kexec: new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration

This is the new syscall kexec_file_load() declaration/interface.  I have
reserved the syscall number only for x86_64 so far.  Other architectures
(including i386) can reserve syscall number when they enable the support
for this new syscall.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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>
This commit is contained in:
Vivek Goyal
2014-08-08 14:25:55 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 815d5704a3
commit f0895685c7
4 changed files with 13 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -1058,6 +1058,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(kexec_load, compat_ulong_t, entry,
}
#endif
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(kexec_file_load, int, kernel_fd, int, initrd_fd,
unsigned long, cmdline_len, const char __user *, cmdline_ptr,
unsigned long, flags)
{
return -ENOSYS;
}
void crash_kexec(struct pt_regs *regs)
{
/* Take the kexec_mutex here to prevent sys_kexec_load