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diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c
index 0de0482cd36e..f177c56269bb 100644
--- a/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c
+++ b/drivers/dma-buf/dma-fence.c
@@ -913,6 +913,65 @@ err_free_cb:
EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_wait_any_timeout);
/**
+ * DOC: deadline hints
+ *
+ * In an ideal world, it would be possible to pipeline a workload sufficiently
+ * that a utilization based device frequency governor could arrive at a minimum
+ * frequency that meets the requirements of the use-case, in order to minimize
+ * power consumption. But in the real world there are many workloads which
+ * defy this ideal. For example, but not limited to:
+ *
+ * * Workloads that ping-pong between device and CPU, with alternating periods
+ * of CPU waiting for device, and device waiting on CPU. This can result in
+ * devfreq and cpufreq seeing idle time in their respective domains and in
+ * result reduce frequency.
+ *
+ * * Workloads that interact with a periodic time based deadline, such as double
+ * buffered GPU rendering vs vblank sync'd page flipping. In this scenario,
+ * missing a vblank deadline results in an *increase* in idle time on the GPU
+ * (since it has to wait an additional vblank period), sending a signal to
+ * the GPU's devfreq to reduce frequency, when in fact the opposite is what is
+ * needed.
+ *
+ * To this end, deadline hint(s) can be set on a &dma_fence via &dma_fence_set_deadline.
+ * The deadline hint provides a way for the waiting driver, or userspace, to
+ * convey an appropriate sense of urgency to the signaling driver.
+ *
+ * A deadline hint is given in absolute ktime (CLOCK_MONOTONIC for userspace
+ * facing APIs). The time could either be some point in the future (such as
+ * the vblank based deadline for page-flipping, or the start of a compositor's
+ * composition cycle), or the current time to indicate an immediate deadline
+ * hint (Ie. forward progress cannot be made until this fence is signaled).
+ *
+ * Multiple deadlines may be set on a given fence, even in parallel. See the
+ * documentation for &dma_fence_ops.set_deadline.
+ *
+ * The deadline hint is just that, a hint. The driver that created the fence
+ * may react by increasing frequency, making different scheduling choices, etc.
+ * Or doing nothing at all.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * dma_fence_set_deadline - set desired fence-wait deadline hint
+ * @fence: the fence that is to be waited on
+ * @deadline: the time by which the waiter hopes for the fence to be
+ * signaled
+ *
+ * Give the fence signaler a hint about an upcoming deadline, such as
+ * vblank, by which point the waiter would prefer the fence to be
+ * signaled by. This is intended to give feedback to the fence signaler
+ * to aid in power management decisions, such as boosting GPU frequency
+ * if a periodic vblank deadline is approaching but the fence is not
+ * yet signaled..
+ */
+void dma_fence_set_deadline(struct dma_fence *fence, ktime_t deadline)
+{
+ if (fence->ops->set_deadline && !dma_fence_is_signaled(fence))
+ fence->ops->set_deadline(fence, deadline);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_fence_set_deadline);
+
+/**
* dma_fence_describe - Dump fence describtion into seq_file
* @fence: the 6fence to describe
* @seq: the seq_file to put the textual description into