drm/i915: Allow DRM_ROOT_ONLY|DRM_MASTER to submit privileged batchbuffers

With the introduction of per-process GTT space, the hardware designers
thought it wise to also limit the ability to write to MMIO space to only
a "secure" batch buffer. The ability to rewrite registers is the only
way to program the hardware to perform certain operations like scanline
waits (required for tear-free windowed updates). So we either have a
choice of adding an interface to perform those synchronized updates
inside the kernel, or we permit certain processes the ability to write
to the "safe" registers from within its command stream. This patch
exposes the ability to submit a SECURE batch buffer to
DRM_ROOT_ONLY|DRM_MASTER processes.

v2: Haswell split up bit8 into a ppgtt bit (still bit8) and a security
bit (bit 13, accidentally not set). Also add a comment explaining why
secure batches need a global gtt binding.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> (v1)
[danvet: added hsw fixup.]
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
index 491394fd94cd..14271aab72bb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_dma.c
@@ -1015,6 +1015,9 @@ static int i915_getparam(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,
 	case I915_PARAM_HAS_PRIME_VMAP_FLUSH:
 		value = 1;
 		break;
+	case I915_PARAM_HAS_SECURE_BATCHES:
+		value = capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
+		break;
 	default:
 		DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Unknown parameter %d\n",
 				 param->param);