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| author | Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> | 2005-06-25 14:55:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-06-25 16:24:37 -0700 |
| commit | 6b979de395c7e1b7e59f74a870e1d1911853eccb (patch) | |
| tree | 82502e9e93c977b0f812d017f5d8d4e12436c6c8 /include/asm-s390 | |
| parent | 77fa22450de00d535de2cc8be653983560828000 (diff) | |
[PATCH] s390: add vmcp interface
Add interface to issue VM control program commands.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-s390')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h b/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h index 1d33c5da083..1fcf65be7a2 100644 --- a/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h +++ b/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h @@ -11,14 +11,28 @@ #define __CPCMD__ /* + * the lowlevel function for cpcmd * the caller of __cpcmd has to ensure that the response buffer is below 2 GB */ -extern void __cpcmd(char *cmd, char *response, int rlen); +extern int __cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code); #ifndef __s390x__ #define cpcmd __cpcmd #else -extern void cpcmd(char *cmd, char *response, int rlen); +/* + * cpcmd is the in-kernel interface for issuing CP commands + * + * cmd: null-terminated command string, max 240 characters + * response: response buffer for VM's textual response + * rlen: size of the response buffer, cpcmd will not exceed this size + * but will cap the output, if its too large. Everything that + * did not fit into the buffer will be silently dropped + * response_code: return pointer for VM's error code + * return value: the size of the response. The caller can check if the buffer + * was large enough by comparing the return value and rlen + * NOTE: If the response buffer is not below 2 GB, cpcmd can sleep + */ +extern int cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code); #endif /*__s390x__*/ #endif |