Based on kernel version 5.19.17. Page generated on 2023-08-28 22:14 EST.
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 | ===================================== Linux Memory Management Documentation ===================================== Memory Management Guide ======================= 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 ==================== 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 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 |