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Commit 3ef71149 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915: Introduce i915_timeline.mutex



A simple mutex used for guarding the flow of requests in and out of the
timeline. In the short-term, it will be used only to guard the addition
of requests into the timeline, taken on alloc and released on commit so
that only one caller can construct a request into the timeline
(important as the seqno and ring pointers must be serialised). This will
be used by observers to ensure that the seqno/hwsp is stable. Later,
when we have reduced retiring to only operate on a single timeline at a
time, we can then use the mutex as the sole guard required for retiring.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190301110547.14758-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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