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Kenneth Graunke 0f5418e564 drm/i915: Drop support for I915_EXEC_CONSTANTS_* execbuf parameters.
This patch makes the I915_PARAM_HAS_EXEC_CONSTANTS getparam return 0
(indicating the optional feature is not supported), and makes execbuf
always return -EINVAL if the flags are used.

Apparently, no userspace ever shipped which used this optional feature:
I checked the git history of Mesa, xf86-video-intel, libva, and Beignet,
and there were zero commits showing a use of these flags.  Kernel commit
72bfa19c8d apparently introduced the feature prematurely.  According
to Chris, the intention was to use this in cairo-drm, but "the use was
broken for gen6", so I don't think it ever happened.

'relative_constants_mode' has always been tracked per-device, but this
has actually been wrong ever since hardware contexts were introduced, as
the INSTPM register is saved (and automatically restored) as part of the
render ring context. The software per-device value could therefore get
out of sync with the hardware per-context value.  This meant that using
them is actually unsafe: a client which tried to use them could damage
the state of other clients, causing the GPU to interpret their BO
offsets as absolute pointers, leading to bogus memory reads.

These flags were also never ported to execlist mode, making them no-ops
on Gen9+ (which requires execlists), and Gen8 in the default mode.

On Gen8+, userspace can write these registers directly, achieving the
same effect.  On Gen6-7.5, it likely makes sense to extend the command
parser to support them.  I don't think anyone wants this on Gen4-5.

Based on a patch by Dave Gordon.

v3: Return -ENODEV for the getparam, as this is what we do for other
    obsolete features.  Suggested by Chris Wilson.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92448
Signed-off-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth@whitecape.org>
Reviewed-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170215093446.21291-1-kenneth@whitecape.org
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170313170433.26843-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
(cherry picked from commit ef0f411f51)
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2017-03-14 12:28:25 +02:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.