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diff --git a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
index 6d0c2519cf47..c6f993d491b5 100644
--- a/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ a recent addition and not present on older kernels.
 		    in the memory block.
 'state'           : read-write
                     at read:  contains online/offline state of memory.
-                    at write: user can specify "online", "offline" command
+                    at write: user can specify "online_kernel",
+                    "online_movable", "online", "offline" command
                     which will be performed on al sections in the block.
 'phys_device'     : read-only: designed to show the name of physical memory
                     device.  This is not well implemented now.
@@ -255,6 +256,17 @@ For onlining, you have to write "online" to the section's state file as:
 
 % echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
 
+This onlining will not change the ZONE type of the target memory section,
+If the memory section is in ZONE_NORMAL, you can change it to ZONE_MOVABLE:
+
+% echo online_movable > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_MOVABLE)
+
+And if the memory section is in ZONE_MOVABLE, you can change it to ZONE_NORMAL:
+
+% echo online_kernel > /sys/devices/system/memory/memoryXXX/state
+(NOTE: current limit: this memory section must be adjacent to ZONE_NORMAL)
+
 After this, section memoryXXX's state will be 'online' and the amount of
 available memory will be increased.
 
@@ -377,15 +389,18 @@ The third argument is passed by pointer of struct memory_notify.
 struct memory_notify {
        unsigned long start_pfn;
        unsigned long nr_pages;
+       int status_change_nid_normal;
        int status_change_nid;
 }
 
 start_pfn is start_pfn of online/offline memory.
 nr_pages is # of pages of online/offline memory.
+status_change_nid_normal is set node id when N_NORMAL_MEMORY of nodemask
+is (will be) set/clear, if this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
 status_change_nid is set node id when N_HIGH_MEMORY of nodemask is (will be)
 set/clear. It means a new(memoryless) node gets new memory by online and a
 node loses all memory. If this is -1, then nodemask status is not changed.
-If status_changed_nid >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the
+If status_changed_nid* >= 0, callback should create/discard structures for the
 node if necessary.
 
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