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author | Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> | 2020-09-23 11:03:55 -0700 |
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committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2020-09-28 07:57:54 -0400 |
commit | 7e34fbd05c6350b30161be84d4f8954c9d321292 (patch) | |
tree | 529a1fcdff0ef112d2c7d4c9e83fde2cb6128c00 /arch/x86/include | |
parent | 04d28e375271bf0e6e31abeeb92e4f8b31443d23 (diff) |
KVM: x86: Rename "shared_msrs" to "user_return_msrs"
Rename the "shared_msrs" mechanism, which is used to defer restoring
MSRs that are only consumed when running in userspace, to a more banal
but less likely to be confusing "user_return_msrs".
The "shared" nomenclature is confusing as it's not obvious who is
sharing what, e.g. reasonable interpretations are that the guest value
is shared by vCPUs in a VM, or that the MSR value is shared/common to
guest and host, both of which are wrong.
"shared" is also misleading as the MSR value (in hardware) is not
guaranteed to be shared/reused between VMs (if that's indeed the correct
interpretation of the name), as the ability to share values between VMs
is simply a side effect (albiet a very nice side effect) of deferring
restoration of the host value until returning from userspace.
"user_return" avoids the above confusion by describing the mechanism
itself instead of its effects.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Message-Id: <20200923180409.32255-2-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 3f0ccb646db8..5d4c39c37390 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -1617,8 +1617,8 @@ int kvm_pv_send_ipi(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long ipi_bitmap_low, unsigned long ipi_bitmap_high, u32 min, unsigned long icr, int op_64_bit); -void kvm_define_shared_msr(unsigned index, u32 msr); -int kvm_set_shared_msr(unsigned index, u64 val, u64 mask); +void kvm_define_user_return_msr(unsigned index, u32 msr); +int kvm_set_user_return_msr(unsigned index, u64 val, u64 mask); u64 kvm_scale_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 tsc); u64 kvm_read_l1_tsc(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 host_tsc); |