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authorMike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-03-21 21:22:48 +0200
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-04-16 14:18:15 -0600
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docs/vm: add index.rst and link MM documentation to top level index
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/index.rst b/Documentation/index.rst
index 3b99ab931d41..fdc585703498 100644
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@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ the kernel interface as seen by application developers.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
- userspace-api/index
+ userspace-api/index
Introduction to kernel development
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ needed).
sound/index
crypto/index
filesystems/index
+ vm/index
Architecture-specific documentation
-----------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/conf.py b/Documentation/vm/conf.py
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index 000000000000..3b0b601af558
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/vm/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8; mode: python -*-
+
+project = "Linux Memory Management Documentation"
+
+tags.add("subproject")
+
+latex_documents = [
+ ('index', 'memory-management.tex', project,
+ 'The kernel development community', 'manual'),
+]
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/index.rst b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
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index 000000000000..6c451421a01e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+=====================================
+Linux Memory Management Documentation
+=====================================
+
+This is a collection of documents about Linux memory management (mm) subsystem.
+
+User guides for MM features
+===========================
+
+The following documents provide guides for controlling and tuning
+various features of the Linux memory management
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ hugetlbpage
+ idle_page_tracking
+ ksm
+ numa_memory_policy
+ pagemap
+ transhuge
+ soft-dirty
+ swap_numa
+ userfaultfd
+ zswap
+
+Kernel developers MM documentation
+==================================
+
+The below documents describe MM internals with different level of
+details ranging from notes and mailing list responses to elaborate
+descriptions of data structures and algorithms.
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ active_mm
+ balance
+ cleancache
+ frontswap
+ highmem
+ hmm
+ hwpoison
+ hugetlbfs_reserv
+ mmu_notifier
+ numa
+ overcommit-accounting
+ page_migration
+ page_frags
+ page_owner
+ remap_file_pages
+ slub
+ split_page_table_lock
+ unevictable-lru
+ z3fold
+ zsmalloc