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  1. /*
  2. * S390 version
  3. * Copyright IBM Corp. 1999
  4. * Author(s): Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com),
  5. * Christian Borntraeger (cborntra@de.ibm.com),
  6. */
  7. #ifndef _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H
  8. #define _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H
  9. /*
  10. * the lowlevel function for cpcmd
  11. * the caller of __cpcmd has to ensure that the response buffer is below 2 GB
  12. */
  13. extern int __cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code);
  14. /*
  15. * cpcmd is the in-kernel interface for issuing CP commands
  16. *
  17. * cmd: null-terminated command string, max 240 characters
  18. * response: response buffer for VM's textual response
  19. * rlen: size of the response buffer, cpcmd will not exceed this size
  20. * but will cap the output, if its too large. Everything that
  21. * did not fit into the buffer will be silently dropped
  22. * response_code: return pointer for VM's error code
  23. * return value: the size of the response. The caller can check if the buffer
  24. * was large enough by comparing the return value and rlen
  25. * NOTE: If the response buffer is not below 2 GB, cpcmd can sleep
  26. */
  27. extern int cpcmd(const char *cmd, char *response, int rlen, int *response_code);
  28. #endif /* _ASM_S390_CPCMD_H */