Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/34] x86/msr: Convert __rdmsr() uses to native_rdmsrq() uses

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.