* to enable background color fill.
         */
        bool needs_bg_fill;
+
+       /* Mark the dlist as initialized. Useful to avoid initializing it twice
+        * when async update is not possible.
+        */
+       bool dlist_initialized;
 };
 
 static inline struct vc4_plane_state *
 
                return NULL;
 
        memset(&vc4_state->lbm, 0, sizeof(vc4_state->lbm));
+       vc4_state->dlist_initialized = 0;
 
        __drm_atomic_helper_plane_duplicate_state(plane, &vc4_state->base);
 
        u32 hvs_format = format->hvs;
        int ret, i;
 
+       if (vc4_state->dlist_initialized)
+               return 0;
+
        ret = vc4_plane_setup_clipping_and_scaling(state);
        if (ret)
                return ret;
        vc4_state->needs_bg_fill = fb->format->has_alpha || !covers_screen ||
                                   state->alpha != DRM_BLEND_ALPHA_OPAQUE;
 
+       /* Flag the dlist as initialized to avoid checking it twice in case
+        * the async update check already called vc4_plane_mode_set() and
+        * decided to fallback to sync update because async update was not
+        * possible.
+        */
+       vc4_state->dlist_initialized = 1;
+
        return 0;
 }