drm/i915/execlists: Stop storing the CSB read pointer in the mmio register
As we now never read back our current head position from the CSB pointers register, and the HW itself doesn't use it to prevent overwriting unread CSB entries, we do not need to keep updating the register. As it turns out this register is not listed as being shadowed, and so requires forcewake -- but we haven't been taking forcewake around it so the writes has probably been regularly dropped. Fortuitously, we only read the value after a reset where it did not matter, and zero was the right answer (well, close enough). Mika pointed out that this was how we used to do it (accidentally!) before he fixed it in commit cc53699b ("drm/i915: Use masked write for Context Status Buffer Pointer"). References: cc53699b ("drm/i915: Use masked write for Context Status Buffer Pointer") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio@intel.com> Cc: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180628201211.13837-7-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk
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