diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/skl_watermark.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/skl_watermark.c
index c888b0896d89..95941e878bf1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/skl_watermark.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/skl_watermark.c
@@ -3184,6 +3184,13 @@ static void sanitize_wm_latency(struct intel_display *display)
 	u16 *wm = display->wm.skl_latency;
 	int level, num_levels = display->wm.num_levels;
 
+	/*
+	 * Xe3p and beyond should ignore level 0's reported latency and
+	 * always apply WaWmMemoryReadLatency logic.
+	 */
+	if (DISPLAY_VER(display) >= 35)
+		wm[0] = 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * If a level n (n > 1) has a 0us latency, all levels m (m >= n)
 	 * need to be disabled. We make sure to sanitize the values out