Re: [PATCH] media: vb2: Allow reqbufs(0) with "in use" MMAP buffers

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Le mercredi 14 novembre 2018 à 00:27 +0200, Sakari Ailus a écrit :
> Hi Philipp,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 04:06:21PM +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > From: John Sheu <sheu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Videobuf2 presently does not allow VIDIOC_REQBUFS to destroy outstanding
> > buffers if the queue is of type V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP, and if the buffers are
> > considered "in use".  This is different behavior than for other memory
> > types and prevents us from deallocating buffers in following two cases:
> > 
> > 1) There are outstanding mmap()ed views on the buffer. However even if
> >    we put the buffer in reqbufs(0), there will be remaining references,
> >    due to vma .open/close() adjusting vb2 buffer refcount appropriately.
> >    This means that the buffer will be in fact freed only when the last
> >    mmap()ed view is unmapped.
> > 
> > 2) Buffer has been exported as a DMABUF. Refcount of the vb2 buffer
> >    is managed properly by VB2 DMABUF ops, i.e. incremented on DMABUF
> >    get and decremented on DMABUF release. This means that the buffer
> >    will be alive until all importers release it.
> > 
> > Considering both cases above, there does not seem to be any need to
> > prevent reqbufs(0) operation, because buffer lifetime is already
> > properly managed by both mmap() and DMABUF code paths. Let's remove it
> > and allow userspace freeing the queue (and potentially allocating a new
> > one) even though old buffers might be still in processing.
> > 
> > To let userspace know that the kernel now supports orphaning buffers
> > that are still in use, add a new V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_ORPHANED_BUFS
> > to be set by reqbufs and create_bufs.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: John Sheu <sheu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Pawel Osciak <posciak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: moved __vb2_queue_cancel out of the mmap_lock
> >  and added V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_ORPHANED_BUFS]
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This lets the user to allocate lots of mmap'ed buffers that are pinned in
> physical memory. Considering that we don't really have a proper mechanism
> to limit that anyway,

It's currently limited to 32 buffers. It's not worst then DRM dumb
buffers which will let you allocate as much as you want.

> 
> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> That said, the patch must be accompanied by the documentation change in
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst .
> 
> I wonder what Hans thinks.
> 
> > ---
> >  .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c   | 26 +------------------
> >  .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c   |  2 +-
> >  include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h                |  1 +
> >  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c
> > index 975ff5669f72..608459450c1e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c
> > @@ -553,20 +553,6 @@ bool vb2_buffer_in_use(struct vb2_queue *q, struct vb2_buffer *vb)
> >  }
> >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(vb2_buffer_in_use);
> >  
> > -/*
> > - * __buffers_in_use() - return true if any buffers on the queue are in use and
> > - * the queue cannot be freed (by the means of REQBUFS(0)) call
> > - */
> > -static bool __buffers_in_use(struct vb2_queue *q)
> > -{
> > -	unsigned int buffer;
> > -	for (buffer = 0; buffer < q->num_buffers; ++buffer) {
> > -		if (vb2_buffer_in_use(q, q->bufs[buffer]))
> > -			return true;
> > -	}
> > -	return false;
> > -}
> > -
> >  void vb2_core_querybuf(struct vb2_queue *q, unsigned int index, void *pb)
> >  {
> >  	call_void_bufop(q, fill_user_buffer, q->bufs[index], pb);
> > @@ -674,23 +660,13 @@ int vb2_core_reqbufs(struct vb2_queue *q, enum vb2_memory memory,
> >  
> >  	if (*count == 0 || q->num_buffers != 0 ||
> >  	    (q->memory != VB2_MEMORY_UNKNOWN && q->memory != memory)) {
> > -		/*
> > -		 * We already have buffers allocated, so first check if they
> > -		 * are not in use and can be freed.
> > -		 */
> > -		mutex_lock(&q->mmap_lock);
> > -		if (q->memory == VB2_MEMORY_MMAP && __buffers_in_use(q)) {
> > -			mutex_unlock(&q->mmap_lock);
> > -			dprintk(1, "memory in use, cannot free\n");
> > -			return -EBUSY;
> > -		}
> > -
> >  		/*
> >  		 * Call queue_cancel to clean up any buffers in the
> >  		 * QUEUED state which is possible if buffers were prepared or
> >  		 * queued without ever calling STREAMON.
> >  		 */
> >  		__vb2_queue_cancel(q);
> > +		mutex_lock(&q->mmap_lock);
> >  		ret = __vb2_queue_free(q, q->num_buffers);
> >  		mutex_unlock(&q->mmap_lock);
> >  		if (ret)
> > diff --git a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c
> > index a17033ab2c22..f02d452ceeb9 100644
> > --- a/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c
> > @@ -624,7 +624,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vb2_querybuf);
> >  
> >  static void fill_buf_caps(struct vb2_queue *q, u32 *caps)
> >  {
> > -	*caps = 0;
> > +	*caps = V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_ORPHANED_BUFS;
> >  	if (q->io_modes & VB2_MMAP)
> >  		*caps |= V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_MMAP;
> >  	if (q->io_modes & VB2_USERPTR)
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> > index c8e8ff810190..2a223835214c 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> > @@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ struct v4l2_requestbuffers {
> >  #define V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_USERPTR	(1 << 1)
> >  #define V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_DMABUF	(1 << 2)
> >  #define V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_REQUESTS	(1 << 3)
> > +#define V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_ORPHANED_BUFS (1 << 4)
> >  
> >  /**
> >   * struct v4l2_plane - plane info for multi-planar buffers




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