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diff --git a/include/linux/migrate_mode.h b/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
index ebf3d89a3919..bdf66af9b937 100644
--- a/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
+++ b/include/linux/migrate_mode.h
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@
* on most operations but not ->writepage as the potential stall time
* is too significant
* MIGRATE_SYNC will block when migrating pages
+ * MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY will block when migrating pages but will not copy pages
+ * with the CPU. Instead, page copy happens outside the migratepage()
+ * callback and is likely using a DMA engine. See migrate_vma() and HMM
+ * (mm/hmm.c) for users of this mode.
*/
enum migrate_mode {
MIGRATE_ASYNC,
MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT,
MIGRATE_SYNC,
+ MIGRATE_SYNC_NO_COPY,
};
#endif /* MIGRATE_MODE_H_INCLUDED */