diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
index d90b3a6..e833061 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic_helper.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 			       struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 int drm_atomic_helper_check(struct drm_device *dev,
 			    struct drm_atomic_state *state);
+void drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 int drm_atomic_helper_commit(struct drm_device *dev,
 			     struct drm_atomic_state *state,
 			     bool nonblock);
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
index 5eb1f08..914baa8 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
@@ -2248,6 +2248,7 @@
  * @async_page_flip: does this device support async flips on the primary plane?
  * @cursor_width: hint to userspace for max cursor width
  * @cursor_height: hint to userspace for max cursor height
+ * @helper_private: mid-layer private data
  *
  * Core mode resource tracking structure.  All CRTC, encoders, and connectors
  * enumerated by the driver are added here, as are global properties.  Some
@@ -2391,6 +2392,8 @@
 
 	/* cursor size */
 	uint32_t cursor_width, cursor_height;
+
+	struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs *helper_private;
 };
 
 /**
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
index 4e7a53b..b55f218 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
@@ -931,4 +931,43 @@
 	plane->helper_private = funcs;
 }
 
+/**
+ * struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs - global modeset helper operations
+ *
+ * These helper functions are used by the atomic helpers.
+ */
+struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs {
+	/**
+	 * @atomic_commit_tail:
+	 *
+	 * This hook is used by the default atomic_commit() hook implemented in
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_commit() together with the nonblocking commit
+	 * helpers (see drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit() for a starting point)
+	 * to implement blocking and nonblocking commits easily. It is not used
+	 * by the atomic helpers
+	 *
+	 * This hook should first commit the given atomic state to the hardware.
+	 * But drivers can add more waiting calls at the start of their
+	 * implementation, e.g. to wait for driver-internal request for implicit
+	 * syncing, before starting to commit the update to the hardware.
+	 *
+	 * After the atomic update is committed to the hardware this hook needs
+	 * to call drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). Then wait for the upate
+	 * to be executed by the hardware, for example using
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(), and then clean up the old
+	 * framebuffers using drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes().
+	 *
+	 * When disabling a CRTC this hook _must_ stall for the commit to
+	 * complete. Vblank waits don't work on disabled CRTC, hence the core
+	 * can't take care of this. And it also can't rely on the vblank event,
+	 * since that can be signalled already when the screen shows black,
+	 * which can happen much earlier than the last hardware access needed to
+	 * shut off the display pipeline completely.
+	 *
+	 * This hook is optional, the default implementation is
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_commit_tail().
+	 */
+	void (*atomic_commit_tail)(struct drm_atomic_state *state);
+};
+
 #endif