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