Re: [PATCH] [media] vb2: map dmabuf for planes on driver queue instead of vidioc_qbuf

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Mon Jul 18 2016 - 04:34:25 EST


On 07/15/2016 06:26 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> The buffer planes' dma-buf are currently mapped when buffers are queued
> from userspace but it's more appropriate to do the mapping when buffers
> are queued in the driver since that's when the actual DMA operation are
> going to happen.

Does this solve anything? Once the DMA has started the behavior is the same
as before (QBUF maps the dmabuf), only while the DMA engine hasn't started
yet are the QBUF calls just accepted and the mapping takes place when the
DMA is kickstarted. This makes QBUF behave inconsistently.

You don't describe here WHY this change is needed.

I'm not sure I agree with the TODO, and even if I did, I'm not sure I agree
with this solution. Since queuing the buffer to the driver is not the same
as 'just before the DMA', since there may be many buffers queued up in the
driver and you don't know in vb2 when the buffer is at the 'just before the DMA'
stage.

Regards,

Hans

>
> Suggested-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> Hello,
>
> A side effect of this change is that if the dmabuf map fails for some
> reasons (i.e: a driver using the DMA contig memory allocator but CMA
> not being enabled), the fail will no longer happen on VIDIOC_QBUF but
> later (i.e: in VIDIOC_STREAMON).
>
> I don't know if that's an issue though but I think is worth mentioning.
>
> Best regards,
> Javier
>
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++------------
> 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> index ca8ffeb56d72..3fdf882bf279 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
> @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ module_param(debug, int, 0644);
> })
>
> static void __vb2_queue_cancel(struct vb2_queue *q);
> -static void __enqueue_in_driver(struct vb2_buffer *vb);
> +static int __enqueue_in_driver(struct vb2_buffer *vb);
>
> /**
> * __vb2_buf_mem_alloc() - allocate video memory for the given buffer
> @@ -1271,20 +1271,6 @@ static int __qbuf_dmabuf(struct vb2_buffer *vb, const void *pb)
> vb->planes[plane].mem_priv = mem_priv;
> }
>
> - /* TODO: This pins the buffer(s) with dma_buf_map_attachment()).. but
> - * really we want to do this just before the DMA, not while queueing
> - * the buffer(s)..
> - */
> - for (plane = 0; plane < vb->num_planes; ++plane) {
> - ret = call_memop(vb, map_dmabuf, vb->planes[plane].mem_priv);
> - if (ret) {
> - dprintk(1, "failed to map dmabuf for plane %d\n",
> - plane);
> - goto err;
> - }
> - vb->planes[plane].dbuf_mapped = 1;
> - }
> -
> /*
> * Now that everything is in order, copy relevant information
> * provided by userspace.
> @@ -1296,51 +1282,79 @@ static int __qbuf_dmabuf(struct vb2_buffer *vb, const void *pb)
> vb->planes[plane].data_offset = planes[plane].data_offset;
> }
>
> - if (reacquired) {
> - /*
> - * Call driver-specific initialization on the newly acquired buffer,
> - * if provided.
> - */
> - ret = call_vb_qop(vb, buf_init, vb);
> + return 0;
> +err:
> + /* In case of errors, release planes that were already acquired */
> + __vb2_buf_dmabuf_put(vb);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * __buf_map_dmabuf() - map dmabuf for buffer planes
> + */
> +static int __buf_map_dmabuf(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> +{
> + int ret;
> + unsigned int plane;
> +
> + for (plane = 0; plane < vb->num_planes; ++plane) {
> + ret = call_memop(vb, map_dmabuf, vb->planes[plane].mem_priv);
> if (ret) {
> - dprintk(1, "buffer initialization failed\n");
> - goto err;
> + dprintk(1, "failed to map dmabuf for plane %d\n",
> + plane);
> + return ret;
> }
> + vb->planes[plane].dbuf_mapped = 1;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Call driver-specific initialization on the newly
> + * acquired buffer, if provided.
> + */
> + ret = call_vb_qop(vb, buf_init, vb);
> + if (ret) {
> + dprintk(1, "buffer initialization failed\n");
> + return ret;
> }
>
> ret = call_vb_qop(vb, buf_prepare, vb);
> if (ret) {
> dprintk(1, "buffer preparation failed\n");
> call_void_vb_qop(vb, buf_cleanup, vb);
> - goto err;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> return 0;
> -err:
> - /* In case of errors, release planes that were already acquired */
> - __vb2_buf_dmabuf_put(vb);
> -
> - return ret;
> }
>
> /**
> * __enqueue_in_driver() - enqueue a vb2_buffer in driver for processing
> */
> -static void __enqueue_in_driver(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> +static int __enqueue_in_driver(struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> {
> struct vb2_queue *q = vb->vb2_queue;
> unsigned int plane;
> + int ret;
>
> vb->state = VB2_BUF_STATE_ACTIVE;
> atomic_inc(&q->owned_by_drv_count);
>
> trace_vb2_buf_queue(q, vb);
>
> + if (q->memory == VB2_MEMORY_DMABUF) {
> + ret = __buf_map_dmabuf(vb);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
> +
> /* sync buffers */
> for (plane = 0; plane < vb->num_planes; ++plane)
> call_void_memop(vb, prepare, vb->planes[plane].mem_priv);
>
> call_void_vb_qop(vb, buf_queue, vb);
> +
> + return 0;
> }
>
> static int __buf_prepare(struct vb2_buffer *vb, const void *pb)
> @@ -1438,8 +1452,11 @@ static int vb2_start_streaming(struct vb2_queue *q)
> * If any buffers were queued before streamon,
> * we can now pass them to driver for processing.
> */
> - list_for_each_entry(vb, &q->queued_list, queued_entry)
> - __enqueue_in_driver(vb);
> + list_for_each_entry(vb, &q->queued_list, queued_entry) {
> + ret = __enqueue_in_driver(vb);
> + if (ret < 0)
> + return ret;
> + }
>
> /* Tell the driver to start streaming */
> q->start_streaming_called = 1;
> @@ -1540,8 +1557,11 @@ int vb2_core_qbuf(struct vb2_queue *q, unsigned int index, void *pb)
> * If already streaming, give the buffer to driver for processing.
> * If not, the buffer will be given to driver on next streamon.
> */
> - if (q->start_streaming_called)
> - __enqueue_in_driver(vb);
> + if (q->start_streaming_called) {
> + ret = __enqueue_in_driver(vb);
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;
> + }
>
> /* Fill buffer information for the userspace */
> if (pb)
>