Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "173 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug,
  pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap,
  bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure,
  hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock,
  oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (173 commits)
  mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise()
  mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value
  mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation
  mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments
  mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated()
  selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test
  mm: KSM: fix data type
  selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test
  selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test
  selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test
  selftests: vm: add KSM merge test
  mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation
  mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease
  mm: introduce process_mrelease system call
  memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private
  mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node()
  mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies
  mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
  ...

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
index 067a90a1499c..64fd0ba0d057 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst
@@ -245,6 +245,13 @@ MPOL_INTERLEAVED
 	address range or file.  During system boot up, the temporary
 	interleaved system default policy works in this mode.
 
+MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY
+	This mode specifices that the allocation should be preferrably
+	satisfied from the nodemask specified in the policy. If there is
+	a memory pressure on all nodes in the nodemask, the allocation
+	can fall back to all existing numa nodes. This is effectively
+	MPOL_PREFERRED allowed for a mask rather than a single node.
+
 NUMA memory policy supports the following optional mode flags:
 
 MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
@@ -253,10 +260,10 @@ MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES
 	nodes changes after the memory policy has been defined.
 
 	Without this flag, any time a mempolicy is rebound because of a
-	change in the set of allowed nodes, the node (Preferred) or
-	nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is remapped to the new set of
-	allowed nodes.  This may result in nodes being used that were
-	previously undesired.
+        change in the set of allowed nodes, the preferred nodemask (Preferred
+        Many), preferred node (Preferred) or nodemask (Bind, Interleave) is
+        remapped to the new set of allowed nodes.  This may result in nodes
+        being used that were previously undesired.
 
 	With this flag, if the user-specified nodes overlap with the
 	nodes allowed by the task's cpuset, then the memory policy is
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index 003d5cc3751b..5e795202111f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -118,7 +118,8 @@ compaction_proactiveness
 
 This tunable takes a value in the range [0, 100] with a default value of
 20. This tunable determines how aggressively compaction is done in the
-background. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction.
+background. Write of a non zero value to this tunable will immediately
+trigger the proactive compaction. Setting it to 0 disables proactive compaction.
 
 Note that compaction has a non-trivial system-wide impact as pages
 belonging to different processes are moved around, which could also lead