posix_fadvise.2: Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection

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.BR fdatasync (2)
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.SS C library/kernel ABI differences
The name of the wrapper function in the C library is
.BR posix_fadvise ().
The underlying system call is called
.BR fadvise64 ()
(or, on some architectures,
.BR fadvise64_64 ()).
.SS Architecture-specific variants
Some architectures require
64-bit arguments to be aligned in a suitable pair of registers (see