diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 8e433bbc6e7..22165cb1890 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ struct vm_operations_struct {
 	void (*open)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	void (*close)(struct vm_area_struct * area);
 	struct page * (*nopage)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, int *type);
+	unsigned long (*nopfn)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address);
 	int (*populate)(struct vm_area_struct * area, unsigned long address, unsigned long len, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long pgoff, int nonblock);
 
 	/* notification that a previously read-only page is about to become
@@ -593,6 +594,12 @@ static inline int page_mapped(struct page *page)
 #define NOPAGE_SIGBUS	(NULL)
 #define NOPAGE_OOM	((struct page *) (-1))
 
+/*
+ * Error return values for the *_nopfn functions
+ */
+#define NOPFN_SIGBUS	((unsigned long) -1)
+#define NOPFN_OOM	((unsigned long) -2)
+
 /*
  * Different kinds of faults, as returned by handle_mm_fault().
  * Used to decide whether a process gets delivered SIGBUS or
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 92a3ebd8d79..f2ef1dcfff7 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2255,6 +2255,54 @@ oom:
 	return VM_FAULT_OOM;
 }
 
+/*
+ * do_no_pfn() tries to create a new page mapping for a page without
+ * a struct_page backing it
+ *
+ * As this is called only for pages that do not currently exist, we
+ * do not need to flush old virtual caches or the TLB.
+ *
+ * We enter with non-exclusive mmap_sem (to exclude vma changes,
+ * but allow concurrent faults), and pte mapped but not yet locked.
+ * We return with mmap_sem still held, but pte unmapped and unlocked.
+ *
+ * It is expected that the ->nopfn handler always returns the same pfn
+ * for a given virtual mapping.
+ *
+ * Mark this `noinline' to prevent it from bloating the main pagefault code.
+ */
+static noinline int do_no_pfn(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		     unsigned long address, pte_t *page_table, pmd_t *pmd,
+		     int write_access)
+{
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
+	pte_t entry;
+	unsigned long pfn;
+	int ret = VM_FAULT_MINOR;
+
+	pte_unmap(page_table);
+	BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_PFNMAP));
+	BUG_ON(is_cow_mapping(vma->vm_flags));
+
+	pfn = vma->vm_ops->nopfn(vma, address & PAGE_MASK);
+	if (pfn == NOPFN_OOM)
+		return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+	if (pfn == NOPFN_SIGBUS)
+		return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS;
+
+	page_table = pte_offset_map_lock(mm, pmd, address, &ptl);
+
+	/* Only go through if we didn't race with anybody else... */
+	if (pte_none(*page_table)) {
+		entry = pfn_pte(pfn, vma->vm_page_prot);
+		if (write_access)
+			entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
+		set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);
+	}
+	pte_unmap_unlock(page_table, ptl);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Fault of a previously existing named mapping. Repopulate the pte
  * from the encoded file_pte if possible. This enables swappable
@@ -2317,11 +2365,17 @@ static inline int handle_pte_fault(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	old_entry = entry = *pte;
 	if (!pte_present(entry)) {
 		if (pte_none(entry)) {
-			if (!vma->vm_ops || !vma->vm_ops->nopage)
-				return do_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
-					pte, pmd, write_access);
-			return do_no_page(mm, vma, address,
-					pte, pmd, write_access);
+			if (vma->vm_ops) {
+				if (vma->vm_ops->nopage)
+					return do_no_page(mm, vma, address,
+							  pte, pmd,
+							  write_access);
+				if (unlikely(vma->vm_ops->nopfn))
+					return do_no_pfn(mm, vma, address, pte,
+							 pmd, write_access);
+			}
+			return do_anonymous_page(mm, vma, address,
+						 pte, pmd, write_access);
 		}
 		if (pte_file(entry))
 			return do_file_page(mm, vma, address,