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===============================
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Memory Management Documentation
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===============================
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This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem
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of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
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see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides,
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see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`.
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.. note::
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Unfortunately, parts of this guide are still incomplete or missing.
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While we appreciate contributions, documentation in this area is hard
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to get right and requires a lot of attention to detail. New contributors
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should reach out to the relevant maintainers early.
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This guide is expected to reflect reality, which requires contributors
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to have a detailed understanding. Documentation generated with LLMs
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by contributors unfamiliar with these details shifts the real work onto
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reviewers, which is why such contributions will be rejected without
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further comment.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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physical_memory
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page_tables
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process_addrs
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bootmem
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page_allocation
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vmalloc
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slab
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highmem
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page_reclaim
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swap
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swap-table
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page_cache
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shmfs
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oom
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Unsorted Documentation
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======================
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This is a collection of unsorted documents about the Linux memory management
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(MM) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from notes and
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mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data structures and
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algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the above structured
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documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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active_mm
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allocation-profiling
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arch_pgtable_helpers
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balance
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damon/index
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free_page_reporting
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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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memfd_preservation
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mmu_notifier
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multigen_lru
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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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page_table_check
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remap_file_pages
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split_page_table_lock
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transhuge
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unevictable-lru
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vmalloced-kernel-stacks
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vmemmap_dedup
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zsmalloc
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