drm/i915: simplify allocation of driver-internal requests
authorDave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:02:53 +0000 (19:02 +0000)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:21:29 +0000 (09:21 +0100)
commit26827088392196d0e8464dae599bd5ff9992cb82
tree4b8ff19116660e2b2b30ec515db5c029b88412e4
parente794129444aba459e9bedf5080bfb4605f933c32
drm/i915: simplify allocation of driver-internal requests

There are a number of places where the driver needs a request, but isn't
working on behalf of any specific user or in a specific context. At
present, we associate them with the per-engine default context. A future
patch will abolish those per-engine context pointers; but we can already
eliminate a lot of the references to them, just by making the allocator
allow NULL as a shorthand for "an appropriate context for this ring",
which will mean that the callers don't need to know anything about how
the "appropriate context" is found (e.g. per-ring vs per-device, etc).

So this patch renames the existing i915_gem_request_alloc(), and makes
it local (static inline), and replaces it with a wrapper that provides
a default if the context is NULL, and also has a nicer calling
convention (doesn't require a pointer to an output parameter). Then we
change all callers to use the new convention:
OLD:
err = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, user_ctx, &req);
if (err) ...
NEW:
req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, user_ctx);
if (IS_ERR(req)) ...
OLD:
err = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
if (err) ...
NEW:
req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
if (IS_ERR(req)) ...

v4: Rebased

Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Hoath <nicholas.hoath@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1453230175-19330-2-git-send-email-david.s.gordon@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_execbuffer.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c