linux/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst
Mike Rapoport 45c9a74f64 docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
Now that the administrative information for transparent huge pages is
nicely separated, move it to its own page under the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-05-21 09:30:58 -06:00

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Memory Management
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Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of
virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into
processes address space and many other cool things.
Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_.
.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
the Linux memory management.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
hugetlbpage
idle_page_tracking
ksm
numa_memory_policy
pagemap
soft-dirty
transhuge
userfaultfd