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drm/i915: Use multiple VMs -- the point of no return

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As with processes which run on the CPU, the goal of multiple VMs is to
provide process isolation. Specific to GEN, there is also the ability to
map more objects per process (2GB each instead of 2Gb-2k total).

For the most part, all the pipes have been laid, and all we need to do
is remove asserts and actually start changing address spaces with the
context switch. Since prior to this we've converted the setting of the
page tables to a streamed version, this is quite easy.

One important thing to point out (since it'd been hotly contested) is
that with this patch, every context created will have it's own address
space (provided the HW can do it).

v2: Disable BDW on rebase

NOTE: I tried to make this commit as small as possible. I needed one
place where I could "turn everything on" and that is here. It could be
split into finer commits, but I didn't really see much point.

Cc: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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Ben Widawsky 2013-12-06 14:11:26 -08:00 • committed by Daniel Vetter
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