[PATCH 06/11] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in kernel kexec

[Petr Tesarik]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:41:31 -0500
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 03:59:10PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
>[...]
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
> > > index d6629d4..5fddb1b 100644
> > > --- a/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
> > > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/kexec.h
> > > @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
> > >  #define KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT	0x00000002
> > >  #define KEXEC_ARCH_MASK		0xffff0000
> > >  
> > > +/* Kexec file load interface flags */
> > > +#define KEXEC_FILE_UNLOAD	0x00000001
> > > +#define KEXEC_FILE_ON_CRASH	0x00000002
> > 
> > BIT()
> 
> What's that?

#define BIT(nr)                 (1UL << (nr))

For my part I'm not convinced it's a better way to do it, unless
Borislav also wanted to suggest adding an enum for the bit number
values...

Petr T