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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
.I /proc/meminfo
This file reports statistics about memory usage on the system.
It is used by
-.BR free (1)
+.MR free 1
to report the amount of free and used memory (both physical and swap)
on the system as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the
kernel.
@@ -136,12 +136,12 @@ Non-file backed pages mapped into user-space page tables.
.TP
.IR Mapped " %lu"
Files which have been mapped into memory (with
-.BR mmap (2)),
+.MR mmap 2 ),
such as libraries.
.TP
.IR Shmem " %lu (since Linux 2.6.32)"
Amount of memory consumed in
-.BR tmpfs (5)
+.MR tmpfs 5
filesystems.
.TP
.IR KReclaimable " %lu (since Linux 4.20)"
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Includes
.IR Slab " %lu"
In-kernel data structures cache.
(See
-.BR slabinfo (5).)
+.MR slabinfo 5 .)
.TP
.IR SReclaimable " %lu (since Linux 2.6.19)"
Part of
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ The committed memory is a sum of all of the memory which
has been allocated by processes, even if it has not been
"used" by them as of yet.
A process which allocates 1 GB of memory (using
-.BR malloc (3)
+.MR malloc 3
or similar), but touches only 300 MB of that memory will show up
as using only 300 MB of memory even if it has the address space
allocated for the entire 1 GB.
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ See
.TP
.IR LazyFree " %lu (since Linux 4.12)"
Shows the amount of memory marked by
-.BR madvise (2)
+.MR madvise 2
.BR MADV_FREE .
.TP
.IR AnonHugePages " %lu (since Linux 2.6.38)"
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ Non-file backed huge pages mapped into user-space page tables.
.IR ShmemHugePages " %lu (since Linux 4.8)"
(\fBCONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE\fP is required.)
Memory used by shared memory (shmem) and
-.BR tmpfs (5)
+.MR tmpfs 5
allocated with huge pages.
.TP
.IR ShmemPmdMapped " %lu (since Linux 4.8)"
@@ -324,4 +324,4 @@ and
enabled.)
.RE
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR proc (5)
+.MR proc 5