Linux Memory Management Documentation.

Problem
Although fairly good documentation of the Linux kernel has begun to emerge, a lot of work still remains. The purpose of this project is to provide a good, up-to-date document describing the memory management facilities in the Linux kernel (note that up-to-date can only be approximate--things are changing quickly).

Here is what you need to do.

1. Follow the pointers to existing documentation that I will supply.
2. Talk to me and get more documentation in printed form.
3. After one or two weeks, I will provide specific questions that your report should answer.

Background

• LXR: probably the best hypertext tool for the Linux kernel
• The Linux Memory Management page
• Rusling's online book is slightly dated, but remains the best documentation at a high level

• Write a 3-5 page report.
• This should be a "for non-dummies" document. It should assume knowledge of standard OS mechanisms and designs, so it should capture a lot of information in relatively little space. Example sentence: "The Linux.2.x.y replacement algorithm consists of a standard clock algorithm for virtual memory pages, and a secondary LRU algorithm for file system pages. The former evicts pages into the data structure of the latter (i.e., VM pages are given a second chance as file system pages)."
• Answers to the questions posed should be included.