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MobileGL/tools/trace_replay/run_android_retrace_local.py
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swung0x48 d83fc6643a [CI, android-plugin] (P6): CI starts a second MobileGL process on a device
The Android retrace matrix gains a third lane, spawn-acceptance, beside
monolith-control and inproc-acceptance. Until now nothing in CI had ever
started a second MobileGL process on a device at all.

The apk.yml retrace job already carried a `transport` matrix dimension and
already branched on it, so the lane itself is three edits: a row in
github_transport_matrix, an elif in the retrace step, and a summary to render.
What needed thought was the gate.

THE SPAWN LANE IS APK-ONLY, and that is a statement about where evidence is
missing rather than about what spawn can do. Linux already has
test.yml's `retrace-split`, which is {backend, case, transport} over inproc AND
spawn with the two negative controls that make it mean anything. A spawn row in
the Linux transport matrix would pay for a second full sweep proving nothing -
and test.yml's `retrace` job stages no server image, so the lane would not
merely be redundant, it would be red. self_test_transport_matrices now asserts
the absence in both directions, because an accidental removal of the `if apk`
has to be caught in the self-test rather than in CI.

--require-spawn REQUIRES TWO SENTENCES, and the second is the one that matters.
ConfigLoader's marker proves the VALUE RESOLVED - it exists only in the Spawn
arm, which exists only under MOBILEGL_BUILD_DISAGGREGATED - but that is a
statement about a parser. `spawn ARMED - the server role runs in pid N` is
written only after the launch, the connect and the handshake have all
succeeded, and the pid in it is the SERVER's. It is the only line in the log a
same-process run cannot produce.

Both halves red once, measured:
  * a monolith run demanded to prove spawn: REFUSED, transport_resolution_marker
    false, server_pid null - while the retrace itself scored ssim=1.000000,
    which is exactly the trap. OpenRA matches its golden under monolith too, so
    the picture has never been the evidence.
  * the same run's real spawn log with the one ARMED line deleted: REFUSED,
    transport_resolution_marker TRUE and server_pid null. That is the
    "resolved the transport and then never left the process" case, isolated.

THE PROOF USES `any` WHERE THE inproc GATE USES `all`, and the difference is
load-bearing rather than a relaxation. Under spawn two processes append to one
MOBILEGL_LOG_FILE_PATH, and the launcher deliberately scrubs every
MOBILEGL_IPC_* from the child's environment (anti-recursion catch (b)) - so the
server's own `Config: IPC` line reads strict=0 role-split-state=0 BY
CONSTRUCTION. Demanding every line match would red every spawn run for the one
thing the design requires.

--use-pbuffer is not optional on this lane: until P12 a spawned server cannot be
handed a window, because an ANativeWindow* is a pointer into the CLIENT's
process (Rule H). MOBILEGL_IPC_SERVER_PATH is deliberately NOT passed -
nativeLibraryDir carries an install-time hash that nothing off the device can
spell, and the Activity resolves it.

The local runner now passes the same knobs and the same --require-* flag CI
does, so "it works locally" can no longer mean "it ran monolith locally". That
change immediately caught its own omission: the first local run with the gate
armed failed on client_ipc_line_present=false because the runner had been
sending MOBILEGL_TRANSPORT alone.

Verified on device 2f7cbe2e: OpenRA.DirectGLES spawn, ssim=1.000000,
mismatchPixels=0, "real spawn transport, server role in pid 9885, and zero
Fatal records confirmed".
2026-09-21 18:30:18 -04:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import argparse
import json
import math
import shutil
import subprocess
import sys
from pathlib import Path
from trace_cases import case_with_defaults, load_trace_cases
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2]
FIXTURES = ROOT / "tools" / "trace_replay" / "fixtures"
RESULT_ROOT = ROOT / ".trace-work" / "android-retrace-result"
FIXTURE_ROOT = ROOT / ".trace-work" / "android-retrace-fixture"
SUMMARY_DIR = ROOT / ".trace-work" / "android-retrace-summary"
SUMMARY_HTML = "mobilegl-android-retrace-overview.html"
DEFAULT_ANGLE_VARIANT = "ec889e6ea831"
BLISS_ANGLE_VARIANT = "90a62123d794"
BLISS_CASE = "minecraft-1.21.4-fabric-iris-bliss-in-world"
# BOTH OUTPUT DIRECTORIES, newest wins. The trace variant is assembled as a RELEASE build
# (`:app:assembleTraceRelease`) and Gradle puts it under apk/trace/release, but CI has historically
# staged the same artifact under apk/trace/debug - so a tree that has built locally has two, and
# looking in one of them silently retraces the other one's APK. That is the "ran the wrong binary
# and went green" shape, on the platform where it is hardest to notice: nothing about the result
# says which APK produced it.
TRACE_APK_DIRS = (
ROOT / "android-plugin" / "app" / "build" / "outputs" / "apk" / "trace" / "release",
ROOT / "android-plugin" / "app" / "build" / "outputs" / "apk" / "trace" / "debug",
)
TRACE_APK_DIR = TRACE_APK_DIRS[1]
BACKENDS = {
"DirectGLES": {
"package": "top.mobilegl.plugin.trace",
"use_angle": False,
"use_pbuffer": False,
},
"DirectVulkan": {
"package": "top.mobilegl.plugin.trace",
"use_angle": False,
"use_pbuffer": False,
},
}
CASES = load_trace_cases()
def safe_case(name):
return "".join(ch if ch.isalnum() or ch in "._-" else "_" for ch in name)
def is_lfs_pointer(path):
return path.exists() and path.read_bytes()[:80].startswith(b"version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1")
def find_trace_apk():
candidates = [
path
for directory in TRACE_APK_DIRS
for path in directory.glob("MobileGL-plugin-trace-release-*.apk")
]
return max(candidates, key=lambda path: path.stat().st_mtime) if candidates else None
def bash_path(path):
path = Path(path).resolve()
drive = path.drive.rstrip(":").lower()
parts = path.parts[1:]
return "/" + drive + "/" + "/".join(parts)
def mark_skipped(case, backend, reason):
result_dir = RESULT_ROOT / f"{safe_case(case['name'])}-{backend}"
result_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
result = {
"passed": False,
"statusCode": 2,
"message": reason,
"tracePath": str(FIXTURES / case["trace_archive"]),
"goldenPath": str(FIXTURES / case["golden"]),
"alternateGoldenPaths": [],
"matchedGoldenPath": "",
"actualPath": "",
"diffPath": "",
"backend": backend,
"angleVariant": (
BLISS_ANGLE_VARIANT if case["name"] == BLISS_CASE else DEFAULT_ANGLE_VARIANT
) if BACKENDS[backend]["use_angle"] else "",
"targetCall": case["target_call"],
"width": case["width"],
"height": case["height"],
"cropX": case["crop_x"],
"cropY": case["crop_y"],
"cropWidth": case["crop_width"],
"cropHeight": case["crop_height"],
"ssim": -1,
"ssimThreshold": float(case["ssim_threshold"]),
"mismatchPixels": -1,
}
(result_dir / "result.json").write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=2), encoding="utf-8")
def copy_goldens(case, backend):
result_dir = RESULT_ROOT / f"{safe_case(case['name'])}-{backend}"
result_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
for key, suffix in (("golden", "golden"), ("alternate_golden", "alternate-golden")):
value = case.get(key)
if not value:
continue
source = FIXTURES / value
if source.exists() and source.stat().st_size > 0:
shutil.copyfile(source, result_dir / f"{safe_case(case['name'])}-{backend}-{suffix}.png")
def render_summary():
SUMMARY_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
command = [
"node",
str(ROOT / "tools" / "trace_replay" / "render_retrace_summary.mjs"),
"--input",
str(RESULT_ROOT),
"--output-dir",
str(SUMMARY_DIR),
"--title",
"MobileGL Android retrace overview",
"--group-label",
"Android Device",
"--html",
SUMMARY_HTML,
]
subprocess.run(command, cwd=ROOT, check=True)
shutil.copyfile(SUMMARY_DIR / SUMMARY_HTML, SUMMARY_DIR / "index.html")
def run_case(case, backend, extra_args=None, timeout_seconds=None, env_overrides=None,
use_pbuffer=False):
backend_info = BACKENDS[backend]
apk = find_trace_apk()
trace_archive = FIXTURES / case["trace_archive"]
golden = FIXTURES / case["golden"]
alternate = FIXTURES / case["alternate_golden"] if case.get("alternate_golden") else None
if apk is None:
mark_skipped(case, backend, "SKIPPED_MISSING_APK: no trace APK found under "
+ " or ".join(str(directory) for directory in TRACE_APK_DIRS))
return 2
if not trace_archive.exists() or is_lfs_pointer(trace_archive):
mark_skipped(case, backend, "SKIPPED_LFS_POINTER: trace archive is missing or still an LFS pointer")
copy_goldens(case, backend)
return 2
if not golden.exists() or is_lfs_pointer(golden):
mark_skipped(case, backend, "SKIPPED_LFS_POINTER: golden image is missing or still an LFS pointer")
return 2
if alternate is not None and (not alternate.exists() or is_lfs_pointer(alternate)):
alternate = None
command = [
"C:/Program Files/Git/bin/bash.exe",
"android-plugin/trace-replay-ci.sh",
"--apk-file",
bash_path(apk),
"--package",
backend_info["package"],
"--backend",
backend,
"--result-root",
bash_path(RESULT_ROOT),
"--fixture-root",
bash_path(FIXTURE_ROOT),
"--case",
case["name"],
"--trace-archive",
bash_path(trace_archive),
"--trace-file",
case["trace_file"],
"--golden",
bash_path(golden),
"--target-call",
str(case["target_call"]),
"--width",
str(case["width"]),
"--height",
str(case["height"]),
"--ssim-threshold",
str(case["ssim_threshold"]),
"--crop-x",
str(case["crop_x"]),
"--crop-y",
str(case["crop_y"]),
"--crop-width",
str(case["crop_width"]),
"--crop-height",
str(case["crop_height"]),
"--timeout-seconds",
str(timeout_seconds if timeout_seconds is not None else case["timeout_seconds"]),
]
command.extend(extra_args or [])
if alternate is not None:
command[command.index("--target-call"):command.index("--target-call")] = ["--alternate-golden", bash_path(alternate)]
if backend_info["use_pbuffer"] or use_pbuffer:
command.append("--use-pbuffer")
if backend_info["use_angle"] and case["name"] == BLISS_CASE:
command.append("--avoid-angle-llvmpipe-sampler-mipmap-min-filter")
if backend_info["use_angle"] and case.get("avoid_angle_llvmpipe_explicit_lod_bias"):
command.append("--avoid-angle-llvmpipe-explicit-lod-bias")
if case.get("coherent_as_flush"):
command.append("--coherent-as-flush")
# Generic environment passthrough: --env MOBILEGL_FOO=1 needs no per-knob plumbing in
# this script, in trace-replay-ci.sh, in the Activity, in the JNI marshalling or in the
# runner - one extra carries them all.
if env_overrides:
command.extend(["--env", ";".join(env_overrides)])
env = dict(**__import__("os").environ)
env["PYTHON"] = "python"
env["MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL"] = "/data/*"
if backend_info["use_angle"]:
env["MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_USE_ANGLE"] = "1"
env["MOBILEGL_TRACE_ANGLE_VARIANT"] = (
BLISS_ANGLE_VARIANT if case["name"] == BLISS_CASE else DEFAULT_ANGLE_VARIANT
)
else:
env.pop("MOBILEGL_ESPRYT_USE_ANGLE", None)
env.pop("MOBILEGL_TRACE_ANGLE_VARIANT", None)
result = subprocess.run(command, cwd=ROOT, env=env)
copy_goldens(case, backend)
return result.returncode
def read_benchmark(case, backend, run_index):
"""Reads the benchmark.json the run just pulled and files it under the run number."""
result_dir = RESULT_ROOT / f"{safe_case(case['name'])}-{backend}"
source = result_dir / "benchmark.json"
if not source.exists():
return None
try:
report = json.loads(source.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
except (OSError, ValueError) as error:
print(f"failed to read {source}: {error}", file=sys.stderr)
return None
shutil.copyfile(source, result_dir / f"benchmark-run{run_index}.json")
return report
def series_median(values):
"""The median, by the rule SummarizeSeries uses on the device.
trace_replay_core.cpp's SeriesSummary takes the middle element of an odd window and the
AVERAGE of the two middle elements of an even one, so p50 has to be computed the same way or
the line would print a p50 next to a medianFrameCpuMs that disagreed with it for a reason
nobody could see. (It is the only one of the three that is not a nearest rank: the device's
p95 is.)
"""
if not values:
return -1.0
ordered = sorted(values)
middle = len(ordered) // 2
if len(ordered) % 2 == 1:
return ordered[middle]
return 0.5 * (ordered[middle - 1] + ordered[middle])
def nearest_rank_percentile(values, fraction):
"""Nearest-rank percentile, the rule SummarizeSeries uses on the device for p95.
Nearest rank rather than an interpolating percentile so that every number printed here is a
frame that was actually observed, and so that a p95 computed on this side agrees exactly with
the p95 the device reported for the same window. The device computes no p99 at all - that is
the whole reason benchmark.json carries the full series - so p99 is this rule extended, and
p50 is NOT computed here (see series_median).
"""
if not values:
return -1.0
ordered = sorted(values)
rank = math.ceil(fraction * len(ordered))
if rank < 1:
rank = 1
return ordered[rank - 1]
def cpu_tail(report):
"""The trailing window of the per-frame CPU series, or [] when the run collected none.
benchmark.json carries the WHOLE frameCpuTimesMs[] array precisely so that p99 - which the
device does not compute, and which the paired A/B publishes beside p50 - is a host-side
reduction over an artefact that already exists. The window is the same trailing tailFrames the
device summarised, so the numbers below sit beside the device's own without being about a
different set of frames; p50 is recomputed here by the device's own median rule, so it agrees
with medianFrameCpuMs on the same run rather than merely sitting next to it.
"""
series = report.get("frameCpuTimesMs") or []
if not series:
return []
tail = report.get("tailFrames", 0)
if not isinstance(tail, int) or tail <= 0 or tail > len(series):
tail = len(series)
return series[-tail:]
def format_benchmark(report):
line = (
f"frames={report.get('totalFrames', -1)}"
f" total={report.get('totalSeconds', -1):.1f}s"
f" tail={report.get('tailFrames', -1)}"
f" mean={report.get('meanFrameMs', -1):.3f}ms"
f" median={report.get('medianFrameMs', -1):.3f}ms"
f" p95={report.get('p95FrameMs', -1):.3f}ms"
f" fps={report.get('fps', -1):.1f}"
)
# The CPU half. It is what the disaggregation A/B is actually read on - wall time under
# --benchmark-no-finish still contains everything the retrace thread waited for - so it is
# printed on the same line rather than left to whoever remembers to open the JSON.
window = cpu_tail(report)
if window:
line += (
f" | cpu mean={report.get('meanFrameCpuMs', -1):.3f}ms"
f" p50={series_median(window):.3f}ms"
f" p95={report.get('p95FrameCpuMs', -1):.3f}ms"
f" p99={nearest_rank_percentile(window, 0.99):.3f}ms"
)
else:
# Not "cpu=0": a run with no per-thread CPU clock and a run that burned no CPU are
# different claims, and only one of them is possible.
line += " | cpu unavailable (no per-thread CPU clock in this run)"
return line
def run_benchmark_case(case, backend, args):
"""Runs the case as a frame-timing benchmark `--benchmark-repeats` times.
Only the first run installs the APK and pushes the trace; the repeats reuse what is
already on the device, so the numbers are not paying for an adb push each time.
"""
label = f"{case['name']} / {backend}"
reports = []
failures = 0
for run_index in range(1, args.benchmark_repeats + 1):
extra_args = [
"--benchmark",
"--benchmark-tail-frames",
str(args.benchmark_tail_frames),
"--benchmark-finish",
"0" if args.benchmark_no_finish else "1",
]
if run_index > 1:
extra_args.append("--reuse-fixture")
# The previous repeat's file would otherwise be read back as this run's result.
stale = RESULT_ROOT / f"{safe_case(case['name'])}-{backend}" / "benchmark.json"
if stale.exists():
stale.unlink()
rc = run_case(
case,
backend,
extra_args=extra_args,
timeout_seconds=args.benchmark_timeout_seconds,
env_overrides=args.env,
)
report = read_benchmark(case, backend, run_index)
if rc != 0 or report is None:
print(f"{label} run {run_index}/{args.benchmark_repeats}: FAILED (exit {rc})", flush=True)
failures += 1
continue
reports.append((run_index, report))
print(
f"{label} run {run_index}/{args.benchmark_repeats}: {format_benchmark(report)}",
flush=True,
)
def mean_frame_ms(entry):
# A run that recorded no frames reports -1; it must not win "best" by being smallest.
mean = entry[1].get("meanFrameMs", -1)
return mean if mean > 0 else float("inf")
if reports:
best_index, best = min(reports, key=mean_frame_ms)
print(
f"{label} best of {args.benchmark_repeats} (run {best_index}): {format_benchmark(best)}",
flush=True,
)
return 1 if failures else 0
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--case", action="append", dest="cases", help="Case name to run; may be repeated.")
parser.add_argument("--backend", action="append", choices=sorted(BACKENDS), help="Backend to run; may be repeated.")
parser.add_argument("--all", action="store_true", help="Run every case in the APK workflow matrix.")
parser.add_argument("--keep-results", action="store_true", help="Do not clear the previous result root.")
parser.add_argument(
"--env",
action="append",
default=[],
metavar="KEY=VALUE",
help="Environment variable to set in the replay process, applied just before "
"libMobileGL.so is loaded; may be repeated. A KEY with no '=' unsets it. This "
"is the generic passthrough for MOBILEGL_* knobs that have no flag of their own.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--benchmark",
action="store_true",
help="Replay each case end to end as a frame-timing benchmark instead of comparing "
"one frame against its golden.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--benchmark-repeats",
type=int,
default=3,
help="Benchmark runs per case/backend; the best (lowest mean frame time) is reported.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--benchmark-tail-frames",
type=int,
default=200,
help="Frames at the end of the run the statistics are computed over.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--benchmark-no-finish",
action="store_true",
help="Do not glFinish at every frame boundary, so frame times measure CPU submission "
"only instead of GPU completion.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--use-pbuffer",
action="store_true",
help="Render into a pbuffer instead of the Activity's window surface. REQUIRED with "
"--transport spawn until P12: an ANativeWindow* is a pointer into the CLIENT's "
"process and means nothing in the server's, so SetWindowHandle is refused by name "
"with Fatal{UnmigratedSurface, \"AndroidNativeWindow@P12\"} (Rule H). The desktop "
"retrace has always run pbuffer and matches the same goldens.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--transport",
choices=("monolith", "inproc", "spawn"),
default="monolith",
help="MOBILEGL_TRANSPORT for the replay. `spawn` runs the server role in a SECOND PROCESS "
"on the device, launched out of the APK's lib/<abi>/ - which requires an APK built "
"with -Pmobilegl.buildDisaggregated=ON, or ConfigLoader has no parser, accepts the "
"value and ignores it (CONTRACT-P5 rule 5) and the run is monolith under a name that "
"says otherwise. MOBILEGL_IPC_SERVER_PATH is NOT passed from here: nativeLibraryDir "
"carries an install-time hash, so only the app can spell it, and "
"TraceReplayActivity.resolveSpawnServerPath does.",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--benchmark-timeout-seconds",
type=int,
default=900,
help="Per-run timeout; a benchmark replays the whole trace, not just up to target_call.",
)
return parser.parse_args()
def transport_proof_args(args):
"""The same arm-proof flag CI passes, so a local run cannot be greener than the lane.
trace-replay-ci.sh's --require-inproc / --require-spawn read the LIBRARY's own log and
refuse a run whose transport did not actually resolve - and for spawn, one whose server
role never left the process. Passing them here too is what stops "it works locally" from
meaning "it ran monolith locally".
"""
return {"inproc": ["--require-inproc"], "spawn": ["--require-spawn"]}.get(args.transport, [])
# The knobs .github/workflows/apk.yml hands BOTH acceptance lanes. They are kept here verbatim so
# a local run is the same run: the arm proof below reads the library's own `Config: IPC` line and
# requires strict/role-split-state/run-ahead to be 1, so a local invocation that quietly omitted
# them would fail a gate CI passes - or worse, pass a weaker one.
SPLIT_ACCEPTANCE_KNOBS = (
"MOBILEGL_IPC_ROLE_SPLIT_STATE=1",
"MOBILEGL_IPC_STRICT_ERRORS=1",
"MOBILEGL_IPC_RUN_AHEAD=1",
)
def transport_env(args):
"""The transport knob as env overrides, or nothing at all for monolith.
An EMPTY list on monolith rather than MOBILEGL_TRANSPORT=monolith, so the default arm's
environment is byte-identical to what it was before this option existed - the control arm has
to stay a control.
"""
if args.transport == "monolith":
return []
return [f"MOBILEGL_TRANSPORT={args.transport}", *SPLIT_ACCEPTANCE_KNOBS]
def main():
args = parse_args()
selected_backends = args.backend or list(BACKENDS)
selected_names = set(args.cases or [])
selected_cases = [case_with_defaults(case) for case in CASES if args.all or case["name"] in selected_names]
if not selected_cases:
print("No cases selected. Use --all or --case NAME.", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
if args.benchmark and args.benchmark_repeats < 1:
print("--benchmark-repeats must be at least 1.", file=sys.stderr)
return 2
if not args.keep_results and RESULT_ROOT.exists():
shutil.rmtree(RESULT_ROOT)
RESULT_ROOT.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
failures = 0
for case in selected_cases:
for backend in selected_backends:
if args.benchmark:
print(f"=== Android benchmark: {case['name']} / {backend} ===", flush=True)
# No SSIM verdicts to render here; the summary page is for the correctness lane.
failures += run_benchmark_case(case, backend, args)
continue
print(f"=== Android retrace: {case['name']} / {backend} ===", flush=True)
rc = run_case(case, backend, extra_args=transport_proof_args(args),
env_overrides=transport_env(args) + list(args.env),
use_pbuffer=args.use_pbuffer)
try:
render_summary()
except Exception as error:
print(f"failed to render summary: {error}", file=sys.stderr)
failures += 1
if rc not in (0, 2):
failures += 1
return 1 if failures else 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())