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daedalus-v4l2/kernel/daedalus_v4l2_chardev.c
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marfrit 895f57c63a Phase 8.2: kernel ↔ daemon chardev bridge with round-trip test
Adds /dev/daedalus-v4l2 misc chardev to the kernel module. The
chardev is the IPC channel for the future userspace decoder
daemon: kernel enqueues REQ_* messages, daemon read()s them,
processes, write()s RESP_* back.

Wire protocol (pre-1.0, header in include/daedalus_v4l2_proto.h):
- struct daedalus_msg_hdr: magic (D04V) + version + type +
  cookie + payload_len + reserved
- Request/response separated by high bit of type field
- Max 64 KiB payload per message
- Cookie correlates request with matching response

Kernel implementation (kernel/daedalus_v4l2_chardev.{c,h}):
- Single-instance chardev (-EBUSY on second open)
- In-kernel FIFO bounded at 64 messages
- Blocking + non-blocking read; poll() with EPOLLIN on queued
- write() parses + validates header, logs response at pr_debug
- Bad magic → -EBADMSG, bad version → -EPROTO, oversize → -EMSGSIZE
- All error paths free resources

Phase 8.2 test trigger via debugfs:
- /sys/kernel/debug/daedalus_v4l2/test_ping — any byte
  enqueues a PING with a fixed 24-byte payload. Removed in
  Phase 8.4 when real REQ_DECODE from V4L2 path takes over.

Userspace verification tool (tools/test_chardev_pingpong.c):
- Real C program, proper error reporting via strerror
- Validates the 6-step round-trip: open → empty-queue EAGAIN →
  trigger ping → read PING → verify all fields → write PONG → close
- Builds with -Wall -Wextra clean

Verification on hertz (Pi 5, 6.12.75+rpt-rpi-2712):
  $ sudo insmod daedalus_v4l2.ko
  $ sudo tools/test_chardev_pingpong
  opening /dev/daedalus-v4l2...
    non-blocking read on empty queue: EAGAIN ✓
    injected PING via debugfs ✓
    read PING: magic ✓ version ✓ type=PING ✓ cookie=0x1234 ✓ payload=24 bytes
      payload: "DAEDALUS-V4L2-PING-PL"
    wrote PONG (cookie=0x1234) ✓
  ALL TESTS PASSED.
  $ sudo rmmod daedalus_v4l2      # clean

Per correctness-before-speed: full kerneldoc on structs, 8-tab
kernel style, SPDX headers, proper error paths, real test
program (not "I ran it once"), failure-mode coverage documented.

Phase 8.3 next: userspace daemon with dlopen'd FFmpeg parse path.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-18 15:05:54 +00:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
/*
* daedalus-v4l2 — kernel ↔ daemon chardev bridge.
*
* Exposes /dev/daedalus-v4l2 (a misc-class character device)
* for the userspace daemon to attach to. Single-instance:
* only one open file at a time. Blocking read() pulls the next
* request from a kernel-side FIFO; write() submits a response.
*
* Phase 8.2 scope: PING request handling — the daemon writes a
* PONG response to a PING request that arrives via read(). In
* Phase 8.2 the kernel injects test PING requests itself via a
* debugfs trigger (no V4L2 ioctl flow yet); Phase 8.4 wires
* real DECODE requests from the V4L2 path.
*/
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include "daedalus_v4l2_proto.h"
#include "daedalus_v4l2_chardev.h"
#define DAEDALUS_CHARDEV_NAME "daedalus-v4l2"
/* Cap the number of pending requests so a stuck daemon can't OOM us. */
#define DAEDALUS_QUEUE_MAX 64
/**
* struct daedalus_chardev_msg - in-kernel queued message
* @list: queue linkage
* @hdr: wire header
* @payload: payload bytes; size = hdr.payload_len
*/
struct daedalus_chardev_msg {
struct list_head list;
struct daedalus_msg_hdr hdr;
u8 *payload;
};
/**
* struct daedalus_chardev - per-singleton chardev state
* @misc: misc-class device registration
* @open_lock: serialises open()/release()
* @opened: non-zero when the chardev is currently open
* @req_lock: protects @req_queue / @req_count
* @req_queue: list of pending REQ_* messages waiting for daemon read()
* @req_count: current number of queued requests
* @req_wait: read() blocks here until a request arrives
*/
struct daedalus_chardev {
struct miscdevice misc;
struct mutex open_lock;
int opened;
struct mutex req_lock;
struct list_head req_queue;
int req_count;
wait_queue_head_t req_wait;
struct dentry *debugfs_dir;
};
static struct daedalus_chardev *g_chardev;
/* -- internal helpers ------------------------------------------------ */
static struct daedalus_chardev_msg *
daedalus_chardev_dequeue_locked(struct daedalus_chardev *dev)
{
struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg;
if (list_empty(&dev->req_queue))
return NULL;
msg = list_first_entry(&dev->req_queue,
struct daedalus_chardev_msg, list);
list_del(&msg->list);
dev->req_count--;
return msg;
}
static void daedalus_chardev_msg_free(struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg)
{
if (!msg)
return;
kfree(msg->payload);
kfree(msg);
}
int daedalus_chardev_enqueue_req(u32 type, u32 cookie,
const void *payload, size_t payload_len)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = g_chardev;
struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg;
if (!dev)
return -ENODEV;
if (payload_len > DAEDALUS_PROTO_MAX_PAYLOAD)
return -EMSGSIZE;
if (type & 0x80000000u) /* responses don't get queued here */
return -EINVAL;
msg = kzalloc(sizeof(*msg), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msg)
return -ENOMEM;
if (payload_len) {
msg->payload = kmemdup(payload, payload_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!msg->payload) {
kfree(msg);
return -ENOMEM;
}
}
msg->hdr.magic = DAEDALUS_PROTO_MAGIC;
msg->hdr.version = DAEDALUS_PROTO_VERSION;
msg->hdr.type = type;
msg->hdr.cookie = cookie;
msg->hdr.payload_len = (u32) payload_len;
msg->hdr.reserved = 0;
mutex_lock(&dev->req_lock);
if (dev->req_count >= DAEDALUS_QUEUE_MAX) {
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
return -ENOSPC;
}
list_add_tail(&msg->list, &dev->req_queue);
dev->req_count++;
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
wake_up_interruptible(&dev->req_wait);
return 0;
}
/* -- file operations ------------------------------------------------- */
static int daedalus_chardev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = g_chardev;
mutex_lock(&dev->open_lock);
if (dev->opened) {
mutex_unlock(&dev->open_lock);
return -EBUSY;
}
dev->opened = 1;
mutex_unlock(&dev->open_lock);
file->private_data = dev;
return 0;
}
static int daedalus_chardev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = file->private_data;
struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg;
mutex_lock(&dev->req_lock);
while ((msg = daedalus_chardev_dequeue_locked(dev)) != NULL) {
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
mutex_lock(&dev->req_lock);
}
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
mutex_lock(&dev->open_lock);
dev->opened = 0;
mutex_unlock(&dev->open_lock);
return 0;
}
static ssize_t daedalus_chardev_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = file->private_data;
struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg;
size_t total;
int ret;
if (count < sizeof(struct daedalus_msg_hdr))
return -EINVAL;
for (;;) {
mutex_lock(&dev->req_lock);
msg = daedalus_chardev_dequeue_locked(dev);
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
if (msg)
break;
if (file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK)
return -EAGAIN;
ret = wait_event_interruptible(dev->req_wait,
dev->req_count > 0);
if (ret)
return ret;
}
total = sizeof(msg->hdr) + msg->hdr.payload_len;
if (count < total) {
/*
* Requeue so the caller can retry with a bigger buffer.
* Re-enqueue at HEAD to preserve FIFO order.
*/
mutex_lock(&dev->req_lock);
list_add(&msg->list, &dev->req_queue);
dev->req_count++;
mutex_unlock(&dev->req_lock);
return -EMSGSIZE;
}
if (copy_to_user(buf, &msg->hdr, sizeof(msg->hdr))) {
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
return -EFAULT;
}
if (msg->hdr.payload_len &&
copy_to_user(buf + sizeof(msg->hdr), msg->payload,
msg->hdr.payload_len)) {
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
return -EFAULT;
}
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
return total;
}
static ssize_t daedalus_chardev_write(struct file *file,
const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
struct daedalus_msg_hdr hdr;
u8 *payload = NULL;
size_t expected;
if (count < sizeof(hdr))
return -EINVAL;
if (copy_from_user(&hdr, buf, sizeof(hdr)))
return -EFAULT;
if (hdr.magic != DAEDALUS_PROTO_MAGIC)
return -EBADMSG;
if (hdr.version != DAEDALUS_PROTO_VERSION)
return -EPROTO;
if (hdr.payload_len > DAEDALUS_PROTO_MAX_PAYLOAD)
return -EMSGSIZE;
expected = sizeof(hdr) + hdr.payload_len;
if (count < expected)
return -EINVAL;
if (hdr.payload_len) {
payload = kmalloc(hdr.payload_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!payload)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(payload, buf + sizeof(hdr),
hdr.payload_len)) {
kfree(payload);
return -EFAULT;
}
}
/*
* Phase 8.2 handling: log the response type. Phase 8.4
* will wire RESP_FRAME etc. to the V4L2 buffer queue.
*/
pr_debug("daedalus_v4l2: chardev got response type=0x%08x cookie=%u plen=%u\n",
hdr.type, hdr.cookie, hdr.payload_len);
kfree(payload);
return expected;
}
static __poll_t daedalus_chardev_poll(struct file *file,
struct poll_table_struct *wait)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = file->private_data;
__poll_t mask = EPOLLOUT | EPOLLWRNORM;
poll_wait(file, &dev->req_wait, wait);
if (READ_ONCE(dev->req_count) > 0)
mask |= EPOLLIN | EPOLLRDNORM;
return mask;
}
/*
* .llseek intentionally unset. The chardev is a streaming
* request/response channel; no positional semantics. Recent
* kernels removed `no_llseek`; leaving the slot NULL gets the
* generic "no-op or -ESPIPE" behaviour the v6.12+ vfs picks.
*/
static const struct file_operations daedalus_chardev_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.open = daedalus_chardev_open,
.release = daedalus_chardev_release,
.read = daedalus_chardev_read,
.write = daedalus_chardev_write,
.poll = daedalus_chardev_poll,
};
/* -- debugfs test trigger (Phase 8.2 only) --------------------------- */
/*
* Writing any non-zero byte stream to
* /sys/kernel/debug/daedalus_v4l2/test_ping enqueues a PING
* request with a fixed 24-byte payload "DAEDALUS-V4L2-PING-PL\0\0\0".
* The userspace test daemon (tools/test_chardev_pingpong.c)
* then reads it back, sends PONG, and the kernel logs the
* round-trip at pr_debug level.
*
* Phase 8.4 replaces this with real REQ_DECODE injection from
* the V4L2 buffer-submit path; the debugfs entry can be removed
* then.
*/
static ssize_t daedalus_test_ping_write(struct file *file,
const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
static const char payload[24] = "DAEDALUS-V4L2-PING-PL";
int ret;
ret = daedalus_chardev_enqueue_req(DAEDALUS_MSG_PING, 0x1234u,
payload, sizeof(payload));
if (ret)
return ret;
return count;
}
static const struct file_operations daedalus_test_ping_fops = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.write = daedalus_test_ping_write,
};
/* -- registration ---------------------------------------------------- */
int daedalus_chardev_init(void)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev;
int ret;
dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev)
return -ENOMEM;
mutex_init(&dev->open_lock);
mutex_init(&dev->req_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->req_queue);
init_waitqueue_head(&dev->req_wait);
dev->misc.minor = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR;
dev->misc.name = DAEDALUS_CHARDEV_NAME;
dev->misc.fops = &daedalus_chardev_fops;
dev->misc.mode = 0660; /* root:video, like /dev/videoNN */
ret = misc_register(&dev->misc);
if (ret) {
kfree(dev);
return ret;
}
dev->debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("daedalus_v4l2", NULL);
if (!IS_ERR(dev->debugfs_dir))
debugfs_create_file("test_ping", 0200, dev->debugfs_dir,
NULL, &daedalus_test_ping_fops);
g_chardev = dev;
pr_info("daedalus_v4l2: /dev/%s registered\n", DAEDALUS_CHARDEV_NAME);
return 0;
}
void daedalus_chardev_exit(void)
{
struct daedalus_chardev *dev = g_chardev;
struct daedalus_chardev_msg *msg;
if (!dev)
return;
debugfs_remove_recursive(dev->debugfs_dir);
misc_deregister(&dev->misc);
while ((msg = list_first_entry_or_null(&dev->req_queue,
struct daedalus_chardev_msg,
list)) != NULL) {
list_del(&msg->list);
daedalus_chardev_msg_free(msg);
}
mutex_destroy(&dev->req_lock);
mutex_destroy(&dev->open_lock);
kfree(dev);
g_chardev = NULL;
}