[PATCH 17/42] drm/i915/execlists: Stop storing the CSB read pointer in the mmio register

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Thu Jun 28 11:42:54 UTC 2018


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).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
Cc: Daniele Ceraolo Spurio <daniele.ceraolospurio at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
index a0f442976e68..89ac5b03f359 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_lrc.c
@@ -1118,8 +1118,6 @@ static void process_csb(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 		}
 	} while (head != tail);
 
-	writel(_MASKED_FIELD(GEN8_CSB_READ_PTR_MASK, head << 8),
-	       execlists->csb_read);
 	execlists->csb_head = head;
 }
 
-- 
2.18.0



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