[PATCH v1] libcamera: v4l2_videodevice: `lastUsedCounter_` need not be atomic

Barnabás Pőcze barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com
Mon Mar 10 18:03:26 CET 2025


The `V4L2BufferCache` type is not thread-safe. Its `lastUsedCounter_`
member is not used in contexts where its atomicity would matter.
So it does not need to be have an atomic type.

Signed-off-by: Barnabás Pőcze <barnabas.pocze at ideasonboard.com>
---
 include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_videodevice.h | 2 +-
 src/libcamera/v4l2_videodevice.cpp            | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_videodevice.h b/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_videodevice.h
index f021c2a01..e52b50c67 100644
--- a/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_videodevice.h
+++ b/include/libcamera/internal/v4l2_videodevice.h
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ private:
 		std::vector<Plane> planes_;
 	};
 
-	std::atomic<uint64_t> lastUsedCounter_;
+	uint64_t lastUsedCounter_;
 	std::vector<Entry> cache_;
 	/* \todo Expose the miss counter through an instrumentation API. */
 	unsigned int missCounter_;
diff --git a/src/libcamera/v4l2_videodevice.cpp b/src/libcamera/v4l2_videodevice.cpp
index e241eb47b..f5b3fa09d 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/v4l2_videodevice.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/v4l2_videodevice.cpp
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ V4L2BufferCache::V4L2BufferCache(const std::vector<std::unique_ptr<FrameBuffer>>
 {
 	for (const std::unique_ptr<FrameBuffer> &buffer : buffers)
 		cache_.emplace_back(true,
-				    lastUsedCounter_.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_acq_rel),
+				    lastUsedCounter_++,
 				    *buffer.get());
 }
 
@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ int V4L2BufferCache::get(const FrameBuffer &buffer)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	cache_[use] = Entry(false,
-			    lastUsedCounter_.fetch_add(1, std::memory_order_acq_rel),
+			    lastUsedCounter_++,
 			    buffer);
 
 	return use;
-- 
2.48.1



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