1===================================== 2Linux Memory Management Documentation 3===================================== 4 5This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm) 6subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, 7see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. 8 9User guides for MM features 10=========================== 11 12The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning 13various features of the Linux memory management 14 15.. toctree:: 16 :maxdepth: 1 17 18 swap_numa 19 zswap 20 21Kernel developers MM documentation 22================================== 23 24The below documents describe MM internals with different level of 25details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate 26descriptions of data structures and algorithms. 27 28.. toctree:: 29 :maxdepth: 1 30 31 active_mm 32 arch_pgtable_helpers 33 balance 34 cleancache 35 free_page_reporting 36 frontswap 37 highmem 38 hmm 39 hwpoison 40 hugetlbfs_reserv 41 ksm 42 memory-model 43 mmu_notifier 44 multigen_lru 45 numa 46 overcommit-accounting 47 page_migration 48 page_frags 49 page_owner 50 remap_file_pages 51 slub 52 split_page_table_lock 53 transhuge 54 unevictable-lru 55 z3fold 56 zsmalloc 57