From 6b979de395c7e1b7e59f74a870e1d1911853eccb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Borntraeger Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:55:32 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] s390: add vmcp interface Add interface to issue VM control program commands. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/asm-s390') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2