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| author | Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> | 2013-08-15 11:11:45 -0700 |
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| committer | Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> | 2013-08-15 11:11:45 -0700 |
| commit | ee3e542fec6e69bc9fb668698889a37d93950ddf (patch) | |
| tree | e74ee766a4764769ef1d3d45d266b4dea64101d3 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | fe2a801b50c0bb8039d627e5ae1fec249d10ff39 (diff) | |
| parent | f1d6e17f540af37bb1891480143669ba7636c4cf (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'linus/master' into testing
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 fd8d0d594fc..fcc22c982a2 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 |