diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
index 4c5fc9c..2cd87e6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_drv.h
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
 #define NVOBJ_FLAG_DONT_MAP             (1 << 0)
 #define NVOBJ_FLAG_ZERO_ALLOC		(1 << 1)
 #define NVOBJ_FLAG_ZERO_FREE		(1 << 2)
+#define NVOBJ_FLAG_VM			(1 << 3)
 
 #define NVOBJ_CINST_GLOBAL	0xdeadbeef
 
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_instmem.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_instmem.c
index ec102bd..e2efd6f 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_instmem.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_instmem.c
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@
 
 struct nv50_gpuobj_node {
 	struct nouveau_vram *vram;
+	struct nouveau_vma chan_vma;
 	u32 align;
 };
 
@@ -310,6 +311,7 @@
 nv50_instmem_get(struct nouveau_gpuobj *gpuobj, u32 size, u32 align)
 {
 	struct drm_device *dev = gpuobj->dev;
+	struct drm_nouveau_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
 	struct nv50_gpuobj_node *node = NULL;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -328,8 +330,23 @@
 	}
 
 	gpuobj->vinst = node->vram->offset;
-	gpuobj->size  = size;
-	gpuobj->node  = node;
+
+	if (gpuobj->flags & NVOBJ_FLAG_VM) {
+		ret = nouveau_vm_get(dev_priv->chan_vm, size, 12,
+				     NV_MEM_ACCESS_RW | NV_MEM_ACCESS_SYS,
+				     &node->chan_vma);
+		if (ret) {
+			nv50_vram_del(dev, &node->vram);
+			kfree(node);
+			return ret;
+		}
+
+		nouveau_vm_map(&node->chan_vma, node->vram);
+		gpuobj->vinst = node->chan_vma.offset;
+	}
+
+	gpuobj->size = size;
+	gpuobj->node = node;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -342,6 +359,10 @@
 	node = gpuobj->node;
 	gpuobj->node = NULL;
 
+	if (node->chan_vma.node) {
+		nouveau_vm_unmap(&node->chan_vma);
+		nouveau_vm_put(&node->chan_vma);
+	}
 	nv50_vram_del(dev, &node->vram);
 	kfree(node);
 }