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authorSergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>2020-05-14 18:01:53 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-06-23 13:40:35 +0200
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media: vivid: add cache_hints module param
Add a cache_hints module param to control per-queue user space cache hints support. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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@@ -293,6 +293,15 @@ all configurable using the following module options:
- 0: vmalloc
- 1: dma-contig
+- cache_hints:
+
+ specifies if the device should set queues' user-space cache and memory
+ consistency hint capability (V4L2_BUF_CAP_SUPPORTS_MMAP_CACHE_HINTS).
+ The hints are valid only when using MMAP streaming I/O. Default is 0.
+
+ - 0: forbid hints
+ - 1: allow hints
+
Taken together, all these module options allow you to precisely customize
the driver behavior and test your application with all sorts of permutations.
It is also very suitable to emulate hardware that is not yet available, e.g.