Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 5 authors, 2025-08-17

Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] media: rkvdec: Add HEVC backend

From: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
Date: 2025-08-12 12:38:56
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Le mardi 12 août 2025 à 02:00 +0200, Jonas Karlman a écrit :
Hi Nicolas,

On 8/11/2025 11:52 PM, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
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Le dimanche 10 août 2025 à 21:24 +0000, Jonas Karlman a écrit :
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This series add a HEVC backend to the Rockchip Video Decoder driver.

With the dependent H.264 High 10 and 4:2:2 profile support series
finally merged there is finally time to send a v2 with minor changes and
a suggested code style fix of this series. v1 of this series has been
fully functional up until recent unstaging of the rkvdec driver.

A version of this HEVC backend has been in use by the LibreELEC distro
for the past 5+ years [1]. It was initially created based on a copy of
the H264 backend, unstable HEVC uAPI controls and a cabac table + scaling
matrix functions shamelessly copied 1:1 from the Rockchip mpp library.

It has since then been extended to use the stable HEVC uAPI controls and
improved opon e.g. to include support for rk3288 and fix decoding issues
by Alex Bee and Nicolas Dufresne.

The version submitted in this series is based on the code currently used
by the LibreELEC distro, excluding hard/soft reset, and with cabac table
and scaling matrix functions picked from Sebastian Fricke prior series
to add a HEVC backend [2].

Big thanks to Alex Bee, Nicolas Dufresne and Sebastian Fricke for making
this series possible!

Patch 1 add the new HEVC backend.
Patch 2-3 add variants support to the driver.
Patch 4 add support for a rk3288 variant.
Patch 5 add a rk3328 variant to work around hw quirks.
Patch 6-7 add device tree node for rk3288.

This was tested on a ROCK Pi 4 (RK3399) and Rock64 (RK3328):

  v4l2-compliance 1.30.1, 64 bits, 64-bit time_t
  ...
  Total for rkvdec device /dev/video1: 49, Succeeded: 49, Failed: 0, Warnings:
0

  Running test suite JCT-VC-HEVC_V1 with decoder FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request
  ...
  Ran 137/147 tests successfully
I've also tested RK3399 using Renegade Elite from Libre Computer, though with
GStreamer. My results for this suite is 134/147, with failing tests being:

- DBLK_D_VIXS_2
- DSLICE_A_HHI_5
- DELTAQP_A_BRCM_4
- EXT_A_ericsson_4
- PICSIZE_A_Bossen_1 (expected)
- PICSIZE_B_Bossen_1 (expected)
- PICSIZE_C_Bossen_1 (expected)
- PICSIZE_D_Bossen_1 (expected)
- SAODBLK_A_MainConcept_4
- SAODBLK_B_MainConcept_4
- TSUNEQBD_A_MAIN10_Technicolor_2 (expected)
- WPP_D_ericsson_MAIN10_2
- WPP_D_ericsson_MAIN_2

Please share your list, this seems big enough difference to be worth making sure
we did not diverge somewhere between both interpretation of the V4L2 spec.
GStreamer has been mostly tested with MTK driver so far. Can you also share a
link to the latest ffmpeg tree you are using (since its not upstream FFMPEG) ?
As mentioned in this cover letter the full fluster report can be found
at [3], and has links to the trees used to produce the raw report data,
have now also added some more details of versions used.
Missed that, sorry.
The tests from the report was running on a RK3399 Rock Pi 4B v1.5.

- Linux: 6.17-rc1 + patches
- fluster: 0.4.1 + patch
- FFmpeg: 7.1.1 + patches
- GStreamer: 1.27.1

JCT-VC-HEVC_V1 on GStreamer-H.265-V4L2SL-Gst1.0:

- DBLK_D_VIXS_2 (fail)
- DSLICE_A_HHI_5 (fail)
- EXT_A_ericsson_4 (fail)
- PICSIZE_A_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_B_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_C_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_D_Bossen_1 (error)
- SAODBLK_A_MainConcept_4 (fail)
- SAODBLK_B_MainConcept_4 (fail)
- TSUNEQBD_A_MAIN10_Technicolor_2 (error)

JCT-VC-HEVC_V1 on FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request:

- CONFWIN_A_Sony_1 (fail)
- EXT_A_ericsson_4 (fail)
- PICSIZE_A_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_B_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_C_Bossen_1 (error)
- PICSIZE_D_Bossen_1 (error)
- SAODBLK_A_MainConcept_4 (fail)
- SAODBLK_B_MainConcept_4 (fail)
- TSUNEQBD_A_MAIN10_Technicolor_2 (error)
- VPSSPSPPS_A_MainConcept_1 (error)

The WPP_*_ericsson_MAIN* samples get a mixed Fail/Success when running
the full test suite for FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request, however retrying them
individually they will eventually report Success. Not sure this is an
issue with FFmpeg or the driver, since they pass with GStreamer.

Interesting that DBLK_D_VIXS_2, DSLICE_A_HHI_5 and CONFWIN_A_Sony_1
consistently differs between GStreamer and FFmpeg.
Indeed, let's identify the differences in parameters. For CONFWIN though,
Benjamin implemented pretty much a hack in GStreamer to support it. This video
utilize the x,y coordinate of the conformance window, while maintaining the same
resolution during playback. This x/y coordinate is rarely used in real world, so
this shouldn't be a priority.

I think for both GStreamer and FFMPEG, the right way would be to signal the crop
over the padded area and leave it to some render filter handle it. For flake,
that's something to check, but also not really a blocker.
[3] https://gist.github.com/Kwiboo/bedf1f447b50921ffbe26cb99579582d
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Detlev reports 146/147 on newer hardware using GStreamer, failing
TSUNEQBD_A_MAIN10_Technicolor_2 (9bit chroma) only. On Detlev side, it will we
important to check why 8K videos (PICSIZE*) passes with a single core, perhaps
we accidently use both cores ?

Note, also expected, we failt JCT-VC-SCC, JCT-VC-MV-HEVC, and JCT-VC-RExt passes
2/49. This last suite is pretty new in fluster.
Following is the FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request result with this:

- JCT-VC-MV-HEVC 9/9
- JCT-VC-RExt 2/49
- JCT-VC-SCC 0/15
- JCT-VC-3D-HEVC 27/27
Nice we have the same for RExt, and glad we can do MVC and 3D without additional
control. These last two are simply not implemented in GStreamer. For SCC, we are
missing some information, and the hardware probably does not handle it.

cheers,
Nicolas
- JCT-VC-SHVC 1/69

Regards,
Jonas
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regards,
Nicolas
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  Running test suite JCT-VC-MV-HEVC with decoder FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request
  ...
  Ran 9/9 tests successfully

And on a TinkerBoard (RK3288):

  v4l2-compliance 1.30.1, 32 bits, 32-bit time_t
  ...
  Total for rkvdec device /dev/video3: 49, Succeeded: 49, Failed: 0, Warnings:
0

  Running test suite JCT-VC-HEVC_V1 with decoder FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request
  ...
  Ran 137/147 tests successfully

  Running test suite JCT-VC-MV-HEVC with decoder FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request
  ...
  Ran 9/9 tests successfully

The WPP_x_ericsson tests from test suite JCT-VC-HEVC_V1 has been showing
a mix of both Success and/or Fail result for FFmpeg-H.265-v4l2request.

Full summary of fluster run can be found at [3].

Please note that there is a known issue with concurrent decoding,
decoding errors in one decode session may affect a separate session.
The only known mitigation to this is to pause decoding for some time
and/or do a full HW reset, something to handle in future series.

Changes in v2:
- Rabase after h264 high10/422 merge and unstaging of rkvdec driver
- Use new_value in transpose_and_flatten_matrices()
- Add NULL check for ctrl->new_elems in rkvdec_hevc_run_preamble()
- Set RKVDEC_WR_DDR_ALIGN_EN for RK3328
- Adjust code style in rkvdec_enum_coded_fmt_desc()
- Collect a-b tag
- Drop merged vdec node reg size patches
Link to v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20231105233630.3927502-1-jonas@kwiboo.se (local)

[1]
https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/blob/master/projects/Rockchip/patches/linux/default/linux-2000-v4l2-wip-rkvdec-hevc.patch
[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/20230101-patch-series-v2-6-2-rc1-v2-0-fa1897efac14@collabora.com/ (local)
[3] https://gist.github.com/Kwiboo/bedf1f447b50921ffbe26cb99579582d

Alex Bee (4):
  media: rkvdec: Add variants support
  media: rkvdec: Add RK3288 variant
  media: rkvdec: Disable QoS for HEVC and VP9 on RK3328
  ARM: dts: rockchip: Add vdec node for RK3288

Jonas Karlman (3):
  media: rkvdec: Add HEVC backend
  media: rkvdec: Implement capability filtering
  media: dt-bindings: rockchip,vdec: Add RK3288 compatible

 .../bindings/media/rockchip,vdec.yaml         |    1 +
 arch/arm/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3288.dtsi        |   17 +-
 .../media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/Makefile   |    2 +-
 .../rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-hevc-data.c        | 1848 +++++++++++++++++
 .../platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-hevc.c    |  826 ++++++++
 .../platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-regs.h    |    4 +
 .../platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-vp9.c     |   10 +
 .../media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec.c   |  184 +-
 .../media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec.h   |   15 +
 9 files changed, 2886 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-hevc-data.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkvdec/rkvdec-hevc.c

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