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00-INDEX
	- this file.
active_mm.rst
	- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
balance.rst
	- various information on memory balancing.
cleancache.rst
	- Intro to cleancache and page-granularity victim cache.
frontswap.rst
	- Outline frontswap, part of the transcendent memory frontend.
highmem.rst
	- Outline of highmem and common issues.
hmm.rst
	- Documentation of heterogeneous memory management
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst
	- A brief overview of hugetlbfs reservation design/implementation.
hwpoison.rst
	- explains what hwpoison is
ksm.rst
	- how to use the Kernel Samepage Merging feature.
mmu_notifier.rst
	- a note about clearing pte/pmd and mmu notifications
numa.rst
	- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
overcommit-accounting.rst
	- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
page_frags.rst
	- description of page fragments allocator
page_migration.rst
	- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
page_owner.rst
	- tracking about who allocated each page
remap_file_pages.rst
	- a note about remap_file_pages() system call
slub.rst
	- a short users guide for SLUB.
split_page_table_lock.rst
	- Separate per-table lock to improve scalability of the old page_table_lock.
swap_numa.rst
	- automatic binding of swap device to numa node
transhuge.rst
	- Transparent Hugepage Support, alternative way of using hugepages.
unevictable-lru.rst
	- Unevictable LRU infrastructure
z3fold.txt
	- outline of z3fold allocator for storing compressed pages
zsmalloc.rst
	- outline of zsmalloc allocator for storing compressed pages
zswap.rst
	- Intro to compressed cache for swap pages
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