diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index f41da4f65..ee25f27be 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -4028,18 +4028,8 @@ with writes enabled, any UID or GID that would exceed 65535 is translated
 to the overflow value before being written to disk.
 .TP
 .IR /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size " (since Linux 2.6.35)"
-The value in this file defines an upper limit for raising the capacity
-of a pipe using the
-.BR fcntl (2)
-.B F_SETPIPE_SZ
-operation.
-This limit applies only to unprivileged processes.
-The default value for this file is 1,048,576.
-The value assigned to this file may be rounded upward,
-to reflect the value actually employed for a convenient implementation.
-To determine the rounded-up value,
-display the contents of this file after assigning a value to it.
-The minimum value that can be assigned to this file is the system page size.
+See
+.BR pipe (7).
 .TP
 .IR /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks " (since Linux 3.6)"
 .\" commit 800179c9b8a1e796e441674776d11cd4c05d61d7
diff --git a/man7/pipe.7 b/man7/pipe.7
index aef987144..af0a42cc4 100644
--- a/man7/pipe.7
+++ b/man7/pipe.7
@@ -184,7 +184,13 @@ The maximum size (in bytes) of individual pipes that can be set
 by users without the
 .B CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
 capability.
+The value assigned to this file may be rounded upward,
+to reflect the value actually employed for a convenient implementation.
+To determine the rounded-up value,
+display the contents of this file after assigning a value to it.
+
 The default value for this file is 1048576 (1 MiB).
+The minimum value that can be assigned to this file is the system page size.
 Attempts to set a limit less than the page size cause
 .BR write (2)
 to fail with the error