linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/resctrl: Simplify call convention for MSR update functions

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Message-ID: <58c936af-b338-4951-97d4-4af9185babd4@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 15:07:51 -0800
From: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
To: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, "Peter
 Newman" <peternewman@...gle.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Shuah
 Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>, <x86@...nel.org>
CC: Shaopeng Tan <tan.shaopeng@...itsu.com>, James Morse
	<james.morse@....com>, Jamie Iles <quic_jiles@...cinc.com>, Babu Moger
	<babu.moger@....com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Drew Fustini
	<dfustini@...libre.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, <patches@...ts.linux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] x86/resctrl: Simplify call convention for MSR
 update functions

Hi Tony,

On 2/28/2024 11:36 AM, Tony Luck wrote:
> The per-resource MSR update functions cat_wrmsr(), mba_wrmsr_intel(),
> and mba_wrmsr_amd() all take three arguments:
> 
>   (struct rdt_domain *d, struct msr_param *m, struct rdt_resource *r)
> 
> struct msr_param contains pointers to both struct rdt_resource and struct
> rdt_domain, thus only struct msr_param is necessary.
> 
> Pass struct msr_param as a single parameter. Clean up formatting and
> fix some fir tree declaration ordering.
> 
> No functional change.
> 
> Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>
> ---

Thank you.

Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@...el.com>

Reinette