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authorSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>2020-05-14 18:01:45 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-06-23 13:32:41 +0200
commit1e0b2318fa75d186ee0d2be31843ce867385fcc4 (patch)
treee44403a8bbe0ebea86a1587a3f113156b2f82c10 /Documentation/userspace-api
parent7b4b45555c79db03dad8192e6ef85cb30236827b (diff)
media: videobuf2: handle V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT flag
This patch lets user-space to request a non-consistent memory allocation during CREATE_BUFS and REQBUFS ioctl calls. = CREATE_BUFS struct v4l2_create_buffers has seven 4-byte reserved areas, so reserved[0] is renamed to ->flags. The struct, thus, now has six reserved 4-byte regions. = CREATE_BUFS32 struct v4l2_create_buffers32 has seven 4-byte reserved areas, so reserved[0] is renamed to ->flags. The struct, thus, now has six reserved 4-byte regions. = REQBUFS We use one bit of a ->reserved[1] member of struct v4l2_requestbuffers, which is now renamed to ->flags. Unlike v4l2_create_buffers, struct v4l2_requestbuffers does not have enough reserved room. Therefore for backward compatibility ->reserved and ->flags were put into anonymous union. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst11
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
index e1afc5b504c2..f2a702870fad 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
@@ -121,7 +121,12 @@ than the number requested.
other changes, then set ``count`` to 0, ``memory`` to
``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and ``format.type`` to the buffer type.
* - __u32
- - ``reserved``\ [7]
+ - ``flags``
+ - Specifies additional buffer management attributes.
+ See :ref:`memory-flags`.
+
+ * - __u32
+ - ``reserved``\ [6]
- A place holder for future extensions. Drivers and applications
must set the array to zero.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
index 96a59793d857..75d894d9c36c 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst
@@ -112,10 +112,17 @@ aborting or finishing any DMA in progress, an implicit
``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and ``type`` set to the buffer type. This will
free any previously allocated buffers, so this is typically something
that will be done at the start of the application.
+ * - union {
+ - (anonymous)
+ * - __u32
+ - ``flags``
+ - Specifies additional buffer management attributes.
+ See :ref:`memory-flags`.
* - __u32
- ``reserved``\ [1]
- - A place holder for future extensions. Drivers and applications
- must set the array to zero.
+ - Kept for backwards compatibility. Use ``flags`` instead.
+ * - }
+ -
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