diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 3894f289a00f..8fd25a44cf74 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 42c8c99cd891184bf4bcf6f09d62c54e42599453
+refs/heads/master: 0ad9500e16fe24aa55809a2b00e0d2d0e658fc71
diff --git a/trunk/mm/slub.c b/trunk/mm/slub.c
index 4907563ef7ff..5b915e86a9b0 100644
--- a/trunk/mm/slub.c
+++ b/trunk/mm/slub.c
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ static inline void *get_freepointer(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
 	return *(void **)(object + s->offset);
 }
 
+static void prefetch_freepointer(const struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
+{
+	prefetch(object + s->offset);
+}
+
 static inline void *get_freepointer_safe(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object)
 {
 	void *p;
@@ -2309,6 +2314,8 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
 		object = __slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, node, addr, c);
 
 	else {
+		void *next_object = get_freepointer_safe(s, object);
+
 		/*
 		 * The cmpxchg will only match if there was no additional
 		 * operation and if we are on the right processor.
@@ -2324,11 +2331,12 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,
 		if (unlikely(!this_cpu_cmpxchg_double(
 				s->cpu_slab->freelist, s->cpu_slab->tid,
 				object, tid,
-				get_freepointer_safe(s, object), next_tid(tid)))) {
+				next_object, next_tid(tid)))) {
 
 			note_cmpxchg_failure("slab_alloc", s, tid);
 			goto redo;
 		}
+		prefetch_freepointer(s, next_object);
 		stat(s, ALLOC_FASTPATH);
 	}