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madvise.2: Slight tweak to text on MADV_MERGEABLE 

Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2010-06-19 11:18:42 +02:00
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@ -163,9 +163,7 @@ Enable Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) for the pages in the range specified by
.I addr
and
.IR len .
The KSM daemon
.RI ( ksmd )
periodically scans those areas of user memory that have
The kernel regularly scans those areas of user memory that have
been marked as mergeable,
looking for pages with identical content.
These are replaced by a single write-protected page (which is automatically