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2Memory Management Documentation
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4
5This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem
6of Linux.  If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
7see the :ref:`memory_allocation`.  For controlling and tuning guides,
8see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`.
9
10.. toctree::
11   :maxdepth: 1
12
13   physical_memory
14   page_tables
15   process_addrs
16   bootmem
17   page_allocation
18   vmalloc
19   slab
20   highmem
21   page_reclaim
22   swap
23   page_cache
24   shmfs
25   oom
26
27Unsorted Documentation
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29
30This is a collection of unsorted documents about the Linux memory management
31(MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from notes and
32mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data structures and
33algorithms.  It should all be integrated nicely into the above structured
34documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
35
36.. toctree::
37   :maxdepth: 1
38
39   active_mm
40   allocation-profiling
41   arch_pgtable_helpers
42   balance
43   damon/index
44   free_page_reporting
45   hmm
46   hwpoison
47   hugetlbfs_reserv
48   ksm
49   memory-model
50   mmu_notifier
51   multigen_lru
52   numa
53   overcommit-accounting
54   page_migration
55   page_frags
56   page_owner
57   page_table_check
58   remap_file_pages
59   slub
60   split_page_table_lock
61   transhuge
62   unevictable-lru
63   vmalloced-kernel-stacks
64   vmemmap_dedup
65   z3fold
66   zsmalloc
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