diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index 19d838cfb..5b382e446 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -410,13 +410,14 @@ regardless of memory pressure.
 .\" commit d2cd9ede6e193dd7d88b6d27399e96229a551b19
 Present the child process with zero-filled memory in this range after a
 .BR fork (2).
-This is useful for per-process data in forking servers that should be
-re-initialized in the child process after a fork, for example PRNG seeds,
-cryptographic secrets, etc.
+This is useful in forking servers in order to ensure
+that sensitive per-process data
+(for example, PRNG seeds, cryptographic secrets, and so on)
+is not handed to child processes.
 .IP
 The
 .B MADV_WIPEONFORK
-operation can only be applied to private anonymous pages (see
+operation can be applied only to private anonymous pages (see
 .BR mmap (2)).
 .TP
 .BR MADV_KEEPONFORK " (since Linux 4.14)"