This page is a somewhat outdated page for the Linux Kernel 2.4 VM. The first
two documents posted are the major bodies of work. They are not going to
change any time in the near future. I was asked to write a book called
"Understanding the Linux Virtual Memory Manager" which is available now
to buy. The information here is out of date in comparison to the book
and only kept here for historical reasons
The book is published under the Bruce
Perens Open Book Series so it is now available under the Open Publishing
License.
For the more practical people looking to tinker with the VM, see
VM Regress which is
a framework tool for analysing, testing and benchmarking the VM and it
might be of interest. For those actively reading the code, CodeViz is a call graph generating tool
for C/C++ which was a big help for me when developing this documentation
and comprehending the kernel code.
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Understanding the
Linux
Memory Manager
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Finalised: July 14th, 2003 |
This document is an in-depth guide to how the VM
in kernel 2.4.20 functions and the major components of it. It
references the papers that describe the algorithms used and then
explains the Linux specific version. The graphs used are available here. Again, the information here is out
of date in comparison to the book. |
Code Commentary on the
Linux
Virtual Memory Manager
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Finalised: July 14th, 2003 |
This is a companion document to the Understanding book
above. It is a detailed code commentary on most of the Linux VM to
help give a detailed understanding of the code and the style. The
graphs are available here |
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