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(Same content as drm-intel-gt-next-2020-09-04-3, S-o-b's added)

UAPI Changes:
(- Potential implicit changes from WW locking refactoring)

Cross-subsystem Changes:
(- WW locking changes should align the i915 locking more with others)

Driver Changes:

- MAJOR: Apply WW locking across the driver (Maarten)

- Reverts for 5 commits to make applying WW locking faster (Maarten)
- Disable preparser around invalidations on Tigerlake for non-RCS engines (Chris)
- Add missing dma_fence_put() for error case of syncobj timeline (Chris)
- Parse command buffer earlier in eb_relocate(slow) to facilitate backoff (Maarten)
- Pin engine before pinning all objects (Maarten)
- Rework intel_context pinning to do everything outside of pin_mutex (Maarten)

- Avoid tracking GEM context until registered (Cc: stable, Chris)
- Provide a fastpath for waiting on vma bindings (Chris)
- Fixes to preempt-to-busy mechanism (Chris)
- Distinguish the virtual breadcrumbs from the irq breadcrumbs (Chris)
- Switch to object allocations for page directories (Chris)
- Hold context/request reference while breadcrumbs are active (Chris)
- Make sure execbuffer always passes ww state to i915_vma_pin (Maarten)

- Code refactoring to facilitate use of WW locking (Maarten)
- Locking refactoring to use more granular locking (Maarten, Chris)
- Support for multiple pinned timelines per engine (Chris)
- Move complication of I915_GEM_THROTTLE to the ioctl from general code (Chris)
- Make active tracking/vma page-directory stash work preallocated (Chris)
- Avoid flushing submission tasklet too often (Chris)
- Reduce context termination list iteration guard to RCU (Chris)
- Reductions to locking contention (Chris)
- Fixes for issues found by CI (Chris)