1 INTRODUCTION 1 2 DESCRIBING PHYSICAL MEMORY 15 3 PAGETABLE MANAGEMENT 33 4 PROCESS ADDRESS SPACE 53 5 BOOT MEMORY ALLOCATOR 95 6 PHYSICAL PAGE ALLOCATION 105 7 NONCONTIGUOUS MEMORY ALLOCATION 117 8 SLABALLOCATOR 123 9 HIGHMEMORYMANAGEMENT 153 10 PAGE FRAME RECLAMATION 163 11 SWAP MANAGEMENT 179 12 SHARED MEMORY VIRTUAL FILESYSTEM 195 13 OUT OF MEMORY MANAGEMENT 209