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Linux Memory Management Documentation
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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
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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
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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
balance
cleancache
frontswap
highmem
hmm
hwpoison
hugetlbfs_reserv
ksm
mmu_notifier
numa
overcommit-accounting
page_migration
page_frags
page_owner
remap_file_pages
slub
split_page_table_lock
transhuge
unevictable-lru
z3fold
zsmalloc