kernel_samsung_msm8974/Documentation/arm/msm/tspp.txt

Introduction
============
The TSPP (Transport stream packet processor) is a hardware accelerator
designed to process MPEG2 TS (transport stream) data. It is mainly used for
broadcast terrestrial services to off-load the host CPU from real-time
sensitive TS processing for high bandwidth streams (~20Mbps). Data is received
either via TSIF (Transport stream interface) or system memory.
The TSPP driver manages the TSIF 12Seg HW core, which consists of a TSPP, a
BAM (Bus access manager, used for DMA) and two TSIF inputs.
It is applicable to the TSIF 12Seg core found on select Qualcomm MSM chips.

For more information on the TSIF interface, please refer to TSIF documentation
(Documentation/arm/msm/tsif.txt).
For more information on the BAM interface, please refer to SPS documentation
(Documentation/dma/sps/sps_architecture.txt).

Hardware description
====================
The TSPP unit expands the capabilities of the TSIF interface by adding MPEG2
stream processing such as:
	- Elementary Stream PID filtering and de-multiplexing
	- Several TSP processing operation modes:
		- TSP Raw processing (with or w/o suffix)
		- TSP PES assembly
	- Error handling
	- Multi2 decryption

    +-------------+  +------+
  +>|ARM subsystem|  |Memory|
  | +-------------+  +------+
  |        |            |
 I|        |            |
 R|  ========================== System bus
 Q|             |
 s|             |  TSIF 12Seg
  | +-----------------------+
  | |  +---+                |
  | |  |BAM|                |
  | |  +---+                |  GPIOs
  | |    |        +------+--|-------- TSIF 0 clk
  | |  +----+     |TSIF 0|--|-------- TSIF 0 data
  +-|  |    |-----+------+--|-------- TSIF 0 en
    |  |TSPP|               |
    |  |    |-----+------+--|-------- TSIF 1 clk
    |  +----+     |TSIF 1|--|-------- TSIF 1 data
    |             +------+--|-------- TSIF 1 en
    +-----------------------+

   The TSPP unit receives an MPEG2 transport stream either via the two TSIF
	interfaces, or via system memory.
   It uses the BAM interface to transfer data to and from system memory.
   The ARM subsystem receives interrupts on various error conditions from TSPP
   and TSIF units, and on data transfer events from the BAM.

Software Description
====================
The TSPP driver is responsible for:
 - TSPP/TSIF hardware configuration (using SPS driver to configure BAM
   hardware)
 - TSIF GPIO/Clocks configuration
 - Memory resource management
 - Handling TSIF/TSPP interrupts and BAM events
 - TSPP Power management

TSPP Terminology
----------------
Device - the TSPP hardware instance
  - the device contains many streams
Stream: All data that is received from a particular TS packet source
  - For example, MPEG2 Transport Stream from TSIF0
  - A stream can consist of many channels
Channel: A channel routes part of a stream to a specified memory location
  - For example, video and audio can be routed to different memory locations
    using different channels
  - Channel contents are defined by filters
Filter: Enables TS packet filtering and routing according to PID (packet ID)
  - The decision regarding which PIDs in the stream will be routed to a
    channel is done via filters
  - Several filters can be registered to the same channel
  - Filters can pass TS packets as-is (Raw mode) or assemble them into PES
    packets (PES mode)
  - Groups of contiguous PIDs can be filtered together (i.e. PSI/SI 0x0-0x2F,
    1Seg PMTs 0x1FC8-0x1FCF)
  - Filters can be used to discard packets (e.g. eliminate processing of
    unwanted channels)

Init flow:
----------
Driver registers BAM (via SPS driver) and initializes TSIF/TSPP hardware.

Control path:
-------------
1. Client opens a TSPP stream and channel
2. Client notifies the driver of the source stream (TSIF0/TSIF1/Memory)
  - TSPP driver allocates memory for the channel (circular buffer)
  - As the amount of memory varies according to stream bandwidth (which the
    driver doesn't know), a client can hint to the driver about the required
	 memory or stream bandwidth
  - TSPP driver configures TSIF/BAM hardware according to selected stream
3. Client notifies the driver to filter a set of PIDs for the selected channel
  - TSPP driver configures TSPP hardware filters accordingly
4. Client can now read data received from the selected channel

Optional: Scrambling keys can be configured for a filter to decrypt Multi2
encrypted streams.  The scrambling keys are received encrypted in-stream every
~2 seconds. The client uses a smart card and master key to decrypt the
received scrambling keys.  The master key remains inside the smart card and is
never revealed to software.

Conceptual flow:
Client                  TSPP Driver                 SPS Driver         Hardware
 |                           |                           |                   |
 |                           | Init TSIF/TSPP            |                   |
 |                           |---------------------------|------------------>|
 |                           | Register BAM              |                   |
 |                           |-------------------------->|                   |
 |                           |                           |                   |
 | open(tspp.5)              |                           |                   |
 |-------------------------->|                           |                   |
 | ioctl(tspp.5,SOURCE,TSIF0)|                           |                   |
 |-------------------------->|                           |                   |
 |                           | buff[0..N] = alloc()      |                   |
 |                           |---------->                |                   |
 |                           | Connect(TSPP,MEM)         |                   |
 |                           |-------------------------->|                   |
 |                           | Transfer(buff[0..N])      |                   |
 |                           |-------------------------->|                   |
 |                           |                           |                   |
 |                           | Configure TSIF0           |                   |
 |                           |---------------------------|------------------>|
 |                           |                           |                   |
 | ioctl(tspp.5,FILTER,pid)  |                           |                   |
 |-------------------------->|                           |                   |
 |                           | Configure TSPP filters    |                   |
 |                           |---------------------------|------------------>|
 |                           |                           |                   |
 |                           |                           |               INT |
 |                           |                           |<------------------|
 |                           |       notify(EOT,buff[x]) |                   |
 |                           |<--------------------------|                   |
 |                           | Transfer(buff[y])         |                   |
 |                           |-------------------------->|                   |
 |                           |                           |                   |
 | read(tspp.5)              |                           |                   |
 |-------------------------->|                           |                   |
 |                           |                           |                   |


Data path:
----------
The TSPP driver is not involved in data transfer, other than managing the
circular buffer pointers when a transfer is complete.  Data loss can occur if
a client cannot keep up with stream bandwidth.
The driver does not notify the application if there is data loss.  It is
assumed that the application will read data when the data is ready, and when
the application is able.

API
===
int tspp_open_stream(u32 dev, u32 channel, struct tspp_select_source *source);
int tspp_close_stream(u32 dev, u32 channel);
int tspp_open_channel(u32 dev, u32 channel);
int tspp_close_channelu(32 dev, u32 channel);
int tspp_add_filter(u32 dev, u32 channel, struct tspp_filter *filter);
int tspp_remove_filter(u32 dev, u32 channel, struct tspp_filter *filter);

Refer to chrdev implementation in kernel/drivers/misc/tspp.c for an example of
how to use this api.

Each stream is represented by a chrdev device
16 available devices: /dev/tspp00 - /dev/tspp15
Each device implements these functions:
open()
close()
read()
ioctl()

ioctl() contains several sub-functions:
0: select source
1: add filter
2: remove filter
3: set decryption keys
4: set initial cbc values (IV)
5: set system keys
6: set buffer size

You can refer to include/linux/tspp.h for the details on the structures
associated with these IOCTL calls.

Design
======
Design is based on the existing TSIF driver, with added control functionality
for the extra hardware features.

Power Management
===============
TSPP driver prevents MSM from sleeping while TSPP hardware is active.
To achieve this, the driver holds the wake lock.  When no channels are
configured to receive data, the driver stops the clocks to save power.
It will register for suspend/resume in the future.

SMP/multi-core
==============
Driver is fully SMP aware.

Performance
===========
Control flows are rare.
Data path only involves maintaining the circular buffer pointers.

Interface
=========
Driver exposes a char device interface to user-space for each channel.
Control transactions are performed via ioctl on the channel. Data is read as
any regular char device (blocking and non-blocking).  Please see sequence
under software description for more info.

Debugfs may be used for debug purposes.  Through debugfs, all of the TSIF
registers can be accessed under /sys/kernel/debug/tsif0 and tsif1.  The
TSPP registers are found under /sys/kernel/debug/tspp0.  If you cannot
see these devices, then either the driver has been built without debugfs
support (check the define TSPP_USE_DEBUGFS in tspp.c) or the debugfs has
not been mounted correctly (or mounted in a different location).

Driver Parameters
=================
TSPP driver has target-specific parameters:
- Memory base addresses for TSIF/TSPP/BAM
- TSIF/TSPP/BAM IRQ numbers
- TSIF GPIO numbers

Config Options
==============
To enable the driver, set CONFIG_TSPP (=y or =m) in the appropriate
config file for the platform.

Dependencies
============
The TSPP driver depends on the SPS driver to configure BAM hardware.

User space utilities
====================
The TSPP test suite can be found in:
vendor/qcom/proprietary/kernel-tests/tspp

Known Issues
============
Currently PES processing mode cannot be configured for streams in which the PES
length is 0. This is a HW limitation.