From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] docs/admin-guide: introduce basic index for mm documentation
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:07:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1524038870-413-6-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1524038870-413-1-git-send-email-rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-18 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-18 8:07 [PATCH 0/7] docs/vm: start moving files do Documentation/admin-guide` Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 1/7] docs/vm: hugetlbpage: minor improvements Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 2/7] docs/vm: hugetlbpage: move section about kernel development to hugetlbfs_reserv Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 3/7] docs/vm: pagemap: formatting and spelling updates Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 4/7] docs/vm: pagemap: change document title Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 6/7] docs/admin-guide/mm: start moving here files from Documentation/vm Mike Rapoport
2018-04-18 8:07 ` [PATCH 7/7] docs/admin-guide/mm: convert plain text cross references to hyperlinks Mike Rapoport
2018-04-27 23:07 ` [PATCH 0/7] docs/vm: start moving files do Documentation/admin-guide` Jonathan Corbet
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