diff --git a/man2/shmop.2 b/man2/shmop.2
index 849529f73..08c2cd425 100644
--- a/man2/shmop.2
+++ b/man2/shmop.2
@@ -284,8 +284,10 @@ in order either to ensure good CPU cache performance or to ensure that
 different attaches of the same segment have consistent views
 within the CPU cache.
 .B SHMLBA
-is normally some multiple of the system page size
-(on many Linux architectures, it is the same as the system page size).
+is normally some multiple of the system page size.
+(On many Linux architectures,
+.B SHMLBA
+is the same as the system page size.)
 .PP
 The implementation places no intrinsic per-process limit on the
 number of shared memory segments