On 04/22/2016 02:31 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Em Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:19:09 +0200
> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu:
>
>> Hi Ricardo,
>>
>> On 04/21/2016 11:15 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
>>> When using a device is read/write mode, vb2 does not handle properly the
>>> first select/poll operation. It allways return POLLERR.
>>>
>>> The reason for this is that when this code has been refactored, some of
>>> the operations have changed their order, and now fileio emulator is not
>>> started by poll, due to a previous check.
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Dimitrios Katsaros <patcherwork@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Junghak Sung <jh1009.sung@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Fixes: 49d8ab9feaf2 ("media] media: videobuf2: Separate vb2_poll()")
>>> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c | 8 ++++++++
>>> drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-v4l2.c | 8 --------
>>> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>> index 5d016f496e0e..199c65dbe330 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-core.c
>>> @@ -2298,6 +2298,14 @@ unsigned int vb2_core_poll(struct vb2_queue *q, struct file *file,
>>> return POLLERR;
>>>
>>> /*
>>> + * For compatibility with vb1: if QBUF hasn't been called yet, then
>>> + * return POLLERR as well. This only affects capture queues, output
>>> + * queues will always initialize waiting_for_buffers to false.
>>> + */
>>> + if (q->waiting_for_buffers && (req_events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)))
>>> + return POLLERR;
>>
>> The problem I have with this is that this should be specific to V4L2. The only
>> reason we do this is that we had to stay backwards compatible with vb1.
>>
>> This is the reason this code was placed in videobuf2-v4l2.c. But you are correct
>> that this causes a regression, and I see no other choice but to put it in core.c.
>>
>> That said, I would still only honor this when called from v4l2, so I suggest that
>> a new flag 'check_waiting_for_buffers' is added that is only set in vb2_queue_init
>> in videobuf2-v4l2.c.
>>
>> So the test above becomes:
>>
>> if (q->check_waiting_for_buffers && q->waiting_for_buffers &&
>> (req_events & (POLLIN | POLLRDNORM)))
>>
>> It's not ideal, but at least this keeps this v4l2 specific.
>
> I don't like the above approach, for two reasons:
>
> 1) it is not obvious that this is V4L2 specific from the code;
s/check_waiting_for_buffers/v4l2_needs_to_wait_for_buffers/
>
> 2) we should not mess the core due to some V4L2 mess.
Well, the only other alternative I see is to split vb2_core_poll() into two
since the check has to happen in the middle. The v4l2 code would call core_poll1(),
then do the check and afterwards call core_poll2(). And that would really be ugly.
I would probably NACK that.
Better ideas are welcome.
Regards,
Hans
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