Set initial delay for periodic work -- is it working as it should be? [135272196]

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dr...@gmail.com

created issue #1

Jun 15, 2019 11:11AM

I'm not sure I understand how workRequestBuilder.setInitialDelay() is meant to work in respect of a Periodic Work Request (which is possible as from 2.1.0). Maybe what I'm seeing is a bug, or maybe it's intended behaviour. If the latter, it seems like odd intended behaviour.

When I set up a periodic job, I want the first in the series to be performed INSTANTLY (the user expects it... they hit a button and are waiting for an immediate result), and then for subsequent ones to be performed based on the periodic schedule (more vague timings is fine... the user is no longer waiting).

When you set up a periodic work request *without* a flex interval, it can run anytime in the set interval, i.e. from NOW until the end of the interval. If the device is awake when the periodic work request is scheduled, which is the case for me, I find that the first work in the series is generally performed at the START of the interval, i.e. NOW... though "NOW" may not be instantly (it's up to the device to decide... may be delayed a few seconds).

Because it cannot be guaranteed that the first periodic work will be performed *instantly*, instead I do an explicit call to the work-performing function outside of the WorkManager realm, and put a flexInterval on the periodic work of 5 mins so that the first periodic work will certainly not be performed straight away, but instead it will be near the end of the first period, most likely 5 mins before the end. This is not quite ideal (first gap between work runs is not quite a full interval) but it's OK... the user won't care or even notice it runs 5 mins "early" the first time.

Now, I thought that the ability to set an "initialDelay" in 2.1.0 would solve my problems... so that I could:

(a) still make an explicit call to the work-performing function to do the immediate work, guaranteed to be NOW (the user expects that)
(b) set up a periodic work request WITHOUT flexInterval (i.e. use the whole interval) and WITH an initial delay equal to the period "interval"

That way, I get the immediate work done, and then after "interval" the periodic work request is scheduled, and because (let's assume) the device is still awake, the first periodic work will likely perform at the START of the interval, i.e. almost straight away, i.e. pretty close to exactly one "interval" after the user set the schedule going.

BUT I'm not finding that. Let's say that "interval" of the periodic work is 15 mins, and I set an "initial delay" also of 15 mins, and I set this going when the user hits the button. I find that the immediate work is performed at 0 mins (triggered explicitly, not by WorkManager, so that's as expected), then at 15 mins NOTHING happens, and only at 30 mins does the first periodic work actually run.

It seems that either the first periodic work happens at the END of the first interval (15-30 mins) and not the start (like it usually does, if the device is awake and not busy), or WorkManager delayed first periodic interval to be at 30-45 mins, i.e. it waited 30 mins not 15 mins, twice what I asked for.

So, how is "setInitialDelay" for a periodic work request meant to work? It doesn't just wait "delay" (instead of not waiting at all) and then enqueue the periodic work request?

Comments

su...@google.com <su...@google.com> #2Jun 17, 2019 08:14PM

A couple of questions:

1. Have you saw crash in real device or only in simulators?
2. Do you use dynamic feature for language ID?

dr...@gmail.com <dr...@gmail.com> #3Jun 17, 2019 09:41PM

Tested on Android 12 Emulator with custom executor, but cannot repro this issue.

ra...@google.com <ra...@google.com> #4Jun 17, 2019 09:45PM

Second crash in the description is from a real device. Experienced it myself on two different Xiaomi phones, plus lots of crashes from users in the Google Play console.
Dynamic features are not used in the application.

As a wild guess, I have downgraded build tools from 31.0.0 to 30.0.3, compileSdk from 31 to 30, and moved all work with Language ID to the service in a separate process (just to be sure that crash can kill secondary process instead of main). This combination is in beta for 2 days by now and I don't see any SIGSEGV crashes.

dr...@gmail.com <dr...@gmail.com> #5Jun 17, 2019 09:48PM

Hmm, I feel the crash might be something related to separate/secondary process.

I also changed compileSdk and targetSDK to 31 but still cannot repro this issue.

ra...@google.com <ra...@google.com> #6Jun 17, 2019 09:52PM

On the contrary, there was no separate process before, when crashes started.

In the new build (with the aforementioned changes) I can see SIGSEGV crash, but only one instead of dozens and it has a bit different backtrace:

signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR)
liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)

backtrace:
  #00  pc 000000000003c7c0  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 000000000003b960  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 000000000003bb48  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 000000000003bafc  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 0000000000036c98  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 0000000000032714  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 0000000000031cac  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/split_config.arm64_v8a.apk!lib/arm64-v8a/liblanguage_id_jni.so (offset 0x11e000)
  #00  pc 0000000000057438  /data/app/azagroup.reedy-mF7zTu2bv_ELlbFArwNgqA==/oat/arm64/base.odex (offset 0x57000)

dr...@gmail.com <dr...@gmail.com> #7Jun 17, 2019 10:00PM

FYI, ML Kit launched a new language ID SDK in the latest release, which uses a new language ID model. https://developers.google.com/ml-kit/release-notes#august_11_2021

Could you try the new SDK version(17.0.0) to check if you can still repro this native crash? Thanks!

ra...@google.com <ra...@google.com> #8Jun 17, 2019 10:13PM

Thank you, I'll try it and check.

dr...@gmail.com <dr...@gmail.com> #9Jun 17, 2019 10:28PM

Hello. I have similar experience.

I'm using mlkit-language 16.1.1
I didnot meet this error until using AGP 4.2
I can get this error since using AGP 7.0
This error raised on Release build only(minimized by R8)
This error raised without obfuscation.

ra...@google.com <ra...@google.com> #10Jun 17, 2019 11:58PM

Assigned to ra...@google.com.

Also I found there is a post which presents same issue on stackoverflow.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68832304/mlkit-translate-sdk-crashes-in-release-build

ap...@google.com <ap...@google.com> #11Jun 18, 2019 07:13PM

Marked as fixed.

I created reproducible project.

$ git clone https://github.com/ganadist/VersionCodeDemo -b mlkit_agp7 mlkit_agp7
$ cd mlkit_agp7
$ ./gradlew :app:pPRUA
$ adb install app/build/outputs/universal_apk/productionRelease/app-production-release-universal.apk
$ adb shell am start -n com.example.myapplication/.MainActivity

$ adb logcat -b crash -d
10-19 19:41:49.844 17810 17810 F libc    : Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x7acf9d733c in tid 17810 (e.myapplication), pid 17810 (e.myapplication)
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : Build fingerprint: 'google/crosshatch/crosshatch:12/SPB5.210812.002/7671067:user/release-keys'
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : Revision: 'MP1.0'
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : ABI: 'arm64'
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : Timestamp: 2021-10-19 19:41:49.903736988+0900
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : Process uptime: 0s
10-19 19:41:50.473 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : Cmdline: com.example.myapplication
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : pid: 17810, tid: 17810, name: e.myapplication  >>> com.example.myapplication <<<
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : uid: 10240
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : signal 11 (SIGSEGV), code 1 (SEGV_MAPERR), fault addr 0x7acf9d733c
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x0  0000000000000000  x1  00000000000008fc  x2  0000007a76760c71  x3  0000000000000000
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x4  0000000000000010  x5  0000007ba4db49d0  x6  0000007b34dc3680  x7  3de38e3900000608
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x8  0000007bb4dbedf0  x9  0000007acf9db2aa  x10 0000000000000000  x11 0000007acf9d6640
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x12 0000000000000009  x13 0000000000000000  x14 0000000000000061  x15 00000000ebad6a89
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x16 0000007a767cfef8  x17 0000007d9a564b40  x18 0000007da3830000  x19 0000007feaf56a08
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x20 0000000000000000  x21 0000007ba4da50b0  x22 0000007bb4dbedf0  x23 0000007ba4da50b8
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x24 0000000000000009  x25 000000000000067e  x26 0000000000000012  x27 0000000000000008
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     x28 0000007b64dc8440  x29 0000000000000000
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :     lr  0000007a7678a964  sp  0000007feaf56810  pc  0000007a7678b7c0  pst 0000000060000000
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   : backtrace:
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #00 pc 000000000003c7c0  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #01 pc 000000000003b960  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #02 pc 000000000003bb48  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #03 pc 000000000003bafc  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #04 pc 0000000000036c98  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #05 pc 00000000000324a4  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)
10-19 19:41:50.474 17849 17849 F DEBUG   :       #06 pc 0000000000031b5c  /data/app/~~mHaMq-e9ocbm9UfYnkCGkQ==/com.example.myapplication-HgG9vkluwDDO1K78-Vzr0A==/lib/arm64/liblanguage_id_jni.so (Java_com_google_mlkit_nl_languageid_internal_LanguageIdentificationJni_nativeIdentifyLanguage+100) (BuildId: 859ec0ec2000a39e6ae8ed42e1704f46)

But after downgrade to AGP 4.2, crash is not reproducible.

$ git clone https://github.com/ganadist/VersionCodeDemo -b mlkit_agp42 mlkit_agp42
$ cd mlkit_agp42
$ ./gradlew :app:pPRUA
$ adb install app/build/outputs/universal_apk/productionRelease/app-production-release-universal.apk
$ adb shell am start -n com.example.myapplication/.MainActivity

Also, I tried to disable inline optimizers on R8 with AGP 7.0, and crash is not reproducible.

$ git clone https://github.com/ganadist/VersionCodeDemo -b mlkit_agp7_r8_disable_inline_optimizer  mlkit_agp7_r8
$ cd mlkit_agp7_r8
$ ./gradlew :app:pPRUA
$ adb install app/build/outputs/universal_apk/productionRelease/app-production-release-universal.apk
$ adb shell am start -n com.example.myapplication/.MainActivity