Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] MAP_POPULATE for device memory

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On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 11:33:02AM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2022 at 07:32:04AM +0200, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > For device memory (aka VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP) MAP_POPULATE does nothing. Allow
> > to use that for initializing the device memory by providing a new callback
> > f_ops->populate() for the purpose.
> 
> As I said, NAK.

Agreed.  This is an amazingly bad interface.



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