Re: [PATCH] media: vivid: Support 480p for webcam capture
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 14:28:18 EST
Em Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:23:48 -0300
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> Em Mon, 8 Oct 2018 19:53:38 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
> > On 10/08/2018 07:03 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > Em Wed, 3 Oct 2018 12:14:22 +0100
> > > Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
> > >
> > >>> @@ -75,6 +76,8 @@ static const struct v4l2_fract webcam_intervals[VIVID_WEBCAM_IVALS] = {
> > >>> { 1, 5 },
> > >>> { 1, 10 },
> > >>> { 1, 15 },
> > >>> + { 1, 15 },
> > >>> + { 1, 25 },
> > >
> > > As the code requires that VIVID_WEBCAM_IVALS would be twice the number
> > > of resolutions, I understand why you're doing that.
> > >
> > >> But won't this add duplicates of 25 and 15 FPS to all the frame sizes
> > >> smaller than 1280,720 ? Or are they filtered out?
> > >
> > > However, I agree with Kieran: looking at the code, it sounds to me that
> > > it will indeed duplicate 1/15 and 1/25 intervals.
> >
> > Oops, I missed this comment. Yes, you'll get duplicates which should be
> > avoided.
> >
> > >
> > > I suggest add two other intervals there, like:
> > > 12.5 fps and 29.995 fps, e. g.:
> >
> > 29.995 is never used by webcams.
> >
> > >
> > > static const struct v4l2_fract webcam_intervals[VIVID_WEBCAM_IVALS] = {
> > > { 1, 1 },
> > > { 1, 2 },
> > > { 1, 4 },
> > > { 1, 5 },
> > > { 1, 10 },
> > > { 1, 15 },
> > > { 2, 50 },
> > > { 1, 25 },
> > > { 1, 30 },
> > > { 1, 40 },
> > > { 1, 50 },
> > > { 1001, 30000 },
> > > { 1, 60 },
> > > };
> > >
> > > Provided, of course, that vivid would support producing images
> > > at fractional rate. I didn't check. If not, then simply add
> > > 1/20 and 1/40.
> >
> > vivid can do fractional rates (it does support this for the TV input),
> > but 29.995 makes no sense for a webcam.
>
> Yes, I know.
>
> > So 1/20 and 1/40 seems the
> > right approach.
>
> I would have 1/12.5 at least. I have some webcams here whose seem to
> use things like that under bad light, and it sounds interesting to
> have at least one fraction that doesn't start with "1", in order to
> be sure that camera apps are doing the right thing.
>
> > >> Now the difficulty is adding smaller frame rates (like 1,1, 1,2) would
> > >> effect/reduce the output rates of the larger frame sizes, so how about
> > >> adding some high rate support (any two from 1/{60,75,90,100,120}) instead?
> > >
> > > Last week, I got a crash with vivid running at 30 fps, while running an
> > > event's race code, on a i7core (there, the code was switching all video
> > > controls while subscribing/unsubscribing events). The same code worked
> > > with lower fps.
> >
> > If you have a stack trace, then let me know.
>
> See at the end.
>
> I intend to do further tests when I have some time.
>
> >
> > > While I didn't have time to debug it yet, I suspect that it has to do
> > > with the time spent to produce a frame on vivid. So, while it would be
> > > nice to have high rate support, I'm not sure if this is doable. It may,
> > > but perhaps we need to disable some possible video output formats, as some
> > > types may consume more time to build frames.
> >
> > In the end that depends on the CPU and what else is running. You'll know quickly
> > enough if the CPU isn't fast enough to support a format. Although it shouldn't
> > crash, of course.
>
> Yes, but on this case, it caused an OOPS (with KASAN enabled).
>
> I was running the stress test on one VT while using qv4l2 to stream.
>
> When I changed the resolution, it caused the OOPS.
>
> This is one example.
>
> I ran the race test first. It placed all controls at some random state
> (only issued VIDIOC_EXT_CTRLS - kept everything else on default).
>
> when asked qv4l2 to start streaming (5fps), got this:
>
>
> [348569.866967] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc90303ff73b5
> [348569.867070] PGD 406ee8067 P4D 406ee8067 PUD 0
> [348569.867081] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP KASAN
> [348569.867089] CPU: 2 PID: 4365 Comm: vivid-000-vid-c Tainted: G B 4.19.0-rc1+ #3
> [348569.867098] Hardware name: /NUC5i7RYB, BIOS RYBDWi35.86A.0364.2017.0511.0949 05/11/2017
> [348569.867113] RIP: 0010:tpg_print_str_6+0x241/0x960 [v4l2_tpg]
> [348569.867122] Code: 24 18 e9 a5 01 00 00 84 c9 0f 84 48 03 00 00 40 84 ed 48 8d 7b 15 be 02 00 00 00 0f 88 cb 06 00 00 e8 a3 cd 2f ec 48 8d 7b 17 <66> 44 89 73 15 e8 b5 c7
> 2f ec 44 88 6b 17 40 f6 c5 40 48 8d 7b 12
> [348569.867136] RSP: 0018:ffff88024b6cf8c8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [348569.867144] RAX: fffff520607fee77 RBX: ffffc90303ff73a0 RCX: ffffffffc10c22cd
> [348569.867152] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffc90303ff73b7
> [348569.867162] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: fffff520607fee77 R09: fffff520607fee77
> [348569.867170] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: fffff520607fee76 R12: ffff88024b6cfcf1
> [348569.867179] R13: 0000000000000010 R14: 0000000000001010 R15: 00000000000000ea
> [348569.867189] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880407300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [348569.867198] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [348569.867206] CR2: ffffc90303ff73b5 CR3: 0000000346c0d004 CR4: 00000000003606e0
> [348569.867214] Call Trace:
> [348569.867227] tpg_gen_text+0x258/0x2b0 [v4l2_tpg]
> [348569.867249] vivid_fillbuff+0x1e9b/0x30b0 [vivid]
> [348569.867261] ? __list_add_valid+0x29/0x90
> [348569.867271] ? __switch_to+0x345/0x700
> [348569.867281] ? osq_unlock+0x6b/0xf0
> [348569.867302] ? vivid_grab_controls+0x60/0x60 [vivid]
> [348569.867312] ? del_timer_sync+0x3e/0x50
> [348569.867320] ? schedule_timeout+0x234/0x4e0
> [348569.867330] ? mutex_lock+0xbd/0xc0
> [348569.867337] ? mutex_lock+0xbd/0xc0
> [348569.867345] ? __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x10/0x10
> [348569.867365] ? vivid_thread_vid_cap+0x5b6/0xf20 [vivid]
> [348569.867385] vivid_thread_vid_cap+0x5b6/0xf20 [vivid]
> [348569.867396] ? __sched_text_start+0x8/0x8
> [348569.867404] ? __wake_up_common+0x9c/0x230
> [348569.867413] ? __kthread_parkme+0x77/0x90
> [348569.867432] ? vivid_fillbuff+0x30b0/0x30b0 [vivid]
> [348569.867440] kthread+0x1ac/0x1d0
> [348569.867448] ? kthread_create_worker_on_cpu+0xc0/0xc0
> [348569.867458] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
> [348569.867465] Modules linked in: vivid videobuf2_dma_contig v4l2_tpg v4l2_dv_timings videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_common v4l2_common videode
> v media xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 nf_nat xt_conntrack nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 libcrc32c tun bridge stp llc ebtable
> _filter ebtables ip6table_filter ip6_tables bluetooth rfkill ecdh_generic snd_hda_codec_hdmi i915 snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio snd_hda_codec intel_rapl snd_usbmidi_lib x86_pk
> g_temp_thermal snd_hda_core i2c_algo_bit snd_hwdep intel_powerclamp coretemp snd_pcm snd_seq_midi drm_kms_helper crct10dif_pclmul snd_seq_midi_event crc32_pclmul snd_rawmidi
> ghash_clmulni_intel intel_cstate snd_seq intel_uncore drm intel_rapl_perf snd_seq_device snd_timer e1000e snd ptp mei_me
> [348569.867574] video mei soundcore pps_core lpc_ich fuse binfmt_misc kvm_intel kvm irqbypass crc32c_intel [last unloaded: videobuf2_memops]
> [348569.867597] CR2: ffffc90303ff73b5
> [348569.867604] ---[ end trace b85f80398f88914d ]---
> [348569.867615] RIP: 0010:tpg_print_str_6+0x241/0x960 [v4l2_tpg]
> [348569.867624] Code: 24 18 e9 a5 01 00 00 84 c9 0f 84 48 03 00 00 40 84 ed 48 8d 7b 15 be 02 00 00 00 0f 88 cb 06 00 00 e8 a3 cd 2f ec 48 8d 7b 17 <66> 44 89 73 15 e8 b5 c7
> 2f ec 44 88 6b 17 40 f6 c5 40 48 8d 7b 12
> [348569.867639] RSP: 0018:ffff88024b6cf8c8 EFLAGS: 00010246
> [348569.867647] RAX: fffff520607fee77 RBX: ffffc90303ff73a0 RCX: ffffffffc10c22cd
> [348569.867656] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000002 RDI: ffffc90303ff73b7
> [348569.867665] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: fffff520607fee77 R09: fffff520607fee77
> [348569.867674] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: fffff520607fee76 R12: ffff88024b6cfcf1
> [348569.867682] R13: 0000000000000010 R14: 0000000000001010 R15: 00000000000000ea
> [348569.867692] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880407300000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> [348569.867701] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> [348569.867709] CR2: ffffc90303ff73b5 CR3: 0000000346c0d004 CR4: 00000000003606e0
>
>
> (gdb) list *vivid_fillbuff+0x1e9b
> 0x1936b is in vivid_fillbuff (drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-kthread-cap.c:495).
> 490 ms % 1000,
> 491 buf->vb.sequence,
> 492 (dev->field_cap == V4L2_FIELD_ALTERNATE) ?
> 493 (buf->vb.field == V4L2_FIELD_TOP ?
> 494 " top" : " bottom") : "");
> 495 tpg_gen_text(tpg, basep, line++ * line_height, 16, str);
> 496 }
> 497 if (dev->osd_mode == 0) {
> 498 snprintf(str, sizeof(str), " %dx%d, input %d ",
> 499 dev->src_rect.width, dev->src_rect.height, dev->input);
Not sure if VGER will accept, but I attached an image of qv4l2. It
is unresponsive.
Thanks,
Mauro
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