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authorRicardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>2026-03-09 15:01:56 +0000
committerHans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>2026-03-25 09:40:28 +0100
commit2ac27db04608a7ce4d46a3bf23d2262c7b20db38 (patch)
tree572fd1194db32c486e088ef41fd05ee7108b38d8 /drivers
parent33dd4bb261bd4e539551d60511574cd64845bf84 (diff)
media: uvcvideo: Allow userspace to increase the meta buffersize
Now we have the metadata size hardcoded to 10 KiB, this is a value that works fine for bulk cameras or frames with no extra metadata. But not for all usecases. We have seen some cameras that produce more metadata per frame. Eg: Frame 1 captured (Bytes: 11154) Frame 2 captured (Bytes: 11616) Frame 3 captured (Bytes: 11374) Frame 4 captured (Bytes: 11132) Frame 5 captured (Bytes: 11594) Frame 6 captured (Bytes: 11352) Frame 7 captured (Bytes: 11110) Frame 8 captured (Bytes: 11572) Frame 9 captured (Bytes: 11308) When this happens, the driver (correctly) marks the metadata as ERROR. This patch let userspace set bigger buffersize via S_FMT. Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-uvc-metadata-dmabuf-v1-3-fc8b87bd29c5@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_metadata.c9
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h3
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_metadata.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_metadata.c
index 0a906ae3f971..9de8aba1229e 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_metadata.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static int uvc_meta_v4l2_get_format(struct file *file, void *priv,
return -EINVAL;
fmt->dataformat = stream->meta.format;
- fmt->buffersize = UVC_METADATA_BUF_SIZE;
+ fmt->buffersize = stream->meta.buffersize;
return 0;
}
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static int uvc_meta_v4l2_try_format(struct file *file, void *priv,
struct uvc_device *dev = stream->dev;
struct v4l2_meta_format *fmt = &format->fmt.meta;
u32 fmeta = V4L2_META_FMT_UVC;
+ u32 buffersize;
if (format->type != vfh->vdev->queue->type)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -74,10 +75,12 @@ static int uvc_meta_v4l2_try_format(struct file *file, void *priv,
}
}
+ buffersize = max(UVC_METADATA_BUF_MIN_SIZE, fmt->buffersize);
+
memset(fmt, 0, sizeof(*fmt));
fmt->dataformat = fmeta;
- fmt->buffersize = UVC_METADATA_BUF_SIZE;
+ fmt->buffersize = buffersize;
return 0;
}
@@ -103,6 +106,7 @@ static int uvc_meta_v4l2_set_format(struct file *file, void *priv,
return -EBUSY;
stream->meta.format = fmt->dataformat;
+ stream->meta.buffersize = fmt->buffersize;
return 0;
}
@@ -229,6 +233,7 @@ int uvc_meta_register(struct uvc_streaming *stream)
struct uvc_video_queue *queue = &stream->meta.queue;
stream->meta.format = V4L2_META_FMT_UVC;
+ stream->meta.buffersize = UVC_METADATA_BUF_MIN_SIZE;
return uvc_register_video_device(dev, stream, queue,
V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_CAPTURE,
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c
index 68ed2883edb2..89206f761006 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_queue.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static int uvc_queue_setup(struct vb2_queue *vq,
switch (vq->type) {
case V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_CAPTURE:
- size = UVC_METADATA_BUF_SIZE;
+ size = stream->meta.buffersize;
break;
default:
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
index 9b4849fda12f..5ba698d2a23d 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvcvideo.h
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ struct uvc_stats_stream {
unsigned int max_sof; /* Maximum STC.SOF value */
};
-#define UVC_METADATA_BUF_SIZE 10240
+#define UVC_METADATA_BUF_MIN_SIZE 10240
/**
* struct uvc_copy_op: Context structure to schedule asynchronous memcpy
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ struct uvc_streaming {
struct {
struct uvc_video_queue queue;
u32 format;
+ u32 buffersize;
} meta;
/* Context data used by the bulk completion handler. */