[PATCH v3 0/5] Add manual request completion to the MediaTek VCodec driver

Nicolas Dufresne
2025-06-04T20:16:34Z

This set introduces the manual request completion API by the author Hans
Verkuil and implements it within the MediaTek VCodec driver.

Why is this needed?

The VCodec driver supports a hardware containing two separate cores, the
CORE and the LAT, these are working in a serial manner without this
series. This series solves two issues, the first being that the current
code runs into a problem, that occurs when the last request object is
unbound from the request, before the v4l2_ctrl_request_complete function
is called, causing an implicit transition to the COMPLETE state.
This issues has been found in applications which didn't attach the
controls for the very first request (which is supposed to enable the
driver to sniff out the correct formats, etc.).
The second issue is that the VCodec driver can not utilize the full
performance of both cores, when the LAT core has to wait for the CORE
core to finishing processing the decode. Thus by enabling the LAT core
to process the next bitstream, right after processing the last we can
increase the performance of the driver.
With the manual request completion API, we can separate the
completion of the request objects of a request and from the completion
of the request itself, which allows to send a new bitstream after the
LAT core has processed the previous and while the CORE core decodes the
previous bitstream, so both cores can work in a parallel manner, but
while keeping the request alive during both steps.

A new state machine for the VCodec driver ensures, that all necessary
processing steps are handled in the correct order depending on the
current step in the execution. This state machine has been added to each
request to ensure that new requests do not alter the state of still
ongoing requests.

Additionally, this series adds a small patch to avoid trying to handle a
scenario, which is not supported by the hardware and thus runs into a
timeout.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
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Changes in v3:
- Patch 1: Applied suggested documentation fixes to the manual completion API
- Patch 4: Moved MTK VCODEC request helper into the decoder driver
- Patch 4: Matched MTK driver namespaces
- Patch 4: Set MTK request to CORE_DONE state if LAT failed
- Patch 4: Dropped Angelo's Rb, its better to review again
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250410-sebastianfricke-vcodec_manual_request_completion_with_state_machine-v2-0-5b99ec0450e6@collabora.com

Changes in v2:
- The implementation patch for V1 was using an outdated version of the
"media: vcodec: Implement manual request completion" patch, update it
to the most recent one which doesn't use the state machine globally
but instead per request, thus having no conflicts between multiple
concurrent threads
- The kernel test robot found an issue because a function which I only
use locally was defined without the static keyword
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250314-sebastianfricke-vcodec_manual_request_completion_with_state_machine-v1-0-5e277a3d695b@collabora.com

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Hans Verkuil (3):
media: mc: add manual request completion
media: vicodec: add support for manual completion
media: mc: add debugfs node to keep track of requests

Nicolas Dufresne (1):
media: mtk-vcodec: Don't try to decode 422/444 VP9

Sebastian Fricke (1):
media: vcodec: Implement manual request completion

drivers/media/mc/mc-device.c | 30 +++++
drivers/media/mc/mc-devnode.c | 5 +
drivers/media/mc/mc-request.c | 44 ++++++-
.../mediatek/vcodec/decoder/mtk_vcodec_dec.c | 4 +-
.../mediatek/vcodec/decoder/mtk_vcodec_dec_drv.h | 29 ++++
.../vcodec/decoder/mtk_vcodec_dec_stateless.c | 146 ++++++++++++++++-----
drivers/media/test-drivers/vicodec/vicodec-core.c | 21 ++-
include/media/media-device.h | 9 ++
include/media/media-devnode.h | 4 +
include/media/media-request.h | 40 +++++-
10 files changed, 292 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 5e1ff2314797bf53636468a97719a8222deca9ae
change-id: 20250312-sebastianfricke-vcodec_manual_request_completion_with_state_machine-6362c7f80a14

Best regards,
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Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>