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Michael Ellerman a55ce6dc70 mm: add documentation describing what tsk->active_mm means vs tsk->mm
I'm sure everyone knows this, but I didn't, so I googled it, and found a
nice explanation from Linus.  Might be worth sticking in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13 15:04:32 -07:00

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00-INDEX
- this file.
active_mm.txt
- An explanation from Linus about tsk->active_mm vs tsk->mm.
balance
- various information on memory balancing.
hugetlbpage.txt
- a brief summary of hugetlbpage support in the Linux kernel.
locking
- info on how locking and synchronization is done in the Linux vm code.
numa
- information about NUMA specific code in the Linux vm.
numa_memory_policy.txt
- documentation of concepts and APIs of the 2.6 memory policy support.
overcommit-accounting
- description of the Linux kernels overcommit handling modes.
page_migration
- description of page migration in NUMA systems.
slabinfo.c
- source code for a tool to get reports about slabs.
slub.txt
- a short users guide for SLUB.