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+#ifndef _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H
+#define _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H
+
+/* kexec system call - It loads the new kernel to boot into.
+ * kexec does not sync, or unmount filesystems so if you need
+ * that to happen you need to do that yourself.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+/* kexec flags for different usage scenarios */
+#define KEXEC_ON_CRASH 0x00000001
+#define KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT 0x00000002
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_MASK 0xffff0000
+
+/* These values match the ELF architecture values.
+ * Unless there is a good reason that should continue to be the case.
+ */
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_DEFAULT ( 0 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_386 ( 3 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_X86_64 (62 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC (20 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_PPC64 (21 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_IA_64 (50 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_ARM (40 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_S390 (22 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_SH (42 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS_LE (10 << 16)
+#define KEXEC_ARCH_MIPS ( 8 << 16)
+
+/* The artificial cap on the number of segments passed to kexec_load. */
+#define KEXEC_SEGMENT_MAX 16
+
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * This structure is used to hold the arguments that are used when
+ * loading kernel binaries.
+ */
+struct kexec_segment {
+ const void *buf;
+ size_t bufsz;
+ const void *mem;
+ size_t memsz;
+};
+
+/* Load a new kernel image as described by the kexec_segment array
+ * consisting of passed number of segments at the entry-point address.
+ * The flags allow different useage types.
+ */
+extern int kexec_load(void *, size_t, struct kexec_segment *,
+ unsigned long int);
+#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
+
+#endif /* _UAPILINUX_KEXEC_H */