Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

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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
>
>



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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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