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Background

I am trying to use RenderScript to perform some actions on a 3D Allocation.

Here I create the Allocation:

 Type.Builder analyzer3DType = new Type.Builder(rsAnalyzer, Element.U8(rsAnalyzer))
      .setX(allocationSize.getWidth() - allocationPadding * 2)
      .setY(allocationSize.getHeight() - allocationPadding * 2)
      .setZ(framesNumber);

 analyzer3DAllocation = Allocation.createTyped(rsAnalyzer, analyzer3DType.create(), Allocation.USAGE_SCRIPT);

then setup the Java side and launch the kernel:

ScriptC_analyze rsAnalyze = new ScriptC_analyze(rsAnalyzer);
rsAnalyze.forEach_root(analyzer3DAllocation);

and this is how the kernel looks like:

void RS_KERNEL root(uchar in, uint32_t x, uint32_t y, uint32_t z) {
   // Do something.
}

Note that I need two different RenderScript contexts for parallel execution, thus this is how I create the RenderScript object:

rsAnalyzer = RenderScript.createMultiContext(context, RenderScript.ContextType.NORMAL, RenderScript.CREATE_FLAG_NONE, 23);

Problem

I get this runtime error:

W/Adreno-RS: rsdSetupInputOutputAttributes:2051: Incorrect number of input args, expected: 2 actual 1

W/Adreno-RS: rsdScriptInvokeForEach:2511: Error from rsdSetupInputOutputAttributes -30

The problem disappears if I don't insert the z attribute in the root kernel. It seems like the z attribute is not recognized as a special attribute.

I am targeting API 23 and this special attribute should be supported. From the docs:

A mapping kernel function or a reduction kernel accumulator function may access the coordinates of the current execution using the special arguments x, y, and z, which must be of type int or uint32_t. These arguments are optional.

In What are the available kernel-functions that you can create on Renderscript? on Oct 7 2015 Stephen Hines writes:

The only auto-filled parameters are x, y, (and maybe z in Android M).

I am not completely sure that the z attribute is supported in API level 23 but at least Android Studio thinks so.

Questions

  1. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to use the z attribute in a kernel in API level 23?
  2. If not, what could be the best way to implement this if I need to iterate over elements not only in x and y axis but also along z?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Additional information

This is part of my Application build.gradle:

android {
compileSdkVersion 25
buildToolsVersion "25.0.2"

defaultConfig {
    minSdkVersion 23
    targetSdkVersion 23
    renderscriptTargetApi 23
}

compileOptions {
    sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
    targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_7
}
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Simone N.
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  • What device are you using and what OS version? – sakridge Feb 02 '17 at 01:08
  • LG G4 (H815), TIM branded, android 6.0, kernel 3.10.84, build MRA58K, SW V20k-222-01 – Simone N. Feb 02 '17 at 01:44
  • Does the kernel work even with the error? If so you can ignore it. – sakridge Feb 02 '17 at 07:43
  • Thank you sakridge, I tried to ignore the error message and the kernel works properly! – Simone N. Feb 02 '17 at 14:25
  • You could also launch a 2-d kernel with just x,y and do a loop over z either in the kernel itself or as multiple forEach calls. Probably depends on the size of z but I would guess that multiple forEach might be faster. But try it and report back if you find out :) – sakridge Feb 03 '17 at 04:04

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Since I was receiving an error message:

Error from rsdSetupInputOutputAttributes -30

I gave for granted that the kernel wasn't working, but it works correctly, the special attribute z is available and correctly populated.

On top of it, I tried the same app on a different device with the same OS version (Huawei P9) and it doesn't give any error. It seems that this official OS update for the LG G4, rolled out by TIM operator in late 2016, has a partially flawed RenderScript implementation.

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