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authorNaoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>2013-11-12 15:07:49 -0800
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/proc/pid/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@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@ manner. The codes are the following:
nl - non-linear mapping
ar - architecture specific flag
dd - do not include area into core dump
+ sd - soft-dirty flag
mm - mixed map area
hg - huge page advise flag
nh - no-huge page advise flag