[PATCH] libcamera: dma_buf_allocator: Work around lack of memfd_create() in uClibc

Kieran Bingham kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com
Wed Jun 5 10:49:26 CEST 2024


Quoting Laurent Pinchart (2024-06-05 09:37:57)
> uClibc doesn't provide a memfd_create() implementation. Fix it by using
> a direct syscall when the function isn't available.

I presume the fact these are only coming up now means we don't yet have
uClibc in CI?


> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
> I should have bundled this in a series with "[PATCH] libcamera:
> dma_buf_allocator: Work around lack of file seals in uClibc", sorry
> about that.
> ---
>  src/libcamera/dma_buf_allocator.cpp | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libcamera/dma_buf_allocator.cpp b/src/libcamera/dma_buf_allocator.cpp
> index 5ec29949c66a..d7d08e188a62 100644
> --- a/src/libcamera/dma_buf_allocator.cpp
> +++ b/src/libcamera/dma_buf_allocator.cpp
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>  #include <sys/mman.h>
>  #include <sys/stat.h>
> +#include <sys/syscall.h>
>  #include <sys/types.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
>  
> @@ -132,7 +133,11 @@ UniqueFD DmaBufAllocator::allocFromUDmaBuf(const char *name, std::size_t size)
>         std::size_t pageMask = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) - 1;
>         size = (size + pageMask) & ~pageMask;
>  
> +#if HAVE_MEMFD_CREATE
>         int ret = memfd_create(name, MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_CLOEXEC);
> +#else
> +       int ret = syscall(SYS_memfd_create, name, MFD_ALLOW_SEALING | MFD_CLOEXEC);
> +#endif

Is there any benefit to going through memfd_create at all in that case?

But this is fine otherwise.

Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com>

>         if (ret < 0) {
>                 ret = errno;
>                 LOG(DmaBufAllocator, Error)
> 
> base-commit: 98071d3109c131820439f61d9380c0bd4cd2119a
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Laurent Pinchart
>


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