On Monday, 07/14/2014 at 04:14 EDT, "Pavelka, Tomas"
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have not found the doc for diag 204 and neither do I know how is it
possible
> to call a diagnose when not running under z/VM (would that be a diagnose
of
> PR/SM?), but if you look inside the kernel sources, you may be able to
find out.

IBM does not publish the specifications for DIAGNOSE 0x204, as its
behavior is machine-specific, but, yes, it works in an LPAR.

> There is one catch that I know of, besides CP and IFL, there is also an
unknown
> processor type. When I run hyptop under z/VM 6.3 and RHEL 6.1 the CPU
shows up
> as unknown (CPU-T: UN). I am running under IFL only system. If you
wanted to
> use this detection in practice, you would have to figure out under which
> conditions can the CPU be reported as unknown.

There are no conditions in which a CPU's type is unknown.  Rather, it's a
bug in hyptop.

Alan Altmark

Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
IBM System Lab Services and Training
ibm.com/systems/services/labservices
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