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

[Vivek Goyal]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 04:37:09PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:41:31AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Right now there is only one user. But once other image loader support
> > comes along or other arches support file based kexec, they can make
> > use of same function.
> > 
> > This is a pretty important modification as it decides what's the starting
> > point of next kernel image. I wanted to make it a function callable by
> > users who wanted to modify it instead of of letting them directly 
> > modify image->start.
> 
> But are you expecting any other way to set image->start by the other
> arches/image loaders?

No. I am expecting other loaders to just call this function to set the
start of kernel image.

Thanks
Vivek