diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c
index 9a1f41adfc67..d569e20e34e3 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_uapi.c
@@ -469,6 +469,8 @@ static int drm_atomic_crtc_set_property(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 			return -EFAULT;
 
 		set_out_fence_for_crtc(state->state, crtc, fence_ptr);
+	} else if (property == config->bgcolor_property) {
+		state->bgcolor = val;
 	} else if (crtc->funcs->atomic_set_property) {
 		return crtc->funcs->atomic_set_property(crtc, state, property, val);
 	} else {
@@ -503,6 +505,8 @@ drm_atomic_crtc_get_property(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 		*val = (state->gamma_lut) ? state->gamma_lut->base.id : 0;
 	else if (property == config->prop_out_fence_ptr)
 		*val = 0;
+	else if (property == config->bgcolor_property)
+		*val = state->bgcolor;
 	else if (crtc->funcs->atomic_get_property)
 		return crtc->funcs->atomic_get_property(crtc, state, property, val);
 	else
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c
index 0c78ca386cbe..d451ac9e1d6d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_blend.c
@@ -175,9 +175,22 @@
  *		 plane does not expose the "alpha" property, then this is
  *		 assumed to be 1.0
  *
- * Note that all the property extensions described here apply either to the
- * plane or the CRTC (e.g. for the background color, which currently is not
- * exposed and assumed to be black).
+ * The property extensions described above all apply to the plane.  Drivers
+ * may also expose the following crtc property extension:
+ *
+ * BACKGROUND_COLOR:
+ *	Background color is setup with drm_crtc_add_bgcolor_property().  It
+ *	controls the ARGB color of a full-screen layer that exists below all
+ *	planes.  This color will be used for pixels not covered by any plane
+ *	and may also be blended with plane contents as allowed by a plane's
+ *	alpha values.  The background color defaults to black, and is assumed
+ *	to be black for drivers that do not expose this property.  Although
+ *	background color isn't a plane, it is assumed that the color provided
+ *	here undergoes the same pipe-level degamma/CSC/gamma transformations
+ *	that planes undergo.  Note that the color value provided here includes
+ *	an alpha channel...non-opaque background color values are allowed,
+ *	but are generally only honored in special cases (e.g., when a memory
+ *	writeback connector is in use).
  */
 
 /**
@@ -593,3 +606,11 @@ int drm_plane_create_blend_mode_property(struct drm_plane *plane,
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_plane_create_blend_mode_property);
+
+void drm_crtc_add_bgcolor_property(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
+{
+	drm_object_attach_property(&crtc->base,
+				   crtc->dev->mode_config.bgcolor_property,
+				   drm_argb(16, 0xffff, 0, 0, 0));
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_crtc_add_bgcolor_property);
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
index 4a1c2023ccf0..8a7c346b3191 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
@@ -364,6 +364,12 @@ static int drm_mode_create_standard_properties(struct drm_device *dev)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	dev->mode_config.modifiers_property = prop;
 
+	prop = drm_property_create_range(dev, 0, "BACKGROUND_COLOR",
+					 0, GENMASK_ULL(63, 0));
+	if (!prop)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	dev->mode_config.bgcolor_property = prop;
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_blend.h b/include/drm/drm_blend.h
index 88bdfec3bd88..9e2538dd7b9a 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_blend.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_blend.h
@@ -58,4 +58,5 @@ int drm_atomic_normalize_zpos(struct drm_device *dev,
 			      struct drm_atomic_state *state);
 int drm_plane_create_blend_mode_property(struct drm_plane *plane,
 					 unsigned int supported_modes);
+void drm_crtc_add_bgcolor_property(struct drm_crtc *crtc);
 #endif
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
index 85abd3fe9e83..dbe0b45d5da6 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_crtc.h
@@ -274,6 +274,18 @@ struct drm_crtc_state {
 	 */
 	struct drm_property_blob *gamma_lut;
 
+	/**
+	 * @bgcolor:
+	 *
+	 * RGB value representing the pipe's background color.  The background
+	 * color (aka "canvas color") of a pipe is the color that will be used
+	 * for pixels not covered by a plane, or covered by transparent pixels
+	 * of a plane.  The value here should be built via drm_argb();
+	 * individual color components can be extracted with desired precision
+	 * via the DRM_ARGB_*() macros.
+	 */
+	u64 bgcolor;
+
 	/**
 	 * @target_vblank:
 	 *
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
index 1e6cb885994d..0463d3f4ae59 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_mode_config.h
@@ -836,6 +836,11 @@ struct drm_mode_config {
 	 */
 	struct drm_property *writeback_out_fence_ptr_property;
 
+	/**
+	 * @bgcolor_property: RGB background color for CRTC.
+	 */
+	struct drm_property *bgcolor_property;
+
 	/* dumb ioctl parameters */
 	uint32_t preferred_depth, prefer_shadow;
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
index a439c2e67896..5f31e6a05bd9 100644
--- a/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
+++ b/include/uapi/drm/drm_mode.h
@@ -907,6 +907,34 @@ struct drm_mode_rect {
 	__s32 y2;
 };
 
+/*
+ * Put ARGB values into a standard 64-bit representation that can be used
+ * for ioctl parameters, inter-driver commmunication, etc.  If the component
+ * values being provided contain less than 16 bits of precision, they'll
+ * be shifted into the most significant bits.
+ */
+static inline __u64
+drm_argb(__u8 bpc, __u16 alpha, __u16 red, __u16 green, __u16 blue)
+{
+	int msb_shift = 16 - bpc;
+
+	return (__u64)alpha << msb_shift << 48 |
+	       (__u64)red   << msb_shift << 32 |
+	       (__u64)green << msb_shift << 16 |
+	       (__u64)blue  << msb_shift;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Extract the specified number of bits of a specific color component from a
+ * standard 64-bit ARGB value.
+ */
+#define DRM_ARGB_COMP(c, shift, numbits) \
+	(__u16)(((c) & 0xFFFFull << (shift)) >> ((shift) + 16 - (numbits)))
+#define DRM_ARGB_BLUE(c, numbits)  DRM_ARGB_COMP(c, 0, numbits)
+#define DRM_ARGB_GREEN(c, numbits) DRM_ARGB_COMP(c, 16, numbits)
+#define DRM_ARGB_RED(c, numbits)   DRM_ARGB_COMP(c, 32, numbits)
+#define DRM_ARGB_ALPHA(c, numbits) DRM_ARGB_COMP(c, 48, numbits)
+
 #if defined(__cplusplus)
 }
 #endif
