diff --git a/drivers/spi/Kconfig b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
index c6ea760ea5f0..1f70bb1e7fa9 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/spi/Kconfig
@@ -235,6 +235,7 @@ config SPI_DAVINCI
 
 config SPI_DESIGNWARE
 	tristate "DesignWare SPI controller core support"
+	imply SPI_MEM
 	help
 	  general driver for SPI controller core from DesignWare
 
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
index 72b205dc6c81..d1e8438433b8 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw-core.c
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/preempt.h>
 #include <linux/highmem.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/spi/spi.h>
+#include <linux/spi/spi-mem.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/of.h>
 
 #include "spi-dw.h"
@@ -422,6 +425,300 @@ static void dw_spi_handle_err(struct spi_controller *master,
 	spi_reset_chip(dws);
 }
 
+static int dw_spi_adjust_mem_op_size(struct spi_mem *mem, struct spi_mem_op *op)
+{
+	if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_IN)
+		op->data.nbytes = clamp_val(op->data.nbytes, 0, SPI_NDF_MASK + 1);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static bool dw_spi_supports_mem_op(struct spi_mem *mem,
+				   const struct spi_mem_op *op)
+{
+	if (op->data.buswidth > 1 || op->addr.buswidth > 1 ||
+	    op->dummy.buswidth > 1 || op->cmd.buswidth > 1)
+		return false;
+
+	return spi_mem_default_supports_op(mem, op);
+}
+
+static int dw_spi_init_mem_buf(struct dw_spi *dws, const struct spi_mem_op *op)
+{
+	unsigned int i, j, len;
+	u8 *out;
+
+	/*
+	 * Calculate the total length of the EEPROM command transfer and
+	 * either use the pre-allocated buffer or create a temporary one.
+	 */
+	len = op->cmd.nbytes + op->addr.nbytes + op->dummy.nbytes;
+	if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_OUT)
+		len += op->data.nbytes;
+
+	if (len <= SPI_BUF_SIZE) {
+		out = dws->buf;
+	} else {
+		out = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!out)
+			return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Collect the operation code, address and dummy bytes into the single
+	 * buffer. If it's a transfer with data to be sent, also copy it into the
+	 * single buffer in order to speed the data transmission up.
+	 */
+	for (i = 0; i < op->cmd.nbytes; ++i)
+		out[i] = SPI_GET_BYTE(op->cmd.opcode, op->cmd.nbytes - i - 1);
+	for (j = 0; j < op->addr.nbytes; ++i, ++j)
+		out[i] = SPI_GET_BYTE(op->addr.val, op->addr.nbytes - j - 1);
+	for (j = 0; j < op->dummy.nbytes; ++i, ++j)
+		out[i] = 0x0;
+
+	if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_OUT)
+		memcpy(&out[i], op->data.buf.out, op->data.nbytes);
+
+	dws->n_bytes = 1;
+	dws->tx = out;
+	dws->tx_len = len;
+	if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_IN) {
+		dws->rx = op->data.buf.in;
+		dws->rx_len = op->data.nbytes;
+	} else {
+		dws->rx = NULL;
+		dws->rx_len = 0;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void dw_spi_free_mem_buf(struct dw_spi *dws)
+{
+	if (dws->tx != dws->buf)
+		kfree(dws->tx);
+}
+
+static int dw_spi_write_then_read(struct dw_spi *dws, struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+	u32 room, entries, sts;
+	unsigned int len;
+	u8 *buf;
+
+	/*
+	 * At initial stage we just pre-fill the Tx FIFO in with no rush,
+	 * since native CS hasn't been enabled yet and the automatic data
+	 * transmission won't start til we do that.
+	 */
+	len = min(dws->fifo_len, dws->tx_len);
+	buf = dws->tx;
+	while (len--)
+		dw_write_io_reg(dws, DW_SPI_DR, *buf++);
+
+	/*
+	 * After setting any bit in the SER register the transmission will
+	 * start automatically. We have to keep up with that procedure
+	 * otherwise the CS de-assertion will happen whereupon the memory
+	 * operation will be pre-terminated.
+	 */
+	len = dws->tx_len - ((void *)buf - dws->tx);
+	dw_spi_set_cs(spi, false);
+	while (len) {
+		entries = readl_relaxed(dws->regs + DW_SPI_TXFLR);
+		if (!entries) {
+			dev_err(&dws->master->dev, "CS de-assertion on Tx\n");
+			return -EIO;
+		}
+		room = min(dws->fifo_len - entries, len);
+		for (; room; --room, --len)
+			dw_write_io_reg(dws, DW_SPI_DR, *buf++);
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Data fetching will start automatically if the EEPROM-read mode is
+	 * activated. We have to keep up with the incoming data pace to
+	 * prevent the Rx FIFO overflow causing the inbound data loss.
+	 */
+	len = dws->rx_len;
+	buf = dws->rx;
+	while (len) {
+		entries = readl_relaxed(dws->regs + DW_SPI_RXFLR);
+		if (!entries) {
+			sts = readl_relaxed(dws->regs + DW_SPI_RISR);
+			if (sts & SPI_INT_RXOI) {
+				dev_err(&dws->master->dev, "FIFO overflow on Rx\n");
+				return -EIO;
+			}
+			continue;
+		}
+		entries = min(entries, len);
+		for (; entries; --entries, --len)
+			*buf++ = dw_read_io_reg(dws, DW_SPI_DR);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline bool dw_spi_ctlr_busy(struct dw_spi *dws)
+{
+	return dw_readl(dws, DW_SPI_SR) & SR_BUSY;
+}
+
+static int dw_spi_wait_mem_op_done(struct dw_spi *dws)
+{
+	int retry = SPI_WAIT_RETRIES;
+	struct spi_delay delay;
+	unsigned long ns, us;
+	u32 nents;
+
+	nents = dw_readl(dws, DW_SPI_TXFLR);
+	ns = NSEC_PER_SEC / dws->current_freq * nents;
+	ns *= dws->n_bytes * BITS_PER_BYTE;
+	if (ns <= NSEC_PER_USEC) {
+		delay.unit = SPI_DELAY_UNIT_NSECS;
+		delay.value = ns;
+	} else {
+		us = DIV_ROUND_UP(ns, NSEC_PER_USEC);
+		delay.unit = SPI_DELAY_UNIT_USECS;
+		delay.value = clamp_val(us, 0, USHRT_MAX);
+	}
+
+	while (dw_spi_ctlr_busy(dws) && retry--)
+		spi_delay_exec(&delay, NULL);
+
+	if (retry < 0) {
+		dev_err(&dws->master->dev, "Mem op hanged up\n");
+		return -EIO;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void dw_spi_stop_mem_op(struct dw_spi *dws, struct spi_device *spi)
+{
+	spi_enable_chip(dws, 0);
+	dw_spi_set_cs(spi, true);
+	spi_enable_chip(dws, 1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * The SPI memory operation implementation below is the best choice for the
+ * devices, which are selected by the native chip-select lane. It's
+ * specifically developed to workaround the problem with automatic chip-select
+ * lane toggle when there is no data in the Tx FIFO buffer. Luckily the current
+ * SPI-mem core calls exec_op() callback only if the GPIO-based CS is
+ * unavailable.
+ */
+static int dw_spi_exec_mem_op(struct spi_mem *mem, const struct spi_mem_op *op)
+{
+	struct dw_spi *dws = spi_controller_get_devdata(mem->spi->controller);
+	struct dw_spi_cfg cfg;
+	unsigned long flags;
+	int ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * Collect the outbound data into a single buffer to speed the
+	 * transmission up at least on the initial stage.
+	 */
+	ret = dw_spi_init_mem_buf(dws, op);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	/*
+	 * DW SPI EEPROM-read mode is required only for the SPI memory Data-IN
+	 * operation. Transmit-only mode is suitable for the rest of them.
+	 */
+	cfg.dfs = 8;
+	cfg.freq = mem->spi->max_speed_hz;
+	if (op->data.dir == SPI_MEM_DATA_IN) {
+		cfg.tmode = SPI_TMOD_EPROMREAD;
+		cfg.ndf = op->data.nbytes;
+	} else {
+		cfg.tmode = SPI_TMOD_TO;
+	}
+
+	spi_enable_chip(dws, 0);
+
+	dw_spi_update_config(dws, mem->spi, &cfg);
+
+	spi_mask_intr(dws, 0xff);
+
+	spi_enable_chip(dws, 1);
+
+	/*
+	 * DW APB SSI controller has very nasty peculiarities. First originally
+	 * (without any vendor-specific modifications) it doesn't provide a
+	 * direct way to set and clear the native chip-select signal. Instead
+	 * the controller de-asserts the CS lane if Tx FIFO isn't empty and a
+	 * transmission is going on, and automatically asserts it back to the
+	 * high level if the Tx FIFO doesn't have anything to be pushed out.
+	 * Due to that a multi-tasking or heavy IRQs activity might be fatal,
+	 * since the transfer procedure preemption may cause the Tx FIFO
+	 * getting empty and sudden CS assertion, which in the middle of the
+	 * transfer will most likely cause the data loss. Secondly the
+	 * EEPROM-read or Read-only DW SPI transfer modes imply the incoming
+	 * data being automatically pulled in into the Rx FIFO. So if the
+	 * driver software is late in fetching the data from the FIFO before
+	 * it's overflown, new incoming data will be lost. In order to make
+	 * sure the executed memory operations are CS-atomic and to prevent the
+	 * Rx FIFO overflow we have to disable the local interrupts so to block
+	 * any preemption during the subsequent IO operations.
+	 *
+	 * Note. At some circumstances disabling IRQs may not help to prevent
+	 * the problems described above. The CS de-assertion and Rx FIFO
+	 * overflow may still happen due to the relatively slow system bus, so
+	 * the write-then-read algo implemented here just won't keep up with an
+	 * SPI bus data transfer. Such situation is highly platform specific
+	 * and is supposed to be fixed by manual restricting the SPI bus
+	 * frequency using the dws->max_mem_freq parameter.
+	 */
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	preempt_disable();
+
+	ret = dw_spi_write_then_read(dws, mem->spi);
+
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+	preempt_enable();
+
+	/*
+	 * Wait for the operation being finished and check the controller
+	 * status only if there hasn't been any run-time error detected. In the
+	 * former case it's just pointless. In the later one to prevent an
+	 * additional error message printing since any hw error flag being set
+	 * would be due to an error detected on the data transfer.
+	 */
+	if (!ret) {
+		ret = dw_spi_wait_mem_op_done(dws);
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = dw_spi_check_status(dws, true);
+	}
+
+	dw_spi_stop_mem_op(dws, mem->spi);
+
+	dw_spi_free_mem_buf(dws);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Initialize the default memory operations if a glue layer hasn't specified
+ * custom ones. Direct mapping operations will be preserved anyway since DW SPI
+ * controller doesn't have an embedded dirmap interface. Note the memory
+ * operations implemented in this driver is the best choice only for the DW APB
+ * SSI controller with standard native CS functionality. If a hardware vendor
+ * has fixed the automatic CS assertion/de-assertion peculiarity, then it will
+ * be safer to use the normal SPI-messages-based transfers implementation.
+ */
+static void dw_spi_init_mem_ops(struct dw_spi *dws)
+{
+	if (!dws->mem_ops.exec_op && !(dws->caps & DW_SPI_CAP_CS_OVERRIDE) &&
+	    !dws->set_cs) {
+		dws->mem_ops.adjust_op_size = dw_spi_adjust_mem_op_size;
+		dws->mem_ops.supports_op = dw_spi_supports_mem_op;
+		dws->mem_ops.exec_op = dw_spi_exec_mem_op;
+	}
+}
+
 /* This may be called twice for each spi dev */
 static int dw_spi_setup(struct spi_device *spi)
 {
@@ -522,6 +819,8 @@ int dw_spi_add_host(struct device *dev, struct dw_spi *dws)
 		goto err_free_master;
 	}
 
+	dw_spi_init_mem_ops(dws);
+
 	master->use_gpio_descriptors = true;
 	master->mode_bits = SPI_CPOL | SPI_CPHA | SPI_LOOP;
 	master->bits_per_word_mask =  SPI_BPW_RANGE_MASK(4, 16);
@@ -535,6 +834,7 @@ int dw_spi_add_host(struct device *dev, struct dw_spi *dws)
 		master->set_cs = dw_spi_set_cs;
 	master->transfer_one = dw_spi_transfer_one;
 	master->handle_err = dw_spi_handle_err;
+	master->mem_ops = &dws->mem_ops;
 	master->max_speed_hz = dws->max_freq;
 	master->dev.of_node = dev->of_node;
 	master->dev.fwnode = dev->fwnode;
diff --git a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.h b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.h
index 5eb98ece2f2a..4b08fe34a85d 100644
--- a/drivers/spi/spi-dw.h
+++ b/drivers/spi/spi-dw.h
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #include <linux/irqreturn.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
+#include <linux/spi/spi-mem.h>
 
 /* Register offsets */
 #define DW_SPI_CTRLR0			0x00
@@ -78,6 +79,9 @@
  */
 #define DWC_SSI_CTRLR0_KEEMBAY_MST	BIT(31)
 
+/* Bit fields in CTRLR1 */
+#define SPI_NDF_MASK			GENMASK(15, 0)
+
 /* Bit fields in SR, 7 bits */
 #define SR_MASK				0x7f		/* cover 7 bits */
 #define SR_BUSY				(1 << 0)
@@ -101,6 +105,11 @@
 #define SPI_DMA_TDMAE			(1 << 1)
 
 #define SPI_WAIT_RETRIES		5
+#define SPI_BUF_SIZE \
+	(sizeof_field(struct spi_mem_op, cmd.opcode) + \
+	 sizeof_field(struct spi_mem_op, addr.val) + 256)
+#define SPI_GET_BYTE(_val, _idx) \
+	((_val) >> (BITS_PER_BYTE * (_idx)) & 0xff)
 
 enum dw_ssi_type {
 	SSI_MOTO_SPI = 0,
@@ -153,6 +162,7 @@ struct dw_spi {
 	unsigned int		tx_len;
 	void			*rx;
 	unsigned int		rx_len;
+	u8			buf[SPI_BUF_SIZE];
 	int			dma_mapped;
 	u8			n_bytes;	/* current is a 1/2 bytes op */
 	irqreturn_t		(*transfer_handler)(struct dw_spi *dws);
@@ -160,6 +170,9 @@ struct dw_spi {
 	u32			cur_rx_sample_dly;
 	u32			def_rx_sample_dly_ns;
 
+	/* Custom memory operations */
+	struct spi_controller_mem_ops mem_ops;
+
 	/* DMA info */
 	struct dma_chan		*txchan;
 	u32			txburst;
