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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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Naoya Horiguchi and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
··· 460 460 nl - non-linear mapping 461 461 ar - architecture specific flag 462 462 dd - do not include area into core dump 463 + sd - soft-dirty flag 463 464 mm - mixed map area 464 465 hg - huge page advise flag 465 466 nh - no-huge page advise flag
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fs/proc/task_mmu.c
··· 561 561 [ilog2(VM_NONLINEAR)] = "nl", 562 562 [ilog2(VM_ARCH_1)] = "ar", 563 563 [ilog2(VM_DONTDUMP)] = "dd", 564 + #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY 565 + [ilog2(VM_SOFTDIRTY)] = "sd", 566 + #endif 564 567 [ilog2(VM_MIXEDMAP)] = "mm", 565 568 [ilog2(VM_HUGEPAGE)] = "hg", 566 569 [ilog2(VM_NOHUGEPAGE)] = "nh",