diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
index 23ac353b35fe75d075bd4c2452b3c58e65ac290f..9c5b24af61fa3c30966cf6e3525acfefcd5fe7f2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/xilinx_axienet_main.c
@@ -496,7 +496,8 @@ static void axienet_setoptions(struct net_device *ndev, u32 options)
 
 static int __axienet_device_reset(struct axienet_local *lp)
 {
-	u32 timeout;
+	u32 value;
+	int ret;
 
 	/* Reset Axi DMA. This would reset Axi Ethernet core as well. The reset
 	 * process of Axi DMA takes a while to complete as all pending
@@ -506,15 +507,13 @@ static int __axienet_device_reset(struct axienet_local *lp)
 	 * they both reset the entire DMA core, so only one needs to be used.
 	 */
 	axienet_dma_out32(lp, XAXIDMA_TX_CR_OFFSET, XAXIDMA_CR_RESET_MASK);
-	timeout = DELAY_OF_ONE_MILLISEC;
-	while (axienet_dma_in32(lp, XAXIDMA_TX_CR_OFFSET) &
-				XAXIDMA_CR_RESET_MASK) {
-		udelay(1);
-		if (--timeout == 0) {
-			netdev_err(lp->ndev, "%s: DMA reset timeout!\n",
-				   __func__);
-			return -ETIMEDOUT;
-		}
+	ret = read_poll_timeout(axienet_dma_in32, value,
+				!(value & XAXIDMA_CR_RESET_MASK),
+				DELAY_OF_ONE_MILLISEC, 50000, false, lp,
+				XAXIDMA_TX_CR_OFFSET);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(lp->dev, "%s: DMA reset timeout!\n", __func__);
+		return ret;
 	}
 
 	return 0;