[libcamera-devel] [RFC PATCH v5] gstreamer: Added virtual functions needed to support request pads

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Fri Jun 18 19:54:33 CEST 2021


On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 01:40:15PM -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le samedi 12 juin 2021 à 13:52 +0530, Vedant Paranjape a écrit :
> > Using request pads needs virtual functions to create new request pads and
> > release the allocated pads. Added way to generate unique stream_id in
> > gst_libcamera_src_task_enter(). It failed to execute when more than one
> > pad was added.
> > 
> > This patch defines the functions gst_libcamera_src_request_new_pad() and
> > gst_libcamera_src_release_pad() which handle, creating and releasing
> > request pads. Also assigns these functions to their callback
> > handlers in GstLibcameraSrcClass.
> > 
> > gst_pad_create_stream_id() failed as this gstreamer element has more than 2
> > source pads, and a nullptr was passed to it's stream_id argument.
> > This function fails to auto generate a stream id for scenario of more
> > than one source pad present.
> > 
> > Used a gint which increments everytime new stream_id is requested and
> > group_id to generate an unique stream_id by appending them togther as
> > %i%i.
> > 
> > This doesn't enable request pad support in gstreamer element. This is
> > one of the series of changes needed to make it work.
> 
> I would suggest to rework the commit message, and focus on what feature this
> adds and how to use it.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Vedant Paranjape <vedantparanjape160201 at gmail.com>
> 
> The code looks fine, I'll let you send the final one before adding by R-b. Note
> that when importing this patch:
> 
> .git/rebase-apply/patch:58: trailing whitespace.
> 		return NULL;		
> .git/rebase-apply/patch:60: trailing whitespace.
> 	
> .git/rebase-apply/patch:68: trailing whitespace.
> 	
> .git/rebase-apply/patch:85: trailing whitespace.
> }	
> 
> And also, running checkstyle.py shows some more issues:

This can be automated by using the pre- or post-commit hooks:

cp utils/hooks/post-commit .git/hooks/

or

cp utils/hooks/pre-commit .git/hooks/

Note that checkstyle.py can only provide a best effort, it's fine to
ignore some of its suggestions if there's a valid reason to do so.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 0e4fbbad9ffaed512593848212facffed0f4620f gstreamer: Added virtual functions needed to support request pads
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> +++ src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> @@ -642,9 +641,9 @@
>  	self->state = state;
>  }
>  
> -static GstPad*
> +static GstPad *
>  gst_libcamera_src_request_new_pad(GstElement *element, GstPadTemplate *templ,
> -					const gchar *name, [[maybe_unused]] const GstCaps *caps)
> +				  const gchar *name, [[maybe_unused]] const GstCaps *caps)
>  {
>  	GstLibcameraSrc *self = GST_LIBCAMERA_SRC(element);
>  	g_autoptr(GstPad) pad = NULL;
> @@ -654,44 +653,40 @@
>  	pad = gst_pad_new_from_template(templ, name);
>  	g_object_ref_sink(pad);
>  
> -	if (gst_element_add_pad(element, pad))
> +	if (gst_element_add_pad(element, pad)) {
> +		GLibLocker lock(GST_OBJECT(self));
> +		self->state->srcpads_.push_back(reinterpret_cast<GstPad *>(g_object_ref(pad)));
> +	} else {
> +		GST_ELEMENT_ERROR(element, STREAM, FAILED,
> +				  ("Internal data stream error."),
> +				  ("Could not add pad to element"));
> +		return NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	return reinterpret_cast<GstPad *>(g_steal_pointer(&pad));
> +}
> +
> +static void
> +gst_libcamera_src_release_pad(GstElement *element, GstPad *pad)
> +{
> +	GstLibcameraSrc *self = GST_LIBCAMERA_SRC(element);
> +
> +	GST_DEBUG_OBJECT(self, "Pad %" GST_PTR_FORMAT " being released", pad);
> +
>  	{
>  		GLibLocker lock(GST_OBJECT(self));
> -		self->state->srcpads_.push_back(reinterpret_cast<GstPad*>(g_object_ref(pad)));
> -	}
> -	else
> -	{
> -		GST_ELEMENT_ERROR (element, STREAM, FAILED,
> -					("Internal data stream error."),
> -					("Could not add pad to element"));
> -		return NULL;		
> -	}
> -	
> -	return reinterpret_cast<GstPad*>(g_steal_pointer(&pad));
> -}
> -
> -static void
> -gst_libcamera_src_release_pad(GstElement *element, GstPad *pad)
> -{
> -	GstLibcameraSrc *self = GST_LIBCAMERA_SRC(element);
> -	
> -	GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (self, "Pad %" GST_PTR_FORMAT " being released", pad);
> -
> -	{
> -		GLibLocker lock(GST_OBJECT(self));
> -		std::vector<GstPad*> &pads = self->state->srcpads_;
> +		std::vector<GstPad *> &pads = self->state->srcpads_;
>  		auto begin_iterator = pads.begin();
>  		auto end_iterator = pads.end();
>  		auto pad_iterator = std::find(begin_iterator, end_iterator, pad);
>  
> -		if (pad_iterator != end_iterator)
> -		{
> +		if (pad_iterator != end_iterator) {
>  			g_object_unref(*pad_iterator);
>  			pads.erase(pad_iterator);
>  		}
>  	}
>  	gst_element_remove_pad(element, pad);
> -}	
> +}
>  
>  static void
>  gst_libcamera_src_class_init(GstLibcameraSrcClass *klass)
> ---
> 2 potential issues detected, please review
> 
> 
> > ---
> > In _request_new_pad and _release_pad, a GLibLock is taken on
> > self->state. But since self->state is a C++ object,
> > GST_OBJECT(self->state) fails and returns null, so GLibLocker throws a
> > warning "invalid cast from '(null)' to 'GstObject'. This means that it
> > actually fails to get lock the resource that needs to be protected,
> > i.e., the srcpads_ vector.
> > 
> > The following changes were tested using the following test code: https://pastebin.com/gNDF1cyG
> > 
> >  src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> > index ccc61590..1614971d 100644
> > --- a/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> > +++ b/src/gstreamer/gstlibcamerasrc.cpp
> > @@ -361,10 +361,12 @@ gst_libcamera_src_task_enter(GstTask *task, [[maybe_unused]] GThread *thread,
> >  	GST_DEBUG_OBJECT(self, "Streaming thread has started");
> >  
> >  	guint group_id = gst_util_group_id_next();
> > +	gint stream_id_num = 0;
> >  	StreamRoles roles;
> >  	for (GstPad *srcpad : state->srcpads_) {
> >  		/* Create stream-id and push stream-start. */
> > -		g_autofree gchar *stream_id = gst_pad_create_stream_id(srcpad, GST_ELEMENT(self), nullptr);
> > +		g_autofree gchar *stream_id_intermediate = g_strdup_printf("%i%i", group_id, stream_id_num++);
> > +		g_autofree gchar *stream_id = gst_pad_create_stream_id(srcpad, GST_ELEMENT(self), stream_id_intermediate);
> >  		GstEvent *event = gst_event_new_stream_start(stream_id);
> >  		gst_event_set_group_id(event, group_id);
> >  		gst_pad_push_event(srcpad, event);
> > @@ -640,6 +642,57 @@ gst_libcamera_src_init(GstLibcameraSrc *self)
> >  	self->state = state;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static GstPad*
> > +gst_libcamera_src_request_new_pad(GstElement *element, GstPadTemplate *templ,
> > +					const gchar *name, [[maybe_unused]] const GstCaps *caps)
> > +{
> > +	GstLibcameraSrc *self = GST_LIBCAMERA_SRC(element);
> > +	g_autoptr(GstPad) pad = NULL;
> > +
> > +	GST_DEBUG_OBJECT(self, "new request pad created");
> > +
> > +	pad = gst_pad_new_from_template(templ, name);
> > +	g_object_ref_sink(pad);
> > +
> > +	if (gst_element_add_pad(element, pad))
> > +	{
> > +		GLibLocker lock(GST_OBJECT(self));
> > +		self->state->srcpads_.push_back(reinterpret_cast<GstPad*>(g_object_ref(pad)));
> > +	}
> > +	else
> > +	{
> > +		GST_ELEMENT_ERROR (element, STREAM, FAILED,
> > +					("Internal data stream error."),
> > +					("Could not add pad to element"));
> > +		return NULL;		
> > +	}
> > +	
> > +	return reinterpret_cast<GstPad*>(g_steal_pointer(&pad));
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void
> > +gst_libcamera_src_release_pad(GstElement *element, GstPad *pad)
> > +{
> > +	GstLibcameraSrc *self = GST_LIBCAMERA_SRC(element);
> > +	
> > +	GST_DEBUG_OBJECT (self, "Pad %" GST_PTR_FORMAT " being released", pad);
> > +
> > +	{
> > +		GLibLocker lock(GST_OBJECT(self));
> > +		std::vector<GstPad*> &pads = self->state->srcpads_;
> > +		auto begin_iterator = pads.begin();
> > +		auto end_iterator = pads.end();
> > +		auto pad_iterator = std::find(begin_iterator, end_iterator, pad);
> > +
> > +		if (pad_iterator != end_iterator)
> > +		{
> > +			g_object_unref(*pad_iterator);
> > +			pads.erase(pad_iterator);
> > +		}
> > +	}
> > +	gst_element_remove_pad(element, pad);
> > +}	
> > +
> >  static void
> >  gst_libcamera_src_class_init(GstLibcameraSrcClass *klass)
> >  {
> > @@ -650,6 +703,8 @@ gst_libcamera_src_class_init(GstLibcameraSrcClass *klass)
> >  	object_class->get_property = gst_libcamera_src_get_property;
> >  	object_class->finalize = gst_libcamera_src_finalize;
> >  
> > +	element_class->request_new_pad = gst_libcamera_src_request_new_pad;
> > +	element_class->release_pad = gst_libcamera_src_release_pad;
> >  	element_class->change_state = gst_libcamera_src_change_state;
> >  
> >  	gst_element_class_set_metadata(element_class,

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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