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Message-ID: <c47b3218-069b-790e-8781-7b6d195ac8a7@xs4all.nl>
Date:   Mon, 30 May 2022 15:49:57 +0200
From:   Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>
To:     Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        mchehab@...nel.org, ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar,
        p.zabel@...gutronix.de, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        mripard@...nel.org, paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com, wens@...e.org,
        samuel@...lland.org, nicolas.dufresne@...labora.com,
        andrzej.p@...labora.com,
        Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
        kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 11/17] media: uapi: Add
 V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_ENTRY_POINT_OFFSETS control

On 30/05/2022 11:18, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 29/05/2022 08:40, Jernej Škrabec wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This series looks very good and I plan to test it shortly on Cedrus, but I 
>> have one major concern below.
>>
>> Dne petek, 27. maj 2022 ob 16:31:28 CEST je Benjamin Gaignard napisal(a):
>>> The number of 'entry point offset' can be very variable.
>>> Instead of using a large static array define a v4l2 dynamic array
>>> of U32 (V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_U32).
>>> The number of entry point offsets is reported by the elems field
>>> and in struct v4l2_ctrl_hevc_slice_params.num_entry_point_offsets
>>> field.
>>
>> Slice control by itself is variable length array, so you would actually need 
>> 2D variable array for entry points which is not supported. However, easy 
>> workaround for that is to flatten 2D array to 1D and either have another slice 
>> control field which would tell first entry point index for convenience or let 
>> driver calculate it by adding up all num_entry_point_offsets of previous 
>> slices.
>>
>> Hans, what do you think?
> 
> If I would support 2D variable array sizes, wouldn't that be more elegant?
> 
> The current implementation doesn't support that, but as the commit log for
> patch 1/17 says:
> 
> "Currently dynamically sized arrays are limited to one dimensional arrays,
> but that might change in the future if there is a need for it."
> 
> Let me know if you agree, and I'll try to implement this. It's been a while
> since I last looked at this, so I'm not sure how much work it is, but it is
> probably worth a shot.

Digging more into this made me realize that this doesn't actually help for this
particular case.

I would lean towards your second suggestion of adding up all num_entry_point_offsets
of previous slices.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Hans
> 
>>
>> Note, it seems that H265 decoding on Cedrus still works without entry points, 
>> so this problem can be solved later. I'm not sure what we lose with that but 
>> it was suggested that this could influence speed or error resilience or both. 
>> However, I think we're close to solve it, so I'd like to do that now.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jernej
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst       | 11 +++++++++++
>>>  drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-defs.c             |  5 +++++
>>>  include/media/hevc-ctrls.h                            |  5 ++++-
>>>  3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst b/
>> Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
>>> index 0796b1563daa..05228e280f66 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
>>> @@ -3010,6 +3010,9 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_hevc_size_of_length_field -
>>>      * - __u32
>>>        - ``data_bit_offset``
>>>        - Offset (in bits) to the video data in the current slice data.
>>> +    * - __u32
>>> +      - ``num_entry_point_offsets``
>>> +      - Specifies the number of entry point offset syntax elements in the 
>> slice header.
>>>      * - __u8
>>>        - ``nal_unit_type``
>>>        - Specifies the coding type of the slice (B, P or I).
>>> @@ -3150,6 +3153,14 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_hevc_size_of_length_field -
>>>  
>>>      \normalsize
>>>  
>>> +``V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_ENTRY_POINT_OFFSETS (integer)``
>>> +    Specifies entry point offsets in bytes.
>>> +    This control is a dynamically sized array. The number of entry point
>>> +    offsets is reported by the ``elems`` field.
>>> +    This bitstream parameter is defined according to :ref:`hevc`.
>>> +    They are described in section 7.4.7.1 "General slice segment header
>>> +    semantics" of the specification.
>>> +
>>>  ``V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_SCALING_MATRIX (struct)``
>>>      Specifies the HEVC scaling matrix parameters used for the scaling 
>> process
>>>      for transform coefficients.
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-defs.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-
>> core/v4l2-ctrls-defs.c
>>> index d594efbcbb93..e22921e7ea61 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-defs.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ctrls-defs.c
>>> @@ -1188,6 +1188,7 @@ const char *v4l2_ctrl_get_name(u32 id)
>>>  	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_DECODE_PARAMS:		return 
>> "HEVC Decode Parameters";
>>>  	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_DECODE_MODE:		return 
>> "HEVC Decode Mode";
>>>  	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_START_CODE:		return 
>> "HEVC Start Code";
>>> +	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_ENTRY_POINT_OFFSETS:	return 
>> "HEVC Entry Point Offsets";
>>>  
>>>  	/* Colorimetry controls */
>>>  	/* Keep the order of the 'case's the same as in v4l2-controls.h! 
>> */
>>> @@ -1518,6 +1519,10 @@ void v4l2_ctrl_fill(u32 id, const char **name, enum 
>> v4l2_ctrl_type *type,
>>>  	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_DECODE_PARAMS:
>>>  		*type = V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_HEVC_DECODE_PARAMS;
>>>  		break;
>>> +	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_ENTRY_POINT_OFFSETS:
>>> +		*type = V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_U32;
>>> +		*flags |= V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY;
>>> +		break;
>>>  	case V4L2_CID_STATELESS_VP9_COMPRESSED_HDR:
>>>  		*type = V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_VP9_COMPRESSED_HDR;
>>>  		break;
>>> diff --git a/include/media/hevc-ctrls.h b/include/media/hevc-ctrls.h
>>> index a3c829ef531a..1319cb99ae3f 100644
>>> --- a/include/media/hevc-ctrls.h
>>> +++ b/include/media/hevc-ctrls.h
>>> @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
>>>  #define V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_DECODE_PARAMS	(V4L2_CID_CODEC_BASE 
>> + 1012)
>>>  #define V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_DECODE_MODE	(V4L2_CID_CODEC_BASE + 1015)
>>>  #define V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_START_CODE	(V4L2_CID_CODEC_BASE + 1016)
>>> +#define V4L2_CID_STATELESS_HEVC_ENTRY_POINT_OFFSETS (V4L2_CID_CODEC_BASE + 
>> 1017)
>>>  
>>>  /* enum v4l2_ctrl_type type values */
>>>  #define V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_HEVC_SPS 0x0120
>>> @@ -318,6 +319,8 @@ struct v4l2_hevc_pred_weight_table {
>>>   *
>>>   * @bit_size: size (in bits) of the current slice data
>>>   * @data_bit_offset: offset (in bits) to the video data in the current slice 
>> data
>>> + * @num_entry_point_offsets: specifies the number of entry point offset syntax
>>> + *			     elements in the slice header.
>>>   * @nal_unit_type: specifies the coding type of the slice (B, P or I)
>>>   * @nuh_temporal_id_plus1: minus 1 specifies a temporal identifier for the 
>> NAL unit
>>>   * @slice_type: see V4L2_HEVC_SLICE_TYPE_{}
>>> @@ -360,7 +363,7 @@ struct v4l2_hevc_pred_weight_table {
>>>  struct v4l2_ctrl_hevc_slice_params {
>>>  	__u32	bit_size;
>>>  	__u32	data_bit_offset;
>>> -
>>> +	__u32	num_entry_point_offsets;
>>>  	/* ISO/IEC 23008-2, ITU-T Rec. H.265: NAL unit header */
>>>  	__u8	nal_unit_type;
>>>  	__u8	nuh_temporal_id_plus1;
>>> -- 
>>> 2.32.0
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
> 

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