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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