Re: [PATCH v5] [media] vb2: Add support for capture_dma_bidirectional queue flag

[Sakari Ailus]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:22:29AM +0200, Thierry Escande wrote:
> From: Pawel Osciak <posciak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> When this flag is set for CAPTURE queues by the driver on calling
> vb2_queue_init(), it forces the buffers on the queue to be
> allocated/mapped with DMA_BIDIRECTIONAL direction flag instead of
> DMA_FROM_DEVICE. This allows the device not only to write to the
> buffers, but also read out from them. This may be useful e.g. for codec
> hardware which may be using CAPTURE buffers as reference to decode
> other buffers.
> 
> This flag is ignored for OUTPUT queues as we don't want to allow HW to
> be able to write to OUTPUT buffers.
> 
> This patch introduces 2 macros:
> VB2_DMA_DIR(q) returns the corresponding dma_dir for the passed queue
> type, tanking care of the capture_dma_birectional flag.
> 
> VB2_DMA_DIR_CAPTURE(d) is a test macro returning true if the passed DMA
> direction refers to a capture buffer. This test is used to map virtual
> addresses for writing and to mark pages as dirty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pawel Osciak <posciak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Pawel Osciak <posciak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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