/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 <[email protected]> Cc: Wu Fengguang <[email protected]> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]> Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
cbmeeks · Nov 13, 2013 · ec8e41a · ec8e41a
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -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

diff --git 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",