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    Subject[42/45] doc: add the documentation for mpol=local
    2.6.27-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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    From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.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@jp.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
    Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.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@sap.com>, 1.12.01
    Updated:
    Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, 4 June 2007
    +Updated:
    + KOSAKI Motohiro, 16 Mar 2010



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