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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-27 10:05:51 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cd727cfc1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +================= +Memory Management +================= + +Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies, +for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of +virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel +internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into +processes address space and many other cool things. + +Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable +settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc`` +filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs +are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_. + +.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html + +Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet +familiar with it, consider reading +:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst <mm_concepts>`. + +Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in +the Linux memory management. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + concepts + cma_debugfs + hugetlbpage + idle_page_tracking + ksm + memory-hotplug + nommu-mmap + numa_memory_policy + numaperf + pagemap + soft-dirty + transhuge + userfaultfd |