(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.65

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / set_mempolicy.2

diff --git a/original/man2/set_mempolicy.2 b/original/man2/set_mempolicy.2
index c265d57..86bdbe5 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man2/set_mempolicy.2
+++ b/original/man2/set_mempolicy.2
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright 2003,2004 Andi Kleen, SuSE Labs.
 .\" and Copyright 2007 Lee Schermerhorn, Hewlett Packard
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM_PROF)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" 2006-02-03, mtk, substantial wording changes and other improvements
 .\" 2007-08-27, Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
@@ -56,17 +58,17 @@ address space outside of memory ranges
 controlled by a more specific policy set by
 .BR mbind (2).
 The process default policy also controls allocation of any pages for
-memory mapped files mapped using the
+memory-mapped files mapped using the
 .BR mmap (2)
 call with the
 .B MAP_PRIVATE
 flag and that are only read [loaded] from by the process
-and of memory mapped files mapped using the
+and of memory-mapped files mapped using the
 .BR mmap (2)
 call with the
 .B MAP_SHARED
 flag, regardless of the access type.
-The policy is only applied when a new page is allocated
+The policy is applied only when a new page is allocated
 for the process.
 For anonymous memory this is when the page is first
 touched by the application.
@@ -76,7 +78,7 @@ The
 argument must specify one of
 .BR MPOL_DEFAULT ,
 .BR MPOL_BIND ,
-.B MPOL_INTERLEAVE
+.BR MPOL_INTERLEAVE ,
 or
 .BR MPOL_PREFERRED .
 All modes except
@@ -107,7 +109,7 @@ current cpuset context changes.
 A nonempty
 .I nodemask
 specifies node ids that are relative to the set of
-node ids allowed  by the process's current cpuset.
+node ids allowed by the process's current cpuset.
 .PP
 .I nodemask
 points to a bit mask of node IDs that contains up to
@@ -115,7 +117,7 @@ points to a bit mask of node IDs that contains up to
 bits.
 The bit mask size is rounded to the next multiple of
 .IR "sizeof(unsigned long)" ,
-but the kernel will only use bits up to
+but the kernel will use bits only up to
 .IR maxnode .
 A NULL value of
 .I nodemask
@@ -148,14 +150,14 @@ the memory policy reverts to
 .IR "local allocation" .
 This effectively overrides the specified policy until the process's
 cpuset context includes one or more of the nodes specified by
-.IR nodemask.
+.IR nodemask .
 
 The
 .B MPOL_DEFAULT
 mode specifies that any nondefault process memory policy be removed,
 so that the memory policy "falls back" to the system default policy.
-The system default policy is "local allocation"--
-i.e., allocate memory on the node of the CPU that triggered the allocation.
+The system default policy is "local allocation"\(emthat is,
+allocate memory on the node of the CPU that triggered the allocation.
 .I nodemask
 must be specified as NULL.
 If the "local node" contains no free memory, the system will
@@ -293,3 +295,11 @@ For information on library support, see
 .BR cpuset (7),
 .BR numa (7),
 .BR numactl (8)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.65 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+and information about reporting bugs,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.