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    "msgid": "<20210928122515.28034-1-jacopo@jmondi.org>",
    "date": "2021-09-28T12:25:14",
    "name": "[libcamera-devel,v3,0/1] android: Wait on acquisition fences in CameraStream",
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        "From": "Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Date": "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:25:14 +0200",
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        "Subject": "[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v3 0/1] android: Wait on acquisition\n\tfences in CameraStream",
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    "content": "An acquisition fence is associated to each camera3_stream_buffer_t part of a\ncapture request.\n\nStreams generated by libcamera (Type::Direct) are queued to the\nlibcamera::Camera and their fences are waited on by the CameraWorker class.\n\nAcquisition fences for Streams generated by post-processing have been so far\nignored and the fence was not closed, resulting in a leak that crashed the\ncamera service with:\n\n FATAL FileDescriptor file_descriptor.cpp:265 Failed to dup() fd: Too many open files\n\nFix this by instrumenting CameraStream to handle fences in the process()\nfunction.\n\nv3:\n- Squash the two patches in one\n- Set acquire_fence = -1 in post-processor\n- Correct handling of buffer status in CameraDevice::requestCompleted()\n\nv2:\n- Handle ::Internal stream type and shuffle the patch order as suggested by\n  Hiro.\n\nJacopo Mondi (1):\n  android: Wait on fences in CameraStream::process()\n\n src/android/camera_device.cpp | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++----\n src/android/camera_stream.cpp | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--\n src/android/camera_stream.h   |  4 ++-\n 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)\n\n--\n2.32.0"
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