4 Author: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
9 a) Image size for YUV422P format
10 All YUV422P images are enforced to have width x height % 16 = 0.
11 This is due to DMA constraints, which transfers only planes of 8 byte
19 Initialy, the QCI interface is stopped.
20 When a buffer is queued (pxa_videobuf_ops->buf_queue), the QCI starts.
23 More buffers can be queued while the QCI is started without halting the
24 capture. The new buffers are "appended" at the tail of the DMA chain, and
25 smoothly captured one frame after the other.
27 Once a buffer is filled in the QCI interface, it is marked as "DONE" and
28 removed from the active buffers list. It can be then requeud or dequeued by
31 Once the last buffer is filled in, the QCI interface stops.
33 c) Capture global finite state machine schema
40 +-----------+ +------------------------+
41 | STOP | | Wait for capture start |
42 +-----------+ Q +------------------------+
43 +-> | QCI: stop | ------------------> | QCI: run | <------------+
44 | | DMA: stop | | DMA: stop | |
45 | +-----------+ +-----> +------------------------+ |
48 |capture list empty / | Q | | DQ | | QCI Irq EOF |
50 | +--------------------+ +----------------------+ |
51 | | DMA hotlink missed | | Capture running | |
52 | +--------------------+ +----------------------+ |
53 | | QCI: run | +-----> | QCI: run | <-+ |
54 | | DMA: stop | / | DMA: run | | |
55 | +--------------------+ / +----------------------+ | Other |
56 | ^ /DMA still | | channels |
57 | | capture list / running | DMA Irq End | not |
58 | | not empty / | | finished |
60 | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
61 | | Videobuf released | | Channel completed | | |
62 | +----------------------+ +----------------------+ | |
63 +-- | QCI: run | | QCI: run | --+ |
64 | DMA: run | | DMA: run | |
65 +----------------------+ +----------------------+ |
67 | no overrun / | overrun |
69 +--------------------+ / +----------------------+ |
70 | Frame completed | / | Frame overran | |
71 +--------------------+ <-----+ +----------------------+ restart frame |
72 | QCI: run | | QCI: stop | --------------+
73 | DMA: run | | DMA: stop |
74 +--------------------+ +----------------------+
76 Legend: - each box is a FSM state
77 - each arrow is the condition to transition to another state
78 - an arrow with a comment is a mandatory transition (no condition)
79 - arrow "Q" means : a buffer was enqueued
80 - arrow "DQ" means : a buffer was dequeued
81 - "QCI: stop" means the QCI interface is not enabled
82 - "DMA: stop" means all 3 DMA channels are stopped
83 - "DMA: run" means at least 1 DMA channel is still running
89 - first buffer queued for capture
90 Once a first buffer is queued for capture, the QCI is started, but data
91 transfer is not started. On "End Of Frame" interrupt, the irq handler
93 - capture of one videobuffer
94 The DMA chain starts transferring data into videobuffer RAM pages.
95 When all pages are transferred, the DMA irq is raised on "ENDINTR" status
96 - finishing one videobuffer
97 The DMA irq handler marks the videobuffer as "done", and removes it from
98 the active running queue
99 Meanwhile, the next videobuffer (if there is one), is transferred by DMA
100 - finishing the last videobuffer
101 On the DMA irq of the last videobuffer, the QCI is stopped.
103 b) DMA prepared buffer will have this structure
107 +------------+-----+---------------+-----------------+
108 | desc-sg[0] | ... | desc-sg[last] | finisher/linker |
109 +------------+-----+---------------+-----------------+
111 This structure is pointed by dma->sg_cpu.
112 The descriptors are used as follows:
114 - desc-sg[i]: i-th descriptor, transferring the i-th sg
115 element to the video buffer scatter gather
116 - finisher: has ddadr=DADDR_STOP, dcmd=ENDIRQEN
117 - linker: has ddadr= desc-sg[0] of next video buffer, dcmd=0
119 For the next schema, let's assume d0=desc-sg[0] .. dN=desc-sg[N],
120 "f" stands for finisher and "l" for linker.
121 A typical running chain is :
125 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2
126 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
127 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
128 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
132 After the chaining is finished, the chain looks like :
136 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2 Videobuffer 3
137 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
138 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
139 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
144 c) DMA hot chaining timeslice issue
146 As DMA chaining is done while DMA _is_ running, the linking may be done
147 while the DMA jumps from one Videobuffer to another. On the schema, that
148 would be a problem if the following sequence is encountered :
150 - DMA chain is Videobuffer1 + Videobuffer2
151 - pxa_videobuf_queue() is called to queue Videobuffer3
152 - DMA controller finishes Videobuffer2, and DMA stops
157 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2
158 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
159 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
160 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-^-+
162 +----+ +-- DMA DDADR loads DDADR_STOP
164 - pxa_dma_add_tail_buf() is called, the Videobuffer2 "finisher" is
165 replaced by a "linker" to Videobuffer3 (creation of new_link)
166 - pxa_videobuf_queue() finishes
167 - the DMA irq handler is called, which terminates Videobuffer2
168 - Videobuffer3 capture is not scheduled on DMA chain (as it stopped !!!)
172 Videobuffer 1 Videobuffer 2 Videobuffer 3
173 +---------+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+ +----+----+----+---+
174 | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | l | | d0 | .. | dN | f |
175 +---------+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+-|-+ ^----+----+----+---+
179 DMA DDADR still is DDADR_STOP
181 - pxa_camera_check_link_miss() is called
182 This checks if the DMA is finished and a buffer is still on the
183 pcdev->capture list. If that's the case, the capture will be restarted,
184 and Videobuffer3 is scheduled on DMA chain.
185 - the DMA irq handler finishes
189 If DMA stops just after pxa_camera_check_link_miss() reads DDADR()
190 value, we have the guarantee that the DMA irq handler will be called back
191 when the DMA will finish the buffer, and pxa_camera_check_link_miss() will
192 be called again, to reschedule Videobuffer3.