diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 14b8f34aa..e6af8db11 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -462,20 +462,6 @@ However, most systems also support
 .\" POSIX may add MAP_ANON in the future
 .\" http://austingroupbugs.net/tag_view_page.php?tag_id=8
 .\" http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=850
-.PP
-Memory mapped by
-.BR mmap ()
-is preserved across
-.BR fork (2),
-with the same attributes.
-.PP
-A file is mapped in multiples of the page size.
-For a file that is not
-a multiple of the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when mapped,
-and writes to that region are not written out to the file.
-The effect of
-changing the size of the underlying file of a mapping on the pages that
-correspond to added or removed regions of the file is unspecified.
 .SS munmap()
 The
 .BR munmap ()
@@ -681,6 +667,21 @@ is defined in \fI<unistd.h>\fP to a value greater than 0.
 .\" -1: unavailable, 0: ask using sysconf().
 .\" glibc defines it to 1.
 .SH NOTES
+.PP
+Memory mapped by
+.BR mmap ()
+is preserved across
+.BR fork (2),
+with the same attributes.
+.PP
+A file is mapped in multiples of the page size.
+For a file that is not
+a multiple of the page size, the remaining memory is zeroed when mapped,
+and writes to that region are not written out to the file.
+The effect of
+changing the size of the underlying file of a mapping on the pages that
+correspond to added or removed regions of the file is unspecified.
+.PP
 On some hardware architectures (e.g., i386),
 .B PROT_WRITE
 implies