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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-06 20:49:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-09-06 20:49:49 -0700
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parentx86/mm: Document how CR4.PCIDE restore works (diff)
parentmm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - DAX updates - OCFS2 - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (119 commits) mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK x86,mpx: make mpx depend on x86-64 to free up VMA flag mm: add /proc/pid/smaps_rollup mm: hugetlb: clear target sub-page last when clearing huge page mm: oom: let oom_reap_task and exit_mmap run concurrently swap: choose swap device according to numa node mm: replace TIF_MEMDIE checks by tsk_is_oom_victim mm, oom: do not rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access z3fold: use per-cpu unbuddied lists mm, swap: don't use VMA based swap readahead if HDD is used as swap mm, swap: add sysfs interface for VMA based swap readahead mm, swap: VMA based swap readahead mm, swap: fix swap readahead marking mm, swap: add swap readahead hit statistics mm/vmalloc.c: don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API mm/vmstat.c: fix wrong comment selftests/memfd: add memfd_create hugetlbfs selftest mm/shmem: add hugetlbfs support to memfd_create() mm, devm_memremap_pages: use multi-order radix for ZONE_DEVICE lookups mm/vmalloc.c: halve the number of comparisons performed in pcpu_get_vm_areas() ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 48244c42ff52..9baf66a9ef4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
numa_zonelist_order
-This sysctl is only for NUMA.
+This sysctl is only for NUMA and it is deprecated. Anything but
+Node order will fail!
+
'where the memory is allocated from' is controlled by zonelists.
(This documentation ignores ZONE_HIGHMEM/ZONE_DMA32 for simple explanation.
you may be able to read ZONE_DMA as ZONE_DMA32...)