Re: [PATCH] media: vb2: unify calling of set_page_dirty_lock

From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Mon Oct 16 2017 - 07:24:26 EST


On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 07:09:24PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le dimanche 15 octobre 2017 à 23:40 +0300, Sakari Ailus a écrit :
> > Hi Nicolas,
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 11:40:10AM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> > > Le mardi 29 août 2017 à 14:26 +0300, Stanimir Varbanov a écrit :
> > > > Currently videobuf2-dma-sg checks for dma direction for
> > > > every single page and videobuf2-dc lacks any dma direction
> > > > checks and calls set_page_dirty_lock unconditionally.
> > > >
> > > > Thus unify and align the invocations of set_page_dirty_lock
> > > > for videobuf2-dc, videobuf2-sg memory allocators with
> > > > videobuf2-vmalloc, i.e. the pattern used in vmalloc has been
> > > > copied to dc and dma-sg.
> > >
> > > Just before we go too far in "doing like vmalloc", I would like to
> > > share this small video that display coherency issues when rendering
> > > vmalloc backed DMABuf over various KMS/DRM driver. I can reproduce
> > > this
> > > easily with Intel and MSM display drivers using UVC or Vivid as
> > > source.
> > >
> > > The following is an HDMI capture of the following GStreamer
> > > pipeline
> > > running on Dragonboard 410c.
> > >
> > > gst-launch-1.0 -v v4l2src device=/dev/video2 ! video/x-
> > > raw,format=NV16,width=1280,height=720 ! kmssink
> > > https://people.collabora.com/~nicolas/vmalloc-issue.mov
> > >
> > > Feedback on this issue would be more then welcome. It's not clear
> > > to me
> > > who's bug is this (v4l2, drm or iommu). The software is unlikely to
> > > be
> > > blamed as this same pipeline works fine with non-vmalloc based
> > > sources.
> >
> > Could you elaborate this a little bit more? Which Intel CPU do you
> > have
> > there?
>
> I have tested with Skylake and Ivy Bridge and on Dragonboard 410c
> (Qualcomm APQ8016 SoC) (same visual artefact)

Do you still have both corrupted and uncompressed frames around? Those
would be interesting to look at.

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Sakari Ailus
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