Add documentation explaining the ability to capture statistics from the mali-c55 driver's new V4L2 device, as well as the various tap points from which those statistics can be drawn in the ISP's processing flow. Additionally add a page detailing the new V4L2 meta format for the mali-c55 statistics. Acked-by: Nayden Kanchev <nayden.kanchev@xxxxxxx> Co-developed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Scally <dan.scally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v5: - New patch Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst | 60 ++++++++++++++++++- .../userspace-api/media/v4l/meta-formats.rst | 1 + .../media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst | 28 +++++++++ 3 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst index cf4176cb1e44..b75437f6e96a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/mali-c55.rst @@ -67,10 +67,11 @@ The driver has 4 V4L2 subdevices: - `mali_c55 resizer fr`: The Full-Resolution pipe resizer - `mali_c55 resizer ds`: The Downscale pipe resizer -The driver has 2 V4L2 video devices: +The driver has 3 V4L2 video devices: - `mali-c55 fr`: The full-resolution pipe's capture device - `mali-c55 ds`: The downscale pipe's capture device +- `mali-c55 3a stats`: The 3A statistics capture device Frame sequences are synchronised across to two capture devices, meaning if one pipe is started later than the other the sequence numbers returned in its @@ -326,6 +327,63 @@ configured, followed by formats in the appropriate places: # Set format on the video device and stream yavta -f RGB565 -s 1920x1080 -c10 /dev/video0 +.. _mali-c55-3a-stats: + +Capturing ISP Statistics +======================== + +The ISP is capable of producing statistics for consumption by image processing +algorithms running in userspace. These statistics can be captured by queueing +buffers to the `mali-c55 3a stats` V4L2 Device whilst the ISP is streaming. Only +the :ref:`V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_3A_STATS <v4l2-meta-fmt-mali-c55-3a-stats>` +format is supported, so no format-setting need be done: + +.. code-block:: none + + # We assume the media graph has been configured to support RGB565 capture + # from the mali-c55 fr V4L2 Device, which is at /dev/video0. The statistics + # V4L2 device is at /dev/video3 + + yavta -f RGB565 -s 1920x1080 -c32 /dev/video0 && \ + yavta -c10 -F /dev/video3 + +The layout of the buffer is described by :c:type:`mali_c55_stats_buffer`, +but broadly statistics are generated to support three image processing +algorithms; AEXP (Auto-Exposure), AWB (Auto-White Balance) and AF (Auto-Focus). +These stats can be drawn from various places in the Mali C55 ISP pipeline, known +as "tap points". This high-level block diagram is intended to explain where in +the processing flow the statistics can be drawn from:: + + +--> AEXP-2 +----> AEXP-1 +--> AF-0 + | +----> AF-1 | + | | | + +---------+ | +--------------+ | +--------------+ | + | Input +-+-->+ Digital Gain +---+-->+ Black Level +---+---+ + +---------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | + +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ + | + | +--------------+ +---------+ +----------------+ + +-->| Sinter Noise +-+ White +--+--->| Lens Shading +--+---------------+ + | Reduction | | Balance | | | | | | + +--------------+ +---------+ | +----------------+ | | + +---> AEXP-0 (A) +--> AEXP-0 (B) | + +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + | + | +----------------+ +--------------+ +----------------+ + +-->| Tone mapping +-+--->| Demosaicing +->+ Purple Fringe +-+-----------+ + | | | +--------------+ | Correction | | | + +----------------+ +-> AEXP-IRIDIX +----------------+ +---> AWB-0 | + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + | +-------------+ +-------------+ + +------------------->| Colour +---+--->| Output | + | Correction | | | Pipelines | + +-------------+ | +-------------+ + +--> AWB-1 + +At present all statistics are drawn from the 0th tap point for each algorithm; +I.E. AEXP statistics from AEXP-0 (A), AWB statistics from AWB-0 and AF +statistics from AF-0. In the future this will be configurable. + References ========== .. [1] https://git.linuxtv.org/v4l-utils.git/ diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/meta-formats.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/meta-formats.rst index c23aac823d2c..73c05cc35321 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/meta-formats.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/meta-formats.rst @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ These formats are used for the :ref:`metadata` interface only. metafmt-d4xx metafmt-generic metafmt-intel-ipu3 + metafmt-arm-mali-c55 metafmt-rkisp1 metafmt-uvc metafmt-vivid diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..219a5dd42d70 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-arm-mali-c55.rst @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +.. _v4l2-meta-fmt-mali-c55-3a-stats: + +**************************************** +V4L2_META_FMT_MALI_C55_3A_STATS ('C55S') +**************************************** + +3A Statistics +============= +The ISP device collects different statistics over an input bayer frame. Those +statistics can be obtained by userspace from the +:ref:`mali-c55 3a stats <mali-c55-3a-stats>` metadata capture video node, using +the :c:type:`v4l2_meta_format` interface. The buffer contains a single instance +of the C structure :c:type:`mali_c55_stats_buffer` defined in +``mali-c55-config.h``, so the structure can be obtained from the buffer by: + +.. code-block:: C + + struct mali_c55_stats_buffer *stats = + (struct mali_c55_stats_buffer *)buf; + +For details of the statistics see :c:type:`mali_c55_stats_buffer`. + +Arm Mali-C55 uAPI data types +============================ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/media/arm/mali-c55-config.h -- 2.34.1