[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 12/18] libcamera: timer: Bind timers to threads

[Laurent Pinchart]

The Timer instances are registered with the event dispatcher instance of
the CameraManager. This makes it impossible to use timers in other
threads.

Fix this by inheriting from Object, which allows binding instances to a
thread, and register them with the event dispatcher for the thread they
are bound to.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
---
 include/libcamera/timer.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 src/libcamera/timer.cpp   | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libcamera/timer.h b/include/libcamera/timer.h
index f082339b1fed..853808e07da8 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/timer.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/timer.h
@@ -9,11 +9,14 @@
 
 #include <cstdint>
 
+#include <libcamera/object.h>
 #include <libcamera/signal.h>
 
 namespace libcamera {
 
-class Timer
+class Message;
+
+class Timer : public Object
 {
 public:
 	Timer();
@@ -28,7 +31,13 @@ public:
 
 	Signal<Timer *> timeout;
 
+protected:
+	void message(Message *msg) override;
+
 private:
+	void registerTimer();
+	void unregisterTimer();
+
 	unsigned int interval_;
 	uint64_t deadline_;
 };
diff --git a/src/libcamera/timer.cpp b/src/libcamera/timer.cpp
index 0dcb4e767be3..21c0a444cdce 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/timer.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/timer.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 #include <libcamera/event_dispatcher.h>
 
 #include "log.h"
+#include "message.h"
+#include "thread.h"
 
 /**
  * \file timer.h
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ void Timer::start(unsigned int msec)
 		<< "Starting timer " << this << " with interval "
 		<< msec << ": deadline " << deadline_;
 
-	CameraManager::instance()->eventDispatcher()->registerTimer(this);
+	registerTimer();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -79,11 +81,21 @@ void Timer::start(unsigned int msec)
  */
 void Timer::stop()
 {
-	CameraManager::instance()->eventDispatcher()->unregisterTimer(this);
+	unregisterTimer();
 
 	deadline_ = 0;
 }
 
+void Timer::registerTimer()
+{
+	thread()->eventDispatcher()->registerTimer(this);
+}
+
+void Timer::unregisterTimer()
+{
+	thread()->eventDispatcher()->unregisterTimer(this);
+}
+
 /**
  * \brief Check if the timer is running
  * \return True if the timer is running, false otherwise
@@ -112,4 +124,16 @@ bool Timer::isRunning() const
  * The timer pointer is passed as a parameter.
  */
 
+void Timer::message(Message *msg)
+{
+	if (msg->type() == Message::ThreadMoveMessage) {
+		if (deadline_) {
+			unregisterTimer();
+			invokeMethod(this, &Timer::registerTimer);
+		}
+	}
+
+	Object::message(msg);
+}
+
 } /* namespace libcamera */
-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart