diff --git a/include/linux/secretmem.h b/include/linux/secretmem.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e617b4afcc62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/secretmem.h
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
+#ifndef _LINUX_SECRETMEM_H
+#define _LINUX_SECRETMEM_H
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECRETMEM
+
+extern const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops;
+
+static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping;
+
+	/*
+	 * Using page_mapping() is quite slow because of the actual call
+	 * instruction and repeated compound_head(page) inside the
+	 * page_mapping() function.
+	 * We know that secretmem pages are not compound and LRU so we can
+	 * save a couple of cycles here.
+	 */
+	if (PageCompound(page) || !PageLRU(page))
+		return false;
+
+	mapping = (struct address_space *)
+		((unsigned long)page->mapping & ~PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS);
+
+	if (mapping != page->mapping)
+		return false;
+
+	return mapping->a_ops == &secretmem_aops;
+}
+
+bool vma_is_secretmem(struct vm_area_struct *vma);
+
+#else
+
+static inline bool vma_is_secretmem(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+static inline bool page_is_secretmem(struct page *page)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SECRETMEM */
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_SECRETMEM_H */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
index f3956fc11de6..35687dcb1a42 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/magic.h
@@ -97,5 +97,6 @@
 #define DEVMEM_MAGIC		0x454d444d	/* "DMEM" */
 #define Z3FOLD_MAGIC		0x33
 #define PPC_CMM_MAGIC		0xc7571590
+#define SECRETMEM_MAGIC		0x5345434d	/* "SECM" */
 
 #endif /* __LINUX_MAGIC_H__ */
diff --git a/kernel/sys_ni.c b/kernel/sys_ni.c
index 0ea8128468c3..4d7e377a74f3 100644
--- a/kernel/sys_ni.c
+++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c
@@ -358,6 +358,8 @@ COND_SYSCALL(pkey_mprotect);
 COND_SYSCALL(pkey_alloc);
 COND_SYSCALL(pkey_free);
 
+/* memfd_secret */
+COND_SYSCALL(memfd_secret);
 
 /*
  * Architecture specific weak syscall entries.
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 02d44e3420f5..6d0972db7278 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -901,4 +901,9 @@ config KMAP_LOCAL
 # struct io_mapping based helper.  Selected by drivers that need them
 config IO_MAPPING
 	bool
+
+config SECRETMEM
+	def_bool ARCH_HAS_SET_DIRECT_MAP && !EMBEDDED
+	select STRICT_DEVMEM
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index bf71e295e9f6..7bb6ed5e42e8 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -125,3 +125,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_MAPPING_DIRTY_HELPERS) += mapping_dirty_helpers.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PTDUMP_CORE) += ptdump.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_PAGE_REPORTING) += page_reporting.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_IO_MAPPING) += io-mapping.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_SECRETMEM) += secretmem.o
diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
index 0697134b6a12..6515f82b0f32 100644
--- a/mm/gup.c
+++ b/mm/gup.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 #include <linux/rmap.h>
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 #include <linux/swapops.h>
+#include <linux/secretmem.h>
 
 #include <linux/sched/signal.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
@@ -816,6 +817,9 @@ struct page *follow_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 	struct follow_page_context ctx = { NULL };
 	struct page *page;
 
+	if (vma_is_secretmem(vma))
+		return NULL;
+
 	page = follow_page_mask(vma, address, foll_flags, &ctx);
 	if (ctx.pgmap)
 		put_dev_pagemap(ctx.pgmap);
@@ -949,6 +953,9 @@ static int check_vma_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long gup_flags)
 	if ((gup_flags & FOLL_LONGTERM) && vma_is_fsdax(vma))
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	if (vma_is_secretmem(vma))
+		return -EFAULT;
+
 	if (write) {
 		if (!(vm_flags & VM_WRITE)) {
 			if (!(gup_flags & FOLL_FORCE))
@@ -2077,6 +2084,11 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		if (!head)
 			goto pte_unmap;
 
+		if (unlikely(page_is_secretmem(page))) {
+			put_compound_head(head, 1, flags);
+			goto pte_unmap;
+		}
+
 		if (unlikely(pte_val(pte) != pte_val(*ptep))) {
 			put_compound_head(head, 1, flags);
 			goto pte_unmap;
diff --git a/mm/mlock.c b/mm/mlock.c
index df590fda5688..5e9f4dea4e96 100644
--- a/mm/mlock.c
+++ b/mm/mlock.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #include <linux/hugetlb.h>
 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/mm_inline.h>
+#include <linux/secretmem.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
 
@@ -503,7 +504,7 @@ static int mlock_fixup(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct **prev,
 
 	if (newflags == vma->vm_flags || (vma->vm_flags & VM_SPECIAL) ||
 	    is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) || vma == get_gate_vma(current->mm) ||
-	    vma_is_dax(vma))
+	    vma_is_dax(vma) || vma_is_secretmem(vma))
 		/* don't set VM_LOCKED or VM_LOCKONFAULT and don't count */
 		goto out;
 
diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..972cd1bbc3cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/secretmem.c
@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2021
+ *
+ * Author: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
+ */
+
+#include <linux/mm.h>
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/swap.h>
+#include <linux/mount.h>
+#include <linux/memfd.h>
+#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/printk.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
+#include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/pseudo_fs.h>
+#include <linux/secretmem.h>
+#include <linux/set_memory.h>
+#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
+
+#include <uapi/linux/magic.h>
+
+#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
+
+#include "internal.h"
+
+#undef pr_fmt
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) "secretmem: " fmt
+
+/*
+ * Define mode and flag masks to allow validation of the system call
+ * parameters.
+ */
+#define SECRETMEM_MODE_MASK	(0x0)
+#define SECRETMEM_FLAGS_MASK	SECRETMEM_MODE_MASK
+
+static bool secretmem_enable __ro_after_init;
+module_param_named(enable, secretmem_enable, bool, 0400);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(secretmem_enable,
+		 "Enable secretmem and memfd_secret(2) system call");
+
+static vm_fault_t secretmem_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
+{
+	struct address_space *mapping = vmf->vma->vm_file->f_mapping;
+	struct inode *inode = file_inode(vmf->vma->vm_file);
+	pgoff_t offset = vmf->pgoff;
+	gfp_t gfp = vmf->gfp_mask;
+	unsigned long addr;
+	struct page *page;
+	int err;
+
+	if (((loff_t)vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT) >= i_size_read(inode))
+		return vmf_error(-EINVAL);
+
+retry:
+	page = find_lock_page(mapping, offset);
+	if (!page) {
+		page = alloc_page(gfp | __GFP_ZERO);
+		if (!page)
+			return VM_FAULT_OOM;
+
+		err = set_direct_map_invalid_noflush(page);
+		if (err) {
+			put_page(page);
+			return vmf_error(err);
+		}
+
+		__SetPageUptodate(page);
+		err = add_to_page_cache_lru(page, mapping, offset, gfp);
+		if (unlikely(err)) {
+			put_page(page);
+			/*
+			 * If a split of large page was required, it
+			 * already happened when we marked the page invalid
+			 * which guarantees that this call won't fail
+			 */
+			set_direct_map_default_noflush(page);
+			if (err == -EEXIST)
+				goto retry;
+
+			return vmf_error(err);
+		}
+
+		addr = (unsigned long)page_address(page);
+		flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PAGE_SIZE);
+	}
+
+	vmf->page = page;
+	return VM_FAULT_LOCKED;
+}
+
+static const struct vm_operations_struct secretmem_vm_ops = {
+	.fault = secretmem_fault,
+};
+
+static int secretmem_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	unsigned long len = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
+
+	if ((vma->vm_flags & (VM_SHARED | VM_MAYSHARE)) == 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	if (mlock_future_check(vma->vm_mm, vma->vm_flags | VM_LOCKED, len))
+		return -EAGAIN;
+
+	vma->vm_flags |= VM_LOCKED | VM_DONTDUMP;
+	vma->vm_ops = &secretmem_vm_ops;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+bool vma_is_secretmem(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+	return vma->vm_ops == &secretmem_vm_ops;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations secretmem_fops = {
+	.mmap		= secretmem_mmap,
+};
+
+static bool secretmem_isolate_page(struct page *page, isolate_mode_t mode)
+{
+	return false;
+}
+
+static int secretmem_migratepage(struct address_space *mapping,
+				 struct page *newpage, struct page *page,
+				 enum migrate_mode mode)
+{
+	return -EBUSY;
+}
+
+static void secretmem_freepage(struct page *page)
+{
+	set_direct_map_default_noflush(page);
+	clear_highpage(page);
+}
+
+const struct address_space_operations secretmem_aops = {
+	.freepage	= secretmem_freepage,
+	.migratepage	= secretmem_migratepage,
+	.isolate_page	= secretmem_isolate_page,
+};
+
+static struct vfsmount *secretmem_mnt;
+
+static struct file *secretmem_file_create(unsigned long flags)
+{
+	struct file *file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	struct inode *inode;
+
+	inode = alloc_anon_inode(secretmem_mnt->mnt_sb);
+	if (IS_ERR(inode))
+		return ERR_CAST(inode);
+
+	file = alloc_file_pseudo(inode, secretmem_mnt, "secretmem",
+				 O_RDWR, &secretmem_fops);
+	if (IS_ERR(file))
+		goto err_free_inode;
+
+	mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping, GFP_HIGHUSER);
+	mapping_set_unevictable(inode->i_mapping);
+
+	inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &secretmem_aops;
+
+	/* pretend we are a normal file with zero size */
+	inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG;
+	inode->i_size = 0;
+
+	return file;
+
+err_free_inode:
+	iput(inode);
+	return file;
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE1(memfd_secret, unsigned int, flags)
+{
+	struct file *file;
+	int fd, err;
+
+	/* make sure local flags do not confict with global fcntl.h */
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(SECRETMEM_FLAGS_MASK & O_CLOEXEC);
+
+	if (!secretmem_enable)
+		return -ENOSYS;
+
+	if (flags & ~(SECRETMEM_FLAGS_MASK | O_CLOEXEC))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	fd = get_unused_fd_flags(flags & O_CLOEXEC);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		return fd;
+
+	file = secretmem_file_create(flags);
+	if (IS_ERR(file)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(file);
+		goto err_put_fd;
+	}
+
+	file->f_flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
+
+	fd_install(fd, file);
+	return fd;
+
+err_put_fd:
+	put_unused_fd(fd);
+	return err;
+}
+
+static int secretmem_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc)
+{
+	return init_pseudo(fc, SECRETMEM_MAGIC) ? 0 : -ENOMEM;
+}
+
+static struct file_system_type secretmem_fs = {
+	.name		= "secretmem",
+	.init_fs_context = secretmem_init_fs_context,
+	.kill_sb	= kill_anon_super,
+};
+
+static int secretmem_init(void)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	if (!secretmem_enable)
+		return ret;
+
+	secretmem_mnt = kern_mount(&secretmem_fs);
+	if (IS_ERR(secretmem_mnt))
+		ret = PTR_ERR(secretmem_mnt);
+
+	/* prevent secretmem mappings from ever getting PROT_EXEC */
+	secretmem_mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_NOEXEC;
+
+	return ret;
+}
+fs_initcall(secretmem_init);
