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drm/i915: Coordinate i915_active with its own mutex
Forgo the struct_mutex serialisation for i915_active, and interpose its own mutex handling for active/retire. This is a multi-layered sleight-of-hand. First, we had to ensure that no active/retire callbacks accidentally inverted the mutex ordering rules, nor assumed that they were themselves serialised by struct_mutex. More challenging though, is the rule over updating elements of the active rbtree. Instead of the whole i915_active now being serialised by struct_mutex, allocations/rotations of the tree are serialised by the i915_active.mutex and individual nodes are serialised by the caller using the i915_timeline.mutex (we need to use nested spinlocks to interact with the dma_fence callback lists). The pain point here is that instead of a single mutex around execbuf, we now have to take a mutex for active tracker (one for each vma, context, etc) and a couple of spinlocks for each fence update. The improvement in fine grained locking allowing for multiple concurrent clients (eventually!) should be worth it in typical loads. v2: Add some comments that barely elucidate anything :( Signed-off-by:Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: