diff --git a/man2/process_madvise.2 b/man2/process_madvise.2
index 3237147e1..d33c32f63 100644
--- a/man2/process_madvise.2
+++ b/man2/process_madvise.2
@@ -83,10 +83,50 @@ The
 specifies the number of elements in the
 .I iovec
 structure.
+This value must be less than or equal to
+.BR IOV_MAX
+(defined in
+.I <limits.h>
+or accessible via the call
+.IR sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) ).
 .PP
 The
 .I advice
 argument is one of the values listed below.
+.PP
+The
+.I flags
+argument is reserved for future use; currently, this argument must be
+specified as 0.
+.PP
+The
+.I vlen
+and
+.I iovec
+arguments are checked before applying any hints.
+If the
+.I vlen
+is too big, or
+.I iovec
+is invalid,
+then an error will be returned immediately and no advice will be applied.
+.PP
+The hint might be applied to a part of
+.I iovec
+if one of its elements points to an invalid memory region in the
+remote process.
+No further elements will be processed beyond that point.
+.PP
+Permission to provide a hint to another process is governed by a
+ptrace access mode
+.B PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS
+check (see
+.BR ptrace (2));
+in addition,
+because of the performance implications of applying the hint,
+the caller must have the
+.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+capability.
 .\"
 .\" ======================================================================
 .\"
@@ -117,49 +157,6 @@ If a page is file-backed and dirty, it will be written back to the backing
 storage.
 The advice might be ignored for some pages in the range when it is not
 applicable.
-.PP
-The
-.I flags
-argument is reserved for future use; currently, this argument must be
-specified as 0.
-.PP
-The value specified in the
-.I vlen
-argument must be less than or equal to
-.BR IOV_MAX
-(defined in
-.I <limits.h>
-or accessible via the call
-.IR sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) ).
-.PP
-The
-.I vlen
-and
-.I iovec
-arguments are checked before applying any hints.
-If the
-.I vlen
-is too big, or
-.I iovec
-is invalid,
-then an error will be returned immediately and no advice will be applied.
-.PP
-The hint might be applied to a part of
-.I iovec
-if one of its elements points to an invalid memory region in the
-remote process.
-No further elements will be processed beyond that point.
-.PP
-Permission to provide a hint to another process is governed by a
-ptrace access mode
-.B PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS
-check (see
-.BR ptrace (2));
-in addition,
-because of the performance implications of applying the hint,
-the caller must have the
-.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN
-capability.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 On success,
 .BR process_madvise ()