Re: [PATCH v2 04/18] KVM: x86: Drop superfluous kvm_hv_set_sint() => kvm_hv_synic_set_irq() wrapper

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Jun 13 2025 - 10:26:09 EST


On Fri, Jun 13, 2025, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-06-12 at 17:48 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2025-06-11 at 14:35 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > > Drop the superfluous kvm_hv_set_sint() and instead wire up ->set() directly
> > > > to its final destination, kvm_hv_synic_set_irq(). Keep hv_synic_set_irq()
> > > > instead of kvm_hv_set_sint() to provide some amount of consistency in the
> > > > ->set() helpers, e.g. to match kvm_pic_set_irq() and kvm_ioapic_set_irq().
> > > >
> > > > kvm_set_msi() is arguably the oddball, e.g. kvm_set_msi_irq() should be
> > > > something like kvm_msi_to_lapic_irq() so that kvm_set_msi() can instead be
> > > > kvm_set_msi_irq(), but that's a future problem to solve.
> > >
> > > Agreed on kvm_msi_to_lapic_irq(), but isn't kvm_msi_set_irq() a matter match
> > > to kvm_{pic/ioapic/hv_synic}_set_irq()? :-)
> >
> > Yes, the problem is that kvm_set_msi() is used by common code, i.e. could actually
> > be kvm_arch_set_msi_irq(). I'm not entirely sure churning _that_ much code is
> > worth the marginal improvement in readability.
>
> Ah didn't know that

Heh, I didn't know either, until I went to rename the darn thing :-)