[Bug]: Electron segmentation fault on CentOS7 aarch64(arm64)

[itas109]

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Issue Details

• Electron Version:
  • 7.1.4
  • 10.1.1
• Operating System:
  • centos 7.6 aarch64

Expected Behavior

Electron running normal

Actual Behavior

Electron failing with segmentation fault.

To Reproduce

wget https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v10.1.1/electron-v10.1.1-linux-arm64.zip
unzip electron-v10.1.1-linux-arm64.zip
./electron
segmentation fault

[itas109]

I think it is linux kernel's PAGESIZE problem.
PAGESIZE = 64k on cetos 7 aarch64 (redhat 7)
but,
PAGESIZE = 4K on other linux(such debian aarch64)
PAGESIZE = 4K on centos 7 x86_64

$ getconf PAGESIZE
65535

---

i think two way can resolve it :

• recompile centos 7 aarch64 linux kernel, change PAGESIZE 64K to PAGESIZE 4K
• recomplire electron on centos 7 aarch64 with PAGESIZE 64K

[bigben0123]

In build/config/compiler

    if (current_cpu == "arm64") {
      # Reduce the page size from 65536 in order to reduce binary size slightly
      # by shrinking the alignment gap between segments. This also causes all
      # segments to be mapped adjacently, which breakpad relies on.
      ldflags += [ "-Wl,-z,**max-page-size=4096**" ]
      print(ldflags)
    }

Changing max page size from 4096 to 65536, fixed my issue.

[nornagon]

Can you attach a crash dump? A core dump will do.

[abnerlee]

seems same error on 13.1.7, relates #21395

[zachberger]

Same issue on Asahi linux which uses 16K pages

[jesse-savary]

Also running into this w/ CentOS 8: Output of uname -a:
Linux [redacted] 5.4.17-2136.302.7.2.1.el8uek.aarch64 #2 SMP Tue Jan 18 12:11:39 PST 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux.

[flotwig]

This still seems to be an issue on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 / Oracle Linux Server 8.6, with Electron 18.3.0, and the latest stable (19.0.0), and the latest beta (v20.0.0-beta.8).

Cypress users are affected by this as they try to use the linux-arm64 builds to test inside of A1 Ampere, more info: cypress-io/cypress#22820

@deepak1556 do you have any additional context on this issue? I see #34385 refs this

[Lemmingh]

It's said that:

Distributions, like CentOS, RedHat, or Oracle Linux, set the default page size to 64k ^{1 2}

However, Chromium seems to show no interest in 64 Ki page size in the foreseeable future:

The rare 64kb case is still not supported due to further changes needed to SlotSpanMetadata. ³

SlotSpanMetadata is required to be 32 bits, however, with 64 KiB pages it requires ~34 bits. ⁴

Footnotes

1. https://dev.to/aws-heroes/postgresql-on-arm-default-page-size-matters-2n7a ↩

2. https://access.redhat.com/discussions/5966451#comment-2295711 ↩

3. https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3545665 ↩

4. https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3545740 ↩

[github-actions]

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[zebrapurring]

Bump

[ZhengXL1988]

Bump

[ZhengXL1988]

same error, I tried to compile, but failed。Has anyone compiled the electron on arm64 with PAGESIZE=64K，give me a compiled copy，tks

[Yueming-Y]

I also encountered a problem. On the arrch service version, there is a segment error. What is the solution，thank you

[github-actions]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale. If this issue is still affecting you, please leave any comment (for example, "bump"), and we'll keep it open. If you have any new additional information—in particular, if this is still reproducible in the latest version of Electron or in the beta—please include it with your comment!

[zebrapurring]

Bump

[Z-eddy]

Bump,the same error

[codebytere]

Per #25387 (comment) - this isn't something Chromium currently supports correctly. Should they do so, we can revisit this, but i'm closing this out for now.

[chenamy2017]

Bump,the same error.
Has anyone compiled the electron on arm64 with PAGESIZE=64K ? How to compile.

[itas109]

Bump,the same error. Has anyone compiled the electron on arm64 with PAGESIZE=64K ? How to compile.

email to itas109#qq.com

[Rtoax]

I think it is linux kernel's PAGESIZE problem. PAGESIZE = 64k on cetos 7 aarch64 (redhat 7) but, PAGESIZE = 4K on other linux(such debian aarch64) PAGESIZE = 4K on centos 7 x86_64

$ getconf PAGESIZE
65535

i think two way can resolve it :

• recompile centos 7 aarch64 linux kernel, change PAGESIZE 64K to PAGESIZE 4K
• recomplire electron on centos 7 aarch64 with PAGESIZE 64K

I got SIGTRAP dump when compiled chromium on Linux+ARM64 with 4kiB PAGESIZE, and run chromium on Linux+ARM64 with 64kiB PAGESIZE. If i compile chromium on Linux+ARM64 with 64kiB PAGESIZE, it'll not success, and i don't know way, have you ever meet this before?

[headless_shell:16128/41761] ACTION //net/data/ssl/chrome_roo...:gen_root_store_inc(//build/toolchain/linux/unbundle:default)
FAILED: gen/net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/chrome-root-store-inc.cc gen/net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/chrome-ev-roots-inc.cc 
/usr/bin/python3 ../../build/gn_run_binary.py root_store_tool --root-store=../../net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/root_store.textproto --certs=../../net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/root_store.certs --write-cpp-root-store=gen/net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/chrome-root-store-inc.cc --write-cpp-ev-roots=gen/net/data/ssl/chrome_root_store/chrome-ev-roots-inc.cc
root_store_tool failed with exit code -5