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| 2 | Memory Management Documentation | |
| 3 | =============================== | |
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5 | Memory Management Guide |
| 6 | ======================= | |
| 7 | ||
| 8 | This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem | |
| 9 | of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, | |
| 10 | see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides, | |
| 11 | see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`. | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | .. toctree:: | |
| 14 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 15 | ||
| 16 | physical_memory | |
| 17 | page_tables | |
| 18 | process_addrs | |
| 19 | bootmem | |
| 20 | page_allocation | |
| 21 | vmalloc | |
| 22 | slab | |
| 23 | highmem | |
| 24 | page_reclaim | |
| 25 | swap | |
| 26 | page_cache | |
| 27 | shmfs | |
| 28 | oom | |
| 29 | ||
| 30 | Legacy Documentation | |
| 31 | ==================== | |
| 32 | ||
| 33 | This is a collection of older documents about the Linux memory management | |
| 34 | (MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from | |
| 35 | notes and mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data | |
| 36 | structures and algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the | |
| 37 | above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose. | |
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38 | |
| 39 | .. toctree:: | |
| 40 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | active_mm | |
| 4d05e3a0 | 43 | arch_pgtable_helpers |
| 82381918 | 44 | balance |
| c4ba6014 | 45 | damon/index |
| 9070492b | 46 | free_page_reporting |
| 82381918 | 47 | frontswap |
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48 | hmm |
| 49 | hwpoison | |
| 50 | hugetlbfs_reserv | |
| ba229312 | 51 | ksm |
| 7d10bdbd | 52 | memory-model |
| 82381918 | 53 | mmu_notifier |
| 8be976a0 | 54 | multigen_lru |
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55 | numa |
| 56 | overcommit-accounting | |
| 57 | page_migration | |
| 58 | page_frags | |
| 59 | page_owner | |
| df4e817b | 60 | page_table_check |
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61 | remap_file_pages |
| 62 | slub | |
| 63 | split_page_table_lock | |
| ba229312 | 64 | transhuge |
| 82381918 | 65 | unevictable-lru |
| 4b8fec28 | 66 | vmalloced-kernel-stacks |
| 60a427db | 67 | vmemmap_dedup |
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68 | z3fold |
| 69 | zsmalloc |