diff --git a/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/memory_management/host_memory.rst b/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/memory_management/host_memory.rst index 439be72535..ad8b0ef124 100644 --- a/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/memory_management/host_memory.rst +++ b/docs/how-to/hip_runtime_api/memory_management/host_memory.rst @@ -9,12 +9,11 @@ Host memory ******************************************************************************** -Host memory where on the host (e.g. CPU) of the machine in random access memory -(RAM). The host memory has three different main types in HIP: +Host memory is "normal" memory as allocated by C or C++, and resides in the RAM of the host. +Host memory can be allocated in two different ways: * Pageable memory * Pinned memory -* Unified Memory These different types of memory should be used at different use cases. The pageable and pinned memory using explicit memory management, where the