linux-mm[1]: folio, HVO, and the Memory Lifecycle
A deep dive into struct folio, HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization, reverse mapping, demand paging, and dirty page management in the Linux kernel.
A deep dive into struct folio, HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization, reverse mapping, demand paging, and dirty page management in the Linux kernel.
How the Linux kernel slices RAM into pages, tracks per-page metadata via struct page, and manages page lifetime through reference counting and dirty writeback.