Fedora kernel-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 patched with stable patch-2.6.17.4-vs2.0.2-rc26.diff

[linux-2.6.git] / include / asm-s390 / cpcmd.h

diff --git a/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h b/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h
index 38b88d9..1fcf65b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h
+++ b/include/asm-s390/cpcmd.h
@@ -4,11 +4,35 @@
  *  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 __CPCMD__
 #define __CPCMD__
 
-extern void cpcmd(char *cmd, char *response, int rlen);
+/*
+ * 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);
+
+#ifndef __s390x__
+#define cpcmd __cpcmd
+#else
+/*
+ * 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