diff --git a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
index cf462b1abc0b..544e7273e741 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c
@@ -808,6 +808,90 @@ static int tegra_dma_terminate_all(struct dma_chan *dc)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static unsigned int tegra_dma_update_residual(struct tegra_dma_channel *tdc,
+					      struct tegra_dma_sg_req *sg_req,
+					      struct tegra_dma_desc *dma_desc,
+					      unsigned int residual)
+{
+	unsigned long status = 0x0;
+	unsigned long wcount;
+	unsigned long ahbptr;
+	unsigned long tmp = 0x0;
+	unsigned int result;
+	int retries = TEGRA_APBDMA_BURST_COMPLETE_TIME * 10;
+	int done;
+
+	/* if we're not the current request, then don't alter the residual */
+	if (sg_req != list_first_entry(&tdc->pending_sg_req,
+				       struct tegra_dma_sg_req, node)) {
+		result = residual;
+		ahbptr = 0xffffffff;
+		goto done;
+	}
+
+	/* loop until we have a reliable result for residual */
+	do {
+		ahbptr = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_AHBPTR);
+		status = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_STATUS);
+		tmp =  tdc_read(tdc, 0x08);	/* total count for debug */
+
+		/* check status, if channel isn't busy then skip */
+		if (!(status & TEGRA_APBDMA_STATUS_BUSY)) {
+			result = residual;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		/* if we've got an interrupt pending on the channel, don't
+		 * try and deal with the residue as the hardware has likely
+		 * moved on to the next buffer. return all data moved.
+		 */
+		if (status & TEGRA_APBDMA_STATUS_ISE_EOC) {
+			result = residual - sg_req->req_len;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		if (tdc->tdma->chip_data->support_separate_wcount_reg)
+			wcount = tdc_read(tdc, TEGRA_APBDMA_CHAN_WORD_TRANSFER);
+		else
+			wcount = status;
+
+		/* If the request is at the full point, then there is a
+		 * chance that we have read the status register in the
+		 * middle of the hardware reloading the next buffer.
+		 *
+		 * The sequence seems to be at the end of the buffer, to
+		 * load the new word count before raising the EOC flag (or
+		 * changing the ping-pong flag which could have also been
+		 * used to determine a new buffer). This  means there is a
+		 * small window where we cannot determine zero-done for the
+		 * current buffer, or moved to next buffer.
+		 *
+		 * If done shows 0, then retry the load, as it may hit the
+		 * above hardware race. We will either get a new value which
+		 * is from the first buffer, or we get an EOC (new buffer)
+		 * or both a new value and an EOC...
+		 */
+		done = get_current_xferred_count(tdc, sg_req, wcount);
+		if (done != 0) {
+			result = residual - done;
+			break;
+		}
+
+		ndelay(100);
+	} while (--retries > 0);
+
+	if (retries <= 0) {
+		dev_err(tdc2dev(tdc), "timeout waiting for dma load\n");
+		result = residual;
+	}
+
+done:	
+	dev_dbg(tdc2dev(tdc), "residual: req %08lx, ahb@%08lx, wcount %08lx, done %d\n",
+		 sg_req->ch_regs.ahb_ptr, ahbptr, wcount, done);
+
+	return result;
+}
+
 static enum dma_status tegra_dma_tx_status(struct dma_chan *dc,
 	dma_cookie_t cookie, struct dma_tx_state *txstate)
 {
@@ -849,6 +933,7 @@ static enum dma_status tegra_dma_tx_status(struct dma_chan *dc,
 		residual = dma_desc->bytes_requested -
 			   (dma_desc->bytes_transferred %
 			    dma_desc->bytes_requested);
+		residual = tegra_dma_update_residual(tdc, sg_req, dma_desc, residual);
 		dma_set_residue(txstate, residual);
 	}
 
@@ -1444,12 +1529,7 @@ static int tegra_dma_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		BIT(DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_4_BYTES) |
 		BIT(DMA_SLAVE_BUSWIDTH_8_BYTES);
 	tdma->dma_dev.directions = BIT(DMA_DEV_TO_MEM) | BIT(DMA_MEM_TO_DEV);
-	/*
-	 * XXX The hardware appears to support
-	 * DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_BURST-level reporting, but it's
-	 * only used by this driver during tegra_dma_terminate_all()
-	 */
-	tdma->dma_dev.residue_granularity = DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_SEGMENT;
+	tdma->dma_dev.residue_granularity = DMA_RESIDUE_GRANULARITY_BURST;
 	tdma->dma_dev.device_config = tegra_dma_slave_config;
 	tdma->dma_dev.device_terminate_all = tegra_dma_terminate_all;
 	tdma->dma_dev.device_tx_status = tegra_dma_tx_status;
