[PATCH] s390: add vmcp interface

Add interface to issue VM control program commands.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.h b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.h
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/drivers/s390/char/vmcp.h
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 IBM Corporation
+ * Interface implementation for communication with the v/VM control program
+ * Version 1.0
+ * Author(s): Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
+ *
+ *
+ * z/VMs CP offers the possibility to issue commands via the diagnose code 8
+ * this driver implements a character device that issues these commands and
+ * returns the answer of CP.
+ *
+ * The idea of this driver is based on cpint from Neale Ferguson
+ */
+
+#include <asm/semaphore.h>
+#include <linux/ioctl.h>
+
+#define VMCP_GETCODE _IOR(0x10, 1, int)
+#define VMCP_SETBUF _IOW(0x10, 2, int)
+#define VMCP_GETSIZE _IOR(0x10, 3, int)
+
+struct vmcp_session {
+        unsigned int bufsize;
+        char *response;
+        int resp_size;
+        int resp_code;
+        /* As we use copy_from/to_user, which might     *
+         * sleep and cannot use a spinlock              */
+        struct semaphore mutex;
+};