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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-04-29 11:21:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-04-29 11:21:22 -0700
commit1d003af2effbf10ef7b08736606dd306a29b3396 (patch)
tree1801e223f1ed61788df63be5f11702afdea457e5 /Documentation
parent92c19ea9535707701861b7533253a516c7d115c9 (diff)
parent7c88a292dfcd6979e839493ef18d04770eb3bad0 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "20 fixes" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt: update numa_zonelist_order description lib/stackdepot.c: allow the stack trace hash to be zero rapidio: fix potential NULL pointer dereference mm/memory-failure: fix race with compound page split/merge ocfs2/dlm: return zero if deref_done message is successfully handled Ananth has moved kcov: don't profile branches in kcov kcov: don't trace the code coverage code mm: wake kcompactd before kswapd's short sleep .mailmap: add Frank Rowand mm/hwpoison: fix wrong num_poisoned_pages accounting mm: call swap_slot_free_notify() with page lock held mm: vmscan: reclaim highmem zone if buffer_heads is over limit numa: fix /proc/<pid>/numa_maps for THP mm/huge_memory: replace VM_NO_THP VM_BUG_ON with actual VMA check mailmap: fix Krzysztof Kozlowski's misspelled name thp: keep huge zero page pinned until tlb flush mm: exclude HugeTLB pages from THP page_mapped() logic kexec: export OFFSET(page.compound_head) to find out compound tail page kexec: update VMCOREINFO for compound_order/dtor
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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index cb0368459da3..34a5fece3121 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -581,15 +581,16 @@ Specify "[Nn]ode" for node order
"Zone Order" orders the zonelists by zone type, then by node within each
zone. Specify "[Zz]one" for zone order.
-Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration. Autoconfiguration
-will select "node" order in following case.
-(1) if the DMA zone does not exist or
-(2) if the DMA zone comprises greater than 50% of the available memory or
-(3) if any node's DMA zone comprises greater than 70% of its local memory and
- the amount of local memory is big enough.
-
-Otherwise, "zone" order will be selected. Default order is recommended unless
-this is causing problems for your system/application.
+Specify "[Dd]efault" to request automatic configuration.
+
+On 32-bit, the Normal zone needs to be preserved for allocations accessible
+by the kernel, so "zone" order will be selected.
+
+On 64-bit, devices that require DMA32/DMA are relatively rare, so "node"
+order will be selected.
+
+Default order is recommended unless this is causing problems for your
+system/application.
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