Store Hypervisor Information is an emulated z/VM instruction that
provides a guest with basic information about the layers it is running
on. This includes information about the cpu configuration of both the
machine and the lpar, as well as their names, machine model and
machine type. This information enables an application to determine the
maximum capacity of CPs and IFLs available to software.
The instruction is available whenever the facility bit 74 is set,
otherwise executing it results in an operation exception.
It is important to check the validity flags in the sections before
using data from any structure member. It is not guaranteed that all
members will be valid on all machines / machine configurations.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
The new store hypervisor information instruction, which we are going
to introduce, needs previously unused fields in diag 204 structures.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Diag204's cpu structures only contain the cpu type by means of an
index in the diag224 name table. Hence, to be able to use diag204 in
any meaningful way, we also need a usable diag224 interface.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Diag 204 data and function definitions currently live in the hypfs
files. As KVM will be a consumer of this data, we need to make it
publicly available and move it to the appropriate diag.{c,h} files.
__attribute__ ((packed)) occurences were replaced with __packed for
all moved structs.
Signed-off-by: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To be able to analyse problems in regard to hypervisor overhead
add a tracepoing for diagnose calls. It reports the number of
the diagnose issued, e.g.
sshd-1385 [002] .... 42.701431: diagnose: nr=0x9c
<idle>-0 [001] ..s. 43.587528: diagnose: nr=0x9c
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Introduce /sys/debug/kernel/diag_stat with a statistic how many diagnose
calls have been done by each CPU in the system.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Currently the diag10() function can only release one page. For exploiters
that have to call diag10 on a contiguous memory region this is suboptimal.
This patch replaces the diag10() function with diag10_range() that is
able to release multiple pages. In addition to that the new function now
allows to release memory with addresses higher than 2047 MiB. This was
due to a restriction of the diagnose implementation under z/VM prior to
release 5.2.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
