1、系统中的内存域，使用枚举常量zone_type来表示：
enum zone_type {
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA
/*
* ZONE_DMA is used when there are devices that are not able
* to do DMA to all of addressable memory (ZONE_NORMAL). Then we
* carve out the portion of memory that is needed for these devices.
* The range is arch specific.
*
* Some examples
*
* Architecture Limit
* ---------------------------
* parisc, ia64, sparc <4G
* s390 <2G
* arm Various
* alpha Unlimited or 0-16MB.
*
* i386, x86_64 and multiple other arches
* <16M.
*/
ZONE_DMA,
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32
/*
* x86_64 needs two ZONE_DMAs because it supports devices that are
* only able to do DMA to the lower 16M but also 32 bit devices that
* can only do DMA areas below 4G.
*/
ZONE_DMA32,
#endif
/*
* Normal addressable memory is in ZONE_NORMAL. DMA operations can be
* performed on pages in ZONE_NORMAL if the DMA devices support
* transfers to all addressable memory.
*/
ZONE_NORMAL,
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
/*
* A memory area that is only addressable by the kernel through
* mapping portions into its own address space. This is for example
* used by i386 to allow the kernel to address the memory beyond
* 900MB. The kernel will set up special mappings (page
* table entries on i386) for each page that the kernel needs to
* access.
*/
ZONE_HIGHMEM,
#endif
ZONE_MOVABLE,
MAX_NR_ZONES
};（1）ZONE_DMA：当一个外设需要用DMA技术，但又不能映射到所有内存区域【ZONE_NORMAL】时，需要用到ZONE_DMA。在I32/x86_64下，一般不会超过16M；
（2）ZONE_DMA32：在64位机器上，若要支持只能访问4G一下内存的32bit外设，才需要ZONE_DMA32
（3）ZONE_HIGHMEM：对内核来说，如果物理内存比VM的空间还大时，需要使用高端内存【high memory】；高端内存区域的访问，需要内核借助映射机制，将当前需要用的一部分物理内存映射到VM空间。
所以：需要一些数据结构进行内存域管理。
2、每个内存域都关联了一个数组，用来组织属于该内存域的物理内存页【页帧】，对于每个页帧，都分配一个struct page实例以及所需的管理数据。所以，需要一些数据结构进行页帧管理，物理页帧对应的数据结构是：struct page。页帧代表系统内存的最小单位。
3、Linux内存管理充分考虑了UMA和NUMA系统的划分，主要基于以下思想：在UMA系统上，则只用一个NUMA结点来管理整个系统的内存，而内存管理的其他部分则相信它们在管理一个伪NUMA系统。所以，需要一些数据结构进行结点管理。
负责进行结点管理的数据结构为：pg_data_t，定义为：
/*
* The pg_data_t structure is used in machines with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
* (mostly NUMA machines?) to denote a higher-level memory zone than the
* zone denotes.
*
* On NUMA machines, each NUMA node would have a pg_data_t to describe
* it's memory layout.
*
* Memory statistics and page replacement data structures are maintained on a
* per-zone basis.
*/
struct bootmem_data;
typedef struct pglist_data {
struct zone node_zones[MAX_NR_ZONES];
struct zonelist node_zonelists[MAX_ZONELISTS];
int nr_zones;
#ifdef CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP
struct page *node_mem_map;
#endif
struct bootmem_data *bdata;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/*
* Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn, node_present_pages
* or node_spanned_pages stay constant. Holding this will also
* guarantee that any pfn_valid() stays that way.
*
* Nests above zone->lock and zone->size_seqlock.
*/
spinlock_t node_size_lock;
#endif
unsigned long node_start_pfn;
unsigned long node_present_pages; /* total number of physical pages */
//node中所有存在的可用的物理页的数量
unsigned long node_spanned_pages; /* total size of physical page
range, including holes */
//node中所有存在的物理页的总数量，包括空洞
int node_id;
wait_queue_head_t kswapd_wait;
struct task_struct *kswapd;
int kswapd_max_order;
} pg_data_t;如果结点的个数多余一个，那么内核会维护各个结点的状态信息，相应的数据结构定义如下（node_set_state和node_clear_state用来处理该位图操作）：
/*
* Bitmasks that are kept for all the nodes.
*/
enum node_states {
N_POSSIBLE, /* The node could become online at some point */
N_ONLINE, /* The node is online */
N_NORMAL_MEMORY, /* The node has regular memory */
#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
N_HIGH_MEMORY, /* The node has regular or high memory */
#else
N_HIGH_MEMORY = N_NORMAL_MEMORY,
#endif
N_CPU, /* The node has one or more cpus */
NR_NODE_STATES
};4、内存域管理
struct zone {
/* Fields commonly accessed by the page allocator */
unsigned long pages_min, pages_low, pages_high;
/*
* We don't know if the memory that we're going to allocate will be freeable
* or/and it will be released eventually, so to avoid totally wasting several
* GB of ram we must reserve some of the lower zone memory (otherwise we risk
* to run OOM on the lower zones despite there's tons of freeable ram
* on the higher zones). This array is recalculated at runtime if the
* sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio sysctl changes.
*/
unsigned long lowmem_reserve[MAX_NR_ZONES];
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
int node;
/*
* zone reclaim becomes active if more unmapped pages exist.
*/
unsigned long min_unmapped_pages;
unsigned long min_slab_pages;
struct per_cpu_pageset *pageset[NR_CPUS];
#else
struct per_cpu_pageset pageset[NR_CPUS];
#endif
/*
* free areas of different sizes
*/
spinlock_t lock;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG
/* see spanned/present_pages for more description */
seqlock_t span_seqlock;
#endif
struct free_area free_area[MAX_ORDER];
#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
/*
* Flags for a pageblock_nr_pages block. See pageblock-flags.h.
* In SPARSEMEM, this map is stored in struct mem_section
*/
unsigned long *pageblock_flags;
#endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM */
ZONE_PADDING(_pad1_)
/* Fields commonly accessed by the page reclaim scanner */
spinlock_t lru_lock;
struct list_head active_list;
struct list_head inactive_list;
unsigned long nr_scan_active;
unsigned long nr_scan_inactive;
unsigned long pages_scanned; /* since last reclaim */
unsigned long flags; /* zone flags, see below */
/* Zone statistics */
atomic_long_t vm_stat[NR_VM_ZONE_STAT_ITEMS];
/*
* prev_priority holds the scanning priority for this zone. It is
* defined as the scanning priority at which we achieved our reclaim
* target at the previous try_to_free_pages() or balance_pgdat()
* invokation.
*
* We use prev_priority as a measure of how much stress page reclaim is
* under - it drives the swappiness decision: whether to unmap mapped
* pages.
*
* Access to both this field is quite racy even on uniprocessor. But
* it is expected to average out OK.
*/
int prev_priority;
ZONE_PADDING(_pad2_)
/* Rarely used or read-mostly fields */
/*
* wait_table -- the array holding the hash table
* wait_table_hash_nr_entries -- the size of the hash table array
* wait_table_bits -- wait_table_size == (1 << wait_table_bits)
*
* The purpose of all these is to keep track of the people
* waiting for a page to become available and make them
* runnable again when possible. The trouble is that this
* consumes a lot of space, especially when so few things
* wait on pages at a given time. So instead of using
* per-page waitqueues, we use a waitqueue hash table.
*
* The bucket discipline is to sleep on the same queue when
* colliding and wake all in that wait queue when removing.
* When something wakes, it must check to be sure its page is
* truly available, a la thundering herd. The cost of a
* collision is great, but given the expected load of the
* table, they should be so rare as to be outweighed by the
* benefits from the saved space.
*
* __wait_on_page_locked() and unlock_page() in mm/filemap.c, are the
* primary users of these fields, and in mm/page_alloc.c
* free_area_init_core() performs the initialization of them.
*/
wait_queue_head_t * wait_table;
unsigned long wait_table_hash_nr_entries;
unsigned long wait_table_bits;
/*
* Discontig memory support fields.
*/
struct pglist_data *zone_pgdat;
/* zone_start_pfn == zone_start_paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT */
unsigned long zone_start_pfn;
/*
* zone_start_pfn, spanned_pages and present_pages are all
* protected by span_seqlock. It is a seqlock because it has
* to be read outside of zone->lock, and it is done in the main
* allocator path. But, it is written quite infrequently.
*
* The lock is declared along with zone->lock because it is
* frequently read in proximity to zone->lock. It's good to
* give them a chance of being in the same cacheline.
*/
unsigned long spanned_pages; /* total size, including holes */
unsigned long present_pages; /* amount of memory (excluding holes) */
/*
* rarely used fields:
*/
const char *name;
} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;