drm/i915: Late request cancellations are harmful

Conceptually, each request is a record of a hardware transaction - we
build up a list of pending commands and then either commit them to
hardware, or cancel them. However, whilst building up the list of
pending commands, we may modify state outside of the request and make
references to the pending request. If we do so and then cancel that
request, external objects then point to the deleted request leading to
both graphical and memory corruption.

The easiest example is to consider object/VMA tracking. When we mark an
object as active in a request, we store a pointer to this, the most
recent request, in the object. Then we want to free that object, we wait
for the most recent request to be idle before proceeding (otherwise the
hardware will write to pages now owned by the system, or we will attempt
to read from those pages before the hardware is finished writing). If
the request was cancelled instead, that wait completes immediately. As a
result, all requests must be committed and not cancelled if the external
state is unknown.

All that remains of i915_gem_request_cancel() users are just a couple of
extremely unlikely allocation failures, so remove the API entirely.

A consequence of committing all incomplete requests is that we generate
excess breadcrumbs and fill the ring much more often with dummy work. We
have completely undone the outstanding_last_seqno optimisation.

Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93907
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1460565315-7748-16-git-send-email-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk

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