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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index e6fb1ec2744b..a6e360d2055c 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
32- legacy_va_layout 32- legacy_va_layout
33- lowmem_reserve_ratio 33- lowmem_reserve_ratio
34- max_map_count 34- max_map_count
35- memory_failure_early_kill
36- memory_failure_recovery
35- min_free_kbytes 37- min_free_kbytes
36- min_slab_ratio 38- min_slab_ratio
37- min_unmapped_ratio 39- min_unmapped_ratio
@@ -53,7 +55,6 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
53- vfs_cache_pressure 55- vfs_cache_pressure
54- zone_reclaim_mode 56- zone_reclaim_mode
55 57
56
57============================================================== 58==============================================================
58 59
59block_dump 60block_dump
@@ -275,6 +276,44 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation.
275 276
276The default value is 65536. 277The default value is 65536.
277 278
279=============================================================
280
281memory_failure_early_kill:
282
283Control how to kill processes when uncorrected memory error (typically
284a 2bit error in a memory module) is detected in the background by hardware
285that cannot be handled by the kernel. In some cases (like the page
286still having a valid copy on disk) the kernel will handle the failure
287transparently without affecting any applications. But if there is
288no other uptodate copy of the data it will kill to prevent any data
289corruptions from propagating.
290
2911: Kill all processes that have the corrupted and not reloadable page mapped
292as soon as the corruption is detected. Note this is not supported
293for a few types of pages, like kernel internally allocated data or
294the swap cache, but works for the majority of user pages.
295
2960: Only unmap the corrupted page from all processes and only kill a process
297who tries to access it.
298
299The kill is done using a catchable SIGBUS with BUS_MCEERR_AO, so processes can
300handle this if they want to.
301
302This is only active on architectures/platforms with advanced machine
303check handling and depends on the hardware capabilities.
304
305Applications can override this setting individually with the PR_MCE_KILL prctl
306
307==============================================================
308
309memory_failure_recovery
310
311Enable memory failure recovery (when supported by the platform)
312
3131: Attempt recovery.
314
3150: Always panic on a memory failure.
316
278============================================================== 317==============================================================
279 318
280min_free_kbytes: 319min_free_kbytes: