kexec: load and relocate purgatory at kernel load time

Load purgatory code in RAM and relocate it based on the location.
Relocation code has been inspired by module relocation code and purgatory
relocation code in kexec-tools.

Also compute the checksums of loaded kexec segments and store them in
purgatory.

Arch independent code provides this functionality so that arch dependent
bootloaders can make use of it.

Helper functions are provided to get/set symbol values in purgatory which
are used by bootloaders later to set things like stack and entry point of
second kernel etc.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vivek Goyal
2014-08-08 14:26:04 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 8fc5b4d412
commit 12db5562e0
12 changed files with 736 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -595,6 +595,8 @@ source kernel/Kconfig.hz
config KEXEC
bool "kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on SUPERH32 && MMU
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_SHA256
help
kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot