[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] [DNI]: Fixes for CTS on nautilus(LIMITED)

paul.elder at ideasonboard.com paul.elder at ideasonboard.com
Tue Jun 8 08:24:58 CEST 2021


Hi Umang,

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 11:08:00AM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Thanks for pitching in.
> 
> On 6/7/21 11:54 AM, paul.elder at ideasonboard.com wrote:
> 
>     Hi Umang,
> 
>     On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 03:56:06PM +0530, Umang Jain wrote:
> 
>         Signed-off-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain at ideasonboard.com>
>         ---
> 
>         This patch is for reference and discussion purposes only.
>         Please DO NOT MERGE. If anything, there will be follow up
>         separate patches for merge separately.
> 
>     Thank you for the investigation and starting the discussion.
> 
> 
>         Problem:
>         On nautilus, 26 tests were failing because of "Fail to open camera",
>         but more specifically from adb logcat:
> 
>         ```
>         E Camera2-Parameters: generated preview size list is empty!!
>         E Camera2Client: initializeImpl: Camera 0: unable to build defaults: Invalid argument (-22)
>         E CameraService: connectHelper: Could not initialize client from HAL.
>         I Camera2Client: Camera 0: Closed
>         ```
> 
>         was found to be root of the problem. The checks triggered are here:
> 
>             Parameters::getFilteredSizes()
> 
>           https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/refs/heads/master/services/camera/libcameraservice/api1/client2/Parameters.cpp#2976
> 
>         nautilus reports higher frame-duration to start with: 34100000
> 
>     iirc this was the minimum frame duration. This converts to 29.32 fps.
> 
> 
>         (in CameraDevice::getStaticMetadata()).
>         minFrameDurationNsec is meant to be re-adjusted down the line
>         before round-up, *if* the difference is < 500 useconds.
> 
>     And the minimum frame duration gets compared to what android requires as
>     the maximum value of the minimum frame duration, which is 33366700ns =
>     29.97 fps.
> 
> 
>         On nautilus, since the difference was much larger than 500 useconds,
> 
>     What this adjustment does is if the minimum frame duration (= max fps)
>     supported by the sensor is greater than the maximum allowed value (= the
>     supported max fps is lower than the max requirement), but it's within
>     500us, we can adjust it.
> 
> 
>         the re-adjustment failed and libcamera reported a much higher
>         frame-duration to upper-layers/libcameraservice.
> 
>     (Yes, it was rounded down instead to 29 fps and the corresponding
>     34482758ns, which is less/greater than 29.97fps / 33366700ns.)
> 
> 
>         This led to the problem in Parameters::getFilteredSizes(),
>         where all potential streams for preview are skipped to be added,
>         due to high minFrameDuration.
> 
>         To force this re-adjustment, the scope of difference was increased
>         to 1200 useconds as done in the patch.
> 
>     So by allowing 1200us, what we're saying is that we can still reasonably
>     say that we support a minimum frame duration of 33366700ns when the real
>     minimum that we support is 34566700ns. It's a whole 1.2ms off per frame.
>     Is this a reasonable assertion?
> 
> Indeed, that's what is in question. I plan to discuss this in today's weekly.
> 
> 
> 
>         CTS Results on nautilus after applying the changes:
>         Total Run time: 8m 42s
>         1/1 modules completed
>         Total Tests       : 221
>         PASSED            : 221
>         FAILED            : 0
> 
>         ---
>          src/android/camera_device.cpp | 5 +++--
>          1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
>         diff --git a/src/android/camera_device.cpp b/src/android/camera_device.cpp
>         index fe332ec3..d0676a7f 100644
>         --- a/src/android/camera_device.cpp
>         +++ b/src/android/camera_device.cpp
>         @@ -877,13 +877,13 @@ const camera_metadata_t *CameraDevice::getStaticMetadata()
>                          * (see MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS in the camera service
>                          * implementation).
>                          *
>         -                * If we're close enough (+ 500 useconds) to that value, round
>         +                * If we're close enough (+ 1200 useconds) to that value, round
>                          * the minimum frame duration of the camera to an accepted
>                          * value.
>                          */
>                         static constexpr int64_t MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS = 1e9 / 29.97;
>                         if (minFrameDurationNsec > MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS &&
>         -                   minFrameDurationNsec < MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS + 500000)
>         +                   minFrameDurationNsec < MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS + 1200000)
>                                 minFrameDurationNsec = MAX_PREVIEW_RECORD_DURATION_NS - 1000;
> 
>                         /*
>         @@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ const camera_metadata_t *CameraDevice::getStaticMetadata()
>                         ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_MIN_FRAME_DURATIONS,
>                         ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STALL_DURATIONS,
>                         ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS,
>         +               ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS_OUTPUT,
> 
>     What's this for?
> 
> 
> The https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/refs/heads/master
> /services/camera/libcameraservice/api1/client2/Parameters.cpp#2976
> check , reads in ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS_OUTPUT key, and
> I realized we don't report it hence, I thought it's a similar case
> as 51c09236c4e8 ("android: Make FRAME_DURATION result key available in static
> metadata")

I'm pretty sure that section corresponds to [1], so it should indeed be
fine without declaring the key.

[1] https://git.linuxtv.org/libcamera.git/tree/src/android/camera_device.cpp#n1215


Paul

> 
> 
> However this morning, I ran CTS without
> > +ANDROID_SCALER_AVAILABLE_STREAM_CONFIGURATIONS_OUTPUT
> and it ran just fine. Maybe I don't understand keys-related magic not
> well-enough.
> 
> 
> 
>                         ANDROID_SCALER_CROPPING_TYPE,
>                         ANDROID_SENSOR_AVAILABLE_TEST_PATTERN_MODES,
>                         ANDROID_SENSOR_INFO_ACTIVE_ARRAY_SIZE,
>         --
>         2.31.0
> 
> 


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