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madvise.2: Minor fixes: miscellaneous wfix/tfix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-02-03 23:17:02 +01:00
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@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function, and the values have the same meanings, with the exception of
.LP
The advice is indicated in the
.I advice
argument which is one of the following:
argument, which is one of the following:
.TP
.B MADV_NORMAL
No special treatment.
@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ but since Linux 3.5,
any filesystem which supports the
.BR fallocate (2)
.BR FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
mode also supports the
mode also supports
.BR MADV_REMOVE .
Other filesystems fail with the error
.BR EOPNOTSUPP .
@ -175,10 +175,10 @@ Other filesystems fail with the error
Do not make the pages in this range available to the child after a
.BR fork (2).
This is useful to prevent copy-on-write semantics from changing
the physical location of a page(s) if the parent writes to it after a
the physical location of a page if the parent writes to it after a
.BR fork (2).
(Such page relocations cause problems for hardware that
DMAs into the page(s).)
DMAs into the page.)
.\" [PATCH] madvise MADV_DONTFORK/MADV_DOFORK
.\" Currently, copy-on-write may change the physical address of
.\" a page even if the user requested that the page is pinned in
@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ and
.\" commit 0af4e98b6b095c74588af04872f83d333c958c32
.\" http://lwn.net/Articles/358904/
.\" https://lwn.net/Articles/423584/
Enables Transparent Huge Pages (THP) for pages in the range specified by
Enable Transparent Huge Pages (THP) for pages in the range specified by
.I addr
and
.IR length .
@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ file (see
Undo the effect of an earlier
.BR MADV_DONTDUMP .
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success
On success,
.BR madvise ()
returns zero.
On error, it returns \-1 and
@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Versions of this system call, implementing a wide variety of
values, exist on many other implementations.
Other implementations typically implement at least the flags listed
above under
.IR "Convention advice flags" ,
.IR "Conventional advice flags" ,
albeit with some variation in semantics.
POSIX.1-2001 describes
@ -435,11 +435,11 @@ with constants
.BR POSIX_MADV_WILLNEED ,
and
.BR POSIX_MADV_DONTNEED ,
and so on, with a behavior close to the similarly named flags listed above.
and so on, with behavior close to the similarly named flags listed above.
(POSIX.1-2008 adds a further flag,
.BR POSIX_MADV_NOREUSE ,
that has no analog in
.BR madvise (2)).
.BR madvise (2).)
.SH NOTES
.SS Linux notes
.LP