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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h index b38c770a22f5..8727086cf48c 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h @@ -2114,6 +2114,9 @@ void i915_gem_track_fb(struct drm_i915_gem_object *old, * number comparisons on buffer last_read|write_seqno. It also allows an * emission time to be associated with the request for tracking how far ahead * of the GPU the submission is. + * + * The requests are reference counted, so upon creation they should have an + * initial reference taken using kref_init */ struct drm_i915_gem_request { struct kref ref; @@ -2137,7 +2140,16 @@ struct drm_i915_gem_request { /** Position in the ringbuffer of the end of the whole request */ u32 tail; - /** Context related to this request */ + /** + * Context related to this request + * Contexts are refcounted, so when this request is associated with a + * context, we must increment the context's refcount, to guarantee that + * it persists while any request is linked to it. Requests themselves + * are also refcounted, so the request will only be freed when the last + * reference to it is dismissed, and the code in + * i915_gem_request_free() will then decrement the refcount on the + * context. + */ struct intel_context *ctx; /** Batch buffer related to this request if any */ |