There's been a couple threads about this in the last year or so, but I
wanted to draw attention to it again, as I've spent most of the last
couple of days trying to confirm it wasn't anything I'm doing.
The short story is, I'm pretty sure there's a very serious lock-up-the-
phone level bug that happens when using OpenGL applications. When it
occurs the phone will freeze for at least two minutes before rebooting
itself, sometimes requiring that the battery be pulled. This didn't
seem to happen often on 2.1, but I'm seeing it with a lot more
regularity on 2.2 (particularly on HTC phones, though that may be a
coincidence) and am really hoping to draw some attention from someone
in a position to fix it. Typically, you'll end up seeing hundreds of
lines of this in the LogCat log:
WARN/SharedBufferStack(2005): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed
out (identity=9, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
WARN/SharedBufferStack(71): waitForCondition(LockCondition) timed out
(identity=9, status=0). CPU may be pegged. trying again.
There won't be any callstack or error of any kind preceding this. In
this case 2005 is my app (a live wallpaper), and 71 appears to be the
UI/system process. I'm assuming this is a race condition within
SharedBufferStack. I've seen cases where four or five process IDs
were all printing the message, all OpenGL apps of some kind.
Replicating the problem is very, very difficult and seems very
random... in the last case I had to leave the wallpaper running and
active on the home screen for about seven hours before it occurred.
Sometimes I've had it go days, other times it'll happen within a few
minutes. My log output demonstrates no unusual activity at all before
the crash, loading/unloading/visibility/etc doesn't seem to be a
factor. It's very rare.
I kind of feel like this got glossed over the last couple times people
have reported it here, but based on my reading it's a long-standing
problem with Android and OpenGL and is having a chilling effect on its
usage. Is there anyone who can explain if there's anything I can do
to discourage problems here? This is beyond my ken honestly, does
anyone know this part of the system well?
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