On Tue, May 06, 2025, Juergen Gross wrote: > In order to prepare for some MSR access function reorg work, switch > most users of native_{read|write}_msr[_safe]() to the more generic > rdmsr*()/wrmsr*() variants. > > For now this will have some intermediate performance impact with > paravirtualization configured when running on bare metal, but this > is a prereq change for the planned direct inlining of the rdmsr/wrmsr > instructions with this configuration.
Oh the horror, KVM's probing of errata will be marginally slower :-) > The main reason for this switch is the planned move of the MSR trace > function invocation from the native_*() functions to the generic > rdmsr*()/wrmsr*() variants. Without this switch the users of the > native_*() functions would lose the related tracing entries. > > Note that the Xen related MSR access functions will not be switched, > as these will be handled after the move of the trace hooks. > > Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> > --- Acked-by: Sean Christopherson <sea...@google.com>