drm/i915: Avoid stalling on pending flips for legacy cursor updates
The legacy cursor ioctl expects to be asynchronous with respect to other screen updates, in particular page flips. As X updates the cursor from a signal context, if the cursor blocks then it will stall both the input and output chains causing bad stuttering and horrible UX. Reported-and-tested-by: Rafael Ristovski <rafael.ristovski@gmail.com> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94980 Fixes: 5008e874 ("drm/i915: Make wait_for_flips interruptible.") Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1460922166-20292-1-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukAcked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
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