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diff --git a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
index 02b89dcf38ac..b565e8279d13 100644
--- a/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt
@@ -248,3 +248,18 @@ PROVIDING SHAREABLE BLOCK DEVICE SUPPORT
 Provision of shared mappings on block device files is exactly the same as for
 character devices. If there isn't a real device underneath, then the driver
 should allocate sufficient contiguous memory to honour any supported mapping.
+
+
+=================================
+ADJUSTING PAGE TRIMMING BEHAVIOUR
+=================================
+
+NOMMU mmap automatically rounds up to the nearest power-of-2 number of pages
+when performing an allocation.  This can have adverse effects on memory
+fragmentation, and as such, is left configurable.  The default behaviour is to
+aggressively trim allocations and discard any excess pages back in to the page
+allocator.  In order to retain finer-grained control over fragmentation, this
+behaviour can either be disabled completely, or bumped up to a higher page
+watermark where trimming begins.
+
+Page trimming behaviour is configurable via the sysctl `vm.nr_trim_pages'.
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index cd05994a49e6..a3415070bcac 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
 - numa_zonelist_order
 - nr_hugepages
 - nr_overcommit_hugepages
+- nr_trim_pages         (only if CONFIG_MMU=n)
 
 ==============================================================
 
@@ -348,3 +349,20 @@ Change the maximum size of the hugepage pool. The maximum is
 nr_hugepages + nr_overcommit_hugepages.
 
 See Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+
+==============================================================
+
+nr_trim_pages
+
+This is available only on NOMMU kernels.
+
+This value adjusts the excess page trimming behaviour of power-of-2 aligned
+NOMMU mmap allocations.
+
+A value of 0 disables trimming of allocations entirely, while a value of 1
+trims excess pages aggressively. Any value >= 1 acts as the watermark where
+trimming of allocations is initiated.
+
+The default value is 1.
+
+See Documentation/nommu-mmap.txt for more information.