[Intel-gfx] Add warning for nesting dma_fence containers
Thomas Hellström
thomas.hellstrom at linux.intel.com
Fri Feb 4 10:40:32 UTC 2022
On Fri, 2022-02-04 at 11:04 +0100, Christian König wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Since some operations can then lead to recursive handling nesting
> dma_fence containers into each other is only allowed under some
> restrictions.
>
> dma_fence_array containers can be attached to dma_fence_chain
> containers and dma_fence_chain containers by chaining them together.
>
> In all other cases the individual fences should be extracted with
> the appropriate iterators and added to the new containers
> individually.
>
> I've separated the i915 cleanup from this change since it is
> generally a different functionality and the build bots complained
> about some issues with those patches.
>
> Most patches are already reviewd, but especially the first one still
> needs an rb tag.
>
> Please review and comment,
I see you dropped the i915 patch (probably due to lack of reviews?),
Got distracted with other things, but I'll see if I can resurrect that
and get it reviewed and merged.
Thanks,
Thomas
> Christian.
>
>
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