On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Mike Hammock <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks John, I was trying to remember the instruction for that  (STSI).
> However, a little research indicates that the STSI only provided information
> on the number of CPs and nothing about the type of other processors.   In a
> zVM - Linux environment you might be able to assume that any non-CP
> processor is an IFL, but sure as anything, someone would have a reasonable
> exception to that.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike

If STSI doesn't return information on non-CP engines, I have _NO_ idea
where z/OS (and z/VM) are getting them. Unfortunately, I'm just not on
a system, nor have access to any other system, which has multiple
engine types. To get the information, it appears you need to set the
function code to 15, the selector1 value to 1, and the selector2 value
in [2..6].

  L R0,=AL1(15,0,0,1)
  LA R1,2
  STSI SYSIB
...
SYSIB DS 0D,1024X

Just looking around on z/OS, I have found some "hints" as to possible
values. In SYS1.MODGEN(IHAIVT), I found "Encountered a processor type
of 2 (zAAP) or 5 (zIIP) within the recognized processor info". Which
hints that a value of 2 in the TLE is for a zAAP (IFA in old terms)
and a value of 5 for a zAAP. But that conflicts with some comments in
SYS1.MACLIB(HISYSMFR) which has:
<quote>
The processor type for which the hardware event counters are recorded.
Will be one of the following: 0 = Standard CP 2 = zAAP 4 = zIIP
</quote>
The above agrees with SYS1.MACLIB(IHAPSA)
<quote>
PSAProcClass_Byte1 DS  X                                           @H4A
*                             This field is for IBM use only.
*                             OWNERSHIP: SUPERVISOR CONTROL
*                             SERIALIZATION: READ = NONE
*                                            WRITE = NO WRITE ALLOWED
*                             See PSAProcClass_xxx
*                             constants.                           @H4A
PSAProcClass_CP   EQU X'0000' Standard CP. 0 is offset to SWUQ     @H4A
PSAProcClass_zAAP EQU X'0002' zAAP.                                @H4A
PSAProcClass_zIIP EQU X'0004' zIIP.                                @H5A
PSAProcClass_SUP EQU X'0004'  zIIP.                                @H4A
</quote>

Which has a, to me, _strong_ implication that an IFL would be x'0001'
since an IFL was the _first_ specialty engine available on a z. Can't
hurt to write a Q&D assembler program on your system, run it, and dump
the contents of the SYSIB to a file to peruse using a hex viewer.
Might be interesting.

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Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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