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madvise.2: Minor fixups 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-02-03 23:37:59 +01:00
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@ -114,14 +114,20 @@ Expect access in the near future.
Do not expect access in the near future.
(For the time being, the application is finished with the given range,
so the kernel can free resources associated with it.)
If the operations succeeds,
subsequent accesses of pages in this range will succeed, but will result
After a successful
.B MADV_DONTNEED
operation,
the semantics of memory access in the specified region are changed:
subsequent accesses of pages in the range will succeed, but will result
either in reloading of the memory contents from the underlying mapped file
(see
.BR mmap (2))
or zero-fill-on-demand pages for mappings
without an underlying file.
This flag cannot be applied to locked pages or Huge TLB pages.
.B MADV_DONTNEED
cannot be applied to locked pages or Huge TLB pages.
.\"
.\" ======================================================================
.\"