diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
index 276676b2bbc81d..78191e00a00c6c 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.c
@@ -2475,6 +2475,7 @@ static int intel_runtime_resume(struct device *kdev)
 	 * we can do is to hope that things will still work (and disable RPM).
 	 */
 	i915_gem_init_swizzling(dev_priv);
+	i915_gem_restore_fences(dev_priv);
 
 	intel_runtime_pm_enable_interrupts(dev_priv);
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
index f3b5cb49792140..495f1176d45e5b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c
@@ -2011,8 +2011,16 @@ void i915_gem_runtime_suspend(struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv)
 	for (i = 0; i < dev_priv->num_fence_regs; i++) {
 		struct drm_i915_fence_reg *reg = &dev_priv->fence_regs[i];
 
-		if (WARN_ON(reg->pin_count))
-			continue;
+		/* Ideally we want to assert that the fence register is not
+		 * live at this point (i.e. that no piece of code will be
+		 * trying to write through fence + GTT, as that both violates
+		 * our tracking of activity and associated locking/barriers,
+		 * but also is illegal given that the hw is powered down).
+		 *
+		 * Previously we used reg->pin_count as a "liveness" indicator.
+		 * That is not sufficient, and we need a more fine-grained
+		 * tool if we want to have a sanity check here.
+		 */
 
 		if (!reg->vma)
 			continue;