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

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

diff --git a/original/man2/subpage_prot.2 b/original/man2/subpage_prot.2
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--- a/original/man2/subpage_prot.2
+++ b/original/man2/subpage_prot.2
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\" based on a proposal from Stephan Mueller <smueller@atsec.com>
 .\"
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@@ -11,21 +12,22 @@
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+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" Various pieces of text taken from the kernel source and the commentary
 .\" in kernel commit fa28237cfcc5827553044cbd6ee52e33692b0faa
 .\" both written by Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
 .\"
-.TH SUBPAGE_PROT 2 2010-10-30 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SUBPAGE_PROT 2 2012-07-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 subpage_prot \- define a subpage protection for an address range
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -33,6 +35,9 @@ subpage_prot \- define a subpage protection for an address range
 .BI "long subpage_prot(unsigned long " addr ", unsigned long " len ,
 .BI "                  uint32_t *" map ");
 .fi
+
+.IR Note :
+There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The PowerPC-specific
 .BR subpage_prot ()
@@ -91,6 +96,9 @@ No library support is provided.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 This system call is Linux-specific.
 .SH NOTES
+Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
+.BR syscall (2).
+
 Normal page protections (at the 64-kB page level) also apply;
 the subpage protection mechanism is an additional constraint,
 so putting 0 in a 2-bit field won't allow writes to a page that is otherwise
@@ -119,7 +127,15 @@ hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64-kB page support).
 .\" the affected segment, not the whole process.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR mprotect (2),
-.BR syscall (2);
-.br
-the kernel source file
-.IR Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt .
+.BR syscall (2)
+
+.IR Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
+in the Linux kernel source tree
+.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/.