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@@ -572,7 +572,9 @@ See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.
numa_zonelist_order
-This sysctl is only for NUMA.
+This sysctl is only for NUMA and it is deprecated. Anything but
+Node order will fail!
+
'where the memory is allocated from' is controlled by zonelists.
(This documentation ignores ZONE_HIGHMEM/ZONE_DMA32 for simple explanation.
you may be able to read ZONE_DMA as ZONE_DMA32...)