From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FE8DC433FE for ; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 13:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S236841AbhLQNuu (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:50:50 -0500 Received: from perceval.ideasonboard.com ([213.167.242.64]:55128 "EHLO perceval.ideasonboard.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236824AbhLQNuu (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Dec 2021 08:50:50 -0500 Received: from deskari.lan (91-156-85-209.elisa-laajakaista.fi [91.156.85.209]) by perceval.ideasonboard.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 289AAAF2; Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:50:48 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ideasonboard.com; s=mail; t=1639749048; bh=lu5Pr9MqVOmFs4UqQcngUIOlilBbsHuxxWyCBpSeZ0U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=rr4+Ymw0lK0kP5yKpRVv0SL7aOO0aRVFFWlWZ4N1v16aMaRKL1zfvuqpTf90OuPWU w02NpwFezKuKW38xC4fiPAnE327J7mbrB70jvl9xNP/ywbygP4jZrxbPj45PlDD54C GTrWlKA2H24L+YNU6egDuzUDpQSvEaAwOYS/wkRI= From: Tomi Valkeinen To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com, Jacopo Mondi , Laurent Pinchart , niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Hans Verkuil , Pratyush Yadav Cc: Tomi Valkeinen Subject: [PATCH v2 6/6] media: Documentation: add documentation about subdev state Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 15:50:22 +0200 Message-Id: <20211217135022.364954-7-tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20211217135022.364954-1-tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> References: <20211217135022.364954-1-tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Add documentation about centrally managed subdev state. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi --- .../driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst | 57 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst index 08ea2673b19e..18b00bd3d6d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst @@ -518,6 +518,63 @@ The :c:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev` function will call :c:type:`i2c_board_info` structure using the ``client_type`` and the ``addr`` to fill it. +Centrally managed subdev active state +------------------------------------- + +Traditionally V4L2 subdev drivers maintained internal state for the active +device configuration. This is often implemented e.g. as an array of +struct v4l2_mbus_framefmt, one entry for each pad, and similarly for cropping +and composition rectangles. + +In addition to the active configuration, each subdev file-handle has an array of +struct v4l2_subdev_pad_config, managed by V4L2 core, which contains the try +configuration. + +To simplify the subdev drivers the V4L2 subdev API now optionally supports a +centrally managed active configuration represented by +:c:type:`v4l2_subdev_state`. One instance of state, which contains the active +device configuration, is associated with the sub-device itself as part of +the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` structure, while the core associates to each open +file-handle a try state, which contains the configuration valid in the +file-handle context only. + +Sub-device drivers can opt-in and use state to manage their active configuration +by initializing the subdevice state with a call to v4l2_subdev_init_finalize() +before registering the sub-device. They must also call v4l2_subdev_cleanup() +to release all the acquired resources before unregistering the sub-device. +The core automatically initializes a state for each open file-handle where to +store the try configurations and releases them at file-handle closing time. + +V4L2 sub-device operations that use both the :ref:`ACTIVE and TRY formats +` receive the correct state to operate on as a +'state' parameter. The sub-device driver can access and modify the +configuration stored in the provided state after having locked it by calling +:c:func:`v4l2_subdev_lock_state()`. The driver must then call +:c:func:`v4l2_subdev_unlock_state()` to unlock the state when done. + +Operations that do not receive a state parameter implicitly operate on the +subdevice active state, which drivers can exclusively access by +calling :c:func:`v4l2_subdev_lock_active_state()`. The sub-device active state +must equally be released by calling :c:func:`v4l2_subdev_unlock_state()`. + +Drivers must never manually access the state stored in the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` +or in the file-handle without going through the designated helpers. + +While the V4L2 core will pass the correct try- or active-state to the +subdevice operations, device drivers might call operations on other +subdevices by using :c:func:`v4l2_subdev_call()` kAPI and pass NULL as the +state. This is only a problem for subdev drivers which use the +centrally managed active-state and are used in media pipelines with older +subdev drivers. In these cases the called subdev ops must also handle the NULL +case. This can be easily managed by the use of +:c:func:`v4l2_subdev_lock_and_return_state()` helper. + +:c:func:`v4l2_subdev_lock_and_return_state()` should only be used when porting +an existing driver to the new state management when it cannot be guaranteed +that the current callers will pass the state properly. The function prints a +notice when the passed state is NULL to encourage the porting of the callers +to the new state management. + V4L2 sub-device functions and data structures --------------------------------------------- -- 2.25.1