--- man2/add_key.2 | 2 +- man2/epoll_wait.2 | 2 +- man2/fcntl.2 | 2 +- man2/getgroups.2 | 2 +- man2/ioctl_console.2 | 4 ++-- man2/iopl.2 | 2 +- man2/madvise.2 | 4 ++-- man2/mmap2.2 | 8 ++++---- man2/request_key.2 | 2 +- man2/sched_setaffinity.2 | 4 ++-- man2/seccomp.2 | 4 ++-- man2/semop.2 | 4 ++-- man2/sendmmsg.2 | 2 +- man2/shmget.2 | 4 ++-- man2/syslog.2 | 6 +++--- man2/vmsplice.2 | 2 +- 16 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/add_key.2 b/man2/add_key.2 index 56fc6d198d21..215de20baeae 100644 --- a/man2/add_key.2 +++ b/man2/add_key.2 @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ The size of the string (including the terminating null byte) specified in .I type or .I description -exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4096 bytes respectively). +exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4Ki bytes respectively). .TP .B EINVAL The payload data was invalid. diff --git a/man2/epoll_wait.2 b/man2/epoll_wait.2 index 1620cff9dfcc..4863ae4a43fa 100644 --- a/man2/epoll_wait.2 +++ b/man2/epoll_wait.2 @@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ Thus, for example, on a system where .I sizeof(long) is 4 and the kernel .I HZ -value is 1000, +value is 1k, this means that timeouts greater than 35.79 minutes are treated as infinity. .SH SEE ALSO .BR epoll_create (2), diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 index 3ec52dc4dc03..630fc55888bc 100644 --- a/man2/fcntl.2 +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 @@ -2004,7 +2004,7 @@ A limitation of the Linux system call conventions on some architectures (notably i386) means that if a (negative) process group ID to be returned by .B F_GETOWN -falls in the range \-1 to \-4095, then the return value is wrongly +falls in the range \-1 to \-4Ki-1, then the return value is wrongly interpreted by glibc as an error in the system call; .\" glibc source: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/sysdep.h that is, the return value of diff --git a/man2/getgroups.2 b/man2/getgroups.2 index 36300bf61b6a..f01af687ccbd 100644 --- a/man2/getgroups.2 +++ b/man2/getgroups.2 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ can additionally fail with the following errors: .I size is greater than .B NGROUPS_MAX -(32 before Linux 2.6.4; 65536 since Linux 2.6.4). +(32 before Linux 2.6.4; 64Ki since Linux 2.6.4). .TP .B ENOMEM Out of memory. diff --git a/man2/ioctl_console.2 b/man2/ioctl_console.2 index 89f794c1956c..477e6fd1a7e1 100644 --- a/man2/ioctl_console.2 +++ b/man2/ioctl_console.2 @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ bright cyan, and white. .B GIO_FONT Gets 256-character screen font in expanded form. .I argp -points to an 8192-byte array. +points to an 8Ki-byte array. Fails with error code .B EINVAL if the @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ Sets 256-character screen font. Load font into the EGA/VGA character generator. .I argp -points to an 8192-byte map, with 32 bytes per +points to an 8Ki-byte map, with 32 bytes per character. Only the first .I N diff --git a/man2/iopl.2 b/man2/iopl.2 index abf1bef675fd..c967296157b7 100644 --- a/man2/iopl.2 +++ b/man2/iopl.2 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Permissions are inherited from parents to children. This call is deprecated, is significantly slower than .BR ioperm (2), and is only provided for older X servers which require -access to all 65536 I/O ports. +access to all 64Ki I/O ports. It is mostly for the i386 architecture. On many other architectures it does not exist or will always return an error. diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2 index 9b4652a635d3..e05e9c5de4a7 100644 --- a/man2/madvise.2 +++ b/man2/madvise.2 @@ -329,8 +329,8 @@ 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 2\ MB mapping that only ever accesses -1 byte will result in 2\ MB of wired memory instead of one 4\ KB page). +It can very easily waste memory (e.g., a 2\ MiB mapping that only ever accesses +1 byte will result in 2\ MiB of wired memory instead of one 4\ KiB page). See the Linux kernel source file .I Documentation/admin\-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details. diff --git a/man2/mmap2.2 b/man2/mmap2.2 index 1fd5732ad41b..f975c1388a77 100644 --- a/man2/mmap2.2 +++ b/man2/mmap2.2 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The system call provides the same interface as .BR mmap (2), except that the final argument specifies the offset into the -file in 4096-byte units (instead of bytes, as is done by +file in 4Ki-byte units (instead of bytes, as is done by .BR mmap (2)). This enables applications that use a 32-bit .I off_t @@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ is set to indicate the error. Problem with getting the data from user space. .TP .B EINVAL -(Various platforms where the page size is not 4096 bytes.) -.I "offset\ *\ 4096" +(Various platforms where the page size is not 4Ki bytes.) +.I "offset\ *\ 4Ki" is not a multiple of the system page size. .PP .BR mmap2 () @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ This system call does not exist on x86-64. .PP On ia64, the unit for .I offset -is actually the system page size, rather than 4096 bytes. +is actually the system page size, rather than 4Ki bytes. .\" 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 diff --git a/man2/request_key.2 b/man2/request_key.2 index e78321e3c23f..dacc5282f3d8 100644 --- a/man2/request_key.2 +++ b/man2/request_key.2 @@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ The size of the string (including the terminating null byte) specified in .I type or .I description -exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4096 bytes respectively). +exceeded the limit (32 bytes and 4Ki bytes respectively). .TP .B EINVAL The size of the string (including the terminating null byte) specified in diff --git a/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 b/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 index 86a93539137d..9e7a26293e73 100644 --- a/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 +++ b/man2/sched_setaffinity.2 @@ -243,10 +243,10 @@ impose no restriction on the size of the CPU mask. However, the .I cpu_set_t data type used by glibc has a fixed size of 128 bytes, -meaning that the maximum CPU number that can be represented is 1023. +meaning that the maximum CPU number that can be represented is 1\[aq]023. .\" FIXME . See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15630 .\" and https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-07/msg00288.html -If the kernel CPU affinity mask is larger than 1024, +If the kernel CPU affinity mask is larger than 1Ki, then calls of the form: .PP .in +4n diff --git a/man2/seccomp.2 b/man2/seccomp.2 index 32706397f03e..0bb8caa75698 100644 --- a/man2/seccomp.2 +++ b/man2/seccomp.2 @@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ but the filter program pointed to by .I args was not valid or the length of the filter program was zero or exceeded .B BPF_MAXINSNS -(4096) instructions. +(4Ki) instructions. .TP .B ENOMEM Out of memory. @@ -846,7 +846,7 @@ Out of memory. The total length of all filter programs attached to the calling thread would exceed .B MAX_INSNS_PER_PATH -(32768) instructions. +(32Ki) instructions. Note that for the purposes of calculating this limit, each already existing filter program incurs an overhead penalty of 4 instructions. diff --git a/man2/semop.2 b/man2/semop.2 index 7a1416a26894..a0027e0706c5 100644 --- a/man2/semop.2 +++ b/man2/semop.2 @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ On Linux, this limit can be read and modified via the third field of .IR /proc/sys/kernel/sem . .\" This /proc file is not available in Linux 2.2 and earlier -- MTK .IR Note : -this limit should not be raised above 1000, +this limit should not be raised above 1\[aq]000, .\" See comment in Linux 3.19 source file include/uapi/linux/sem.h because of the risk of that .BR semop () @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ array. .B SEMVMX Maximum allowable value for .IR semval : -implementation dependent (32767). +implementation dependent (32Ki-1). .PP The implementation has no intrinsic limits for the adjust on exit maximum value diff --git a/man2/sendmmsg.2 b/man2/sendmmsg.2 index 4e5475c45a09..3f355382ebf6 100644 --- a/man2/sendmmsg.2 +++ b/man2/sendmmsg.2 @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ The value specified in .I vlen is capped to .B UIO_MAXIOV -(1024). +(1Ki). .\" commit 98382f419f32d2c12d021943b87dea555677144b .\" net: Cap number of elements for sendmmsg .\" diff --git a/man2/shmget.2 b/man2/shmget.2 index c4d8df8ed619..5421fd4bf3e9 100644 --- a/man2/shmget.2 +++ b/man2/shmget.2 @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ 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 usable segment: for example, on i386 the largest segments that can be mapped have a -size of around 2.8\ GB, and on x86-64 the limit is around 127 TB. +size of around 2.8\ GB, and on x86-64 the limit is around 127\ TB. .TP .B SHMMIN Minimum size in bytes for a shared memory segment: implementation @@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ is the effective minimum size). .B SHMMNI System-wide limit on the number of shared memory segments. In Linux 2.2, the default value for this limit was 128; -since Linux 2.4, the default value is 4096. +since Linux 2.4, the default value is 4Ki. .IP On Linux, this limit can be read and modified via .IR /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni . diff --git a/man2/syslog.2 b/man2/syslog.2 index 09c086f181e3..7d76e8cd9658 100644 --- a/man2/syslog.2 +++ b/man2/syslog.2 @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ in which messages given as arguments to the kernel function are stored (regardless of their log level). In early kernels, .B LOG_BUF_LEN -had the value 4096; -from Linux 1.3.54, it was 8192; -from Linux 2.1.113, it was 16384; +had the value 4Ki; +from Linux 1.3.54, it was 8Ki; +from Linux 2.1.113, it was 16Ki; since Linux 2.4.23/2.6, the value is a kernel configuration option .RB ( CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT , default value dependent on the architecture). diff --git a/man2/vmsplice.2 b/man2/vmsplice.2 index 01ac37b3584f..08ede47361ae 100644 --- a/man2/vmsplice.2 +++ b/man2/vmsplice.2 @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ as defined in .IR <limits.h> . Currently, .\" UIO_MAXIOV in kernel source -this limit is 1024. +this limit is 1Ki. .PP .\" commit 6a14b90bb6bc7cd83e2a444bf457a2ea645cbfe7 .BR vmsplice () -- 2.39.0
