diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
index 52bba16c62e8..c530839627bb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine.h
@@ -230,9 +230,6 @@ void intel_engine_dump(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 ktime_t intel_engine_get_busy_time(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 				   ktime_t *now);
 
-struct i915_request *
-intel_engine_find_active_request(struct intel_engine_cs *engine);
-
 u32 intel_engine_context_size(struct intel_gt *gt, u8 class);
 
 void intel_engine_init_active(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
index b5b957283f2c..5751a529b2df 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -1277,7 +1277,7 @@ bool intel_engine_can_store_dword(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	}
 }
 
-static struct intel_timeline *get_timeline(struct i915_request *rq)
+static struct intel_timeline *get_timeline(const struct i915_request *rq)
 {
 	struct intel_timeline *tl;
 
@@ -1505,7 +1505,8 @@ static void intel_engine_print_registers(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 	}
 }
 
-static void print_request_ring(struct drm_printer *m, struct i915_request *rq)
+static void
+print_request_ring(struct drm_printer *m, const struct i915_request *rq)
 {
 	void *ring;
 	int size;
@@ -1590,7 +1591,7 @@ void intel_engine_dump(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 {
 	struct i915_gpu_error * const error = &engine->i915->gpu_error;
 	struct i915_sched *se = intel_engine_get_scheduler(engine);
-	struct i915_request *rq;
+	const struct i915_request *rq;
 	intel_wakeref_t wakeref;
 	unsigned long flags;
 	ktime_t dummy;
@@ -1631,8 +1632,9 @@ void intel_engine_dump(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 
 	drm_printf(m, "\tRequests:\n");
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&se->lock, flags);
-	rq = intel_engine_find_active_request(engine);
+	rq = se->active_request(se);
 	if (rq) {
 		struct intel_timeline *tl = get_timeline(rq);
 
@@ -1664,6 +1666,7 @@ void intel_engine_dump(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 	}
 	drm_printf(m, "\tOn hold?: %lu\n", list_count(&se->hold));
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se->lock, flags);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	drm_printf(m, "\tMMIO base:  0x%08x\n", engine->mmio_base);
 	wakeref = intel_runtime_pm_get_if_in_use(engine->uncore->rpm);
@@ -1712,66 +1715,6 @@ ktime_t intel_engine_get_busy_time(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, ktime_t *now)
 	return ktime_add(total, start);
 }
 
-static bool match_ring(struct i915_request *rq)
-{
-	u32 ring = ENGINE_READ(rq->engine, RING_START);
-
-	return ring == i915_ggtt_offset(rq->ring->vma);
-}
-
-struct i915_request *
-intel_engine_find_active_request(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
-{
-	struct i915_sched *se = intel_engine_get_scheduler(engine);
-	struct i915_request *request, *active = NULL;
-
-	/*
-	 * We are called by the error capture, reset and to dump engine
-	 * state at random points in time. In particular, note that neither is
-	 * crucially ordered with an interrupt. After a hang, the GPU is dead
-	 * and we assume that no more writes can happen (we waited long enough
-	 * for all writes that were in transaction to be flushed) - adding an
-	 * extra delay for a recent interrupt is pointless. Hence, we do
-	 * not need an engine->irq_seqno_barrier() before the seqno reads.
-	 * At all other times, we must assume the GPU is still running, but
-	 * we only care about the snapshot of this moment.
-	 */
-	lockdep_assert_held(&se->lock);
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	request = execlists_active(&engine->execlists);
-	if (request) {
-		struct intel_timeline *tl = request->context->timeline;
-
-		list_for_each_entry_from_reverse(request, &tl->requests, link) {
-			if (__i915_request_is_complete(request))
-				break;
-
-			active = request;
-		}
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-	if (active)
-		return active;
-
-	list_for_each_entry(request, &se->requests, sched.link) {
-		if (__i915_request_is_complete(request))
-			continue;
-
-		if (!__i915_request_has_started(request))
-			continue;
-
-		/* More than one preemptible request may match! */
-		if (!match_ring(request))
-			continue;
-
-		active = request;
-		break;
-	}
-
-	return active;
-}
-
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_I915_SELFTEST)
 #include "mock_engine.c"
 #include "selftest_engine.c"
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
index 33c1a833df20..8b848adb65b7 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_execlists_submission.c
@@ -2336,7 +2336,7 @@ static void sanitize_hwsp(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 
 static void execlists_sanitize(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
-	GEM_BUG_ON(execlists_active(&engine->execlists));
+	GEM_BUG_ON(*engine->execlists.active);
 
 	/*
 	 * Poison residual state on resume, in case the suspend didn't!
@@ -2755,6 +2755,85 @@ static void execlists_park(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	cancel_timer(&engine->execlists.preempt);
 }
 
+static const struct i915_request *
+execlists_active_request(struct i915_sched *se)
+{
+	struct intel_engine_cs *engine =
+		container_of(se, typeof(*engine), sched);
+	struct i915_request *rq;
+
+	rq = execlists_active(&engine->execlists);
+	if (rq)
+		rq = active_request(rq->context->timeline, rq);
+
+	return rq;
+}
+
+static bool execlists_is_executing(const struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	struct i915_sched *se = i915_request_get_scheduler(rq);
+	struct intel_engine_execlists *el =
+		&container_of(se, struct intel_engine_cs, sched)->execlists;
+	struct i915_request * const *port, *p;
+	bool inflight = false;
+
+	if (!i915_request_is_ready(rq))
+		return false;
+
+	/*
+	 * Even if we have unwound the request, it may still be on
+	 * the GPU (preempt-to-busy). If that request is inside an
+	 * unpreemptible critical section, it will not be removed. Some
+	 * GPU functions may even be stuck waiting for the paired request
+	 * (__await_execution) to be submitted and cannot be preempted
+	 * until the bond is executing.
+	 *
+	 * As we know that there are always preemption points between
+	 * requests, we know that only the currently executing request
+	 * may be still active even though we have cleared the flag.
+	 * However, we can't rely on our tracking of ELSP[0] to know
+	 * which request is currently active and so maybe stuck, as
+	 * the tracking maybe an event behind. Instead assume that
+	 * if the context is still inflight, then it is still active
+	 * even if the active flag has been cleared.
+	 *
+	 * To further complicate matters, if there a pending promotion, the HW
+	 * may either perform a context switch to the second inflight execlists,
+	 * or it may switch to the pending set of execlists. In the case of the
+	 * latter, it may send the ACK and we process the event copying the
+	 * pending[] over top of inflight[], _overwriting_ our *active. Since
+	 * this implies the HW is arbitrating and not struck in *active, we do
+	 * not worry about complete accuracy, but we do require no read/write
+	 * tearing of the pointer [the read of the pointer must be valid, even
+	 * as the array is being overwritten, for which we require the writes
+	 * to avoid tearing.]
+	 *
+	 * Note that the read of *execlists->active may race with the promotion
+	 * of execlists->pending[] to execlists->inflight[], overwriting
+	 * the value at *execlists->active. This is fine. The promotion implies
+	 * that we received an ACK from the HW, and so the context is not
+	 * stuck -- if we do not see ourselves in *active, the inflight status
+	 * is valid. If instead we see ourselves being copied into *active,
+	 * we are inflight and may signal the callback.
+	 */
+	if (!intel_context_inflight(rq->context))
+		return false;
+
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for (port = READ_ONCE(el->active);
+	     (p = READ_ONCE(*port)); /* may race with promotion of pending[] */
+	     port++) {
+		if (p->context == rq->context) {
+			inflight = i915_seqno_passed(p->fence.seqno,
+						     rq->fence.seqno);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
+	return inflight;
+}
+
 static bool can_preempt(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
 	if (INTEL_GEN(engine->i915) > 8)
@@ -2890,6 +2969,8 @@ int intel_execlists_submission_setup(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	struct intel_uncore *uncore = engine->uncore;
 	u32 base = engine->mmio_base;
 
+	engine->sched.active_request = execlists_active_request;
+	engine->sched.is_executing = execlists_is_executing;
 	tasklet_setup(&engine->sched.tasklet, execlists_submission_tasklet);
 	timer_setup(&engine->execlists.timer, execlists_timeslice, 0);
 	timer_setup(&engine->execlists.preempt, execlists_preempt, 0);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
index f2e4f0232b87..0c5adca7994f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.c
@@ -1262,15 +1262,11 @@ static bool record_context(struct i915_gem_context_coredump *e,
 	struct i915_gem_context *ctx;
 	bool simulated;
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-
 	ctx = rcu_dereference(rq->context->gem_context);
 	if (ctx && !kref_get_unless_zero(&ctx->ref))
 		ctx = NULL;
-	if (!ctx) {
-		rcu_read_unlock();
+	if (!ctx)
 		return true;
-	}
 
 	if (I915_SELFTEST_ONLY(!ctx->client)) {
 		strcpy(e->comm, "[kernel]");
@@ -1279,8 +1275,6 @@ static bool record_context(struct i915_gem_context_coredump *e,
 		e->pid = pid_nr(i915_drm_client_pid(ctx->client));
 	}
 
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
 	e->sched_attr = ctx->sched;
 	e->guilty = atomic_read(&ctx->guilty_count);
 	e->active = atomic_read(&ctx->active_count);
@@ -1368,12 +1362,14 @@ intel_engine_coredump_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, gfp_t gfp)
 
 struct intel_engine_capture_vma *
 intel_engine_coredump_add_request(struct intel_engine_coredump *ee,
-				  struct i915_request *rq,
+				  const struct i915_request *rq,
 				  gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	struct intel_engine_capture_vma *vma = NULL;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	ee->simulated |= record_context(&ee->context, rq);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (ee->simulated)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -1436,19 +1432,21 @@ capture_engine(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 	struct i915_sched *se = intel_engine_get_scheduler(engine);
 	struct intel_engine_capture_vma *capture = NULL;
 	struct intel_engine_coredump *ee;
-	struct i915_request *rq;
+	const struct i915_request *rq;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	ee = intel_engine_coredump_alloc(engine, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ee)
 		return NULL;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&se->lock, flags);
-	rq = intel_engine_find_active_request(engine);
+	rq = se->active_request(se);
 	if (rq)
 		capture = intel_engine_coredump_add_request(ee, rq,
 							    ATOMIC_MAYFAIL);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&se->lock, flags);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	if (!capture) {
 		kfree(ee);
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
index 1764fd254df3..2d8debabfe28 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gpu_error.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ intel_engine_coredump_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, gfp_t gfp);
 
 struct intel_engine_capture_vma *
 intel_engine_coredump_add_request(struct intel_engine_coredump *ee,
-				  struct i915_request *rq,
+				  const struct i915_request *rq,
 				  gfp_t gfp);
 
 void intel_engine_coredump_add_vma(struct intel_engine_coredump *ee,
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ intel_engine_coredump_alloc(struct intel_engine_cs *engine, gfp_t gfp)
 
 static inline struct intel_engine_capture_vma *
 intel_engine_coredump_add_request(struct intel_engine_coredump *ee,
-				  struct i915_request *rq,
+				  const struct i915_request *rq,
 				  gfp_t gfp)
 {
 	return NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
index c03d3cedf497..792dd0bbea3b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.c
@@ -349,74 +349,6 @@ void i915_request_retire_upto(struct i915_request *rq)
 	} while (i915_request_retire(tmp) && tmp != rq);
 }
 
-static struct i915_request * const *
-__engine_active(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
-{
-	return READ_ONCE(engine->execlists.active);
-}
-
-static bool __request_in_flight(const struct i915_request *signal)
-{
-	struct i915_request * const *port, *rq;
-	bool inflight = false;
-
-	if (!i915_request_is_ready(signal))
-		return false;
-
-	/*
-	 * Even if we have unwound the request, it may still be on
-	 * the GPU (preempt-to-busy). If that request is inside an
-	 * unpreemptible critical section, it will not be removed. Some
-	 * GPU functions may even be stuck waiting for the paired request
-	 * (__await_execution) to be submitted and cannot be preempted
-	 * until the bond is executing.
-	 *
-	 * As we know that there are always preemption points between
-	 * requests, we know that only the currently executing request
-	 * may be still active even though we have cleared the flag.
-	 * However, we can't rely on our tracking of ELSP[0] to know
-	 * which request is currently active and so maybe stuck, as
-	 * the tracking maybe an event behind. Instead assume that
-	 * if the context is still inflight, then it is still active
-	 * even if the active flag has been cleared.
-	 *
-	 * To further complicate matters, if there a pending promotion, the HW
-	 * may either perform a context switch to the second inflight execlists,
-	 * or it may switch to the pending set of execlists. In the case of the
-	 * latter, it may send the ACK and we process the event copying the
-	 * pending[] over top of inflight[], _overwriting_ our *active. Since
-	 * this implies the HW is arbitrating and not struck in *active, we do
-	 * not worry about complete accuracy, but we do require no read/write
-	 * tearing of the pointer [the read of the pointer must be valid, even
-	 * as the array is being overwritten, for which we require the writes
-	 * to avoid tearing.]
-	 *
-	 * Note that the read of *execlists->active may race with the promotion
-	 * of execlists->pending[] to execlists->inflight[], overwritting
-	 * the value at *execlists->active. This is fine. The promotion implies
-	 * that we received an ACK from the HW, and so the context is not
-	 * stuck -- if we do not see ourselves in *active, the inflight status
-	 * is valid. If instead we see ourselves being copied into *active,
-	 * we are inflight and may signal the callback.
-	 */
-	if (!intel_context_inflight(signal->context))
-		return false;
-
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	for (port = __engine_active(signal->engine);
-	     (rq = READ_ONCE(*port)); /* may race with promotion of pending[] */
-	     port++) {
-		if (rq->context == signal->context) {
-			inflight = i915_seqno_passed(rq->fence.seqno,
-						     signal->fence.seqno);
-			break;
-		}
-	}
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	return inflight;
-}
-
 static int
 __await_execution(struct i915_request *rq,
 		  struct i915_request *signal,
@@ -460,8 +392,7 @@ __await_execution(struct i915_request *rq,
 	 * the completed/retired request.
 	 */
 	if (llist_add(&cb->work.node.llist, &signal->execute_cb)) {
-		if (i915_request_is_active(signal) ||
-		    __request_in_flight(signal))
+		if (i915_request_is_executing(signal))
 			__notify_execute_cb_imm(signal);
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
index c41582b96b46..8322f308b906 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_request.h
@@ -629,4 +629,12 @@ static inline bool i915_request_use_scheduler(const struct i915_request *rq)
 	return intel_engine_has_scheduler(rq->engine);
 }
 
+static inline bool i915_request_is_executing(const struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	if (i915_request_is_active(rq))
+		return true;
+
+	return i915_request_get_scheduler(rq)->is_executing(rq);
+}
+
 #endif /* I915_REQUEST_H */
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
index 620db6430a10..cb27bcb7a1f6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler.c
@@ -91,6 +91,54 @@ static void i915_sched_init_ipi(struct i915_sched_ipi *ipi)
 	ipi->list = NULL;
 }
 
+static bool match_ring(struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	const struct intel_engine_cs *engine = rq->engine;
+	const struct intel_ring *ring = rq->ring;
+
+	return ENGINE_READ(engine, RING_START) == i915_ggtt_offset(ring->vma);
+}
+
+static const struct i915_request *active_request(struct i915_sched *se)
+{
+	struct i915_request *request, *active = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * We are called by the error capture, reset and to dump engine
+	 * state at random points in time. In particular, note that neither is
+	 * crucially ordered with an interrupt. After a hang, the GPU is dead
+	 * and we assume that no more writes can happen (we waited long enough
+	 * for all writes that were in transaction to be flushed) - adding an
+	 * extra delay for a recent interrupt is pointless. Hence, we do
+	 * not need an engine->irq_seqno_barrier() before the seqno reads.
+	 * At all other times, we must assume the GPU is still running, but
+	 * we only care about the snapshot of this moment.
+	 */
+	lockdep_assert_held(&se->lock);
+
+	list_for_each_entry(request, &se->requests, sched.link) {
+		if (__i915_request_is_complete(request))
+			continue;
+
+		if (!__i915_request_has_started(request))
+			continue;
+
+		/* More than one preemptible request may match! */
+		if (!match_ring(request))
+			continue;
+
+		active = request;
+		break;
+	}
+
+	return active;
+}
+
+static bool not_executing(const struct i915_request *rq)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
 void i915_sched_init(struct i915_sched *se,
 		     struct device *dev,
 		     const char *name,
@@ -112,6 +160,8 @@ void i915_sched_init(struct i915_sched *se,
 	i915_sched_init_ipi(&se->ipi);
 
 	se->submit_request = i915_request_enqueue;
+	se->active_request = active_request;
+	se->is_executing = not_executing;
 
 	/*
 	 * Due to an interesting quirk in lockdep's internal debug tracking,
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
index effd035dcb78..9a9b8e0d78ae 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_scheduler_types.h
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ struct i915_sched {
 	 */
 	void		(*submit_request)(struct i915_request *rq);
 
+	const struct i915_request *(*active_request)(struct i915_sched *se);
+
+	bool (*is_executing)(const struct i915_request *rq);
+
 	struct list_head requests; /* active request, on HW */
 	struct list_head hold; /* ready requests, but on hold */
 	/**
