On 12/17/19 4:20 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> By setting or clearing V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT flag
> user-space should be able to set or clear queue's NON_CONSISTENT
> ->dma_attrs. Queue's ->dma_attrs are passed to the underlying
> allocator in __vb2_buf_mem_alloc(), so user-space will be able
> to request consistent or non-consistent memory allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/buffer.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 2 ++
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/buffer.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/buffer.rst
> index 9149b57728e5..b08b5609f5f3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/buffer.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/buffer.rst
> @@ -705,6 +705,25 @@ Buffer Flags
>
> .. c:type:: v4l2_memory
>
> +Memory Consistency Flags
> +========================
> +
> +.. tabularcolumns:: |p{7.0cm}|p{2.2cm}|p{8.3cm}|
> +
> +.. cssclass:: longtable
> +
> +.. flat-table::
> + :header-rows: 0
> + :stub-columns: 0
> + :widths: 3 1 4
> +
> + * .. _`V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT`:
> +
> + - ``V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT``
> + - 0x00000001
> + - Set DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT queue memory consistency bit,
> + so all queue buffers may be allocated in non-consistent memory.
This needs much more extensive documentation. This is a userspace API,
and it shouldn't refer to a kernelspace API. Instead, explain what it
means from a user perspective. Also, how does this relate to the cache
buffer flags?
These things are tricky, so it is worth spending some time on writing
good documentation.
Regards,
Hans
> +
> enum v4l2_memory
> ================
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> index 04481c717fee..d352997f2b62 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
> @@ -189,6 +189,8 @@ enum v4l2_memory {
> V4L2_MEMORY_DMABUF = 4,
> };
>
> +#define V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT (1 << 0)
> +
> /* see also http://vektor.theorem.ca/graphics/ycbcr/ */
> enum v4l2_colorspace {
> /*
>
