A missing measuring unit is not added to a prefix (a subject for a later
patch?).
Tables (fd.4): Units are removed from numbers as they belong to the header
Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@xxxxxxxxx>
---
man2/arch_prctl.2 | 2 +-
man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 2 +-
man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2 | 4 +--
man2/kexec_load.2 | 2 +-
man2/madvise.2 | 4 +--
man2/mbind.2 | 4 +--
man2/migrate_pages.2 | 2 +-
man2/mlock.2 | 2 +-
man2/mmap.2 | 2 +-
man2/mmap2.2 | 2 +-
man2/mprotect.2 | 2 +-
man2/perf_event_open.2 | 2 +-
man2/process_vm_readv.2 | 2 +-
man2/set_mempolicy.2 | 2 +-
man2/shmget.2 | 2 +-
man2/subpage_prot.2 | 12 ++++----
man3/btree.3 | 2 +-
man3/pthread_attr_init.3 | 2 +-
man3/pthread_create.3 | 2 +-
man3/pthread_getattr_np.3 | 2 +-
man3/regex.3 | 2 +-
man4/cciss.4 | 2 +-
man4/fd.4 | 73 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
man4/wavelan.4 | 2 +-
man5/filesystems.5 | 2 +-
man5/proc.5 | 40 ++++++++++++-------------
man7/bootparam.7 | 6 ++--
man7/ip.7 | 2 +-
man7/raw.7 | 2 +-
man7/tcp.7 | 26 ++++++++---------
man7/units.7 | 6 ++--
man8/ld.so.8 | 4 +--
32 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 109 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/arch_prctl.2 b/man2/arch_prctl.2
index 678aada19..1c79d5bb2 100644
--- a/man2/arch_prctl.2
+++ b/man2/arch_prctl.2
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ As an optimization, if a 32-bit TLS base address is used,
may use a real TLS entry as if
.BR set_thread_area (2)
had been called, instead of manipulating the segment base register directly.
-Memory in the first 2GB of address space can be allocated by using
+Memory in the first 2\ GB of address space can be allocated by using
.BR mmap (2)
with the
.B MAP_32BIT
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
index d0a43854b..2200f9ce8 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ and the struct
array must not exceed the system page size.
The maximum size of
.IR src_length
-is filesystem dependent and is typically 16MiB.
+is filesystem dependent and is typically 16\ MiB.
This limit will be enforced silently by the filesystem.
By convention, the storage used by
.IR src_fd
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2 b/man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2
index 0c4612abe..0eabb399f 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_getfsmap.2
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ to uniquely index any filesystem mapping record.
Classic non-sharing filesystems might be able to identify any record with only
.RI "(" "device" ", " "physical" ", " "flags" ")."
For example, if the low key is set to (8:0, 36864, 0, 0, 0), the filesystem will
-only return records for extents starting at or above 36KiB on disk.
-If the high key is set to (8:0, 1048576, 0, 0, 0), only records below 1MiB will
+only return records for extents starting at or above 36\ KiB on disk.
+If the high key is set to (8:0, 1048576, 0, 0, 0), only records below 1\ MiB will
be returned.
The format of
.I fmr_device
diff --git a/man2/kexec_load.2 b/man2/kexec_load.2
index 2a0030803..f480f1ef8 100644
--- a/man2/kexec_load.2
+++ b/man2/kexec_load.2
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ is empty (length zero).
.I kernel_fd
does not refer to an open file, or the kernel can't load this file.
Currently, the file must be a bzImage and contain an x86 kernel that
-is loadable above 4GiB in memory (see the kernel source file
+is loadable above 4\ GiB in memory (see the kernel source file
.IR Documentation/x86/boot.txt ).
.TP
.B ENOMEM
diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index a5f20b2d1..45acb8cd7 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ naturally aligned to the huge page size (see
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).
-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).
+It can very easily waste memory (e.g., a 2\ MB mapping that only ever accesses
+1 byte will result in 2\ MB of wired memory instead of one 4\ KB page).
See the Linux kernel source file
.I Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
for more details.
diff --git a/man2/mbind.2 b/man2/mbind.2
index 60b64ebd2..5816f3a0a 100644
--- a/man2/mbind.2
+++ b/man2/mbind.2
@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ This optimizes for bandwidth instead of latency
by spreading out pages and memory accesses to those pages across
multiple nodes.
To be effective the memory area should be fairly large,
-at least 1MB or bigger with a fairly uniform access pattern.
+at least 1\ MB or bigger with a fairly uniform access pattern.
Accesses to a single page of the area will still be limited to
the memory bandwidth of a single node.
.TP
@@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ Or,
.I maxnode
exceeds a kernel-imposed limit.
.\" As at 2.6.23, this limit is "a page worth of bits", e.g.,
-.\" 8 * 4096 bits, assuming a 4kB page size.
+.\" 8 * 4096 bits, assuming a 4 kB page size.
Or,
.I nodemask
specifies one or more node IDs that are
diff --git a/man2/migrate_pages.2 b/man2/migrate_pages.2
index 02f3a83b6..7ba7a2020 100644
--- a/man2/migrate_pages.2
+++ b/man2/migrate_pages.2
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ The value specified by
.I maxnode
exceeds a kernel-imposed limit.
.\" As at 3.5, this limit is "a page worth of bits", e.g.,
-.\" 8 * 4096 bits, assuming a 4kB page size.
+.\" 8 * 4096 bits, assuming a 4 kB page size.
Or,
.I old_nodes
or
diff --git a/man2/mlock.2 b/man2/mlock.2
index 7437d60a2..6b7e9bbb8 100644
--- a/man2/mlock.2
+++ b/man2/mlock.2
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ pages in the address space of the process.
Locking or unlocking a region would result in the total number of
mappings with distinct attributes (e.g., locked versus unlocked)
exceeding the allowed maximum.
-.\" I.e., the number of VMAs would exceed the 64kB maximum
+.\" I.e., the number of VMAs would exceed the 64 kB maximum
(For example, unlocking a range in the middle of a currently locked
mapping would result in three mappings:
two locked mappings at each end and an unlocked mapping in the middle.)
diff --git a/man2/mmap.2 b/man2/mmap.2
index 43090b231..d4a0cc1c5 100644
--- a/man2/mmap.2
+++ b/man2/mmap.2
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ In addition, zero or more of the following values can be ORed in
Put the mapping into the first 2 Gigabytes of the process address space.
This flag is supported only on x86-64, for 64-bit programs.
It was added to allow thread stacks to be allocated somewhere
-in the first 2GB of memory,
+in the first 2\ GB of memory,
so as to improve context-switch performance on some early
64-bit processors.
.\" See http://lwn.net/Articles/294642 "Tangled up in threads", 19 Aug 08
diff --git a/man2/mmap2.2 b/man2/mmap2.2
index 63a89ea1d..d88148993 100644
--- a/man2/mmap2.2
+++ b/man2/mmap2.2
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ This system call does not exist on x86-64.
On ia64, the unit for
.I offset
is actually the system page size, rather than 4096 bytes.
-.\" ia64 can have page sizes ranging from 4kB to 64kB.
+.\" ia64 can have page sizes ranging from 4 kB to 64 kB.
.\" On cris, it looks like the unit might also be the page size,
.\" which is 8192 bytes. -- mtk, June 2007
.SH SEE ALSO
diff --git a/man2/mprotect.2 b/man2/mprotect.2
index 4e2c3b598..f87b38759 100644
--- a/man2/mprotect.2
+++ b/man2/mprotect.2
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ was incorrectly produced for these cases.)
Changing the protection of a memory region would result in the total number of
mappings with distinct attributes (e.g., read versus read/write protection)
exceeding the allowed maximum.
-.\" I.e., the number of VMAs would exceed the 64kB maximum
+.\" I.e., the number of VMAs would exceed the 64 kB maximum
(For example, making the protection of a range
.BR PROT_READ
in the middle of a region currently protected as
diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2
index ff7cd6169..e91f46498 100644
--- a/man2/perf_event_open.2
+++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2
@@ -1465,7 +1465,7 @@ struct perf_event_mmap_page {
__u16 time_shift;
__u32 time_mult;
__u64 time_offset;
- __u64 __reserved[120]; /* Pad to 1k */
+ __u64 __reserved[120]; /* Pad to 1 k */
__u64 data_head; /* head in the data section */
__u64 data_tail; /* user-space written tail */
__u64 data_offset; /* where the buffer starts */
diff --git a/man2/process_vm_readv.2 b/man2/process_vm_readv.2
index ae9304ae9..8653652fc 100644
--- a/man2/process_vm_readv.2
+++ b/man2/process_vm_readv.2
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ elements points to an invalid memory region in the remote process.
No further reads/writes will be attempted beyond that point.
Keep this in mind when attempting to read data of unknown length
(such as C strings that are null-terminated) from a remote process,
-by avoiding spanning memory pages (typically 4KiB) in a single remote
+by avoiding spanning memory pages (typically 4\ KiB) in a single remote
.I iovec
element.
(Instead, split the remote read into two
diff --git a/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
index ccfa42103..d20be6572 100644
--- a/man2/set_mempolicy.2
+++ b/man2/set_mempolicy.2
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ the memory bandwidth of a single node.
.\" NOTE: the following sentence doesn't make sense in the context
.\" of set_mempolicy() -- no memory area specified.
.\" To be effective the memory area should be fairly large,
-.\" at least 1MB or bigger.
+.\" at least 1 MB or bigger.
.TP
.B MPOL_PREFERRED
This mode sets the preferred node for allocation.
diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2
index 7fed8f91d..c56182f5c 100644
--- a/man2/shmget.2
+++ b/man2/shmget.2
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ for a discussion of why this default value (rather than
is used.
From Linux 2.2 up to Linux 3.15, the default value of
-this limit was 0x2000000 (32MB).
+this limit was 0x2000000 (32\ MB).
Because it is not possible to map just part of a shared memory segment,
the amount of virtual memory places another limit on the maximum size of a
diff --git a/man2/subpage_prot.2 b/man2/subpage_prot.2
index 69c32f18d..cf46c079d 100644
--- a/man2/subpage_prot.2
+++ b/man2/subpage_prot.2
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
The PowerPC-specific
.BR subpage_prot ()
system call provides the facility to control the access
-permissions on individual 4kB subpages on systems configured with
-a page size of 64kB.
+permissions on individual 4\ kB subpages on systems configured with
+a page size of 64\ kB.
The protection map is applied to the memory pages in the region starting at
.I addr
@@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ Both of these arguments must be aligned to a 64-kB boundary.
The protection map is specified in the buffer pointed to by
.IR map .
-The map has 2 bits per 4kB subpage;
-thus each 32-bit word specifies the protections of 16 4kB subpages
-inside a 64kB page
+The map has 2 bits per 4\ kB subpage;
+thus each 32-bit word specifies the protections of 16 4\ kB subpages
+inside a 64\ kB page
(so, the number of 32-bit words pointed to by
.I map
should equate to the number of 64-kB pages specified by
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are
protected are switched to use 4-kB hardware pages rather than 64-kB
hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64-kB page support).
.\" In the initial implementation, it was the case that:
-.\" In fact the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the
+.\" In fact the whole process is switched to use 4 k hardware pages when the
.\" subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future
.\" to switch only the affected segments.
.\" But Paul Mackerass says (Oct 2010): I'm pretty sure we now only switch
diff --git a/man3/btree.3 b/man3/btree.3
index 65f45066d..86d773839 100644
--- a/man3/btree.3
+++ b/man3/btree.3
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ is 0 (no minimum number of keys is specified), a value of 2 is used.
.TP
.I psize
Page size is the size (in bytes) of the pages used for nodes in the tree.
-The minimum page size is 512 bytes and the maximum page size is 64K.
+The minimum page size is 512 bytes and the maximum page size is 64\ K.
If
.I psize
is 0 (no page size is specified), a page size is chosen based on the
diff --git a/man3/pthread_attr_init.3 b/man3/pthread_attr_init.3
index af4b98f3a..a21356682 100644
--- a/man3/pthread_attr_init.3
+++ b/man3/pthread_attr_init.3
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ we see the following:
.in +4n
.nf
.\" Results from glibc 2.8, SUSE 11.0; Oct 2008
-.RB "$" " ulimit \-s" " # No stack limit ==> default stack size is 2MB"
+.RB "$" " ulimit \-s" " # No stack limit ==> default stack size is 2\ MB"
unlimited
.RB "$" " ./a.out"
Thread attributes:
diff --git a/man3/pthread_create.3 b/man3/pthread_create.3
index 24739e9c4..72bc3e83f 100644
--- a/man3/pthread_create.3
+++ b/man3/pthread_create.3
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ Joined with thread 3; returned value was SERVUS
.fi
.in
-In the next run, the program explicitly sets a stack size of 1MB (using
+In the next run, the program explicitly sets a stack size of 1\ MB (using
.BR pthread_attr_setstacksize (3))
for the created threads:
diff --git a/man3/pthread_getattr_np.3 b/man3/pthread_getattr_np.3
index 78e2e3041..f80058c8e 100644
--- a/man3/pthread_getattr_np.3
+++ b/man3/pthread_getattr_np.3
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ a thread is created using default attributes:
.in +4n
.nf
-.RB "$" " ulimit \-s" " # No stack limit ==> default stack size is 2MB"
+.RB "$" " ulimit \-s" " # No stack limit ==> default stack size is 2\ MB"
unlimited
.RB "$" " ./a.out"
Attributes of created thread:
diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3
index 90ffb8cdb..58c6a1a01 100644
--- a/man3/regex.3
+++ b/man3/regex.3
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Invalid use of the range operator; for example, the ending point of the range
occurs prior to the starting point.
.TP
.B REG_ESIZE
-Compiled regular expression requires a pattern buffer larger than 64Kb.
+Compiled regular expression requires a pattern buffer larger than 64\ Kb.
This is not defined by POSIX.2.
.TP
.B REG_ESPACE
diff --git a/man4/cciss.4 b/man4/cciss.4
index f45b87e2a..e54b459ee 100644
--- a/man4/cciss.4
+++ b/man4/cciss.4
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ For example:
Max SG entries since init: 32
Sequential access devices: 0
- cciss/c2d0: 36.38GB RAID 0
+ cciss/c2d0: 36.38\ GB RAID 0
.fi
.SS Files in /sys
.TP
diff --git a/man4/fd.4 b/man4/fd.4
index b50732bc8..9366b0282 100644
--- a/man4/fd.4
+++ b/man4/fd.4
@@ -66,68 +66,73 @@ _
.TS
lw(1i) l l l l l.
Name Capac. Cyl. Sect. Heads Base minor #
+ KiB
_
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBd360\fP 360K 40 9 2 4
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBd360\fP 360 40 9 2 4
.TE
.PP
5.25 inch high-density device files:
.TS
lw(1i) l l l l l.
Name Capac. Cyl. Sect. Heads Base minor #
+ KiB
_
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh360\fP 360K 40 9 2 20
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh410\fP 410K 41 10 2 48
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh420\fP 420K 42 10 2 64
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh720\fP 720K 80 9 2 24
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh880\fP 880K 80 11 2 80
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1200\fP 1200K 80 15 2 8
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1440\fP 1440K 80 18 2 40
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1476\fP 1476K 82 18 2 56
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1494\fP 1494K 83 18 2 72
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1600\fP 1600K 80 20 2 92
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh360\fP 360 40 9 2 20
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh410\fP 410 41 10 2 48
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh420\fP 420 42 10 2 64
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh720\fP 720 80 9 2 24
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh880\fP 880 80 11 2 80
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1200\fP 1200 80 15 2 8
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1440\fP 1440 80 18 2 40
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1476\fP 1476 82 18 2 56
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1494\fP 1494 83 18 2 72
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBh1600\fP 1600 80 20 2 92
.TE
.PP
3.5 inch double-density device files:
.TS
lw(1i) l l l l l.
Name Capac. Cyl. Sect. Heads Base minor #
+ KiB
_
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu360\fP 360K 80 9 1 12
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu720\fP 720K 80 9 2 16
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu800\fP 800K 80 10 2 120
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1040\fP 1040K 80 13 2 84
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1120\fP 1120K 80 14 2 88
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu360\fP 360 80 9 1 12
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu720\fP 720 80 9 2 16
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu800\fP 800 80 10 2 120
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1040\fP 1040 80 13 2 84
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1120\fP 1120 80 14 2 88
.TE
.PP
3.5 inch high-density device files:
.TS
lw(1i) l l l l l.
Name Capac. Cyl. Sect. Heads Base minor #
+ KiB
_
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu360\fP 360K 40 9 2 12
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu720\fP 720K 80 9 2 16
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu820\fP 820K 82 10 2 52
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu830\fP 830K 83 10 2 68
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1440\fP 1440K 80 18 2 28
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1600\fP 1600K 80 20 2 124
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1680\fP 1680K 80 21 2 44
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1722\fP 1722K 82 21 2 60
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1743\fP 1743K 83 21 2 76
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1760\fP 1760K 80 22 2 96
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1840\fP 1840K 80 23 2 116
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1920\fP 1920K 80 24 2 100
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu360\fP 360 40 9 2 12
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu720\fP 720 80 9 2 16
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu820\fP 820 82 10 2 52
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu830\fP 830 83 10 2 68
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1440\fP 1440 80 18 2 28
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1600\fP 1600 80 20 2 124
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1680\fP 1680 80 21 2 44
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1722\fP 1722 82 21 2 60
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1743\fP 1743 83 21 2 76
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1760\fP 1760 80 22 2 96
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1840\fP 1840 80 23 2 116
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu1920\fP 1920 80 24 2 100
.TE
.PP
3.5 inch extra-density device files:
.TS
lw(1i) l l l l l.
Name Capac. Cyl. Sect. Heads Base minor #
+ KiB
_
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu2880\fP 2880K 80 36 2 32
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBCompaQ\fP 2880K 80 36 2 36
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3200\fP 3200K 80 40 2 104
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3520\fP 3520K 80 44 2 108
-\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3840\fP 3840K 80 48 2 112
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu2880\fP 2880 80 36 2 32
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBCompaQ\fP 2880 80 36 2 36
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3200\fP 3200 80 40 2 104
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3520\fP 3520 80 44 2 108
+\fBfd\fP\fIn\fP\fBu3840\fP 3840 80 48 2 112
.TE
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBfd\fP special files access the floppy disk drives in raw mode.
@@ -203,7 +208,7 @@ To prevent this, use interleaved formats.
It is not possible to
read floppies which are formatted using GCR (group code recording),
-which is used by Apple II and Macintosh computers (800k disks).
+which is used by Apple II and Macintosh computers (800\ k disks).
Reading floppies which are hard sectored (one hole per sector, with
the index hole being a little skewed) is not supported.
diff --git a/man4/wavelan.4 b/man4/wavelan.4
index 3ebdb7c71..224020ab3 100644
--- a/man4/wavelan.4
+++ b/man4/wavelan.4
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ or disable it
As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be
reuse at any further invocation of the driver.
.SS Frequency & channels
-For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
+For the 2.4\ GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
specifying one of the 10 defined channels
.RI ( 2.412,
.I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462
diff --git a/man5/filesystems.5 b/man5/filesystems.5
index 4f0580bcb..dee460ddf 100644
--- a/man5/filesystems.5
+++ b/man5/filesystems.5
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ that was integrated into Linux in kernel 2.4.24.
.B minix
is the filesystem used in the Minix operating system, the first to run
under Linux.
-It has a number of shortcomings, including a 64MB partition size
+It has a number of shortcomings, including a 64\ MB partition size
limit, short filenames, and a single timestamp.
It remains useful for floppies and RAM disks.
.TP
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index 0944e09ef..87b06153e 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -956,9 +956,9 @@ the storage layer.
.TP
.IR cancelled_write_bytes :
The big inaccuracy here is truncate.
-If a process writes 1MB to a file and then deletes the file,
+If a process writes 1\ MB to a file and then deletes the file,
it will in fact perform no writeout.
-But it will have been accounted as having caused 1MB of write.
+But it will have been accounted as having caused 1\ MB of write.
In other words: this field represents the number of bytes which this process
caused to not happen, by truncating pagecache.
A task can cause "negative" I/O too.
@@ -1690,7 +1690,7 @@ The "KernelPageSize" line (available since Linux 2.6.29)
is the page size used by the kernel to back the virtual memory area.
This matches the size used by the MMU in the majority of cases.
However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels
-whereby a kernel using 64kB as a base page size may still use 4kB
+whereby a kernel using 64\ kB as a base page size may still use 4\ kB
pages for the MMU on older processors.
To distinguish the two attributes, the "MMUPageSize" line
(also available since Linux 2.6.29)
@@ -2868,7 +2868,7 @@ binary, GDB can be used to
examine the current state of any kernel data structures.
The total length of the file is the size of physical memory (RAM) plus
-4KB.
+4\ KB.
.TP
.IR /proc/keys " (since Linux 2.6.10)"
See
@@ -3020,7 +3020,7 @@ applications, without swapping.
.TP
.IR Buffers " %lu"
Relatively temporary storage for raw disk blocks that
-shouldn't get tremendously large (20MB or so).
+shouldn't get tremendously large (20\ MB or so).
.TP
.IR Cached " %lu"
In-memory cache for files read from the disk (the page cache).
@@ -3068,7 +3068,7 @@ It is more eligible to be reclaimed for other purposes.
.IR HighTotal " %lu"
(Starting with Linux 2.6.19, \fBCONFIG_HIGHMEM\fP is required.)
Total amount of highmem.
-Highmem is all memory above ~860MB of physical memory.
+Highmem is all memory above ~860\ MB of physical memory.
Highmem areas are for use by user-space programs,
or for the page cache.
The kernel must use tricks to access
@@ -3174,13 +3174,13 @@ The amount of memory presently allocated on the system.
The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which
has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been
"used" by them as of yet.
-A process which allocates 1GB of memory (using
+A process which allocates 1\ GB of memory (using
.BR malloc (3)
-or similar), but touches only 300MB of that memory will show up
-as using only 300MB of memory even if it has the address space
-allocated for the entire 1GB.
+or similar), but touches only 300\ MB of that memory will show up
+as using only 300\ MB of memory even if it has the address space
+allocated for the entire 1\ GB.
-This 1GB is memory which has been "committed" to by the VM
+This 1\ GB is memory which has been "committed" to by the VM
and can be used at any time by the allocating application.
With strict overcommit enabled on the system (mode 2 in
.IR /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory ),
@@ -3255,11 +3255,11 @@ The maximum number of surplus huge pages is controlled by
The size of huge pages.
.TP
.IR DirectMap4k " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
-Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4kB pages.
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4\ kB pages.
(x86.)
.TP
.IR DirectMap4M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
-Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4MB pages.
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 4\ MB pages.
(x86 with
.BR CONFIG_X86_64
or
@@ -3267,7 +3267,7 @@ or
enabled.)
.TP
.IR DirectMap2M " %lu (since Linux 2.6.27)"
-Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 2MB pages.
+Number of bytes of RAM linearly mapped by kernel in 2\ MB pages.
(x86 with neither
.BR CONFIG_X86_64
nor
@@ -4714,7 +4714,7 @@ This file
can be used to query and set the run-time limit
on the maximum (System V IPC) shared memory segment size that can be
created.
-Shared memory segments up to 1GB are now supported in the
+Shared memory segments up to 1\ GB are now supported in the
kernel.
This value defaults to
.BR SHMMAX .
@@ -4916,7 +4916,7 @@ This file defines the amount of free memory (in KiB) on the system that
that should be reserved for users with the capability
.BR CAP_SYS_ADMIN .
-The default value in this file is the minimum of [3% of free pages, 8MiB]
+The default value in this file is the minimum of [3% of free pages, 8\ MiB]
expressed as KiB.
The default is intended to provide enough for the superuser
to log in and kill a process, if necessary,
@@ -4932,7 +4932,7 @@ for the full virtual memory size of the programs used to recover (e.g.,
and
.BR top (1))
Otherwise, the superuser may not be able to log in to recover the system.
-For example, on x86_64 a suitable value is 131072 (128MiB reserved).
+For example, on x86_64 a suitable value is 131072 (128\ MiB reserved).
Changing the value in this file takes effect whenever
an application requests memory.
@@ -5170,12 +5170,12 @@ and
is the amount of swap space.
.RE
.IP
-For example, on a system with 16GB of physical RAM, 16GB
+For example, on a system with 16\ GB of physical RAM, 16\ GB
of swap, no space dedicated to huge pages, and an
.I overcommit_ratio
of 50, this formula yields a
.I CommitLimit
-of 24GB.
+of 24\ GB.
Since Linux 3.14, if the value in
.I /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_kbytes
@@ -5249,7 +5249,7 @@ In this case, the system reserves an amount of memory that is the minimum
of [3% of current process size,
.IR user_reserve_kbytes ].
-The default value in this file is the minimum of [3% of free pages, 128MiB]
+The default value in this file is the minimum of [3% of free pages, 128\ MiB]
expressed as KiB.
If the value in this file is set to zero,
diff --git a/man7/bootparam.7 b/man7/bootparam.7
index 5f318a9c5..3fc083ebd 100644
--- a/man7/bootparam.7
+++ b/man7/bootparam.7
@@ -455,12 +455,12 @@ by using the following:
The first two numbers are specified in units of kB.
The default
.I buf_size
-is 32kB, and the maximum size that can be specified is a
-ridiculous 16384kB.
+is 32\ kB, and the maximum size that can be specified is a
+ridiculous 16384\ kB.
The
.I write_threshold
is the value at which the buffer is committed to tape, with a
-default value of 30kB.
+default value of 30\ kB.
The maximum number of buffers varies
with the number of drives detected, and has a default of two.
An example usage would be:
diff --git a/man7/ip.7 b/man7/ip.7
index 2ff17c845..52c3c9c5d 100644
--- a/man7/ip.7
+++ b/man7/ip.7
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ take it into account for their packet retransmit strategy.
To bootstrap the path MTU discovery process on unconnected sockets, it
is possible to start with a big datagram size
-(up to 64K-headers bytes long) and let it shrink by updates of the path MTU.
+(headers up to 64 kilobytes long) and let it shrink by updates of the path MTU.
To get an initial estimate of the
path MTU, connect a datagram socket to the destination address using
diff --git a/man7/raw.7 b/man7/raw.7
index 10c5d3342..3a1c4bbf9 100644
--- a/man7/raw.7
+++ b/man7/raw.7
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Packet too big.
Either Path MTU Discovery is enabled (the
.B IP_MTU_DISCOVER
socket flag) or the packet size exceeds the maximum allowed IPv4
-packet size of 64KB.
+packet size of 64\ KB.
.TP
.B EOPNOTSUPP
Invalid flag has been passed to a socket call (like
diff --git a/man7/tcp.7 b/man7/tcp.7
index e654f0242..b13df38e8 100644
--- a/man7/tcp.7
+++ b/man7/tcp.7
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ extensions.
These include Protection Against Wrapped
Sequence Numbers (PAWS), Window Scaling and Timestamps.
Window scaling allows the use
-of large (> 64K) TCP windows in order to support links with high
+of large (> 64\ K) TCP windows in order to support links with high
latency or bandwidth.
To make use of them, the send and receive buffer sizes must be increased.
They can be set globally with the
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ the orphaned connection is reset and a warning is printed.
This limit exists only to prevent simple denial-of-service attacks.
Lowering this limit is not recommended.
Network conditions might require you to increase the number of
-orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to ~64K
+orphans allowed, but note that each orphan can eat up to ~64\ K
of unswappable memory.
The default initial value is set equal to the kernel parameter NR_FILE.
This initial default is adjusted depending on the memory in the system.
@@ -589,8 +589,8 @@ If this number is exceeded, the kernel will begin
dropping requests.
The default value of 256 is increased to
1024 when the memory present in the system is adequate or
-greater (>= 128Mb), and reduced to 128 for those systems with
-very low memory (<= 32Mb).
+greater (>= 128\ Mb), and reduced to 128 for those systems with
+very low memory (<= 32\ Mb).
Prior to Linux 2.6.20,
.\" commit 72a3effaf633bcae9034b7e176bdbd78d64a71db
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ of these values, depending on memory available in the system.
.I min
minimum size of the receive buffer used by each TCP socket.
The default value is the system page size.
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4K, lowered to
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4\ K, lowered to
.B PAGE_SIZE
bytes in low-memory systems.)
This value
@@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ This is not used to limit the size of the receive buffer declared using
on a socket.
The default value is calculated using the formula
- max(87380, min(4MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
+ max(87380, min(4\ MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
(On Linux 2.4, the default is 87380*2 bytes,
lowered to 87380 in low-memory systems).
@@ -912,9 +912,9 @@ TCP Reno in wired networks and throughput over wireless links.
.\" Since 2.1.36
Enable RFC\ 1323 TCP window scaling.
This feature allows the use of a large window
-(> 64K) on a TCP connection, should the other end support it.
+(> 64\ K) on a TCP connection, should the other end support it.
Normally, the 16 bit window length field in the TCP header
-limits the window size to less than 64K bytes.
+limits the window size to less than 64\ K bytes.
If larger windows are desired, applications can increase the size of
their socket buffers and the window scaling option will be employed.
If
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ depending on memory available.
.I min
Minimum size of the send buffer used by each TCP socket.
The default value is the system page size.
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4K bytes.)
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 4\ K bytes.)
This value is used to ensure that in memory pressure mode,
allocations below this size will still succeed.
This is not used to bound the size of the send buffer declared using
@@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ This value overwrites the initial default buffer size from
the generic global
.I /proc/sys/net/core/wmem_default
defined for all protocols.
-The default value is 16K bytes.
+The default value is 16\ K bytes.
.\" True in Linux 2.4 and 2.6
If larger send buffer sizes are desired, this value
should be increased (to affect all sockets).
@@ -964,10 +964,10 @@ This is not used to limit the size of the send buffer declared using
on a socket.
The default value is calculated using the formula
- max(65536, min(4MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
+ max(65536, min(4\ MB, \fItcp_mem\fP[1]*PAGE_SIZE/128))
-(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 128K bytes,
-lowered 64K depending on low-memory systems.)
+(On Linux 2.4, the default value is 128\ K bytes,
+lowered 64\ K depending on low-memory systems.)
.RE
.TP
.IR tcp_workaround_signed_windows " (Boolean; default: disabled; since Linux 2.6.26)"
diff --git a/man7/units.7 b/man7/units.7
index 7cc373f29..c55fbc86c 100644
--- a/man7/units.7
+++ b/man7/units.7
@@ -107,14 +107,14 @@ But then disk technology changed, and disk sizes became arbitrary numbers.
After a period of uncertainty all disk manufacturers settled on the
standard, namely k=1000, M=1000k, G=1000M.
-The situation was messy: in the 14k4 modems, k=1000; in the 1.44MB
+The situation was messy: in the 14k4 modems, k=1000; in the 1.44\ MB
.\" also common: 14.4k modem
diskettes, M=1024000; and so on.
In 1998 the IEC approved the standard
that defines the binary prefixes given above, enabling people
to be precise and unambiguous.
-Thus, today, MB = 1000000B and MiB = 1048576B.
+Thus, today, MB = 1000000\ B and MiB = 1048576\ B.
In the free software world programs are slowly
being changed to conform.
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ When the Linux kernel boots and says
.RS
.nf
-hda: 120064896 sectors (61473 MB) w/2048KiB Cache
+hda: 120064896 sectors (61473\ MB) w/2048\ KiB Cache
.fi
.RE
diff --git a/man8/ld.so.8 b/man8/ld.so.8
index ead24e9b2..823ca7dfd 100644
--- a/man8/ld.so.8
+++ b/man8/ld.so.8
@@ -616,14 +616,14 @@ If set to a nonempty string, warn about unresolved symbols.
.BR LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC " (x86-64 only; since glibc 2.23)"
According to the Intel Silvermont software optimization guide, for 64-bit
applications, branch prediction performance can be negatively impacted
-when the target of a branch is more than 4GB away from the branch.
+when the target of a branch is more than 4\ GB away from the branch.
If this environment variable is set (to any value),
the dynamic linker
will first try to map executable pages using the
.BR mmap (2)
.BR MAP_32BIT
flag, and fall back to mapping without that flag if that attempt fails.
-NB: MAP_32BIT will map to the low 2GB (not 4GB) of the address space.
+NB: MAP_32BIT will map to the low 2\ GB (not 4\ GB) of the address space.
Because
.B MAP_32BIT
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