Re: [PATCH 1/9] CHROMIUM: v4l: Add H264 low-level decoder API compound controls.

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Jul 12 2018 - 12:47:51 EST


On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 06:38:21PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Thanks for your feedback, I have a few things I'm not really sure
> about though.
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:59:58PM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > > +struct v4l2_ctrl_h264_sps {
> > > + __u8 profile_idc;
> > > + __u8 constraint_set_flags;
> > > + __u8 level_idc;
> > > + __u8 seq_parameter_set_id;
> > > + __u8 chroma_format_idc;
> > > + __u8 bit_depth_luma_minus8;
> > > + __u8 bit_depth_chroma_minus8;
> > > + __u8 log2_max_frame_num_minus4;
> > > + __u8 pic_order_cnt_type;
> > > + __u8 log2_max_pic_order_cnt_lsb_minus4;
> >
> > There is a hole in the struct here. Is that OK? Are there alignment
> > requirements?
>
> This structure represents an equivalent structure in the H264
> bitstream, but it's not a 1:1 mapping, so I don't think there's any
> alignment issues.
>
> As of the padding, is it an issue? Isn't it defined by the ABI, and
> therefore the userspace will have the same padding rules?

Hi Maxime

It gets interesting when you have a 64 bit kernel and a 32 bit userspace.

Andrew