Bug 144471 – [iOS] Lots of editing tests ASSERT that "Calling editorState() should not cause a synchronous layout."

• Component: HTML Editing
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Joseph Pecoraro]

* SUMMARY
[iOS] Lots of editing tests ASSERT that "Calling editorState() should not cause a synchronous layout."

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. shell> run-webkit-tests --debug --ios-simulator editing

* NOTES
About 30 editing tests are failing with this ASSERT/CRASH log.

stderr:
ASSERTION FAILED: Calling editorState() should not cause a synchronous layout.
needsLayout == (view && view->needsLayout())
Source/WebKit2/WebProcess/WebPage/WebPage.cpp(4409) : void WebKit::WebPage::didChangeSelection()
1   0x118548920 WTFCrash
2   0x113c43b73 WebKit::WebPage::didChangeSelection()
3   0x113c83bb8 WebKit::WebPage::updateSelectionAppearance()
4   0x113b54736 WebKit::WebFrameLoaderClient::dispatchDidLayout()
5   0x11a5c12fa WebCore::FrameView::performPostLayoutTasks()
6   0x11a5c0798 WebCore::FrameView::layout(bool)
7   0x11a215627 WebCore::Document::updateLayout()
8   0x11a218f8f WebCore::Document::updateLayoutIgnorePendingStylesheets(WebCore::Document::RunPostLayoutTasks)
9   0x11a922907 WebCore::InsertIntoTextNodeCommand::doApply()
10  0x119f6fbf7 WebCore::CompositeEditCommand::applyCommandToComposite(WTF::PassRefPtr<WebCore::EditCommand>)
11  0x119f717f8 WebCore::CompositeEditCommand::insertTextIntoNode(WTF::PassRefPtr<WebCore::Text>, unsigned int, WTF::String const&)
12  0x11a92ba35 WebCore::InsertTextCommand::doApply()
13  0x119f6fd41 WebCore::CompositeEditCommand::applyCommandToComposite(WTF::PassRefPtr<WebCore::CompositeEditCommand>, WebCore::VisibleSelection const&)
14  0x11bb4575b WebCore::TypingCommand::insertTextRunWithoutNewlines(WTF::String const&, bool)
15  0x11bb465f2 WebCore::TypingCommandLineOperation::operator()(unsigned long, unsigned long, bool) const
16  0x11bb45f11 void WebCore::forEachLineInString<WebCore::TypingCommandLineOperation>(WTF::String const&, WebCore::TypingCommandLineOperation const&)
17  0x11bb44b58 WebCore::TypingCommand::insertText(WTF::String const&, bool)
18  0x11bb44a0f WebCore::TypingCommand::insertText(WebCore::Document&, WTF::String const&, WebCore::VisibleSelection const&, unsigned int, WebCore::TypingCommand::TextCompositionType)
19  0x11bb447c5 WebCore::TypingCommand::insertText(WebCore::Document&, WTF::String const&, unsigned int, WebCore::TypingCommand::TextCompositionType)
20  0x11a3ae3f4 WebCore::executeInsertText(WebCore::Frame&, WebCore::Event*, WebCore::EditorCommandSource, WTF::String const&)
21  0x11a3ac117 WebCore::Editor::Command::execute(WTF::String const&, WebCore::Event*) const
22  0x11a225798 WebCore::Document::execCommand(WTF::String const&, bool, WTF::String const&)
23  0x11ab04e95 WebCore::jsDocumentPrototypeFunctionExecCommand(JSC::ExecState*)
24  0x21fd0827028
25  0x1182ebe53 llint_entry
26  0x1182ebe53 llint_entry
27  0x21fd08281da
28  0x1182ebe53 llint_entry
29  0x1182ebe53 llint_entry
30  0x1182e56d9 vmEntryToJavaScript
31  0x11814e8fc JSC::JITCode::execute(JSC::VM*, JSC::ProtoCallFrame*)

[Joseph Pecoraro]

This affects not just editing tests but that is predominantly where they happen.

[Chris Dumez]

I added this assertion. It is indicative of a possible performance problem.
Did we start hitting this recently?

[Joseph Pecoraro]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I added this assertion. It is indicative of a possible performance problem.
> Did we start hitting this recently?

Yes. Running iOS LayoutTests in Debug I see this frequently, especially in the editing directory.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/20771251>

[Chris Dumez]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 144774 ***