From: Mike Rapoport Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:07:48 +0000 (+0300) Subject: docs/admin-guide: introduce basic index for mm documentation X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3a3f7e26e5544032a687fb05b5221883b97a59ae;p=linux.git docs/admin-guide: introduce basic index for mm documentation Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 5bb9161dbe6a3..cac906fb0ed02 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ configure specific aspects of kernel behavior to your liking. pm/index thunderbolt LSM/index + mm/index .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..c47c16e13a188 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +================= +Memory Management +================= + +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.