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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 */
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