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diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
index 67d5d94b783a..0dd2dfa7beca 100644
--- a/include/linux/slab.h
+++ b/include/linux/slab.h
@@ -93,6 +93,30 @@
(unsigned long)ZERO_SIZE_PTR)
/*
+ * Common fields provided in kmem_cache by all slab allocators
+ * This struct is either used directly by the allocator (SLOB)
+ * or the allocator must include definitions for all fields
+ * provided in kmem_cache_common in their definition of kmem_cache.
+ *
+ * Once we can do anonymous structs (C11 standard) we could put a
+ * anonymous struct definition in these allocators so that the
+ * separate allocations in the kmem_cache structure of SLAB and
+ * SLUB is no longer needed.
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_SLOB
+struct kmem_cache {
+ unsigned int object_size;/* The original size of the object */
+ unsigned int size; /* The aligned/padded/added on size */
+ unsigned int align; /* Alignment as calculated */
+ unsigned long flags; /* Active flags on the slab */
+ const char *name; /* Slab name for sysfs */
+ int refcount; /* Use counter */
+ void (*ctor)(void *); /* Called on object slot creation */
+ struct list_head list; /* List of all slab caches on the system */
+};
+#endif
+
+/*
* struct kmem_cache related prototypes
*/
void __init kmem_cache_init(void);