From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753347AbeDRIIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:08:20 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:34790 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753279AbeDRIIQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Apr 2018 04:08:16 -0400 From: Mike Rapoport To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Andrew Morton , Alexander Viro , Matthew Wilcox , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Rapoport Subject: [PATCH 5/7] docs/admin-guide: introduce basic index for mm documentation Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:07:48 +0300 X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1524038870-413-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1524038870-413-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18041808-0012-0000-0000-000005CC1E27 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18041808-0013-0000-0000-000019486DB1 Message-Id: <1524038870-413-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-04-18_02:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1804180076 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport --- Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/mm/index.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst index 5bb9161..cac906f 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 0000000..c47c16e --- /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. -- 2.7.4