cam: event_loop: Add timer events to event loop

Extend the EventLoop class to support periodic timer events. This can be
used to run tasks periodically, such as handling the event loop of SDL.

Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin <ecurtin@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Tested-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/cam/event_loop.cpp b/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
index 2e3ce995..cb83845c 100644
--- a/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
+++ b/src/cam/event_loop.cpp
@@ -84,6 +84,30 @@ void EventLoop::addFdEvent(int fd, EventType type,
 	events_.push_back(std::move(event));
 }
 
+void EventLoop::addTimerEvent(const std::chrono::microseconds period,
+			      const std::function<void()> &callback)
+{
+	std::unique_ptr<Event> event = std::make_unique<Event>(callback);
+	event->event_ = event_new(base_, -1, EV_PERSIST, &EventLoop::Event::dispatch,
+				  event.get());
+	if (!event->event_) {
+		std::cerr << "Failed to create timer event" << std::endl;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	struct timeval tv;
+	tv.tv_sec = period.count() / 1000000ULL;
+	tv.tv_usec = period.count() % 1000000ULL;
+
+	int ret = event_add(event->event_, &tv);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		std::cerr << "Failed to add timer event" << std::endl;
+		return;
+	}
+
+	events_.push_back(std::move(event));
+}
+
 void EventLoop::dispatchCallback([[maybe_unused]] evutil_socket_t fd,
 				 [[maybe_unused]] short flags, void *param)
 {