V4L/DVB: v4l2: add core serialization lock
Drivers can optionally set a pointer to a mutex in struct video_device.
The core will use that to lock before calling open, read, write, unlocked_ioctl,
poll, mmap or release.
Updated the documentation as well and ensure that v4l2-event knows about the
lock: it will unlock it before doing a blocking wait on an event and relock it
afterwards.
Ensure that the 'video_is_registered' check is done when the lock is held:
a typical disconnect will take the lock as well before unregistering the
device nodes, so to prevent race conditions the video_is_registered check
should also be done with the lock held.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 9b1d81c..a128e01 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -453,6 +453,10 @@
- ioctl_ops: if you use the v4l2_ioctl_ops to simplify ioctl maintenance
(highly recommended to use this and it might become compulsory in the
future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct.
+- lock: leave to NULL if you want to do all the locking in the driver.
+ Otherwise you give it a pointer to a struct mutex_lock and before any
+ of the v4l2_file_operations is called this lock will be taken by the
+ core and released afterwards.
- parent: you only set this if v4l2_device was registered with NULL as
the parent device struct. This only happens in cases where one hardware
device has multiple PCI devices that all share the same v4l2_device core.
@@ -469,6 +473,22 @@
The v4l2_file_operations struct is a subset of file_operations. The main
difference is that the inode argument is omitted since it is never used.
+v4l2_file_operations and locking
+--------------------------------
+
+You can set a pointer to a mutex_lock in struct video_device. Usually this
+will be either a top-level mutex or a mutex per device node. If you want
+finer-grained locking then you have to set it to NULL and do you own locking.
+
+If a lock is specified then all file operations will be serialized on that
+lock. If you use videobuf then you must pass the same lock to the videobuf
+queue initialize function: if videobuf has to wait for a frame to arrive, then
+it will temporarily unlock the lock and relock it afterwards. If your driver
+also waits in the code, then you should do the same to allow other processes
+to access the device node while the first process is waiting for something.
+
+The implementation of a hotplug disconnect should also take the lock before
+calling v4l2_device_disconnect and video_unregister_device.
video_device registration
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