[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/3] drm/i915: Allow contexts to be specified for unsupported rings

[Ben Widawsky]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 05:10:42PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 06:47:02PM +0300, Mika Kuoppala wrote:
> > From: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> > 
> > As our contexts are more general than the logical contexts supported by
> > the hardware, for instance they allow per context hangcheck tracking, it
> > is beneficial to group tasks across rings belonging to the same context.
> > Context switching is already a no-op for unsupported rings, we just
> > suffered from a little too overzealous parameter checking on entry - now
> > we just check that the context is valid.
> 
> We have to drop this temporarily as the validation was being provided by
> i915_gem_context_get_hang_stats(), which is now notably absent.
> -Chris
> 
> -- 
> Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre

I haven't been actively reading the list recently, but I have this same
patch in the PPGTT series. I'll make sure I get it upstream in my series
if you guys are okay with dropping it here.

-- 
Ben Widawsky, Intel Open Source Technology Center