[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v16 02/13] drm/i915: add syncobj timeline support

[Lionel Landwerlin]

On 10/09/2019 00:06, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Lionel Landwerlin (2019-09-09 10:31:05)
>> v9: After explanations on
>>      https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2019-August/229287.html
>>      drop the ordering check from v8 (Lionel)
> Designing an interface to be antirobust. Userspace shooting itself in
> the foot is fine; userspace breaking the kernel in the process, no.
> -Chris
>
How is that breaking the kernel?

Adding points out of order to the timeline just leads to more waiting.


-Lionel