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Commit 63fd659f authored by Chris Wilson's avatar Chris Wilson
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drm/i915/gtt: Pull global wc page stash under its own locking



Currently, the wc-stash used for providing flushed WC pages ready for
constructing the page directories is assumed to be protected by the
struct_mutex. However, we want to remove this global lock and so must
install a replacement global lock for accessing the global wc-stash (the
per-vm stash continues to be guarded by the vm).

We need to push ahead on this patch due to an oversight in hastily
removing the struct_mutex guard around the igt_ppgtt_alloc selftest. No
matter, it will prove very useful (i.e. will be required) in the near
future.

v2: Restore the onstack stash so that we can drop the vm->mutex in
future across the allocation.
v3: Restore the lost pagevec_init of the onstack allocation, and repaint
function names.
v4: Reorder init so that we don't try and use i915_address_space before
it is ininitialised.

Fixes: 1f6f0023 ("drm/i915/selftests: Drop struct_mutex around lowlevel pggtt allocation")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180704185518.4193-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
parent 16659bc5
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