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diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst index 75eba7c431b2f..138d61f869df0 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_cache.rst @@ -3,3 +3,13 @@ ========== Page Cache ========== + +The page cache is the primary way that the user and the rest of the kernel +interact with filesystems. It can be bypassed (e.g. with O_DIRECT), +but normal reads, writes and mmaps go through the page cache. + +Folios +====== + +The folio is the unit of memory management within the page cache. +Operations |