On 04/22/2016 05:21 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:56:00 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> escreveu:
>
>> On 04/22/2016 04:48 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Em Fri, 22 Apr 2016 16:31:28 +0200
>>> Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> escreveu:
>>>
>>>> On 04/22/2016 04:21 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>>> Em Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:37:07 +0200
>>>>> Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> escreveu:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/22/2016 02:31 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>>>>> Em Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:19:09 +0200
>>>>>>> Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> escreveu:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Ricardo,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 04/21/2016 11:15 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>>>>>>>> When using a device is read/write mode, vb2 does not handle properly
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> first select/poll operation. It allways return POLLERR.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The reason for this is that when this code has been refactored, some
>>>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>>>> the operations have changed their order, and now fileio emulator is
>>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>>> started by poll, due to a previous check.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Reported-by: Dimitrios Katsaros <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> Cc: Junghak Sung <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>>>>>>> Fixes: 49d8ab9feaf2 ("media] media: videobuf2: Separate vb2_poll()")
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <[email protected]>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 8 ++++++++
>>>>>>>>> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-v4l2.c | 8 --------
>>>>>>>>> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>>>>>>>> b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>>>>>>>> index 5d016f496e0e..199c65dbe330 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>>>>>>>> @@ -2298,6 +2298,14 @@ unsigned int vb2_core_poll(struct vb2_queue
>>>>>>>>> *q, struct file *file,
>>>>>>>>> return POLLERR;
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> /*
>>>>>>>>> + * For compatibility with vb1: if QBUF hasn't been called yet,
>>>>>>>>> then
>>>>>>>>> + * return POLLERR as well. This only affects capture queues,
>>>>>>>>> output
>>>>>>>>> + * queues will always initialize waiting_for_buffers to false.
>>>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>>>>> + if (q->waiting_for_buffers && (req_events & (POLLIN |
>>>>>>>>> POLLRDNORM)))
>>>>>>>>> + return POLLERR;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The problem I have with this is that this should be specific to V4L2.
>>>>>>>> The only
>>>>>>>> reason we do this is that we had to stay backwards compatible with vb1.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This is the reason this code was placed in videobuf2-v4l2.c. But you
>>>>>>>> are correct
>>>>>>>> that this causes a regression, and I see no other choice but to put it
>>>>>>>> in core.c.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That said, I would still only honor this when called from v4l2, so I
>>>>>>>> suggest that
>>>>>>>> a new flag 'check_waiting_for_buffers' is added that is only set in
>>>>>>>> vb2_queue_init
>>>>>>>> in videobuf2-v4l2.c.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So the test above becomes:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> if (q->check_waiting_for_buffers && q->waiting_for_buffers &&
>>>>>>>> (req_events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)))
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's not ideal, but at least this keeps this v4l2 specific.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't like the above approach, for two reasons:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1) it is not obvious that this is V4L2 specific from the code;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> s/check_waiting_for_buffers/v4l2_needs_to_wait_for_buffers/
>>>>>
>>>>> Better, but still hell of a hack. Maybe we could add a quirks
>>>>> flag and add a flag like:
>>>>> VB2_FLAG_ENABLE_POLLERR_IF_WAITING_BUFFERS_AND_NO_QBUF
>>>>> (or some better naming, I'm not inspired today...)
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, such quirk should be properly documented.
>>>>
>>>> How about 'quirk_poll_must_check_waiting_for_buffers'? Something with
>>>> 'quirk' in the
>>>> name is a good idea.
>>>
>>> works for me, provided that we add the field as a flag. So it would be like:
>>>
>>> #define QUIRK_POLL_MUST_CHECK_WAITING_FOR_BUFFERS 0
>>>
>>> if (test_bit(q->quirk, QUIRK_POLL_MUST_CHECK_WAITING_FOR_BUFFERS) &&
>>> q->waiting_for_buffers && (req_events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)))
>>
>> Why should it be a flag? What is wrong with a bitfield?
>>
>> Just curious what the reasoning is for that. I don't see any obvious
>> advantage of a flag over a bitfield.
>
> Huh? Flags are implemented as bitfields. See the above code: it is
> using test_bit() for the new q->quirk flags/bitfield.
I mean C bitfields like this:
unsigned fileio_read_once:1;
unsigned fileio_write_immediately:1;
unsigned allow_zero_bytesused:1;
This is already used in struct vb2_queue, so my proposal would be to add:
unsigned
quirk_poll_must_check_waiting_for_buffers:1;
Regards,
Hans
