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Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/15] x86/msr: Replace __wrmsr() with native_wrmsrl()



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.



 


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