linux-kernel - [PATCH] media: Clarify the meaning of file descriptors in VIDIOC

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Message-Id: <20190612093648.47412-1-tfiga@chromium.org>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 18:36:48 +0900
From:   Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com>,
        Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...omium.org>,
        Hirokazu Honda <hiroh@...omium.org>,
        Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] media: Clarify the meaning of file descriptors in VIDIOC_DQBUF

When the application calls VIDIOC_DQBUF with the DMABUF memory type, the
v4l2_buffer structure (or v4l2_plane structures) are filled with DMA-buf
file descriptors. However, the current documentation does not explain
whether those are new file descriptors referring to the same DMA-bufs or
just the same integers as passed to VIDIOC_QBUF back in time. Clarify
the documentation that it's the latter.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
---
 Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
index dbf7b445a27b..407302d80684 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
@@ -139,6 +139,14 @@ may continue as normal, but should be aware that data in the dequeued
 buffer might be corrupted. When using the multi-planar API, the planes
 array must be passed in as well.
 
+If the application sets the ``memory`` field to ``V4L2_MEMORY_DMABUF`` to
+dequeue a :ref:`DMABUF <dmabuf>` buffer, the driver fills the ``m.fd`` field
+with a file descriptor numerically the same as the one given to ``VIDIOC_QBUF``
+when the buffer was enqueued. No new file descriptor is created at dequeue time
+and the value is only for the application convenience. When the multi-planar
+API is used the ``m.fd`` fields of the passed array of struct
+:c:type:`v4l2_plane` are filled instead.
+
 By default ``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` blocks when no buffer is in the outgoing
 queue. When the ``O_NONBLOCK`` flag was given to the
 :ref:`open() <func-open>` function, ``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` returns
-- 
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