[PATCH 00/10] KVM: selftests: Convert to kernel-style types

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Thu May 1 14:03:47 PDT 2025


On Thu, May 01, 2025, David Matlack wrote:
> This series renames types across all KVM selftests to more align with
> types used in the kernel:
> 
>   vm_vaddr_t -> gva_t
>   vm_paddr_t -> gpa_t

10000% on these.

>   uint64_t -> u64
>   uint32_t -> u32
>   uint16_t -> u16
>   uint8_t  -> u8
> 
>   int64_t -> s64
>   int32_t -> s32
>   int16_t -> s16
>   int8_t  -> s8

I'm definitely in favor of these renames.  I thought I was the only one that
tripped over the uintNN_t stuff; at this point, I've probably lost hours of my
life trying to type those things out.



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