Re: [PATCH v2] media/doc: Allow sizeimage to be set by v4l clients

[Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>]

Hi Stanimir,

On 4/12/19 5:59 PM, Stanimir Varbanov wrote:
> This changes v4l2_pix_format and v4l2_plane_pix_format sizeimage
> field description to allow v4l clients to set bigger image size
> in case of variable length compressed data.

I've been reconsidering this change. The sizeimage value in the format
is the minimum size a buffer should have in order to store the data of
an image of the width and height as described in the format.

But there is nothing that prevents userspace from calling VIDIOC_CREATEBUFS
instead of VIDIOC_REQBUFS to allocate larger buffers.

So do we really need this change?

The more I think about this, the more uncomfortable I become with this change.

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst | 13 ++++++++++++-
>  Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst        | 11 ++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
> index 5688c816e334..005428a8121e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
> @@ -31,7 +31,18 @@ describing all planes of that format.
>  
>      * - __u32
>        - ``sizeimage``
> -      - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane.
> +      - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane,
> +	set by the driver. When the image consists of variable length
> +	compressed data this is the number of bytes required by the
> +	codec to support the worst-case compression scenario.
> +
> +	For uncompressed images the driver will set the value. For
> +	variable length compressed data clients are allowed to set
> +	the sizeimage field, but the driver may ignore it and set the
> +	value itself, or it may modify the provided value based on
> +	alignment requirements or minimum/maximum size requirements.
> +	If the client wants to leave this to the driver, then it should
> +	set sizeimage to 0.
>      * - __u32
>        - ``bytesperline``
>        - Distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two adjacent
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
> index 71eebfc6d853..0f7771151db9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
> @@ -89,7 +89,16 @@ Single-planar format structure
>        - Size in bytes of the buffer to hold a complete image, set by the
>  	driver. Usually this is ``bytesperline`` times ``height``. When
>  	the image consists of variable length compressed data this is the
> -	maximum number of bytes required to hold an image.
> +	number of bytes required by the codec to support the worst-case
> +	compression scenario.
> +
> +	For uncompressed images the driver will set the value. For
> +	variable length compressed data clients are allowed to set
> +	the sizeimage field, but the driver may ignore it and set the
> +	value itself, or it may modify the provided value based on
> +	alignment requirements or minimum/maximum size requirements.
> +	If the client wants to leave this to the driver, then it should
> +	set sizeimage to 0.
>      * - __u32
>        - ``colorspace``
>        - Image colorspace, from enum :c:type:`v4l2_colorspace`.
>