On 2/1/19 2:21 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On 2/1/19 1:46 AM, shuah wrote:
Hi Hans,
On 1/30/19 12:42 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On 1/30/19 2:50 AM, shuah wrote:
On 1/29/19 2:43 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
On 1/29/19 12:48 AM, shuah wrote:
Hi Hans,
On 1/28/19 5:03 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote: > Hi Shuah, > > On 1/24/19 9:32 PM, Shuah Khan wrote: >> Media Device Allocator API to allows multiple drivers share a media device. >> This API solves a very common use-case for media devices where one physical >> device (an USB stick) provides both audio and video. When such media device >> exposes a standard USB Audio class, a proprietary Video class, two or more >> independent drivers will share a single physical USB bridge. In such cases, >> it is necessary to coordinate access to the shared resource. >> >> Using this API, drivers can allocate a media device with the shared struct >> device as the key. Once the media device is allocated by a driver, other >> drivers can get a reference to it. The media device is released when all >> the references are released. >> >> - This patch series is tested on 5.0-rc3 and addresses comments on >> v9 series from Hans Verkuil. >> - v9 was tested on 4.20-rc6. >> - Tested sharing resources with kaffeine, vlc, xawtv, tvtime, and >> arecord. When analog is streaming, digital and audio user-space >> applications detect that the tuner is busy and exit. When digital >> is streaming, analog and audio applications detect that the tuner is >> busy and exit. When arecord is owns the tuner, digital and analog >> detect that the tuner is busy and exit. > > I've been doing some testing with my au0828, and I am confused about one > thing, probably because it has been too long ago since I last looked into > this in detail: >
Great.
> Why can't I change the tuner frequency if arecord (and only arecord) is > streaming audio? If arecord is streaming, then it is recording the audio > from the analog TV tuner, right? So changing the analog TV frequency > should be fine. >
Changing analog TV frequency would be s_frequency. The way it works is any s_* calls would require holding the pipeline. In Analog TV case, it would mean holding both audio and video pipelines for any changes including TV.
As I recall, we discussed this design and the decision was to make all s_* calls interfaces to hold the tuner. A special exception is g_tuner in case of au0828. au0828 initializes the tuner from s_* interfaces and its g_tuner interfaces. Allowing s_frequency to proceed will disrupt the arecord audio stream.
Query (q_*) works just fine without holding the pipeline. I limited the analog holds to just the ones that are required. The current set is required to avoid audio stream disruptions.
So I am not sure about that ('avoid audio stream disruptions'): if I stream video AND use arecord, then I can just set the frequency while streaming. Doesn't that interrupt audio as well? And are you sure changing the tuner frequency actually disrupts audio? And if audio is disrupted, are we talking about a glitch or is audio permanently disrupted?
I think it is a glitch. I will run some tests and let you know.
That's basically the inconsistent behavior I noticed: just running arecord will prevent me from changing the frequency, but if I run arecord and stream video, then it is suddenly OK to change the frequency.
How are you changing frequency? I want to duplicate what you are doing.
v4l2-ctl -f <freq>
I am not seeing the inconsistent behavior. Here are my results.
- Started acecord and while it is running:
arecord -M -D plughw:2,0 -c2 -f S16_LE -t wav foo.wav Recording WAVE 'foo.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Stereo
- Ran v4l2-ctl -f as follows:
v4l2-ctl -f 700 VIDIOC_G_TUNER: failed: Device or resource busy VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY: failed: Device or resource busy
Based on the current implementation, it failed with resource busy as expected.
- Started v4l2-ctl as follows:
v4l2-ctl --stream-mmap --stream-count=100 -d /dev/video0 VIDIOC_STREAMON: failed: Device or resource busy
Why is this? You have one analog tuner and it delivers independent audio and video streams. I should be able to start/stop audio and video independently.
And as mentioned above, if I use v4l2-ctl for video streaming, then start arecord, then that works fine. And I can change the tuner frequency while both are streaming.
But doing this the other way around (first start arecord, then v4l2-ctl) then that doesn't work.
It makes no sense.
Note that v4l2-ctl does not open audio, it solely deals with video. qv4l2 will open both audio and video, but for testing audio and video independently you need to use arecord/v4l2-ctl.
In any case, my understanding of how this should work is that both arecord and v4l2-ctl should attempt to lock the analog tuner resource, but they can share it.
If DVB is using the tuner, then both arecord and v4l2-ctl should fail with -EBUSY. Same if either of arecord/v4l2-ctl is running, then DVB should fail with -EBUSY.
BTW, I won't be able to test anything myself until Feb 9th since I'm abroad and don't have access to my au0828.
I am also on a business trip at the moment and won't have access to my au0828 until Feb 8th.
I think I understand your concern and the change to get the desired behavior of allowing tuner to be shared by arecord and v4l2-ctl is going to in the code that is already in the mainline which is the au0828_enable_source().
If you would like to wait to pull this series for the problem to be fixed, I can send that change in. It will be another patch added to the series.
Or if you pull this and I can send fix on top. Let me know your preference.
thanks, -- Shuah