diff --git a/mm/slab.h b/mm/slab.h
index 961a3fb1f5a2c6..3f9766e393a3b9 100644
--- a/mm/slab.h
+++ b/mm/slab.h
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static inline struct kmem_cache *cache_from_obj(struct kmem_cache *s, void *x)
 }
 #endif
 
-
+#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
 /*
  * The slab lists for all objects.
  */
@@ -294,5 +294,20 @@ struct kmem_cache_node {
 
 };
 
+static inline struct kmem_cache_node *get_node(struct kmem_cache *s, int node)
+{
+	return s->node[node];
+}
+
+/*
+ * Iterator over all nodes. The body will be executed for each node that has
+ * a kmem_cache_node structure allocated (which is true for all online nodes)
+ */
+#define for_each_kmem_cache_node(__s, __node, __n) \
+	for (__node = 0; __n = get_node(__s, __node), __node < nr_node_ids; __node++) \
+		 if (__n)
+
+#endif
+
 void *slab_next(struct seq_file *m, void *p, loff_t *pos);
 void slab_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *p);
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 73004808537ea8..2569802aa7cc2f 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -233,11 +233,6 @@ static inline void stat(const struct kmem_cache *s, enum stat_item si)
  * 			Core slab cache functions
  *******************************************************************/
 
-static inline struct kmem_cache_node *get_node(struct kmem_cache *s, int node)
-{
-	return s->node[node];
-}
-
 /* Verify that a pointer has an address that is valid within a slab page */
 static inline int check_valid_pointer(struct kmem_cache *s,
 				struct page *page, const void *object)