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2007-05-10[S390] Kconfig: use common Kconfig files for s390.Martin Schwidefsky
Disband drivers/s390/Kconfig, use the common Kconfig files. The s390 specific config options from drivers/s390/Kconfig are moved to the respective common Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10[S390] Avoid sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens
Monthly sparse warning avoidance patch. Sigh. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10[S390] monreader inlining cleanup.Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10[S390] cio: Get rid of _ccw_device_get_device_number().Cornelia Huck
The function shouldn't have existed in the first place (not MSS-aware). Introduce a new function ccw_device_get_id() that extracts the ccw_dev_id structure of a ccw device and convert all users of _ccw_device_get_device_number to ccw_device_get_id. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-09Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-04[S390] tape: New read configuration data.Michael Holzheu
Instead of the deprecated read_conf_data(), implement a new function tape_3590_read_dev_chars(). Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup in drivers/s390Milind Arun Choudhary
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead. Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] Processor degradation notification.Heiko Carstens
Generate uevents for all cpus if cpu capability changes. This can happen e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The cpu capability can be read via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/capability. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] sclp: fix coding style.Stefan Haberland
Use only capital letters for defines. Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] vmlogrdr: stop IUCV connection in vmlogrdr_release.Ursula Braun
Reopen of /dev/account failed. The IUCV path has to be terminated in vmlogrdr_release. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] sclp: initialize early.Peter Oberparleiter
Add explicit sclp initialization for those sclp users that do not register with the interface. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] zfcpdump support.Michael Holzheu
s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first 32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] Get rid of console setup functions.Heiko Carstens
We get this: Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3270_consetup from .data between 'con3270' (at offset 0x45c8) and 'con3270_fn' Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3215_consetup from .data between 'con3215' (at offset 0x4678) and 'raw3215_ccw_driver' Since there is no difference between a non present console setup function and one that returns only 0 remove them. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-04-27[S390] cio: Channel-path configure function.Peter Oberparleiter
Add a new attribute to the channel-path sysfs directory through which channel-path configure operations can be triggered. Also listen for hardware events requesting channel-path configure operations and process them accordingly. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2007-03-05[S390] tape: Compression overwrites crypto settingMichael Holzheu
After switching compression on/off with the mt command, tape encryption is no longer working. The reason for that is, that the modeset_byte is set to the compression value instead of using bitwise and/or bit operations to enable/disable the corresponding bit. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-21[S390] fix non-smp compile.Jan Glauber
Fix compile of sclp_quiesce for CONFIG_SMP=n. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-14[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 9Arjan van de Ven
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 5Arjan van de Ven
Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-08[S390]: Adapt vmlogrdr driver to new IUCV APIMartin Schwidefsky
Adapt vmlogrdr character device driver to new IUCV API Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-08[S390]: Adapt monreader driver to new IUCV APIMartin Schwidefsky
Adapt monreader character device driver to new IUCV API Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-05[S390] Avoid excessive inlining.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] Convert memory detection into C code.Heiko Carstens
Hopefully this will make it more maintainable and less error prone. Code makes use of search_exception_tables(). Since it calls this function before the kernel exeception table is sorted, there is an early call to sort_main_extable(). This way it's easy to use the already present infrastructure of fixup sections. Also this would allows to easily convert the rest of head[31|64].S into C code. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] Add crypto support for 3592 tape devicesMichael Holzheu
3592 tape devices are able to write data encrpyted on tape mediums. This z/Linux device driver support includes the following functions: * ioctl to switch on/off encryption * ioctl to query encryption status of drive * ioctls to set and query key encrypting keys (kekls) * long busy interrupt handling Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] Small barrier() and cpu_relax() cleanup.Heiko Carstens
cpu_relax() has barrier() semantics hence there is no need to use both of them in conjunction in sclp_sync_wait(). Also change cpu_relax() so it's more obvious that it has barrier semantics. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] sclp: don't call local_bh_disable/_local_bh_enable if in_interrupt()Heiko Carstens
local_bh_disable/_local_bh_enable must not be called if in_irq() is true. Besides that if in_interrupt() is true bottom halves are disabled anyway. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] sclp: invalid handling of temporary 'not operational' statusPeter Oberparleiter
Requests are aborted when the sclp interface reports 'not operational' even though they may still be active at the sclp, leading to concurrent writes to request memory by both the kernel and the sclp interface. Do not abort requests for which the sclp interface reports not operational status during request retry. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>5A Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-02-05[S390] Get rid of a lot of sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-01-09[S390] locking problem with __cpcmd.Christian Borntraeger
Changeset 740b5706b9c4b3767f597b3ea76654c6f2a800b2 moved the protecting spinlock from __cpcmd to cpcmd. Therefore vmcp can no longer use __cpcmd, instead we have to use cpcmd. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-28[S390] Change max. buffer size for monwriter device.Melissa Howland
Reduce the max. buffer size for the monwriter device to prevent a possible problem with the z/VM monitor service. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-15[S390] sclp_cpi module license.Christian Borntraeger
sclp_cpi is GPL. Make the module not taint the kernel Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-13[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() callsRobert P. J. Day
Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] Poison init section before freeing it. [S390] Use add_active_range() and free_area_init_nodes(). [S390] Virtual memmap for s390. [S390] Update documentation for dynamic subchannel mapping. [S390] Use dev->groups for adding/removing the subchannel attribute group. [S390] Support for disconnected devices reappearing on another subchannel. [S390] subchannel lock conversion. [S390] Some preparations for the dynamic subchannel mapping patch. [S390] runtime switch for qdio performance statistics [S390] New DASD feature for ERP related logging [S390] add reset call handler to the ap bus. [S390] more workqueue fixes. [S390] workqueue fixes. [S390] uaccess_pt: add missing down_read() and convert to is_init().
2006-12-08[PATCH] tty: switch to ktermiosAlan Cox
This is the grungy swap all the occurrences in the right places patch that goes with the updates. At this point we have the same functionality as before (except that sgttyb() returns speeds not zero) and are ready to begin turning new stuff on providing nobody reports lots of bugs If you are a tty driver author converting an out of tree driver the only impact should be termios->ktermios name changes for the speed/property setting functions from your upper layers. If you are implementing your own TCGETS function before then your driver was broken already and its about to get a whole lot more painful for you so please fix it 8) Also fill in c_ispeed/ospeed on init for most devices, although the current code will do this for you anyway but I'd like eventually to lose that extra paranoia [akpm@osdl.org: bluetooth fix] [mp3@de.ibm.com: sclp fix] [mp3@de.ibm.com: warning fix for tty3270] [hugh@veritas.com: fix tty_ioctl powerpc build] [jdike@addtoit.com: uml: fix ->set_termios declaration] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@de.ibm.com> Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert s390-driversJosef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] tty: ->signal->tty lockingPeter Zijlstra
Fix the locking of signal->tty. Use ->sighand->siglock to protect ->signal->tty; this lock is already used by most other members of ->signal/->sighand. And unless we are 'current' or the tasklist_lock is held we need ->siglock to access ->signal anyway. (NOTE: sys_unshare() is broken wrt ->sighand locking rules) Note that tty_mutex is held over tty destruction, so while holding tty_mutex any tty pointer remains valid. Otherwise the lifetime of ttys are governed by their open file handles. This leaves some holes for tty access from signal->tty (or any other non file related tty access). It solves the tty SLAB scribbles we were seeing. (NOTE: the change from group_send_sig_info to __group_send_sig_info needs to be examined by someone familiar with the security framework, I think it is safe given the SEND_SIG_PRIV from other __group_send_sig_info invocations) [schwidefsky@de.ibm.com: 3270 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: various post-viro fixes] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> 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>
2006-12-08[S390] more workqueue fixes.Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-08[S390] workqueue fixes.Andrew Morton
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-04[S390] cpu shutdown reworkHeiko Carstens
Let one master cpu kill all other cpus instead of sending an external interrupt to all other cpus so they can kill themselves. Simplifies reipl/shutdown functions a lot. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-04[S390] 3215 device locking.Martin Schwidefsky
Remove lock pointer from 3215 device structure. Use get_ccwdev_lock for each use of the lock in the ccw-device structure. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-18[S390] monwriter find header logic.Melissa Howland
Fix logic for finding matching buffers. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-11[S390] monwriter kzalloc size.Melissa Howland
Fix length on kzalloc for data buffer so as to not overwrite unallocated storage. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-06[S390] irq change build fixes.Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-06[S390] monwriter buffer limit.Melissa Howland
Make max_bufs a global (per linux guest) limit. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-10-02[PATCH] s390: update fs3270 to use a struct pidCedric Le Goater
Replaces the pid_t value with a struct pid to avoid pid wrap around problems. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-02[PATCH] const struct tty_operationsJeff Dike
As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of structures in order to not have to document their locking. One of these structures was a struct tty_operations. In order to const it in UML without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to be fixed. This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const. In all cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations. As an extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra warnings. 53 drivers are affected. I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the last six months. serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-28[S390] Inline assembly cleanup.Martin Schwidefsky
Major cleanup of all s390 inline assemblies. They now have a common coding style. Quite a few have been shortened, mainly by using register asm variables. Use of the EX_TABLE macro helps as well. The atomic ops, bit ops and locking inlines new use the Q-constraint if a newer gcc is used. That results in slightly better code. Thanks to Christian Borntraeger for proof reading the changes. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-28[S390] init_timer in tty3270.Jan Glauber
Call init_timer only once fpr tp->timer in tty3270. Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-28[S390] remove unnecessary includes.Christian Borntraeger
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-09-20[S390] Linux API for writing z/VM APPLDATA Monitor records.Melissa Howland
This patch delivers a new Linux API in the form of a misc char device that is useable from user space and allows write access to the z/VM APPLDATA Monitor Records collected by the *MONITOR System Service of z/VM. Signed-off-by: Melissa Howland <melissah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>