SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).

Added  a VERSIONS section.
Remove material on library support and numactl; that material
is now in numactl.7.

man2/mbind.2

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 .\" 2007-08-27, Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
 .\"	more precise specification of behavior.
 .\"
-.TH MBIND 2 2008-08-11 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH MBIND 2 2008-08-15 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 mbind \- Set memory policy for a memory range
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ for the memory range starting with
 and continuing for
 .I len
 bytes.
-The memory of a NUMA machine is divided into multiple nodes.
 The memory policy defines from which node memory is allocated.
 
 If the memory range specified by the
@@ -299,7 +298,7 @@ is set to indicate the error.
 .\"  I think I got all of the error returns.  --Lee Schermerhorn
 .TP
 .B EFAULT
-Part of all of the memory range specified by
+Part or all of the memory range specified by
 .I nodemask
 and
 .I maxnode
@@ -377,17 +376,21 @@ flag and the caller does not have the
 .B CAP_SYS_NICE
 privilege.
 .\" ---------------------------------------------------------------
+.SH VERSIONS
+The
+.BR mbind (),
+system call was added to the Linux kernel in version 2.6.7.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 This system call is Linux-specific.
 .SH NOTES
+For information on library support, see
+.BR numa (7).
+
 NUMA policy is not supported on a memory mapped file range
 that was mapped with the
 .B MAP_SHARED
 flag.
 
-.B MPOL_MF_STRICT
-is ignored on huge page mappings.
-
 The
 .BR MPOL_DEFAULT ,
 mode can have different effects for
@@ -419,47 +422,14 @@ with an empty set of nodes.
 This method will work for
 .BR set_mempolicy (2),
 as well.
-.\" ---------------------------------------------------------------
-.SS "Versions and Library Support"
-The
-.BR mbind (),
-.BR get_mempolicy (2),
-and
-.BR set_mempolicy (2)
-system calls were added to the Linux kernel with version 2.6.7.
-They are only available on kernels compiled with
-.BR CONFIG_NUMA .
-
-You can link with
-.I \-lnuma
-to get system call definitions.
-.I libnuma
-and the required
-.I <numaif.h>
-header are available in the
-.I numactl
-package.
-
-However, applications should not use these system calls directly.
-Instead, the higher level interface provided by the
-.BR numa (3)
-functions in the
-.I numactl
-package is recommended.
-The
-.I numactl
-package is available at
-.IR ftp://oss.sgi.com/www/projects/libnuma/download/ .
-The package is also included in some Linux distributions.
-Some distributions include the development library and header
-in the separate
-.I numactl-devel
-package.
 
 Support for huge page policy was added with 2.6.16.
 For interleave policy to be effective on huge page mappings the
 policied memory needs to be tens of megabytes or larger.
 
+.B MPOL_MF_STRICT
+is ignored on huge page mappings.
+
 .B MPOL_MF_MOVE
 and
 .B MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL
@@ -473,4 +443,5 @@ are only available on Linux 2.6.16 and later.
 .BR shmget (2),
 .BR numa (3),
 .BR cpuset (7),
+.BR numa (7),
 .BR numactl (8)