[PATCH 2/2] Docs/mm: fix THP policy counts in transhuge

From: Song Hu

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 04:18:42 EST


transhuge.rst claims seven policies for transparent_hugepage_shmem= and
four for transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=. Both boot parameters are parsed by
shmem_parse_huge(), which accepts six: always, within_size, advise, never,
deny and force. The "four" applies only to the per-mount huge= option
(shmem_param_enums_huge). Fix both counts to six.

Signed-off-by: Song Hu <husong@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
index b187d618452f..72e944f49da5 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst
@@ -389,14 +389,14 @@ is not defined within a valid ``thp_anon``, its policy will default to
Similarly to ``transparent_hugepage``, you can control the hugepage
allocation policy for the internal shmem mount by using the kernel parameter
``transparent_hugepage_shmem=<policy>``, where ``<policy>`` is one of the
-seven valid policies for shmem (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``,
+six valid policies for shmem (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``,
``never``, ``deny``, and ``force``).

Similarly to ``transparent_hugepage_shmem``, you can control the default
hugepage allocation policy for the tmpfs mount by using the kernel parameter
``transparent_hugepage_tmpfs=<policy>``, where ``<policy>`` is one of the
-four valid policies for tmpfs (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``,
-``never``). The tmpfs mount default policy is ``never``.
+six valid policies for tmpfs (``always``, ``within_size``, ``advise``,
+``never``, ``deny``, and ``force``). The tmpfs mount default policy is ``never``.

Additionally, Kconfig options are available to set the default hugepage
policies for shmem (``CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_SHMEM_HUGE_*``) and tmpfs
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