diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
index ab17344fc7b32012f1bff310501839bb5c2b7d59..2ac0b6887ef7e29c7acc4c4fdc5cb25496e5b1ea 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c
@@ -679,6 +679,7 @@ static void sdhci_prepare_data(struct sdhci_host *host, struct mmc_command *cmd)
 
 	host->data = data;
 	host->data_early = 0;
+	host->data->bytes_xfered = 0;
 
 	if (host->flags & (SDHCI_USE_SDMA | SDHCI_USE_ADMA))
 		host->flags |= SDHCI_REQ_USE_DMA;
@@ -814,8 +815,9 @@ static void sdhci_prepare_data(struct sdhci_host *host, struct mmc_command *cmd)
 
 	sdhci_set_transfer_irqs(host);
 
-	/* We do not handle DMA boundaries, so set it to max (512 KiB) */
-	sdhci_writew(host, SDHCI_MAKE_BLKSZ(7, data->blksz), SDHCI_BLOCK_SIZE);
+	/* Set the DMA boundary value and block size */
+	sdhci_writew(host, SDHCI_MAKE_BLKSZ(SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_ARG,
+		data->blksz), SDHCI_BLOCK_SIZE);
 	sdhci_writew(host, data->blocks, SDHCI_BLOCK_COUNT);
 }
 
@@ -1558,10 +1560,28 @@ static void sdhci_data_irq(struct sdhci_host *host, u32 intmask)
 		 * We currently don't do anything fancy with DMA
 		 * boundaries, but as we can't disable the feature
 		 * we need to at least restart the transfer.
+		 *
+		 * According to the spec sdhci_readl(host, SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS)
+		 * should return a valid address to continue from, but as
+		 * some controllers are faulty, don't trust them.
 		 */
-		if (intmask & SDHCI_INT_DMA_END)
-			sdhci_writel(host, sdhci_readl(host, SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS),
-				SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS);
+		if (intmask & SDHCI_INT_DMA_END) {
+			u32 dmastart, dmanow;
+			dmastart = sg_dma_address(host->data->sg);
+			dmanow = dmastart + host->data->bytes_xfered;
+			/*
+			 * Force update to the next DMA block boundary.
+			 */
+			dmanow = (dmanow &
+				~(SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_SIZE - 1)) +
+				SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_SIZE;
+			host->data->bytes_xfered = dmanow - dmastart;
+			DBG("%s: DMA base 0x%08x, transferred 0x%06x bytes,"
+				" next 0x%08x\n",
+				mmc_hostname(host->mmc), dmastart,
+				host->data->bytes_xfered, dmanow);
+			sdhci_writel(host, dmanow, SDHCI_DMA_ADDRESS);
+		}
 
 		if (intmask & SDHCI_INT_DATA_END) {
 			if (host->cmd) {
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
index 25e8bde600d1e839a3b44caf77558ec8a52d381c..85750a94c612ca43a8983d8c8879ef8ec97559ea 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.h
@@ -202,6 +202,12 @@
 #define SDHCI_MAX_DIV_SPEC_200	256
 #define SDHCI_MAX_DIV_SPEC_300	2046
 
+/*
+ * Host SDMA buffer boundary. Valid values from 4K to 512K in powers of 2.
+ */
+#define SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_SIZE  (512 * 1024)
+#define SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_ARG   (ilog2(SDHCI_DEFAULT_BOUNDARY_SIZE) - 12)
+
 struct sdhci_ops {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMC_SDHCI_IO_ACCESSORS
 	u32		(*read_l)(struct sdhci_host *host, int reg);