* This function prepares the passed in event for eventual delivery. If the event
  * doesn't get delivered (because the IOCTL fails later on, before queuing up
  * anything) then the even must be cancelled and freed using
- * drm_event_cancel_free().
+ * drm_event_cancel_free(). Successfully initialized events should be sent out
+ * using drm_send_event() or drm_send_event_locked() to signal completion of the
+ * asynchronous event to userspace.
  *
  * If callers embedded @p into a larger structure it must be allocated with
  * kmalloc and @p must be the first member element.
        p->destroy(p);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_event_cancel_free);
+
+/**
+ * drm_send_event_locked - send DRM event to file descriptor
+ * @dev: DRM device
+ * @e: DRM event to deliver
+ *
+ * This function sends the event @e, initialized with drm_event_reserve_init(),
+ * to its associated userspace DRM file. Callers must already hold
+ * dev->event_lock, see drm_send_event() for the unlocked version.
+ */
+void drm_send_event_locked(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_pending_event *e)
+{
+       assert_spin_locked(&dev->event_lock);
+
+       list_add_tail(&e->link,
+                     &e->file_priv->event_list);
+       wake_up_interruptible(&e->file_priv->event_wait);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_send_event_locked);
+
+/**
+ * drm_send_event - send DRM event to file descriptor
+ * @dev: DRM device
+ * @e: DRM event to deliver
+ *
+ * This function sends the event @e, initialized with drm_event_reserve_init(),
+ * to its associated userspace DRM file. This function acquires dev->event_lock,
+ * see drm_send_event_locked() for callers which already hold this lock.
+ */
+void drm_send_event(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_pending_event *e)
+{
+       unsigned long irqflags;
+
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->event_lock, irqflags);
+       drm_send_event_locked(dev, e);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->event_lock, irqflags);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_send_event);
 
                struct drm_pending_vblank_event *e,
                unsigned long seq, struct timeval *now)
 {
-       assert_spin_locked(&dev->event_lock);
-
        e->event.sequence = seq;
        e->event.tv_sec = now->tv_sec;
        e->event.tv_usec = now->tv_usec;
 
-       list_add_tail(&e->base.link,
-                     &e->base.file_priv->event_list);
-       wake_up_interruptible(&e->base.file_priv->event_wait);
+       drm_send_event_locked(dev, &e->base);
+
        trace_drm_vblank_event_delivered(e->base.pid, e->pipe,
                                         e->event.sequence);
 }
 
        struct g2d_runqueue_node *runqueue_node = g2d->runqueue_node;
        struct drm_exynos_pending_g2d_event *e;
        struct timeval now;
-       unsigned long flags;
 
        if (list_empty(&runqueue_node->event_list))
                return;
        e->event.tv_usec = now.tv_usec;
        e->event.cmdlist_no = cmdlist_no;
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&drm_dev->event_lock, flags);
-       list_move_tail(&e->base.link, &e->base.file_priv->event_list);
-       wake_up_interruptible(&e->base.file_priv->event_wait);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drm_dev->event_lock, flags);
+       drm_send_event(drm_dev, &e->base);
 }
 
 static irqreturn_t g2d_irq_handler(int irq, void *dev_id)
 
        struct drm_exynos_ipp_send_event *e;
        struct list_head *head;
        struct timeval now;
-       unsigned long flags;
        u32 tbuf_id[EXYNOS_DRM_OPS_MAX] = {0, };
        int ret, i;
 
        for_each_ipp_ops(i)
                e->event.buf_id[i] = tbuf_id[i];
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&drm_dev->event_lock, flags);
-       list_move_tail(&e->base.link, &e->base.file_priv->event_list);
-       wake_up_interruptible(&e->base.file_priv->event_wait);
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&drm_dev->event_lock, flags);
+       drm_send_event(drm_dev, &e->base);
        mutex_unlock(&c_node->event_lock);
 
        DRM_DEBUG_KMS("done cmd[%d]prop_id[%d]buf_id[%d]\n",
 
        }
 
        list_del_init(&eaction->fpriv_head);
-       list_add_tail(&eaction->event->link, &file_priv->event_list);
        eaction->event = NULL;
-       wake_up_all(&file_priv->event_wait);
+       drm_send_event_locked(dev, eaction->event);
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->event_lock, irq_flags);
 }
 
 
                           struct drm_event *e);
 void drm_event_cancel_free(struct drm_device *dev,
                           struct drm_pending_event *p);
+void drm_send_event_locked(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_pending_event *e);
+void drm_send_event(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_pending_event *e);
 
 /* Misc. IOCTL support (drm_ioctl.c) */
 int drm_noop(struct drm_device *dev, void *data,