Systems Memory Management

Understands the fundamentals of Systems Memory Management. Applies basic practices in daily work. Follows recommendations from the team and documentation.

Confidently works with memory management: page allocator, slab allocator, memory mapping. Configures huge pages, understands OOM killer, debugs memory leaks via kmemleak.

Designs memory management subsystems: custom allocator for real-time (O(1) allocation), NUMA-aware memory policy, memory compaction. Optimizes TLB pressure via huge pages.

Defines memory management strategy for the systems platform. Establishes memory budgets per subsystem, conducts memory safety reviews, introduces memory profiling infrastructure.

Shapes enterprise memory management strategy. Defines organizational-level approaches to memory safety (MTE, shadow memory), manages memory architecture for products.