Hi, > > User space need to check whether there's a dmabuf for the plane(user space > > usually cached two or three dmabuf to handle double buffer or triple buffer > > situation) only there's no dmabuf for the plane we will create a dmabuf for > > it(another ioctl). > > If our ioctls are "Query current plane" and "Give me a dmabuf for > current plane", isn't that racey? The current plane could have changed > between those two calls so the user doesn't absolutely know which plane > the dmabuf retrieved is for. The "Give me a dmabuf" therefore needs to > take some sort of plane index so the user can request a specific > plane.
The "give me a dmabuf" ioctl returns the plane description too, so userspace can at least figure it did hit the race window. We could also do it the other way around: Instead of having the kernel returning the plane description userspace could pass it in, and the kernel throws -EINVAL in case it doesn't match due to things having changed meanwhile. cheers, Gerd
