Re: [PATCH 01/18] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT flag

From: Tomasz Figa
Date: Fri Sep 25 2020 - 14:47:20 EST


Hi Christoph,

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The patch partially reverts some of the UAPI bits of the buffer
> cache management hints. Namely, the queue consistency (memory
> coherency) user-space hint because, as it turned out, the kernel
> implementation of this feature was misusing DMA_ATTR_NON_CONSISTENT.
>
> The patch revers both kernel and user space parts: removes the
> DMA consistency attr functions, rollbacks changes to v4l2_requestbuffers,
> v4l2_create_buffers structures and corresponding UAPI functions
> (plus compat32 layer) and cleanups the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> .../userspace-api/media/v4l/buffer.rst | 17 -------
> .../media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst | 6 +--
> .../media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.rst | 12 +----
> .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c | 46 +++----------------
> .../common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-contig.c | 19 --------
> .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-dma-sg.c | 3 +-
> .../media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-v4l2.c | 18 +-------
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c | 10 +---
> drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c | 5 +-
> include/media/videobuf2-core.h | 7 +--
> include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h | 13 +-----
> 11 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 134 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Tomasz