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madvise.2: Minor tweaks to Michal Hocko's patch 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -403,7 +403,10 @@ The
operation
can be applied only to private anonymous pages (see
.BR mmap (2)).
Prior to 4.12 on a swapless system, freeing pages in a given range happens instantly,
In Linux before version 4.12,
.\" commit 93e06c7a645343d222c9a838834a51042eebbbf7
when freeing pages on a swapless system,
the pages in the given range are freed instantly,
regardless of memory pressure.
.TP
.BR MADV_WIPEONFORK " (since Linux 4.14)"