This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm) subsystem. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory, see the :ref:`memory_allocation`.
The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning various features of the Linux memory management
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 swap_numa zswap
The below documents describe MM internals with different level of details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate descriptions of data structures and algorithms.
.. toctree:: :maxdepth: 1 active_mm balance cleancache frontswap highmem hmm hwpoison hugetlbfs_reserv ksm memory-model mmu_notifier numa overcommit-accounting page_migration page_frags page_owner remap_file_pages slub split_page_table_lock transhuge unevictable-lru z3fold zsmalloc