[PATCH v9 08/11] arm64: enable KEXEC_FILE config
AKASHI Takahiro
takahiro.akashi at linaro.org
Tue Apr 24 23:26:26 PDT 2018
Modify arm64/Kconfig to enable kexec_file_load support.
Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/Kconfig | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index eb2cf4938f6d..d8f0dcdb8b96 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -847,6 +847,16 @@ config KEXEC
but it is independent of the system firmware. And like a reboot
you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
+config KEXEC_FILE
+ bool "kexec file based system call"
+ select KEXEC_CORE
+ select BUILD_BIN2C
+ help
+ This is new version of kexec system call. This system call is
+ file based and takes file descriptors as system call argument
+ for kernel and initramfs as opposed to list of segments as
+ accepted by previous system call.
+
config CRASH_DUMP
bool "Build kdump crash kernel"
help
--
2.17.0
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