linux/Documentation/mm
Fabio M. De Francesco 4d83d5cdfa Documentation/page_tables: Add info about MMU/TLB and Page Faults
Extend page_tables.rst by adding a section about the role of MMU and TLB
in translating between virtual addresses and physical page frames.
Furthermore explain the concept behind Page Faults and how the Linux
kernel handles TLB misses. Finally briefly explain how and why to disable
the page faults handler.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Acked-by: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818112726.6156-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
2023-10-10 13:35:55 -06:00
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damon Docs/mm/damon/design: update for DAMON monitoring target type DAMOS filter 2023-08-21 13:37:37 -07:00
active_mm.rst lazy tlb: allow lazy tlb mm refcounting to be configurable 2023-03-28 16:20:08 -07:00
arch_pgtable_helpers.rst mm: Make pte_mkwrite() take a VMA 2023-07-11 14:12:15 -07:00
balance.rst - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
bootmem.rst
free_page_reporting.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
highmem.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
hmm.rst docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos 2023-08-28 12:41:17 -06:00
hugetlbfs_reserv.rst mm: convert free_huge_page() to free_huge_folio() 2023-08-21 14:28:43 -07:00
hwpoison.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
index.rst mm: kill frontswap 2023-08-21 13:37:26 -07:00
ksm.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
memory-model.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
mmu_notifier.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
multigen_lru.rst mm: multi-gen LRU: improve design doc 2023-03-28 16:20:07 -07:00
numa.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
oom.rst
overcommit-accounting.rst
page_allocation.rst
page_cache.rst
page_frags.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
page_migration.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
page_owner.rst - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
page_reclaim.rst docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:04 -07:00
page_table_check.rst mm: page_table_check: Make it dependent on EXCLUSIVE_SYSTEM_RAM 2023-05-29 16:14:28 +01:00
page_tables.rst Documentation/page_tables: Add info about MMU/TLB and Page Faults 2023-10-10 13:35:55 -06:00
physical_memory.rst docs/mm: Physical Memory: Fix grammar 2023-04-11 16:16:50 -06:00
process_addrs.rst
remap_file_pages.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
shmfs.rst
slab.rst
slub.rst - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
split_page_table_lock.rst mm: remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappers 2023-08-21 13:37:58 -07:00
swap.rst
transhuge.rst - Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add 2023-02-23 17:09:35 -08:00
unevictable-lru.rst Documentation: Fix typos 2023-08-18 11:29:03 -06:00
vmalloc.rst
vmalloced-kernel-stacks.rst
vmemmap_dedup.rst Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
z3fold.rst docs/mm: remove useless markup 2023-02-02 10:18:05 -07:00
zsmalloc.rst mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files. 2023-08-24 16:20:31 -07:00