diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_breadcrumbs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_breadcrumbs.c
index 5fa4d621528eb6e74a7a618d947e8fd118235f86..4f491791b4ba7c0dbbd7dc643cd5d7ec80a84810 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_breadcrumbs.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_breadcrumbs.c
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 #include "i915_drv.h"
 #include "i915_trace.h"
 #include "intel_gt_pm.h"
+#include "intel_gt_requests.h"
 
 static void irq_enable(struct intel_engine_cs *engine)
 {
@@ -179,8 +180,11 @@ static void signal_irq_work(struct irq_work *work)
 		if (!list_is_first(pos, &ce->signals)) {
 			/* Advance the list to the first incomplete request */
 			__list_del_many(&ce->signals, pos);
-			if (&ce->signals == pos) /* now empty */
+			if (&ce->signals == pos) { /* now empty */
 				list_del_init(&ce->signal_link);
+				intel_engine_add_retire(ce->engine,
+							ce->timeline);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
index 8cb5421e5f0ec30c69867272195157bca97df66e..0d1bca787288701f36babee6ce6a4b2ad60aafee 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_gt_requests.c
@@ -62,19 +62,16 @@ static void engine_retire(struct work_struct *work)
 static bool add_retire(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 		       struct intel_timeline *tl)
 {
+#define STUB ((struct intel_timeline *)1)
 	struct intel_timeline *first;
 
 	/*
 	 * We open-code a llist here to include the additional tag [BIT(0)]
 	 * so that we know when the timeline is already on a
 	 * retirement queue: either this engine or another.
-	 *
-	 * However, we rely on that a timeline can only be active on a single
-	 * engine at any one time and that add_retire() is called before the
-	 * engine releases the timeline and transferred to another to retire.
 	 */
 
-	if (READ_ONCE(tl->retire)) /* already queued */
+	if (cmpxchg(&tl->retire, NULL, STUB)) /* already queued */
 		return false;
 
 	intel_timeline_get(tl);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
index 4db54fd6a2fe3f7e9b7d5a422a60347b99d2450a..56cf71d8bbda1dfb5f1143fcb949fd363582c27f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_lrc.c
@@ -4511,8 +4511,8 @@ intel_execlists_create_virtual(struct i915_gem_context *ctx,
 
 	intel_engine_init_active(&ve->base, ENGINE_VIRTUAL);
 	intel_engine_init_breadcrumbs(&ve->base);
-
 	intel_engine_init_execlists(&ve->base);
+	intel_engine_init_retire(&ve->base);
 
 	ve->base.cops = &virtual_context_ops;
 	ve->base.request_alloc = execlists_request_alloc;