diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
index ac66ae2509a9..6bdb095393b0 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt
@@ -723,6 +723,9 @@ dma-api/min_free_entries	This read-only file can be read to get the
 dma-api/num_free_entries	The current number of free dma_debug_entries
 				in the allocator.
 
+dma-api/nr_total_entries	The total number of dma_debug_entries in the
+				allocator, both free and used.
+
 dma-api/driver-filter		You can write a name of a driver into this file
 				to limit the debug output to requests from that
 				particular driver. Write an empty string to
diff --git a/kernel/dma/debug.c b/kernel/dma/debug.c
index 231ca4628062..f6a141eb9438 100644
--- a/kernel/dma/debug.c
+++ b/kernel/dma/debug.c
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ static struct dentry *show_all_errors_dent  __read_mostly;
 static struct dentry *show_num_errors_dent  __read_mostly;
 static struct dentry *num_free_entries_dent __read_mostly;
 static struct dentry *min_free_entries_dent __read_mostly;
+static struct dentry *nr_total_entries_dent __read_mostly;
 static struct dentry *filter_dent           __read_mostly;
 
 /* per-driver filter related state */
@@ -926,6 +927,12 @@ static int dma_debug_fs_init(void)
 	if (!min_free_entries_dent)
 		goto out_err;
 
+	nr_total_entries_dent = debugfs_create_u32("nr_total_entries", 0444,
+			dma_debug_dent,
+			&nr_total_entries);
+	if (!nr_total_entries_dent)
+		goto out_err;
+
 	filter_dent = debugfs_create_file("driver_filter", 0644,
 					  dma_debug_dent, NULL, &filter_fops);
 	if (!filter_dent)