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-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/ccs.rst110
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/dvbstb.svg2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst81
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/sysfs-platform_profile.rst42
9 files changed, 246 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
index acd2cc2a538d..d29b020e5622 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ place where this information is gathered.
ioctl/index
iommu
media/index
+ sysfs-platform_profile
.. only:: subproject and html
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
index a4c75a28c839..d02ba2f67df8 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
@@ -157,7 +157,6 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
'I' all linux/isdn.h conflict!
'I' 00-0F drivers/isdn/divert/isdn_divert.h conflict!
'I' 40-4F linux/mISDNif.h conflict!
-'J' 00-1F drivers/scsi/gdth_ioctl.h
'K' all linux/kd.h
'L' 00-1F linux/loop.h conflict!
'L' 10-1F drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.h conflict!
@@ -324,6 +323,8 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
0xA3 90-9F linux/dtlk.h
0xA4 00-1F uapi/linux/tee.h Generic TEE subsystem
0xA4 00-1F uapi/asm/sgx.h <mailto:linux-sgx@vger.kernel.org>
+0xA5 01 linux/surface_aggregator/cdev.h Microsoft Surface Platform System Aggregator
+ <mailto:luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
0xAA 00-3F linux/uapi/linux/userfaultfd.h
0xAB 00-1F linux/nbd.h
0xAC 00-1F linux/raw.h
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/ccs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/ccs.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..161cb65f4d98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/ccs.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+
+.. include:: <isonum.txt>
+
+MIPI CCS camera sensor driver
+=============================
+
+The MIPI CCS camera sensor driver is a generic driver for `MIPI CCS
+<https://www.mipi.org/specifications/camera-command-set>`_ compliant
+camera sensors. It exposes three sub-devices representing the pixel array,
+the binner and the scaler.
+
+As the capabilities of individual devices vary, the driver exposes
+interfaces based on the capabilities that exist in hardware.
+
+Pixel Array sub-device
+----------------------
+
+The pixel array sub-device represents the camera sensor's pixel matrix, as well
+as analogue crop functionality present in many compliant devices. The analogue
+crop is configured using the ``V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP`` on the source pad (0) of the
+entity. The size of the pixel matrix can be obtained by getting the
+``V4L2_SEL_TGT_NATIVE_SIZE`` target.
+
+Binner
+------
+
+The binner sub-device represents the binning functionality on the sensor. For
+that purpose, selection target ``V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE`` is supported on the
+sink pad (0).
+
+Additionally, if a device has no scaler or digital crop functionality, the
+source pad (1) expses another digital crop selection rectangle that can only
+crop at the end of the lines and frames.
+
+Scaler
+------
+
+The scaler sub-device represents the digital crop and scaling functionality of
+the sensor. The V4L2 selection target ``V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP`` is used to
+configure the digital crop on the sink pad (0) when digital crop is supported.
+Scaling is configured using selection target ``V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE`` on the
+sink pad (0) as well.
+
+Additionally, if the scaler sub-device exists, its source pad (1) exposes
+another digital crop selection rectangle that can only crop at the end of the
+lines and frames.
+
+Digital and analogue crop
+-------------------------
+
+Digital crop functionality is referred to as cropping that effectively works by
+dropping some data on the floor. Analogue crop, on the other hand, means that
+the cropped information is never retrieved. In case of camera sensors, the
+analogue data is never read from the pixel matrix that are outside the
+configured selection rectangle that designates crop. The difference has an
+effect in device timing and likely also in power consumption.
+
+Private controls
+----------------
+
+The MIPI CCS driver implements a number of private controls under
+``V4L2_CID_USER_BASE_CCS`` to control the MIPI CCS compliant camera sensors.
+
+Analogue gain model
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The CCS defines an analogue gain model where the gain can be calculated using
+the following formula:
+
+ gain = m0 * x + c0 / (m1 * x + c1)
+
+Either m0 or c0 will be zero. The constants that are device specific, can be
+obtained from the following controls:
+
+ V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_GAIN_M0
+ V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_GAIN_M1
+ V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_GAIN_C0
+ V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_GAIN_C1
+
+The analogue gain (``x`` in the formula) is controlled through
+``V4L2_CID_ANALOGUE_GAIN`` in this case.
+
+Alternate analogue gain model
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The CCS defines another analogue gain model called alternate analogue gain. In
+this case, the formula to calculate actual gain consists of linear and
+exponential parts:
+
+ gain = linear * 2 ^ exponent
+
+The ``linear`` and ``exponent`` factors can be set using the
+``V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_LINEAR_GAIN`` and
+``V4L2_CID_CCS_ANALOGUE_EXPONENTIAL_GAIN`` controls, respectively
+
+Shading correction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The CCS standard supports lens shading correction. The feature can be controlled
+using ``V4L2_CID_CCS_SHADING_CORRECTION``. Additionally, the luminance
+correction level may be changed using
+``V4L2_CID_CCS_LUMINANCE_CORRECTION_LEVEL``, where value 0 indicates no
+correction and 128 indicates correcting the luminance in corners to 10 % less
+than in the centre.
+
+Shading correction needs to be enabled for luminance correction level to have an
+effect.
+
+**Copyright** |copy| 2020 Intel Corporation
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst
index 05a82f8c0c99..1a9038f5f9fa 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/index.rst
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
:maxdepth: 5
:numbered:
+ ccs
cx2341x-uapi
imx-uapi
max2175
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/dvbstb.svg b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/dvbstb.svg
index 87e68baa056b..6f0ba98f9bf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/dvbstb.svg
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/dvb/dvbstb.svg
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst
index 7b24a213cae7..e1e4043b3b1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-types.rst
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-STATISTICS:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-ENCODER:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-DECODER:
+.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-PROC-VIDEO-ISP:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-MUX:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-IF-BRIDGE:
.. _MEDIA-ENT-F-DV-DECODER:
@@ -201,6 +202,12 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
decompressing a compressed video stream into uncompressed video
frames. Must have one sink pad and at least one source pad.
+ * - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_PROC_VIDEO_ISP``
+ - An Image Signal Processor (ISP) device. ISPs generally are one of a
+ kind devices that have their specific control interfaces using a
+ combination of custom V4L2 controls and IOCTLs, and parameters
+ supplied in a metadata buffer.
+
* - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX``
- Video multiplexer. An entity capable of multiplexing must have at
least two sink pads and one source pad, and must pass the video
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
index 454ecd9a0f83..00944e97d638 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec.rst
@@ -1182,6 +1182,18 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_entropy_mode -
V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_MAX_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_B_FRAME_MIN_QP (integer)``
+ Minimum quantization parameter for the H264 B frame to limit B frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51. If
+ V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_MIN_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_B_FRAME_MAX_QP (integer)``
+ Maximum quantization parameter for the H264 B frame to limit B frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51. If
+ V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_MAX_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_MPEG4_I_FRAME_QP (integer)``
Quantization parameter for an I frame for MPEG4. Valid range: from 1
to 31.
@@ -1501,6 +1513,26 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_h264_hierarchical_coding_type -
* - Bit 16:32
- Layer number
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L0_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 0 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L1_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 1 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L2_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 2 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L3_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 3 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L4_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 4 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L5_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 5 for H264 encoder.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_H264_HIER_CODING_L6_BR (integer)``
+ Indicates bit rate (bps) for hierarchical coding layer 6 for H264 encoder.
.. _v4l2-mpeg-mpeg2:
@@ -2628,11 +2660,11 @@ HEVC/H.265 Control IDs
``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MIN_QP (integer)``
Minimum quantization parameter for HEVC.
- Valid range: from 0 to 51.
+ Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MAX_QP (integer)``
Maximum quantization parameter for HEVC.
- Valid range: from 0 to 51.
+ Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_I_FRAME_QP (integer)``
Quantization parameter for an I frame for HEVC.
@@ -2649,6 +2681,42 @@ HEVC/H.265 Control IDs
Valid range: [V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MIN_QP,
V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MAX_QP].
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_I_FRAME_MIN_QP (integer)``
+ Minimum quantization parameter for the HEVC I frame to limit I frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MIN_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_I_FRAME_MAX_QP (integer)``
+ Maximum quantization parameter for the HEVC I frame to limit I frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MAX_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_P_FRAME_MIN_QP (integer)``
+ Minimum quantization parameter for the HEVC P frame to limit P frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MIN_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_P_FRAME_MAX_QP (integer)``
+ Maximum quantization parameter for the HEVC P frame to limit P frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MAX_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_B_FRAME_MIN_QP (integer)``
+ Minimum quantization parameter for the HEVC B frame to limit B frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MIN_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_B_FRAME_MAX_QP (integer)``
+ Maximum quantization parameter for the HEVC B frame to limit B frame
+ quality to a range. Valid range: from 0 to 51 for 8 bit and from 0 to 63 for 10 bit.
+ If V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_MAX_QP is also set, the quantization parameter
+ should be chosen to meet both requirements.
+
``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_HEVC_HIER_QP (boolean)``
HIERARCHICAL_QP allows the host to specify the quantization parameter
values for each temporal layer through HIERARCHICAL_QP_LAYER. This is
@@ -3569,3 +3637,12 @@ enum v4l2_mpeg_video_hevc_size_of_length_field -
- Selecting this value specifies that HEVC slices are expected
to be prefixed by Annex B start codes. According to :ref:`hevc`
valid start codes can be 3-bytes 0x000001 or 4-bytes 0x00000001.
+
+``V4L2_CID_MPEG_VIDEO_BASELAYER_PRIORITY_ID (integer)``
+ Specifies a priority identifier for the NAL unit, which will be applied to
+ the base layer. By default this value is set to 0 for the base layer,
+ and the next layer will have the priority ID assigned as 1, 2, 3 and so on.
+ The video encoder can't decide the priority id to be applied to a layer,
+ so this has to come from client.
+ This is applicable to H264 and valid Range is from 0 to 63.
+ Source Rec. ITU-T H.264 (06/2019); G.7.4.1.1, G.8.8.1.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
index 7d4d39201a3f..1e0db602cc1b 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/pixfmt-yuv-planar.rst
@@ -396,9 +396,9 @@ number of lines as the luma plane.
NV24 and NV42
-------------
-Semi-planar YUV 4:4:4 formats. The chroma plane is subsampled by 2 in the
-horizontal direction. Chroma lines contain half the number of pixels and the
-same number of bytes as luma lines, and the chroma plane contains the same
+Semi-planar YUV 4:4:4 formats. The chroma plane is not subsampled.
+Chroma lines contain the same number of pixels and twice the
+number of bytes as luma lines, and the chroma plane contains the same
number of lines as the luma plane.
.. flat-table:: Sample 4x4 NV24 Image
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/sysfs-platform_profile.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/sysfs-platform_profile.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c33a71263d9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/sysfs-platform_profile.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+=====================================================================
+Platform Profile Selection (e.g. /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile)
+=====================================================================
+
+On modern systems the platform performance, temperature, fan and other
+hardware related characteristics are often dynamically configurable. The
+platform configuration is often automatically adjusted to the current
+conditions by some automatic mechanism (which may very well live outside
+the kernel).
+
+These auto platform adjustment mechanisms often can be configured with
+one of several platform profiles, with either a bias towards low power
+operation or towards performance.
+
+The purpose of the platform_profile attribute is to offer a generic sysfs
+API for selecting the platform profile of these automatic mechanisms.
+
+Note that this API is only for selecting the platform profile, it is
+NOT a goal of this API to allow monitoring the resulting performance
+characteristics. Monitoring performance is best done with device/vendor
+specific tools such as e.g. turbostat.
+
+Specifically when selecting a high performance profile the actual achieved
+performance may be limited by various factors such as: the heat generated
+by other components, room temperature, free air flow at the bottom of a
+laptop, etc. It is explicitly NOT a goal of this API to let userspace know
+about any sub-optimal conditions which are impeding reaching the requested
+performance level.
+
+Since numbers on their own cannot represent the multiple variables that a
+profile will adjust (power consumption, heat generation, etc) this API
+uses strings to describe the various profiles. To make sure that userspace
+gets a consistent experience the sysfs-platform_profile ABI document defines
+a fixed set of profile names. Drivers *must* map their internal profile
+representation onto this fixed set.
+
+If there is no good match when mapping then a new profile name may be
+added. Drivers which wish to introduce new profile names must:
+
+ 1. Explain why the existing profile names canot be used.
+ 2. Add the new profile name, along with a clear description of the
+ expected behaviour, to the sysfs-platform_profile ABI documentation.