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+=====================================
+Linux Memory Management Documentation
+=====================================
+
+This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm)
+subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
+see the :ref:`memory_allocation`.
+
+User guides for MM features
+===========================
+
+The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning
+various features of the Linux memory management
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ swap_numa
+ zswap
+
+Kernel developers MM documentation
+==================================
+
+The below documents describe MM internals with different level of
+details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate
+descriptions of data structures and algorithms.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ active_mm
+ arch_pgtable_helpers
+ balance
+ cleancache
+ free_page_reporting
+ frontswap
+ highmem
+ hmm
+ hwpoison
+ hugetlbfs_reserv
+ ksm
+ memory-model
+ mmu_notifier
+ numa
+ overcommit-accounting
+ page_migration
+ page_frags
+ page_owner
+ remap_file_pages
+ slub
+ split_page_table_lock
+ transhuge
+ unevictable-lru
+ z3fold
+ zsmalloc