I confirm downgrading to 17.2.8 solves the issue.

I should also mention that I'm on ubuntu using x-swat ppa, so the real version numbers are 17.2.8-0ubuntu0~16.04.1 and 17.3.3-0ubuntu1~16.04.1

Thanks Michel for the component correction. 

Just a precision, I didn't downgrade the packages that seems to contain my video drivers. Are you sure it is a driver issue then?

Created attachment 137561 [details]
screencast of flicker on 17.2.8

the points flicker for me on Mesa 17.2.8 (KBL / Linux 4.15).  Can you describe your hardware/kernel for the working configuration?  Please also attach a screencast of what it is supposed to look like.

~ ᐅ uname -a
Linux 4.4.0-112-generic #135-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 19 11:48:36 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My hardware config is in the glxinfo (I guess). In short: it's a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2).

I'm attaching screencasts of both version now.

Created attachment 137565 [details]
itowns screencast 17.2.8 (no flicker)

Created attachment 137566 [details]
itowns screencast 17.3.3 (flickers)

Created attachment 137567 [details]
potree screencast 17.2.8 (no flickers)

Created attachment 137568 [details]
potree screencast 17.3.3 (flickers)

On Itowns 17.3.3 attachment (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=137566) you can see that part of the floor behind the walls are actually hiding the building once they are displayed (data is downloaded by patch).

what version of firefox are you running?  I'm puzzled as to why I can't get a correct render on my system.

I reproduce on:
- firefox 59 (current dev edition, so beta)
- firefox 58 (current stable)
- chromium 64

I do *not* reproduce on:
- midori 0.5.11
- epiphany 3.18.11

Looking at webglreport, *maybe* the bug is only on browsers that have the  	EXT_frag_depth extension. When I comment out the use of gl_FragDepthEXT in itowns, it makes the problem go away.

I reproduced correct behavior on ubuntu 16.10:
  linux 4.8
  mesa 12.0.6

Bisected to:

commit 16631ca30ea6d6eec8101f07d97a55b2210026e8
Author: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral@igalia.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 13 09:22:54 2017 +0200
    i965/sbe: fix active components for SSO programs with over 16 inputs
    
    When we have up to 16 FS inputs, the SF unit will reorder our inputs
    to be consecutive, however, when we have more than 16 we need to
    to read our inputs from the URB exactly as they have been
    output from the previous stage. This means that for SSO we have to
    consider if we have URB padding due to unused input locations.
    
    Specifically, this affects gen9 active components programming, since
    for things to work in scenarios with over 16 inputs that have padded
    regions we need to ensure that we program active components for the
    padded regions too. If we don't do this the hardware won't read
    the URB properly for inputs located after padded regions.
    
    Found empirically.
    
    Fixes (these also require a patch in CTS):
    KHR-GL45.enhanced_layouts.varying_locations
    KHR-GL45.enhanced_layouts.varying_array_locations
    
    Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>

Created attachment 137603 [details] [review]
Fix

This patch seems to fix the problem: we were not accounting for the fact that some special FS inputs are not stored in the URB, such as VARYING_SLOT_PNTC and we still need to program gen9+ active components for them too.

Mark: I am currently testing this in Jenkins, will send for review unless I see issues with it.

I was surprised that this was never caught by Jenkins before, because in theory, it should affect all situations that involve point sprite functionality and we have tests for that in Piglit.

I did some investigation and it turns out that the tests are passing because the point sprite varying is the only input to the FS in these tests and the hardware has a requirement by which our URB must have at least one entry, so we were padding the URB size to have exactly one offset. This means that when we took the number of inputs from the URB size alone we would count 2, the minimum we can have (each URB offset packs 2 slots), and since the test only required one, it would work.

I'll try to add another test to piglit that adds some user varyings so we can replicate the problem and add regression testing for it.

(In reply to Iago Toral from comment #15)
> Mark: I am currently testing this in Jenkins, will send for review unless I
> see issues with it.

Jenkin's results are good. Sent for review here:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-February/186822.html

(In reply to Iago Toral from comment #17)
> (In reply to Iago Toral from comment #15)
> > Mark: I am currently testing this in Jenkins, will send for review unless I
> > see issues with it.
> 
> Jenkin's results are good. Sent for review here:
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2018-February/186822.html

And this is a patch for piglit that extends the existing gl_PointCoord test to trigger the problem:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/piglit/2018-February/023894.html

Fixed with:

commit bc73016703f8f2815e000f1c100532cf6e13cd3c
Author: Iago Toral Quiroga <itoral@igalia.com>
Date:   Thu Mar 1 07:59:42 2018 +0100

    i965/sbe: fix number of inputs for active components
    
    In 16631ca30ea6 we fixed gen9 active components to account for padded
    inputs in the URB, which we can have with SSO programs. To do that,
    instead of going through the bitfield of inputs (which doesn't include
    padding information), we compute the number of inputs from the size
    of the URB entry.
    
    Unfortunately, there are some special inputs that are not stored in
    the URB and that we also need to account for. These special inputs
    are identified and handled during calculate_attr_overrides().
    
    Instead of keeping track of the exact number of inputs, we just
    program active components for all possible inputs like we do in
    anvil.
    
    This fixes a regression in a WebGL program that uses Point Sprite
    functionality (specifically, VARYING_SLOT_PNTC).
    
    v2:
     - Add 'Fixes' tag (Mark Janes)
     - make no_vue_inputs int instead of uint32_t, and add const qualifier
       to num_inputs variable (Ian)
    
    v3:
     - Do not try to count inputs correctly, just program all input
       slots like we do in anvil (Ken)
    
    Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105224
    Fixes: 16631ca30ea6 (i965/sbe: fix active components for SSO programs with over 16 inputs)
    Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>