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In terms of virtual memory, there's a somewhat dated book that explains the linux implementation:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/pdf/understand.pdf

And there are some maintained text files in the kernel source tree itself:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/

Of particular interest is the pagemap.txt file.

There's also a really neat utility in the kernel source called page-types and you can learn a lot by compiling it and playing around, and of course reading the source (there are lots of tricks in there):

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/tools/vm/page-types.c

Finally, you could also read the source to vmtouch or my vmprobe utilities, or ask questions in the vmtouch github repo -- we can probably point you in the right direction.




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