| =============================== |
| Memory Management Documentation |
| =============================== |
| |
| Memory Management Guide |
| ======================= |
| |
| This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem |
| of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, |
| see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides, |
| see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| |
| physical_memory |
| page_tables |
| process_addrs |
| bootmem |
| page_allocation |
| vmalloc |
| slab |
| highmem |
| page_reclaim |
| swap |
| page_cache |
| shmfs |
| oom |
| |
| Legacy Documentation |
| ==================== |
| |
| This is a collection of older documents about the Linux memory management |
| (MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from |
| notes and mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data |
| structures and algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the |
| above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| |
| active_mm |
| arch_pgtable_helpers |
| balance |
| damon/index |
| free_page_reporting |
| frontswap |
| hmm |
| hwpoison |
| hugetlbfs_reserv |
| ksm |
| memory-model |
| mmu_notifier |
| multigen_lru |
| numa |
| overcommit-accounting |
| page_migration |
| page_frags |
| page_owner |
| page_table_check |
| remap_file_pages |
| slub |
| split_page_table_lock |
| transhuge |
| unevictable-lru |
| vmalloced-kernel-stacks |
| vmemmap_dedup |
| z3fold |
| zsmalloc |
