diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c
index 825981b5aa40..ed989596d9a3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.c
@@ -41,15 +41,15 @@
 
 /**
  * i915_gem_batch_pool_init() - initialize a batch buffer pool
- * @dev: the drm device
+ * @engine: the associated request submission engine
  * @pool: the batch buffer pool
  */
-void i915_gem_batch_pool_init(struct drm_device *dev,
+void i915_gem_batch_pool_init(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 			      struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool)
 {
 	int n;
 
-	pool->dev = dev;
+	pool->engine = engine;
 
 	for (n = 0; n < ARRAY_SIZE(pool->cache_list); n++)
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&pool->cache_list[n]);
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ void i915_gem_batch_pool_fini(struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool)
 {
 	int n;
 
-	WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&pool->dev->struct_mutex));
+	lockdep_assert_held(&pool->engine->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
 
 	for (n = 0; n < ARRAY_SIZE(pool->cache_list); n++) {
 		struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, *next;
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ i915_gem_batch_pool_get(struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool,
 	struct list_head *list;
 	int n;
 
-	WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&pool->dev->struct_mutex));
+	lockdep_assert_held(&pool->engine->i915->drm.struct_mutex);
 
 	/* Compute a power-of-two bucket, but throw everything greater than
 	 * 16KiB into the same bucket: i.e. the the buckets hold objects of
@@ -114,7 +114,8 @@ i915_gem_batch_pool_get(struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool,
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(tmp, next, list, batch_pool_link) {
 		/* The batches are strictly LRU ordered */
-		if (tmp->active)
+		if (!i915_gem_active_is_idle(&tmp->last_read[pool->engine->id],
+					     &tmp->base.dev->struct_mutex))
 			break;
 
 		/* While we're looping, do some clean up */
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ i915_gem_batch_pool_get(struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool,
 	if (obj == NULL) {
 		int ret;
 
-		obj = i915_gem_object_create(pool->dev, size);
+		obj = i915_gem_object_create(&pool->engine->i915->drm, size);
 		if (IS_ERR(obj))
 			return obj;
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.h
index 848e90703eed..10d5ac4c00d3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_batch_pool.h
@@ -27,13 +27,15 @@
 
 #include "i915_drv.h"
 
+struct intel_engine_cs;
+
 struct i915_gem_batch_pool {
-	struct drm_device *dev;
+	struct intel_engine_cs *engine;
 	struct list_head cache_list[4];
 };
 
 /* i915_gem_batch_pool.c */
-void i915_gem_batch_pool_init(struct drm_device *dev,
+void i915_gem_batch_pool_init(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 			      struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool);
 void i915_gem_batch_pool_fini(struct i915_gem_batch_pool *pool);
 struct drm_i915_gem_object*
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
index 202ad83b3dd1..f495969f749b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_engine_cs.c
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void intel_engine_setup_common(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 	engine->fence_context = fence_context_alloc(1);
 
 	intel_engine_init_hangcheck(engine);
-	i915_gem_batch_pool_init(&engine->i915->drm, &engine->batch_pool);
+	i915_gem_batch_pool_init(engine, &engine->batch_pool);
 }
 
 /**