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@@ -114,10 +114,11 @@ This can be read and written.
Gives info on the number of configured hugetlb pages and on their size
in the three variables HugePages_Total, HugePages_Free, Hugepagesize.
.SH STANDARDS
-These extinct system calls were specific to Linux on Intel processors.
-.SH NOTES
+Linux on Intel processors.
+.SH HISTORY
These system calls are gone;
they existed only in Linux 2.5.36 through to Linux 2.5.54.
+.SH NOTES
Now the hugetlbfs filesystem can be used instead.
Memory backed by huge pages (if the CPU supports them) is obtained by
using