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Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:53:16 +0900 (JST)
From:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com, kiran@...lex86.org,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk,
	lee.schermerhorn@...com, mel@....ul.ie, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local

commit 3f226aa1c (mempolicy: support mpol=local tmpfs mount option)
added new mpol=local mount option. but it didn't add a documentation.

This patch does it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
index 3015da0..fe09a2c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for
 all files in that instance (if CONFIG_NUMA is enabled) - which can be
 adjusted on the fly via 'mount -o remount ...'
 
-mpol=default             prefers to allocate memory from the local node
+mpol=default             use the process allocation policy
+                         (see set_mempolicy(2))
 mpol=prefer:Node         prefers to allocate memory from the given Node
 mpol=bind:NodeList       allocates memory only from nodes in NodeList
 mpol=interleave          prefers to allocate from each node in turn
 mpol=interleave:NodeList allocates from each node of NodeList in turn
+mpol=local		 prefers to allocate memory from the local node
 
 NodeList format is a comma-separated list of decimal numbers and ranges,
 a range being two hyphen-separated decimal numbers, the smallest and
@@ -134,3 +136,5 @@ Author:
    Christoph Rohland <cr@....com>, 1.12.01
 Updated:
    Hugh Dickins, 4 June 2007
+Updated:
+   KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010
-- 
1.6.5.2



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