Re: [PATCH 2/6] x86/kvm: Rename the KVM private read_msr() function

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On May 6, 2025 9:16:03 AM PDT, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>* Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 06, 2025, Juergen Gross wrote:
>> > Avoid a name clash with a new general MSR access helper after a future
>> > MSR infrastructure rework by renaming the KVM specific read_msr() to
>> > kvm_read_msr().
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
>> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 4 ++--
>> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> > index 9c971f846108..308f7020dc9d 100644
>> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
>> > @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ static inline void kvm_load_ldt(u16 sel)
>> >  }
>> >  
>> >  #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
>> > -static inline unsigned long read_msr(unsigned long msr)
>> 
>> Ewwww.  Eww, eww, eww.  I forgot this thing existed.
>> 
>> Please just delete this and use rdmsrq() directly (or is it still rdmsrl()? at
>> this point?).
>
>Both will work, so code-in-transition isn't build-broken unnecessarily:
>
>  arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h:#define rdmsrl(msr, val) rdmsrq(msr, val)
>
>:-)
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Ingo

But for forward-looking code, rdmsrq().





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