Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags line

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 07 2013 - 20:51:30 EST


On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:15:04 -0400 Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 13:42:13 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags line
>
> This flag shows that the VMA is "newly created" and thus represents
> "dirty" in the task's VM.
> You can clear it by "echo 4 > /proc/pid/clear_refs."
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 7366e9d..c591928 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> @@ -561,6 +561,9 @@ static void show_smap_vma_flags(struct seq_file *m, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> [ilog2(VM_NONLINEAR)] = "nl",
> [ilog2(VM_ARCH_1)] = "ar",
> [ilog2(VM_DONTDUMP)] = "dd",
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
> + [ilog2(VM_SOFTDIRTY)] = "sd",
> +#endif
> [ilog2(VM_MIXEDMAP)] = "mm",
> [ilog2(VM_HUGEPAGE)] = "hg",
> [ilog2(VM_NOHUGEPAGE)] = "nh",

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt needs updating, please.
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