This reverts commit 6c943de6 ("drm/i915: Skip execlists_dequeue()
early if the list is empty").

The validity of using READ_ONCE there depends upon having a mb to
coordinate the assignment of engine->execlist_first inside
submit_request() and checking prior to taking the spinlock in
execlists_dequeue(). We wrote "the update to TASKLET_SCHED incurs a
memory barrier making this cross-cpu checking safe", but failed to
notice that this mb was *conditional* on the execlists being ready, i.e.
there wasn't the required mb when it was most necessary!

We could install an unconditional memory barrier to fixup the
READ_ONCE():

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index 7dd732cb9f57..1ed164b16d44 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ static void execlists_submit_request(struct
drm_i915_gem_request *request)

        if (insert_request(&request->priotree, &engine->execlist_queue))
{
                engine->execlist_first = &request->priotree.node;
+               smp_wmb();
                if (execlists_elsp_ready(engine))

But we have opted to remove the race as it should be rarely effective,
and saves us having to explain the necessary memory barriers which we
quite clearly failed at.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Fixes: 6c943de6 ("drm/i915: Skip execlists_dequeue() early if the list is empty")
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170329100052.29505-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.ukReviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>