On 5/4/22 1:29 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 06:12:09AM -0700, John Hubbard wrote:
This needs to be properly merged with the existing index. Otherwise
the result here is very confusing because there are two summaries
and no explanation of what is going on here.
If I get a moment today, I'll take a quick shot at at merging them,
and post some suggestions here, but just wanted to point that out
before this goes in as-is.
John and I have chatted to understand what he was getting at here,
but haven't had a chance to review this change in-person yet.
+++ b/Documentation/vm/index.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
Linux Memory Management Documentation
=====================================
+Memory Management Guide
+=======================
+
This is a guide to understanding the memory management subsystem
of Linux. If you are looking for advice on simply allocating memory,
see the :ref:`memory_allocation`. For controlling and tuning guides,
@@ -24,10 +27,14 @@ see the :doc:`admin guide <../admin-guide/mm/index>`.
shmfs
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-This is a collection of documents about the Linux memory management (mm)
-subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from notes and
-mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data structures and
-algorithms.
+Legacy Documentation
+====================
+
+This is a collection of older documents about the Linux memory management
+(mm) subsystem internals with different level of details ranging from
+notes and mailing list responses for elaborating descriptions of data
+structures and algorithms. It should all be integrated nicely into the
+above structured documentation, or deleted if it has served its purpose.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
Reviewed-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx>
thanks,
--
John Hubbard
NVIDIA
