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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
index c5da1a5d93de..02370786e77b 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.rst
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ii) transmit network traffic, or any other that needs raw
Howto can be found at:
- https://sites.google.com/site/packetmmap/
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20220404160947/https://sites.google.com/site/packetmmap/
Please send your comments to
- Ulisses Alonso CamarĂ³ <uaca@i.hate.spam.alumni.uv.es>
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ As capture, each frame contains two parts::
/* bind socket to eth0 */
bind(this->socket, (struct sockaddr *)&my_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr_ll));
- A complete tutorial is available at: https://sites.google.com/site/packetmmap/
+ A complete tutorial is available at:
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20220404160947/https://sites.google.com/site/packetmmap/
By default, the user should put data at::
@@ -263,20 +264,20 @@ the name indicates, this function allocates pages of memory, and the second
argument is "order" or a power of two number of pages, that is
(for PAGE_SIZE == 4096) order=0 ==> 4096 bytes, order=1 ==> 8192 bytes,
order=2 ==> 16384 bytes, etc. The maximum size of a
-region allocated by __get_free_pages is determined by the MAX_ORDER macro. More
-precisely the limit can be calculated as::
+region allocated by __get_free_pages is determined by the MAX_PAGE_ORDER macro.
+More precisely the limit can be calculated as::
- PAGE_SIZE << MAX_ORDER
+ PAGE_SIZE << MAX_PAGE_ORDER
In a i386 architecture PAGE_SIZE is 4096 bytes
- In a 2.4/i386 kernel MAX_ORDER is 10
- In a 2.6/i386 kernel MAX_ORDER is 11
+ In a 2.4/i386 kernel MAX_PAGE_ORDER is 10
+ In a 2.6/i386 kernel MAX_PAGE_ORDER is 11
So get_free_pages can allocate as much as 4MB or 8MB in a 2.4/2.6 kernel
respectively, with an i386 architecture.
User space programs can include /usr/include/sys/user.h and
-/usr/include/linux/mmzone.h to get PAGE_SIZE MAX_ORDER declarations.
+/usr/include/linux/mmzone.h to get PAGE_SIZE MAX_PAGE_ORDER declarations.
The pagesize can also be determined dynamically with the getpagesize (2)
system call.
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ Definitions:
(see /proc/slabinfo)
<pointer size> depends on the architecture -- ``sizeof(void *)``
<page size> depends on the architecture -- PAGE_SIZE or getpagesize (2)
-<max-order> is the value defined with MAX_ORDER
+<max-order> is the value defined with MAX_PAGE_ORDER
<frame size> it's an upper bound of frame's capture size (more on this later)
============== ================================================================
@@ -755,7 +756,7 @@ AF_PACKET TPACKET_V3 example
============================
AF_PACKET's TPACKET_V3 ring buffer can be configured to use non-static frame
-sizes by doing it's own memory management. It is based on blocks where polling
+sizes by doing its own memory management. It is based on blocks where polling
works on a per block basis instead of per ring as in TPACKET_V2 and predecessor.
It is said that TPACKET_V3 brings the following benefits: