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diff --git a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
index df09b9650a8..5948e455c4d 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
* Bits 0-54 page frame number (PFN) if present
* Bits 0-4 swap type if swapped
* Bits 5-54 swap offset if swapped
- * Bits 55-60 page shift (page size = 1<<page shift)
- * Bit 61 reserved for future use
+ * Bit 55 pte is soft-dirty (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt)
+ * Bits 56-60 zero
+ * Bit 61 page is file-page or shared-anon
* Bit 62 page swapped
* Bit 63 page present
@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@ There are three components to pagemap:
19. HWPOISON
20. NOPAGE
21. KSM
+ 22. THP
Short descriptions to the page flags:
@@ -97,6 +99,9 @@ Short descriptions to the page flags:
21. KSM
identical memory pages dynamically shared between one or more processes
+22. THP
+ contiguous pages which construct transparent hugepages
+
[IO related page flags]
1. ERROR IO error occurred
3. UPTODATE page has up-to-date data
@@ -143,5 +148,5 @@ once.
Other notes:
Reading from any of the files will return -EINVAL if you are not starting
-the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you seeked an odd number of bytes
+the read on an 8-byte boundary (e.g., if you sought an odd number of bytes
into the file), or if the size of the read is not a multiple of 8 bytes.