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+/*
+ *  arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.h
+ *
+ *  S390 version
+ *    Copyright (C) 1999 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation
+ *    Author(s): Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com),
+ *               Christian Borntraeger (cborntra@de.ibm.com),
+ */
+
+#ifndef _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H
+#define _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H
+
+/*
+ * the lowlevel function for cpcmd
+ * the caller of __cpcmd has to ensure that the response buffer is below 2 GB
+ */
+extern int __cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code);
+
+/*
+ * 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 /* _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H */