Can the dirtiness of pages of a mmap be found from userspace?
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Can dirtiness of pages of a (non-shared) mmap be accessed from userspace under linux 2.6.30+? Platform-specific hacks and kludges welcome.
Ideally, I'm looking for an array of bits, one per page (4kB?) of the mmap'ed region, which are set if that page has been written to since the region was mmap'ed.
(I am aware, that the process doing the writing could keep track of this information - but it seems silly to do so if the kernel is doing it anyway.)
Thanks,
Chris.
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