Re: [RFC PATCH v2 12/34] x86/msr: Remove pmu_msr_{read,write}()

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Apr 24 2025 - 17:15:32 EST


On April 24, 2025 10:49:59 AM PDT, Xin Li <xin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 4/24/2025 3:05 AM, Jürgen Groß wrote:
>>
>> May I suggest to get rid of the "emul" parameter of pmu_msr_chk_emulated()?
>> It has no real value, as pmu_msr_chk_emulated() could easily return false in
>> the cases where it would set *emul to false.
>
>Good idea!
>
>The function type is a bit of weird but I didn't think of change it.

It is weird in the extreme.

By the way, this patch should have "xen" in its subject tag.