Re: [PATCH] [media] uvcvideo: Fix clock param realtime setting

From: Laurent Pinchart
Date: Fri Mar 28 2014 - 12:18:43 EST


Hi Olivier,

Thank you for the patch.

On Friday 28 March 2014 01:42:38 Olivier Langlois wrote:
> timestamps in v4l2 buffers returned to userspace are updated in
> uvc_video_clock_update() which uses timestamps fetched from
> uvc_video_clock_decode() by calling unconditionally ktime_get_ts().
>
> Hence setting the module clock param to realtime have no effect
> before this patch.
>
> This has been tested with ffmpeg:
>
> ffmpeg -y -f v4l2 -input_format yuyv422 -video_size 640x480 -framerate 30 -i
> /dev/video0 \ -f alsa -acodec pcm_s16le -ar 16000 -ac 1 -i default \
> -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast \
> -c:a libfdk_aac \
> out.mkv
>
> and inspecting the v4l2 input starting timestamp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Olivier Langlois <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Before applying this, I'm curious, do you have a use case for realtime time
stamps ?

> ---
> drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c | 15 ++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c index 898c208..c79db33 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_video.c
> @@ -361,6 +361,14 @@ static int uvc_commit_video(struct uvc_streaming
> *stream, * Clocks and timestamps
> */
>
> +static inline void uvc_video_get_ts(struct timespec *ts)
> +{
> + if (uvc_clock_param == CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
> + ktime_get_ts(ts);
> + else
> + ktime_get_real_ts(ts);
> +}
> +
> static void
> uvc_video_clock_decode(struct uvc_streaming *stream, struct uvc_buffer
> *buf, const __u8 *data, int len)
> @@ -420,7 +428,7 @@ uvc_video_clock_decode(struct uvc_streaming *stream,
> struct uvc_buffer *buf, stream->clock.last_sof = dev_sof;
>
> host_sof = usb_get_current_frame_number(stream->dev->udev);
> - ktime_get_ts(&ts);
> + uvc_video_get_ts(&ts);
>
> /* The UVC specification allows device implementations that can't obtain
> * the USB frame number to keep their own frame counters as long as they
> @@ -1011,10 +1019,7 @@ static int uvc_video_decode_start(struct
> uvc_streaming *stream,
> return -ENODATA;
> }
>
> - if (uvc_clock_param == CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
> - ktime_get_ts(&ts);
> - else
> - ktime_get_real_ts(&ts);
> + uvc_video_get_ts(&ts);
>
> buf->buf.v4l2_buf.sequence = stream->sequence;
> buf->buf.v4l2_buf.timestamp.tv_sec = ts.tv_sec;

--
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

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