commit ec8e41aec13005fed0dbee002fb8c99b4e001d50
author Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Tue Nov 12 15:07:49 2013 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Wed Nov 13 12:09:07 2013 +0900
tree c14fee4cc32360055870d89b0256931a2c7e67bf
parent bfc4f9d5206739d0612782508a39e93b0793609d

/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>

Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 823c95f..22d89aa3 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -460,6 +460,7 @@
     nl  - non-linear mapping
     ar  - architecture specific flag
     dd  - do not include area into core dump
+    sd  - soft-dirty flag
     mm  - mixed map area
     hg  - huge page advise flag
     nh  - no-huge page advise flag