[PATCH v2 00/13] media: rockchip: rga: add support for multi-planar formats

Hans Verkuil hverkuil at xs4all.nl
Fri Nov 24 05:39:37 PST 2023


Hi Michael,

On 13/10/2023 13:00, Michael Tretter wrote:
> This is v2 of the series that adds support for the V4L2 multi-planar API
> to the Rockchip RGA driver. Once the RGA driver supports the
> multi-planar API, it is easier to share buffers with other V4L2 drivers
> that also support the multi-planar API and may not expose planar formats
> with contiguous planes.
> 
> v2 fixes the smatch warnings and compile errors of v1. Furthermore, now
> the DMA mask is set to 32 bits for coherent, too, and the gfp_flags are
> configured to ensure that buffers are allocated in the lower 4GB area.
> 
> With non-contiguous planes, the U and V planes may not start at the same
> offset as with the continuous planes. Therefore, the RGA driver cannot
> rely on its calculation of the plane offsets based on the format and
> frame size anymore, but must remember the offsets when it created the
> mapping. Therefore, I also reworked how the DMA mapping is handled.
> 
> As a bonus, the RGA driver should now work correctly on devices with
> more than 4 GB of memory. Video buffers should now be allocated within
> the 4 GB boundary and an import of buffers that have higher addresses
> into the driver should fail.
> 
> Patch 1 fixes the swizzling of RGA formats. While testing all formats of
> the driver on rk3568, I discovered that the color channels of the RGB
> formats are wrong when converting to NV12. I didn't test this on other
> SoCs with an RGA and I am not sure, if they behave differently regarding
> the color channels. Please report, if this breaks the color conversion
> on other SoCs, and I will make this SoC-specific.
> 
> Patches 2 to 6 are the rework the DMA descriptor handling for the RGA
> MMU. The patches clean up, how the driver uses the DMA API, and make the
> creation of the descriptor list more explicit. Furthermore, the driver
> is changed to keep the mapping per video buffer instead of using a
> single mapping that is updated with every buffer.
> 
> Patches 7 to 11 prepare the driver for the multi-planar API including a
> cleanup of the format handling in the buffer, and finally switch to the
> multi-planar API.

Switching over to the multi-planar API is always a bit scary. How did you
test this? Using gstreamer? Other apps?

Regards,

	Hans

> 
> Patch 12 updates the code that creates the DMA-descriptor mapping to
> correctly handle buffers with multiple planes. The driver has to iterate
> all planes and make them the continuous for the RGA.
> 
> Patch 13 enables the NV12M format, which is the multi-planar variant of
> the NV12 format.
> 
> Michael
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tretter <m.tretter at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix smatch warnings
> - Fix cast to dst_mmu_pages/src_mmu_pages to fix compile error in Patch 2
> - Remove check for upper_32_bits when filling the DMA descriptor table
> - Remove useless dma_sync_single_for_device()
> - Set DMA mask for DMA coherent
> - Set gfp_flags to __GFP_DMA32
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230914-rockchip-rga-multiplanar-v1-0-abfd77260ae3@pengutronix.de
> 
> ---
> Michael Tretter (13):
>       media: rockchip: rga: fix swizzling for RGB formats
>       media: rockchip: rga: extract helper to fill descriptors
>       media: rockchip: rga: allocate DMA descriptors per buffer
>       media: rockchip: rga: split src and dst buffer setup
>       media: rockchip: rga: pre-calculate plane offsets
>       media: rockchip: rga: set dma mask to 32 bits
>       media: rockchip: rga: use clamp() to clamp size to limits
>       media: rockchip: rga: use pixelformat to find format
>       media: rockchip: rga: add local variable for pix_format
>       media: rockchip: rga: use macros for testing buffer type
>       media: rockchip: rga: switch to multi-planar API
>       media: rockchip: rga: rework buffer handling for multi-planar formats
>       media: rockchip: rga: add NV12M support
> 
>  drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rga/rga-buf.c | 162 ++++++++++++++++------
>  drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rga/rga-hw.c  | 146 ++++++++++++--------
>  drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rga/rga.c     | 189 ++++++++++++--------------
>  drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rga/rga.h     |  35 ++++-
>  4 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 204 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 2c1bae27df787c9535e48cc27bbd11c3c3e0a235
> change-id: 20230914-rockchip-rga-multiplanar-0d7c79b1ba93
> 
> Best regards,




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