diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
index 1513553e4080..257dc501d5df 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-mem.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  * Author: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
  */
 #include <linux/dmaengine.h>
+#include <linux/iopoll.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <linux/spi/spi.h>
 #include <linux/spi/spi-mem.h>
@@ -743,6 +744,89 @@ static inline struct spi_mem_driver *to_spi_mem_drv(struct device_driver *drv)
 	return container_of(drv, struct spi_mem_driver, spidrv.driver);
 }
 
+int spi_mem_read_status(struct spi_mem *mem,
+			const struct spi_mem_op *op,
+			u16 *status)
+{
+	const u8 *bytes = (u8 *)op->data.buf.in;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = spi_mem_exec_op(mem, op);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	if (op->data.nbytes > 1)
+		*status = ((u16)bytes[0] << 8) | bytes[1];
+	else
+		*status = bytes[0];
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/**
+ * spi_mem_poll_status() - Poll memory device status
+ * @mem: SPI memory device
+ * @op: the memory operation to execute
+ * @mask: status bitmask to ckeck
+ * @match: (status & mask) expected value
+ * @initial_delay_us: delay in us before starting to poll
+ * @polling_delay_us: time to sleep between reads in us
+ * @timeout_ms: timeout in milliseconds
+ *
+ * This function send a polling status request to the controller driver
+ *
+ * Return: 0 in case of success, -ETIMEDOUT in case of error,
+ *         -EOPNOTSUPP if not supported.
+ */
+int spi_mem_poll_status(struct spi_mem *mem,
+			const struct spi_mem_op *op,
+			u16 mask, u16 match,
+			unsigned long initial_delay_us,
+			unsigned long polling_delay_us,
+			u16 timeout_ms)
+{
+	struct spi_controller *ctlr = mem->spi->controller;
+	int ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	int read_status_ret;
+	u16 status;
+
+	if (op->data.nbytes < 1 || op->data.nbytes > 2)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (ctlr->mem_ops && ctlr->mem_ops->poll_status) {
+		ret = spi_mem_access_start(mem);
+		if (ret)
+			return ret;
+
+		ret = ctlr->mem_ops->poll_status(mem, op, mask, match,
+						 initial_delay_us, polling_delay_us,
+						 timeout_ms);
+
+		spi_mem_access_end(mem);
+	}
+
+	if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP) {
+		if (!spi_mem_supports_op(mem, op))
+			return ret;
+
+		if (initial_delay_us < 10)
+			udelay(initial_delay_us);
+		else
+			usleep_range((initial_delay_us >> 2) + 1,
+				     initial_delay_us);
+
+		ret = read_poll_timeout(spi_mem_read_status, read_status_ret,
+					(read_status_ret || ((status) & mask) == match),
+					polling_delay_us, timeout_ms * 1000, false, mem,
+					op, &status);
+		if (read_status_ret)
+			return read_status_ret;
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spi_mem_poll_status);
+
 static int spi_mem_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 {
 	struct spi_mem_driver *memdrv = to_spi_mem_drv(spi->dev.driver);
@@ -763,6 +847,7 @@ static int spi_mem_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(mem->name))
 		return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(mem->name);
 
+	init_completion(&ctlr->xfer_completion);
 	spi_set_drvdata(spi, mem);
 
 	return memdrv->probe(mem);
diff --git a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
index 2b65c9edc34e..10375d9ad747 100644
--- a/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
+++ b/include/linux/spi/spi-mem.h
@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ static inline void *spi_mem_get_drvdata(struct spi_mem *mem)
  *		  the currently mapped area), and the caller of
  *		  spi_mem_dirmap_write() is responsible for calling it again in
  *		  this case.
+ * @poll_status: poll memory device status
  *
  * This interface should be implemented by SPI controllers providing an
  * high-level interface to execute SPI memory operation, which is usually the
@@ -274,6 +275,12 @@ struct spi_controller_mem_ops {
 			       u64 offs, size_t len, void *buf);
 	ssize_t (*dirmap_write)(struct spi_mem_dirmap_desc *desc,
 				u64 offs, size_t len, const void *buf);
+	int (*poll_status)(struct spi_mem *mem,
+			   const struct spi_mem_op *op,
+			   u16 mask, u16 match,
+			   unsigned long initial_delay_us,
+			   unsigned long polling_rate_us,
+			   unsigned long timeout_ms);
 };
 
 /**
@@ -369,6 +376,13 @@ devm_spi_mem_dirmap_create(struct device *dev, struct spi_mem *mem,
 void devm_spi_mem_dirmap_destroy(struct device *dev,
 				 struct spi_mem_dirmap_desc *desc);
 
+int spi_mem_poll_status(struct spi_mem *mem,
+			const struct spi_mem_op *op,
+			u16 mask, u16 match,
+			unsigned long initial_delay_us,
+			unsigned long polling_delay_us,
+			u16 timeout);
+
 int spi_mem_driver_register_with_owner(struct spi_mem_driver *drv,
 				       struct module *owner);
 
