drm/i915: Allow contexts to be unreferenced locklessly

If we move the actual cleanup of the context to a worker, we can allow
the final free to be called from any context and avoid undue latency in
the caller.

v2: Negotiate handling the delayed contexts free by flushing the
workqueue before calling i915_gem_context_fini() and performing the final
free of the kernel context directly
v3: Flush deferred frees before new context allocations

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170620110547.15947-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 36585b6e3718..fe3d46ee4ddc 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -585,6 +585,8 @@ static const struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops i915_switcheroo_ops = {
 
 static void i915_gem_fini(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 {
+	flush_workqueue(dev_priv->wq);
+
 	mutex_lock(&dev_priv->drm.struct_mutex);
 	intel_uc_fini_hw(dev_priv);
 	i915_gem_cleanup_engines(dev_priv);