On Wed, Apr 23, 2025, Xin Li wrote: > On 4/22/2025 8:09 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > I strongly prefer that we find a way to not require such verbose APIs, especially > > if KVM ends up using native variants throughout. Xen PV is supposed to be the > > odd one out, yet native code is what suffers. Blech. > > Will try to figure out how to name the APIs. > > One reason I chose verbose names is that short names are in use and > renaming needs to touch a lot of files (and not fun at all). Yeah, I've looked at modifying rdmsrl() to "return" a value more than once, and ran away screaming every time. But since you're already doing a pile of renames, IMO this is the perfect time to do an aggressive cleanup.
