Ipipe req_bufs failed

[Stephen Berry]

Karicheri, Muralidharan wrote:
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> Murali Karicheri
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> *From:* Stephen Berry [mailto:swb at i-d-2.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:37 AM
> *To:* Karicheri, Muralidharan
> *Cc:* pavelhan; davinci-linux-open-source
> *Subject:* Re: Ipipe req_bufs failed
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> There are a bunch of issues using kernel memory space. Even when you 
> do have enough to use for a large 5Mpix buffer (which is 10MB) it 
> seems to get fragmented over time. So while you might be able to 
> allocate it once, once it gets freed all bets are off the next time 
> you want to use it.
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> In addition there is a problem with buffers that large to begin with. 
> There is a #define in the kernel, the name of which escapes me at the 
> moment, which defines the largest page size you can allocate, and it's 
> too small. Changing it recompiles everything in the kenel, and was 
> just a little scary...
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> Also, I remember that I've had issues with CMEM and V4l2. Last time I 
> tried to pass in a USERPTR to the V4L2 (and vpfe) all of my DQBUF 
> calls failed.
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> */[MK] Have you tried increasing the size of kernel buffers allocated 
> by V4L2 capture? This will allocate at init time and reserve the 
> pages. You could then use the ptr from DQBUF to pass to ipipe driver. 
> V4L2 capture currently support only mmaped IO./*
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I have tried this, but there is a drawback to this method. The V4l2 
driver will not let me only allocate only 1 buffer - the minimum is two. 
This is a fairly large waste of memory when I only need one buffer for 
still 5MP captures. I also need to be flexible with resolutions, since I 
want to be able to capture video at vga & HD, so I will need 3 buffers - 
but they don't need to be 10MB each!!

I'll figure away around this (like subdividing up a large buffer for the 
lower res), but it's not as nice as feeding memory pointers into the V4l2...

> Are there any examples on how to use CMEM with V4l2?
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>     Steve
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> Karicheri, Muralidharan wrote:
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> Hello,
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> You are actually reducing the memory available to kernel by setting 
> mem=80M. What you might want to do is to allocate memory using CMEM 
> and use it instead of req_buf.  Request buffer allocates memory from 
> kernel memory space. Otherwise, use bigger kernel memory instead of 
> reducing it.
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> [mailto:davinci-linux-open-source-bounces at linux.davincidsp.com] *On 
> Behalf Of *pavelhan
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 02, 2008 5:52 AM
> *To:* davinci-linux-open-source
> *Subject:* Ipipe req_bufs failed
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> Hi everyone!
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> I want to get a full resolution 5MP(2592x1944) picture from my MT9p031 
> sensor.
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> but I failed when I req_buffers in the ipipe initialization procedure.
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> I allocate a 80M memory to my linux in the bootargs(mem=80M),so I 
> think there is
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> a enough space for I allocate 1 5MP ipipe buffer from linux(which will 
> require about
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> 10M bytes),but when I execute the program, I only get the following 
> errors:
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> starting mt9p001_ipipe_init
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> IPIPE idm355_ipipe dm355_ipipe.2: 4.request_buffer:not                         
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> enough memory
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> IPIPE_REQBUF fail
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> IPIPE init fail
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> what should I do to get the problem solved?
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> any help will be appreciated!
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> Thank you!
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> 2008-09-02
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