Re: [PATCHv4 01/11] videobuf2: add cache management members

From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Date: Mon Mar 09 2020 - 03:25:31 EST


On (20/03/09 08:21), Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 3/9/20 4:27 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> > On (20/03/07 12:47), Hans Verkuil wrote:
> >>
> >> Create those tests in v4l2-compliance: that's where they belong.
> >>
> >> You need these tests:
> >>
> >> For non-MMAP modes:
> >>
> >> 1) test that V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_CACHE_HINTS is never set.
> >>
> >> If V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_CACHE_HINTS is not set, then:
> >>
> >> 1) attempting to use V4L2_FLAG_MEMORY_NON_CONSISTENT will clear the flag
> >> upon return (test with both reqbufs and create_bufs).
> >> 2) attempting to use V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_INVALIDATE or V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_CLEAN
> >> will clear those flags upon return (do we actually do that in the patch series?).

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> > I'm looking into it. Will it work if I patch the vivid test driver to
> > enable/disable ->allow_cache_hints bit per-node and include the patch
> > into the series. So then v4l2 tests can create some nodes with
> > ->allow_cache_hints. Something like this:
>
> I would add a 'cache_hints' module parameter (array of bool) to tell vivid
> whether cache hints should be set or not for each instance. It would be useful
> to have this in vivid. Don't forget to update Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/vivid.rst
> as well.

I see. Hmm, how do I do "test that V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_CACHE_HINTS
is never set" then?

-ss