Re: [PATCH v1 4/9] x86/cpuid: Rename hypervisor_cpuid_base() to cpuid_hypervisor_base()

"Ahmed S. Darwish" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.x86-cpuid,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <aCYy9Blvu3jH-LJE@lx-t490>
On Thu, 15 May 2025, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> So the interaction here looks a bit weird IMO (what is a 'hypervisor
> base'?), and I think the 'CPUID base' phrase should be immutable.
>
> Ie. I think it would be more natural to call this method
> cpuid_base_hypervisor(), which would mix reasonably well with:
>
> 	kvm_cpuid_base()
> 	xen_cpuid_base()
> 	jailhouse_cpuid_base()
>
> These lower level methods are prefixed with kvm_/xen_/jailhouse_, as
> most of their internal methods are.
>
> Likewise, for_each_possible_cpuid_base_hypervisor()?
>

Makes sense; will do.
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