Hi David On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:13 AM, David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks. Applied for 3.34. Cheers, Michael > --- > man2/madvise.2 | 4 ++-- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 > index 59e6846..c87877c 100644 > --- a/man2/madvise.2 > +++ b/man2/madvise.2 > @@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ to replace them with huge pages. > The kernel will also allocate huge pages directly when the region is > naturally aligned to the huge page size (see > .BR posix_memalign (2)). > -This feature is primarily aimmed at applications that use large mappings of > +This feature is primarily aimed at applications that use large mappings of > data and access large regions of that memory at a time (e.g. virtualization > -systems such as qemu). > +systems such as QEMU). > It can very easily waste memory (e.g. a 2MB mapping that only ever accesses > 1 byte will result in 2MB of wired memory instead of one 4KB page). > See the kernel source file > -- > 1.7.6.3 > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
