On 2/15/21 11:40 AM, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
With this change, an ioctl() call is added to open a character device for a
buffer. The ioctl() number is 'i' 0x91, which follows the
IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL ioctl.
The ioctl() will return an FD for the requested buffer index. The indexes
are the same from the /sys/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY (i.e. the Y
variable).
Since there doesn't seem to be a sane way to return the FD for buffer0 to
be the same FD for the /dev/iio:deviceX, this ioctl() will return another
FD for buffer0 (or the first buffer). This duplicate FD will be able to
access the same buffer object (for buffer0) as accessing directly the
/dev/iio:deviceX chardev.
Also, there is no IIO_BUFFER_GET_BUFFER_COUNT ioctl() implemented, as the
index for each buffer (and the count) can be deduced from the
'/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/bufferY' folders (i.e the number of
bufferY folders).
Used following C code to test this:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <fcntl.h"
#include <errno.h>
#define IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL _IOWR('i', 0x91, int)
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd;
int fd1;
int ret;
if ((fd = open("/dev/iio:device0", O_RDWR))<0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error open() %d errno %d\n",fd, errno);
return -1;
}
fprintf(stderr, "Using FD %d\n", fd);
fd1 = atoi(argv[1]);
ret = ioctl(fd, IIO_BUFFER_GET_FD_IOCTL, &fd1);
if (ret < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error for buffer %d ioctl() %d errno %d\n", fd1, ret, errno);
close(fd);
return -1;
}
fprintf(stderr, "Got FD %d\n", fd1);
close(fd1);
close(fd);
return 0;
}
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Results are:
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# ./test 0
Using FD 3
Got FD 4
# ./test 1
Using FD 3
Got FD 4
# ./test 2
Using FD 3
Got FD 4
# ./test 3
Using FD 3
Got FD 4
# ls /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio\:device0
buffer buffer0 buffer1 buffer2 buffer3 dev
in_voltage_sampling_frequency in_voltage_scale
in_voltage_scale_available
name of_node power scan_elements subsystem uevent
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iio:device0 has some fake kfifo buffers attached to an IIO device.
For me there is one major problem with this approach. We only allow one
application to open /dev/iio:deviceX at a time. This means we can't have
different applications access different buffers of the same device. I
believe this is a circuital feature.
It is possible to open the chardev, get the annonfd, close the chardev
and keep the annonfd open. Then the next application can do the same and
get access to a different buffer. But this has room for race conditions
when two applications try this at the very same time.
We need to somehow address this.
I'm also not much of a fan of using ioctls to create annon fds. In part
because all the standard mechanisms for access control no longer work.
