The locking / pinning mechanism moved from the FRMTE to the PTE/PGSTE as 
of
5.2.0 as part of the support for HPMA (a hardware page fault assist allow
ing
hardware pinning) and QDIO passthrough.  A page being locked by command i
s
now indicated by the PGSCPLOK bit in byte 6 of the PGSTE (see also PGSD98
LK
for Diag x'98' locking).  

Yes, the PGMBK stays resident as long as the page stays locked (in some
cases, even after the virtual megabyte has been released).  

- Bill Holder, z/VM Development, IBM 

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:05:47 +0100, Rob van der Heij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:22 AM, David Kreuter
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The frametable entries do not have an obvious bit indicating that the 
page
>> is a target of a CP lock. I'll keep digging.
>> I'm going to as time permits hunt down through the virtual machine pgm
bk's.
>> David
>
>So you can tell how long ago it was that I cared. I believe 5.1 still
>had X'40' as FRMCPLOK
>My apologies for providing out-of-date guidance. If I have the picture
>right, then the PGMBK would still be resident as long as one of the
>pages is resident, even though it now does not live under the bar
>anymore.
>
>-Rob
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