linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] KVM: x86: Rename local "ecx" variables to "msr" and "pmc" as appropriate

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Message-ID: <0edf127d-204d-43d3-81d3-3769179c8d1b@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2025 08:42:20 -0700
From: Xin Li <xin@...or.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] KVM: x86: Rename local "ecx" variables to "msr"
 and "pmc" as appropriate

On 8/5/2025 1:22 PM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Rename "ecx" variables in {RD,WR}MSR and RDPMC helpers to "msr" and "pmc"
> respectively, in anticipation of adding support for the immediate variants
> of RDMSR and WRMSRNS, and to better document what the variables hold
> (versus where the data originated).
> 
> No functional change intended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson<seanjc@...gle.com>

Yeah, this makes the immediate MSR handling changes in the following 
patches prominent.