diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
index 25eb281..cd4d666 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ The physical address of the reserved memory for that memory zone is also returne
 .. note::
 
     Memory reservations done using the APIs provided by the rte_malloc library are also backed by pages from the hugetlbfs filesystem.
-    However, physical address information is not available for the blocks of memory allocated in this way.
 
 Xen Dom0 support without hugetbls
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -366,3 +365,222 @@ We expect only 50% of CPU spend on packet IO.
     echo  50000 > pkt_io/cpu.cfs_quota_us
 
 
+Malloc
+------
+
+The EAL provides a malloc API to allocate any-sized memory.
+
+The objective of this API is to provide malloc-like functions to allow
+allocation from hugepage memory and to facilitate application porting.
+The *DPDK API Reference* manual describes the available functions.
+
+Typically, these kinds of allocations should not be done in data plane
+processing because they are slower than pool-based allocation and make
+use of locks within the allocation and free paths.
+However, they can be used in configuration code.
+
+Refer to the rte_malloc() function description in the *DPDK API Reference*
+manual for more information.
+
+Cookies
+~~~~~~~
+
+When CONFIG_RTE_MALLOC_DEBUG is enabled, the allocated memory contains
+overwrite protection fields to help identify buffer overflows.
+
+Alignment and NUMA Constraints
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The rte_malloc() takes an align argument that can be used to request a memory
+area that is aligned on a multiple of this value (which must be a power of two).
+
+On systems with NUMA support, a call to the rte_malloc() function will return
+memory that has been allocated on the NUMA socket of the core which made the call.
+A set of APIs is also provided, to allow memory to be explicitly allocated on a
+NUMA socket directly, or by allocated on the NUMA socket where another core is
+located, in the case where the memory is to be used by a logical core other than
+on the one doing the memory allocation.
+
+Use Cases
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+This API is meant to be used by an application that requires malloc-like
+functions at initialization time.
+
+For allocating/freeing data at runtime, in the fast-path of an application,
+the memory pool library should be used instead.
+
+Internal Implementation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Data Structures
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+There are two data structure types used internally in the malloc library:
+
+*   struct malloc_heap - used to track free space on a per-socket basis
+
+*   struct malloc_elem - the basic element of allocation and free-space
+    tracking inside the library.
+
+Structure: malloc_heap
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+The malloc_heap structure is used to manage free space on a per-socket basis.
+Internally, there is one heap structure per NUMA node, which allows us to
+allocate memory to a thread based on the NUMA node on which this thread runs.
+While this does not guarantee that the memory will be used on that NUMA node,
+it is no worse than a scheme where the memory is always allocated on a fixed
+or random node.
+
+The key fields of the heap structure and their function are described below
+(see also diagram above):
+
+*   lock - the lock field is needed to synchronize access to the heap.
+    Given that the free space in the heap is tracked using a linked list,
+    we need a lock to prevent two threads manipulating the list at the same time.
+
+*   free_head - this points to the first element in the list of free nodes for
+    this malloc heap.
+
+.. note::
+
+    The malloc_heap structure does not keep track of in-use blocks of memory,
+    since these are never touched except when they are to be freed again -
+    at which point the pointer to the block is an input to the free() function.
+
+.. _figure_malloc_heap:
+
+.. figure:: img/malloc_heap.*
+
+   Example of a malloc heap and malloc elements within the malloc library
+
+
+.. _malloc_elem:
+
+Structure: malloc_elem
+""""""""""""""""""""""
+
+The malloc_elem structure is used as a generic header structure for various
+blocks of memory.
+It is used in three different ways - all shown in the diagram above:
+
+#.  As a header on a block of free or allocated memory - normal case
+
+#.  As a padding header inside a block of memory
+
+#.  As an end-of-memseg marker
+
+The most important fields in the structure and how they are used are described below.
+
+.. note::
+
+    If the usage of a particular field in one of the above three usages is not
+    described, the field can be assumed to have an undefined value in that
+    situation, for example, for padding headers only the "state" and "pad"
+    fields have valid values.
+
+*   heap - this pointer is a reference back to the heap structure from which
+    this block was allocated.
+    It is used for normal memory blocks when they are being freed, to add the
+    newly-freed block to the heap's free-list.
+
+*   prev - this pointer points to the header element/block in the memseg
+    immediately behind the current one. When freeing a block, this pointer is
+    used to reference the previous block to check if that block is also free.
+    If so, then the two free blocks are merged to form a single larger block.
+
+*   next_free - this pointer is used to chain the free-list of unallocated
+    memory blocks together.
+    It is only used in normal memory blocks; on ``malloc()`` to find a suitable
+    free block to allocate and on ``free()`` to add the newly freed element to
+    the free-list.
+
+*   state - This field can have one of three values: ``FREE``, ``BUSY`` or
+    ``PAD``.
+    The former two are to indicate the allocation state of a normal memory block
+    and the latter is to indicate that the element structure is a dummy structure
+    at the end of the start-of-block padding, i.e. where the start of the data
+    within a block is not at the start of the block itself, due to alignment
+    constraints.
+    In that case, the pad header is used to locate the actual malloc element
+    header for the block.
+    For the end-of-memseg structure, this is always a ``BUSY`` value, which
+    ensures that no element, on being freed, searches beyond the end of the
+    memseg for other blocks to merge with into a larger free area.
+
+*   pad - this holds the length of the padding present at the start of the block.
+    In the case of a normal block header, it is added to the address of the end
+    of the header to give the address of the start of the data area, i.e. the
+    value passed back to the application on a malloc.
+    Within a dummy header inside the padding, this same value is stored, and is
+    subtracted from the address of the dummy header to yield the address of the
+    actual block header.
+
+*   size - the size of the data block, including the header itself.
+    For end-of-memseg structures, this size is given as zero, though it is never
+    actually checked.
+    For normal blocks which are being freed, this size value is used in place of
+    a "next" pointer to identify the location of the next block of memory that
+    in the case of being ``FREE``, the two free blocks can be merged into one.
+
+Memory Allocation
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+On EAL initialisation, all memsegs are setup as part of the malloc heap.
+This setup involves placing a dummy structure at the end with ``BUSY`` state,
+which may contain a sentinel value if ``CONFIG_RTE_MALLOC_DEBUG`` is enabled,
+and a proper :ref:`element header<malloc_elem>` with ``FREE`` at the start
+for each memseg.
+The ``FREE`` element is then added to the ``free_list`` for the malloc heap.
+
+When an application makes a call to a malloc-like function, the malloc function
+will first index the ``lcore_config`` structure for the calling thread, and
+determine the NUMA node of that thread.
+The NUMA node is used to index the array of ``malloc_heap`` structures which is
+passed as a parameter to the ``heap_alloc()`` function, along with the
+requested size, type, alignment and boundary parameters.
+
+The ``heap_alloc()`` function will scan the free_list of the heap, and attempt
+to find a free block suitable for storing data of the requested size, with the
+requested alignment and boundary constraints.
+
+When a suitable free element has been identified, the pointer to be returned
+to the user is calculated.
+The cache-line of memory immediately preceding this pointer is filled with a
+struct malloc_elem header.
+Because of alignment and boundary constraints, there could be free space at
+the start and/or end of the element, resulting in the following behavior:
+
+#. Check for trailing space.
+   If the trailing space is big enough, i.e. > 128 bytes, then the free element
+   is split.
+   If it is not, then we just ignore it (wasted space).
+
+#. Check for space at the start of the element.
+   If the space at the start is small, i.e. <=128 bytes, then a pad header is
+   used, and the remaining space is wasted.
+   If, however, the remaining space is greater, then the free element is split.
+
+The advantage of allocating the memory from the end of the existing element is
+that no adjustment of the free list needs to take place - the existing element
+on the free list just has its size pointer adjusted, and the following element
+has its "prev" pointer redirected to the newly created element.
+
+Freeing Memory
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To free an area of memory, the pointer to the start of the data area is passed
+to the free function.
+The size of the ``malloc_elem`` structure is subtracted from this pointer to get
+the element header for the block.
+If this header is of type ``PAD`` then the pad length is further subtracted from
+the pointer to get the proper element header for the entire block.
+
+From this element header, we get pointers to the heap from which the block was
+allocated and to where it must be freed, as well as the pointer to the previous
+element, and via the size field, we can calculate the pointer to the next element.
+These next and previous elements are then checked to see if they are also
+``FREE``, and if so, they are merged with the current element.
+This means that we can never have two ``FREE`` memory blocks adjacent to one
+another, as they are always merged into a single block.
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diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
index 036640c..176f2c2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/index.rst
@@ -43,7 +43,6 @@ Programmer's Guide
     intro
     overview
     env_abstraction_layer
-    malloc_lib
     ring_lib
     mempool_lib
     mbuf_lib
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/malloc_lib.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/malloc_lib.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index 6418fab..0000000
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/malloc_lib.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,233 +0,0 @@
-..  BSD LICENSE
-    Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
-    All rights reserved.
-
-    Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
-    modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
-    are met:
-
-    * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
-    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-    * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
-    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in
-    the documentation and/or other materials provided with the
-    distribution.
-    * Neither the name of Intel Corporation nor the names of its
-    contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived
-    from this software without specific prior written permission.
-
-    THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
-    "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-    LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
-    A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
-    OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-    SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
-    LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,
-    DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
-    THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT
-    (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE
-    OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
-
-.. _Malloc_Library:
-
-Malloc Library
-==============
-
-The librte_malloc library provides an API to allocate any-sized memory.
-
-The objective of this library is to provide malloc-like functions to allow allocation from hugepage memory
-and to facilitate application porting.
-The *DPDK API Reference* manual describes the available functions.
-
-Typically, these kinds of allocations should not be done in data plane processing
-because they are slower than pool-based allocation and make use of locks within the allocation
-and free paths.
-However, they can be used in configuration code.
-
-Refer to the rte_malloc() function description in the *DPDK API Reference* manual for more information.
-
-Cookies
--------
-
-When CONFIG_RTE_MALLOC_DEBUG is enabled, the allocated memory contains overwrite protection fields
-to help identify buffer overflows.
-
-Alignment and NUMA Constraints
-------------------------------
-
-The rte_malloc() takes an align argument that can be used to request a memory area
-that is aligned on a multiple of this value (which must be a power of two).
-
-On systems with NUMA support, a call to the rte_malloc() function will return memory
-that has been allocated on the NUMA socket of the core which made the call.
-A set of APIs is also provided, to allow memory to be explicitly allocated on a NUMA socket directly,
-or by allocated on the NUMA socket where another core is located,
-in the case where the memory is to be used by a logical core other than on the one doing the memory allocation.
-
-Use Cases
----------
-
-This library is needed by an application that requires malloc-like functions at initialization time,
-and does not require the physical address information for the individual memory blocks.
-
-For allocating/freeing data at runtime, in the fast-path of an application,
-the memory pool library should be used instead.
-
-If a block of memory with a known physical address is needed,
-e.g. for use by a hardware device, a memory zone should be used.
-
-Internal Implementation
------------------------
-
-Data Structures
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-There are two data structure types used internally in the malloc library:
-
-*   struct malloc_heap - used to track free space on a per-socket basis
-
-*   struct malloc_elem - the basic element of allocation and free-space tracking inside the library.
-
-Structure: malloc_heap
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-The malloc_heap structure is used in the library to manage free space on a per-socket basis.
-Internally in the library, there is one heap structure per NUMA node,
-which allows us to allocate memory to a thread based on the NUMA node on which this thread runs.
-While this does not guarantee that the memory will be used on that NUMA node,
-it is no worse than a scheme where the memory is always allocated on a fixed or random node.
-
-The key fields of the heap structure and their function are described below (see also diagram above):
-
-*   mz_count  - field to count the number of memory zones which have been allocated for heap memory on this NUMA node.
-    The sole use of this value is, in combination with the numa_socket value,
-    to generate a suitable, unique name for each memory zone.
-
-*   lock - the lock field is needed to synchronize access to the heap.
-    Given that the free space in the heap is tracked using a linked list,
-    we need a lock to prevent two threads manipulating the list at the same time.
-
-*   free_head - this points to the first element in the list of free nodes for this malloc heap.
-
-.. note::
-
-    The malloc_heap structure does not keep track of either the memzones allocated,
-    since there is little point as they cannot be freed.
-    Neither does it track the in-use blocks of memory,
-    since these are never touched except when they are to be freed again -
-    at which point the pointer to the block is an input to the free() function.
-
-.. _figure_malloc_heap:
-
-.. figure:: img/malloc_heap.*
-
-   Example of a malloc heap and malloc elements within the malloc library
-
-
-Structure: malloc_elem
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-The malloc_elem structure is used as a generic header structure for various blocks of memory in a memzone.
-It is used in three different ways - all shown in the diagram above:
-
-#.  As a header on a block of free or allocated memory - normal case
-
-#.  As a padding header inside a block of memory
-
-#.  As an end-of-memzone marker
-
-The most important fields in the structure and how they are used are described below.
-
-.. note::
-
-    If the usage of a particular field in one of the above three usages is not described,
-    the field can be assumed to have an undefined value in that situation, for example,
-    for padding headers only the "state" and "pad" fields have valid values.
-
-*   heap - this pointer is a reference back to the heap structure from which this block was allocated.
-    It is used for normal memory blocks when they are being freed,
-    to add the newly-freed block to the heap's free-list.
-
-*   prev - this pointer points to the header element/block in the memzone immediately behind the current one.
-    When freeing a block, this pointer is used to reference the previous block to check if that block is also free.
-    If so, then the two free blocks are merged to form a single larger block.
-
-*   next_free - this pointer is used to chain the free-list of unallocated memory blocks together.
-    Again, it is only used in normal memory blocks - on malloc() to find a suitable free block to allocate,
-    and on free() to add the newly freed element to the free-list.
-
-*   state - This field can have one of three values: "Free", "Busy" or "Pad".
-    The former two, are to indicate the allocation state of a normal memory block,
-    and the latter is to indicate that the element structure is a dummy structure at the end of the start-of-block padding
-    (i.e. where the start of the data within a block is not at the start of the block itself, due to alignment constraints).
-    In this case, the pad header is used to locate the actual malloc element header for the block.
-    For the end-of-memzone structure, this is always a "busy" value, which ensures that no element,
-    on being freed, searches beyond the end of the memzone for other blocks to merge with into a larger free area.
-
-*   pad - this holds the length of the padding present at the start of the block.
-    In the case of a normal block header, it is added to the address of the end of the header
-    to give the address of the start of the data area i.e.
-    the value passed back to the application on a malloc.
-    Within a dummy header inside the padding, this same value is stored,
-    and is subtracted from the address of the dummy header to yield the address of the actual block header.
-
-*   size - the size of the data block, including the header itself.
-    For end-of-memzone structures, this size is given as zero, though it is never actually checked.
-    For normal blocks which are being freed,
-    this size value is used in place of a "next" pointer to identify the location of the next block of memory
-    (so that if it too is free, the two free blocks can be merged into one).
-
-Memory Allocation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-When an application makes a call to a malloc-like function,
-the malloc function will first index the lcore_config structure for the calling thread,
-and determine the NUMA node idea of that thread.
-That is used to index the array of malloc_heap structures,
-and the heap_alloc () function is called with that heap as parameter,
-along with the requested size, type and alignment parameters.
-
-The heap_alloc() function will scan the free_list for the heap,
-and attempt to find a free block suitable for storing data of the requested size,
-with the requested alignment constraints.
-If no suitable block is found - for example, the first time malloc is called for a node,
-and the free-list is NULL - a new memzone is reserved and set up as heap elements.
-The setup involves placing a dummy structure at the end of the memzone
-to act as a sentinel to prevent accesses beyond the end
-(as the sentinel is marked as BUSY, the malloc library code will never attempt to reference it further),
-and a proper element header at the start of the memzone.
-This latter header identifies all space in the memzone, bar the sentinel value at the end,
-as a single free heap element, and it is then added to the free_list for the heap.
-
-Once the new memzone has been set up, the scan of the free-list for the heap is redone,
-and on this occasion should find the newly created,
-suitable element as the size of memory reserved in the memzone is set to be
-at least the size of the requested data block plus the alignment -
-subject to a minimum size specified in the DPDK compile-time configuration.
-
-When a suitable, free element has been identified, the pointer to be returned to the user is calculated,
-with the space to be provided to the user being at the end of the free block.
-The cache-line of memory immediately preceding this space is filled with a struct malloc_elem header:
-if the remaining space within the block is small e.g. <=128 bytes,
-then a pad header is used, and the remaining space is wasted.
-If, however, the remaining space is greater than this, then the single free element block is split into two,
-and a new, proper, malloc_elem header is put before the returned data space.
-[The advantage of allocating the memory from the end of the existing element is that
-in this case no adjustment of the free list needs to take place -
-the existing element on the free list just has its size pointer adjusted,
-and the following element has its "prev" pointer redirected to the newly created element].
-
-Freeing Memory
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-To free an area of memory, the pointer to the start of the data area is passed to the free function.
-The size of the malloc_elem structure is subtracted from this pointer to get the element header for the block.
-If this header is of type "PAD" then the pad length is further subtracted from the pointer
-to get the proper element header for the entire block.
-
-From this element header, we get pointers to the heap from which the block came -- and to where it must be freed,
-as well as the pointer to the previous element, and, via the size field,
-we can calculate the pointer to the next element.
-These next and previous elements are then checked to see if they too are free,
-and if so, they are merged with the current elements.
-This means that we can never have two free memory blocks adjacent to one another,
-they are always merged into a single block.
diff --git a/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst b/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
index cef6ca7..5d378e5 100644
--- a/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/prog_guide/overview.rst
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@ The services provided by the EAL are:
 
 *   Alarm operations
 
+*   Memory managenent (malloc)
+
 The EAL is fully described in :ref:`Environment Abstraction Layer <Environment_Abstraction_Layer>`.
 
 Core Components
@@ -127,15 +129,6 @@ for high-performance packet processing applications.
    Core Components Architecture
 
 
-Memory Manager (librte_malloc)
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The librte_malloc library provides an API to allocate memory from the memzones created from the hugepages instead of the heap.
-This helps when allocating large numbers of items that may become susceptible to TLB misses
-when using typical 4k heap pages in the Linux user space environment.
-
-This memory allocator is fully described in :ref:`Malloc Library <Malloc_Library>`.
-
 Ring Manager (librte_ring)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
