1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
6 Author: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
11 a) Image size for YUV422P format
12 All YUV422P images are enforced to have width x height % 16 = 0.
13 This is due to DMA constraints, which transfers only planes of 8 byte
21 Initially, the QCI interface is stopped.
22 When a buffer is queued (pxa_videobuf_ops->buf_queue), the QCI starts.
25 More buffers can be queued while the QCI is started without halting the
26 capture. The new buffers are "appended" at the tail of the DMA chain, and
27 smoothly captured one frame after the other.
29 Once a buffer is filled in the QCI interface, it is marked as "DONE" and
30 removed from the active buffers list. It can be then requeud or dequeued by
33 Once the last buffer is filled in, the QCI interface stops.
35 c) Capture global finite state machine schema
42 +-----------+ +------------------------+
43 | STOP | | Wait for capture start |
44 +-----------+ Q +------------------------+
45 +-> | QCI: stop | ------------------> | QCI: run | <------------+
46 | | DMA: stop | | DMA: stop | |
47 | +-----------+ +-----> +------------------------+ |
50 |capture list empty / | Q | | DQ | | QCI Irq EOF |
52 | +--------------------+ +----------------------+ |
53 | | DMA hotlink missed | | Capture running | |
54 | +--------------------+ +----------------------+ |
55 | | QCI: run | +-----> | QCI: run | <-+ |
56 | | DMA: stop | / | DMA: run | | |
57 | +--------------------+ / +----------------------+ | Other |
58 | ^ /DMA still | | channels |
59 | | capture list / running | DMA Irq End | not |
60 | | not empty / | | finished |
62 | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
63 | | Videobuf released | | Channel completed | | |
64 | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
65 +-- | QCI: run | | QCI: run | --+ |
66 | DMA: run | | DMA: run | |
67 +----------------------+ +----------------------+ |
69 | no overrun / | overrun |
71 +--------------------+ / +----------------------+ |
72 | Frame completed | / | Frame overran | |
73 +--------------------+ <-----+ +----------------------+ restart frame |
74 | QCI: run | | QCI: stop | --------------+
75 | DMA: run | | DMA: stop |
76 +--------------------+ +----------------------+
78 Legend: - each box is a FSM state
79 - each arrow is the condition to transition to another state
80 - an arrow with a comment is a mandatory transition (no condition)
81 - arrow "Q" means : a buffer was enqueued
82 - arrow "DQ" means : a buffer was dequeued
83 - "QCI: stop" means the QCI interface is not enabled
84 - "DMA: stop" means all 3 DMA channels are stopped
85 - "DMA: run" means at least 1 DMA channel is still running
91 - first buffer queued for capture
92 Once a first buffer is queued for capture, the QCI is started, but data
93 transfer is not started. On "End Of Frame" interrupt, the irq handler
95 - capture of one videobuffer
96 The DMA chain starts transferring data into videobuffer RAM pages.
97 When all pages are transferred, the DMA irq is raised on "ENDINTR" status
98 - finishing one videobuffer
99 The DMA irq handler marks the videobuffer as "done", and removes it from
100 the active running queue
101 Meanwhile, the next videobuffer (if there is one), is transferred by DMA
102 - finishing the last videobuffer
103 On the DMA irq of the last videobuffer, the QCI is stopped.
105 b) DMA prepared buffer will have this structure
109 +------------+-----+---------------+-----------------+
110 | desc-sg[0] | ... | desc-sg[last] | finisher/linker |
111 +------------+-----+---------------+-----------------+
113 This structure is pointed by dma->sg_cpu.
114 The descriptors are used as follows:
116 - desc-sg[i]: i-th descriptor, transferring the i-th sg
117 element to the video buffer scatter gather
118 - finisher: has ddadr=DADDR_STOP, dcmd=ENDIRQEN
119 - linker: has ddadr= desc-sg[0] of next video buffer, dcmd=0
121 For the next schema, let's assume d0=desc-sg[0] .. dN=desc-sg[N],
122 "f" stands for finisher and "l" for linker.
123 A typical running chain is :
127 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2
128 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
129 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
130 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
134 After the chaining is finished, the chain looks like :
138 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2 Videobuffer 3
139 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
140 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
141 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
146 c) DMA hot chaining timeslice issue
148 As DMA chaining is done while DMA _is_ running, the linking may be done
149 while the DMA jumps from one Videobuffer to another. On the schema, that
150 would be a problem if the following sequence is encountered :
152 - DMA chain is Videobuffer1 + Videobuffer2
153 - pxa_videobuf_queue() is called to queue Videobuffer3
154 - DMA controller finishes Videobuffer2, and DMA stops
159 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2
160 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
161 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
162 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-^-+
164 +----+ +-- DMA DDADR loads DDADR_STOP
166 - pxa_dma_add_tail_buf() is called, the Videobuffer2 "finisher" is
167 replaced by a "linker" to Videobuffer3 (creation of new_link)
168 - pxa_videobuf_queue() finishes
169 - the DMA irq handler is called, which terminates Videobuffer2
170 - Videobuffer3 capture is not scheduled on DMA chain (as it stopped !!!)
174 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2 Videobuffer 3
175 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
176 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
177 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
181 DMA DDADR still is DDADR_STOP
183 - pxa_camera_check_link_miss() is called
184 This checks if the DMA is finished and a buffer is still on the
185 pcdev->capture list. If that's the case, the capture will be restarted,
186 and Videobuffer3 is scheduled on DMA chain.
187 - the DMA irq handler finishes
191 If DMA stops just after pxa_camera_check_link_miss() reads DDADR()
192 value, we have the guarantee that the DMA irq handler will be called back
193 when the DMA will finish the buffer, and pxa_camera_check_link_miss() will
194 be called again, to reschedule Videobuffer3.