Hi Andi, On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> .TP >> .BR MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE " (Since Linux 2.6.33) >> Soft offline the pages in the range specified by >> .I addr >> and >> .IR length . >> This memory of each page in the specified range is copied to a new page, > > Actually there are some cases where it's also dropped if it's cached page. > > Perhaps better would be something more fuzzy like > > "the contents are preserved" The problem to me is that this gets so fuzzy that it's hard to understand the meaning (I imagine many readers will ask: "What does it mean that the contents are preserved"?). Would you be able to come up with a wording that is a little miore detailed? >> and the original page is offlined >> (i.e., no longer used, and taken out of normal memory management). Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>