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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst index c79f1e336222..e796b0a7e4a5 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/concepts.rst @@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -.. _mm_concepts: - ================= Concepts overview ================= @@ -86,16 +84,15 @@ memory with the huge pages. The first one is `HugeTLB filesystem`, or hugetlbfs. It is a pseudo filesystem that uses RAM as its backing store. For the files created in this filesystem the data resides in the memory and mapped using huge pages. The hugetlbfs is described at -:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst <hugetlbpage>`. +Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst. Another, more recent, mechanism that enables use of the huge pages is called `Transparent HugePages`, or THP. Unlike the hugetlbfs that requires users and/or system administrators to configure what parts of the system memory should and can be mapped by the huge pages, THP manages such mappings transparently to the user and hence the -name. See -:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst <admin_guide_transhuge>` -for more details about THP. +name. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/transhuge.rst for more details +about THP. Zones ===== @@ -125,8 +122,8 @@ processor. Each bank is referred to as a `node` and for each node Linux constructs an independent memory management subsystem. A node has its own set of zones, lists of free and used pages and various statistics counters. You can find more details about NUMA in -:ref:`Documentation/mm/numa.rst <numa>` and in -:ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst <numa_memory_policy>`. +Documentation/mm/numa.rst` and in +Documentation/admin-guide/mm/numa_memory_policy.rst. Page cache ========== |