linux-kernel - [056/116] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local

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Message-Id: <20100330225634.276820999@linux.site>
Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:55:34 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@...lex86.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: [056/116] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local

2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>

commit 5574169613b40b85d6f4c67208fa4846b897a0a1 upstream.

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>
Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
@@ -82,11 +82,13 @@ tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA
 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


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