diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
index b7f1742..31b36c5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.c
@@ -1653,6 +1653,27 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/* Align the ring tail to a cacheline boundary */
+int intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring)
+{
+	int num_dwords = (64 - (ring->tail & 63)) / sizeof(uint32_t);
+	int ret;
+
+	if (num_dwords == 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	ret = intel_ring_begin(ring, num_dwords);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	while (num_dwords--)
+		intel_ring_emit(ring, MI_NOOP);
+
+	intel_ring_advance(ring);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 void intel_ring_init_seqno(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, u32 seqno)
 {
 	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = ring->dev->dev_private;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
index 71a73f4..0b243ce 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_ringbuffer.h
@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@
 void intel_cleanup_ring_buffer(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring);
 
 int __must_check intel_ring_begin(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring, int n);
+int __must_check intel_ring_cacheline_align(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring);
 static inline void intel_ring_emit(struct intel_ring_buffer *ring,
 				   u32 data)
 {