[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v7 13/13] py: implement MappedFrameBuffer

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com
Fri May 6 16:44:23 CEST 2022


On 05/05/2022 21:24, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Tomi,
> 
> Thank you for the patch.
> 
> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 01:41:04PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
>> Instead of just exposing plain mmap via fb.mmap(planenum), implement a
>> MappedFrameBuffer class, similar to C++'s MappedFrameBuffer.
>> MappedFrameBuffer mmaps the underlying filedescriptors and provides
>> Python memoryviews for each plane.
>>
>> As an example, to save a Framebuffer to a file:
>>
>> with fb.mmap() as mfb:
>> 	with open(filename, "wb") as f:
>> 		for p in mfb.planes:
>> 			f.write(p)
>>
>> The objects in mfb.planes are memoryviews that cover only the plane in
>> question.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com>
>> ---
>>   src/py/cam/cam.py            | 11 +++---
>>   src/py/cam/cam_qt.py         |  6 +--
>>   src/py/libcamera/__init__.py | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>   src/py/libcamera/pymain.cpp  |  7 ++++
>>   4 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/src/py/cam/cam.py b/src/py/cam/cam.py
>> index 4efa6459..c0ebb186 100755
>> --- a/src/py/cam/cam.py
>> +++ b/src/py/cam/cam.py
>> @@ -329,9 +329,9 @@ def request_handler(state, ctx, req):
>>   
>>           crcs = []
>>           if ctx["opt-crc"]:
>> -            with fb.mmap(0) as b:
>> -                crc = binascii.crc32(b)
>> -                crcs.append(crc)
>> +            with fb.mmap() as mfb:
>> +                plane_crcs = [binascii.crc32(p) for p in mfb.planes]
>> +                crcs.append(plane_crcs)
>>   
>>           meta = fb.metadata
>>   
>> @@ -347,10 +347,11 @@ def request_handler(state, ctx, req):
>>                   print(f"\t{ctrl} = {val}")
>>   
>>           if ctx["opt-save-frames"]:
>> -            with fb.mmap(0) as b:
>> +            with fb.mmap() as mfb:
>>                   filename = "frame-{}-{}-{}.data".format(ctx["id"], stream_name, ctx["reqs-completed"])
>>                   with open(filename, "wb") as f:
>> -                    f.write(b)
>> +                    for p in mfb.planes:
>> +                        f.write(p)
>>   
>>       state["renderer"].request_handler(ctx, req)
>>   
>> diff --git a/src/py/cam/cam_qt.py b/src/py/cam/cam_qt.py
>> index 30fb7a1d..d394987b 100644
>> --- a/src/py/cam/cam_qt.py
>> +++ b/src/py/cam/cam_qt.py
>> @@ -324,17 +324,17 @@ class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QWidget):
>>           controlsLayout.addStretch()
>>   
>>       def buf_to_qpixmap(self, stream, fb):
>> -        with fb.mmap(0) as b:
>> +        with fb.mmap() as mfb:
>>               cfg = stream.configuration
>>               w, h = cfg.size
>>               pitch = cfg.stride
>>   
>>               if cfg.pixelFormat == "MJPEG":
>> -                img = Image.open(BytesIO(b))
>> +                img = Image.open(BytesIO(mfb.planes[0]))
>>                   qim = ImageQt(img).copy()
>>                   pix = QtGui.QPixmap.fromImage(qim)
>>               else:
>> -                data = np.array(b, dtype=np.uint8)
>> +                data = np.array(mfb.planes[0], dtype=np.uint8)
>>                   rgb = to_rgb(cfg.pixelFormat, cfg.size, data)
>>   
>>                   if rgb is None:
>> diff --git a/src/py/libcamera/__init__.py b/src/py/libcamera/__init__.py
>> index cd7512a2..caf06af7 100644
>> --- a/src/py/libcamera/__init__.py
>> +++ b/src/py/libcamera/__init__.py
>> @@ -1,12 +1,80 @@
>>   # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later
>>   # Copyright (C) 2021, Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen at ideasonboard.com>
>>   
>> +from os import lseek, SEEK_END
>>   from ._libcamera import *
>>   import mmap
>>   
>>   
>> -def __FrameBuffer__mmap(self, plane):
>> -    return mmap.mmap(self.fd(plane), self.length(plane), mmap.MAP_SHARED, mmap.PROT_READ)
>> +def __FrameBuffer__mmap(self):
>> +    return MappedFrameBuffer(self)
>>   
>>   
>>   FrameBuffer.mmap = __FrameBuffer__mmap
> 
> I'd move this after the MappedFrameBuffer class definition.
> 
>> +
>> +
>> +class MappedFrameBuffer:
>> +    def __init__(self, fb):
>> +        self.fb = fb
>> +
>> +        # Collect information about the buffers
>> +
>> +        bufinfos = {}
>> +
>> +        for i in range(fb.num_planes):
>> +            fd = fb.fd(i)
>> +
>> +            if fd not in bufinfos:
>> +                buflen = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END)
>> +                bufinfos[fd] = {"maplen": 0, "buflen": buflen}
> 
> Single quotes here too please.
> 
>> +            else:
>> +                buflen = bufinfos[fd]["buflen"]
>> +
>> +            if fb.offset(i) > buflen or fb.offset(i) + fb.length(i) > buflen:
>> +                raise RuntimeError(f"plane is out of buffer: buffer length={buflen}, "
>> +                                   f"plane offset={fb.offset(i)}, plane length={fb.length(i)}")
>> +
>> +            bufinfos[fd]["maplen"] = max(bufinfos[fd]["maplen"], fb.offset(i) + fb.length(i))
>> +
>> +        # mmap the buffers
>> +
>> +        maps = []
>> +
>> +        for fd, info in bufinfos.items():
>> +            map = mmap.mmap(fd, info["maplen"], mmap.MAP_SHARED, mmap.PROT_READ | mmap.PROT_WRITE)
>> +            info["map"] = map
>> +            maps.append(map)
>> +
>> +        self.maps = tuple(maps)
>> +
>> +        # Create memoryviews for the planes
>> +
>> +        planes = []
>> +
>> +        for i in range(fb.num_planes):
>> +            fd = fb.fd(i)
>> +            info = bufinfos[fd]
>> +
>> +            mv = memoryview(info["map"])
>> +
>> +            start = fb.offset(i)
>> +            end = fb.offset(i) + fb.length(i)
>> +
>> +            mv = mv[start:end]
>> +
>> +            planes.append(mv)
>> +
>> +        self.planes = tuple(planes)
>> +
>> +    def __enter__(self):
>> +        return self
>> +
>> +    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_value, exc_traceback):
>> +        for p in self.planes:
>> +            p.release()
>> +
>> +        for mm in self.maps:
>> +            mm.close()
> 
> This looks a bit unbalanced, with the mapping created in __init__.
> Should the mapping code be moved to __enter__ ? Or is this meant to be
> this way to avoid forcing the use of the "with" construct ? If so, are
> __enter__ and __exit__ needed, given that the object will be destroyed
> once execution exits from the "with" scope ?

I'm not sure if contextmanager classes are supposed to support multiple 
enter & exit cycles. But I'll move the init code to enter. As you said, 
it doesn't look balanced.

>> +
>> +    def planes(self):
>> +        return self.planes
> 
> Is this function actually used, or does the Python code access
> self.planes as assigned in __init__ ? You may want to rename the member
> to __planes, and turn this function into a getter for a read-only
> property. I would also turn self.maps into self.__maps if not needed by
> the users of this class.

Right, I was a bit hasty there. I've hidden the fields, and expose this 
as a property.

  Tomi


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