Hi Hans,
On Wednesday 22 August 2012 13:41:05 Hans Verkuil wrote:
On Tue August 14 2012 17:34:48 Tomasz Stanislawski wrote:
This patch adds extension to V4L2 api. It allow to export a mmap buffer as file descriptor. New ioctl VIDIOC_EXPBUF is added. It takes a buffer offset used by mmap and return a file descriptor on success.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Stanislawski t.stanislaws@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park kyungmin.park@samsung.com
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diff --git a/include/linux/videodev2.h b/include/linux/videodev2.h index 7f918dc..b5d058b 100644 --- a/include/linux/videodev2.h +++ b/include/linux/videodev2.h @@ -688,6 +688,31 @@ struct v4l2_buffer {
#define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_INVALIDATE 0x0800 #define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_CLEAN 0x1000
+/**
- struct v4l2_exportbuffer - export of video buffer as DMABUF file
descriptor + *
- @fd: file descriptor associated with DMABUF (set by driver)
- @mem_offset: buffer memory offset as returned by VIDIOC_QUERYBUF in
struct + * v4l2_buffer::m.offset (for single-plane formats) or
v4l2_plane::m.offset (for multi-planar formats)
- @flags: flags for newly created file, currently only O_CLOEXEC is
supported, refer to manual of open syscall for more details
- Contains data used for exporting a video buffer as DMABUF file
descriptor. + * The buffer is identified by a 'cookie' returned by VIDIOC_QUERYBUF + * (identical to the cookie used to mmap() the buffer to userspace). All + * reserved fields must be set to zero. The field reserved0 is expected to + * become a structure 'type' allowing an alternative layout of the structure + * content. Therefore this field should not be used for any other extensions. + */ +struct v4l2_exportbuffer {
- __u32 fd;
- __u32 reserved0;
- __u32 mem_offset;
- __u32 flags;
- __u32 reserved[12];
+};
OK, I realized that we also need a type field here: you need the type field (same as in v4l2_buffer) to know which queue the mem_offset refers to. For M2M devices you have two queues, so you need this information.
Is there any reason not to use __u32 memory instead of __u32 reserved0? I really dislike 'reserved0'. It's also very inconsistent with the other buffer ioctls which all have type+memory fields.
I'm concerned that we might need to export buffers in the future based on something else than the memory type. That's probably an irrational fear though.
Regarding mem_offset: I would prefer a union (possibly anonymous):
union { __u32 mem_offset; unsigned long reserved; } m;Again, it's more consistent with the existing buffer ioctls, and it prepares the API for future pointer values. 'reserved' in the union above could even safely be renamed to userptr, even though userptr isn't supported at the moment.
Once again I would really want to see compeling use cases before we export a userptr buffer as a dmabuf object. As Mauro previously stated, userptr for buffer sharing was a hack in the first place (although a pretty successful one so far).