I’ve been getting a crash on project load with the calf-0.90.3 limiter:
#0 calf_plugins::limiter_audio_module::process(unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int, unsigned int)
(this=0x87a5940, offset=, numsamples=256, inputs_mask=, outputs_mask=4294967295) at modules_limit.cpp:138
#1 0x00007f849e7af92a in calf_plugins::audio_module<calf_plugins::limiter_metadata>::process_slice(unsigned int, unsigned int) (this=0x87a5940, offset=0, end=4096) at ./calf/giface.h:625
#2 0x00007f849e77210d in calf_plugins::lv2_instance::run(unsigned int, bool) (this=0x872d950, SampleCount=4096, has_simulate_stereo_input_flag=) at lv2wrap.cpp:164
#3 0x00007f8503c94675 in lilv_instance_run(LilvInstance*, uint32_t) (instance=0x87a6840, sample_count=4096) at /home/blair/software/lilv/0.24.0/include/lilv-0/lilv/lilv.h:1694
#4 0x00007f8503ca477b in ARDOUR::LV2Plugin::run(unsigned int, bool) (this=0x8775050, nframes=4096, sync_work=false) at …/libs/ardour/lv2_plugin.cc:3088
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I assume the plugin processing thread is created via AlsaAudioBackend::create_process_thread, in which we have a fixed stacksize:
size_t stacksize = 100000;
I’m using the alsa backend without running under any special privileges, ie. no realtime threads. I don’t think this will make a difference tho, the stacksize is used in both pbd_realtime_pthread_create and pthread_create code paths.
Now in calf’s modules_limit process() we have:
STACKALLOC(float, fickdich, limiter.overall_buffer_size);
I am using a generous amount of buffer samples (4096) as I’m mixing an old song at 96KHz (side note: I’ve since reformed and will stick to 48KHz). This eventually turns into a generous limiter buffer too, from gdb I see the value for limiter.overall_buffer_size is 76802, so this allocates 76802 floats or 76802 * sizeof(float) > 100000 bytes on the stack.
So, I assume this overflow is a segfault at the best of times and silent corruption otherwise.
I don’t know enough about the realtime aspect here tho, and whether there are issues increasing ardour’s thread stack size in that case. Maybe 640K would be enough for everybody? I can’t imagine it would be a problem on a machine with gigs of ram. I’m not sure if this is an ardour issue or a calf issue, let me know if you want this as an ardour ticket.
I do see pthread_utils.cc the following comment around a 500000 byte stack size default:
// set default stack size to sensible default for memlocking
I rebuilt ardour (5.12.0) with 512 * 1024 stack size for AlsaAudioBackend and am no longer experiencing the crash.
Now to debug the calf GUIs in this project flashing up momentarily and then closing with this in the log:
CALF DEBUG: instance 0x2cb1c40 data 0x8aea520
CALF DEBUG: calf 0x7f9809d70410 cpi 0x7f980958a1d0
Oh yeah, plug for the half-mixed call-and-response song:
Blair