diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index a60995afe33..3f3e7a648da 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 
 #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
+#include <linux/shm.h>
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 
 struct ctl_table;
@@ -168,7 +169,12 @@ void hugetlb_put_quota(struct address_space *mapping);
 
 static inline int is_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
 {
-	return file->f_op == &hugetlbfs_file_operations;
+	if (file->f_op == &hugetlbfs_file_operations)
+		return 1;
+	if (is_file_shm_hugepages(file))
+		return 1;
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static inline void set_file_hugepages(struct file *file)
diff --git a/include/linux/shm.h b/include/linux/shm.h
index a2c896ad0be..ad2e3af6599 100644
--- a/include/linux/shm.h
+++ b/include/linux/shm.h
@@ -96,12 +96,17 @@ struct shmid_kernel /* private to the kernel */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSVIPC
 long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr, int shmflg, unsigned long *addr);
+extern int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file);
 #else
 static inline long do_shmat(int shmid, char __user *shmaddr,
 				int shmflg, unsigned long *addr)
 {
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
+static inline int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 3d0eb7940e9..4fefbad7096 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -285,21 +285,41 @@ static int shm_release(struct inode *ino, struct file *file)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+static int shm_fsync(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, int datasync)
+{
+	int (*fsync) (struct file *, struct dentry *, int datasync);
+	struct shm_file_data *sfd = shm_file_data(file);
+	int ret = -EINVAL;
+
+	fsync = sfd->file->f_op->fsync;
+	if (fsync)
+		ret = fsync(sfd->file, sfd->file->f_path.dentry, datasync);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static unsigned long shm_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
 	unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, unsigned long pgoff,
 	unsigned long flags)
 {
 	struct shm_file_data *sfd = shm_file_data(file);
-	return sfd->file->f_op->get_unmapped_area(sfd->file, addr, len, pgoff,
-							flags);
+	return get_unmapped_area(sfd->file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);
+}
+
+int is_file_shm_hugepages(struct file *file)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	if (file->f_op == &shm_file_operations) {
+		struct shm_file_data *sfd;
+		sfd = shm_file_data(file);
+		ret = is_file_hugepages(sfd->file);
+	}
+	return ret;
 }
-#else
-#define shm_get_unmapped_area NULL
-#endif
 
 static const struct file_operations shm_file_operations = {
 	.mmap		= shm_mmap,
+	.fsync		= shm_fsync,
 	.release	= shm_release,
 	.get_unmapped_area	= shm_get_unmapped_area,
 };