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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
index 45953f171500..ecf139f73da4 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/dmaengine/client.rst
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ DMA Engine API Guide
 Vinod Koul <vinod dot koul at intel.com>
 
 .. note:: For DMA Engine usage in async_tx please see:
-          ``Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt``
+          ``Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.rst``
 
 
 Below is a guide to device driver writers on how to use the Slave-DMA API of the
@@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ The details of these operations are:
   - interleaved_dma: This is common to Slave as well as M2M clients. For slave
     address of devices' fifo could be already known to the driver.
     Various types of operations could be expressed by setting
-    appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members.
+    appropriate values to the 'dma_interleaved_template' members. Cyclic
+    interleaved DMA transfers are also possible if supported by the channel by
+    setting the DMA_PREP_REPEAT transfer flag.
 
   A non-NULL return of this transfer API represents a "descriptor" for
   the given transaction.
@@ -118,7 +120,9 @@ The details of these operations are:
 
   .. code-block:: c
 
-     nr_sg = dma_map_sg(chan->device->dev, sgl, sg_len);
+     struct device *dma_dev = dmaengine_get_dma_device(chan);
+
+     nr_sg = dma_map_sg(dma_dev, sgl, sg_len);
 	if (nr_sg == 0)
 		/* error */
 
@@ -151,6 +155,99 @@ The details of these operations are:
      Note that callbacks will always be invoked from the DMA
      engines tasklet, never from interrupt context.
 
+  **Optional: per descriptor metadata**
+
+  DMAengine provides two ways for metadata support.
+
+  DESC_METADATA_CLIENT
+
+    The metadata buffer is allocated/provided by the client driver and it is
+    attached to the descriptor.
+
+  .. code-block:: c
+
+     int dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc,
+				   void *data, size_t len);
+
+  DESC_METADATA_ENGINE
+
+    The metadata buffer is allocated/managed by the DMA driver. The client
+    driver can ask for the pointer, maximum size and the currently used size of
+    the metadata and can directly update or read it.
+
+    Because the DMA driver manages the memory area containing the metadata,
+    clients must make sure that they do not try to access or get the pointer
+    after their transfer completion callback has run for the descriptor.
+    If no completion callback has been defined for the transfer, then the
+    metadata must not be accessed after issue_pending.
+    In other words: if the aim is to read back metadata after the transfer is
+    completed, then the client must use completion callback.
+
+  .. code-block:: c
+
+     void *dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc,
+		size_t *payload_len, size_t *max_len);
+
+     int dmaengine_desc_set_metadata_len(struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *desc,
+		size_t payload_len);
+
+  Client drivers can query if a given mode is supported with:
+
+  .. code-block:: c
+
+     bool dmaengine_is_metadata_mode_supported(struct dma_chan *chan,
+		enum dma_desc_metadata_mode mode);
+
+  Depending on the used mode client drivers must follow different flow.
+
+  DESC_METADATA_CLIENT
+
+    - DMA_MEM_TO_DEV / DEV_MEM_TO_MEM:
+
+      1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*)
+         construct the metadata in the client's buffer
+      2. use dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata() to attach the buffer to the
+         descriptor
+      3. submit the transfer
+
+    - DMA_DEV_TO_MEM:
+
+      1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*)
+      2. use dmaengine_desc_attach_metadata() to attach the buffer to the
+         descriptor
+      3. submit the transfer
+      4. when the transfer is completed, the metadata should be available in the
+         attached buffer
+
+  DESC_METADATA_ENGINE
+
+    - DMA_MEM_TO_DEV / DEV_MEM_TO_MEM:
+
+      1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*)
+      2. use dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr() to get the pointer to the
+         engine's metadata area
+      3. update the metadata at the pointer
+      4. use dmaengine_desc_set_metadata_len()  to tell the DMA engine the
+         amount of data the client has placed into the metadata buffer
+      5. submit the transfer
+
+    - DMA_DEV_TO_MEM:
+
+      1. prepare the descriptor (dmaengine_prep_*)
+      2. submit the transfer
+      3. on transfer completion, use dmaengine_desc_get_metadata_ptr() to get
+         the pointer to the engine's metadata area
+      4. read out the metadata from the pointer
+
+  .. note::
+
+     When DESC_METADATA_ENGINE mode is used the metadata area for the descriptor
+     is no longer valid after the transfer has been completed (valid up to the
+     point when the completion callback returns if used).
+
+     Mixed use of DESC_METADATA_CLIENT / DESC_METADATA_ENGINE is not allowed,
+     client drivers must use either of the modes per descriptor.
+
 4. Submit the transaction
 
    Once the descriptor has been prepared and the callback information
@@ -191,8 +288,8 @@ The details of these operations are:
 
       void dma_async_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *chan);
 
-Further APIs:
--------------
+Further APIs
+------------
 
 1. Terminate APIs