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Memory Management Documentation
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Memory Management Guide
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This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem
of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides,
see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
physical_memory
page_tables
process_addrs
bootmem
page_allocation
vmalloc
slab
highmem
page_reclaim
swap
page_cache
shmfs
oom
Legacy Documentation
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This is a collection of older documents about the Linux memory management
(MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from
notes and mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data
structures and algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the
above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
active_mm
arch_pgtable_helpers
balance
damon/index
free_page_reporting
frontswap
hmm
hwpoison
hugetlbfs_reserv
ksm
memory-model
mmu_notifier
multigen_lru
numa
overcommit-accounting
page_migration
page_frags
page_owner
page_table_check
remap_file_pages
slub
split_page_table_lock
transhuge
unevictable-lru
vmalloced-kernel-stacks
vmemmap_dedup
z3fold
zsmalloc