> On 9/16/19, 04:35, "Michal Hocko" <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c > > index e0c232fe81d9..55da24f33bc4 100644 > > --- a/mm/memory.c > > +++ b/mm/memory.c > > @@ -3311,6 +3311,8 @@ vm_fault_t alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct mem_cgroup *memcg, > > } else { > > inc_mm_counter_fast(vma->vm_mm, mm_counter_file(page)); > > page_add_file_rmap(page, false); > > + if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED && !PageTransCompound(page)) > > + mlock_vma_page(page); > > } > > set_pte_at(vma->vm_mm, vmf->address, vmf->pte, entry); > I dunno. Handling it here in alloc_set_pte sounds a bit weird to me. > Altough we already do mlock for CoW pages there, I thought this was more > of an exception. > Is there any real reason why this cannot be done in the standard #PF > path? finish_fault for example? alloc_set_pte is called from finish_fault https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.2/mm/memory.c#L3400 vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) ... if (!ret) ret = alloc_set_pte(vmf, vmf->memcg, page); and inside alloc_set_pte one of the branches of the if-clause already handled mlocked pages: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v5.2/mm/memory.c#L3348-L3356 I added it to the else-branch as that seemed like the least intrusive change, but I will move this to finish_fault, probably like this (after I'm done testing): vm_fault_t finish_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf) ... if (!ret) ret = alloc_set_pte(vmf, vmf->memcg, page); + if (!ret && (vmf->vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) && !PageTransCompound(page)) + mlock_vma_page(page); Thanks for the review and suggestions! -- Lucian