linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags line

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Date:	Mon, 7 Oct 2013 17:21:48 +0400
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
To:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
CC:	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] smaps: show VM_SOFTDIRTY flag in VmFlags line

On 10/04/2013 11:02 PM, Naoya Horiguchi wrote:
> This flag shows that soft dirty bit is not enabled yet.
> You can enable it by "echo 4 > /proc/pid/clear_refs."

The comment is not correct. Per-VMA soft-dirty flag means, that
VMA is "newly created" one and thus represents a new (dirty) are
in task's VM.

Other than this -- yes, it's nice to have this flag in smaps.

> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>
> ---
>  fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git v3.12-rc2-mmots-2013-09-24-17-03.orig/fs/proc/task_mmu.c v3.12-rc2-mmots-2013-09-24-17-03/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> index 7366e9d..c591928 100644
> --- v3.12-rc2-mmots-2013-09-24-17-03.orig/fs/proc/task_mmu.c
> +++ v3.12-rc2-mmots-2013-09-24-17-03/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",
> 


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