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Memory Management
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Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
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Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-04 07:28:48 +00:00
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for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of
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virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
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Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Fix thirty five typos in dm-integrity.rst, dm-raid.rst, dm-zoned.rst,
verity.rst, writecache.rst, tsx_async_abort.rst, md.rst, bttv.rst,
dvb_references.rst, frontend-cardlist.rst, gspca-cardlist.rst, ipu3.rst,
remote-controller.rst, mm/index.rst, numaperf.rst, userfaultfd.rst,
module-signing.rst, imx-ddr.rst, intel-speed-select.rst,
intel_pstate.rst, ramoops.rst, abi.rst, kernel.rst, vm.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201204072848.GA49895@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-12-04 07:28:48 +00:00
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internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into
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processes address space and many other cool things.
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Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
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settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
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2024-06-30 06:59:12 +00:00
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filesystem and can be queried and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
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are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_.
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.. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
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2018-05-29 11:37:25 +00:00
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Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet
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familiar with it, consider reading Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst.
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Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
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the Linux memory management.
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.. toctree::
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:maxdepth: 1
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2018-05-29 11:37:25 +00:00
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concepts
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2019-06-27 17:56:51 +00:00
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cma_debugfs
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2021-09-08 02:57:05 +00:00
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damon/index
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hugetlbpage
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idle_page_tracking
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2018-04-24 06:40:28 +00:00
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ksm
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2018-10-04 22:11:00 +00:00
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memory-hotplug
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2022-09-18 08:00:10 +00:00
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multigen_lru
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2020-07-18 16:50:55 +00:00
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nommu-mmap
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2018-05-08 07:02:10 +00:00
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numa_memory_policy
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2019-05-22 19:35:13 +00:00
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numaperf
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pagemap
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shrinker_debugfs
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soft-dirty
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swap_numa
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transhuge
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userfaultfd
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zswap
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