drm/i915: simplify allocation of driver-internal requests

There are a number of places where the driver needs a request, but isn't
working on behalf of any specific user or in a specific context. At
present, we associate them with the per-engine default context. A future
patch will abolish those per-engine context pointers; but we can already
eliminate a lot of the references to them, just by making the allocator
allow NULL as a shorthand for "an appropriate context for this ring",
which will mean that the callers don't need to know anything about how
the "appropriate context" is found (e.g. per-ring vs per-device, etc).

So this patch renames the existing i915_gem_request_alloc(), and makes
it local (static inline), and replaces it with a wrapper that provides
a default if the context is NULL, and also has a nicer calling
convention (doesn't require a pointer to an output parameter). Then we
change all callers to use the new convention:
OLD:
	err = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, user_ctx, &req);
	if (err) ...
NEW:
	req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, user_ctx);
	if (IS_ERR(req)) ...
OLD:
	err = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
	if (err) ...
NEW:
	req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
	if (IS_ERR(req)) ...

v4:	Rebased

Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Hoath <nicholas.hoath@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1453230175-19330-2-git-send-email-david.s.gordon@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>

drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c

@@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ static int intel_overlay_on(struct intel_overlay *overlay)
 	WARN_ON(overlay->active);
 	WARN_ON(IS_I830(dev) && !(dev_priv->quirks & QUIRK_PIPEA_FORCE));
 
-	ret = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(req))
+		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
 	ret = intel_ring_begin(req, 4);
 	if (ret) {
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@ static int intel_overlay_continue(struct intel_overlay *overlay,
 	if (tmp & (1 << 17))
 		DRM_DEBUG("overlay underrun, DOVSTA: %x\n", tmp);
 
-	ret = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(req))
+		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
 	ret = intel_ring_begin(req, 2);
 	if (ret) {
@@ -349,9 +349,9 @@ static int intel_overlay_off(struct intel_overlay *overlay)
 	 * of the hw. Do it in both cases */
 	flip_addr |= OFC_UPDATE;
 
-	ret = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
-	if (ret)
-		return ret;
+	req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
+	if (IS_ERR(req))
+		return PTR_ERR(req);
 
 	ret = intel_ring_begin(req, 6);
 	if (ret) {
@@ -423,9 +423,9 @@ static int intel_overlay_release_old_vid(struct intel_overlay *overlay)
 		/* synchronous slowpath */
 		struct drm_i915_gem_request *req;
 
-		ret = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, ring->default_context, &req);
-		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+		req = i915_gem_request_alloc(ring, NULL);
+		if (IS_ERR(req))
+			return PTR_ERR(req);
 
 		ret = intel_ring_begin(req, 2);
 		if (ret) {