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The VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT ioctl enumerates all formats supported by a video
node. For MC-centric devices, its behaviour has always been ill-defined,
with drivers implementing one of the following behaviours:

- No support for VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT at all
- Enumerating all formats supported by the video node, regardless of the
  configuration of the pipeline
- Enumerating formats supported by the video node for the active
  configuration of the connected subdevice

The first behaviour is obviously useless for applications. The second
behaviour provides the most information, but doesn't offer a way to find
what formats are compatible with a given pipeline configuration. The
third behaviour fixes that, but with the drawback that applications
can't enumerate all supported formats anymore, and have to modify the
active configuration of the pipeline to enumerate formats.

The situation is messy as none of the implemented behaviours are ideal,
and userspace can't predict what will happen as the behaviour is
driver-specific.

To fix this, let's extend the VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT with a missing capability:
enumerating pixel formats for a given media bus code. The media bus code
is passed through the v4l2_fmtdesc structure in a new mbus_code field
(repurposed from the reserved fields). With this capability in place,
applications can enumerate pixel formats for a given media bus code
without modifying the active configuration of the device.

The current behaviour of the ioctl is preserved when the new mbus_code
field is set to 0, ensuring compatibility with existing userspace. The
API extension is documented as mandatory for MC-centric devices (as
advertised through the V4L2_CAP_IO_MC capability), allowing applications
and compliance tools to easily determine the availability of the
VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT extension.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@ragnatech.se>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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pinchartl authored and mchehab committed May 6, 2020
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27 changes: 22 additions & 5 deletions Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
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Expand Up @@ -48,10 +48,21 @@ one until ``EINVAL`` is returned. If applicable, drivers shall return
formats in preference order, where preferred formats are returned before
(that is, with lower ``index`` value) less-preferred formats.
.. note::
After switching input or output the list of enumerated image
formats may be different.
If the driver doesn't advertise the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability
<device-capabilities>`, applications shall initialize the ``mbus_code`` field
to zero and drivers shall ignore the value of the field. Drivers shall
enumerate all image formats. The enumerated formats may depend on the active
input or output of the device.
If the driver advertises the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability
<device-capabilities>`, applications may initialize the ``mbus_code`` field to
a valid :ref:`media bus format code <v4l2-mbus-pixelcode>`. If the
``mbus_code`` field is not zero, drivers shall restrict enumeration to only the
image formats that can produce (for video output devices) or be produced from
(for video capture devices) that media bus code. Regardless of the value of
the ``mbus_code`` field, the enumerated image formats shall not depend on the
active configuration of the video device or device pipeline. Enumeration shall
otherwise operate as previously described.
.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.4cm}|p{4.4cm}|p{8.7cm}|
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These codes are not the same as those used
in the Windows world.
* - __u32
- ``reserved``\ [4]
- ``mbus_code``
- Media bus code restricting the enumerated formats, set by the
application. Only applicable to drivers that advertise the
``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability <device-capabilities>`, shall be 0
otherwise.
* - __u32
- ``reserved``\ [3]
- Reserved for future extensions. Drivers must set the array to
zero.

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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions drivers/media/v4l2-core/v4l2-ioctl.c
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Expand Up @@ -264,12 +264,13 @@ static void v4l_print_fmtdesc(const void *arg, bool write_only)
{
const struct v4l2_fmtdesc *p = arg;

pr_cont("index=%u, type=%s, flags=0x%x, pixelformat=%c%c%c%c, description='%.*s'\n",
pr_cont("index=%u, type=%s, flags=0x%x, pixelformat=%c%c%c%c, mbus_code=0x%04x, description='%.*s'\n",
p->index, prt_names(p->type, v4l2_type_names),
p->flags, (p->pixelformat & 0xff),
(p->pixelformat >> 8) & 0xff,
(p->pixelformat >> 16) & 0xff,
(p->pixelformat >> 24) & 0xff,
p->mbus_code,
(int)sizeof(p->description), p->description);
}

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struct video_device *vdev = video_devdata(file);
struct v4l2_fmtdesc *p = arg;
int ret = check_fmt(file, p->type);
u32 mbus_code;
u32 cap_mask;

if (ret)
return ret;
ret = -EINVAL;

if (!(vdev->device_caps & V4L2_CAP_IO_MC))
p->mbus_code = 0;

mbus_code = p->mbus_code;
CLEAR_AFTER_FIELD(p, type);
p->mbus_code = mbus_code;

switch (p->type) {
case V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE:
case V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_CAPTURE_MPLANE:
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static const struct v4l2_ioctl_info v4l2_ioctls[] = {
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_QUERYCAP, v4l_querycap, v4l_print_querycap, 0),
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT, v4l_enum_fmt, v4l_print_fmtdesc, INFO_FL_CLEAR(v4l2_fmtdesc, type)),
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT, v4l_enum_fmt, v4l_print_fmtdesc, 0),
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_G_FMT, v4l_g_fmt, v4l_print_format, 0),
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_S_FMT, v4l_s_fmt, v4l_print_format, INFO_FL_PRIO),
IOCTL_INFO(VIDIOC_REQBUFS, v4l_reqbufs, v4l_print_requestbuffers, INFO_FL_PRIO | INFO_FL_QUEUE),
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion include/uapi/linux/videodev2.h
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Expand Up @@ -784,7 +784,8 @@ struct v4l2_fmtdesc {
__u32 flags;
__u8 description[32]; /* Description string */
__u32 pixelformat; /* Format fourcc */
__u32 reserved[4];
__u32 mbus_code; /* Media bus code */
__u32 reserved[3];
};

#define V4L2_FMT_FLAG_COMPRESSED 0x0001
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