+void kmem_cache_destroy(struct kmem_cache *);
+int kmem_cache_shrink(struct kmem_cache *);
+void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
+void *kmem_cache_zalloc(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t);
+void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *);
+unsigned int kmem_cache_size(struct kmem_cache *);
+const char *kmem_cache_name(struct kmem_cache *);
+int kmem_ptr_validate(struct kmem_cache *cachep, const void *ptr);
+
+/*
+ * Please use this macro to create slab caches. Simply specify the
+ * name of the structure and maybe some flags that are listed above.
+ *
+ * The alignment of the struct determines object alignment. If you
+ * f.e. add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp to the struct declaration
+ * then the objects will be properly aligned in SMP configurations.
+ */
+#define KMEM_CACHE(__struct, __flags) kmem_cache_create(#__struct,\
+ sizeof(struct __struct), __alignof__(struct __struct),\
+ (__flags), NULL, NULL)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
+extern void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *, gfp_t flags, int node);
+#else
+static inline void *kmem_cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep,
+ gfp_t flags, int node)
+{
+ return kmem_cache_alloc(cachep, flags);
+}
+#endif
+
+/*
+ * The largest kmalloc size supported by the slab allocators is
+ * 32 megabyte (2^25) or the maximum allocatable page order if that is
+ * less than 32 MB.
+ *
+ * WARNING: Its not easy to increase this value since the allocators have
+ * to do various tricks to work around compiler limitations in order to
+ * ensure proper constant folding.
+ */
+#define KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH ((MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) <= 25 ? \
+ (MAX_ORDER + PAGE_SHIFT) : 25)
+
+#define KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE (1UL << KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH)
+#define KMALLOC_MAX_ORDER (KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH - PAGE_SHIFT)
+
+/*
+ * Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators
+ */
+void *__kmalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
+void *__kzalloc(size_t, gfp_t);
+void * __must_check krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t);
+void kfree(const void *);
+size_t ksize(const void *);
+
+/**
+ * kcalloc - allocate memory for an array. The memory is set to zero.
+ * @n: number of elements.
+ * @size: element size.
+ * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
+ */
+static inline void *kcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ if (n != 0 && size > ULONG_MAX / n)
+ return NULL;
+ return __kzalloc(n * size, flags);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Allocator specific definitions. These are mainly used to establish optimized
+ * ways to convert kmalloc() calls to kmem_cache_alloc() invocations by selecting
+ * the appropriate general cache at compile time.
+ */