diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
index f7347c284886..b6f72fafd504 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_entity.c
@@ -211,6 +211,19 @@ static void drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs_cb(struct dma_fence *f,
 	job->sched->ops->free_job(job);
 }
 
+static struct dma_fence *
+drm_sched_job_dependency(struct drm_sched_job *job,
+			 struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
+{
+	if (!xa_empty(&job->dependencies))
+		return xa_erase(&job->dependencies, job->last_dependency++);
+
+	if (job->sched->ops->dependency)
+		return job->sched->ops->dependency(job, entity);
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 /**
  * drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs - Make sure all remaining jobs are killed
  *
@@ -229,7 +242,7 @@ static void drm_sched_entity_kill_jobs(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 		struct drm_sched_fence *s_fence = job->s_fence;
 
 		/* Wait for all dependencies to avoid data corruptions */
-		while ((f = job->sched->ops->dependency(job, entity)))
+		while ((f = drm_sched_job_dependency(job, entity)))
 			dma_fence_wait(f, false);
 
 		drm_sched_fence_scheduled(s_fence);
@@ -419,7 +432,6 @@ static bool drm_sched_entity_add_dependency_cb(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
  */
 struct drm_sched_job *drm_sched_entity_pop_job(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 {
-	struct drm_gpu_scheduler *sched = entity->rq->sched;
 	struct drm_sched_job *sched_job;
 
 	sched_job = to_drm_sched_job(spsc_queue_peek(&entity->job_queue));
@@ -427,7 +439,7 @@ struct drm_sched_job *drm_sched_entity_pop_job(struct drm_sched_entity *entity)
 		return NULL;
 
 	while ((entity->dependency =
-			sched->ops->dependency(sched_job, entity))) {
+			drm_sched_job_dependency(sched_job, entity))) {
 		trace_drm_sched_job_wait_dep(sched_job, entity->dependency);
 
 		if (drm_sched_entity_add_dependency_cb(entity))
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
index 70eefed17e06..370c336d383f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c
@@ -603,6 +603,8 @@ int drm_sched_job_init(struct drm_sched_job *job,
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&job->list);
 
+	xa_init_flags(&job->dependencies, XA_FLAGS_ALLOC);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_init);
@@ -626,6 +628,98 @@ void drm_sched_job_arm(struct drm_sched_job *job)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_arm);
 
+/**
+ * drm_sched_job_await_fence - adds the fence as a job dependency
+ * @job: scheduler job to add the dependencies to
+ * @fence: the dma_fence to add to the list of dependencies.
+ *
+ * Note that @fence is consumed in both the success and error cases.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 on success, or an error on failing to expand the array.
+ */
+int drm_sched_job_await_fence(struct drm_sched_job *job,
+			      struct dma_fence *fence)
+{
+	struct dma_fence *entry;
+	unsigned long index;
+	u32 id = 0;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!fence)
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Deduplicate if we already depend on a fence from the same context.
+	 * This lets the size of the array of deps scale with the number of
+	 * engines involved, rather than the number of BOs.
+	 */
+	xa_for_each(&job->dependencies, index, entry) {
+		if (entry->context != fence->context)
+			continue;
+
+		if (dma_fence_is_later(fence, entry)) {
+			dma_fence_put(entry);
+			xa_store(&job->dependencies, index, fence, GFP_KERNEL);
+		} else {
+			dma_fence_put(fence);
+		}
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	ret = xa_alloc(&job->dependencies, &id, fence, xa_limit_32b, GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (ret != 0)
+		dma_fence_put(fence);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_await_fence);
+
+/**
+ * drm_sched_job_await_implicit - adds implicit dependencies as job dependencies
+ * @job: scheduler job to add the dependencies to
+ * @obj: the gem object to add new dependencies from.
+ * @write: whether the job might write the object (so we need to depend on
+ * shared fences in the reservation object).
+ *
+ * This should be called after drm_gem_lock_reservations() on your array of
+ * GEM objects used in the job but before updating the reservations with your
+ * own fences.
+ *
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 on success, or an error on failing to expand the array.
+ */
+int drm_sched_job_await_implicit(struct drm_sched_job *job,
+				 struct drm_gem_object *obj,
+				 bool write)
+{
+	int ret;
+	struct dma_fence **fences;
+	unsigned int i, fence_count;
+
+	if (!write) {
+		struct dma_fence *fence = dma_resv_get_excl_unlocked(obj->resv);
+
+		return drm_sched_job_await_fence(job, fence);
+	}
+
+	ret = dma_resv_get_fences(obj->resv, NULL, &fence_count, &fences);
+	if (ret || !fence_count)
+		return ret;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < fence_count; i++) {
+		ret = drm_sched_job_await_fence(job, fences[i]);
+		if (ret)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	for (; i < fence_count; i++)
+		dma_fence_put(fences[i]);
+	kfree(fences);
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_await_implicit);
+
+
 /**
  * drm_sched_job_cleanup - clean up scheduler job resources
  *
@@ -633,8 +727,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_arm);
  */
 void drm_sched_job_cleanup(struct drm_sched_job *job)
 {
+	struct dma_fence *fence;
+	unsigned long index;
+
 	dma_fence_put(&job->s_fence->finished);
 	job->s_fence = NULL;
+
+	xa_for_each(&job->dependencies, index, fence) {
+		dma_fence_put(fence);
+	}
+	xa_destroy(&job->dependencies);
+
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_sched_job_cleanup);
 
diff --git a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
index 80438d126c9d..e4d7e1496296 100644
--- a/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
+++ b/include/drm/gpu_scheduler.h
@@ -27,9 +27,12 @@
 #include <drm/spsc_queue.h>
 #include <linux/dma-fence.h>
 #include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/xarray.h>
 
 #define MAX_WAIT_SCHED_ENTITY_Q_EMPTY msecs_to_jiffies(1000)
 
+struct drm_gem_object;
+
 struct drm_gpu_scheduler;
 struct drm_sched_rq;
 
@@ -198,6 +201,16 @@ struct drm_sched_job {
 	enum drm_sched_priority		s_priority;
 	struct drm_sched_entity         *entity;
 	struct dma_fence_cb		cb;
+	/**
+	 * @dependencies:
+	 *
+	 * Contains the dependencies as struct dma_fence for this job, see
+	 * drm_sched_job_await_fence() and drm_sched_job_await_implicit().
+	 */
+	struct xarray			dependencies;
+
+	/** @last_dependency: tracks @dependencies as they signal */
+	unsigned long			last_dependency;
 };
 
 static inline bool drm_sched_invalidate_job(struct drm_sched_job *s_job,
@@ -220,9 +233,14 @@ enum drm_gpu_sched_stat {
  */
 struct drm_sched_backend_ops {
 	/**
-         * @dependency: Called when the scheduler is considering scheduling
-         * this job next, to get another struct dma_fence for this job to
-	 * block on.  Once it returns NULL, run_job() may be called.
+	 * @dependency:
+	 *
+	 * Called when the scheduler is considering scheduling this job next, to
+	 * get another struct dma_fence for this job to block on.  Once it
+	 * returns NULL, run_job() may be called.
+	 *
+	 * If a driver exclusively uses drm_sched_job_await_fence() and
+	 * drm_sched_job_await_implicit() this can be ommitted and left as NULL.
 	 */
 	struct dma_fence *(*dependency)(struct drm_sched_job *sched_job,
 					struct drm_sched_entity *s_entity);
@@ -314,6 +332,13 @@ int drm_sched_job_init(struct drm_sched_job *job,
 		       struct drm_sched_entity *entity,
 		       void *owner);
 void drm_sched_job_arm(struct drm_sched_job *job);
+int drm_sched_job_await_fence(struct drm_sched_job *job,
+			      struct dma_fence *fence);
+int drm_sched_job_await_implicit(struct drm_sched_job *job,
+				 struct drm_gem_object *obj,
+				 bool write);
+
+
 void drm_sched_entity_modify_sched(struct drm_sched_entity *entity,
 				    struct drm_gpu_scheduler **sched_list,
                                    unsigned int num_sched_list);
