diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig b/arch/s390/Kconfig
index 29a7940..1d03508 100644
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -430,6 +430,13 @@
 	  Select this option to enable the special message interface to
 	  the cooperative memory management.
 
+config PAGE_STATES
+	bool "Unused page notification"
+	help
+	  This enables the notification of unused pages to the
+	  hypervisor. The ESSA instruction is used to do the states
+	  changes between a page that has content and the unused state.
+
 config VIRT_TIMER
 	bool "Virtual CPU timer support"
 	help
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/Makefile b/arch/s390/mm/Makefile
index fb988a4..2a74581 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/Makefile
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@
 obj-y	 := init.o fault.o extmem.o mmap.o vmem.o pgtable.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CMM) += cmm.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) += hugetlbpage.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_STATES) += page-states.o
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/init.c b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
index fa31de6..29f3a63 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/init.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/init.c
@@ -126,6 +126,9 @@
         /* clear the zero-page */
         memset(empty_zero_page, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
 
+	/* Setup guest page hinting */
+	cmma_init();
+
 	/* this will put all low memory onto the freelists */
 	totalram_pages += free_all_bootmem();
 
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/page-states.c b/arch/s390/mm/page-states.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fc0ad73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/page-states.c
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*
+ * arch/s390/mm/page-states.c
+ *
+ * Copyright IBM Corp. 2008
+ *
+ * Guest page hinting for unused pages.
+ *
+ * Author(s): Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
+ */
+
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/errno.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+
+#define ESSA_SET_STABLE		1
+#define ESSA_SET_UNUSED		2
+
+static int cmma_flag;
+
+static int __init cmma(char *str)
+{
+	char *parm;
+	parm = strstrip(str);
+	if (strcmp(parm, "yes") == 0 || strcmp(parm, "on") == 0) {
+		cmma_flag = 1;
+		return 1;
+	}
+	cmma_flag = 0;
+	if (strcmp(parm, "no") == 0 || strcmp(parm, "off") == 0)
+		return 1;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+__setup("cmma=", cmma);
+
+void __init cmma_init(void)
+{
+	register unsigned long tmp asm("0") = 0;
+	register int rc asm("1") = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
+	if (!cmma_flag)
+		return;
+	asm volatile(
+		"       .insn rrf,0xb9ab0000,%1,%1,0,0\n"
+		"0:     la      %0,0\n"
+		"1:\n"
+		EX_TABLE(0b,1b)
+		: "+&d" (rc), "+&d" (tmp));
+	if (rc)
+		cmma_flag = 0;
+}
+
+void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order)
+{
+	int i, rc;
+
+	if (!cmma_flag)
+		return;
+	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
+		asm volatile(".insn rrf,0xb9ab0000,%0,%1,%2,0"
+			     : "=&d" (rc)
+			     : "a" ((page_to_pfn(page) + i) << PAGE_SHIFT),
+			       "i" (ESSA_SET_UNUSED));
+}
+
+void arch_alloc_page(struct page *page, int order)
+{
+	int i, rc;
+
+	if (!cmma_flag)
+		return;
+	for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++)
+		asm volatile(".insn rrf,0xb9ab0000,%0,%1,%2,0"
+			     : "=&d" (rc)
+			     : "a" ((page_to_pfn(page) + i) << PAGE_SHIFT),
+			       "i" (ESSA_SET_STABLE));
+}