; waking all causes thundering-herd contention. Change signal path to wake a single waiter (e.g., the first found).
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Intentional and documented on pf_wake_waiters_on. Waking more fibers than needed is legal for pthread_cond_wait (spurious wakeups), and FFmpeg's callers loop on their own predicate. The fiber count is about five, so there is no thundering herd to speak of.
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| now_ms - f->blocked_since_ms); | ||
| n += snprintf(buf + n, sizeof(buf) - n, "]"); |
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pfiber_reset does memset(&g_main, 0, sizeof(g_main)) before allocating a new asyncify_stack, leaking the previous allocation. Free g_main.asyncify_stack before the memset, or save the pointer and free it after.
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Not the case at the current head: pfiber_reset() calls free(g_main.asyncify_stack) before the memset and the new malloc, so nothing leaks per call.
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g_main.asyncify_stack = malloc(PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE) has no NULL check. On OOM, emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context receives NULL and will crash. Check the allocation and abort cleanly with a diagnostic message.
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Already checked at the current head: pfiber_reset() reports out of memory for the main fiber's asyncify stack and abort()s when the malloc returns NULL, before emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context is called.
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| "usage: node scripts/dump-test-page.mjs <url> [watchMs] [hardMs]" |
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browser.process()?.kill('SIGKILL') uses a non-standard Puppeteer API. Browser.process() is internal and may break across versions. Use browser.close() with a timeout wrapper, or if a hard kill is required, spawn Chrome separately and track its PID.
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null). scripts/dump-test-page.mjs calls browser.close() first with a timeout; the SIGKILL is only the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
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Diagnostic dumps run sequentially (wait in loop). With multiple failed pages this adds minutes to CI failure time. Run dumps in parallel with a semaphore (e.g., xargs -P4) or limit to the first N failures.
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The dumps already run in parallel: the tests job starts one dump-test-page.mjs per failed page in the background, collects the pids and waits on all of them (dump_pids in .github/workflows/CI.yml). Only the log replay is ordered, so the output is stable.
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| // Usage: node scripts/dump-test-page.mjs <url> [watchMs] [hardMs] |
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Hard deadline defaults to WATCH_MS + 45000 (90s). A legitimate large transcode may exceed the 45s watch window, causing the script to kill the browser and exit 1, masking the real test result. Make the hard deadline configurable via an additional argument or derive it from the test timeout configuration.
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The hard deadline is already configurable: it is the third argument, HARD_MS = Number(process.argv[4] || WATCH_MS + 45000). It only bounds a script dumping a page that already failed, so it cannot mask a test result.
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PFIBER_STACK_SIZE and PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE are both 8MB, but the PR description states 2MB C stack + 64KB Asyncify stack, and build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh passes -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 (64KB). The comment acknowledges 2MB/64KB was tried and overflowed, but the defines and comments are inconsistent. Align the values with the actual tested working configuration and update the documentation.
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The 8MB and 8MB constants are deliberate and the code comments say why (2MB overflowed the filter task). The PR description now says so. -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 is a separate setting: it sizes the one module-wide stack that only emscripten_sleep() uses, and nothing in the shim calls it.
…rted The st core's hang is not timing sensitive. It reproduces every time, and what changes with the code is the heap layout: each fiber mallocs 16MB of stacks, so any change to the code moves FFmpeg's own allocations. Setting pal100bars' size to the value it already defaults to flips the outcome without changing any value, which is the signature of an out-of-bounds write whose victim is decided by allocation order. The asyncify stack is the one that can be overrun, because nothing checks it while it is written, and it is written from the bottom of its region upward, so an overrun runs off the top. As a separate malloc that top end is whatever the heap put next, which for a fiber created mid-transcode is one of FFmpeg's own buffers, so the overrun is silent and shows up later somewhere unrelated. Put both stacks in one allocation, asyncify stack last, with a megabyte of slack after it. An overrun now has to cross that slack, and once it does the stack pointer is past the region pf_check_asyncify_stack compares against, so the run reports an overrun and stops instead of carrying the damage on. g_main's asyncify stack gets the same slack for the same reason, since it carries the deepest chain in the program.
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This PR moves the single-threaded (st) core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 to n9.0.2 by implementing a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers (src/pthread-fiber). The shim implements pthread_create/join/mutex/cond/once/sleep via linker wrapping (-Wl,--wrap). Both cores now build the same FFmpeg release. However, several critical bugs exist in the fiber shim and bind layer that will cause hangs, memory corruption, or crashes: (1) pfiber_begin_call and stringsToPtr are called outside try/finally in bind.js, corrupting the stack pointer on any exception; (2) the round-robin scheduler has an off-by-one bug skipping the first runnable fiber; (3) mutex/cond epoch mechanism is incomplete, the epoch is stored but not checked in lock/wait paths, so stale ownership from a previous exec() causes permanent blocking; (4) pf_cond_t lacks epoch validation in wait functions; (5) g_main.asyncify_stack malloc has no NULL check; (6) PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE and PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE are 8MB but docs/comments say 1MB. The diagnostic scripts use non-standard Puppeteer APIs and have hardcoded timeouts that may kill legitimate long-running tests. CI runs diagnostic dumps sequentially, adding minutes on failure.
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pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are called BEFORE the try block. If either throws (OOM from stringsToPtr, abort from pfiber_begin_call), the finally block's stackRestore(sp) never runs, leaving the stack pointer corrupted for all subsequent exec()/ffprobe() calls. Move both calls inside the try block.
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Not the case at the current head. In exec() and ffprobe(), stringsToPtr() and Module["_pfiber_begin_call"]?.() are inside the try, and stackRestore(sp) is in the finally (src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js). An exception from either runs the finally.
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Same issue in ffprobe(): pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are outside the try/finally. An exception from either skips stackRestore(sp) and corrupts the stack pointer.
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Not the case at the current head. In exec() and ffprobe(), stringsToPtr() and Module["_pfiber_begin_call"]?.() are inside the try, and stackRestore(sp) is in the finally (src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js). An exception from either runs the finally.
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| "pthread-fiber: fiber %d has been blocked for %.0fms, so " | ||
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Round-robin scheduler has an off-by-one bug. start_lin = pfiber_index_of(g_current) + 1, then the loop immediately does lin = (lin + 1) % total before checking the first candidate, skipping index start_lin. When g_current is g_main (index -1), start_lin = 0, first iteration sets lin = 1 and checks pfiber_at(1), skipping pfiber_at(0). Fix: initialize lin = start_lin - 1, or move the increment to the end of the loop.
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The loop is correct. start_lin is the linear index of the current fiber, and the loop advances before testing, so it visits every other slot (g_main included, at linear index 0) exactly once and stops when it comes back to the current one. It never selects the caller.
| * actually keeps the core depends on how busy the rest of the pipeline is. A | ||
| * wall clock budget bounds that at a fixed value instead. */ | ||
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g_epoch is incremented in pfiber_reset and stored in pf_mutex_t.epoch, but the mutex lock/unlock code (in the truncated portion) does not appear to compare the mutex's epoch against g_epoch. Without this check, a mutex left locked by a fiber from a previous exec() call will still appear valid, causing the next exec() to block forever on a lock nothing will unlock. The lock function must treat a mutex with epoch != g_epoch as uninitialized (owner = NULL).
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The truncation is the review tool's diff view, not the file. The full file is on the branch. The epoch check is in pf_mutex_ensure(), which every lock path calls, and __wrap_pthread_join is complete. Behaviour is exercised end to end by fate (st) 25/25, tests and node-tests, including several exec() calls in one process.
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pf_cond_t has an epoch field but the cond_wait/timedwait functions (not visible in diff) must check it. FFmpeg's pthread_cond_t are file-scope statics; a fiber blocked on a cond_var when exec() ends leaves wait_on pointing to that cond. The next exec() reuses the same zero-initialized cond_var; without an epoch check, the next exec() blocks forever on a cond_var nothing will signal. Add epoch validation in __wrap_pthread_cond_wait and __wrap_pthread_cond_timedwait: if cond->epoch != g_epoch, treat as uninitialized (no waiters, no block).
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Waiters are not tracked in pf_cond_t: a waiting fiber records the cond pointer in pfiber_t.wait_on and is woken by pf_wake_waiters_on(cond). pf_cond_t only carries the epoch so the block behind a file-scope static cond is reclaimed across exec() calls, and pfiber_reset() clears the fiber table, so no waiter can carry over.
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g_main.asyncify_stack = malloc(PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE) has no NULL check. On OOM, emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context receives a NULL pointer and will likely crash. Check the allocation and abort cleanly with a diagnostic message.
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Already checked at the current head: pfiber_reset() reports out of memory for the main fiber's asyncify stack and abort()s when the malloc returns NULL, before emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context is called.
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PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE is defined as 8MB (8 * 1024 * 1024) but the comment on line 38 and the PR description both state 1MB Asyncify stack per fiber. The define should be 1 * 1024 * 1024 to match the documented design and the -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 module-wide setting. Same issue for PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE on line 55 (comment says 1MB, define is 8MB).
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The 8MB and 8MB constants are deliberate and the code comments say why (2MB overflowed the filter task). The PR description now says so. -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 is a separate setting: it sizes the one module-wide stack that only emscripten_sleep() uses, and nothing in the shim calls it.
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browser.process()?.kill('SIGKILL') uses a non-standard Puppeteer API. Browser.process() is not part of the public API and may break across versions. Use browser.close() with a timeout, or if a hard kill is needed, spawn Chrome separately and track its PID.
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null). scripts/dump-test-page.mjs calls browser.close() first with a timeout; the SIGKILL is only the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
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Hard deadline is WATCH_MS + 45000 (default 90s). A legitimate large transcode may exceed 45s watch window, causing the script to kill the browser and exit 1, masking the real test result. Make the hard deadline configurable via an additional argument or derive it from the test timeout configuration.
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The hard deadline is already configurable: it is the third argument, HARD_MS = Number(process.argv[4] || WATCH_MS + 45000). It only bounds a script dumping a page that already failed, so it cannot mask a test result.
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Diagnostic dumps for failed pages run sequentially (wait in loop). With multiple failures this adds minutes to CI failure time. Consider running dumps in parallel with a semaphore (e.g., 2-3 at once) or only dumping the first N failures.
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The dumps already run in parallel: the tests job starts one dump-test-page.mjs per failed page in the background, collects the pids and waits on all of them (dump_pids in .github/workflows/CI.yml). Only the log replay is ordered, so the output is stable.
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This PR moves the single-threaded (st) core from FFmpeg 5.1.10 to 9.0.2, aligning it with the multithreaded core. It introduces a cooperative pthread shim (src/pthread-fiber) built on Emscripten fibers so the fftools scheduler can run without SharedArrayBuffer. The approach is sound, but the st core currently hangs on video transcodes (19/25 FATE tests fail, tests and node-tests red). The PR description acknowledges this as a known gap with a minimal repro case (ffmpeg -f lavfi -i pal100bars=rate=5:duration=1 -f null -). Many implementation issues in pthread_fiber.c (memory leak in pfiber_reset, scheduler off-by-one, epoch not checked in mutex lock/unlock, pf_cond_t waiter tracking) are already documented in the settled discussion list. The bind.js stackRestore issue appears fixed in the current diff (pfiber_begin_call and stringsToPtr moved inside try block). CI is pending; the PR is not merge-ready until the transcode hang is resolved.
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This PR moves the single-threaded (st) core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 to n9.0.2 by implementing a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers (src/pthread-fiber). The approach is sound but the implementation has several critical bugs: (1) bind.js calls pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() outside the try block, so exceptions skip stackRestore() and corrupt the stack pointer for all subsequent exec()/ffprobe() calls. (2) The round-robin scheduler in pthread_fiber.c has an off-by-one bug that skips the first runnable fiber after the current one. (3) The epoch mechanism for detecting stale mutex/cond ownership across exec() calls is incomplete, pf_mutex_t.epoch is stored but never compared in lock/unlock (code truncated), and pf_cond_t lacks an epoch field entirely. (4) pf_idle_wait busy-spins with no yield to the browser event loop, pegging a CPU core at 100% during waits. (5) g_main.asyncify_stack malloc has no NULL check. (6) Stack size defines (8MB) contradict the PR description (2MB C + 1MB Asyncify) and comments. The st core still hangs on video transcodes (19/25 FATE tests fail), which the author acknowledges as a known gap.
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| * ffprobe() calls slowly exhaust the heap on top of the stack leak above. | ||
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pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are called BEFORE the try block. If either throws (OOM from stringsToPtr, abort from pfiber_begin_call), the finally block's stackRestore(sp) never runs, leaving the stack pointer corrupted for all subsequent exec()/ffprobe() calls. Move both calls inside the try block.
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Not the case at the current head. In exec() and ffprobe(), stringsToPtr() and Module["_pfiber_begin_call"]?.() are inside the try, and stackRestore(sp) is in the finally (src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js). An exception from either runs the finally.
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| let argvPtr = 0; | ||
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| argvPtr = stringsToPtr(args); |
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Same issue in ffprobe(): pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are outside the try/finally. An exception from either skips stackRestore(sp) and corrupts the stack pointer.
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Not the case at the current head. In exec() and ffprobe(), stringsToPtr() and Module["_pfiber_begin_call"]?.() are inside the try, and stackRestore(sp) is in the finally (src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js). An exception from either runs the finally.
| * is what tells it apart from a pipeline doing real work. */ | ||
| if (now - g_rate_ms >= 1000) { | ||
| unsigned long long switches = g_switches - g_reported_switches; | ||
| double window_ms = now - g_rate_ms; |
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Round-robin scheduler has an off-by-one bug. start_lin = pfiber_index_of(g_current) + 1, then the loop immediately does lin = (lin + 1) % total before checking the first candidate, skipping index start_lin. When g_current is g_main (index -1), start_lin = 0, first iteration sets lin = 1 and checks pfiber_at(1), skipping pfiber_at(0). Fix: initialize lin = start_lin - 1, or move the increment to the end of the loop.
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The loop is correct. start_lin is the linear index of the current fiber, and the loop advances before testing, so it visits every other slot (g_main included, at linear index 0) exactly once and stops when it comes back to the current one. It never selects the caller.
| * actually keeps the core depends on how busy the rest of the pipeline is. A | ||
| * wall clock budget bounds that at a fixed value instead. */ | ||
| #define PF_PREEMPT_MS 5 | ||
| /* Passes of the contended-mutex wait loop, counted per fiber so the report |
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pf_cond_t only tracks an epoch field with no waiter list. FFmpeg's pthread_cond_t are file-scope statics (like mutexes), so a fiber blocked on a cond_var when exec() ends will leave wait_on pointing to that cond. The next exec() reuses the same zero-initialized cond_var; without an epoch check in cond_wait/timedwait, the next exec() will block forever on a cond_var nothing will signal. Add epoch comparison in __wrap_pthread_cond_wait and __wrap_pthread_cond_timedwait.
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Waiters are not tracked in pf_cond_t: a waiting fiber records the cond pointer in pfiber_t.wait_on and is woken by pf_wake_waiters_on(cond). pf_cond_t only carries the epoch so the block behind a file-scope static cond is reclaimed across exec() calls, and pfiber_reset() clears the fiber table, so no waiter can carry over.
| static double g_last_switch_ms; | ||
| static unsigned long long g_switches; | ||
| static unsigned long long g_idle_waits; | ||
| /* Switches in the window the rate below is measured over, and where that |
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The epoch mechanism (g_epoch incremented in pfiber_reset, stored in pf_mutex_t.epoch) is intended to detect stale mutex ownership across exec() calls, but the mutex lock/unlock functions (in the truncated portion) do not appear to compare the mutex's epoch against g_epoch. Without this check, a mutex left locked by a fiber from a previous exec() call will still appear valid, causing the next exec() to block forever. Ensure __wrap_pthread_mutex_lock and __wrap_pthread_mutex_unlock validate the epoch.
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The truncation is the review tool's diff view, not the file. The full file is on the branch. The epoch check is in pf_mutex_ensure(), which every lock path calls, and __wrap_pthread_join is complete. Behaviour is exercised end to end by fate (st) 25/25, tests and node-tests, including several exec() calls in one process.
| * makes a whole transcode look like a hang. | ||
| * | ||
| * Nothing but the sample can change anything: this fiber is the only one | ||
| * running, so nothing else can wake, block or arm a deadline until control |
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pf_idle_wait spins in a tight C loop (checking clock every 4096 iterations) with no yield to the browser event loop. This prevents JS timers, network callbacks, and the heartbeat diagnostic from firing while the scheduler waits. The comment explains emscripten_sleep is unusable from inside a fiber (Asyncify.state == Rewinding), but consider whether a JS-side setTimeout via EM_ASM could be used when the next deadline is far enough away, or at minimum document that this burns CPU during waits.
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A known limitation, listed in the PR description under "Noticed, not fixed". emscripten_sleep() is not usable inside a fiber (the swap leaves Asyncify.state at Rewinding), and returning to JS on a timer needs the same unwind. The spin is bounded to a pending pthread_cond_timedwait deadline, and a run with nothing runnable and no deadline aborts instead of freezing.
| * block rather than to invalidate anything. */ | ||
| typedef struct { | ||
| unsigned epoch; | ||
| } pf_cond_t; |
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g_main.asyncify_stack = malloc(PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE) has no NULL check. On OOM, emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context receives a NULL pointer and will likely crash. Check the allocation and abort cleanly with a diagnostic message.
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Already checked at the current head: pfiber_reset() reports out of memory for the main fiber's asyncify stack and abort()s when the malloc returns NULL, before emscripten_fiber_init_from_current_context is called.
| * complexity is well under a dozen. Overridable at build time for the ones | ||
| * that are not. | ||
| * | ||
| * The cost is per live fiber, not per slot: a fiber allocates its C stack and |
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PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE is defined as 8MB (8 * 1024 * 1024) but the comment on line 38 and the PR description both state 1MB Asyncify stack per fiber. The define should be 1 * 1024 * 1024 to match the documented design and the -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 module-wide setting. Same issue for PFIBER_MAIN_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE (line 52) which is 8MB but comment says 1MB.
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The 8MB and 8MB constants are deliberate and the code comments say why (2MB overflowed the filter task). The PR description now says so. -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 is a separate setting: it sizes the one module-wide stack that only emscripten_sleep() uses, and nothing in the shim calls it.
| const WATCH_MS = Number(process.argv[3] || 45000); | ||
| // How long the whole run may take, including launch and close. Only reached | ||
| // when Chrome itself is wedged, so it defaults to well past the watch window | ||
| // rather than racing it. |
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browser.process()?.kill('SIGKILL') uses a non-standard Puppeteer API. Browser.process() is not part of the public API and may break across versions. Use browser.close() with a timeout, or if a hard kill is needed, spawn Chrome separately and track its PID.
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null). scripts/dump-test-page.mjs calls browser.close() first with a timeout; the SIGKILL is only the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
| # red, so they all run at once and each writes to its own file, | ||
| # replayed in a fixed order below for the same reason as above. | ||
| dump_pids="" | ||
| for page in $failed; do |
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Diagnostic dumps for failed pages run sequentially (wait in loop). With multiple failures this adds minutes to CI failure time. Consider running dumps in parallel with a semaphore (e.g., 2-3 at once) or only dumping the first N failures.
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The dumps already run in parallel: the tests job starts one dump-test-page.mjs per failed page in the background, collects the pids and waits on all of them (dump_pids in .github/workflows/CI.yml). Only the log replay is ordered, so the output is stable.
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The PR moves the st core to FFmpeg 9.0.2 with a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers. We found three non-blocking issues: the use of a non-standard Puppeteer API in the test dump script, a hard deadline that may be too long for legitimate transcodes, and a hard limit on the number of concurrent pthreads that may be too low for complex filter graphs.
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| // and this is the one case browser.close() cannot handle: a browser that | ||
| // stopped answering will not close. | ||
| browser?.process()?.kill("SIGKILL"); | ||
| } catch { |
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null). scripts/dump-test-page.mjs calls browser.close() first with a timeout; the SIGKILL is only the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
| console.log(`[dump] ${err.message}; killing the browser process`); | ||
| try { | ||
| browser.process()?.kill("SIGKILL"); | ||
| } catch { |
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null). scripts/dump-test-page.mjs calls browser.close() first with a timeout; the SIGKILL is only the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
| // How long the whole run may take, including launch and close. Only reached | ||
| // when Chrome itself is wedged, so it defaults to well past the watch window | ||
| // rather than racing it. | ||
| const HARD_MS = Number(process.argv[4] || WATCH_MS + 45000); |
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The hard deadline is set to WATCH_MS + 45000 (default 90s). A legitimate large transcode may take longer than 45s, causing the script to kill the browser and mask the real test result. Make the hard deadline configurable or derive it from the test timeout configuration.
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The hard deadline is already configurable: it is the third argument, HARD_MS = Number(process.argv[4] || WATCH_MS + 45000). It only bounds a script dumping a page that already failed, so it cannot mask a test result.
| * and __wrap_pthread_create reports it and returns EAGAIN rather than growing | ||
| * past the table. */ | ||
| #ifndef PFIBER_MAX | ||
| #define PFIBER_MAX 48 |
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PFIBER_MAX is hardcoded to 48. FFmpeg's scheduler creates one thread per demuxer, decoder, filtergraph, encoder, and muxer; complex filter graphs or multi-input transcodes can exceed this. Consider making this configurable or returning EAGAIN with a clear error when the table is full.
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PFIBER_MAX is #ifndef-guarded, so a build can override it. A run that exceeds it gets a pthread-fiber: report and EAGAIN from pthread_create, which fftools turns into an error rather than a hang. A transcode uses about five fibers.
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This PR moves the single-threaded (st) core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 to n9.0.2, implementing a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers (src/pthread-fiber/pthread_fiber.c) since the st core lacks SharedArrayBuffer. The change uses linker symbol wrapping (-Wl,--wrap) for pthread symbols, applies the same fftools patches to both cores, and updates build scripts. Known gap: st core still hangs on video transcodes (19/25 FATE tests pass). Critical issues found in bind.js: pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are called outside the try/finally block, so exceptions from either will skip stackRestore() and corrupt the stack pointer for all subsequent exec()/ffprobe() calls. The pthread_fiber.c diff is truncated (~400/662 lines), preventing verification of mutex epoch validation, condvar epoch handling, pthread_join implementation, and scheduler off-by-one bug. dump-test-page.mjs uses non-public browser.process() API. CI diagnostic dumps run sequentially, adding minutes on multi-failure runs.
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| * ffprobe() calls slowly exhaust the heap on top of the stack leak above. | ||
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| * Everything that can fail is inside the try, so the stack is always put back. | ||
| * stringsToPtr() allocates and can throw on an out-of-memory heap, and the |
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pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are called BEFORE the try block. If either throws (OOM from stringsToPtr, abort from pfiber_begin_call), the finally block's stackRestore(sp) never runs, leaving the stack pointer corrupted for all subsequent exec()/ffprobe() calls. Move both calls inside the try block.
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Not the case at this head. In exec(), stringsToPtr(args) and Module["_pfiber_begin_call"]?.() are both the first statements inside the try, and stackRestore(sp) is in the finally (src/bind/ffmpeg/bind.js, function exec). An exception from either runs the finally.
| const sp = stackSave(); | ||
| const argvPtr = stringsToPtr(args); | ||
| let argvPtr = 0; | ||
| try { |
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Same issue in ffprobe(): pfiber_begin_call() and stringsToPtr() are outside the try/finally. An exception from either skips stackRestore(sp) and corrupts the stack pointer.
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Same as above: in ffprobe() both calls are inside the try, with stackRestore(sp) in the finally.
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| process.exit(1); | ||
| } | ||
| const WATCH_MS = Number(process.argv[3] || 45000); |
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browser.process()?.kill('SIGKILL') uses a non-standard Puppeteer API. Browser.process() is not part of the public API and may break across versions. Use browser.close() with a timeout, or if a hard kill is needed, spawn Chrome separately and track its PID.
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Browser.process() is a documented public Puppeteer API (Browser.process(): ChildProcess | null), not an internal one. It is optional-chained here because it returns null for a connected, not launched, browser.
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| "page.evaluate" | ||
| ); | ||
| console.log(`[dump] mocha-stats: ${stats}`); |
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Same issue: browser.process()?.kill('SIGKILL') relies on internal API. Prefer browser.close() with a timeout wrapper.
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See the reply above: browser.process() is public API. browser.close() is tried first; the SIGKILL is the fallback for a Chrome that is wedged and ignores close().
| # red, so they all run at once and each writes to its own file, | ||
| # replayed in a fixed order below for the same reason as above. | ||
| dump_pids="" | ||
| for page in $failed; do |
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Diagnostic dumps for failed pages run sequentially (wait in loop). With multiple failures this adds minutes to CI failure time. Consider running dumps in parallel with a semaphore (e.g., 2-3 at once) or only dumping the first N failures.
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The dumps already run in parallel: the workflow starts one dump-test-page.mjs per failed page in the background with &, collects the pids, and waits on all of them (dump_pids in the tests job). Only the log replay is ordered, so the output is stable.
| // Uses puppeteer-core, which mocha-headless-chrome already depends on, so it | ||
| // adds nothing to the lockfile. Worker output has to come over CDP: Puppeteer's | ||
| // own Worker API does not surface a worker's console. | ||
| // |
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Hard deadline is WATCH_MS + 45000 (default 90s). A legitimate large transcode may exceed 45s watch window, causing the script to kill the browser and exit 1, masking the real test result. Make the hard deadline configurable via an additional argument or derive it from the test timeout configuration.
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The hard deadline is already configurable: it is the third argument, HARD_MS = Number(process.argv[4] || WATCH_MS + 45000). It only bounds a script that is dumping a failed page, so it cannot mask a test result; the mocha run has already finished by then.
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The diff for this file is truncated (cuts off at line ~400 of 662). Cannot verify the complete __wrap_pthread_join implementation, the mutex lock/unlock epoch validation, or the cond_wait/timedwait logic. The PR description mentions an epoch mechanism (g_epoch incremented in pfiber_reset, stored in pf_mutex_t.epoch) to detect stale mutex ownership across exec() calls, but the lock/unlock code is not visible. Ensure the full file is reviewed in CI or a follow-up review.
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The truncation is the review tool's diff view, not the file. The full file is in the branch and the epoch check is in pf_mutex_ensure(), which every lock path calls. Behavior is exercised end to end by fate (st) 25/25, tests and node-tests, including two exec() calls in one process.
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PFIBER_STACK_SIZE and PFIBER_ASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE are both defined as 8MB, but the PR description states 2MB C stack + 64KB Asyncify stack, and build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh passes -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 (64KB). The comment acknowledges 2MB/64KB was tried and overflowed, but the defines and comments are inconsistent with the documented design and the module-wide Asyncify stack size. Align the constants with the actual tested values and update comments.
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The constants are 8MB and 8MB on purpose, and the code comments say why (2MB overflowed the filter task). The PR description has been updated to say so. -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536 is a separate setting: it sizes the one module-wide stack that only emscripten_sleep() uses, and nothing in the shim calls it.
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pf_idle_wait busy-spins in a tight C loop (checking clock every 4096 iterations) with no yield to the browser event loop. This prevents JS timers, network callbacks, and the heartbeat diagnostic from firing while the scheduler waits. The comment correctly explains emscripten_sleep is unusable from inside a fiber (Asyncify.state == Rewinding), but consider whether a JS-side setTimeout via EM_ASM could be used when the next deadline is far enough away, or document this as a known limitation that pegs a CPU core during cond_timedwait.
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Acknowledged as a known limitation and listed in the PR description under "Noticed, not fixed". emscripten_sleep() is not usable inside a fiber (the swap leaves Asyncify.state at Rewinding), and a JS timer would need the same unwind. The wait is bounded to a pending pthread_cond_timedwait deadline. The heartbeat the comment mentions was removed in this head.
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This PR moves the single-threaded core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 to n9.0.2, sharing the same release as the multi-threaded core. It introduces a cooperative pthread shim (src/pthread-fiber) on Emscripten fibers so the st core can run FFmpeg's threaded scheduler without SharedArrayBuffer. The vendored src/fftools sources are removed; both cores now build FFmpeg's own fftools patched at build time. CI gains diagnostic console dumps for failed tests and FATE filtering options.
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- Every fiber C stack must be 16-byte aligned. `malloc` only guarantees 8,
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53-53: LGTM!build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh (1)
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308-322: 🎯 Functional CorrectnessThe source establishes that a window with more than 2,000 switches emits both diagnostic messages. It does not establish that a healthy transcode reaches that rate. The test cases and benchmark describe inputs, but provide no measured switch rates, so the false-report claim cannot be decided.
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Moves the st core to FFmpeg n9.0.2 with a cooperative pthread shim on Emscripten fibers, and adds diagnostic tooling (page dump, FATE stall capture, FATE_ONLY/FATE_LOGLEVEL) plus FATE argv alignment with upstream fate-run.sh. No defects found in the shown code.
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What
Moves the st core from FFmpeg n5.1.10 (built with
--disable-pthreads,running the vendored
src/fftoolssources) to n9.0.2, the same release themt core builds (#23). FFmpeg n9's fftools CLI runs a scheduler
(fftools/ffmpeg_sched.c, thread_queue.c, libavutil/threadmessage.c) that
pthread_creates a real thread per demuxer, decoder, filtergraph, encoder,and muxer, coordinated through mutexes and condition variables. The st core
has no
SharedArrayBuffer, so it cannot use Emscripten's real pthreads; thisPR gives it a cooperative pthread implementation on Emscripten fibers
instead.
src/pthread-fiber/pthread_fiber.cimplements the pthread subset fftoolsand libavutil/libavcodec/libavformat/libavfilter call:
pthread_create,pthread_join,pthread_detach,pthread_self,pthread_equal,pthread_once, mutexinit/destroy/lock/trylock/unlock, condinit/destroy/wait/timedwait/signal/broadcast, andusleep/nanosleep. Every "thread" is an Emscripten fiber; exactly one runs C codeat a time, and control passes to another fiber only at an explicit blocking
point (mutex contention, cond wait, join, sleep). A round-robin
scheduler picks the next runnable fiber; if none is runnable and the caller
is genuinely blocked, it spins until a
pthread_cond_timedwaitdeadlinecomes due, and reports and aborts if nothing is runnable and no deadline is
pending. It cannot yield to the browser instead:
emscripten_sleep()isunusable from inside a fiber, because
emscripten_fiber_swapleavesAsyncify.stateatRewindingwhile any fiber's C code runs, and in thatstate
Asyncify.handleSleep()takes its "stop a resume" branch, calls_asyncify_stop_rewind(), freescurrDataand returns without sleeping.-Wl,--wrap=pthread_create, one persymbol above) rather than plain strong symbols: Emscripten's non-pthread
libc stub (
system/lib/pthread/library_pthread_stub.c) defines several ofthese names as plain (non-weak) symbols, so providing our own strong
definitions risked a duplicate-symbol error the moment the linker needed
that stub object for something else (e.g.
pthread_rwlock_*, unusedhere). Wrapping only redirects the symbols we replace and leaves the rest
of that stub alone.
pthread_mutex_t/pthread_cond_tare musl's fixed-size opaque structs.Rather than reimplement their layout, the shim lazily allocates a small
backing struct on first use and stores a pointer to it in the opaque
struct's first
sizeof(void*)bytes. A zero-initializedPTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER/PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER(confirmedall-zero in musl's headers) therefore reliably means "not yet allocated",
which matters since FFmpeg statically initializes some of these instead of
always calling
pthread_mutex_init/pthread_cond_init.from
av_cpu_count();build/patches/n9/fftools-wasm.patchforces that to1 under a new
FFMPEG_WASM_STbuild-time guard, since even acorrectly-detected single core would otherwise round up to 2 threads
(
FFMIN(av_cpu_count() + 1, MAX_AUTO_THREADS)inlibavcodec/pthread_slice.c). The mt core keeps its own auto-detection;the guard only compiles in for the st build (
build/ffmpeg.shsets-DFFMPEG_WASM_ST=1inCFLAGS/CXXFLAGSwhen$FFMPEG_STis set).build/ffmpeg.sh: drops--disable-pthreadsfor the st build (it nowneeds real pthread_* symbol references for the shim to intercept),
applies
--stdc=gnu17unconditionally (both cores are n9 now, which needsit for
EM_ASM/EM_JS's statement-expression extension), and builds thefftools object files unconditionally instead of only for mt.
build/ffmpeg-wasm.sh: both cores now link the same n9 fftools objectlist and drop
-lpostproc(n9 removed libpostproc); the st buildadditionally compiles
src/pthread-fiber/pthread_fiber.c, adds-sASYNCIFY -sASYNCIFY_STACK_SIZE=65536, the-Wl,--wrapflags, and bumps-sINITIAL_MEMORYfrom 32MB to 48MB for the fiber stacks (8MB C stack +8MB Asyncify stack per concurrently-live pthread, allocated lazily on
pthread_create, not pre-allocated) and Asyncify's own overhead.Dockerfile: bothFFMPEG_VERSION_ST/FFMPEG_VERSION_MTnow pinn9.0.2(kept as two variables only so a future version bump can stagethem separately again), and
build/patches/n9/fftools-wasm.patchappliesto both cores' checkouts instead of mt only.
AGENTS.mdandapps/website/docs/overview.mdupdated for the newversion/plan, and
src/fftools(the old vendored n5.1.10 sources) isdeleted.
Why
See "FFmpeg upgrade plan" in AGENTS.md, step 3. The st core must keep
working without
SharedArrayBufferper this repo's direction; sharing oneFFmpeg release across both cores instead of vendoring and re-patching a
separate older fftools tree by hand on every future bump is the whole point
of #23's approach, and this PR is what lets the st core join it.
The hang, and what it actually was
The st core hung on video transcodes (and on any run that logged from a fiber
at the wrong stack alignment). The cause was a stack alignment bug in the
shim, not a scheduler bug.
Each fiber's C stack came straight from
malloc, which only guarantees 8-bytealignment, while the wasm C ABI and the compiler assume 16. musl's
__stdio_writeformsiov + 1asiov | 8. On a stack that is 8 mod 16 thatis a no-op, so after skipping the empty first iovec it still passed the
zero-length one, with
iovcnt = 1, tofd_write.fd_writewrote 0 bytes,__stdio_writesawcnt != remand looped forever. The firstav_logafterthe muxer was initialised (
Output #0, ...) from a fiber with a bad stack wasenough, which is why only some transcodes hung and why it moved with the heap
layout. Fix: over-allocate each fiber's region and align the C stack to 16.
How it was found: a worker thread attached to the main thread's inspector,
sampled the CPU profile of a hung core (linked with
--profiling-funcsforfunction names), paused it, and read the
_fd_writeframe's arguments. Theframe showed
iovcnt = 1withiov[0].len = 0andiovat an address thatwas 8 mod 16.
wasm-objdumpon the CI core confirmed thei32.or 8.Also fixed on this branch earlier: the main fiber's context is re-captured at
the top of every
exec()/ffprobe()(pfiber_begin_call()), and the shim'smutex blocks carry an epoch so a lock left by a previous call cannot block the
next one.
Testing
js,build-core,build-core-mt,tests,node-tests,fate (st)(25/25),fate (mt)(25/25) all green.tests/ffmpeg-core.test.js, run against both cores: ffprobeJSON output,
-c copyremux to mkv and mp4,-c copymerge of separatevideo and audio into mkv, mp4 and webm, and audio extraction to mp3, m4a and
opus.
Removed
src/fftools, the vendored n5.1.10 CLI sources, which neither core builtany more.
the preemption hooks around
avfilter_graph_request_oldestandav_buffersink_get_frame_flags. Stall reports for a real deadlock stay.Noticed, not fixed
pthread_createand freed on join. A transcode uses about five fibers.-sSTACK_OVERFLOW_CHECK=2is still on and costs speed and size.pf_idle_waitspins on a clock instead of yielding to the browser, becauseemscripten_sleep()is not usable inside a fiber.-sASYNCIFYis used. Shrinking it withASYNCIFY_ADD/ASYNCIFY_REMOVEis a follow-up with before/after size numbers.
FFMPEG_VERSION_STandFFMPEG_VERSION_MTcould collapse into oneDockerfile variable.
Base branch
mastermerged in as it moved, currently through #58, so the diff is justthis PR's changes.