Re: [PATCH 00/20] x86 MSR in-kernel API type cleanup and rename

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 10:28:47PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Ingo Molnar (20):
>   x86/msr: Standardize on u64 in <asm/msr.h>
>   x86/msr: Standardize on u64 in <asm/msr-index.h>
>   x86/msr: Use u64 in rdmsrl_amd_safe() and wrmsrl_amd_safe()
>   x86/msr: Use u64 in rdmsrl_safe() and paravirt_read_pmc()
>   x86/msr: Harmonize the prototype and definition of do_trace_rdpmc()
>   x86/msr: Standardize on 'u32' MSR indices in <asm/msr.h>

Yay, thanks!

>   x86/msr: Rename 'rdmsrl()' to 'rdmsrq()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl()' to 'wrmsrq()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'rdmsrl_safe()' to 'rdmsrq_safe()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl_safe()' to 'wrmsrq_safe()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'rdmsrl_safe_on_cpu()' to 'rdmsrq_safe_on_cpu()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl_safe_on_cpu()' to 'wrmsrq_safe_on_cpu()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'rdmsrl_on_cpu()' to 'rdmsrq_on_cpu()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl_on_cpu()' to 'wrmsrq_on_cpu()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'mce_rdmsrl()' to 'mce_rdmsrq()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'mce_wrmsrl()' to 'mce_wrmsrq()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'rdmsrl_amd_safe()' to 'rdmsrq_amd_safe()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl_amd_safe()' to 'wrmsrq_amd_safe()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'native_wrmsrl()' to 'native_wrmsrq()'
>   x86/msr: Rename 'wrmsrl_cstar()' to 'wrmsrq_cstar()'

I'm so going to be typo-ing this for a while, but yeah, I suppose these
are better names.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>