On Mon, May 03 2021 at 21:05, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27 2021 at 07:09, Lai Jiangshan wrote: >> From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> There is no any functionality change intended. Just rename it and >> move it to arch/x86/kernel/nmi.c so that we can resue it later in >> next patch for early NMI and kvm. > > 'Reuse it later' is not really a proper explanation why this change it > necessary. > > Also this can be simplified by using aliasing which keeps the name > spaces intact. Aside of that this is not required to be part of a fixes series which needs to be backported. Thanks, tglx