Documentation/vm/index.rst

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   2 Linux Memory Management Documentation
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   4
   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,
   7 see the :ref:`memory_allocation`.
   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
  18    swap_numa
  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
  32    balance
  33    cleancache
  34    frontswap
  35    highmem
  36    hmm
  37    hwpoison
  38    hugetlbfs_reserv
  39    ksm
  40    memory-model
  41    mmu_notifier
  42    numa
  43    overcommit-accounting
  44    page_migration
  45    page_frags
  46    page_owner
  47    remap_file_pages
  48    slub
  49    split_page_table_lock
  50    transhuge
  51    unevictable-lru
  52    z3fold
  53    zsmalloc