On April 2, 2025 8:41:07 AM PDT, Dave Hansen <dave.han...@intel.com> wrote:
>On 3/31/25 22:53, Xin Li wrote:
>> Per "struct msr" defined in arch/x86/include/asm/shared/msr.h:
>>
>> struct msr {
>> union {
>> struct {
>> u32 l;
>> u32 h;
>> };
>> u64 q;
>> };
>> };
>>
>> Probably *msrq() is what we want?
>
>What would folks think about "wrmsr64()"? It's writing a 64-bit value to
>an MSR and there are a lot of functions in the kernel that are named
>with the argument width in bits.
Personally, I hate the extra verbosity, mostly visual, since numerals are
nearly as prominent as capital letters they tend to attract the eye. There is a
reason why they aren't used this way in assembly languages.
