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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index e2a4ff6fc3a6..cc9f91e7daf4 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -264,6 +264,29 @@ config HW_BRANCH_TRACER
           This tracer records all branches on the system in a circular
           buffer giving access to the last N branches for each cpu.
 
+config KMEMTRACE
+        bool "Trace SLAB allocations"
+        select TRACING
+        select MARKERS
+        select RELAY
+        help
+          kmemtrace provides tracing for slab allocator functions, such as
+          kmalloc, kfree, kmem_cache_alloc, kmem_cache_free etc.. Collected
+          data is then fed to the userspace application in order to analyse
+          allocation hotspots, internal fragmentation and so on, making it
+          possible to see how well an allocator performs, as well as debug
+          and profile kernel code.
+
+          This requires an userspace application to use. See
+          Documentation/vm/kmemtrace.txt for more information.
+
+          Saying Y will make the kernel somewhat larger and slower. However,
+          if you disable kmemtrace at run-time or boot-time, the performance
+          impact is minimal (depending on the arch the kernel is built for).
+
+          If unsure, say N.
+
+
 config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
         bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
         depends on FUNCTION_TRACER