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I just went looking for the memory allocation guide in the MM docs instead of in the core API. For the benefit of the next person who makes that mistake, link to it from the MM docs. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linux Memory Management Documentation
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This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm)
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subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
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see the :ref:`memory-allocation`.
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User guides for MM features
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===========================
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The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning
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various features of the Linux memory management
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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swap_numa
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zswap
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Kernel developers MM documentation
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==================================
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The below documents describe MM internals with different level of
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details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate
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descriptions of data structures and algorithms.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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active_mm
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balance
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cleancache
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frontswap
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highmem
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hmm
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hwpoison
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hugetlbfs_reserv
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ksm
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mmu_notifier
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numa
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overcommit-accounting
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page_migration
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page_frags
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page_owner
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remap_file_pages
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slub
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split_page_table_lock
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transhuge
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unevictable-lru
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z3fold
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zsmalloc
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