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From: takahiro.akashi@linaro.org (AKASHI Takahiro)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 08/11] arm64: kexec_file: enable KEXEC_FILE config
Date: Mon,  4 Dec 2017 11:57:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171204025801.12161-9-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171204025801.12161-1-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>

Modify arm64/Kconfig and Makefile to enable kexec_file_load support.
File-format specific hook functions to load a kernel image will
follow this patch.

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a93339f5178f..865d110809f9 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -794,6 +794,19 @@ config KEXEC
 	  but it is independent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
 	  you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
 
+config KEXEC_FILE
+	bool "kexec file based system call"
+	select KEXEC_CORE
+	select BUILD_BIN2C
+	---help---
+	  This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
+	  file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
+	  for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
+	  accepted by previous system call.
+
+	  In addition to this option, you need to enable a specific type
+	  of image support.
+
 config CRASH_DUMP
 	bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
 	help
-- 
2.14.1

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-04  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-04  2:57 [PATCH v7 00/11] arm64: kexec: add kexec_file_load() support AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 01/11] resource: add walk_system_ram_res_rev() AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 02/11] kexec_file: factor out arch_kexec_kernel_*() from x86, powerpc AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 03/11] kexec_file: factor out crashdump elf header function from x86 AKASHI Takahiro
2018-02-07 18:37   ` James Morse
2018-02-09 12:23     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 04/11] asm-generic: add kexec_file_load system call to unistd.h AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 05/11] arm64: kexec_file: create purgatory AKASHI Takahiro
2018-02-07 18:37   ` James Morse
2018-02-09 12:40     ` AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 06/11] arm64: kexec_file: load initrd, device-tree and purgatory segments AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 07/11] arm64: kexec_file: set up for crash dump adding elf core header AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:57 ` AKASHI Takahiro [this message]
2017-12-04  2:57 ` [PATCH v7 09/11] arm64: kexec_file: add Image format support AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:58 ` [PATCH v7 10/11] include: pe.h: remove message[] from mz header definition AKASHI Takahiro
2017-12-04  2:58 ` [PATCH v7 11/11] arm64: kexec_file: enable KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG for Image AKASHI Takahiro
2018-02-07 18:37 ` [PATCH v7 00/11] arm64: kexec: add kexec_file_load() support James Morse
2018-02-09 11:49   ` AKASHI Takahiro

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