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Message-ID: <4e70c8b8-d459-2b79-2b3d-40875f701d97@synaptics.com>
Date:   Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:14:56 +0800
From:   Hsia-Jun Li <Randy.Li@...aptics.com>
To:     Tomasz Figa <tfiga@...omium.org>
Cc:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org, ayaka@...lik.info,
        hans.verkuil@...co.com, mchehab@...nel.org,
        laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com, hiroh@...omium.org,
        hverkuil@...all.nl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        nicolas@...fresne.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] media: v4l2-mem2mem: add a list for buf used by hw


On 7/12/23 17:33, Tomasz Figa wrote:
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>
>
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 12:00:38PM +0800, Hsia-Jun Li wrote:
>> From: "Hsia-Jun(Randy) Li" <randy.li@...aptics.com>
>>
>> Many drivers have to create its own buf_struct for a
>> vb2_queue to track such a state. Also driver has to
>> iterate over rdy_queue every times to find out a buffer
>> which is not sent to hardware(or firmware), this new
>> list just offers the driver a place to store the buffer
>> that hardware(firmware) has acknowledged.
>>
>> One important advance about this list, it doesn't like
>> rdy_queue which both bottom half of the user calling
>> could operate it, while the v4l2 worker would as well.
>> The v4l2 core could only operate this queue when its
>> v4l2_context is not running, the driver would only
>> access this new hw_queue in its own worker.
> Could you describe in what case such a list would be useful for a
> mem2mem driver?

This list, as its description, just for saving us from creating a 
private buffer struct to track buffer state.

The queue in the kernel is not the queue that hardware(codec firmware) 
are using.


>> Signed-off-by: Hsia-Jun(Randy) Li <randy.li@...aptics.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
>>   include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h           | 10 +++++++++-
>>   2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
>> index c771aba42015..b4151147d5bd 100644
>> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
>> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-mem2mem.c
>> @@ -321,15 +321,21 @@ static void __v4l2_m2m_try_queue(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev,
>>                goto job_unlock;
>>        }
>>
>> -     src = v4l2_m2m_next_src_buf(m2m_ctx);
>> -     dst = v4l2_m2m_next_dst_buf(m2m_ctx);
>> -     if (!src && !m2m_ctx->out_q_ctx.buffered) {
>> -             dprintk("No input buffers available\n");
>> -             goto job_unlock;
>> +     if (list_empty(&m2m_ctx->out_q_ctx.hw_queue)) {
>> +             src = v4l2_m2m_next_src_buf(m2m_ctx);
>> +
>> +             if (!src && !m2m_ctx->out_q_ctx.buffered) {
>> +                     dprintk("No input buffers available\n");
>> +                     goto job_unlock;
>> +             }
>>        }
>> -     if (!dst && !m2m_ctx->cap_q_ctx.buffered) {
>> -             dprintk("No output buffers available\n");
>> -             goto job_unlock;
>> +
>> +     if (list_empty(&m2m_ctx->cap_q_ctx.hw_queue)) {
>> +             dst = v4l2_m2m_next_dst_buf(m2m_ctx);
>> +             if (!dst && !m2m_ctx->cap_q_ctx.buffered) {
>> +                     dprintk("No output buffers available\n");
>> +                     goto job_unlock;
>> +             }
>>        }
> src and dst would be referenced unitialized below if neither of the
> above ifs hits...
I think they have been initialized at v4l2_m2m_ctx_init()
>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
>
>>        m2m_ctx->new_frame = true;
>> @@ -896,6 +902,7 @@ int v4l2_m2m_streamoff(struct file *file, struct v4l2_m2m_ctx *m2m_ctx,
>>        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q_ctx->rdy_queue);
>>        q_ctx->num_rdy = 0;
>>        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q_ctx->rdy_spinlock, flags);
>> +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q_ctx->hw_queue);
>>
>>        if (m2m_dev->curr_ctx == m2m_ctx) {
>>                m2m_dev->curr_ctx = NULL;
>> @@ -1234,6 +1241,8 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_ctx *v4l2_m2m_ctx_init(struct v4l2_m2m_dev *m2m_dev,
>>
>>        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&out_q_ctx->rdy_queue);
>>        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cap_q_ctx->rdy_queue);
>> +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&out_q_ctx->hw_queue);
>> +     INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cap_q_ctx->hw_queue);
>>        spin_lock_init(&out_q_ctx->rdy_spinlock);
>>        spin_lock_init(&cap_q_ctx->rdy_spinlock);
>>
>> diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
>> index d6c8eb2b5201..2342656e582d 100644
>> --- a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
>> +++ b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
>> @@ -53,9 +53,16 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_dev;
>>    *   processed
>>    *
>>    * @q:               pointer to struct &vb2_queue
>> - * @rdy_queue:       List of V4L2 mem-to-mem queues
>> + * @rdy_queue:       List of V4L2 mem-to-mem queues. If v4l2_m2m_buf_queue() is
>> + *           called in struct vb2_ops->buf_queue(), the buffer enqueued
>> + *           by user would be added to this list.
>>    * @rdy_spinlock: spin lock to protect the struct usage
>>    * @num_rdy: number of buffers ready to be processed
>> + * @hw_queue:        A list for tracking the buffer is occupied by the hardware
>> + *           (or device's firmware). A buffer could only be in either
>> + *           this list or @rdy_queue.
>> + *           Driver may choose not to use this list while uses its own
>> + *           private data to do this work.
>>    * @buffered:        is the queue buffered?
>>    *
>>    * Queue for buffers ready to be processed as soon as this
>> @@ -68,6 +75,7 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_queue_ctx {
>>        struct list_head        rdy_queue;
>>        spinlock_t              rdy_spinlock;
>>        u8                      num_rdy;
>> +     struct list_head        hw_queue;
>>        bool                    buffered;
>>   };
>>
>> --
>> 2.17.1
>>
-- 
Hsia-Jun(Randy) Li

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