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			  Debugging on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
					       by
		  Denis Joseph Barrow (djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com)
	    Copyright (C) 2000-2001 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation
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	Overview of Document:
	=====================
	This document is intended to give a good overview of how to debug Linux for
	s/390 and z/Architecture. It is not intended as a complete reference and not a
	tutorial on the fundamentals of C & assembly. It doesn't go into
	390 IO in any detail. It is intended to complement the documents in the
	reference section below & any other worthwhile references you get.
	
	It is intended like the Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Reference Summary
	to be printed out & used as a quick cheat sheet self help style reference when
	problems occur.
	
	Contents
	========
	Register Set
	Address Spaces on Intel Linux
	Address Spaces on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	The Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture Kernel Task Structure
	Register Usage & Stackframes on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	A sample program with comments
	Compiling programs for debugging on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	Debugging under VM
	s/390 & z/Architecture IO Overview
	Debugging IO on s/390 & z/Architecture under VM
	GDB on s/390 & z/Architecture
	Stack chaining in gdb by hand
	Examining core dumps
	ldd
	Debugging modules
	The proc file system
	SysRq
	References
	Special Thanks
	
	Register Set
	============
	The current architectures have the following registers.
	 
	16 General propose registers, 32 bit on s/390 and 64 bit on z/Architecture,
	r0-r15 (or gpr0-gpr15), used for arithmetic and addressing.
	
	16 Control registers, 32 bit on s/390 and 64 bit on z/Architecture, cr0-cr15,
	kernel usage only, used for memory management, interrupt control, debugging
	control etc.
	
	16 Access registers (ar0-ar15), 32 bit on both s/390 and z/Architecture,
	normally not used by normal programs but potentially could be used as
	temporary storage. These registers have a 1:1 association with general
	purpose registers and are designed to be used in the so-called access
	register mode to select different address spaces.
	Access register 0 (and access register 1 on z/Architecture, which needs a
	64 bit pointer) is currently used by the pthread library as a pointer to
	the current running threads private area.
	
	16 64 bit floating point registers (fp0-fp15 ) IEEE & HFP floating 
	point format compliant on G5 upwards & a Floating point control reg (FPC) 
	4  64 bit registers (fp0,fp2,fp4 & fp6) HFP only on older machines.
	Note:
	Linux (currently) always uses IEEE & emulates G5 IEEE format on older machines,
	( provided the kernel is configured for this ).
	
	
	The PSW is the most important register on the machine it
	is 64 bit on s/390 & 128 bit on z/Architecture & serves the roles of 
	a program counter (pc), condition code register,memory space designator.
	In IBM standard notation I am counting bit 0 as the MSB.
	It has several advantages over a normal program counter
	in that you can change address translation & program counter 
	in a single instruction. To change address translation,
	e.g. switching address translation off requires that you
	have a logical=physical mapping for the address you are
	currently running at.
	
	      Bit           Value
	s/390 z/Architecture
	0       0     Reserved ( must be 0 ) otherwise specification exception occurs.
	
	1       1     Program Event Recording 1 PER enabled, 
		      PER is used to facilitate debugging e.g. single stepping.
	
	2-4    2-4    Reserved ( must be 0 ). 
	
	5       5     Dynamic address translation 1=DAT on.
	
	6       6     Input/Output interrupt Mask
	
	7	7     External interrupt Mask used primarily for interprocessor
		      signalling and clock interrupts.
	
	8-11  8-11    PSW Key used for complex memory protection mechanism
		      (not used under linux)
	
	12      12    1 on s/390 0 on z/Architecture
	
	13      13    Machine Check Mask 1=enable machine check interrupts
	
	14	14    Wait State. Set this to 1 to stop the processor except for
		      interrupts and give  time to other LPARS. Used in CPU idle in
		      the kernel to increase overall usage of processor resources.
	
	15      15    Problem state ( if set to 1 certain instructions are disabled )
		      all linux user programs run with this bit 1 
		      ( useful info for debugging under VM ).
	
	16-17 16-17   Address Space Control
	
		      00 Primary Space Mode:
		      The register CR1 contains the primary address-space control ele-
		      ment (PASCE), which points to the primary space region/segment
		      table origin.
	
		      01 Access register mode
	
		      10 Secondary Space Mode:
		      The register CR7 contains the secondary address-space control
		      element (SASCE), which points to the secondary space region or
		      segment table origin.
	
		      11 Home Space Mode:
		      The register CR13 contains the home space address-space control
		      element (HASCE), which points to the home space region/segment
		      table origin.
	
		      See "Address Spaces on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture" below
		      for more information about address space usage in Linux.
	
	18-19 18-19   Condition codes (CC)
	
	20    20      Fixed point overflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event 
	              occur ( normally 0 ) 
	
	21    21      Decimal overflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur 
	              ( normally 0 )
	
	22    22      Exponent underflow mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur 
	              ( normally 0 )
	
	23    23      Significance Mask if 1=FPU exceptions for this event occur 
	              ( normally 0 )
	
	24-31 24-30   Reserved Must be 0.
	
	      31      Extended Addressing Mode
	      32      Basic Addressing Mode
	              Used to set addressing mode
		      PSW 31   PSW 32
	                0         0        24 bit
	                0         1        31 bit
	                1         1        64 bit
	
	32             1=31 bit addressing mode 0=24 bit addressing mode (for backward 
	               compatibility), linux always runs with this bit set to 1
	
	33-64          Instruction address.
	      33-63    Reserved must be 0
	      64-127   Address
	               In 24 bits mode bits 64-103=0 bits 104-127 Address 
	               In 31 bits mode bits 64-96=0 bits 97-127 Address
	               Note: unlike 31 bit mode on s/390 bit 96 must be zero
		       when loading the address with LPSWE otherwise a 
	               specification exception occurs, LPSW is fully backward
	               compatible.
	
	
	Prefix Page(s)
	--------------
	This per cpu memory area is too intimately tied to the processor not to mention.
	It exists between the real addresses 0-4096 on s/390 and between 0-8192 on
	z/Architecture and is exchanged with one page on s/390 or two pages on
	z/Architecture in absolute storage by the set prefix instruction during Linux
	startup.
	This page is mapped to a different prefix for each processor in an SMP
	configuration (assuming the OS designer is sane of course).
	Bytes 0-512 (200 hex) on s/390 and 0-512, 4096-4544, 4604-5119 currently on
	z/Architecture are used by the processor itself for holding such information
	as exception indications and entry points for exceptions.
	Bytes after 0xc00 hex are used by linux for per processor globals on s/390 and
	z/Architecture (there is a gap on z/Architecture currently between 0xc00 and
	0x1000, too, which is used by Linux).
	The closest thing to this on traditional architectures is the interrupt
	vector table. This is a good thing & does simplify some of the kernel coding
	however it means that we now cannot catch stray NULL pointers in the
	kernel without hard coded checks.
	
	
	
	Address Spaces on Intel Linux
	=============================
	
	The traditional Intel Linux is approximately mapped as follows forgive
	the ascii art.
	0xFFFFFFFF 4GB Himem		*****************
					*		*
					* Kernel Space	*
					*		*
					*****************	  ****************
	User Space Himem		*  User Stack	*	  *		 *
	(typically 0xC0000000 3GB )	*****************	  *		 *
					*  Shared Libs	*	  * Next Process *
					*****************	  *	to	 *
					*		*   <==   *	Run	 *  <==
					*  User Program *	  *		 *
					*   Data BSS	*	  *		 *
					*    Text	*	  *		 *
					*   Sections	*	  *		 *
	0x00000000			*****************	  ****************
	
	Now it is easy to see that on Intel it is quite easy to recognise a kernel
	address as being one greater than user space himem (in this case 0xC0000000),
	and addresses of less than this are the ones in the current running program on
	this processor (if an smp box).
	If using the virtual machine ( VM ) as a debugger it is quite difficult to
	know which user process is running as the address space you are looking at
	could be from any process in the run queue.
	
	The limitation of Intels addressing technique is that the linux
	kernel uses a very simple real address to virtual addressing technique
	of Real Address=Virtual Address-User Space Himem.
	This means that on Intel the kernel linux can typically only address
	Himem=0xFFFFFFFF-0xC0000000=1GB & this is all the RAM these machines
	can typically use.
	They can lower User Himem to 2GB or lower & thus be
	able to use 2GB of RAM however this shrinks the maximum size
	of User Space from 3GB to 2GB they have a no win limit of 4GB unless
	they go to 64 Bit.
	
	
	On 390 our limitations & strengths make us slightly different.
	For backward compatibility we are only allowed use 31 bits (2GB)
	of our 32 bit addresses, however, we use entirely separate address 
	spaces for the user & kernel.
	
	This means we can support 2GB of non Extended RAM on s/390, & more
	with the Extended memory management swap device & 
	currently 4TB of physical memory currently on z/Architecture.
	
	
	Address Spaces on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	==================================================
	
	Our addressing scheme is basically as follows:
	
					   Primary Space	       Home Space
	Himem 0x7fffffff 2GB on s/390    *****************          ****************
	currently 0x3ffffffffff (2^42)-1 *  User Stack   *          *              *
	on z/Architecture.		 *****************          *              *
					 *  Shared Libs  *	    *		   *
					 *****************	    *		   *
				         *               *          *    Kernel    *  
			                 *  User Program *          *              *
			                 *   Data BSS    *          *              *
	                                 *    Text       *          *              *
	            			 *   Sections    *          *              *
	0x00000000                       *****************          ****************
	
	This also means that we need to look at the PSW problem state bit and the
	addressing mode to decide whether we are looking at user or kernel space.
	
	User space runs in primary address mode (or access register mode within
	the vdso code).
	
	The kernel usually also runs in home space mode, however when accessing
	user space the kernel switches to primary or secondary address mode if
	the mvcos instruction is not available or if a compare-and-swap (futex)
	instruction on a user space address is performed.
	
	When also looking at the ASCE control registers, this means:
	
	User space:
	- runs in primary or access register mode
	- cr1 contains the user asce
	- cr7 contains the user asce
	- cr13 contains the kernel asce
	
	Kernel space:
	- runs in home space mode
	- cr1 contains the user or kernel asce
	  -> the kernel asce is loaded when a uaccess requires primary or
	     secondary address mode
	- cr7 contains the user or kernel asce, (changed with set_fs())
	- cr13 contains the kernel asce
	
	In case of uaccess the kernel changes to:
	- primary space mode in case of a uaccess (copy_to_user) and uses
	  e.g. the mvcp instruction to access user space. However the kernel
	  will stay in home space mode if the mvcos instruction is available
	- secondary space mode in case of futex atomic operations, so that the
	  instructions come from primary address space and data from secondary
	  space
	
	In case of KVM, the kernel runs in home space mode, but cr1 gets switched
	to contain the gmap asce before the SIE instruction gets executed. When
	the SIE instruction is finished, cr1 will be switched back to contain the
	user asce.
	
	
	Virtual Addresses on s/390 & z/Architecture
	===========================================
	
	A virtual address on s/390 is made up of 3 parts
	The SX (segment index, roughly corresponding to the PGD & PMD in Linux
	terminology) being bits 1-11.
	The PX (page index, corresponding to the page table entry (pte) in Linux
	terminology) being bits 12-19.
	The remaining bits BX (the byte index are the offset in the page )
	i.e. bits 20 to 31.
	
	On z/Architecture in linux we currently make up an address from 4 parts.
	The region index bits (RX) 0-32 we currently use bits 22-32
	The segment index (SX) being bits 33-43
	The page index (PX) being bits  44-51
	The byte index (BX) being bits  52-63
	
	Notes:
	1) s/390 has no PMD so the PMD is really the PGD also.
	A lot of this stuff is defined in pgtable.h.
	
	2) Also seeing as s/390's page indexes are only 1k  in size 
	(bits 12-19 x 4 bytes per pte ) we use 1 ( page 4k )
	to make the best use of memory by updating 4 segment indices 
	entries each time we mess with a PMD & use offsets 
	0,1024,2048 & 3072 in this page as for our segment indexes.
	On z/Architecture our page indexes are now 2k in size
	( bits 12-19 x 8 bytes per pte ) we do a similar trick
	but only mess with 2 segment indices each time we mess with
	a PMD.
	
	3) As z/Architecture supports up to a massive 5-level page table lookup we
	can only use 3 currently on Linux ( as this is all the generic kernel
	currently supports ) however this may change in future
	this allows us to access ( according to my sums )
	4TB of virtual storage per process i.e.
	4096*512(PTES)*1024(PMDS)*2048(PGD) = 4398046511104 bytes,
	enough for another 2 or 3 of years I think :-).
	to do this we use a region-third-table designation type in
	our address space control registers.
	 
	
	The Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture Kernel Task Structure
	==========================================================
	Each process/thread under Linux for S390 has its own kernel task_struct
	defined in linux/include/linux/sched.h
	The S390 on initialisation & resuming of a process on a cpu sets
	the __LC_KERNEL_STACK variable in the spare prefix area for this cpu
	(which we use for per-processor globals).
	
	The kernel stack pointer is intimately tied with the task structure for
	each processor as follows.
	
	                      s/390
	            ************************
	            *  1 page kernel stack *
		    *        ( 4K )        *
	            ************************
	            *   1 page task_struct *        
	            *        ( 4K )        *
	8K aligned  ************************ 
	
	                 z/Architecture
	            ************************
	            *  2 page kernel stack *
		    *        ( 8K )        *
	            ************************
	            *  2 page task_struct  *        
	            *        ( 8K )        *
	16K aligned ************************ 
	
	What this means is that we don't need to dedicate any register or global
	variable to point to the current running process & can retrieve it with the
	following very simple construct for s/390 & one very similar for z/Architecture.
	
	static inline struct task_struct * get_current(void)
	{
	        struct task_struct *current;
	        __asm__("lhi   %0,-8192\n\t"
	                "nr    %0,15"
	                : "=r" (current) );
	        return current;
	}
	
	i.e. just anding the current kernel stack pointer with the mask -8192.
	Thankfully because Linux doesn't have support for nested IO interrupts
	& our devices have large buffers can survive interrupts being shut for 
	short amounts of time we don't need a separate stack for interrupts.
	
	
	
	
	Register Usage & Stackframes on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	=================================================================
	Overview:
	---------
	This is the code that gcc produces at the top & the bottom of
	each function. It usually is fairly consistent & similar from 
	function to function & if you know its layout you can probably
	make some headway in finding the ultimate cause of a problem
	after a crash without a source level debugger.
	
	Note: To follow stackframes requires a knowledge of C or Pascal &
	limited knowledge of one assembly language.
	
	It should be noted that there are some differences between the
	s/390 and z/Architecture stack layouts as the z/Architecture stack layout
	didn't have to maintain compatibility with older linkage formats.
	
	Glossary:
	---------
	alloca:
	This is a built in compiler function for runtime allocation
	of extra space on the callers stack which is obviously freed
	up on function exit ( e.g. the caller may choose to allocate nothing
	of a buffer of 4k if required for temporary purposes ), it generates 
	very efficient code ( a few cycles  ) when compared to alternatives 
	like malloc.
	
	automatics: These are local variables on the stack,
	i.e they aren't in registers & they aren't static.
	
	back-chain:
	This is a pointer to the stack pointer before entering a
	framed functions ( see frameless function ) prologue got by 
	dereferencing the address of the current stack pointer,
	 i.e. got by accessing the 32 bit value at the stack pointers
	current location.
	
	base-pointer:
	This is a pointer to the back of the literal pool which
	is an area just behind each procedure used to store constants
	in each function.
	
	call-clobbered: The caller probably needs to save these registers if there 
	is something of value in them, on the stack or elsewhere before making a 
	call to another procedure so that it can restore it later.
	
	epilogue:
	The code generated by the compiler to return to the caller.
	
	frameless-function
	A frameless function in Linux for s390 & z/Architecture is one which doesn't 
	need more than the register save area (96 bytes on s/390, 160 on z/Architecture)
	given to it by the caller.
	A frameless function never:
	1) Sets up a back chain.
	2) Calls alloca.
	3) Calls other normal functions
	4) Has automatics.
	
	GOT-pointer:
	This is a pointer to the global-offset-table in ELF
	( Executable Linkable Format, Linux'es most common executable format ),
	all globals & shared library objects are found using this pointer.
	
	lazy-binding
	ELF shared libraries are typically only loaded when routines in the shared
	library are actually first called at runtime. This is lazy binding.
	
	procedure-linkage-table
	This is a table found from the GOT which contains pointers to routines
	in other shared libraries which can't be called to by easier means.
	
	prologue:
	The code generated by the compiler to set up the stack frame.
	
	outgoing-args:
	This is extra area allocated on the stack of the calling function if the
	parameters for the callee's cannot all be put in registers, the same
	area can be reused by each function the caller calls.
	
	routine-descriptor:
	A COFF  executable format based concept of a procedure reference 
	actually being 8 bytes or more as opposed to a simple pointer to the routine.
	This is typically defined as follows
	Routine Descriptor offset 0=Pointer to Function
	Routine Descriptor offset 4=Pointer to Table of Contents
	The table of contents/TOC is roughly equivalent to a GOT pointer.
	& it means that shared libraries etc. can be shared between several
	environments each with their own TOC.
	
	 
	static-chain: This is used in nested functions a concept adopted from pascal 
	by gcc not used in ansi C or C++ ( although quite useful ), basically it
	is a pointer used to reference local variables of enclosing functions.
	You might come across this stuff once or twice in your lifetime.
	
	e.g.
	The function below should return 11 though gcc may get upset & toss warnings 
	about unused variables.
	int FunctionA(int a)
	{
		int b;
		FunctionC(int c)
		{
			b=c+1;
		}
		FunctionC(10);
		return(b);
	}
	
	
	s/390 & z/Architecture Register usage
	=====================================
	r0       used by syscalls/assembly                  call-clobbered
	r1	 used by syscalls/assembly                  call-clobbered
	r2       argument 0 / return value 0                call-clobbered
	r3       argument 1 / return value 1 (if long long) call-clobbered
	r4       argument 2                                 call-clobbered
	r5       argument 3                                 call-clobbered
	r6	 argument 4				    saved
	r7       pointer-to arguments 5 to ...              saved      
	r8       this & that                                saved
	r9       this & that                                saved
	r10      static-chain ( if nested function )        saved
	r11      frame-pointer ( if function used alloca )  saved
	r12      got-pointer                                saved
	r13      base-pointer                               saved
	r14      return-address                             saved
	r15      stack-pointer                              saved
	
	f0       argument 0 / return value ( float/double ) call-clobbered
	f2       argument 1                                 call-clobbered
	f4       z/Architecture argument 2                  saved
	f6       z/Architecture argument 3                  saved
	The remaining floating points
	f1,f3,f5 f7-f15 are call-clobbered.
	
	Notes:
	------
	1) The only requirement is that registers which are used
	by the callee are saved, e.g. the compiler is perfectly
	capable of using r11 for purposes other than a frame a
	frame pointer if a frame pointer is not needed.
	2) In functions with variable arguments e.g. printf the calling procedure 
	is identical to one without variable arguments & the same number of 
	parameters. However, the prologue of this function is somewhat more
	hairy owing to it having to move these parameters to the stack to
	get va_start, va_arg & va_end to work.
	3) Access registers are currently unused by gcc but are used in
	the kernel. Possibilities exist to use them at the moment for
	temporary storage but it isn't recommended.
	4) Only 4 of the floating point registers are used for
	parameter passing as older machines such as G3 only have only 4
	& it keeps the stack frame compatible with other compilers.
	However with IEEE floating point emulation under linux on the
	older machines you are free to use the other 12.
	5) A long long or double parameter cannot be have the 
	first 4 bytes in a register & the second four bytes in the 
	outgoing args area. It must be purely in the outgoing args
	area if crossing this boundary.
	6) Floating point parameters are mixed with outgoing args
	on the outgoing args area in the order the are passed in as parameters.
	7) Floating point arguments 2 & 3 are saved in the outgoing args area for 
	z/Architecture
	
	
	Stack Frame Layout
	------------------
	s/390     z/Architecture
	0         0             back chain ( a 0 here signifies end of back chain )
	4         8             eos ( end of stack, not used on Linux for S390 used in other linkage formats )
	8         16            glue used in other s/390 linkage formats for saved routine descriptors etc.
	12        24            glue used in other s/390 linkage formats for saved routine descriptors etc.
	16        32            scratch area
	20        40            scratch area
	24        48            saved r6 of caller function
	28        56            saved r7 of caller function
	32        64            saved r8 of caller function
	36        72            saved r9 of caller function
	40        80            saved r10 of caller function
	44        88            saved r11 of caller function
	48        96            saved r12 of caller function
	52        104           saved r13 of caller function
	56        112           saved r14 of caller function
	60        120           saved r15 of caller function
	64        128           saved f4 of caller function
	72        132           saved f6 of caller function
	80                      undefined
	96        160           outgoing args passed from caller to callee
	96+x      160+x         possible stack alignment ( 8 bytes desirable )
	96+x+y    160+x+y       alloca space of caller ( if used )
	96+x+y+z  160+x+y+z     automatics of caller ( if used )
	0                       back-chain
	
	A sample program with comments.
	===============================
	
	Comments on the function test
	-----------------------------
	1) It didn't need to set up a pointer to the constant pool gpr13 as it is not
	used ( :-( ).
	2) This is a frameless function & no stack is bought.
	3) The compiler was clever enough to recognise that it could return the
	value in r2 as well as use it for the passed in parameter ( :-) ).
	4) The basr ( branch relative & save ) trick works as follows the instruction 
	has a special case with r0,r0 with some instruction operands is understood as 
	the literal value 0, some risc architectures also do this ). So now
	we are branching to the next address & the address new program counter is
	in r13,so now we subtract the size of the function prologue we have executed
	+ the size of the literal pool to get to the top of the literal pool
	0040037c int test(int b)
	{                                                          # Function prologue below
	  40037c:	90 de f0 34 	stm	%r13,%r14,52(%r15) # Save registers r13 & r14
	  400380:	0d d0       	basr	%r13,%r0           # Set up pointer to constant pool using
	  400382:	a7 da ff fa 	ahi	%r13,-6            # basr trick
		return(5+b);
		                                                   # Huge main program
	  400386:	a7 2a 00 05 	ahi	%r2,5              # add 5 to r2
	
	                                                           # Function epilogue below 
	  40038a:	98 de f0 34 	lm	%r13,%r14,52(%r15) # restore registers r13 & 14
	  40038e:	07 fe       	br	%r14               # return
	}
	
	Comments on the function main
	-----------------------------
	1) The compiler did this function optimally ( 8-) )
	
	Literal pool for main.
	400390:	ff ff ff ec 	.long 0xffffffec
	main(int argc,char *argv[])
	{                                                          # Function prologue below
	  400394:	90 bf f0 2c 	stm	%r11,%r15,44(%r15) # Save necessary registers
	  400398:	18 0f       	lr	%r0,%r15           # copy stack pointer to r0
	  40039a:	a7 fa ff a0 	ahi	%r15,-96           # Make area for callee saving 
	  40039e:	0d d0       	basr	%r13,%r0           # Set up r13 to point to
	  4003a0:	a7 da ff f0 	ahi	%r13,-16           # literal pool
	  4003a4:	50 00 f0 00 	st	%r0,0(%r15)        # Save backchain
	
		return(test(5));                                   # Main Program Below
	  4003a8:	58 e0 d0 00 	l	%r14,0(%r13)       # load relative address of test from
							           # literal pool
	  4003ac:	a7 28 00 05 	lhi	%r2,5              # Set first parameter to 5
	  4003b0:	4d ee d0 00 	bas	%r14,0(%r14,%r13)  # jump to test setting r14 as return
								   # address using branch & save instruction.
	
								   # Function Epilogue below
	  4003b4:	98 bf f0 8c 	lm	%r11,%r15,140(%r15)# Restore necessary registers.
	  4003b8:	07 fe       	br	%r14               # return to do program exit 
	}
	
	
	Compiler updates
	----------------
	
	main(int argc,char *argv[])
	{
	  4004fc:	90 7f f0 1c       	stm	%r7,%r15,28(%r15)
	  400500:	a7 d5 00 04       	bras	%r13,400508 <main+0xc>
	  400504:	00 40 04 f4       	.long	0x004004f4 
	  # compiler now puts constant pool in code to so it saves an instruction 
	  400508:	18 0f             	lr	%r0,%r15
	  40050a:	a7 fa ff a0       	ahi	%r15,-96
	  40050e:	50 00 f0 00       	st	%r0,0(%r15)
		return(test(5));
	  400512:	58 10 d0 00       	l	%r1,0(%r13)
	  400516:	a7 28 00 05       	lhi	%r2,5
	  40051a:	0d e1             	basr	%r14,%r1
	  # compiler adds 1 extra instruction to epilogue this is done to
	  # avoid processor pipeline stalls owing to data dependencies on g5 &
	  # above as register 14 in the old code was needed directly after being loaded 
	  # by the lm	%r11,%r15,140(%r15) for the br %14.
	  40051c:	58 40 f0 98       	l	%r4,152(%r15)
	  400520:	98 7f f0 7c       	lm	%r7,%r15,124(%r15)
	  400524:	07 f4             	br	%r4
	}
	
	
	Hartmut ( our compiler developer ) also has been threatening to take out the
	stack backchain in optimised code as this also causes pipeline stalls, you
	have been warned.
	
	64 bit z/Architecture code disassembly
	--------------------------------------
	
	If you understand the stuff above you'll understand the stuff
	below too so I'll avoid repeating myself & just say that 
	some of the instructions have g's on the end of them to indicate
	they are 64 bit & the stack offsets are a bigger, 
	the only other difference you'll find between 32 & 64 bit is that
	we now use f4 & f6 for floating point arguments on 64 bit.
	00000000800005b0 <test>:
	int test(int b)
	{
		return(5+b);
	    800005b0:	a7 2a 00 05       	ahi	%r2,5
	    800005b4:	b9 14 00 22       	lgfr	%r2,%r2 # downcast to integer
	    800005b8:	07 fe             	br	%r14
	    800005ba:	07 07             	bcr	0,%r7
	
	
	}
	
	00000000800005bc <main>:
	main(int argc,char *argv[])
	{ 
	    800005bc:	eb bf f0 58 00 24 	stmg	%r11,%r15,88(%r15)
	    800005c2:	b9 04 00 1f       	lgr	%r1,%r15
	    800005c6:	a7 fb ff 60       	aghi	%r15,-160
	    800005ca:	e3 10 f0 00 00 24 	stg	%r1,0(%r15)
		return(test(5));
	    800005d0:	a7 29 00 05       	lghi	%r2,5
	    # brasl allows jumps > 64k & is overkill here bras would do fune
	    800005d4:	c0 e5 ff ff ff ee 	brasl	%r14,800005b0 <test> 
	    800005da:	e3 40 f1 10 00 04 	lg	%r4,272(%r15)
	    800005e0:	eb bf f0 f8 00 04 	lmg	%r11,%r15,248(%r15)
	    800005e6:	07 f4             	br	%r4
	}
	
	
	
	Compiling programs for debugging on Linux for s/390 & z/Architecture
	====================================================================
	-gdwarf-2 now works it should be considered the default debugging
	format for s/390 & z/Architecture as it is more reliable for debugging
	shared libraries,  normal -g debugging works much better now
	Thanks to the IBM java compiler developers bug reports. 
	
	This is typically done adding/appending the flags -g or -gdwarf-2 to the 
	CFLAGS & LDFLAGS variables Makefile of the program concerned.
	
	If using gdb & you would like accurate displays of registers &
	 stack traces compile without optimisation i.e make sure
	that there is no -O2 or similar on the CFLAGS line of the Makefile &
	the emitted gcc commands, obviously this will produce worse code 
	( not advisable for shipment ) but it is an  aid to the debugging process.
	
	This aids debugging because the compiler will copy parameters passed in
	in registers onto the stack so backtracing & looking at passed in
	parameters will work, however some larger programs which use inline functions
	will not compile without optimisation.
	
	Debugging with optimisation has since much improved after fixing
	some bugs, please make sure you are using gdb-5.0 or later developed 
	after Nov'2000.
	
	
	
	Debugging under VM
	==================
	
	Notes
	-----
	Addresses & values in the VM debugger are always hex never decimal
	Address ranges are of the format <HexValue1>-<HexValue2> or
	<HexValue1>.<HexValue2>
	For example, the address range	0x2000 to 0x3000 can be described as 2000-3000
	or 2000.1000
	
	The VM Debugger is case insensitive.
	
	VM's strengths are usually other debuggers weaknesses you can get at any
	resource no matter how sensitive e.g. memory management resources, change
	address translation in the PSW. For kernel hacking you will reap dividends if
	you get good at it.
	
	The VM Debugger displays operators but not operands, and also the debugger
	displays useful information on the same line as the author of the code probably
	felt that it was a good idea not to go over the 80 columns on the screen.
	This isn't as unintuitive as it may seem as the s/390 instructions are easy to
	decode mentally and you can make a good guess at a lot of them as all the
	operands are nibble (half byte aligned).
	So if you have an objdump listing by hand, it is quite easy to follow, and if
	you don't have an objdump listing keep a copy of the s/390 Reference Summary
	or alternatively the s/390 principles of operation next to you.
	e.g. even I can guess that 
	0001AFF8' LR    180F        CC 0
	is a ( load register ) lr r0,r15 
	
	Also it is very easy to tell the length of a 390 instruction from the 2 most
	significant bits in the instruction (not that this info is really useful except
	if you are trying to make sense of a hexdump of code).
	Here is a table
	Bits                    Instruction Length
	------------------------------------------
	00                          2 Bytes
	01                          4 Bytes
	10                          4 Bytes
	11                          6 Bytes
	
	The debugger also displays other useful info on the same line such as the
	addresses being operated on destination addresses of branches & condition codes.
	e.g.  
	00019736' AHI   A7DAFF0E    CC 1
	000198BA' BRC   A7840004 -> 000198C2'   CC 0
	000198CE' STM   900EF068 >> 0FA95E78    CC 2
	
	
	
	Useful VM debugger commands
	---------------------------
	
	I suppose I'd better mention this before I start
	to list the current active traces do 
	Q TR
	there can be a maximum of 255 of these per set
	( more about trace sets later ).
	To stop traces issue a
	TR END.
	To delete a particular breakpoint issue
	TR DEL <breakpoint number>
	
	The PA1 key drops to CP mode so you can issue debugger commands,
	Doing alt c (on my 3270 console at least ) clears the screen. 
	hitting b <enter> comes back to the running operating system
	from cp mode ( in our case linux ).
	It is typically useful to add shortcuts to your profile.exec file
	if you have one ( this is roughly equivalent to autoexec.bat in DOS ).
	file here are a few from mine.
	/* this gives me command history on issuing f12 */
	set pf12 retrieve 
	/* this continues */
	set pf8 imm b
	/* goes to trace set a */
	set pf1 imm tr goto a
	/* goes to trace set b */
	set pf2 imm tr goto b
	/* goes to trace set c */
	set pf3 imm tr goto c
	
	
	
	Instruction Tracing
	-------------------
	Setting a simple breakpoint
	TR I PSWA <address>
	To debug a particular function try
	TR I R <function address range>
	TR I on its own will single step.
	TR I DATA <MNEMONIC> <OPTIONAL RANGE> will trace for particular mnemonics
	e.g.
	TR I DATA 4D R 0197BC.4000
	will trace for BAS'es ( opcode 4D ) in the range 0197BC.4000
	if you were inclined you could add traces for all branch instructions &
	suffix them with the run prefix so you would have a backtrace on screen 
	when a program crashes.
	TR BR <INTO OR FROM> will trace branches into or out of an address.
	e.g.
	TR BR INTO 0 is often quite useful if a program is getting awkward & deciding
	to branch to 0 & crashing as this will stop at the address before in jumps to 0.
	TR I R <address range> RUN cmd d g
	single steps a range of addresses but stays running &
	displays the gprs on each step.
	
	
	
	Displaying & modifying Registers
	--------------------------------
	D G will display all the gprs
	Adding a extra G to all the commands is necessary to access the full 64 bit 
	content in VM on z/Architecture. Obviously this isn't required for access
	registers as these are still 32 bit.
	e.g. DGG instead of DG 
	D X will display all the control registers
	D AR will display all the access registers
	D AR4-7 will display access registers 4 to 7
	CPU ALL D G will display the GRPS of all CPUS in the configuration
	D PSW will display the current PSW
	st PSW 2000 will put the value 2000 into the PSW &
	cause crash your machine.
	D PREFIX displays the prefix offset
	
	
	Displaying Memory
	-----------------
	To display memory mapped using the current PSW's mapping try
	D <range>
	To make VM display a message each time it hits a particular address and
	continue try
	D I<range> will disassemble/display a range of instructions.
	ST addr 32 bit word will store a 32 bit aligned address
	D T<range> will display the EBCDIC in an address (if you are that way inclined)
	D R<range> will display real addresses ( without DAT ) but with prefixing.
	There are other complex options to display if you need to get at say home space
	but are in primary space the easiest thing to do is to temporarily
	modify the PSW to the other addressing mode, display the stuff & then
	restore it.
	
	
	 
	Hints
	-----
	If you want to issue a debugger command without halting your virtual machine
	with the PA1 key try prefixing the command with #CP e.g.
	#cp tr i pswa 2000
	also suffixing most debugger commands with RUN will cause them not
	to stop just display the mnemonic at the current instruction on the console.
	If you have several breakpoints you want to put into your program &
	you get fed up of cross referencing with System.map
	you can do the following trick for several symbols.
	grep do_signal System.map 
	which emits the following among other things
	0001f4e0 T do_signal 
	now you can do
	
	TR I PSWA 0001f4e0 cmd msg * do_signal
	This sends a message to your own console each time do_signal is entered.
	( As an aside I wrote a perl script once which automatically generated a REXX
	script with breakpoints on every kernel procedure, this isn't a good idea
	because there are thousands of these routines & VM can only set 255 breakpoints
	at a time so you nearly had to spend as long pruning the file down as you would 
	entering the msgs by hand), however, the trick might be useful for a single
	object file. In the 3270 terminal emulator x3270 there is a very useful option
	in the file menu called "Save Screen In File" - this is very good for keeping a
	copy of traces.
	
	From CMS help <command name> will give you online help on a particular command. 
	e.g. 
	HELP DISPLAY
	
	Also CP has a file called profile.exec which automatically gets called
	on startup of CMS ( like autoexec.bat ), keeping on a DOS analogy session
	CP has a feature similar to doskey, it may be useful for you to
	use profile.exec to define some keystrokes. 
	e.g.
	SET PF9 IMM B
	This does a single step in VM on pressing F8. 
	SET PF10  ^
	This sets up the ^ key.
	which can be used for ^c (ctrl-c),^z (ctrl-z) which can't be typed directly
	into some 3270 consoles.
	SET PF11 ^-
	This types the starting keystrokes for a sysrq see SysRq below.
	SET PF12 RETRIEVE
	This retrieves command history on pressing F12.
	
	
	Sometimes in VM the display is set up to scroll automatically this
	can be very annoying if there are messages you wish to look at
	to stop this do
	TERM MORE 255 255
	This will nearly stop automatic screen updates, however it will
	cause a denial of service if lots of messages go to the 3270 console,
	so it would be foolish to use this as the default on a production machine.
	 
	
	Tracing particular processes
	----------------------------
	The kernel's text segment is intentionally at an address in memory that it will
	very seldom collide with text segments of user programs ( thanks Martin ),
	this simplifies debugging the kernel.
	However it is quite common for user processes to have addresses which collide
	this can make debugging a particular process under VM painful under normal
	circumstances as the process may change when doing a 
	TR I R <address range>.
	Thankfully after reading VM's online help I figured out how to debug
	I particular process.
	
	Your first problem is to find the STD ( segment table designation )
	of the program you wish to debug.
	There are several ways you can do this here are a few
	1) objdump --syms <program to be debugged> | grep main
	To get the address of main in the program.
	tr i pswa <address of main>
	Start the program, if VM drops to CP on what looks like the entry
	point of the main function this is most likely the process you wish to debug.
	Now do a D X13 or D XG13 on z/Architecture.
	On 31 bit the STD is bits 1-19 ( the STO segment table origin ) 
	& 25-31 ( the STL segment table length ) of CR13.
	now type
	TR I R STD <CR13's value> 0.7fffffff
	e.g.
	TR I R STD 8F32E1FF 0.7fffffff
	Another very useful variation is
	TR STORE INTO STD <CR13's value> <address range>
	for finding out when a particular variable changes.
	
	An alternative way of finding the STD of a currently running process 
	is to do the following, ( this method is more complex but
	could be quite convenient if you aren't updating the kernel much &
	so your kernel structures will stay constant for a reasonable period of
	time ).
	
	grep task /proc/<pid>/status
	from this you should see something like
	task: 0f160000 ksp: 0f161de8 pt_regs: 0f161f68
	This now gives you a pointer to the task structure.
	Now make CC:="s390-gcc -g" kernel/sched.s
	To get the task_struct stabinfo.
	( task_struct is defined in include/linux/sched.h ).
	Now we want to look at
	task->active_mm->pgd
	on my machine the active_mm in the task structure stab is
	active_mm:(4,12),672,32
	its offset is 672/8=84=0x54
	the pgd member in the mm_struct stab is
	pgd:(4,6)=*(29,5),96,32
	so its offset is 96/8=12=0xc
	
	so we'll
	hexdump -s 0xf160054 /dev/mem | more
	i.e. task_struct+active_mm offset
	to look at the active_mm member
	f160054 0fee cc60 0019 e334 0000 0000 0000 0011
	hexdump -s 0x0feecc6c /dev/mem | more
	i.e. active_mm+pgd offset
	feecc6c 0f2c 0000 0000 0001 0000 0001 0000 0010
	we get something like
	now do 
	TR I R STD <pgd|0x7f> 0.7fffffff
	i.e. the 0x7f is added because the pgd only
	gives the page table origin & we need to set the low bits
	to the maximum possible segment table length.
	TR I R STD 0f2c007f 0.7fffffff
	on z/Architecture you'll probably need to do
	TR I R STD <pgd|0x7> 0.ffffffffffffffff
	to set the TableType to 0x1 & the Table length to 3.
	
	
	
	Tracing Program Exceptions
	--------------------------
	If you get a crash which says something like
	illegal operation or specification exception followed by a register dump
	You can restart linux & trace these using the tr prog <range or value> trace
	option.
	
	
	The most common ones you will normally be tracing for is
	1=operation exception
	2=privileged operation exception
	4=protection exception
	5=addressing exception
	6=specification exception
	10=segment translation exception
	11=page translation exception
	
	The full list of these is on page 22 of the current s/390 Reference Summary.
	e.g.
	tr prog 10 will trace segment translation exceptions.
	tr prog on its own will trace all program interruption codes.
	
	Trace Sets
	----------
	On starting VM you are initially in the INITIAL trace set.
	You can do a Q TR to verify this.
	If you have a complex tracing situation where you wish to wait for instance 
	till a driver is open before you start tracing IO, but know in your
	heart that you are going to have to make several runs through the code till you
	have a clue whats going on. 
	
	What you can do is
	TR I PSWA <Driver open address>
	hit b to continue till breakpoint
	reach the breakpoint
	now do your
	TR GOTO B 
	TR IO 7c08-7c09 inst int run 
	or whatever the IO channels you wish to trace are & hit b
	
	To got back to the initial trace set do
	TR GOTO INITIAL
	& the TR I PSWA <Driver open address> will be the only active breakpoint again.
	
	
	Tracing linux syscalls under VM
	-------------------------------
	Syscalls are implemented on Linux for S390 by the Supervisor call instruction
	(SVC). There 256 possibilities of these as the instruction is made up of a 0xA
	opcode and the second byte being the syscall number. They are traced using the
	simple command:
	TR SVC  <Optional value or range>
	the syscalls are defined in linux/arch/s390/include/asm/unistd.h
	e.g. to trace all file opens just do
	TR SVC 5 ( as this is the syscall number of open )
	
	
	SMP Specific commands
	---------------------
	To find out how many cpus you have
	Q CPUS displays all the CPU's available to your virtual machine
	To find the cpu that the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at
	do Q CPU to change the current cpu VM debugger commands are being directed at do
	CPU <desired cpu no>
	
	On a SMP guest issue a command to all CPUs try prefixing the command with cpu
	all. To issue a command to a particular cpu try cpu <cpu number> e.g.
	CPU 01 TR I R 2000.3000
	If you are running on a guest with several cpus & you have a IO related problem
	& cannot follow the flow of code but you know it isn't smp related.
	from the bash prompt issue
	shutdown -h now or halt.
	do a Q CPUS to find out how many cpus you have
	detach each one of them from cp except cpu 0 
	by issuing a 
	DETACH CPU 01-(number of cpus in configuration)
	& boot linux again.
	TR SIGP will trace inter processor signal processor instructions.
	DEFINE CPU 01-(number in configuration) 
	will get your guests cpus back.
	
	
	Help for displaying ascii textstrings
	-------------------------------------
	On the very latest VM Nucleus'es VM can now display ascii
	( thanks Neale for the hint ) by doing
	D TX<lowaddr>.<len>
	e.g.
	D TX0.100
	
	Alternatively
	=============
	Under older VM debuggers (I love EBDIC too) you can use following little
	program which converts a command line of hex digits to ascii text. It can be
	compiled under linux and you can copy the hex digits from your x3270 terminal
	to your xterm if you are debugging from a linuxbox.
	
	This is quite useful when looking at a parameter passed in as a text string
	under VM ( unless you are good at decoding ASCII in your head ).
	
	e.g. consider tracing an open syscall
	TR SVC 5
	We have stopped at a breakpoint
	000151B0' SVC   0A05     -> 0001909A'   CC 0
	
	D 20.8 to check the SVC old psw in the prefix area and see was it from userspace
	(for the layout of the prefix area consult the "Fixed Storage Locations"
	chapter of the s/390 Reference Summary if you have it available).
	V00000020  070C2000 800151B2
	The problem state bit wasn't set &  it's also too early in the boot sequence
	for it to be a userspace SVC if it was we would have to temporarily switch the 
	psw to user space addressing so we could get at the first parameter of the open
	in gpr2.
	Next do a 
	D G2
	GPR  2 =  00014CB4
	Now display what gpr2 is pointing to
	D 00014CB4.20
	V00014CB4  2F646576 2F636F6E 736F6C65 00001BF5
	V00014CC4  FC00014C B4001001 E0001000 B8070707
	Now copy the text till the first 00 hex ( which is the end of the string
	to an xterm & do hex2ascii on it.
	hex2ascii 2F646576 2F636F6E 736F6C65 00 
	outputs
	Decoded Hex:=/ d e v / c o n s o l e 0x00 
	We were opening the console device,
	
	You can compile the code below yourself for practice :-),
	/*
	 *    hex2ascii.c
	 *    a useful little tool for converting a hexadecimal command line to ascii
	 *
	 *    Author(s): Denis Joseph Barrow (djbarrow@de.ibm.com,barrow_dj@yahoo.com)
	 *    (C) 2000 IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, IBM Corporation.
	 */   
	#include <stdio.h>
	
	int main(int argc,char *argv[])
	{
	  int cnt1,cnt2,len,toggle=0;
	  int startcnt=1;
	  unsigned char c,hex;
	  
	  if(argc>1&&(strcmp(argv[1],"-a")==0))
	     startcnt=2;
	  printf("Decoded Hex:=");
	  for(cnt1=startcnt;cnt1<argc;cnt1++)
	  {
	    len=strlen(argv[cnt1]);
	    for(cnt2=0;cnt2<len;cnt2++)
	    {
	       c=argv[cnt1][cnt2];
	       if(c>='0'&&c<='9')
		  c=c-'0';
	       if(c>='A'&&c<='F')
		  c=c-'A'+10;
	       if(c>='a'&&c<='f')
		  c=c-'a'+10;
	       switch(toggle)
	       {
		  case 0:
		     hex=c<<4;
		     toggle=1;
		  break;
		  case 1:
		     hex+=c;
		     if(hex<32||hex>127)
		     {
			if(startcnt==1)
			   printf("0x%02X ",(int)hex);
			else
			   printf(".");
		     }
		     else
		     {
		       printf("%c",hex);
		       if(startcnt==1)
			  printf(" ");
		     }
		     toggle=0;
		  break;
	       }
	    }
	  }
	  printf("\n");
	}
	
	
	
	
	Stack tracing under VM
	----------------------
	A basic backtrace
	-----------------
	
	Here are the tricks I use 9 out of 10 times it works pretty well,
	
	When your backchain reaches a dead end
	--------------------------------------
	This can happen when an exception happens in the kernel and the kernel is
	entered twice. If you reach the NULL pointer at the end of the back chain you
	should be able to sniff further back if you follow the following tricks.
	1) A kernel address should be easy to recognise since it is in
	primary space & the problem state bit isn't set & also
	The Hi bit of the address is set.
	2) Another backchain should also be easy to recognise since it is an 
	address pointing to another address approximately 100 bytes or 0x70 hex
	behind the current stackpointer.
	
	
	Here is some practice.
	boot the kernel & hit PA1 at some random time
	d g to display the gprs, this should display something like
	GPR  0 =  00000001  00156018  0014359C  00000000
	GPR  4 =  00000001  001B8888  000003E0  00000000
	GPR  8 =  00100080  00100084  00000000  000FE000
	GPR 12 =  00010400  8001B2DC  8001B36A  000FFED8
	Note that GPR14 is a return address but as we are real men we are going to
	trace the stack.
	display 0x40 bytes after the stack pointer.
	
	V000FFED8  000FFF38 8001B838 80014C8E 000FFF38
	V000FFEE8  00000000 00000000 000003E0 00000000
	V000FFEF8  00100080 00100084 00000000 000FE000
	V000FFF08  00010400 8001B2DC 8001B36A 000FFED8
	
	
	Ah now look at whats in sp+56 (sp+0x38) this is 8001B36A our saved r14 if
	you look above at our stackframe & also agrees with GPR14.
	
	now backchain 
	d 000FFF38.40
	we now are taking the contents of SP to get our first backchain.
	
	V000FFF38  000FFFA0 00000000 00014995 00147094
	V000FFF48  00147090 001470A0 000003E0 00000000
	V000FFF58  00100080 00100084 00000000 001BF1D0
	V000FFF68  00010400 800149BA 80014CA6 000FFF38
	
	This displays a 2nd return address of 80014CA6
	
	now do d 000FFFA0.40 for our 3rd backchain
	
	V000FFFA0  04B52002 0001107F 00000000 00000000
	V000FFFB0  00000000 00000000 FF000000 0001107F
	V000FFFC0  00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	V000FFFD0  00010400 80010802 8001085A 000FFFA0
	
	
	our 3rd return address is 8001085A
	
	as the 04B52002 looks suspiciously like rubbish it is fair to assume that the
	kernel entry routines for the sake of optimisation don't set up a backchain.
	
	now look at System.map to see if the addresses make any sense.
	
	grep -i 0001b3 System.map
	outputs among other things
	0001b304 T cpu_idle 
	so 8001B36A
	is cpu_idle+0x66 ( quiet the cpu is asleep, don't wake it )
	
	
	grep -i 00014 System.map 
	produces among other things
	00014a78 T start_kernel  
	so 0014CA6 is start_kernel+some hex number I can't add in my head.
	
	grep -i 00108 System.map 
	this produces
	00010800 T _stext
	so   8001085A is _stext+0x5a
	
	Congrats you've done your first backchain.
	
	
	
	s/390 & z/Architecture IO Overview
	==================================
	
	I am not going to give a course in 390 IO architecture as this would take me
	quite a while and I'm no expert. Instead I'll give a 390 IO architecture
	summary for Dummies. If you have the s/390 principles of operation available
	read this instead. If nothing else you may find a few useful keywords in here
	and be able to use them on a web search engine to find more useful information.
	
	Unlike other bus architectures modern 390 systems do their IO using mostly
	fibre optics and devices such as tapes and disks can be shared between several
	mainframes. Also S390 can support up to 65536 devices while a high end PC based
	system might be choking with around 64.
	
	Here is some of the common IO terminology:
	
	Subchannel:
	This is the logical number most IO commands use to talk to an IO device. There
	can be up to 0x10000 (65536) of these in a configuration, typically there are a
	few hundred. Under VM for simplicity they are allocated contiguously, however
	on the native hardware they are not. They typically stay consistent between
	boots provided no new hardware is inserted or removed.
	Under Linux for s390 we use these as IRQ's and also when issuing an IO command
	(CLEAR SUBCHANNEL, HALT SUBCHANNEL, MODIFY SUBCHANNEL, RESUME SUBCHANNEL,
	START SUBCHANNEL, STORE SUBCHANNEL and TEST SUBCHANNEL). We use this as the ID
	of the device we wish to talk to. The most important of these instructions are
	START SUBCHANNEL (to start IO), TEST SUBCHANNEL (to check whether the IO
	completed successfully) and HALT SUBCHANNEL (to kill IO). A subchannel can have
	up to 8 channel paths to a device, this offers redundancy if one is not
	available.
	
	Device Number:
	This number remains static and is closely tied to the hardware. There are 65536
	of these, made up of a CHPID (Channel Path ID, the most significant 8 bits) and
	another lsb 8 bits. These remain static even if more devices are inserted or
	removed from the hardware. There is a 1 to 1 mapping between subchannels and
	device numbers, provided devices aren't inserted or removed.
	
	Channel Control Words:
	CCWs are linked lists of instructions initially pointed to by an operation
	request block (ORB), which is initially given to Start Subchannel (SSCH)
	command along with the subchannel number for the IO subsystem to process
	while the CPU continues executing normal code.
	CCWs come in two flavours, Format 0 (24 bit for backward compatibility) and
	Format 1 (31 bit). These are typically used to issue read and write (and many
	other) instructions. They consist of a length field and an absolute address
	field.
	Each IO typically gets 1 or 2 interrupts, one for channel end (primary status)
	when the channel is idle, and the second for device end (secondary status).
	Sometimes you get both concurrently. You check how the IO went on by issuing a
	TEST SUBCHANNEL at each interrupt, from which you receive an Interruption
	response block (IRB). If you get channel and device end status in the IRB
	without channel checks etc. your IO probably went okay. If you didn't you
	probably need to examine the IRB, extended status word etc.
	If an error occurs, more sophisticated control units have a facility known as
	concurrent sense. This means that if an error occurs Extended sense information
	will be presented in the Extended status word in the IRB. If not you have to
	issue a subsequent SENSE CCW command after the test subchannel.
	
	
	TPI (Test pending interrupt) can also be used for polled IO, but in
	multitasking multiprocessor systems it isn't recommended except for
	checking special cases (i.e. non looping checks for pending IO etc.).
	
	Store Subchannel and Modify Subchannel can be used to examine and modify
	operating characteristics of a subchannel (e.g. channel paths).
	
	Other IO related Terms:
	Sysplex: S390's Clustering Technology
	QDIO: S390's new high speed IO architecture to support devices such as gigabit
	ethernet, this architecture is also designed to be forward compatible with
	upcoming 64 bit machines.
	
	
	General Concepts 
	
	Input Output Processors (IOP's) are responsible for communicating between
	the mainframe CPU's & the channel & relieve the mainframe CPU's from the
	burden of communicating with IO devices directly, this allows the CPU's to 
	concentrate on data processing. 
	
	IOP's can use one or more links ( known as channel paths ) to talk to each 
	IO device. It first checks for path availability & chooses an available one,
	then starts ( & sometimes terminates IO ).
	There are two types of channel path: ESCON & the Parallel IO interface.
	
	IO devices are attached to control units, control units provide the
	logic to interface the channel paths & channel path IO protocols to 
	the IO devices, they can be integrated with the devices or housed separately
	& often talk to several similar devices ( typical examples would be raid 
	controllers or a control unit which connects to 1000 3270 terminals ).
	
	
	    +---------------------------------------------------------------+
	    | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+  +----------+  +----------+   |
	    | | CPU | | CPU | | CPU | | CPU |  |  Main    |  | Expanded |   |
	    | |     | |     | |     | |     |  |  Memory  |  |  Storage |   |
	    | +-----+ +-----+ +-----+ +-----+  +----------+  +----------+   | 
	    |---------------------------------------------------------------+
	    |   IOP        |      IOP      |       IOP                      |
	    |---------------------------------------------------------------
	    | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | C | 
	    ----------------------------------------------------------------
	         ||                                              ||
	         ||  Bus & Tag Channel Path                      || ESCON
	         ||  ======================                      || Channel
	         ||  ||                  ||                      || Path
	    +----------+               +----------+         +----------+
	    |          |               |          |         |          |
	    |    CU    |               |    CU    |         |    CU    |
	    |          |               |          |         |          |
	    +----------+               +----------+         +----------+
	       |      |                     |                |       |
	+----------+ +----------+      +----------+   +----------+ +----------+
	|I/O Device| |I/O Device|      |I/O Device|   |I/O Device| |I/O Device|
	+----------+ +----------+      +----------+   +----------+ +----------+
	  CPU = Central Processing Unit    
	  C = Channel                      
	  IOP = IP Processor               
	  CU = Control Unit
	
	The 390 IO systems come in 2 flavours the current 390 machines support both
	
	The Older 360 & 370 Interface,sometimes called the Parallel I/O interface,
	sometimes called Bus-and Tag & sometimes Original Equipment Manufacturers
	Interface (OEMI).
	
	This byte wide Parallel channel path/bus has parity & data on the "Bus" cable 
	and control lines on the "Tag" cable. These can operate in byte multiplex mode
	for sharing between several slow devices or burst mode and monopolize the
	channel for the whole burst. Up to 256 devices can be addressed on one of these
	cables. These cables are about one inch in diameter. The maximum unextended
	length supported by these cables is 125 Meters but this can be extended up to
	2km with a fibre optic channel extended such as a 3044. The maximum burst speed
	supported is 4.5 megabytes per second. However, some really old processors
	support only transfer rates of 3.0, 2.0 & 1.0 MB/sec.
	One of these paths can be daisy chained to up to 8 control units.
	
	
	ESCON if fibre optic it is also called FICON 
	Was introduced by IBM in 1990. Has 2 fibre optic cables and uses either leds or
	lasers for communication at a signaling rate of up to 200 megabits/sec. As
	10bits are transferred for every 8 bits info this drops to 160 megabits/sec
	and to 18.6 Megabytes/sec once control info and CRC are added. ESCON only
	operates in burst mode.
	 
	ESCONs typical max cable length is 3km for the led version and 20km for the
	laser version known as XDF (extended distance facility). This can be further
	extended by using an ESCON director which triples the above mentioned ranges.
	Unlike Bus & Tag as ESCON is serial it uses a packet switching architecture,
	the standard Bus & Tag control protocol is however present within the packets.
	Up to 256 devices can be attached to each control unit that uses one of these
	interfaces.
	
	Common 390 Devices include:
	Network adapters typically OSA2,3172's,2116's & OSA-E gigabit ethernet adapters,
	Consoles 3270 & 3215 (a teletype emulated under linux for a line mode console).
	DASD's direct access storage devices ( otherwise known as hard disks ).
	Tape Drives.
	CTC ( Channel to Channel Adapters ),
	ESCON or Parallel Cables used as a very high speed serial link
	between 2 machines.
	
	
	Debugging IO on s/390 & z/Architecture under VM
	===============================================
	
	Now we are ready to go on with IO tracing commands under VM
	
	A few self explanatory queries:
	Q OSA
	Q CTC
	Q DISK ( This command is CMS specific )
	Q DASD
	
	
	
	
	
	
	Q OSA on my machine returns
	OSA  7C08 ON OSA   7C08 SUBCHANNEL = 0000
	OSA  7C09 ON OSA   7C09 SUBCHANNEL = 0001
	OSA  7C14 ON OSA   7C14 SUBCHANNEL = 0002
	OSA  7C15 ON OSA   7C15 SUBCHANNEL = 0003
	
	If you have a guest with certain privileges you may be able to see devices
	which don't belong to you. To avoid this, add the option V.
	e.g.
	Q V OSA
	
	Now using the device numbers returned by this command we will
	Trace the io starting up on the first device 7c08 & 7c09
	In our simplest case we can trace the 
	start subchannels
	like TR SSCH 7C08-7C09
	or the halt subchannels
	or TR HSCH 7C08-7C09
	MSCH's ,STSCH's I think you can guess the rest
	
	A good trick is tracing all the IO's and CCWS and spooling them into the reader
	of another VM guest so he can ftp the logfile back to his own machine. I'll do
	a small bit of this and give you a look at the output.
	
	1) Spool stdout to VM reader
	SP PRT TO (another vm guest ) or * for the local vm guest
	2) Fill the reader with the trace
	TR IO 7c08-7c09 INST INT CCW PRT RUN
	3) Start up linux 
	i 00c  
	4) Finish the trace
	TR END
	5) close the reader
	C PRT
	6) list reader contents
	RDRLIST
	7) copy it to linux4's minidisk 
	RECEIVE / LOG TXT A1 ( replace
	8)
	filel & press F11 to look at it
	You should see something like:
	
	00020942' SSCH  B2334000    0048813C    CC 0    SCH 0000    DEV 7C08
	          CPA 000FFDF0   PARM 00E2C9C4    KEY 0  FPI C0  LPM 80
	          CCW    000FFDF0  E4200100 00487FE8   0000  E4240100 ........
	          IDAL                                      43D8AFE8
	          IDAL                                      0FB76000
	00020B0A'   I/O DEV 7C08 -> 000197BC'   SCH 0000   PARM 00E2C9C4
	00021628' TSCH  B2354000 >> 00488164    CC 0    SCH 0000    DEV 7C08
	          CCWA 000FFDF8   DEV STS 0C  SCH STS 00  CNT 00EC
	           KEY 0   FPI C0  CC 0   CTLS 4007
	00022238' STSCH B2344000 >> 00488108    CC 0    SCH 0000    DEV 7C08
	
	If you don't like messing up your readed ( because you possibly booted from it )
	you can alternatively spool it to another readers guest.
	
	
	Other common VM device related commands
	---------------------------------------------
	These commands are listed only because they have
	been of use to me in the past & may be of use to
	you too. For more complete info on each of the commands
	use type HELP <command> from CMS.
	detaching devices
	DET <devno range>
	ATT <devno range> <guest> 
	attach a device to guest * for your own guest
	READY <devno> cause VM to issue a fake interrupt.
	
	The VARY command is normally only available to VM administrators.
	VARY ON PATH <path> TO <devno range>
	VARY OFF PATH <PATH> FROM <devno range>
	This is used to switch on or off channel paths to devices.
	
	Q CHPID <channel path ID>
	This displays state of devices using this channel path
	D SCHIB <subchannel>
	This displays the subchannel information SCHIB block for the device.
	this I believe is also only available to administrators.
	DEFINE CTC <devno>
	defines a virtual CTC channel to channel connection
	2 need to be defined on each guest for the CTC driver to use.
	COUPLE  devno userid remote devno
	Joins a local virtual device to a remote virtual device
	( commonly used for the CTC driver ).
	
	Building a VM ramdisk under CMS which linux can use
	def vfb-<blocksize> <subchannel> <number blocks>
	blocksize is commonly 4096 for linux.
	Formatting it
	format <subchannel> <driver letter e.g. x> (blksize <blocksize>
	
	Sharing a disk between multiple guests
	LINK userid devno1 devno2 mode password
	
	
	
	GDB on S390
	===========
	N.B. if compiling for debugging gdb works better without optimisation 
	( see Compiling programs for debugging )
	
	invocation
	----------
	gdb <victim program> <optional corefile>
	
	Online help
	-----------
	help: gives help on commands
	e.g.
	help
	help display
	Note gdb's online help is very good use it.
	
	
	Assembly
	--------
	info registers: displays registers other than floating point.
	info all-registers: displays floating points as well.
	disassemble: disassembles
	e.g.
	disassemble without parameters will disassemble the current function
	disassemble $pc $pc+10 
	
	Viewing & modifying variables
	-----------------------------
	print or p: displays variable or register
	e.g. p/x $sp will display the stack pointer
	
	display: prints variable or register each time program stops
	e.g.
	display/x $pc will display the program counter
	display argc
	
	undisplay : undo's display's
	
	info breakpoints: shows all current breakpoints
	
	info stack: shows stack back trace (if this doesn't work too well, I'll show
	you the stacktrace by hand below).
	
	info locals: displays local variables.
	
	info args: display current procedure arguments.
	
	set args: will set argc & argv each time the victim program is invoked.
	
	set <variable>=value
	set argc=100
	set $pc=0
	
	
	
	Modifying execution
	-------------------
	step: steps n lines of sourcecode
	step steps 1 line.
	step 100 steps 100 lines of code.
	
	next: like step except this will not step into subroutines
	
	stepi: steps a single machine code instruction.
	e.g. stepi 100
	
	nexti: steps a single machine code instruction but will not step into
	subroutines.
	
	finish: will run until exit of the current routine
	
	run: (re)starts a program
	
	cont: continues a program
	
	quit: exits gdb.
	
	
	breakpoints
	------------
	
	break
	sets a breakpoint
	e.g.
	
	break main
	
	break *$pc
	
	break *0x400618
	
	Here's a really useful one for large programs
	rbr
	Set a breakpoint for all functions matching REGEXP
	e.g.
	rbr 390
	will set a breakpoint with all functions with 390 in their name.
	
	info breakpoints
	lists all breakpoints
	
	delete: delete breakpoint by number or delete them all
	e.g.
	delete 1 will delete the first breakpoint
	delete will delete them all
	
	watch: This will set a watchpoint ( usually hardware assisted ),
	This will watch a variable till it changes
	e.g.
	watch cnt, will watch the variable cnt till it changes.
	As an aside unfortunately gdb's, architecture independent watchpoint code
	is inconsistent & not very good, watchpoints usually work but not always.
	
	info watchpoints: Display currently active watchpoints
	
	condition: ( another useful one )
	Specify breakpoint number N to break only if COND is true.
	Usage is `condition N COND', where N is an integer and COND is an
	expression to be evaluated whenever breakpoint N is reached.
	
	
	
	User defined functions/macros
	-----------------------------
	define: ( Note this is very very useful,simple & powerful )
	usage define <name> <list of commands> end
	
	examples which you should consider putting into .gdbinit in your home directory
	define d
	stepi
	disassemble $pc $pc+10
	end
	
	define e
	nexti
	disassemble $pc $pc+10
	end
	
	
	Other hard to classify stuff
	----------------------------
	signal n:
	sends the victim program a signal.
	e.g. signal 3 will send a SIGQUIT.
	
	info signals:
	what gdb does when the victim receives certain signals.
	
	list:
	e.g.
	list lists current function source
	list 1,10 list first 10 lines of current file.
	list test.c:1,10
	
	
	directory:
	Adds directories to be searched for source if gdb cannot find the source.
	(note it is a bit sensitive about slashes)
	e.g. To add the root of the filesystem to the searchpath do
	directory //
	
	
	call <function>
	This calls a function in the victim program, this is pretty powerful
	e.g.
	(gdb) call printf("hello world")
	outputs:
	$1 = 11 
	
	You might now be thinking that the line above didn't work, something extra had
	to be done.
	(gdb) call fflush(stdout)
	hello world$2 = 0
	As an aside the debugger also calls malloc & free under the hood 
	to make space for the "hello world" string.
	
	
	
	hints
	-----
	1) command completion works just like bash 
	( if you are a bad typist like me this really helps )
	e.g. hit br <TAB> & cursor up & down :-).
	
	2) if you have a debugging problem that takes a few steps to recreate
	put the steps into a file called .gdbinit in your current working directory
	if you have defined a few extra useful user defined commands put these in 
	your home directory & they will be read each time gdb is launched.
	
	A typical .gdbinit file might be.
	break main
	run
	break runtime_exception
	cont 
	
	
	stack chaining in gdb by hand
	-----------------------------
	This is done using a the same trick described for VM 
	p/x (*($sp+56))&0x7fffffff get the first backchain.
	
	For z/Architecture
	Replace 56 with 112 & ignore the &0x7fffffff
	in the macros below & do nasty casts to longs like the following
	as gdb unfortunately deals with printed arguments as ints which
	messes up everything.
	i.e. here is a 3rd backchain dereference
	p/x *(long *)(***(long ***)$sp+112)
	
	
	this outputs 
	$5 = 0x528f18 
	on my machine.
	Now you can use 
	info symbol (*($sp+56))&0x7fffffff 
	you might see something like.
	rl_getc + 36 in section .text  telling you what is located at address 0x528f18
	Now do.
	p/x (*(*$sp+56))&0x7fffffff 
	This outputs
	$6 = 0x528ed0
	Now do.
	info symbol (*(*$sp+56))&0x7fffffff
	rl_read_key + 180 in section .text
	now do
	p/x (*(**$sp+56))&0x7fffffff
	& so on.
	
	Disassembling instructions without debug info
	---------------------------------------------
	gdb typically complains if there is a lack of debugging
	symbols in the disassemble command with 
	"No function contains specified address." To get around
	this do 
	x/<number lines to disassemble>xi <address>
	e.g.
	x/20xi 0x400730
	
	
	
	Note: Remember gdb has history just like bash you don't need to retype the
	whole line just use the up & down arrows.
	
	
	
	For more info
	-------------
	From your linuxbox do 
	man gdb or info gdb.
	
	core dumps
	----------
	What a core dump ?,
	A core dump is a file generated by the kernel (if allowed) which contains the
	registers and all active pages of the program which has crashed.
	From this file gdb will allow you to look at the registers, stack trace and
	memory of the program as if it just crashed on your system. It is usually
	called core and created in the current working directory.
	This is very useful in that a customer can mail a core dump to a technical
	support department and the technical support department can reconstruct what
	happened. Provided they have an identical copy of this program with debugging
	symbols compiled in and the source base of this build is available.
	In short it is far more useful than something like a crash log could ever hope
	to be.
	
	Why have I never seen one ?.
	Probably because you haven't used the command 
	ulimit -c unlimited in bash
	to allow core dumps, now do 
	ulimit -a 
	to verify that the limit was accepted.
	
	A sample core dump
	To create this I'm going to do
	ulimit -c unlimited
	gdb 
	to launch gdb (my victim app. ) now be bad & do the following from another 
	telnet/xterm session to the same machine
	ps -aux | grep gdb
	kill -SIGSEGV <gdb's pid>
	or alternatively use killall -SIGSEGV gdb if you have the killall command.
	Now look at the core dump.
	./gdb core
	Displays the following
	GNU gdb 4.18
	Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
	GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
	welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
	Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
	There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
	This GDB was configured as "s390-ibm-linux"...
	Core was generated by `./gdb'.
	Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
	Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4...done.
	Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
	Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
	Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
	#0  0x40126d1a in read () from /lib/libc.so.6
	Setting up the environment for debugging gdb.
	Breakpoint 1 at 0x4dc6f8: file utils.c, line 471.
	Breakpoint 2 at 0x4d87a4: file top.c, line 2609.
	(top-gdb) info stack
	#0  0x40126d1a in read () from /lib/libc.so.6
	#1  0x528f26 in rl_getc (stream=0x7ffffde8) at input.c:402
	#2  0x528ed0 in rl_read_key () at input.c:381
	#3  0x5167e6 in readline_internal_char () at readline.c:454
	#4  0x5168ee in readline_internal_charloop () at readline.c:507
	#5  0x51692c in readline_internal () at readline.c:521
	#6  0x5164fe in readline (prompt=0x7ffff810)
	    at readline.c:349
	#7  0x4d7a8a in command_line_input (prompt=0x564420 "(gdb) ", repeat=1,
	    annotation_suffix=0x4d6b44 "prompt") at top.c:2091
	#8  0x4d6cf0 in command_loop () at top.c:1345
	#9  0x4e25bc in main (argc=1, argv=0x7ffffdf4) at main.c:635
	
	
	LDD
	===
	This is a program which lists the shared libraries which a library needs,
	Note you also get the relocations of the shared library text segments which
	help when using objdump --source.
	e.g.
	 ldd ./gdb
	outputs
	libncurses.so.4 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4 (0x40018000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4005e000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40084000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
	
	
	Debugging shared libraries
	==========================
	Most programs use shared libraries, however it can be very painful
	when you single step instruction into a function like printf for the 
	first time & you end up in functions like _dl_runtime_resolve this is
	the ld.so doing lazy binding, lazy binding is a concept in ELF where 
	shared library functions are not loaded into memory unless they are 
	actually used, great for saving memory but a pain to debug.
	To get around this either relink the program -static or exit gdb type 
	export LD_BIND_NOW=true this will stop lazy binding & restart the gdb'ing 
	the program in question.
	 
	
	
	Debugging modules
	=================
	As modules are dynamically loaded into the kernel their address can be
	anywhere to get around this use the -m option with insmod to emit a load
	map which can be piped into a file if required.
	
	The proc file system
	====================
	What is it ?.
	It is a filesystem created by the kernel with files which are created on demand
	by the kernel if read, or can be used to modify kernel parameters,
	it is a powerful concept.
	
	e.g.
	
	cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 
	On my machine outputs 
	0 
	telling me ip_forwarding is not on to switch it on I can do
	echo 1 >  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
	cat it again
	cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 
	On my machine now outputs
	1
	IP forwarding is on.
	There is a lot of useful info in here best found by going in and having a look
	around, so I'll take you through some entries I consider important.
	
	All the processes running on the machine have their own entry defined by
	/proc/<pid>
	So lets have a look at the init process
	cd /proc/1
	
	cat cmdline
	emits
	init [2]
	
	cd /proc/1/fd
	This contains numerical entries of all the open files,
	some of these you can cat e.g. stdout (2)
	
	cat /proc/29/maps
	on my machine emits
	
	00400000-00478000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 4103       /bin/bash
	00478000-0047e000 rw-p 00077000 5f:00 4103       /bin/bash
	0047e000-00492000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
	40000000-40015000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14382      /lib/ld-2.1.2.so
	40015000-40016000 rw-p 00014000 5f:00 14382      /lib/ld-2.1.2.so
	40016000-40017000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0
	40017000-40018000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
	40018000-4001b000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14435      /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
	4001b000-4001c000 rw-p 00002000 5f:00 14435      /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
	4001c000-4010d000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14387      /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
	4010d000-40111000 rw-p 000f0000 5f:00 14387      /lib/libc-2.1.2.so
	40111000-40114000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
	40114000-4011e000 r-xp 00000000 5f:00 14408      /lib/libnss_files-2.1.2.so
	4011e000-4011f000 rw-p 00009000 5f:00 14408      /lib/libnss_files-2.1.2.so
	7fffd000-80000000 rwxp ffffe000 00:00 0
	
	
	Showing us the shared libraries init uses where they are in memory
	& memory access permissions for each virtual memory area.
	
	/proc/1/cwd is a softlink to the current working directory.
	/proc/1/root is the root of the filesystem for this process. 
	
	/proc/1/mem is the current running processes memory which you
	can read & write to like a file.
	strace uses this sometimes as it is a bit faster than the
	rather inefficient ptrace interface for peeking at DATA.
	
	
	cat status 
	
	Name:   init
	State:  S (sleeping)
	Pid:    1
	PPid:   0
	Uid:    0       0       0       0
	Gid:    0       0       0       0
	Groups:
	VmSize:      408 kB
	VmLck:         0 kB
	VmRSS:       208 kB
	VmData:       24 kB
	VmStk:         8 kB
	VmExe:       368 kB
	VmLib:         0 kB
	SigPnd: 0000000000000000
	SigBlk: 0000000000000000
	SigIgn: 7fffffffd7f0d8fc
	SigCgt: 00000000280b2603
	CapInh: 00000000fffffeff
	CapPrm: 00000000ffffffff
	CapEff: 00000000fffffeff
	
	User PSW:    070de000 80414146
	task: 004b6000 tss: 004b62d8 ksp: 004b7ca8 pt_regs: 004b7f68
	User GPRS:
	00000400  00000000  0000000b  7ffffa90
	00000000  00000000  00000000  0045d9f4
	0045cafc  7ffffa90  7fffff18  0045cb08
	00010400  804039e8  80403af8  7ffff8b0
	User ACRS:
	00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
	00000001  00000000  00000000  00000000
	00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
	00000000  00000000  00000000  00000000
	Kernel BackChain  CallChain    BackChain  CallChain
	       004b7ca8   8002bd0c     004b7d18   8002b92c
	       004b7db8   8005cd50     004b7e38   8005d12a
	       004b7f08   80019114                     
	Showing among other things memory usage & status of some signals &
	the processes'es registers from the kernel task_structure
	as well as a backchain which may be useful if a process crashes
	in the kernel for some unknown reason.
	
	Some driver debugging techniques
	================================
	debug feature
	-------------
	Some of our drivers now support a "debug feature" in
	/proc/s390dbf see s390dbf.txt in the linux/Documentation directory
	for more info.
	e.g. 
	to switch on the lcs "debug feature"
	echo 5 > /proc/s390dbf/lcs/level
	& then after the error occurred.
	cat /proc/s390dbf/lcs/sprintf >/logfile
	the logfile now contains some information which may help
	tech support resolve a problem in the field.
	
	
	
	high level debugging network drivers
	------------------------------------
	ifconfig is a quite useful command
	it gives the current state of network drivers.
	
	If you suspect your network device driver is dead
	one way to check is type 
	ifconfig <network device> 
	e.g. tr0
	You should see something like
	tr0       Link encap:16/4 Mbps Token Ring (New)  HWaddr 00:04:AC:20:8E:48
	          inet addr:9.164.185.132  Bcast:9.164.191.255  Mask:255.255.224.0
	          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:2000  Metric:1
	          RX packets:246134 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
	          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
	          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
	
	if the device doesn't say up
	try
	/etc/rc.d/init.d/network start 
	( this starts the network stack & hopefully calls ifconfig tr0 up ).
	ifconfig looks at the output of /proc/net/dev and presents it in a more
	presentable form.
	Now ping the device from a machine in the same subnet.
	if the RX packets count & TX packets counts don't increment you probably
	have problems.
	next 
	cat /proc/net/arp
	Do you see any hardware addresses in the cache if not you may have problems.
	Next try
	ping -c 5 <broadcast_addr> i.e. the Bcast field above in the output of
	ifconfig. Do you see any replies from machines other than the local machine
	if not you may have problems. also if the TX packets count in ifconfig
	hasn't incremented either you have serious problems in your driver 
	(e.g. the txbusy field of the network device being stuck on ) 
	or you may have multiple network devices connected.
	
	
	chandev
	-------
	There is a new device layer for channel devices, some
	drivers e.g. lcs are registered with this layer.
	If the device uses the channel device layer you'll be
	able to find what interrupts it uses & the current state 
	of the device.
	See the manpage chandev.8 &type cat /proc/chandev for more info.
	
	
	SysRq
	=====
	This is now supported by linux for s/390 & z/Architecture.
	To enable it do compile the kernel with 
	Kernel Hacking -> Magic SysRq Key Enabled
	echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
	also type
	echo "8" >/proc/sys/kernel/printk
	To make printk output go to console.
	On 390 all commands are prefixed with
	^-
	e.g.
	^-t will show tasks.
	^-? or some unknown command will display help.
	The sysrq key reading is very picky ( I have to type the keys in an
	 xterm session & paste them  into the x3270 console )
	& it may be wise to predefine the keys as described in the VM hints above
	
	This is particularly useful for syncing disks unmounting & rebooting
	if the machine gets partially hung.
	
	Read Documentation/admin-guide/sysrq.rst for more info
	
	References:
	===========
	Enterprise Systems Architecture Reference Summary
	Enterprise Systems Architecture Principles of Operation
	Hartmut Penners s390 stack frame sheet.
	IBM Mainframe Channel Attachment a technology brief from a CISCO webpage
	Various bits of man & info pages of Linux.
	Linux & GDB source.
	Various info & man pages.
	CMS Help on tracing commands.
	Linux for s/390 Elf Application Binary Interface
	Linux for z/Series Elf Application Binary Interface ( Both Highly Recommended )
	z/Architecture Principles of Operation SA22-7832-00
	Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Reference Summary SA22-7209-01 & the
	Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Principles of Operation SA22-7201-05
	
	Special Thanks
	==============
	Special thanks to Neale Ferguson who maintains a much
	prettier HTML version of this page at
	http://linuxvm.org/penguinvm/
	Bob Grainger Stefan Bader & others for reporting bugs

• [ s390 ]
• 00-INDEX
• 3270.ChangeLog
• 3270.txt
• cds.txt
• CommonIO
• config3270.sh
• DASD
• Debugging390.txt
• driver-model.txt
• monreader.txt
• qeth.txt
• s390dbf.txt
• vfio-ccw.txt
• zfcpdump.txt
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