diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/wcd_codec.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/wcd_codec.txt
index fb2b3654dcc7..b7a81efb768c 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/wcd_codec.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/wcd_codec.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-WCD audio CODEC
+* Qualcomm Technologies WCD Audio Codec
+
+This node models the Qualcomm Technologies Audio HW WCD Codecs
 
 Required properties:
 
@@ -512,6 +514,10 @@ Required properties:
 	       which is also existing driver WSA881x that represents
 	       soundwire slave devices.
 
+Optional Properties:
+ - qcom,cache-always : Boolean. This property is used in  WSA slave
+			  device to use cacheable for all registers.
+
 Example:
 
 msm_sdw_codec: qcom,msm-sdw-codec@152c1000 {
@@ -529,6 +535,7 @@ msm_sdw_codec: qcom,msm-sdw-codec@152c1000 {
 			compatible = "qcom,wsa881x";
 			reg = <0x00 0x20170212>;
 			qcom,spkr-sd-n-gpio = <&tlmm 80 0>;
+			qcom,cache-always;
 		};
 	};
 };
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x-regmap.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x-regmap.c
index 63bbbfa6beab..faa44301286c 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x-regmap.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x-regmap.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2016, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -216,6 +216,9 @@ static bool wsa881x_readable_register(struct device *dev, unsigned int reg)
 
 static bool wsa881x_volatile_register(struct device *dev, unsigned int reg)
 {
+	if (cache_always)
+		return false;
+
 	switch (reg) {
 	case WSA881X_CHIP_ID0:
 	case WSA881X_CHIP_ID1:
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.c b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.c
index d7f4044b71ee..171735c8efd4 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.c
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2015-2016, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2015-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ enum {
 	WSA881X_DEV_UP,
 };
 
+bool cache_always;
 /*
  * Private data Structure for wsa881x. All parameters related to
  * WSA881X codec needs to be defined here.
@@ -1227,6 +1228,9 @@ static int wsa881x_swr_probe(struct swr_device *pdev)
 		if (ret)
 			goto err;
 	}
+
+	cache_always = of_property_read_bool(pdev->dev.of_node,
+					"qcom,cache-always");
 	wsa881x_gpio_ctrl(wsa881x, true);
 	wsa881x->state = WSA881X_DEV_UP;
 
diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.h b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.h
index be234ac0cd07..178237555c54 100644
--- a/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.h
+++ b/sound/soc/codecs/wsa881x.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (c) 2015-2016, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+/* Copyright (c) 2015-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 and
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 #define WSA881X_MAX_SWR_PORTS   4
 
+extern bool cache_always;
 extern int wsa881x_set_channel_map(struct snd_soc_codec *codec, u8 *port,
 				u8 num_port, unsigned int *ch_mask,
 				unsigned int *ch_rate);