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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ frontswap.txt
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- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
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highmem.txt
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- Outline of highmem and common issues.
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+hmm.txt
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+ - Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
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hugetlbpage.txt
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- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
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hugetlbfs_reserv.txt
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@@ -20,25 +22,41 @@ idle_page_tracking.txt
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- description of the idle page tracking feature.
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ksm.txt
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- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
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+mmu_notifier.txt
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+ - a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
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numa
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- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
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numa_memory_policy.txt
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- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
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overcommit-accounting
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- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
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+page_frags
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+ - description of page fragments allocator
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page_migration
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- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
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pagemap.txt
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- pagemap, from the userspace perspective
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+page_owner.txt
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+ - tracking about who allocated each page
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+remap_file_pages.txt
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+ - a note about remap_file_pages() system call
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slub.txt
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- a short users guide for SLUB.
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soft-dirty.txt
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- short explanation for soft-dirty PTEs
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split_page_table_lock
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- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
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+swap_numa.txt
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+ - automatic binding of swap device to numa node
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transhuge.txt
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- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
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unevictable-lru.txt
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- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
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+userfaultfd.txt
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+ - description of userfaultfd system call
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+z3fold.txt
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+ - outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
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+zsmalloc.txt
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+ - outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
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zswap.txt
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- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
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