From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:09:55 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal Subject: Re: [RFC 3/3] kexec: extend kexec_file_load system call Message-ID: <20160715130955.GC23514@redhat.com> References: <20160712014201.11456-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <20160712014201.11456-4-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160712014201.11456-4-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: AKASHI Takahiro Cc: bhe@redhat.com, arnd@arndb.de, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com, dyoung@redhat.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 10:42:01AM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: [..] > -SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd, > +SYSCALL_DEFINE6(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd, > unsigned long, cmdline_len, const char __user *, cmdline_ptr, > - unsigned long, flags) > + unsigned long, flags, const struct kexec_fdset __user *, ufdset) Can one add more parameters to existing syscall. Can it break existing programs with new kernel? I was of the impression that one can't do that. But may be I am missing something. Vivek _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec