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| 2 | Linux Memory Management Documentation | |
| 3 | ===================================== | |
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5 | This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm) |
| 6 | subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, | |
| cd7198fc | 7 | see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. |
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8 | |
| 9 | User guides for MM features | |
| 10 | =========================== | |
| 11 | ||
| 12 | The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning | |
| 13 | various features of the Linux memory management | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | .. toctree:: | |
| 16 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 17 | ||
| 82381918 | 18 | swap_numa |
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19 | zswap |
| 20 | ||
| 21 | Kernel developers MM documentation | |
| 22 | ================================== | |
| 23 | ||
| 24 | The below documents describe MM internals with different level of | |
| 25 | details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate | |
| 26 | descriptions of data structures and algorithms. | |
| 27 | ||
| 28 | .. toctree:: | |
| 29 | :maxdepth: 1 | |
| 30 | ||
| 31 | active_mm | |
| 4d05e3a0 | 32 | arch_pgtable_helpers |
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33 | balance |
| 34 | cleancache | |
| 9070492b | 35 | free_page_reporting |
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36 | frontswap |
| 37 | highmem | |
| 38 | hmm | |
| 39 | hwpoison | |
| 40 | hugetlbfs_reserv | |
| ba229312 | 41 | ksm |
| 7d10bdbd | 42 | memory-model |
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43 | mmu_notifier |
| 44 | numa | |
| 45 | overcommit-accounting | |
| 46 | page_migration | |
| 47 | page_frags | |
| 48 | page_owner | |
| 49 | remap_file_pages | |
| 50 | slub | |
| 51 | split_page_table_lock | |
| ba229312 | 52 | transhuge |
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53 | unevictable-lru |
| 54 | z3fold | |
| 55 | zsmalloc |