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Older gen use a physical address for the hardware status page, for which
we use cache-coherent writes. As the writes are into the cpu cache, we use
a normal WB mapped page to read the HWS, used for our seqno tracking.

Anecdotally, I observed lost breadcrumbs writes into the HWS on i965gm,
which so far have not reoccurred with this patch. How reliable that
evidence is remains to be seen.

v2: Explicitly pass the expected physical address to the hw
v3: Also remember the wild writes we once had for HWS above 4G.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180903152304.31589-2-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk