libcamera: request: Provide a sequence number

Provide a sequence number on Requests which are added by the pipeline
handler.

Each pipeline handler keeps a requestSequence per CameraData and
increments everytime a request is queued on that camera.

The sequence number is associated with the Request and can be utilised
for assisting with debugging, and printing the queueing sequence of in
flight requests.

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/libcamera/request.cpp b/src/libcamera/request.cpp
index 3ad83f3b..5280b68c 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/request.cpp
+++ b/src/libcamera/request.cpp
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@ LOG_DEFINE_CATEGORY(Request)
  *
  */
 Request::Request(Camera *camera, uint64_t cookie)
-	: camera_(camera), cookie_(cookie), status_(RequestPending),
-	  cancelled_(false)
+	: camera_(camera), sequence_(0), cookie_(cookie),
+	  status_(RequestPending), cancelled_(false)
 {
 	/**
 	 * \todo Should the Camera expose a validator instance, to avoid
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ void Request::reuse(ReuseFlag flags)
 		bufferMap_.clear();
 	}
 
+	sequence_ = 0;
 	status_ = RequestPending;
 	cancelled_ = false;
 
@@ -228,6 +229,23 @@ FrameBuffer *Request::findBuffer(const Stream *stream) const
  */
 
 /**
+ * \fn Request::sequence()
+ * \brief Retrieve the sequence number for the request
+ *
+ * When requests are queued, they are given a sequential number to track the
+ * order in which requests are queued to a camera. This number counts all
+ * requests given to a camera through its lifetime, and is not reset to zero
+ * between camera stop/start sequences.
+ *
+ * It can be used to support debugging and identifying the flow of requests
+ * through a pipeline, but does not guarantee to represent the sequence number
+ * of any images in the stream. The sequence number is stored as an unsigned
+ * integer and will wrap when overflowed.
+ *
+ * \return The request sequence number
+ */
+
+/**
  * \fn Request::cookie()
  * \brief Retrieve the cookie set when the request was created
  * \return The request cookie