[PATCH v2] fideduperange.2: fix the discussion of maximum sizes

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Fix the discussion of the limitations on the dest_count and src_length
parameters to the fideduperange ioctl to reflect what's actually in the
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
---
 man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 |   20 +++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
index 2112d10..057229d 100644
--- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
+++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ struct file_dedupe_range_info {
 .in
 
 Each deduplication operation targets
-.IR length
+.IR src_length
 bytes in file descriptor
 .IR dest_fd
 at offset
@@ -108,8 +108,15 @@ During the call,
 must be open for reading and
 .IR dest_fd
 must be open for writing.
-For any call to this ioctl, there may not be more than 65,536
-requests attached; each request may not exceed 16MiB.
+The combined size of the struct
+.IR file_dedupe_range
+and the struct
+.IR file_dedupe_range_info
+array must not exceed the system page size.
+The maximum size of
+.IR src_length
+is filesystem dependent and is typically 16MiB.
+This limit will be enforced silently by the filesystem.
 By convention, the storage used by
 .IR src_fd
 is mapped into
@@ -144,6 +151,13 @@ is set to indicate the error.
 .SH ERRORS
 Error codes can be one of, but are not limited to, the following:
 .TP
+.B ENOMEM
+The kernel was unable to allocate sufficient memory to perform the
+operation or
+.IR dest_count
+is so large that the input argument description spans more than a single
+page of memory.
+.TP
 .B EBADF
 .IR src_fd
 is not open for reading;
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