On April 2, 2025 10:09:21 PM PDT, Xin Li <x...@zytor.com> wrote: >On 4/1/2025 12:52 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> Should we rename the *msrl() functions to *msrq() as part of this >>> overhaul? >> Yeah, that's a good idea, and because talk is cheap I just implemented >> this in the tip:WIP.x86/msr branch with a couple of other cleanups in >> this area (see the shortlog & diffstat below), but the churn is high: >> >> 144 files changed, 1034 insertions(+), 1034 deletions(-) > >Hi Ingo, > >I noticed that you keep the type of MSR index in these patches as >"unsigned int". > >I'm thinking would it be better to standardize it as "u32"? > >Because: >1) MSR index is placed in ECX to execute MSR instructions, and the > high-order 32 bits of RCX are ignored on 64-bit. >2) MSR index is encoded as a 32-bit immediate in the new immediate form > MSR instructions. > >Thanks! > Xin
"unsigned int" and "u32" are synonymous, but the latter is more explicit and would be better.
