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Adding a brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design and implementation as an aid to those making code modifications in this area. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491586995-13085-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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00-INDEX
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- this file.
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active_mm.txt
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- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
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balance
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- various information on memory balancing.
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cleancache.txt
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- Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
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frontswap.txt
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- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
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highmem.txt
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- Outline of highmem and common issues.
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hugetlbpage.txt
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- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
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hugetlbfs_reserv.txt
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- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
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hwpoison.txt
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- explains what hwpoison is
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idle_page_tracking.txt
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- description of the idle page tracking feature.
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ksm.txt
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- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
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numa
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- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
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numa_memory_policy.txt
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- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
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overcommit-accounting
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- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
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page_migration
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- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
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pagemap.txt
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- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
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slub.txt
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- a short users guide for SLUB.
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soft-dirty.txt
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- short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
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split_page_table_lock
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- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
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transhuge.txt
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- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
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unevictable-lru.txt
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- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
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zswap.txt
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- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
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