On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 07:56:53AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 03:29:35PM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > > So what would you suggest to sort out the issue? I'm happy to go with > > ioctl if nothing else is acceptable. > > PLenty of drivers treat all mmaps as if MAP_POPULATE was specified, > typically by using (io_)remap_pfn_range. If there any reason to only > optionally have the pre-fault semantics for sgx? If not this should > be really simple. And if we have a real need for it to be optional > we'll just need to find a sane way to pass that information to ->mmap. Dave, what if mmap() would just unconditionally EAUG after initialization? It's an option, yes. BR, Jarkko