Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Getting Started
1.2 Managing the Source
1.3 Browsing the Code
1.4 Reading the Code
1.5 Submitting Patches
Chapter 2 Describing Physical Memory
2.1 Nodes
2.2 Zones
2.3 Zone Initialisation
2.4 Pages
2.5 High Memory
2.6 What's New In 2.6
Chapter 3 Page Table Management
3.1 Describing the Page Directory
3.2 Describing a Page Table Entry
3.3 Using Page Table Entries
3.4 Translating and Setting Page Table Entries
3.5 Allocating and Freeing Page Tables
3.6 Kernel Page Tables
3.7 Mapping addresses to a
struct page
3.8 Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
3.9 Level 1 CPU Cache Management
3.10 What's New In 2.6
Chapter 4 Process Address Space
4.1 Linear Address Space
4.2 Managing the Address Space
4.3 Process Address Space Descriptor
4.4 Memory Regions
4.5 Exception Handling
4.6 Page Faulting
4.7 Copying To/From Userspace
4.8 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 5 Boot Memory Allocator
5.1 Representing the Boot Map
5.2 Initialising the Boot Memory Allocator
5.3 Allocating Memory
5.4 Freeing Memory
5.5 Retiring the Boot Memory Allocator
5.6 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 6 Physical Page Allocation
6.1 Managing Free Blocks
6.2 Allocating Pages
6.3 Free Pages
6.4 Get Free Page (GFP) Flags
6.5 Avoiding Fragmentation
6.6 What's New In 2.6
Chapter 7 Non-Contiguous Memory Allocation
7.1 Describing Virtual Memory Areas
7.2 Allocating A Non-Contiguous Area
7.3 Freeing A Non-Contiguous Area
7.4 Whats New in 2.6
Chapter 8 Slab Allocator
8.1 Caches
8.2 Slabs
8.3 Objects
8.4 Sizes Cache
8.5 Per-CPU Object Cache
8.6 Slab Allocator Initialisation
8.7 Interfacing with the Buddy Allocator
8.8 Whats New in 2.6
Chapter 9 High Memory Management
9.1 Managing the PKMap Address Space
9.2 Mapping High Memory Pages
9.3 Mapping High Memory Pages Atomically
9.4 Bounce Buffers
9.5 Emergency Pools
9.6 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 10 Page Frame Reclamation
10.1 Page Replacement Policy
10.2 Page Cache
10.3 LRU Lists
10.4 Shrinking all caches
10.5 Swapping Out Process Pages
10.6 Pageout Daemon (
kswapd
)
10.7 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 11 Swap Management
11.1 Describing the Swap Area
11.2 Mapping Page Table Entries to Swap Entries
11.3 Allocating a swap slot
11.4 Swap Cache
11.5 Reading Pages from Backing Storage
11.6 Writing Pages to Backing Storage
11.7 Reading/Writing Swap Area Blocks
11.8 Activating a Swap Area
11.9 Deactivating a Swap Area
11.10 Whats New in 2.6
Chapter 12 Shared Memory Virtual Filesystem
12.1 Initialising the Virtual Filesystem
12.2 Using
shmem
Functions
12.3 Creating Files in
tmpfs
12.4 Page Faulting within a Virtual File
12.5 File Operations in
tmpfs
12.6 Inode Operations in
tmpfs
12.7 Setting up Shared Regions
12.8 System V IPC
12.9 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 13 Out Of Memory Management
13.1 Checking Available Memory
13.2 Determining OOM Status
13.3 Selecting a Process
13.4 Killing the Selected Process
13.5 Is That It?
13.6 What's New in 2.6
Chapter 14 The Final Word
Reference
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