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| author | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400 |
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| committer | Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> | 2013-08-29 02:41:59 +0400 |
| commit | bf550fc93d9855872a95e69e4002256110d89858 (patch) | |
| tree | 10876bb4304bffe54c4160a132e7b8de6577ac4e /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 7e48c101e0c53e6095c5f4f5e63d14df50aae8fc (diff) | |
| parent | cc2df20c7c4ce594c3e17e9cc260c330646012c8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bf550fc93d9855872a95e69e4002256110d89858.tar.xz | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/next' into kvm-ppc-next
Conflicts:
mm/Kconfig
CMA DMA split and ZSWAP introduction were conflicting, fix up manually.
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 |