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Adding a brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design and implementation as an aid to those making code modifications in this area. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1491586995-13085-1-git-send-email-mike.kravetz@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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00-INDEX - this file. active_mm.txt - An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm. balance - various information on memory balancing. cleancache.txt - Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache. frontswap.txt - Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend. highmem.txt - Outline of highmem and common issues. hugetlbpage.txt - a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel. hugetlbfs_reserv.txt - A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation. hwpoison.txt - explains what hwpoison is idle_page_tracking.txt - description of the idle page tracking feature. ksm.txt - how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature. 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_migration - description of page migration in NUMA systems. pagemap.txt - pagemap, from the userspace perspective 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. transhuge.txt - Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages. unevictable-lru.txt - Unevictable LRU infrastructure zswap.txt - Intro to compressed cache for swap pages