We may be without a context to perform various internal blitter
operations, for example when performing object migration. Piggybacking
off the kernel_context is probably a bad idea, since it has other uses.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Auld <matthew.a...@intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahti...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janul...@linux.intel.com>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 2 ++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c | 13 +++++++++++++
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
index feec3bab0f5f..5b39af57c36c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
@@ -1544,6 +1544,8 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
struct intel_engine_cs *engine[I915_NUM_ENGINES];
/* Context used internally to idle the GPU and setup initial state */
struct i915_gem_context *kernel_context;
+ /* Context used internally for various blitting operations */
+ struct i915_gem_context *blitter_context;
/* Context only to be used for injecting preemption commands */
struct i915_gem_context *preempt_context;
struct intel_engine_cs *engine_class[MAX_ENGINE_CLASS + 1]
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
index 280813a4bf82..e814030dd89a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_context.c
@@ -583,6 +583,18 @@ int i915_gem_contexts_init(struct drm_i915_private
*dev_priv)
GEM_BUG_ON(!atomic_read(&ctx->hw_id_pin_count));
dev_priv->kernel_context = ctx;
+ ctx = i915_gem_context_create_kernel(dev_priv, I915_PRIORITY_NORMAL);
+ if (IS_ERR(ctx)) {
+ DRM_ERROR("Failed to create blitter global context\n");
+ return PTR_ERR(ctx);
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * XXX: one idea here is do s/kernel_context/idle_context/, then use the
+ * kernel_context for doing things like blitting...
+ */
+ dev_priv->blitter_context = ctx;
+
/* highest priority; preempting task */
if (needs_preempt_context(dev_priv)) {
ctx = i915_gem_context_create_kernel(dev_priv, INT_MAX);
@@ -615,6 +627,7 @@ void i915_gem_contexts_fini(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
if (i915->preempt_context)
destroy_kernel_context(&i915->preempt_context);
+ destroy_kernel_context(&i915->blitter_context);
destroy_kernel_context(&i915->kernel_context);
/* Must free all deferred contexts (via flush_workqueue) first */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c
index f8901cd12180..0b59246c99c8 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/selftests/mock_gem_device.c
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ struct drm_i915_private *mock_gem_device(void)
if (!i915->engine[RCS])
goto err_context;
+ i915->blitter_context = mock_context(i915, NULL);
+ if (!i915->blitter_context)
+ goto err_context;
+
mutex_unlock(&i915->drm.struct_mutex);
WARN_ON(i915_gemfs_init(i915));
--
2.20.1
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