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diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index 187ce4f599a2..749322060f10 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Currently, these files are in /proc/sys/vm:
- stat_refresh
- numa_stat
- swappiness
+- unprivileged_userfaultfd
- user_reserve_kbytes
- vfs_cache_pressure
- watermark_boost_factor
@@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ used:
cat (1234): drop_caches: 3
These are informational only. They do not mean that anything is wrong
-with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 3) into drop_caches.
+with your system. To disable them, echo 4 (bit 2) into drop_caches.
==============================================================
@@ -818,6 +819,17 @@ The default value is 60.
==============================================================
+unprivileged_userfaultfd
+
+This flag controls whether unprivileged users can use the userfaultfd
+system calls. Set this to 1 to allow unprivileged users to use the
+userfaultfd system calls, or set this to 0 to restrict userfaultfd to only
+privileged users (with SYS_CAP_PTRACE capability).
+
+The default value is 1.
+
+==============================================================
+
- user_reserve_kbytes
When overcommit_memory is set to 2, "never overcommit" mode, reserve
@@ -866,14 +878,14 @@ The intent is that compaction has less work to do in the future and to
increase the success rate of future high-order allocations such as SLUB
allocations, THP and hugetlbfs pages.
-To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor parameter,
-the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of 15,000 means
-that up to 150% of the high watermark will be reclaimed in the event of
-a pageblock being mixed due to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is
-determined by the number of fragmentation events that occurred in the
-recent past. If this value is smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks
-worth of pages will be reclaimed (e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor
-of 0 will disable the feature.
+To make it sensible with respect to the watermark_scale_factor
+parameter, the unit is in fractions of 10,000. The default value of
+15,000 on !DISCONTIGMEM configurations means that up to 150% of the high
+watermark will be reclaimed in the event of a pageblock being mixed due
+to fragmentation. The level of reclaim is determined by the number of
+fragmentation events that occurred in the recent past. If this value is
+smaller than a pageblock then a pageblocks worth of pages will be reclaimed
+(e.g. 2MB on 64-bit x86). A boost factor of 0 will disable the feature.
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