diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 6b2debf..6bdde84 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 	select HAVE_IDE
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
 	select HAVE_IOREMAP_PROT
+	select HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST
 	select HAVE_KPROBES
 	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB if !X86_RDC321X
 	select HAVE_KRETPROBES
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
index 1fbb844..2977ea3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/Makefile
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 obj-y	:=  init_$(BITS).o fault.o ioremap.o extable.o pageattr.o mmap.o \
 	    pat.o pgtable.o
 
+obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST) += gup.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_X86_32)		+= pgtable_32.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE)	+= hugetlbpage.o
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/gup.c b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f73312
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/gup.c
@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+/*
+ * Lockless get_user_pages_fast for x86
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Nick Piggin
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Novell Inc.
+ */
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/vmstat.h>
+#include <linux/highmem.h>
+
+#include <asm/pgtable.h>
+
+static inline pte_t gup_get_pte(pte_t *ptep)
+{
+#ifndef CONFIG_X86_PAE
+	return *ptep;
+#else
+	/*
+	 * With get_user_pages_fast, we walk down the pagetables without taking
+	 * any locks.  For this we would like to load the pointers atoimcally,
+	 * but that is not possible (without expensive cmpxchg8b) on PAE.  What
+	 * we do have is the guarantee that a pte will only either go from not
+	 * present to present, or present to not present or both -- it will not
+	 * switch to a completely different present page without a TLB flush in
+	 * between; something that we are blocking by holding interrupts off.
+	 *
+	 * Setting ptes from not present to present goes:
+	 * ptep->pte_high = h;
+	 * smp_wmb();
+	 * ptep->pte_low = l;
+	 *
+	 * And present to not present goes:
+	 * ptep->pte_low = 0;
+	 * smp_wmb();
+	 * ptep->pte_high = 0;
+	 *
+	 * We must ensure here that the load of pte_low sees l iff pte_high
+	 * sees h. We load pte_high *after* loading pte_low, which ensures we
+	 * don't see an older value of pte_high.  *Then* we recheck pte_low,
+	 * which ensures that we haven't picked up a changed pte high. We might
+	 * have got rubbish values from pte_low and pte_high, but we are
+	 * guaranteed that pte_low will not have the present bit set *unless*
+	 * it is 'l'. And get_user_pages_fast only operates on present ptes, so
+	 * we're safe.
+	 *
+	 * gup_get_pte should not be used or copied outside gup.c without being
+	 * very careful -- it does not atomically load the pte or anything that
+	 * is likely to be useful for you.
+	 */
+	pte_t pte;
+
+retry:
+	pte.pte_low = ptep->pte_low;
+	smp_rmb();
+	pte.pte_high = ptep->pte_high;
+	smp_rmb();
+	if (unlikely(pte.pte_low != ptep->pte_low))
+		goto retry;
+
+	return pte;
+#endif
+}
+
+/*
+ * The performance critical leaf functions are made noinline otherwise gcc
+ * inlines everything into a single function which results in too much
+ * register pressure.
+ */
+static noinline int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
+		unsigned long end, int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
+{
+	unsigned long mask;
+	pte_t *ptep;
+
+	mask = _PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_USER;
+	if (write)
+		mask |= _PAGE_RW;
+
+	ptep = pte_offset_map(&pmd, addr);
+	do {
+		pte_t pte = gup_get_pte(ptep);
+		struct page *page;
+
+		if ((pte_val(pte) & (mask | _PAGE_SPECIAL)) != mask) {
+			pte_unmap(ptep);
+			return 0;
+		}
+		VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)));
+		page = pte_page(pte);
+		get_page(page);
+		pages[*nr] = page;
+		(*nr)++;
+
+	} while (ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
+	pte_unmap(ptep - 1);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static inline void get_head_page_multiple(struct page *page, int nr)
+{
+	VM_BUG_ON(page != compound_head(page));
+	VM_BUG_ON(page_count(page) == 0);
+	atomic_add(nr, &page->_count);
+}
+
+static noinline int gup_huge_pmd(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr,
+		unsigned long end, int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
+{
+	unsigned long mask;
+	pte_t pte = *(pte_t *)&pmd;
+	struct page *head, *page;
+	int refs;
+
+	mask = _PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_USER;
+	if (write)
+		mask |= _PAGE_RW;
+	if ((pte_val(pte) & mask) != mask)
+		return 0;
+	/* hugepages are never "special" */
+	VM_BUG_ON(pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_SPECIAL);
+	VM_BUG_ON(!pfn_valid(pte_pfn(pte)));
+
+	refs = 0;
+	head = pte_page(pte);
+	page = head + ((addr & ~HPAGE_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	do {
+		VM_BUG_ON(compound_head(page) != head);
+		pages[*nr] = page;
+		(*nr)++;
+		page++;
+		refs++;
+	} while (addr += PAGE_SIZE, addr != end);
+	get_head_page_multiple(head, refs);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+		int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
+{
+	unsigned long next;
+	pmd_t *pmdp;
+
+	pmdp = pmd_offset(&pud, addr);
+	do {
+		pmd_t pmd = *pmdp;
+
+		next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
+		if (pmd_none(pmd))
+			return 0;
+		if (unlikely(pmd_large(pmd))) {
+			if (!gup_huge_pmd(pmd, addr, next, write, pages, nr))
+				return 0;
+		} else {
+			if (!gup_pte_range(pmd, addr, next, write, pages, nr))
+				return 0;
+		}
+	} while (pmdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+static int gup_pud_range(pgd_t pgd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
+			int write, struct page **pages, int *nr)
+{
+	unsigned long next;
+	pud_t *pudp;
+
+	pudp = pud_offset(&pgd, addr);
+	do {
+		pud_t pud = *pudp;
+
+		next = pud_addr_end(addr, end);
+		if (pud_none(pud))
+			return 0;
+		if (!gup_pmd_range(pud, addr, next, write, pages, nr))
+			return 0;
+	} while (pudp++, addr = next, addr != end);
+
+	return 1;
+}
+
+int get_user_pages_fast(unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int write,
+			struct page **pages)
+{
+	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
+	unsigned long end = start + (nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT);
+	unsigned long addr = start;
+	unsigned long next;
+	pgd_t *pgdp;
+	int nr = 0;
+
+	if (unlikely(!access_ok(write ? VERIFY_WRITE : VERIFY_READ,
+					start, nr_pages*PAGE_SIZE)))
+		goto slow_irqon;
+
+	/*
+	 * XXX: batch / limit 'nr', to avoid large irq off latency
+	 * needs some instrumenting to determine the common sizes used by
+	 * important workloads (eg. DB2), and whether limiting the batch size
+	 * will decrease performance.
+	 *
+	 * It seems like we're in the clear for the moment. Direct-IO is
+	 * the main guy that batches up lots of get_user_pages, and even
+	 * they are limited to 64-at-a-time which is not so many.
+	 */
+	/*
+	 * This doesn't prevent pagetable teardown, but does prevent
+	 * the pagetables and pages from being freed on x86.
+	 *
+	 * So long as we atomically load page table pointers versus teardown
+	 * (which we do on x86, with the above PAE exception), we can follow the
+	 * address down to the the page and take a ref on it.
+	 */
+	local_irq_disable();
+	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
+	do {
+		pgd_t pgd = *pgdp;
+
+		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
+		if (pgd_none(pgd))
+			goto slow;
+		if (!gup_pud_range(pgd, addr, next, write, pages, &nr))
+			goto slow;
+	} while (pgdp++, addr = next, addr != end);
+	local_irq_enable();
+
+	VM_BUG_ON(nr != (end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
+	return nr;
+
+	{
+		int ret;
+
+slow:
+		local_irq_enable();
+slow_irqon:
+		/* Try to get the remaining pages with get_user_pages */
+		start += nr << PAGE_SHIFT;
+		pages += nr;
+
+		down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+		ret = get_user_pages(current, mm, start,
+			(end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT, write, 0, pages, NULL);
+		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
+
+		/* Have to be a bit careful with return values */
+		if (nr > 0) {
+			if (ret < 0)
+				ret = nr;
+			else
+				ret += nr;
+		}
+
+		return ret;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h b/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
index f6fa4d8..5f702d1 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/uaccess.h
@@ -451,3 +451,4 @@
 #endif
 
 #endif
+
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index aa79900..efee5d3 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@
 	def_bool y
 	depends on !SPARSEMEM
 
+config HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST
+	bool
+
 #
 # Both the NUMA code and DISCONTIGMEM use arrays of pg_data_t's
 # to represent different areas of memory.  This variable allows