diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2
index a6570360f..7326e0845 100644
--- a/man2/fcntl.2
+++ b/man2/fcntl.2
@@ -1501,10 +1501,9 @@ An application may
 use this interface for separating writes into different write classes,
 so that multiple users or applications running on a single storage back-end
 can aggregate their I/O patterns in a consistent manner.
-However, there are
-no functional semantics implied by these flags, and different I/O classes
-can use the write lifetime hints in arbitrary ways so long as they are used
-consistently.
+However, there are no functional semantics implied by these flags,
+and different I/O classes can use the write lifetime hints
+in arbitrary ways so long as they are used consistently.
 .TP
 .BR F_GET_RW_HINT " (\fIuint64_t\fP; since Linux 4.13)"
 Returns the value of the read/write hint associated with the underlying inode
@@ -1519,7 +1518,7 @@ Returns the value of the read/write hint associated with the file descriptor.
 .TP
 .BR F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT " (\fIuint64_t\fP; since Linux 4.13)"
 Sets the read/write hint value associated with the file descriptor.
-.P
+.PP
 If a given file descriptor has not been assigned a read/write hint, then it
 shall use the value assigned to the inode, if any.
 The following read/write
@@ -1549,10 +1548,9 @@ data written with
 Data written to this file or inode is expected to have a lifetime longer than
 data written with
 .BR RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG .
-.P
+.PP
 All the write specific hints are relative to each other, and no individual
 absolute meaning should be attributed to them.
-.P
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 For a successful call, the return value depends on the operation:
 .TP 0.9i