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 balance 33 cleancache 34 frontswap 35 highmem 36 hmm 37 hwpoison 38 hugetlbfs_reserv 39 ksm 40 memory-model 41 mmu_notifier 42 numa 43 overcommit-accounting 44 page_migration 45 page_frags 46 page_owner 47 remap_file_pages 48 slub 49 split_page_table_lock 50 transhuge 51 unevictable-lru 52 z3fold 53 zsmalloc 54