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| author | alc <alc@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-09-27 04:17:08 +0000 |
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| committer | alc <alc@FreeBSD.org> | 2015-09-27 04:17:08 +0000 |
| commit | 0abc9d77e00f6b3b818be1e6f278d0a90348e462 (patch) | |
| tree | e11c6375c953dbcab5bc8e66444895ca44e9650b /lib | |
| parent | 1e7a73773481f6bca0a3c7f463d04d712522e71b (diff) | |
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MFC r285428
Correct the description of MADV_DONTNEED.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 b/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 index 357e05e..499bf67 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/madvise.2 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)madvise.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd January 30, 2014 +.Dd July 12, 2015 .Dt MADVISE 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ pages in from backing store, but quickly map the pages already in memory into the calling process. .It Dv MADV_DONTNEED Allows the VM system to decrease the in-memory priority -of pages in the specified range. -Additionally future references to -this address range will incur a page fault. +of pages in the specified address range. +Consequently, future references to this address range are more likely +to incur a page fault. .It Dv MADV_FREE Gives the VM system the freedom to free pages, and tells the system that information in the specified page range |
