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25 .TH S390_GUARDED_STORAGE 2 2021-03-22 "Linux Programmer's Manual"
27 s390_guarded_storage \- operations with z/Architecture guarded storage facility
30 .BR "#include <asm/guarded_storage.h> " "/* Definition of " GS_* " constants */"
31 .BR "#include <sys/syscall.h> " \
32 "/* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
33 .B #include <unistd.h>
35 .BI "int syscall(SYS_s390_guarded_storage, int " command ,
36 .BI " struct gs_cb *" gs_cb );
40 glibc provides no wrapper for
41 .BR s390_guarded_storage (),
42 necessitating the use of
46 .BR s390_guarded_storage ()
47 system call enables the use of the Guarded Storage Facility
48 (a z/Architecture-specific feature) for user-space processes.
50 .\" The description is based on
51 .\" http://www-05.ibm.com/de/linux-on-z-ws-us/agenda/pdfs/8_-_Linux_Whats_New_-_Stefan_Raspl.pdf
52 .\" and "z/Architecture Principles of Operation" obtained from
53 .\" http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf
54 The guarded storage facility is a hardware feature that allows marking up to
55 64 memory regions (as of z14) as guarded;
56 reading a pointer with a newly introduced "Load Guarded" (LGG)
57 or "Load Logical and Shift Guarded" (LLGFSG) instructions will cause
58 a range check on the loaded value and invoke a (previously set up)
59 user-space handler if one of the guarded regions is affected.
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64 argument indicates which function to perform.
65 The following commands are supported:
68 Enable the guarded storage facility for the calling task.
69 The initial content of the guarded storage control block will be all zeros.
70 After enablement, user-space code can use the "Load Guarded Storage
71 Controls" (LGSC) instruction (or the
73 function wrapper provided in the
74 .I asm/guarded_storage.h
75 header) to load an arbitrary control block.
76 While a task is enabled, the kernel will save and restore the calling content
77 of the guarded storage registers on context switch.
80 Disables the use of the guarded storage facility for the calling task.
81 The kernel will cease to save and restore the content of the guarded storage
82 registers, the task-specific content of these registers is lost.
85 Set a broadcast guarded storage control block to the one provided in the
88 This is called per thread and associates a specific guarded storage control
89 block with the calling task.
90 This control block will be used in the broadcast command
94 Clears the broadcast guarded storage control block.
95 The guarded storage control block will no longer have the association
101 Sends a broadcast to all thread siblings of the calling task.
102 Every sibling that has established a broadcast guarded storage control block
103 will load this control block and will be enabled for guarded storage.
104 The broadcast guarded storage control block is consumed; a second broadcast
105 without a refresh of the stored control block with
107 will not have any effect.
111 argument specifies the address of a guarded storage control block structure
112 and is currently used only by the
114 command; all other aforementioned commands ignore this argument.
116 On success, the return value of
117 .BR s390_guarded_storage ()
120 On error, \-1 is returned, and
122 is set to indicate the error.
129 and the copying of the guarded storage control block structure pointed by the
134 The value provided in the
136 argument was not valid.
141 .BR GS_ENABLE " or " GS_SET_BC_CB ,
142 and the allocation of a new guarded storage control block has failed.
145 The guarded storage facility is not supported by the hardware.
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148 This system call is available since Linux 4.12.
150 This Linux-specific system call is available only on the s390 architecture.
152 The guarded storage facility is available beginning with System z14.
154 The description of the guarded storage facility along with related
155 instructions and Guarded Storage Control Block and
156 Guarded Storage Event Parameter List structure layouts
157 is available in "z/Architecture Principles of Operations"
158 beginning from the twelfth edition.
162 structure has a field
164 (Guarded Storage Event Parameter List Address), which is a user-space pointer
165 to a Guarded Storage Event Parameter List structure
166 (that contains the address
167 of the aforementioned event handler in the
169 field), and its layout is available as a
171 structure type definition in the
172 .I asm/guarded_storage.h
175 .\" For the example of using the guarded storage facility, see
176 .\" .UR https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/2017/09/25/concurrent-scavenge-using-guarded-storage-facility-works/
177 .\" the article with the description of its usage in the Java Garbage Collection