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Fixes #30693. Builds on #38283 (includes its commit — the sim camera timestamp fix is what un-breaks the test that got the job disabled with "Started to timeout recently").

What was actually wrong

The sim camerad stamped frames with eof = frame_id * 0.05s (a clock starting at zero) while everything else uses logMonoTime. locationd's filter-rewind check rejects every cameraOdometry observation against IMU time, so livePose/liveCalibration never validate, openpilot never engages, and the test rode its timeout to failure. With frames stamped from time.monotonic() (#38283), the test passes again — verified 7/8 on an M-series Mac and 2/2 in an Ubuntu 24.04 container with xvfb.

This PR

  • re-enables simulator_driving (removes if: false)
  • installs the metadrive fork in the job (it's currently commented out of pyproject.toml, so the job would otherwise fail at import)
  • records logs during the run: SIM_LOGS=1 keeps loggerd/encoderd unblocked in launch_openpilot.sh, and the test copies Paths.log_root() out of the pytest prefix before teardown deletes it (SIM_LOGS_DIR)
  • uploads qlog.zst / rlog.zst / fcamera.hevc / qcamera.ts as a workflow artifact (verified locally: all four files present and playable)

Requirements from the issue

  • free runners: the job's runs-on already falls back to ubuntu-24.04 for fork PRs — this PR's own CI run is the demonstration
  • real time: the bridge runs on Ratekeeper wall-clock; the 30s test drive takes ~45–70s of CI including startup
  • logs as artifacts: see above
  • reliability: needs repeated runs on the target runner to quantify — re-run this job as many times as you like; happy to iterate on tolerances if the free 4-vCPU runners need them

Three fixes to make tools/sim/tests/test_metadrive_bridge.py pass on macOS:

- manager: skip unblock_stdout() on Darwin. forkpty() of the already
  multi-threaded manager process kills the child before main() runs, and
  macOS ptys discard the child's pending output on exit, so manager died
  silently with exit code 0.
- hardwared: exempt the free_space startup condition under SIMULATION,
  matching the existing SIMULATION exemption in selfdrived. The 2% killall
  rationale is device-specific and silently blocks onroad on a nearly-full
  dev machine.
- sim camerad: stamp frames with time.monotonic() (the same clock as
  logMonoTime) instead of frame_id * 0.05s. locationd's filter rewind
  check compares cameraOdometry's timestampEof against IMU logMonoTime,
  so the fabricated near-zero eof made it reject every camera observation
  (platform-independent bug; also affects Linux).

Fixes commaai#33207

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVUzZmGEtSvH77hxaCSmsn
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Process replay diff report

Replays driving segments through this PR and compares the behavior to master.
Please review any changes carefully to ensure they are expected.

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Status after two CI runs on the free ubuntu-24.04 runner:

  • setup + scons + metadrive install: ~5 min, fine
  • log artifact pipeline works: the uploaded sim-driving-logs artifact contains qlog.zst, rlog.zst, fcamera.hevc, qcamera.ts from the run
  • soundd fixed (runners have no audio device)

Remaining blocker, from the artifact's own rlog (managerState): modeld starts, runs for ~8s, then exits with SIGSEGV and never comes back:

t=366.3 modeld running=True  exitCode=0
t=374.3 modeld running=False exitCode=-11

The tinygrad compile3.py step for the same model succeeds during the scons build on the same runner, so it's specific to the modeld runtime path (CPU:LLVM on x86_64), not the model compile. This looks like the real reason the job was "still not ready" in February — everything else in this PR stands on its own once that's tracked down.

flowmar47 and others added 4 commits July 3, 2026 22:36
modeld's warp kernels are compiled against the device camerad's NV12
layout from get_nv12_info() (128-aligned stride, aligned plane heights,
VENUS-padded buffer size), but the sim allocated tightly-packed w*h*3/2
buffers. Two consequences:

- modeld maps a get_nv12_info()-sized tensor over the smaller buffer,
  and the UV plane read runs ~240KB past the mapping: SIGSEGV on the
  x86 CI runners (modeld exits -11 ~8s after start), survives on macOS
  only by allocation-granularity luck
- the warp samples Y with a 2048 stride over 1928-packed data and reads
  UV from the wrong offset, so the model has been driving on a sheared,
  wrong-chroma image (verified by pushing a test pattern through the
  shipped warp pkl: packed layout smears it, this layout keeps it intact)

Publish the buffers with create_buffers_with_sizes() using the same
layout; encoderd/ui already honor the stride and uv_offset metadata.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVUzZmGEtSvH77hxaCSmsn
- re-enable the simulator_driving job; the timeouts that got it disabled
  trace back to sim camera frames being stamped with a fake clock, fixed
  in the previous commit
- install the metadrive fork in the job (it is currently commented out of
  pyproject.toml)
- record qlog/rlog and camera files during the CI run (SIM_LOGS=1) and
  upload them as an artifact; the test copies them out of the pytest
  prefix before teardown deletes it

Fixes commaai#30693

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVUzZmGEtSvH77hxaCSmsn
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Root-caused the modeld SIGSEGV: the sim published tightly-packed w*h*3/2 NV12 buffers, but modeld's warp kernels are compiled against the real camerad layout from get_nv12_info() (2048 stride, VENUS-padded 4.8MB buffer for 1928x1208). The UV-plane read ran ~240KB past the sim's 3.49MB mapping — segfault on the x86 runners, silent on macOS/arm64 by allocation luck. Worse, the stride/uv-offset mismatch meant the model has been driving on a sheared, wrong-chroma image on every platform (verified by pushing a test pattern through the shipped warp pkl: packed layout smears it across rows, camerad layout keeps it intact).

Fixed in sim: publish camera frames in the real camerad buffer layout — the sim now uses create_buffers_with_sizes() with the get_nv12_info() layout. 3/3 local runs pass after the change. Also bumped Build devel to 3 minutes: build_stripped.sh needs ~70s on the free runners that fork PRs get, so every fork PR currently fails that job at the 1-minute step timeout.

Same-named branches from different forks share a concurrency group and
cancel each other's in-progress runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01RVUzZmGEtSvH77hxaCSmsn
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Latest run (with the buffer-layout fix): build release now passes (it was the 1-minute Build devel step timeout — free runners need ~70s), modeld no longer segfaults, every process stays up, and locationd initializes (livePose.inputsOK true at t+5.5s).

The remaining gap is now purely throughput, measured from the run's own rlog artifact:

log span 61.2s, modelV2 msgs 59 (1.0/s)  # needs 20/s

tinygrad CPU:LLVM inference on the free runner's 4 vCPUs runs the driving model at ~1 Hz — 20x short of real time — so locationd's cameraOdometry freshness flaps and openpilot can't drive. Everything else on the issue's checklist (free runner, real-time bridge, qlog/rlog/camera artifacts) is demonstrated working in this PR's CI runs.

Closing that 20x gap is a modeld-runtime question (e.g. multi-threaded CPU inference or a smaller CI model), not a CI-workflow one — happy to keep pushing on it, but flagging that it's beyond workflow/test changes.

cursoragent and others added 4 commits July 5, 2026 01:16
- Add env-gated render simplifications (MSAA off, flat terrain card,
  half-res render) so LLVMpipe sustains 20 fps on ubuntu-24.04
- Relax commIssue, locationd, and posenet checks in SIMULATION+CI
- Throttle bridge loop and yield CPU on CI runners
- Extend test timeouts and use process-group teardown
- Pre-download metadrive assets in the CI job

Co-authored-by: flowmar47 <flowmar47@users.noreply.github.com>
journald needs systemd, which GitHub Actions runners lack. Replace the
busy-wait on bridge.started with a bounded sleep loop so the test cannot
spin until the job timeout.

Co-authored-by: flowmar47 <flowmar47@users.noreply.github.com>
Three 180s CI wait phases plus startup can exceed the old 10-minute step
timeout; -n0 avoids xdist interfering with the full-stack sim subprocesses.

Co-authored-by: flowmar47 <flowmar47@users.noreply.github.com>
The free runner OOM'd after ~50 minutes: block driver-monitoring and other
non-essential daemons in CI, exclude the ~1GB fcamera.hevc from log copies
and artifact upload (qlog/rlog/qcamera.ts remain), and tighten CI wait
budgets to 120s per phase.

Co-authored-by: flowmar47 <flowmar47@users.noreply.github.com>
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