> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://0xax.gitbook.io/linux-insides/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://0xax.gitbook.io/linux-insides/summary/mm.md).

# Memory management

This chapter describes memory management in the Linux kernel. You will see here a couple of posts which describe different parts of the Linux memory management framework:

* [Memblock](/linux-insides/summary/mm/linux-mm-1.md) - describes early `memblock` allocator.
* [Fix-Mapped Addresses and ioremap](/linux-insides/summary/mm/linux-mm-2.md) - describes `fix-mapped` addresses and early `ioremap`.
* [kmemcheck](/linux-insides/summary/mm/linux-mm-3.md) - third part describes `kmemcheck` tool.