Unexpected page handling (also, VirtualLock = no op?)

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Technically VirtualLock is a hint, and so the OS is allowed to ignore it. It’s backed by the NtLockVirtualMemory syscall which on Reactos/Wine is implemented as a no-op, however Windows does back the syscall with real work (MiLockVadRange).

VirtualLock isn’t guarranteed to succeed. Calls to this function require the SE_LOCK_MEMORY_PRIVILEGE to work, and the addresses must fulfil security and quota restrictions. Additionally after a VirtualUnlock, the kernel is no longer obliged to keep your page in memory, so a page fault after that is a valid action.

And as Raymond Chen points out, when you unlock the memory it can formally release the page. This means that the next VirtualLock on the next page might obtain that very same page again, so when you touch the original page you’ll still get a page-fault.

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