[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] avutils/hwcontext: When deriving a hwdevice, search for existing device in both directions

Soft Works softworkz at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 19 18:24:16 EET 2021



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel-bounces at ffmpeg.org> On Behalf Of
> Xiang, Haihao
> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2021 6:48 AM
> To: ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org
> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v3 1/1] avutils/hwcontext: When
> deriving a hwdevice, search for existing device in both directions
> 
> On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 04:19 +0000, Soft Works wrote:
> > The test /libavutil/tests/hwdevice checks that when deriving a
> device
> > from a source device and then deriving back to the type of the
> source
> > device, the result is matching the original source device, i.e. the
> > derivation mechanism doesn't create a new device in this case.
> >
> > Previously, this test was usually passed, but only due to two
> different
> > kind of flaws:
> >
> > 1. The test covers only a single level of derivation (and back)
> >
> > It derives device Y from device X and then Y back to the type of X
> and
> > checks whether the result matches X.
> >
> > What it doesn't check for, are longer chains of derivation like:
> >
> > CUDA1 > OpenCL2 > CUDA3 and then back to OpenCL4
> >
> > In that case, the second derivation returns the first device (CUDA3
> ==
> > CUDA1), but when deriving OpenCL4, hwcontext.c was creating a new
> > OpenCL4 context instead of returning OpenCL2, because there was no
> link
> > from CUDA1 to OpenCL2 (only backwards from OpenCL2 to CUDA1)
> >
> > If the test would check for two levels of derivation, it would have
> > failed.
> >
> > This patch fixes those (yet untested) cases by introducing forward
> > references (derived_device) in addition to the existing back
> references
> > (source_device).
> >
> > 2. hwcontext_qsv didn't properly set the source_device
> >
> > In case of QSV, hwcontext_qsv creates a source context internally
> > (vaapi, dxva2 or d3d11va) without calling
> av_hwdevice_ctx_create_derived
> > and without setting source_device.
> >
> > This way, the hwcontext test ran successful, but what practically
> > happened, was that - for example - deriving vaapi from qsv didn't
> return
> > the original underlying vaapi device and a new one was created
> instead:
> > Exactly what the test is intended to detect and prevent. It just
> > couldn't do so, because the original device was hidden (= not set
> as the
> > source_device of the QSV device).
> >
> > This patch properly makes these setting and fixes all derivation
> > scenarios.
> >
> > (at a later stage, /libavutil/tests/hwdevice should be extended to
> check
> > longer derivation chains as well)
> >
> > Signed-off-by: softworkz <softworkz at hotmail.com>
> > ---
> > v3: avoid double-release as suggested by Haihao
> >
> >  libavutil/hwcontext.c          | 38
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  libavutil/hwcontext.h          |  1 +
> >  libavutil/hwcontext_internal.h |  6 ++++++
> >  libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c      | 16 ++++++++++----
> >  4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libavutil/hwcontext.c b/libavutil/hwcontext.c
> > index 31c7840dba..1a50635018 100644
> > --- a/libavutil/hwcontext.c
> > +++ b/libavutil/hwcontext.c
> > @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static const AVClass hwdevice_ctx_class = {
> >  static void hwdevice_ctx_free(void *opaque, uint8_t *data)
> >  {
> >      AVHWDeviceContext *ctx = (AVHWDeviceContext*)data;
> > +    int i;
> >
> >      /* uninit might still want access the hw context and the user
> >       * free() callback might destroy it, so uninit has to be
> called first */
> > @@ -132,6 +133,8 @@ static void hwdevice_ctx_free(void *opaque,
> uint8_t *data)
> >          ctx->free(ctx);
> >
> >      av_buffer_unref(&ctx->internal->source_device);
> > +    for (i = 0; i < AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_NB; i++)
> > +        av_buffer_unref(&ctx->internal->derived_devices[i]);
> >
> >      av_freep(&ctx->hwctx);
> >      av_freep(&ctx->internal->priv);
> > @@ -643,6 +646,26 @@ fail:
> >      return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +static AVBufferRef* find_derived_hwdevice_ctx(AVBufferRef
> *src_ref, enum
> > AVHWDeviceType type)
> > +{
> > +    AVBufferRef *tmp_ref;
> > +    AVHWDeviceContext *src_ctx;
> > +    int i;
> > +
> > +    src_ctx = (AVHWDeviceContext*)src_ref->data;
> > +    if (src_ctx->type == type)
> > +        return src_ref;
> > +
> > +    for (i = 0; i < AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_NB; i++)
> > +        if (src_ctx->internal->derived_devices[i]) {
> > +            tmp_ref = find_derived_hwdevice_ctx(src_ctx->internal-
> > >derived_devices[i], type);
> > +            if (tmp_ref)
> > +                return tmp_ref;
> > +        }
> > +
> > +    return NULL;
> > +}
> > +
> >  int av_hwdevice_ctx_create_derived_opts(AVBufferRef **dst_ref_ptr,
> >                                          enum AVHWDeviceType type,
> >                                          AVBufferRef *src_ref,
> > @@ -666,6 +689,16 @@ int
> av_hwdevice_ctx_create_derived_opts(AVBufferRef
> > **dst_ref_ptr,
> >          tmp_ref = tmp_ctx->internal->source_device;
> >      }
> >
> > +    tmp_ref = find_derived_hwdevice_ctx(src_ref, type);
> > +    if (tmp_ref) {
> > +        dst_ref = av_buffer_ref(tmp_ref);
> > +        if (!dst_ref) {
> > +            ret = AVERROR(ENOMEM);
> > +            goto fail;
> > +        }
> > +        goto done;
> > +    }
> > +
> >      dst_ref = av_hwdevice_ctx_alloc(type);
> >      if (!dst_ref) {
> >          ret = AVERROR(ENOMEM);
> > @@ -687,6 +720,11 @@ int
> av_hwdevice_ctx_create_derived_opts(AVBufferRef
> > **dst_ref_ptr,
> >                      ret = AVERROR(ENOMEM);
> >                      goto fail;
> >                  }
> > +                tmp_ctx->internal->derived_devices[type] =
> > av_buffer_ref(dst_ref);
> > +                if (!tmp_ctx->internal->derived_devices[type]) {
> > +                    ret = AVERROR(ENOMEM);
> > +                    goto fail;
> > +                }
> >                  ret = av_hwdevice_ctx_init(dst_ref);
> >                  if (ret < 0)
> >                      goto fail;
> > diff --git a/libavutil/hwcontext.h b/libavutil/hwcontext.h
> > index 04d19d89c2..56077963e6 100644
> > --- a/libavutil/hwcontext.h
> > +++ b/libavutil/hwcontext.h
> > @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ enum AVHWDeviceType {
> >      AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_OPENCL,
> >      AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_MEDIACODEC,
> >      AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_VULKAN,
> > +    AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_NB,          ///< number of hw device types
> >  };
> >
> >  typedef struct AVHWDeviceInternal AVHWDeviceInternal;
> > diff --git a/libavutil/hwcontext_internal.h
> b/libavutil/hwcontext_internal.h
> > index e6266494ac..f6fb67c491 100644
> > --- a/libavutil/hwcontext_internal.h
> > +++ b/libavutil/hwcontext_internal.h
> > @@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ struct AVHWDeviceInternal {
> >       * context it was derived from.
> >       */
> >      AVBufferRef *source_device;
> > +
> > +    /**
> > +     * An array of reference to device contexts which
> > +     * were derived from this device.
> > +     */
> > +    AVBufferRef *derived_devices[AV_HWDEVICE_TYPE_NB];
> >  };
> >
> >  struct AVHWFramesInternal {
> > diff --git a/libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c b/libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c
> > index c18747f7eb..7b559e2b47 100644
> > --- a/libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c
> > +++ b/libavutil/hwcontext_qsv.c
> > @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static void qsv_frames_uninit(AVHWFramesContext
> *ctx)
> >      av_buffer_unref(&s->child_frames_ref);
> >  }
> >
> > -static void qsv_pool_release_dummy(void *opaque, uint8_t *data)
> > +static void qsv_release_dummy(void *opaque, uint8_t *data)
> >  {
> >  }
> >
> > @@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ static AVBufferRef *qsv_pool_alloc(void
> *opaque, size_t
> > size)
> >      if (s->nb_surfaces_used < hwctx->nb_surfaces) {
> >          s->nb_surfaces_used++;
> >          av_buffer_create((uint8_t*)(s->handle_pairs_internal + s-
> > >nb_surfaces_used - 1),
> > -                                sizeof(*s->handle_pairs_internal),
> > qsv_pool_release_dummy, NULL, 0);
> > +                                sizeof(*s->handle_pairs_internal),
> > qsv_release_dummy, NULL, 0);
> >          return av_buffer_create((uint8_t*)(s->surfaces_internal +
> s-
> > >nb_surfaces_used - 1),
> > -                                sizeof(*hwctx->surfaces),
> > qsv_pool_release_dummy, NULL, 0);
> > +                                sizeof(*hwctx->surfaces),
> qsv_release_dummy,
> > NULL, 0);
> >      }
> >
> >      return NULL;
> > @@ -1528,8 +1528,16 @@ static int
> qsv_device_create(AVHWDeviceContext *ctx,
> > const char *device,
> >      child_device = (AVHWDeviceContext*)priv->child_device_ctx-
> >data;
> >
> >      impl = choose_implementation(device, child_device_type);
> > +    ret = qsv_device_derive_from_child(ctx, impl, child_device,
> 0);
> > +    if (ret >= 0) {
> > +        ctx->internal->source_device = av_buffer_ref(priv-
> >child_device_ctx);
> > +        child_device->internal->derived_devices[ctx->type] =
> > av_buffer_create((uint8_t*)ctx, sizeof(*ctx), qsv_release_dummy,
> ctx, 0);
> > +        if (!child_device->internal->derived_devices[ctx->type]) {
> > +            return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
> > +        }
> > +    }
> >
> > -    return qsv_device_derive_from_child(ctx, impl, child_device,
> 0);
> > +    return ret;
> >  }
> >
> >  const HWContextType ff_hwcontext_type_qsv = {
> 
> LGTM,
> 
> -Haihao

@Hendrik: You had some concerns regarding the initial version, which I have
addressed. Could you please check whether it looks good to you now?

@Wenbin, @Xu: Could you confirm whether this patch eliminates the need for 
the other workarounds you currently have in place on cartwheel?

For making things work like "qsv->vaapi->vulkan->vaapi->qsv pipeline"
(https://github.com/intel-media-ci/cartwheel-ffmpeg/commit/564169857f552d585f827dbc1387b6abf6526139)

@Lynne, @haasm, @Wu: This patch might also be relevant for working Vulkan
context derivation as it prevents the creation of new hardware contexts 
in non-trivial derivation chains.

I think this patch is essential for properly working with derived hw contexts
and I'd be glad to hear some more thoughts about it.

Thanks,
softworkz



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