Commit f462951e authored by Mike Rapoport's avatar Mike Rapoport Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview

The are terms that seem obvious to the mm developers, but may be somewhat
obscure for, say, less involved readers.

The concepts overview can be seen as an "extended glossary" that introduces
such terms to the readers of the kernel documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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...@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ are described in Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt and in `man 5 proc`_. ...@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ 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 .. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet
familiar with it, consider reading
:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst <mm_concepts>`.
Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
the Linux memory management. the Linux memory management.
.. toctree:: .. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1 :maxdepth: 1
concepts
hugetlbpage hugetlbpage
idle_page_tracking idle_page_tracking
ksm ksm
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