diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 94911ede26dc..3424bd873846 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d8eb2fab18b856fcaebe2619e8eaaa152baebc66
+refs/heads/master: 1af446edfe3239b2b731f3458b3c285c397464cc
diff --git a/trunk/mm/nommu.c b/trunk/mm/nommu.c
index 5edccd9c9218..ed75bc962fbe 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/nommu.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/nommu.c
@@ -266,6 +266,27 @@ void *vmalloc_node(unsigned long size, int node)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vmalloc_node);
 
+#ifndef PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC
+# define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL
+#endif
+
+/**
+ *	vmalloc_exec  -  allocate virtually contiguous, executable memory
+ *	@size:		allocation size
+ *
+ *	Kernel-internal function to allocate enough pages to cover @size
+ *	the page level allocator and map them into contiguous and
+ *	executable kernel virtual space.
+ *
+ *	For tight control over page level allocator and protection flags
+ *	use __vmalloc() instead.
+ */
+
+void *vmalloc_exec(unsigned long size)
+{
+	return __vmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC);
+}
+
 /**
  * vmalloc_32  -  allocate virtually contiguous memory (32bit addressable)
  *	@size:		allocation size