All ancestor multicols must have enough rows before laying out some inner multicol.

third_party/WebKit/Source/core/layout/LayoutMultiColumnSet.h

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     LayoutFlowThread* flowThread() const { return m_flowThread; }
 
     LayoutBlockFlow* multiColumnBlockFlow() const { return toLayoutBlockFlow(parent()); }
     LayoutMultiColumnFlowThread* multiColumnFlowThread() const { return toLayoutMultiColumnFlowThread(flowThread()); }
 
     LayoutMultiColumnSet* nextSiblingMultiColumnSet() const;
     LayoutMultiColumnSet* previousSiblingMultiColumnSet() const;
 
     // Return true if we have a fragmentainer group that can hold a column at the specified flow thread block offset.
-    bool hasFragmentainerGroupForColumnAt(LayoutUnit bottomOffsetInFlowThread) const;
+    bool hasFragmentainerGroupForColumnAt(LayoutUnit bottomOffsetInFlowThread, PageBoundaryRule) const;
 
     MultiColumnFragmentainerGroup& appendNewFragmentainerGroup();
 
     // Logical top relative to the content edge of the multicol container.
     LayoutUnit logicalTopFromMulticolContentEdge() const;
 
     LayoutUnit logicalTopInFlowThread() const;
     LayoutUnit logicalBottomInFlowThread() const;
     LayoutUnit logicalHeightInFlowThread() const { return logicalBottomInFlowThread() - logicalTopInFlowThread(); }
     LayoutRect flowThreadPortionRect() const;
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     bool m_initialHeightCalculated;
 };
 
 DEFINE_LAYOUT_OBJECT_TYPE_CASTS(LayoutMultiColumnSet, isLayoutMultiColumnSet());
 
 } // namespace blink
 
 #endif // LayoutMultiColumnSet_h