diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 6cdcf38f2da9b4e4b491d15a5a6b7422b983f98b..5cc3506574e9db654ef058bf73f50e67e07dc9aa 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -336,6 +336,28 @@ config SLUB_STATS
 	  out which slabs are relevant to a particular load.
 	  Try running: slabinfo -DA
 
+config DEBUG_KMEMLEAK
+	bool "Kernel memory leak detector"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && EXPERIMENTAL && (X86 || ARM) && \
+		!MEMORY_HOTPLUG
+	select DEBUG_SLAB if SLAB
+	select SLUB_DEBUG if SLUB
+	select DEBUG_FS if SYSFS
+	select STACKTRACE if STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+	select KALLSYMS
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want to enable the memory leak
+	  detector. The memory allocation/freeing is traced in a way
+	  similar to the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the
+	  difference being that the orphan objects are not freed but
+	  only shown in /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this
+	  feature will introduce an overhead to memory
+	  allocations. See Documentation/kmemleak.txt for more
+	  details.
+
+	  In order to access the kmemleak file, debugfs needs to be
+	  mounted (usually at /sys/kernel/debug).
+
 config DEBUG_PREEMPT
 	bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT && (TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT || PPC64)
diff --git a/mm/Makefile b/mm/Makefile
index ec73c68b601547680e6b1f49df5462b093a7e278..cb84a025fdbf2ddbb50c7305cbb9d69d10188eec 100644
--- a/mm/Makefile
+++ b/mm/Makefile
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += allocpercpu.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_QUICKLIST) += quicklist.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR) += memcontrol.o page_cgroup.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK) += kmemleak.o