[PATCH 19/31] staging: bcm2835-camera: Ensure timestamps never go backwards.
Nicolas Dufresne
nicolas at ndufresne.ca
Thu Jun 27 20:01:11 UTC 2019
Le jeudi 27 juin 2019 à 20:56 +0200, Stefan Wahren a écrit :
> From: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.org>
>
> There is an awkward situation with H264 header bytes. Currently
> they are returned with a PTS of 0 because they aren't associated
> with a timestamped frame to encode. These are handled by either
> returning the timestamp of the last buffer to have been received,
> or in the case of the first buffer the timestamp taken at
> start_streaming.
> This results in a race where the current frame may have started
> before we take the start time, which results in the first encoded
> frame having an earlier timestamp than the header bytes.
>
> Ensure that we never return a negative delta to the user by checking
> against the previous timestamp.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Stevenson <dave.stevenson at raspberrypi.org>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> index 9967df9..6205793 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vc04_services/bcm2835-camera/bcm2835-camera.c
> @@ -387,6 +387,11 @@ static void buffer_cb(struct vchiq_mmal_instance *instance,
> ktime_to_ns(dev->capture.kernel_start_ts),
> dev->capture.vc_start_timestamp, pts,
> ktime_to_ns(timestamp));
> + if (timestamp < dev->capture.last_timestamp) {
> + v4l2_dbg(1, bcm2835_v4l2_debug, &dev->v4l2_dev,
> + "Negative delta - using last time\n");
> + timestamp = dev->capture.last_timestamp;
> + }
Instead of that, maybe you could request a minimum number of buffers,
and not let the header buffer go until you have a proper "following
timestamp" to give it. This way you don't need this hack, and you won't
have an off-by-one in timestamps.
> buf->vb.vb2_buf.timestamp = ktime_to_ns(timestamp);
> } else {
> if (dev->capture.last_timestamp) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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