diff --git a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
index 3bbd5c5..5ff4d2b 100644
--- a/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt
@@ -29,13 +29,6 @@ The buffer-user
    in memory, mapped into its own address space, so it can access the same area
    of memory.
 
-*IMPORTANT*: [see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/20/211 for more details]
-For this first version, A buffer shared using the dma_buf sharing API:
-- *may* be exported to user space using "mmap" *ONLY* by exporter, outside of
-  this framework.
-- with this new iteration of the dma-buf api cpu access from the kernel has been
-  enable, see below for the details.
-
 dma-buf operations for device dma only
 --------------------------------------
 
@@ -313,6 +306,83 @@ Access to a dma_buf from the kernel context involves three steps:
 				  enum dma_data_direction dir);
 
 
+Direct Userspace Access/mmap Support
+------------------------------------
+
+Being able to mmap an export dma-buf buffer object has 2 main use-cases:
+- CPU fallback processing in a pipeline and
+- supporting existing mmap interfaces in importers.
+
+1. CPU fallback processing in a pipeline
+
+   In many processing pipelines it is sometimes required that the cpu can access
+   the data in a dma-buf (e.g. for thumbnail creation, snapshots, ...). To avoid
+   the need to handle this specially in userspace frameworks for buffer sharing
+   it's ideal if the dma_buf fd itself can be used to access the backing storage
+   from userspace using mmap.
+
+   Furthermore Android's ION framework already supports this (and is otherwise
+   rather similar to dma-buf from a userspace consumer side with using fds as
+   handles, too). So it's beneficial to support this in a similar fashion on
+   dma-buf to have a good transition path for existing Android userspace.
+
+   No special interfaces, userspace simply calls mmap on the dma-buf fd.
+
+2. Supporting existing mmap interfaces in exporters
+
+   Similar to the motivation for kernel cpu access it is again important that
+   the userspace code of a given importing subsystem can use the same interfaces
+   with a imported dma-buf buffer object as with a native buffer object. This is
+   especially important for drm where the userspace part of contemporary OpenGL,
+   X, and other drivers is huge, and reworking them to use a different way to
+   mmap a buffer rather invasive.
+
+   The assumption in the current dma-buf interfaces is that redirecting the
+   initial mmap is all that's needed. A survey of some of the existing
+   subsystems shows that no driver seems to do any nefarious thing like syncing
+   up with outstanding asynchronous processing on the device or allocating
+   special resources at fault time. So hopefully this is good enough, since
+   adding interfaces to intercept pagefaults and allow pte shootdowns would
+   increase the complexity quite a bit.
+
+   Interface:
+      int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *, struct vm_area_struct *,
+		       unsigned long);
+
+   If the importing subsystem simply provides a special-purpose mmap call to set
+   up a mapping in userspace, calling do_mmap with dma_buf->file will equally
+   achieve that for a dma-buf object.
+
+3. Implementation notes for exporters
+
+   Because dma-buf buffers have invariant size over their lifetime, the dma-buf
+   core checks whether a vma is too large and rejects such mappings. The
+   exporter hence does not need to duplicate this check.
+
+   Because existing importing subsystems might presume coherent mappings for
+   userspace, the exporter needs to set up a coherent mapping. If that's not
+   possible, it needs to fake coherency by manually shooting down ptes when
+   leaving the cpu domain and flushing caches at fault time. Note that all the
+   dma_buf files share the same anon inode, hence the exporter needs to replace
+   the dma_buf file stored in vma->vm_file with it's own if pte shootdown is
+   requred. This is because the kernel uses the underlying inode's address_space
+   for vma tracking (and hence pte tracking at shootdown time with
+   unmap_mapping_range).
+
+   If the above shootdown dance turns out to be too expensive in certain
+   scenarios, we can extend dma-buf with a more explicit cache tracking scheme
+   for userspace mappings. But the current assumption is that using mmap is
+   always a slower path, so some inefficiencies should be acceptable.
+
+   Exporters that shoot down mappings (for any reasons) shall not do any
+   synchronization at fault time with outstanding device operations.
+   Synchronization is an orthogonal issue to sharing the backing storage of a
+   buffer and hence should not be handled by dma-buf itself. This is explictly
+   mentioned here because many people seem to want something like this, but if
+   different exporters handle this differently, buffer sharing can fail in
+   interesting ways depending upong the exporter (if userspace starts depending
+   upon this implicit synchronization).
+
 Miscellaneous notes
 -------------------
 
@@ -336,6 +406,20 @@ Miscellaneous notes
   the exporting driver to create a dmabuf fd must provide a way to let
   userspace control setting of O_CLOEXEC flag passed in to dma_buf_fd().
 
+- If an exporter needs to manually flush caches and hence needs to fake
+  coherency for mmap support, it needs to be able to zap all the ptes pointing
+  at the backing storage. Now linux mm needs a struct address_space associated
+  with the struct file stored in vma->vm_file to do that with the function
+  unmap_mapping_range. But the dma_buf framework only backs every dma_buf fd
+  with the anon_file struct file, i.e. all dma_bufs share the same file.
+
+  Hence exporters need to setup their own file (and address_space) association
+  by setting vma->vm_file and adjusting vma->vm_pgoff in the dma_buf mmap
+  callback. In the specific case of a gem driver the exporter could use the
+  shmem file already provided by gem (and set vm_pgoff = 0). Exporters can then
+  zap ptes by unmapping the corresponding range of the struct address_space
+  associated with their own file.
+
 References:
 [1] struct dma_buf_ops in include/linux/dma-buf.h
 [2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/dma-buf.h
diff --git a/drivers/base/dma-buf.c b/drivers/base/dma-buf.c
index 07cbbc6..7cfb405 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dma-buf.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dma-buf.c
@@ -44,8 +44,26 @@ static int dma_buf_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int dma_buf_mmap_internal(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	struct dma_buf *dmabuf;
+
+	if (!is_dma_buf_file(file))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	dmabuf = file->private_data;
+
+	/* check for overflowing the buffer's size */
+	if (vma->vm_pgoff + ((vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) >
+	    dmabuf->size >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+}
+
 static const struct file_operations dma_buf_fops = {
 	.release	= dma_buf_release,
+	.mmap		= dma_buf_mmap_internal,
 };
 
 /*
@@ -82,7 +100,8 @@ struct dma_buf *dma_buf_export(void *priv, const struct dma_buf_ops *ops,
 			  || !ops->unmap_dma_buf
 			  || !ops->release
 			  || !ops->kmap_atomic
-			  || !ops->kmap)) {
+			  || !ops->kmap
+			  || !ops->mmap)) {
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
@@ -406,3 +425,46 @@ void dma_buf_kunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, unsigned long page_num,
 		dmabuf->ops->kunmap(dmabuf, page_num, vaddr);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_kunmap);
+
+
+/**
+ * dma_buf_mmap - Setup up a userspace mmap with the given vma
+ * @dma_buf:	[in]	buffer that should back the vma
+ * @vma:	[in]	vma for the mmap
+ * @pgoff:	[in]	offset in pages where this mmap should start within the
+ * 			dma-buf buffer.
+ *
+ * This function adjusts the passed in vma so that it points at the file of the
+ * dma_buf operation. It alsog adjusts the starting pgoff and does bounds
+ * checking on the size of the vma. Then it calls the exporters mmap function to
+ * set up the mapping.
+ *
+ * Can return negative error values, returns 0 on success.
+ */
+int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		 unsigned long pgoff)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON(!dmabuf || !vma))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* check for offset overflow */
+	if (pgoff + ((vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) < pgoff)
+		return -EOVERFLOW;
+
+	/* check for overflowing the buffer's size */
+	if (pgoff + ((vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT) >
+	    dmabuf->size >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* readjust the vma */
+	if (vma->vm_file)
+		fput(vma->vm_file);
+
+	vma->vm_file = dmabuf->file;
+	get_file(vma->vm_file);
+
+	vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff;
+
+	return dmabuf->ops->mmap(dmabuf, vma);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dma_buf_mmap);
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-buf.h b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
index 3efbfc2..1f78d15 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-buf.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-buf.h
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ struct dma_buf_attachment;
  * 		   This Callback must not sleep.
  * @kmap: maps a page from the buffer into kernel address space.
  * @kunmap: [optional] unmaps a page from the buffer.
+ * @mmap: used to expose the backing storage to userspace. Note that the
+ * 	  mapping needs to be coherent - if the exporter doesn't directly
+ * 	  support this, it needs to fake coherency by shooting down any ptes
+ * 	  when transitioning away from the cpu domain.
  */
 struct dma_buf_ops {
 	int (*attach)(struct dma_buf *, struct device *,
@@ -92,6 +96,8 @@ struct dma_buf_ops {
 	void (*kunmap_atomic)(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long, void *);
 	void *(*kmap)(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long);
 	void (*kunmap)(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long, void *);
+
+	int (*mmap)(struct dma_buf *, struct vm_area_struct *vma);
 };
 
 /**
@@ -167,6 +173,9 @@ void *dma_buf_kmap_atomic(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long);
 void dma_buf_kunmap_atomic(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long, void *);
 void *dma_buf_kmap(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long);
 void dma_buf_kunmap(struct dma_buf *, unsigned long, void *);
+
+int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *, struct vm_area_struct *,
+		 unsigned long);
 #else
 
 static inline struct dma_buf_attachment *dma_buf_attach(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
@@ -248,6 +257,13 @@ static inline void dma_buf_kunmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
 				  unsigned long pnum, void *vaddr)
 {
 }
+
+static inline int dma_buf_mmap(struct dma_buf *dmabuf,
+			       struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			       unsigned long pgoff)
+{
+	return -ENODEV;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER */
 
 #endif /* __DMA_BUF_H__ */
