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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-07-04 04:12:13 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-07-04 04:12:13 +0400 |
commit | 7f0ef0267e20d62d45d527911a993b1e998f4968 (patch) | |
tree | de51abc7da5903f59d83e23937f22420164c9477 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | 862f0012549110d6f2586bf54b52ed4540cbff3a (diff) | |
parent | 9307c29524502c21f0e8a6d96d850b2f5bc0bd9a (diff) | |
download | linux-7f0ef0267e20d62d45d527911a993b1e998f4968.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been
distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity.
- About half the MM queue
- Some backlight bits
- Various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
- zillions more little rtc patches
- ptrace
- signals
- exec
- procfs
- rapidio
- nbd
- aoe
- pps
- memstick
- tools/testing/selftests updates
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (445 commits)
tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts
selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp
selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile
selftests: add .gitignore for vm
selftests: add hugetlbfstest
self-test: fix make clean
selftests: exit 1 on failure
kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource
aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete()
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode
drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver
drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver
pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver
drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers
drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc
Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool
aoe: update internal version number to v83
aoe: update copyright date
aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index fd8d0d594fc7..fcc22c982a25 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -473,7 +473,8 @@ This file is only present if the CONFIG_MMU kernel configuration option is enabled. The /proc/PID/clear_refs is used to reset the PG_Referenced and ACCESSED/YOUNG -bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process. +bits on both physical and virtual pages associated with a process, and the +soft-dirty bit on pte (see Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt for details). To clear the bits for all the pages associated with the process > echo 1 > /proc/PID/clear_refs @@ -482,6 +483,10 @@ To clear the bits for the anonymous pages associated with the process To clear the bits for the file mapped pages associated with the process > echo 3 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + +To clear the soft-dirty bit + > echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs + Any other value written to /proc/PID/clear_refs will have no effect. The /proc/pid/pagemap gives the PFN, which can be used to find the pageflags |