[PATCH 7/7] docs/core-api: mm-api: add section about GFP flags

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Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
index 65a8ef09..1e8c011 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/mm-api.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,28 @@ User Space Memory Access
 .. kernel-doc:: arch/x86/lib/usercopy_32.c
    :export:
 
+Memory Allocation Controls
+==========================
+
+Linux provides a variety of APIs for memory allocation from direct
+calls to page allocator through slab caches and vmalloc to allocators
+of compressed memory. Although these allocators have different
+semantics and are used in different circumstances, they all share the
+GFP (get free page) flags that control behavior of each allocation
+request.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+   :doc: Page mobility and placement hints
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+   :doc: Watermark modifiers
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+   :doc: Reclaim modifiers
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/gfp.h
+   :doc: Common combinations
+
 The Slab Cache
 ==============
 
-- 
2.7.4

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