[QUESTION] About VM_LOCKONFAULT for file page

[QUESTION] About VM_LOCKONFAULT for file page

[Yang Shi]

Hi folks,


I did a quick test with mlock2 + VM_LOCKONFAULT flag. The test just does 
an 1MB anonymous map and 1MB file map with VM_LOCKONFAULT respectively. 
Then it tries to access one page of each mapping.


 From /proc/meminfo, I can see 1 page marked mlocked from anonymous 
mapping. But, the page from file mapping is *not* marked as mlocked.


I can see the do_anonymous_page() calls 
lru_cache_add_active_or_unevictable() to set the page's PG_mlocked flag. 
But, do_read_fault()/do_shared_fault()/do_cow_fault() don't do it, it 
looks they just do it for COW page.


I'm a little bit confused. Does VM_LOCKONFAULT work for anonymous map 
only? Or did I miss something? Any hint is appreciated.


Thanks,

Yang