Hi Andrzej,
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 05:30:35PM +0200, Andrzej Hajda wrote:
> References to i915_requests may be trapped by userspace inside a
> sync_file or dmabuf (dma-resv) and held indefinitely across different
> proceses. To counter-act the memory leaks, we try to not to keep
> references from the request past their completion.
> On the other side on fence release we need to know if rq->engine
> is valid and points to hw engine (true for non-virtual requests).
> To make it possible extra bit has been added to rq->execution_mask,
> for marking virtual engines.
>
> Fixes: bcb9aa45d5a0 ("Revert "drm/i915: Hold reference to intel_context over
> life of i915_request"")
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Hajda <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Andi Shyti <[email protected]>
applied to drm-intel-gt-next.
Thanks,
Andi
