diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
index e35a3f2fb006adb1fd9c7e70a4005da4f834d98b..586cd4b8642842c0aafac352fed248521ef2d6c0 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
@@ -983,11 +983,11 @@ that benefit from having their data cached, zone_reclaim_mode should be
 left disabled as the caching effect is likely to be more important than
 data locality.
 
-zone_reclaim may be enabled if it's known that the workload is partitioned
-such that each partition fits within a NUMA node and that accessing remote
-memory would cause a measurable performance reduction.  The page allocator
-will then reclaim easily reusable pages (those page cache pages that are
-currently not used) before allocating off node pages.
+Consider enabling one or more zone_reclaim mode bits if it's known that the
+workload is partitioned such that each partition fits within a NUMA node
+and that accessing remote memory would cause a measurable performance
+reduction.  The page allocator will take additional actions before
+allocating off node pages.
 
 Allowing zone reclaim to write out pages stops processes that are
 writing large amounts of data from dirtying pages on other nodes. Zone
diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index fea6b43bc1f99d4ac461c5a70ae9f8163af54e14..562e87cbd7a1ab94203489e9cd9b4e8bec278aea 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4085,8 +4085,13 @@ module_init(kswapd_init)
  */
 int node_reclaim_mode __read_mostly;
 
-#define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<0)	/* Writeout pages during reclaim */
-#define RECLAIM_UNMAP (1<<1)	/* Unmap pages during reclaim */
+/*
+ * These bit locations are exposed in the vm.zone_reclaim_mode sysctl
+ * ABI.  New bits are OK, but existing bits can never change.
+ */
+#define RECLAIM_ZONE  (1<<0)   /* Run shrink_inactive_list on the zone */
+#define RECLAIM_WRITE (1<<1)   /* Writeout pages during reclaim */
+#define RECLAIM_UNMAP (1<<2)   /* Unmap pages during reclaim */
 
 /*
  * Priority for NODE_RECLAIM. This determines the fraction of pages