From: "Jürgen Groß" <jgross@suse.com>
To: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/8] x86/msr: Consolidate rdmsr() definitions
Date: Wed, 6 May 2026 13:09:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3d08fd7-4938-4db2-9962-1c87dab74a2f@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afsXCIUjib70dBYz@yzhao56-desk.sh.intel.com>
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On 06.05.26 12:25, Yan Zhao wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 10:03:26AM +0800, Yan Zhao wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:45:21AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
>>> +/*
>>> + * Common paravirt and native helpers:
>>> + */
>>> +#define rdmsr(msr, low, high) \
>>> +do { \
>>> + u64 __val = paravirt_read_msr((msr)); \
>>> + (void)((low) = (u32)__val); \
>>> + (void)((high) = (u32)(__val >> 32)); \
>>> +} while (0)
>> Rather than direct all (paravirt and native) invocations of rdmsr() to
>> paravirt_*(), does it make sense to first introduce the common version of
>> helpers and direct the common version of helpers to paravirt_* or native_*?
>> So, we can have
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Common paravirt and native helpers:
>> + */
>> +#define rdmsr(msr, low, high) \
>> +do { \
>> + u64 __val = common_read_msr((msr)); \
>> + (void)((low) = (u32)__val); \
>> + (void)((high) = (u32)(__val >> 32)); \
>> +} while (0)
>>
> Or maybe s/common/trampoline ?
I'd suggest __read_msr() and friends.
Juergen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-06 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-29 18:45 [PATCH v2 0/8] x86/msr: Consolidate native/paravirt MSR functions Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] x86/msr: Use paravirt "calls" in common code Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] x86/msr: Consolidate rdmsr() definitions Dave Hansen
2026-05-06 2:03 ` Yan Zhao
2026-05-06 10:25 ` Yan Zhao
2026-05-06 11:09 ` Jürgen Groß [this message]
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] x86/msr: Consolidate rdmsr_safe() implementations Dave Hansen
2026-04-30 19:43 ` Maciej Wieczor-Retman
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] x86/msr: Consolidate rdmsrq() implementations Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] x86/msr: Consolidate {rd,wr}msr[q]_safe() implementations Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] x86/msr: Consolidate rdpmc() implementations Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] x86/msr: Remove old crusty comment Dave Hansen
2026-04-29 18:45 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] x86/msr: Remove duplicate #include Dave Hansen
2026-04-30 7:20 ` Jürgen Groß
2026-04-30 17:42 ` Dave Hansen
2026-04-30 19:22 ` Jürgen Groß
2026-04-30 7:21 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] x86/msr: Consolidate native/paravirt MSR functions Jürgen Groß
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