As we did for the default Gralloc module, we will analyze the alloc and free methods in the GPU0 device. The alloc method is implemented in the gralloc_alloc function. The gralloc_alloc function is much longer than the one in the default Gralloc module, but it basically does three things:
- Checks the usage parameter and decides the pixel format to decide the size of the pixel.
- According to the information provided by the usage parameter, w, h, format, and usage create a shared memory region and allocate buffers in the host side (GPU).
- Stores both the shared memory region and host side (GPU) buffer information in the Gralloc device data structure grdev.
Now let's take a look at the code for gralloc_alloc:
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