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Cross-subsystem Changes:
- DMA mapped scatterlist fixes in i915 to unblock merging of
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/9/27/70 (Tvrtko, Tom)

Driver Changes:

- Fix for user reported issue #2381 (Graphical output stops with "switching to inteldrmfb from simple"):
  Mark ininitial fb obj as WT on eLLC machines to avoid rcu lockup during fbdev init (Ville, Chris)
- Fix for Tigerlake (and earlier) to avoid spurious empty CSB events leading to hang (Chris, Bruce)
- Delay execlist processing for Tigerlake to avoid hang (Chris)
- Fix for Tigerlake RCS engine health check through heartbeat (Chris)
- Fix for Tigerlake reserved MOCS entries (Ayaz, Chris)
- Fix Media power gate sequence on Tigerlake (Rodrigo)
- Enable eLLC caching of display buffers for SKL+ (Ville)
- Support parsing of oversize batches on Gen9 (Matt, Chris)
- Exclude low pages (128KiB) of stolen from use to avoid thrashing during reset (Chris)
- Flush engines before Tigerlake breadcrumbs (Chris)

- Use the local HWSP offset during submission (Chris)
- Flush coherency domains on first set-domain-ioctl (Chris, Zbigniew)
- Use the active reference on the vma while capturing to avoid use-after-free (Chris)
- Fix MOCS PTE setting for gen9+ (Ville)
- Avoid NULL dereference on IPS driver callback while unbinding i915 (Chris)
- Avoid NULL dereference from PT/PD stash allocation error (Matt)
- Hold request reference for canceling an active context (Chris)
- Avoid infinite loop on x86-32 when mapping a lot of objects (Chris)
- Disallow WC mappings when processor doesn't support them (Chris)
- Return correct error in i915_gem_object_copy_blt() error path (Dan)
- Return correct error in intel_context_create_request() error path (Maarten)
- Tune down GuC communication enabled/disabled messages to debug (Jani)
- Fix rebased commit "Remove i915_request.lock requirement for execution callbacks" (Chris)
- Cancel outstanding work after disabling heartbeats on an engine (Chris)
- Signal cancelled requests (Chris)
- Retire cancelled requests on unload (Chris)
- Scrub HW state on driver remove (Chris)
- Undo forced context restores after trivial preemptions (Chris)
- Handle PCI unbind in PMU code (Tvrtko)
- Fix CPU hotplug with multiple GPUs in PMU code (Trtkko)
- Correctly set SFC capability for video engines (Venkata)

- Update GuC code to use firmware v49.0.1 (John, Matthew B., Daniele, Oscar, Michel, Rodrigo, Michal)
- Improve GuC warnings on loading failure (John)
- Avoid ownership race in buffer pool by clearing age (Chris)
- Use MMIO to read CSB in case of failure (Chris, Mika)
- Show engine properties in engine state dump to indicate changes (Chris, Joonas)
- Break up error capture compression loops with cond_resched() (Chris)
- Reduce GPU error capture mutex hold time to avoid khungtaskd (Chris)
- Serialise debugfs i915_gem_objects with ctx->mutex (Chris)
- Always test execution status on closing the context and close if not persistent (Chris)
- Avoid mixing integer types during batch copies (Chris, Jared)
- Skip over MI_NOOP when parsing to avoid overhead (Chris)
- Hold onto an explicit ref to i915_vma_work.pinned (Chris)
- Perform all asynchronous waits prior to marking payload start (Chris)
- Pull phys pread/pwrite implementations to the backend (Matt)

- Improve record of hung engines in error state (Tvrtko)
- Allow backends to override pread implementation (Matt)
- Reinforce LRC poisoning checks to confirm context survives execution (Chris)
- Fix memory region max size calculation (Matt)
- Fix order when adding blocks to memory region (Matt)
- Eliminate unused intel_virtual_engine_get_sibling func (Chris)
- Cleanup kasan warning for on-stack (unsigned long) casting (Chris)
- Onion unwind for scratch page allocation failure (Chris)
- Poison stolen pages before use (Chris)
- Selftest improvements (Chris)