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Describe what {FLAT,DISCONTIG,SPARSE}MEM are and how they manage to
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Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Linux Memory Management Documentation
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This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm)
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subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
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see the :ref:`memory_allocation`.
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User guides for MM features
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===========================
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The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning
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various features of the Linux memory management
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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swap_numa
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zswap
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Kernel developers MM documentation
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==================================
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The below documents describe MM internals with different level of
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details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate
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descriptions of data structures and algorithms.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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active_mm
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balance
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cleancache
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frontswap
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highmem
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hmm
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hwpoison
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hugetlbfs_reserv
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ksm
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memory-model
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mmu_notifier
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numa
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overcommit-accounting
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page_migration
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page_frags
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page_owner
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remap_file_pages
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slub
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split_page_table_lock
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transhuge
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unevictable-lru
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z3fold
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zsmalloc
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