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madvise.2: srcfix 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2015-02-03 16:22:15 +01:00
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@ -143,16 +143,16 @@ range of the backing store (see
.BR fallocate (2)).
Subsequent accesses in the specified address range will see
bytes containing zero.
.\" Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their
.\" bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to
.\" disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting
.\" hot-plug memory on UML.
Currently,
.\" 2.6.18-rc5
only shmfs/tmpfs supports this; other filesystems return with the
error
.BR ENOSYS .
.\" Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their
.\" bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to
.\" disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting
.\" hot-plug memory on UML.
The specified address range must be mapped shared and writable.
This flag cannot be applied to locked pages or Huge TLB pages.
.TP