diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c
index 0971814..42da607 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
 			struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
 			jbd_lock_bh_state(bh);
-			kfree(jh->b_committed_data);
+			jbd_slab_free(jh->b_committed_data, bh->b_size);
 			jh->b_committed_data = NULL;
 			jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
 		}
@@ -745,14 +745,14 @@
 		 * Otherwise, we can just throw away the frozen data now.
 		 */
 		if (jh->b_committed_data) {
-			kfree(jh->b_committed_data);
+			jbd_slab_free(jh->b_committed_data, bh->b_size);
 			jh->b_committed_data = NULL;
 			if (jh->b_frozen_data) {
 				jh->b_committed_data = jh->b_frozen_data;
 				jh->b_frozen_data = NULL;
 			}
 		} else if (jh->b_frozen_data) {
-			kfree(jh->b_frozen_data);
+			jbd_slab_free(jh->b_frozen_data, bh->b_size);
 			jh->b_frozen_data = NULL;
 		}
 
diff --git a/fs/jbd/journal.c b/fs/jbd/journal.c
index 8c9b28d..f66724c 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/journal.c
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
 
 static int journal_convert_superblock_v1(journal_t *, journal_superblock_t *);
 static void __journal_abort_soft (journal_t *journal, int errno);
+static int journal_create_jbd_slab(size_t slab_size);
 
 /*
  * Helper function used to manage commit timeouts
@@ -328,10 +329,10 @@
 		char *tmp;
 
 		jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh_in);
-		tmp = jbd_rep_kmalloc(bh_in->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+		tmp = jbd_slab_alloc(bh_in->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
 		jbd_lock_bh_state(bh_in);
 		if (jh_in->b_frozen_data) {
-			kfree(tmp);
+			jbd_slab_free(tmp, bh_in->b_size);
 			goto repeat;
 		}
 
@@ -1069,17 +1070,17 @@
 int journal_load(journal_t *journal)
 {
 	int err;
+	journal_superblock_t *sb;
 
 	err = load_superblock(journal);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
+	sb = journal->j_superblock;
 	/* If this is a V2 superblock, then we have to check the
 	 * features flags on it. */
 
 	if (journal->j_format_version >= 2) {
-		journal_superblock_t *sb = journal->j_superblock;
-
 		if ((sb->s_feature_ro_compat &
 		     ~cpu_to_be32(JFS_KNOWN_ROCOMPAT_FEATURES)) ||
 		    (sb->s_feature_incompat &
@@ -1090,6 +1091,13 @@
 		}
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Create a slab for this blocksize
+	 */
+	err = journal_create_jbd_slab(cpu_to_be32(sb->s_blocksize));
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	/* Let the recovery code check whether it needs to recover any
 	 * data from the journal. */
 	if (journal_recover(journal))
@@ -1612,6 +1620,77 @@
 }
 
 /*
+ * jbd slab management: create 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k slabs as needed
+ * and allocate frozen and commit buffers from these slabs.
+ *
+ * Reason for doing this is to avoid, SLAB_DEBUG - since it could
+ * cause bh to cross page boundary.
+ */
+
+#define JBD_MAX_SLABS 5
+#define JBD_SLAB_INDEX(size)  (size >> 11)
+
+static kmem_cache_t *jbd_slab[JBD_MAX_SLABS];
+static const char *jbd_slab_names[JBD_MAX_SLABS] = {
+	"jbd_1k", "jbd_2k", "jbd_4k", NULL, "jbd_8k"
+};
+
+static void journal_destroy_jbd_slabs(void)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < JBD_MAX_SLABS; i++) {
+		if (jbd_slab[i])
+			kmem_cache_destroy(jbd_slab[i]);
+		jbd_slab[i] = NULL;
+	}
+}
+
+static int journal_create_jbd_slab(size_t slab_size)
+{
+	int i = JBD_SLAB_INDEX(slab_size);
+
+	BUG_ON(i >= JBD_MAX_SLABS);
+
+	/*
+	 * Check if we already have a slab created for this size
+	 */
+	if (jbd_slab[i])
+		return 0;
+
+	/*
+	 * Create a slab and force alignment to be same as slabsize -
+	 * this will make sure that allocations won't cross the page
+	 * boundary.
+	 */
+	jbd_slab[i] = kmem_cache_create(jbd_slab_names[i],
+				slab_size, slab_size, 0, NULL, NULL);
+	if (!jbd_slab[i]) {
+		printk(KERN_EMERG "JBD: no memory for jbd_slab cache\n");
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+void * jbd_slab_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
+{
+	int idx;
+
+	idx = JBD_SLAB_INDEX(size);
+	BUG_ON(jbd_slab[idx] == NULL);
+	return kmem_cache_alloc(jbd_slab[idx], flags | __GFP_NOFAIL);
+}
+
+void jbd_slab_free(void *ptr,  size_t size)
+{
+	int idx;
+
+	idx = JBD_SLAB_INDEX(size);
+	BUG_ON(jbd_slab[idx] == NULL);
+	kmem_cache_free(jbd_slab[idx], ptr);
+}
+
+/*
  * Journal_head storage management
  */
 static kmem_cache_t *journal_head_cache;
@@ -1799,13 +1878,13 @@
 				printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: freeing "
 						"b_frozen_data\n",
 						__FUNCTION__);
-				kfree(jh->b_frozen_data);
+				jbd_slab_free(jh->b_frozen_data, bh->b_size);
 			}
 			if (jh->b_committed_data) {
 				printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: freeing "
 						"b_committed_data\n",
 						__FUNCTION__);
-				kfree(jh->b_committed_data);
+				jbd_slab_free(jh->b_committed_data, bh->b_size);
 			}
 			bh->b_private = NULL;
 			jh->b_bh = NULL;	/* debug, really */
@@ -1961,6 +2040,7 @@
 	journal_destroy_revoke_caches();
 	journal_destroy_journal_head_cache();
 	journal_destroy_handle_cache();
+	journal_destroy_jbd_slabs();
 }
 
 static int __init journal_init(void)
diff --git a/fs/jbd/transaction.c b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
index 508b2ea..de2e4cb 100644
--- a/fs/jbd/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd/transaction.c
@@ -666,8 +666,9 @@
 			if (!frozen_buffer) {
 				JBUFFER_TRACE(jh, "allocate memory for buffer");
 				jbd_unlock_bh_state(bh);
-				frozen_buffer = jbd_kmalloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
-							    GFP_NOFS);
+				frozen_buffer =
+					jbd_slab_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size,
+							 GFP_NOFS);
 				if (!frozen_buffer) {
 					printk(KERN_EMERG
 					       "%s: OOM for frozen_buffer\n",
@@ -879,7 +880,7 @@
 
 repeat:
 	if (!jh->b_committed_data) {
-		committed_data = jbd_kmalloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+		committed_data = jbd_slab_alloc(jh2bh(jh)->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!committed_data) {
 			printk(KERN_EMERG "%s: No memory for committed data\n",
 				__FUNCTION__);
@@ -906,7 +907,7 @@
 out:
 	journal_put_journal_head(jh);
 	if (unlikely(committed_data))
-		kfree(committed_data);
+		jbd_slab_free(committed_data, bh->b_size);
 	return err;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index 20eb344..a04c154 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@
 #endif
 
 extern void * __jbd_kmalloc (const char *where, size_t size, gfp_t flags, int retry);
+extern void * jbd_slab_alloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags);
+extern void jbd_slab_free(void *ptr, size_t size);
+
 #define jbd_kmalloc(size, flags) \
 	__jbd_kmalloc(__FUNCTION__, (size), (flags), journal_oom_retry)
 #define jbd_rep_kmalloc(size, flags) \