diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index 7b7619aff..a7468e457 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ pages.
 .IP
 In the initial implementation, only
 .BR tmpfs (5)
-is supported
+was supported
 .BR MADV_REMOVE ;
 but since Linux 3.5,
 .\" commit 3f31d07571eeea18a7d34db9af21d2285b807a17