From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF03C433E1 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:21:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from alsa0.perex.cz (alsa0.perex.cz [77.48.224.243]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 828A92078B for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:21:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=alsa-project.org header.i=@alsa-project.org header.b="HabHgC+A" DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 828A92078B Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=lst.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (alsa1.perex.cz [207.180.221.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F23541668; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:13 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa0.perex.cz F23541668 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=alsa-project.org; s=default; t=1597900864; bh=v9LSfjtzHUWJ2sBh/6kgYu+2H/8/Id7Ts9swRgyxF24=; h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Cc:List-Id: List-Unsubscribe:List-Archive:List-Post:List-Help:List-Subscribe: From; b=HabHgC+AaU2y87vvbF1YEY6+Cr1wIKmDeOiE48E1X8z0bzw3nMHtdePuluaKb57R2 S19YWYQxY1TbY4OSVYESSB0Khur2fxGF7bRneYj7MEKbZ4oigsotVpPEdqwrYiUi9E wvIJRB60uzqCpVanERKM05i/rjLyuyMm8YB5I20M= Received: from alsa1.perex.cz (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51EF0F80114; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix, from userid 50401) id 6927CF80228; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from verein.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.211]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by alsa1.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BFE9DF80114 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:05 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 alsa1.perex.cz BFE9DF80114 Received: by verein.lst.de (Postfix, from userid 2407) id 4B4A168BEB; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:20:04 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Tomasz Figa Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/28] media/v4l2: remove V4L2-FLAG-MEMORY-NON-CONSISTENT Message-ID: <20200820052004.GA5305@lst.de> References: <20200819065555.1802761-1-hch@lst.de> <20200819065555.1802761-6-hch@lst.de> <20200819135454.GA17098@lst.de> <20200820044347.GA4533@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200820044347.GA4533@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Doc Mailing List , nouveau@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-mm@kvack.org, Christoph Hellwig , linux-samsung-soc , Joonyoung Shim , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "list@263.net:IOMMU DRIVERS , Joerg Roedel , " , Ben Skeggs , Matt Porter , Linux Media Mailing List , Tom Lendacky , Pawel Osciak , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , "list@263.net:IOMMU DRIVERS , Joerg Roedel , " , Thomas Bogendoerfer , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Seung-Woo Kim , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Kyungmin Park X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 06:43:47AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 03:57:53PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > > > Could you explain what makes you think it's unused? It's a feature of > > > > the UAPI generally supported by the videobuf2 framework and relied on > > > > by Chromium OS to get any kind of reasonable performance when > > > > accessing V4L2 buffers in the userspace. > > > > > > Because it doesn't do anything except on PARISC and non-coherent MIPS, > > > so by definition it isn't used by any of these media drivers. > > > > It's still an UAPI feature, so we can't simply remove the flag, it > > must stay there as a no-op, until the problem is resolved. > > Ok, I'll switch to just ignoring it for the next version. So I took a deeper look. I don't really think it qualifies as a UAPI in our traditional sense. For one it only appeared in 5.9-rc1, so we can trivially expedite the patch into 5.9-rc and not actually make it show up in any released kernel version. And even as of the current Linus' tree the only user is a test driver. So I really think the best way to go ahead is to just revert it ASAP as the design wasn't thought out at all.