Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] x86/msr: Drop 32-bit MSR interfaces

[Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2026, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Hey Juergen,
> 
> These look great. Thanks for doing it!
> 
> The only wonky thing is how we're going to actually merge it. We
> obviously can't do patches 10-11 until all the "stop using" patches have
> been applied.
> 
> I obviously 100% realize that it's during the merge window, but any acks
> that the maintainers of 5-9 provide in the next few weeks would be super
> helpful. Or, if any of those maintainers want to cherry pick their
> subsystem's stuff out of this series and apply it, that would be great too.
> 
> But, the last time we did some MSR function munging, the tip tree
> carried most of the patches. I would expect we'll have a repeat of that
> here too. I'll pencil in the idea of just merging the lot around -rc1 time.

Note, patch 12 "treewide: convert rdmsrq() from a macro to an inline function"
is going to conflict with the KVM changes for 7.3; kvm_access_xstate_msr() is
getting moved from x86.c to msrs.c.  Somewhat surprisingly, AFAICT that's the
only conflict with KVM's code movement, so it's probably not strictly required
to send a new version after the KVM pull request?