| ===================================== |
| Linux Memory Management Documentation |
| ===================================== |
| |
| This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm) |
| subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, |
| see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. |
| |
| User guides for MM features |
| =========================== |
| |
| The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning |
| various features of the Linux memory management |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| |
| swap_numa |
| zswap |
| |
| Kernel developers MM documentation |
| ================================== |
| |
| The below documents describe MM internals with different level of |
| details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate |
| descriptions of data structures and algorithms. |
| |
| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| |
| active_mm |
| balance |
| cleancache |
| frontswap |
| highmem |
| hmm |
| hwpoison |
| hugetlbfs_reserv |
| ksm |
| memory-model |
| mmu_notifier |
| numa |
| overcommit-accounting |
| page_migration |
| page_frags |
| page_owner |
| remap_file_pages |
| slub |
| split_page_table_lock |
| transhuge |
| unevictable-lru |
| z3fold |
| zsmalloc |
