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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst index 11db46448354..bbb563cba5d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -3,21 +3,20 @@ Memory Management ================= Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies, -for managing the memory in the system. This includes implemnetation of +for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel -internal structures and user space programms, mapping of files into +internal structures and user space programs, 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 +filesystem and can be queried and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_. .. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet -familiar with it, consider reading -:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst <mm_concepts>`. +familiar with it, consider reading Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst. Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in the Linux memory management. @@ -27,13 +26,20 @@ the Linux memory management. concepts cma_debugfs + damon/index hugetlbpage idle_page_tracking ksm memory-hotplug + multigen_lru + nommu-mmap numa_memory_policy numaperf pagemap + shrinker_debugfs + slab soft-dirty transhuge userfaultfd + zswap + kho |