[PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

[PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

[David Prévot]

Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
---
 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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Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

[Michael Kerrisk]

Hi David

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:13 AM, David Prévot <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: David Prévot <taffit-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>

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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[PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

[Matheus Tavares]

Add a missing period.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
---
 man2/madvise.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
index f1f384c0c..cdcc6cbfe 100644
--- a/man2/madvise.2
+++ b/man2/madvise.2
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ about the address range beginning at address
 .I addr
 and with size
 .I length
-bytes
+bytes.
 In most cases,
 the goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance.
 .PP
-- 
2.34.0

Re: [PATCH] madvise.2: tfix

[Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)]

Hello Matheus,

On 12/3/21 18:28, Matheus Tavares wrote:
> Add a missing period.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>

Patch applied.

Thanks,

Alex

> ---
>   man2/madvise.2 | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/madvise.2 b/man2/madvise.2
> index f1f384c0c..cdcc6cbfe 100644
> --- a/man2/madvise.2
> +++ b/man2/madvise.2
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ about the address range beginning at address
>   .I addr
>   and with size
>   .I length
> -bytes
> +bytes.
>   In most cases,
>   the goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance.
>   .PP
> 


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