diff --git a/memory.c b/memory.c
index 95eefc9..2ec44ab 100755
--- a/memory.c
+++ b/memory.c
@@ -4091,6 +4091,7 @@ cmd_kmem(void)
 					error(FATAL, 
 				  "only one kmem_cache reference is allowed\n");
 				meminfo.reqname = p1;
+				meminfo.cache = value[i];
                         	if ((i+1) == spec_addr) { /* done? */ 
 					if (meminfo.calls++)
 						fprintf(fp, "\n");
@@ -7589,15 +7590,12 @@ is_kmem_cache_addr(ulong vaddr, char *kbuf)
 	cache_buf = GETBUF(SIZE(kmem_cache_s));
 
         do {
-	        readmem(cache, KVADDR, cache_buf, SIZE(kmem_cache_s),
-	        	"kmem_cache buffer", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 
 		if (cache == vaddr) {
 	                if (vt->kmem_cache_namelen) {
-				BCOPY(cache_buf+name_offset, kbuf, 
-					vt->kmem_cache_namelen);
+				readmem(cache+name_offset, KVADDR, kbuf, vt->kmem_cache_namelen, "name array", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 	                } else {
-				name = ULONG(cache_buf + name_offset);
+				readmem(cache+name_offset, KVADDR, &name, sizeof(name), "name", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 	                        if (!read_string(name, kbuf, BUFSIZE-1)) {
 					if (vt->flags & 
 					  (PERCPU_KMALLOC_V1|PERCPU_KMALLOC_V2))
@@ -7615,7 +7613,8 @@ is_kmem_cache_addr(ulong vaddr, char *kbuf)
 			return kbuf;
 		}
 
-		cache = ULONG(cache_buf + next_offset);
+		readmem(cache+next_offset, KVADDR, &cache, sizeof(long),
+			"kmem_cache_s next", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
 
 		if (vt->flags & (PERCPU_KMALLOC_V1|PERCPU_KMALLOC_V2))
 			cache -= next_offset;
@@ -8733,9 +8732,15 @@ dump_kmem_cache_percpu_v2(struct meminfo *si)
 
 	cnt = 0;
 
-        get_symbol_data("cache_chain", sizeof(ulong), &si->cache);
-        si->cache -= OFFSET(kmem_cache_s_next);
-        cache_end = symbol_value("cache_chain");
+	if (si->cache) {
+		readmem(si->cache+OFFSET(kmem_cache_s_next), 
+			KVADDR, &cache_end, sizeof(ulong),
+			"kmem_cache_s next", FAULT_ON_ERROR);
+	} else {
+		get_symbol_data("cache_chain", sizeof(ulong), &si->cache);
+		si->cache -= OFFSET(kmem_cache_s_next);
+		cache_end = symbol_value("cache_chain");
+	}
 
 	if (si->flags & ADDRESS_SPECIFIED) {
 	        if (!(p1 = vaddr_to_kmem_cache(si->spec_addr, kbuf, VERBOSE))) {