5 Linux memory management subsystem is responsible, as the name implies,
6 for managing the memory in the system. This includes implementation of
7 virtual memory and demand paging, memory allocation both for kernel
8 internal structures and user space programs, mapping of files into
9 processes address space and many other cool things.
11 Linux memory management is a complex system with many configurable
12 settings. Most of these settings are available via ``/proc``
13 filesystem and can be quired and adjusted using ``sysctl``. These APIs
14 are described in Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst and in `man 5 proc`_.
16 .. _man 5 proc: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/proc.5.html
18 Linux memory management has its own jargon and if you are not yet
19 familiar with it, consider reading
20 :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst <mm_concepts>`.
22 Here we document in detail how to interact with various mechanisms in
23 the Linux memory management.