[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v1 2/5] cam: Use libevent to implement event loop

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Nov 13 11:08:23 CET 2020


On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 09:59:02AM +0000, Kieran Bingham wrote:
> On 13/11/2020 06:38, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > To prepare for removal of the EventDispatcher from the libcamera public
> > API, switch to libevent to handle the event loop.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> 
> This is missing an update to the README.rst to update the new package
> dependencies.

diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5c4b6989f7cf..251291b77c62 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ for documentation: [optional]
 for gstreamer: [optional]
 	libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev

+for cam: [optional]
+        libevent-dev
+
 for qcam: [optional]
 	qtbase5-dev libqt5core5a libqt5gui5 libqt5widgets5 qttools5-dev-tools libtiff-dev

> And a small whitespace nit below.
> 
> With those:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>
> 
> > ---
> >  src/cam/event_loop.cpp | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  src/cam/event_loop.h   | 15 ++++++++-------
> >  src/cam/main.cpp       | 16 +++++-----------
> >  src/cam/meson.build    | 13 ++++++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/cam/event_loop.cpp b/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
> > index e8ab861790ed..13f2583da0a1 100644
> > --- a/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
> > +++ b/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
> > @@ -5,19 +5,34 @@
> >   * event_loop.cpp - cam - Event loop
> >   */
> >  
> > -#include <libcamera/event_dispatcher.h>
> > -
> >  #include "event_loop.h"
> >  
> > -using namespace libcamera;
> > +#include <assert.h>
> > +#include <event2/event.h>
> > +#include <event2/thread.h>
> >  
> > -EventLoop::EventLoop(EventDispatcher *dispatcher)
> > -	: dispatcher_(dispatcher)
> > +EventLoop *EventLoop::instance_ = nullptr;
> > +
> > +EventLoop::EventLoop()
> >  {
> > +	assert(!instance_);
> > +
> > +	evthread_use_pthreads();
> > +	event_ = event_base_new();
> > +	instance_ = this;
> >  }
> >  
> >  EventLoop::~EventLoop()
> >  {
> > +	instance_ = nullptr;
> > +
> > +	event_base_free(event_);
> > +	libevent_global_shutdown();
> > +}
> > +
> > +EventLoop *EventLoop::instance()
> > +{
> > +	return instance_;
> >  }
> >  
> >  int EventLoop::exec()
> > @@ -26,7 +41,7 @@ int EventLoop::exec()
> >  	exit_.store(false, std::memory_order_release);
> >  
> >  	while (!exit_.load(std::memory_order_acquire))
> > -		dispatcher_->processEvents();
> > +		event_base_loop(event_, EVLOOP_NO_EXIT_ON_EMPTY);
> >  
> >  	return exitCode_;
> >  }
> > @@ -35,5 +50,10 @@ void EventLoop::exit(int code)
> >  {
> >  	exitCode_ = code;
> >  	exit_.store(true, std::memory_order_release);
> > -	dispatcher_->interrupt();
> > +	interrupt();
> > +}
> > +
> > +void EventLoop::interrupt()
> > +{
> > +	event_base_loopbreak(event_);
> >  }
> > diff --git a/src/cam/event_loop.h b/src/cam/event_loop.h
> > index 581c7cba2fc4..b1c6bd103080 100644
> > --- a/src/cam/event_loop.h
> > +++ b/src/cam/event_loop.h
> > @@ -9,26 +9,27 @@
> >  
> >  #include <atomic>
> >  
> > -#include <libcamera/event_notifier.h>
> > -
> > -namespace libcamera {
> > -class EventDispatcher;
> > -}
> > +struct event_base;
> >  
> >  class EventLoop
> >  {
> >  public:
> > -	EventLoop(libcamera::EventDispatcher *dispatcher);
> > +	EventLoop();
> >  	~EventLoop();
> >  
> > +	static EventLoop *instance();
> > +
> >  	int exec();
> >  	void exit(int code = 0);
> >  
> >  private:
> > -	libcamera::EventDispatcher *dispatcher_;
> > +	static EventLoop *instance_;
> >  
> > +	struct event_base *event_;
> >  	std::atomic<bool> exit_;
> >  	int exitCode_;
> > +
> > +	void interrupt();
> >  };
> >  
> >  #endif /* __CAM_EVENT_LOOP_H__ */
> > diff --git a/src/cam/main.cpp b/src/cam/main.cpp
> > index b3a8d94f5739..e01be63a7058 100644
> > --- a/src/cam/main.cpp
> > +++ b/src/cam/main.cpp
> > @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ private:
> >  	CameraManager *cm_;
> >  	std::shared_ptr<Camera> camera_;
> >  	std::unique_ptr<libcamera::CameraConfiguration> config_;
> > -	EventLoop *loop_;
> > +	EventLoop loop_;
> >  
> >  	bool strictFormats_;
> >  };
> > @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ private:
> >  CamApp *CamApp::app_ = nullptr;
> >  
> >  CamApp::CamApp()
> > -	: cm_(nullptr), camera_(nullptr), config_(nullptr), loop_(nullptr),
> > +	: cm_(nullptr), camera_(nullptr), config_(nullptr),
> >  	  strictFormats_(false)
> >  {
> >  	CamApp::app_ = this;
> > @@ -134,16 +134,11 @@ int CamApp::init(int argc, char **argv)
> >  		std::cout << "Monitoring new hotplug and unplug events" << std::endl;
> >  	}
> >  
> > -	loop_ = new EventLoop(cm_->eventDispatcher());
> > -
> >  	return 0;
> >  }
> >  
> >  void CamApp::cleanup()
> >  {
> > -	delete loop_;
> > -	loop_ = nullptr;
> > -
> >  	if (camera_) {
> >  		camera_->release();
> >  		camera_.reset();
> > @@ -166,8 +161,7 @@ int CamApp::exec()
> >  
> >  void CamApp::quit()
> >  {
> > -	if (loop_)
> > -		loop_->exit();
> > +	loop_.exit();
> >  }
> >  
> >  int CamApp::parseOptions(int argc, char *argv[])
> > @@ -366,13 +360,13 @@ int CamApp::run()
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (options_.isSet(OptCapture)) {
> > -		Capture capture(camera_, config_.get(), loop_);
> > +		Capture capture(camera_, config_.get(), &loop_);
> >  		return capture.run(options_);
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	if (options_.isSet(OptMonitor)) {
> >  		std::cout << "Press Ctrl-C to interrupt" << std::endl;
> > -		ret = loop_->exec();
> > +		ret = loop_.exec();
> >  		if (ret)
> >  			std::cout << "Failed to run monitor loop" << std::endl;
> >  	}
> > diff --git a/src/cam/meson.build b/src/cam/meson.build
> > index 89e124fbae2a..62003c58dad0 100644
> > --- a/src/cam/meson.build
> > +++ b/src/cam/meson.build
> > @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
> >  # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
> >  
> > +libevent = dependency('libevent_pthreads', required : false)
> > +
> > +if not libevent.found()
> > +    warning('libevent_pthreads not found,\'cam\' application will not be compiled')
> 
> missing a space after comma,
> 
> > +    subdir_done()
> > +endif
> > +
> >  cam_sources = files([
> >      'buffer_writer.cpp',
> >      'capture.cpp',
> > @@ -10,5 +17,9 @@ cam_sources = files([
> >  ])
> >  
> >  cam  = executable('cam', cam_sources,
> > -                  dependencies : [ libatomic, libcamera_dep ],
> > +                  dependencies : [
> > +                      libatomic,
> > +                      libcamera_dep,
> > +                      libevent,
> > +                  ],
> >                    install : true)
> > 

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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