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Commit 686c7c35 authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915/gem: Asynchronous cmdparser

Execute the cmdparser asynchronously as part of the submission pipeline.
Using our dma-fences, we can schedule execution after an asynchronous
piece of work, so we move the cmdparser out from under the struct_mutex
inside execbuf as run it as part of the submission pipeline. The same
security rules apply, we copy the user batch before validation and
userspace cannot touch the validation shadow. The only caveat is that we
will do request construction before we complete cmdparsing and so we
cannot know the outcome of the validation step until later -- so the
execbuf ioctl does not report -EINVAL directly, but we must cancel
execution of the request and flag the error on the out-fence.

Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/611
Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/issues/412


Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJoonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191211230858.599030-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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