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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2005-06-25 14:57:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-06-25 16:24:48 -0700
commitdc009d92435f99498cbc579ce76bf28e837e2c14 (patch)
tree2ba8732b28225593d996b8faa079dc6ab4bbc9bc /kernel/sys.c
parentd0537508a9921efced238b20967e50e519ac34af (diff)
[PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls
This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls. Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is relatively clean. In addition the hopefully architecture independent option crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented. It's purpose is to reserve space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be setup to access. Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index dac10161ca23..9a24374c23bc 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/highuid.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/kexec.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
#include <linux/key.h>
@@ -439,6 +441,24 @@ asmlinkage long sys_reboot(int magic1, int magic2, unsigned int cmd, void __user
machine_restart(buffer);
break;
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
+ case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC:
+ {
+ struct kimage *image;
+ image = xchg(&kexec_image, 0);
+ if (!image) {
+ unlock_kernel();
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+ notifier_call_chain(&reboot_notifier_list, SYS_RESTART, NULL);
+ system_state = SYSTEM_RESTART;
+ device_shutdown();
+ printk(KERN_EMERG "Starting new kernel\n");
+ machine_shutdown();
+ machine_kexec(image);
+ break;
+ }
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
case LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_SW_SUSPEND:
{