Re: [PATCH 0/3] Collapse vimc into single monolithic driver

[Shuah Khan]

Hi Andre,

On 8/9/19 5:52 PM, Andrà Almeida wrote:
> Hello Shuah,
>
> Thanks for the patch, I did some comments below.
>
> On 8/9/19 6:45 PM, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > vimc uses Component API to split the driver into functional components.
> > The real hardware resembles a monolith structure than component and
> > component structure added a level of complexity making it hard to
> > maintain without adding any real benefit.
> >      
> > The sensor is one vimc component that would makes sense to be a separate
> > module to closely align with the real hardware. It would be easier to
> > collapse vimc into single monolithic driver first and then split the
> > sensor off as a separate module.
> >
> > This patch series emoves the component API and makes minimal changes to
> > the code base preserving the functional division of the code structure.
> > Preserving the functional structure allows us to split the sensor off
> > as a separate module in the future.
> >
> > Major design elements in this change are:
> >      - Use existing struct vimc_ent_config and struct vimc_pipeline_config
> >        to drive the initialization of the functional components.
> >      - Make vimc_ent_config global by moving it to vimc.h
> >      - Add two new hooks add and rm to initialize and register, unregister
> >        and free subdevs.
> >      - All component API is now gone and bind and unbind hooks are modified
> >        to do "add" and "rm" with minimal changes to just add and rm subdevs.
> >      - vimc-core's bind and unbind are now register and unregister.
> >      - vimc-core invokes "add" hooks from its vimc_register_devices().
> >        The "add" hooks remain the same and register subdevs. They don't
> >        create platform devices of their own and use vimc's pdev.dev as
> >        their reference device. The "add" hooks save their vimc_ent_device(s)
> >        in the corresponding vimc_ent_config.
> >      - vimc-core invokes "rm" hooks from its unregister to unregister subdevs
> >        and cleanup.
> >      - vimc-core invokes "add" and "rm" hooks with pointer to struct vimc_device
> >        and the corresponding struct vimc_ent_config pointer.
> >      
> > The following configure and stream test works on all devices.
> >      
> >      media-ctl -d platform:vimc -V '"Sensor A":0[fmt:SBGGR8_1X8/640x480]'
> >      media-ctl -d platform:vimc -V '"Debayer A":0[fmt:SBGGR8_1X8/640x480]'
> >      media-ctl -d platform:vimc -V '"Sensor B":0[fmt:SBGGR8_1X8/640x480]'
> >      media-ctl -d platform:vimc -V '"Debayer B":0[fmt:SBGGR8_1X8/640x480]'
> >      
> >      v4l2-ctl -z platform:vimc -d "RGB/YUV Capture" -v width=1920,height=1440
> >      v4l2-ctl -z platform:vimc -d "Raw Capture 0" -v pixelformat=BA81
> >      v4l2-ctl -z platform:vimc -d "Raw Capture 1" -v pixelformat=BA81
> >      
> >      v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-count=100 -d /dev/video1
> >      v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-count=100 -d /dev/video2
> >      v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-count=100 -d /dev/video3
> >
> > The third patch in the series fixes a general protection fault found
> > when rmmod is done while stream is active.
>
> I applied your patch on top of media_tree/master and I did some testing.
> Not sure if I did something wrong, but just adding and removing the
> module generated a kernel panic:

Thanks for testing.

Odd. I tested modprobe and rmmod both.I was working on Linux 5.3-rc2.
I will apply these to media latest and work from there. I have to
rebase these on top of the reverts from Lucas and Helen
> ~# modprobe vimc
> ~# rmmod vimc
> [   16.452974] stack segment: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
> [   16.453688] CPU: 0 PID: 2038 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 5.3.0-rc2+ #36
> [   16.454678] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996),
> BIOS 1.12.0-20181126_142135-anatol 04/01/2014
> [   16.456191] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x4d/0x240
>
> <registers values...>
>
> [   16.469188] Call Trace:
> [   16.469666]  vimc_remove+0x35/0x90 [vimc]
> [   16.470436]  platform_drv_remove+0x1f/0x40
> [   16.471233]  device_release_driver_internal+0xd3/0x1b0
> [   16.472184]  driver_detach+0x37/0x6b
> [   16.472882]  bus_remove_driver+0x50/0xc1
> [   16.473569]  vimc_exit+0xc/0xca0 [vimc]
> [   16.474231]  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x18d/0x240
> [   16.475036]  do_syscall_64+0x43/0x110
> [   16.475656]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> [   16.476504] RIP: 0033:0x7fceb8dafa4b
>
> <registers values...>
>
> [   16.484853] Modules linked in: vimc(-) videobuf2_vmalloc
> videobuf2_memops v4l2_tpg videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common
> [   16.486187] ---[ end trace 91e5e0894e254d49 ]---
> [   16.486758] RIP: 0010:kfree+0x4d/0x240
>
> <registers values...>
>
> fish: ârmmod vimcâ terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)
>
> I just added the module after booting, no other action was made. Here is
> how my `git log --oneline` looks like:
>
> 897d708e922b media: vimc: Fix gpf in rmmod path when stream is active
> 2e4a5ad8ad6d media: vimc: Collapse component structure into a single
> monolithic driver
> 7c8da1687e92 media: vimc: move private defines to a common header
> 97299a303532 media: Remove dev_err() usage after platform_get_irq()
> 25a3d6bac6b9 media: adv7511/cobalt: rename driver name to adv7511-v4l2
> ...
>
> > vimc_print_dot (--print-dot) topology after this change:
> > digraph board {
> > 	rankdir=TB
> > 	n00000001 [label="{{} | Sensor A\n/dev/v4l-subdev0 | {<port0> 0}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000001:port0 -> n00000005:port0 [style=bold]
> > 	n00000001:port0 -> n0000000b [style=bold]
> > 	n00000003 [label="{{} | Sensor B\n/dev/v4l-subdev1 | {<port0> 0}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000003:port0 -> n00000008:port0 [style=bold]
> > 	n00000003:port0 -> n0000000f [style=bold]
> > 	n00000005 [label="{{<port0> 0} | Debayer A\n/dev/v4l-subdev2 | {<port1> 1}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000005:port1 -> n00000015:port0
> > 	n00000008 [label="{{<port0> 0} | Debayer B\n/dev/v4l-subdev3 | {<port1> 1}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000008:port1 -> n00000015:port0 [style=dashed]
> > 	n0000000b [label="Raw Capture 0\n/dev/video1", shape=box, style=filled, fillcolor=yellow]
> > 	n0000000f [label="Raw Capture 1\n/dev/video2", shape=box, style=filled, fillcolor=yellow]
> > 	n00000013 [label="{{} | RGB/YUV Input\n/dev/v4l-subdev4 | {<port0> 0}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000013:port0 -> n00000015:port0 [style=dashed]
> > 	n00000015 [label="{{<port0> 0} | Scaler\n/dev/v4l-subdev5 | {<port1> 1}}", shape=Mrecord, style=filled, fillcolor=green]
> > 	n00000015:port1 -> n00000018 [style=bold]
> > 	n00000018 [label="RGB/YUV Capture\n/dev/video3", shape=box, style=filled, fillcolor=yellow]
> > }
>
> Since the topology changed, it would be nice to change in the
> documentation as well. The current dot file can be found at
> `Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/vimc.dot` and it's rendered at this
> page: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/media/v4l-drivers/vimc.html

Topology shouldn't have changed. No changes to links or pads etc.
I will take a look to be sure. I agree that if topology changes
document should be updated.

thanks,
-- Shuah