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docs/vm: soft-dirty.txt: convert to ReST format

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Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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SOFT-DIRTY PTEs
.. _soft_dirty:
===============
Soft-Dirty PTEs
===============
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should
1. Clear soft-dirty bits from the task's PTEs.
This is done by writing "4" into the /proc/PID/clear_refs file of the
This is done by writing "4" into the ``/proc/PID/clear_refs`` file of the
task in question.
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits from the PTEs.
This is done by reading from the /proc/PID/pagemap. The bit 55 of the
This is done by reading from the ``/proc/PID/pagemap``. The bit 55 of the
64-bit qword is the soft-dirty one. If set, the respective PTE was
written to since step 1.