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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
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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   swap-table
24   page_cache
25   shmfs
26   oom
27
28Unsorted Documentation
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30
31This is a collection of unsorted documents about the Linux memory management
32(MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from notes and
33mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data structures and
34algorithms.  It should all be integrated nicely into the above structured
35documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
36
37.. toctree::
38   :maxdepth: 1
39
40   active_mm
41   allocation-profiling
42   arch_pgtable_helpers
43   balance
44   damon/index
45   free_page_reporting
46   hmm
47   hwpoison
48   hugetlbfs_reserv
49   ksm
50   memory-model
51   mmu_notifier
52   multigen_lru
53   numa
54   overcommit-accounting
55   page_migration
56   page_frags
57   page_owner
58   page_table_check
59   remap_file_pages
60   split_page_table_lock
61   transhuge
62   unevictable-lru
63   vmalloced-kernel-stacks
64   vmemmap_dedup
65   zsmalloc
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