diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-dma-buffer b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-dma-buffer
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d526e6571001
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-dma-buffer
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/buffer/length_align_bytes
+KernelVersion:	5.4
+Contact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+		DMA buffers tend to have a alignment requirement for the
+		buffers. If this alignment requirement is not met samples might
+		be dropped from the buffer.
+
+		This property reports the alignment requirements in bytes.
+		This means that the buffer size in bytes needs to be a integer
+		multiple of the number reported by this file.
+
+		The alignment requirements in number of sample sets will depend
+		on the enabled channels and the bytes per channel. This means
+		that the alignment requirement in samples sets might change
+		depending on which and how many channels are enabled. Whereas
+		the alignment requirement reported in bytes by this property
+		will remain static and does not depend on which channels are
+		enabled.
diff --git a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
index e0b92f3dec0e..744abd7e1269 100644
--- a/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
+++ b/drivers/iio/buffer/industrialio-buffer-dmaengine.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 
 #include <linux/iio/iio.h>
+#include <linux/iio/sysfs.h>
 #include <linux/iio/buffer.h>
 #include <linux/iio/buffer_impl.h>
 #include <linux/iio/buffer-dma.h>
@@ -126,6 +127,24 @@ static const struct iio_dma_buffer_ops iio_dmaengine_default_ops = {
 	.abort = iio_dmaengine_buffer_abort,
 };
 
+static ssize_t iio_dmaengine_buffer_get_length_align(struct device *dev,
+	struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct iio_dev *indio_dev = dev_to_iio_dev(dev);
+	struct dmaengine_buffer *dmaengine_buffer =
+		iio_buffer_to_dmaengine_buffer(indio_dev->buffer);
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", dmaengine_buffer->align);
+}
+
+static IIO_DEVICE_ATTR(length_align_bytes, 0444,
+		       iio_dmaengine_buffer_get_length_align, NULL, 0);
+
+static const struct attribute *iio_dmaengine_buffer_attrs[] = {
+	&iio_dev_attr_length_align_bytes.dev_attr.attr,
+	NULL,
+};
+
 /**
  * iio_dmaengine_buffer_alloc() - Allocate new buffer which uses DMAengine
  * @dev: Parent device for the buffer
@@ -179,6 +198,8 @@ struct iio_buffer *iio_dmaengine_buffer_alloc(struct device *dev,
 
 	iio_dma_buffer_init(&dmaengine_buffer->queue, chan->device->dev,
 		&iio_dmaengine_default_ops);
+	iio_buffer_set_attrs(&dmaengine_buffer->queue.buffer,
+		iio_dmaengine_buffer_attrs);
 
 	dmaengine_buffer->queue.buffer.access = &iio_dmaengine_buffer_ops;