Linux-mm.org is a wiki for documenting how memory management works and for coordinating new memory management development projects. Please help editing this wiki. Thank you.

Documentation

• ["LinuxMMDocumentation"] contains information on how to tweak the Linux kernel memory management subsystem.
• ["LinuxMMInternals"] explains how some of the Linux kernel memory management works.

Projects

Some of the more active current Linux memory management projects are:

• CompressedCaching ([http://linuxcompressed.sourceforge.net/ Project Home Page]) and compressed swap. Reduce I/O by keeping more data in memory. (Please do not modify project homepage link).

• AdvancedPageReplacement The time needed to swap a single program into memory is ever increasing, so page replacement is becoming more and more important.

• NetworkStorageDeadlock - storage over network has a deadlock problem, where it can take memory to free memory.

• PageTrace - a kernel patch and tool to analyze memory access patterns.

• HugePages - Improving the availability and usability of huge pages

Site News

• 2006-04-09, thanks to [http://people.redhat.com/duffy/ Maureen Duffy], Linux-MM now has a cute logo. Thank you, Maureen.

== MY LINUX REFERECENCE IMRAN==

• some memory related ppts for basics

  • memory-allocation [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/lecture_10_memoryallocation.ppt allocation] memory-protection [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/lecture_11_memoryprotection.ppt protection] memory-addresstranslation[http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/lecture_12_addresstrans.ppt addr-trans] memory-virtual[http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/lecture_13_virtualmemory.ppt virtualmemory]

• some small examples

  • memory map [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/mm.c mmap] pageinfo [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/pageinfo.c pageinfo] virtual memry area [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/vma.c VMA]

• A good pdf on linux memory management

  • [http://www.pixelits.com/p4w/mm/mm.pdf mm]

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