On 09/30/2013 12:48 PM, Shaik Ameer Basha wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 09/30/2013 11:32 AM, Shaik Ameer Basha wrote:
>>> Hi Hans,
>>>
>>> Thanks for pointing it out.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Hans Verkuil <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Shaik,
>>>>
>>>> I have a few questions regarding the selection part...
>>>>
>>>> On 09/12/2013 03:09 PM, Shaik Ameer Basha wrote:
>>>>> This patch adds the Makefile and memory to memory (m2m) interface
>>>>> functionality for the SCALER driver.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Shaik Ameer Basha <[email protected]>
>>>>> ---
>>>>> drivers/media/platform/Kconfig | 8 +
>>>>> drivers/media/platform/Makefile | 1 +
>>>>> drivers/media/platform/exynos-scaler/Makefile | 3 +
>>>>> drivers/media/platform/exynos-scaler/scaler-m2m.c | 781
>>>>> +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>> 4 files changed, 793 insertions(+)
>>>>> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/exynos-scaler/Makefile
>>>>> create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/exynos-scaler/scaler-m2m.c
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static int scaler_m2m_s_selection(struct file *file, void *fh,
>>>>> + struct v4l2_selection *s)
>>>>> +{
>>>>> + struct scaler_frame *frame;
>>>>> + struct scaler_ctx *ctx = fh_to_ctx(fh);
>>>>> + struct v4l2_crop cr;
>>>>> + struct scaler_variant *variant = ctx->scaler_dev->variant;
>>>>> + int ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + cr.type = s->type;
>>>>> + cr.c = s->r;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if ((s->type != V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE) &&
>>>>> + (s->type != V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE))
>>>>> + return -EINVAL;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + ret = scaler_try_crop(ctx, &cr);
>>>>> + if (ret < 0)
>>>>> + return ret;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (s->flags & V4L2_SEL_FLAG_LE &&
>>>>> + !is_rectangle_enclosed(&cr.c, &s->r))
>>>>> + return -ERANGE;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + if (s->flags & V4L2_SEL_FLAG_GE &&
>>>>> + !is_rectangle_enclosed(&s->r, &cr.c))
>>>>> + return -ERANGE;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + s->r = cr.c;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + switch (s->target) {
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_BOUNDS:
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_DEFAULT:
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE:
>>>>> + frame = &ctx->s_frame;
>>>>> + break;
>>>>> +
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS:
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP:
>>>>> + case V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_DEFAULT:
>>>>> + frame = &ctx->d_frame;
>>>>> + break;
>>>>
>>>> Similar problems as with g_selection above. Tomasz mentioned to me that
>>>> the selection
>>>> API is not implemented correctly in m2m Samsung drivers. It looks like
>>>> this code is
>>>> copied-and-pasted from other drivers, so it seems he was right.
>>>
>>> Sorry, after going through the documentation, I have to agree with you...
>>> As you mentioned, this part of the code was copied while implementing
>>> the G-Scaler driver :)
>>>
>>> I will change the above implementation for M2M devices (GScaler and
>>> SCALER) as below,
>>> I will only allow all V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_* target requests if
>>> 's->type' is equal to "V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE".
>>> and all V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_* target requests if 's->type' is equal to
>>> "V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE".
>>>
>>> I hope with the above two checkings taken in to care, there should not
>>> be any issues with using selection APIs here.
>>
>> Well, that depends on what the hardware does.
>>
>> Using compose with a capture buffer means that the frame as delivered by
>> the hardware is composed into a larger buffer. E.g. the hardware gives
>> you 1280x720 which is composed into a buffer of size 1920x1080.
>>
>> Using crop with an output buffer means that the hardware gets a cropped
>> part of a larger frame. E.g. you give a 1280x720 crop from a larger 1920x1080
>> buffer.
>>
>> I suspect however, that in this case the hardware does the opposite for
>> capture: you really want to crop with a capture buffer (e.g. the hardware
>> delivers a 1280x720 frame which is cropped before DMA to 640x360).
>>
>> I'm not sure what you want to do with an output buffer: cropping or
>> composing.
>>
>> Tomasz mentioned that the M2M + selection API was screwy, and this seems to
>> be to be the case indeed.
>>
>> Which is also why I would like to know exactly what this hardware does.
>
> This hardware is just a M2M device.
> It accepts one source buffer at a time and does some operations on
> that and saves to the destination buffer.
> Operations like Rotation, Cropping, Scaling, Color Space Conversion
> etc are possible.
>
> Here when I provide the Output buffer (source buffer), I can apply all
> V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_* targets on it.
> That means I can select the whole buffer for processing or apply some
> crop and select that area for further processing.
>
> similarly, On the capture buffer (output buffer), I can apply
> V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_* targets.
> That means I can compose the final output to the complete capture
> frame (dst frame), or I can choose some part of the destination frame.
OK, in that case your proposed changes are indeed correct. Sorry, I had
to check this carefully since it is so easy to get confused :-)
Regards,
Hans
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