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Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001/*
2 * arch/s390/kernel/cpcmd.h
3 *
4 * S390 version
5 * Copyright (C) 1999 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation
6 * Author(s): Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com),
7 * Christian Borntraeger (cborntra@de.ibm.com),
8 */
9
10#ifndef __CPCMD__
11#define __CPCMD__
12
13/*
Christian Borntraeger6b979de2005-06-25 14:55:32 -070014 * the lowlevel function for cpcmd
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070015 * the caller of __cpcmd has to ensure that the response buffer is below 2 GB
16 */
Christian Borntraeger6b979de2005-06-25 14:55:32 -070017extern int __cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
19#ifndef __s390x__
20#define cpcmd __cpcmd
21#else
Christian Borntraeger6b979de2005-06-25 14:55:32 -070022/*
23 * cpcmd is the in-kernel interface for issuing CP commands
24 *
25 * cmd: null-terminated command string, max 240 characters
26 * response: response buffer for VM's textual response
27 * rlen: size of the response buffer, cpcmd will not exceed this size
28 * but will cap the output, if its too large. Everything that
29 * did not fit into the buffer will be silently dropped
30 * response_code: return pointer for VM's error code
31 * return value: the size of the response. The caller can check if the buffer
32 * was large enough by comparing the return value and rlen
33 * NOTE: If the response buffer is not below 2 GB, cpcmd can sleep
34 */
35extern int cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code);
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070036#endif /*__s390x__*/
37
38#endif